SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE ¡oéiety

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

For tlie Year 1881.

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CONTENTS.

ACT OF INCORPORATION ...... 7 ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER AND ASSISTANT-TREASURER 26 ANNUAL REPORT (INTRODUCTORY)...... 30 APPORTIONMENT OF MONEYS TO BE RAISED DURING THE YEAR 1882 25 A P P R O P R IA T IO N S F O R 1882...... 24 BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS ...... 15 CONCLUDING SUMMARIES ...... 307 CONSTITUTION ...... 11 CONTRIBUTIONS AND AVERAGE FOR TEN YEARS ...... 311 DIRECTORY OF FOREIGN MISSIONARIES ...... 316 DOMESTIC MISSIONS ...... 232 A merican Indians...... 237 W elsh ...... 243 G erman...... 244 Scandinavian...... 246 C hinese...... 247 A rizo n a ...... 260 B la c k H ills...... 264 D ak o ta ...... 266 I ndian T erritory...... 269 M on tan a...... 270 N ew M exico...... 278 U t a h ...... 286 W est N ebr aska...... 291 E nglish-S peaking C onferences...... 297 FOREIGN MISSIONS: A frica...... 33 S outh A merica...... 41 C h in a...... 57 F oochow ...... 59 C entral C h ina...... 7s N orth C hina...... 82 G ermany and Sw itzerla nd ...... 89 Scan d in avia...... 102 N or w a y...... 102 Sw eden...... *°7 D enm ark...... 124 North India...... *34 South In d ia...... *88 B u lg a r ia ...... *9* I t a l y ...... *9» Japan...... *°3 M e x ic o ...... « 4 GENERAL MISSIONARY COMMITTEE ...... 4 HONORARY LIFE MANAGERS ...... 3” LIFE MEMBERS ...... 33* METHODIST PUBLISHING AND MISSION BUILDINGS ACCOUNT 29 MONTHLY AND ANNUAL STATEMENTS OF THE CONDITION OF THE TREASURY ...... 28 OFFICERS AND MANAGERS ...... 3 PATRONS ...... 320 RECEIPTS OF THE SOCIETY FROM THE BEGINNING ...... 3IQ STANDING COMMITTEES.’...... 6 Offiòef^ of Û\q $oéiety ài\d Soàfd.

R e v . BISHOP LEVI SCOTT, President. Vice-Presidents.

B ishop M. S im pson , B ish op J. F. H u r s t , T . B o w m a n , Hon. Enoch L. F a n c h e r , W . L. H a r r is , R e v . M. D ’C. C r a w f o r d , D .D ., “ R. S. F o s t e r , J am es H . T a f t , E sq., I. W . W il e y , H o n. O l iv e r H o y t , “ S. M. M e r r il l , R e v . D. C u r r y , D.D., “ E. G. A n d r e w s, R e v . D. W ise, D.D., J. T . P e c k , H . M. F o r r e s t e r , E sq., H. W. Warren, R e v . J. P. N e w m a n , D.D., “ C. D. Foss, H o n . G e o r g e J. F e r r y . John M. Reid, Charles H. Fowler, Corresponding Secretaries, David Terry, Assistant to Corresponding Secretaries. J. M. P h illip s , Treasurer. J. M. W a ld e n , Assistant Treasurer. Jam es N. FitzGerald, Recording Secretary.

MINISTERS.

B ish op L e v i S c o t t , D a n ie l C u r r y , J ohn W . B e a ch , M. Sim p s o n , A l b e r t S. H u n t , O t is H. T if f a n y , “ T . B o w m a n , L e w is R. D u n n , A a r o n R it t e n h o u s e , W . L . H a r r is , A l b e r t D . V a i l , G e o r g e G. Sa x e , “ R. S. F o st e r , A a r o n K . S a n f o r d , L e v i S. W e e d , I. W . W i l e y , J o h n M il e y , S a n d f o r d H u n t , “ S. M. M e r r il l , John B. Merwin, G. W. Woodruff, “ E. G. A n d r ew s, George F. K ettell, Jo h n B. G ra w , “ J. T . P e c k , Christian F. Grimm, M il to n S. T e r r y , H. W . W a rRichard r e n , Vanhorne, James M. King. “ C. D. Foss, S am u el W. Thom as, Henry A. Buttz, J. F. H u r s t , J o h n P. New m an, C h a r le s S. C o it, D a n ie l W is e , Alexander L. Brice, S am u el F. U pham, J am es M . T u t t l e , James M. Buckley, W illia m P. R y d e r . M. D ’C. C r a w f o r d , Daniel A. Goodsell,

LAYMEN.

John Falconer, Oliver H. P. Archer, Harold Dollner, Enoch L. Fancher, G e o r g e J. F e r r y , Lemuel Skidmore, James H. Taft, John Stephenson, John B. C o r n e ll, Timothy A. Howe, James M. Fuller, John D. Slayback, Hiram M. Forrester, G e o r g e I. Sen ey, W illiam C. Hamilton, ohn S. M ’L ean , George G. Reynolds, W . J. H u tch in so n , ohn French, Clinton B. Fisk, Anderson Fowler, O l iv e r H o y t , Andrew V. Stout, E z r a B. T u t t l e , C h a r l e s C. N o r t h , Stephen Barker, Charles Scott, G ilb e r t O a k l e y , John M. Phillips, A l d e n S p e a r e. I saac O d e l l , Jo h n H. B e n t le y , G^ei\efàl JVti^Ìoi\àry Öon\n|ittee.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS.

Bishops.

L e v i S c o t t , S t e p h e n M . M e r r il l , M a t t h e w Sim p s o n , E d w a r d G. A n d r e w s , T h o m as B o w m a n , J esse T . P e c k , W il l ia m L . H a r r is , H e n r y W . W a r r e n , R a n d o l p h S. F o s t e r , C y r u s D . F oss, I s a a c W . W i l e y , J o h n F . H u r s t .

Corresponding Secretaries.

J o h n M . R e id , C h a r l e s H . F o w l e r .

Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer.

J. M . P h il l ip s , J. M. W a l d e n . 805 Broadway, New York. 190 West Fourth-street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

REPRESENTATIVES OF MISSION DISTRICTS.

DISTRICT I. DISTRICT IV. Central Pennsylva- Erie, East Maine, New Hampshire, nia, Norway, Maine, Providence, Delaware, Philadelphia, New England, Vermont. East Ohio, Pittsburgh. J. D. Beem an, Swanton, Vt. J. M. C a r r , Steubenville, Ohio.

DISTRICT V. DISTRICT II. Central Ohio, North Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio, Foochow, New York, Kentucky, West Virginia. Newark, New York East, J. M. T r im b le , Columbus, Ohio. New J ersey, Troy.

S. L. B a ld w in , Newark, N. J. DISTRICT VI. Alabama, North Carolina, Baltimore, Savannah, DISTRICT III. Blue Ridge, South Carolina, Central Alabama, Virginia, Central New York, North India, Florida, W ashington, Genesee, South India, Georgia, Wilmington. North’n New York, Wyoming. Liberia, W. H. Olin, Wilkesbarre, Pa. W. S. E d w a r d s , Baltimore, Md. GENERAL, MISSIONARY COMMITTEE. 5 DISTRICT VII. DISTRICT X. Central Tennessee, N.-W. Indiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Holston, S.-E. Indiana, Austin, Saint Louis, Indiana, Southern Illinois, Kansas, South Kansas, Lexington, Tennessee. Little Rock, Texas, North Indiana, Louisiana, West Texas. J. W. L o c k e , Belleville, 111. Mississippi, J. Denison, Holton, Kansas. DISTRICT VIII. Central Illinois, Rock River, DISTRICT XI. Detroit, Sweden, California, Oregon, Illinois, Wisconsin. Columbia River, Southern Califor- Michigan, Nevada, nia. G. R. P a lm er , Onarga, 111. C. V. A n th o n y , San Francisco, CaL

DISTRICT IX. DISTRICT XII.

Des Moines, N.-W. Norwegian, Central German, North-west9 Ger- Iowa, N.-W. Swedish, Chicago German, man, Minnesota, Upper Iowa, East German, St. Louis German, Nebraska, West Wisconsin. Germany and Switz- Southern German, North-west Iowa, erland, Western German. T. B. Lem on, Kearney, Neb. H. G. L ic h , New Albany, Ind.

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS.

M. D’C. Crawford, J. B. C o r n e ll ,

A . D . V a i l , S. B a r k e r , D . C u r r y , J. F r e n c h , J. M. Buckley, E. B. Tuttle, A. L. Brice, C. Scott, S. H u n t, A. Speare. The Treasurer is ex officio a. member, and the Corresponding Secretaries are advisory members of each of the Standing Committees, except the Committees on Estimates and on Audits; and the Bishop having charge of a foreign mission is an ex officio member of the Committee having charge of that mission.

On Africa. J. B. C o r n e ll , J. M il e y , II. M. Forrester, Ch'n. E. B. T u t t l e , G. G. S axe, Aaron K. Sanford, Anderson Fowler. A . R itte n h o u s e , J. P. N ew m an , S. W . T h o m a s, J. W. B e a c h , On Domestic Missions. J. M . K in g . G . J. F e r r y , Daniel Wise, Ch'n. L e v i S. W e e d , John French, On Estimates. M. S. T e r r y , A l b e r t S. H u n t , S a n d f o r d H u n t , John B. M er w in , A. D. Vail, Ch'n. W . P. R y d e r . C li n t o n B. F isk , John F a l c o n e r , W . C. H a m il t o n , J o h n S. M ’L ean , On South America and Sa n d f o r d H u n t , John Miley, Mexico. J o h n D . Sl a y b a c k . J. D . S l a y b a c k , J o h n S. M ’L e a n , Ch'n. G. G. Saxe, Charles C. North, On Finance. J. B. C o r n e l l . J. H . B e n t l e y , J. B. C o r n e ll , Ch'n. A. L. B r ic e , Oliver Hoyt, On Nominations and Public A . S. H u n t , I sa a c O d e l l , Meetings. S a n d f o r d H u n t , J a m e s H . T a f t , J. M. K in g , H. M. Forrester, Ch'n. G e o r g e I. S e n e y , C h a r l e s S c o t t . Jno. S. M ’L e a n , J. M. F u l l e r , J a m es H . T a f t , W. J. H u t c h in s o n . On China and Japan. H a r o l d D o l l n e r , D a n ie l C u r r y , James H. Taft, Ch'n. On Lands and Legacies. D a n ie l W is e , G e o r g e I. S en ey, J. B. C o r n e l l , L e w is R . D u n n , E. L. Fancher, Ch'n. E. L. Fancher, St e p h e n B a r k e r , Hiram M. Forrester, T . A . H o w e , O. H. T i f f a n y , Oliver Hoyt, J o h n F r e n c h , A . V . S t o u t , O l iv e r H . P. A r c h e r , G e o r g e G. R e y n o l d s , A . D. V a i l , J. M. B u c k l e y , k id m o r e J o h n C o c h n o w e r . D . A . G o o d s e l l . L. S , A . V. St o u t , On Western Europe. A l d e n Sp e a r e . Audits at New York. H. Dollner, Ch'n. On Publications. M. D’C. C r a w fo r d , T . A. H o w e , Ch'n. Christian F. Grimm, Timothy A. Howe, Ch'n. Gilbert Oakley, George F. K ettell, John Falconer, Jam es M. F u l l e r , Clinton B. Fisk, D a n ie l W is e , D. A. G o o d s e ll, u t t l e G . W . W o o d r u f f , C h a r l e s C. N o r t h , E . B. T , H . A . B u t t z , J a m e s M. T u t t l e ^ L. Skidm ore. C . S. C o i t . J ohn S t e p h e n s o n ,' J. B. G r a w , On India, Bulgaria, and S. F. U p h a m . Audits at Cincinnati. Turkey. John Cochnower, Ch'n. Daniel Curry, Ch'n. On Woman’s Mission Amos Shinkle, Work. Isaac Odell, R . A . W . B r u e h l , A l b e r t D . V a i l , John French, Ch'n. R ic h a r d D y m o n d , R ic h a r d V a n h o r n e , J. M. T u t t l e , E d w a r d Sa r g e n t . ACT OF INCORPORATION,

An Act to Amend the Charter o f the Missionary Society o f the Methodist Episcopal Church, passed April 4/k, 1873. The People o f the State o f New York, represented in Senate and Assem­ bly, do enact as follows :

Section i. The Act entitled "A n Act to Amend the Charter o f the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” passed April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; also, the Act entitled “ An Act to Consolidate the several Acts relating to the Missionary Society o f the Methodist Episcopal Church into one Act, and to amend the same,” passed April eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine ; and the Act en­ titled “ An Act to Incorporate the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, and relating to the said Society, are respectively hereby amended and consolidated into one A c t; and the several provisions thereof, as thus amended and consolidated, are com­ prised in the following sections: Sec. 2. All persons associated, or who may become associated, together in the Society above named are constituted a body corporate, by the name and style of “ The Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis­ copal Church,” and are hereby declared to have been such body corporate since the passage of said Act of April ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty- nine ; and such corporation is and shall be capable of purchasing, hold­ ing, and conveying such real estate as the purposes of the said corpora­ tion shall require ; but the annual income of the estate held by it at any one time, within the State of New York, shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. SEC. 3. The objects of the said Corporation are charitable and relig­ ious ; designed to diffuse more generally the blessings of education and Christianity, and to promote and support missionary schools arid Christian missions throughout the United States and Territories, and also in for­ eign countries. Sec. 4. The management and disposition of the affairs and property of the said Corporation shall be vested in a Board of Managers, com­ posed of thirty-two laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and thirty-two traveling ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ap­ pointed by the General Conference of said Church at its quadrennial ses­ sions, and of the Bishops of said Church, who shall be ex-officio members 8 MISSIONARY REPORT.

o f said Board. Such Managers as were appointed by said General Con­ ference at its last session shall be entitled to act as such from and after the passage of this Act, until they or others appointed by the ensuing General Conference shall assume their duties. Any such Board of Man­ agers may fill any vacancy happening therein until the term shall com­ mence of the Managers appointed by an ensuing General Conference, said Board of Managers shall have such power as may be necessary for the management and disposition of the affairs and property of said Cor­ poration, in conformity with the Constitution of said Society as it now exists, or as it may be from time to time amended by the General Con­ ference, and to elect the officers of the Society, except as herein other­ wise provided; and such Board of Managers shall be subordinate to any directions or regulations made, or to be made, by said General Conference. SlC. 5. Thirteen members of the said Board of Managers, at any meeting thereof, shall be a sufficient number for the transaction of busi­ ness. The Corresponding Secretaries, the Treasurer, and the Assistant Treasurer of said Society shall be elected by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and shall hold their office for four years, and until their successors are elected; and in case of a vacancy by resig­ nation, death, or otherwise, the Bishops of the said Methodist Episcopal Church shall fill any vacancy in the office till the ensuing General Confer­ ence. And until the next session of the General Conference, said Board of Managers may appoint and remove at pleasure the Treasurer and the Assistant Treasurer of said Corporation ; and the latter officer may exer­ cise his duties, as the Board may direct, in any State. S ec. 6. The said Corporation shall be capable of taking, receiving, or holding any real estate, by virtue of any devise contained in any last will and testament of any person whomsoever; subject, however, to the lim­ itation expressed in the second section of this Act as to the aggregate amount of such real estate, and also to the provisions of an Act entitled “ An Act Relating to W ills,” passed April thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty; and the said Corporation shall be also competent to act as a Trus­ tee in respect to any devise or bequest pertaining to the objects of said Corporation, and devises and bequests of real or personal property may be made directly to said corporation, or in trust, for any of the purposes comprehended in the general objects of said Society; and such trusts may continue for such time as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes for which they may be created. S e c . 7. The said Corporation shall also possess the general powers specified in and by the Third Title of Chapter Eighteen of the First Part of the Revised Statutes of the State of New York. SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect immediately. ACT OF INCORPORATION. 9

Part I, Chapter XVIII, Third Title of Art. 3.

OF THE GENERAL POWERS, PRIVILEGES, AND LIABILITIES OF COR­ PORATIONS.

Section i. Every Corporation, as such, has power: 1. To have succession, by its corporate name, for the period limited in its Charter ; and when no period is limited, perpetually. 2. To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law or equity. 3. To make and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure. 4. To hold, purchase, and convey such real and personal estate as the purposes of the Corporation shall require, not exceeding the amount limited in its Charter. 5. To appoint such subordinate officers and agents as the business of the Corporation shall require, and to allow them a suitable compensation. 6. To make By-laws, not inconsistent with any existing law, for the man­ agement of its property, the regulation of its affairs, and for the transfer of its stock. SEC. 2. The powers enumerated in the preceding section shall vest in every Corporation that shall hereafter be created, although they may not be specified in its Charter, or in the act under which it shall be incor­ porated. Sec. 3. In addition to the powers enumerated in the first section of this title, and to those expressly given in its Charter, or in the act under which it is or shall be incorporated, no Corporation shall possess or exer­ cise any corporate powers, except such as shall be necessary to the exer­ cise of the powers so enumerated and given. SEC. 4. No Corporation created, or to be created, and not expressly incorporated for banking purposes, shall, by any implication or construc­ tion, be deemed to possess the power of discounting bills, notes, or other evidences of debt ; of receiving deposits ; of buying gold and silver, bull­ ion, or foreign coins ; o f buying and selling bills of exchange, or of issuing bills, notes, or other evidences of debt, upon loan, or for circulation as money. Sec. 5. Where the whole capital of a Corporation shall not have been paid in, and the capital paid shall be insufficient to satisfy the claims of its creditors, each stockholder shall be bound to pay, on each share held by him, the sum necessary to complete the amount of such share, as fixed by the Charter of the Company, or such proportion of that sum as shall be required to satisfy the debts of the Company. S e c . 6. When the corporate powers of any Corporation are directed by its Charter to be exercised by any particular body, or number of per­ sons, a majority of such body, or persons, if it be not otherwise provided in the charter, shall b e a sufficient number to form a board for the trans­ IO MISSIONARY REPORT.

action of business; and every decision of a majority of the persons duly assembled as a board shall be valid as a corporate act. S ec. 7. If any Corporation hereafter created by the Legislature shall not organize and commence the transaction of its business within one year from the date of its incorporation, its corporate powers shall cease. Se c. 8. The Charter of every Corporation that shall hereafter be granted by the Legislature shall be subject to alteration, suspension, and repeal, in the discretion of the Legislature. Sec. 9. Upon the dissolution of any Corporation created, or to be created, and unless other persons shall be appointed by the Legislature, or by some court of competent authority, the directors or managers of the affairs of such Corporation at the time of its dissolution, by whatever name they may be known in law, shall be the trustees of the creditors and stockholders of the Corporation dissolved, and shall have full power to settle the affairs of the Corporation, collect and pay the outstanding debts, and divide among the stockholders the moneys and other property that shall remain after the payment of debts and necessary expenses. Sec. 10. The persons so constituted trustees shall have authority to sue for, and recover, the debts and property of the dissolved Corporation, by the name of the trustees of such Corporation, and shall have full power to settle the affairs of the Corporation, describing it by its corporate name, and shall be jointly and severally responsible to the creditors and stock­ holders of such Corporation to the extent of its property and effects that shall come into their hands. CONSTITUTION

or THE Missionary Society of the Methodist Episeopal Church,

AS REVISED BY THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 187ft

A R T IC LE I.

NAME AND OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. T h e name o f this association shall be “The M issionary Society of the M ethodist Episcopal Church.” Its objects are charitable and religious ; designed to diffuse more generally the blessings of educa­ tion and Christianity, and to promote and support missionary sch o o ls and Christian missions throughout the United States and Territories, and also in foreign countries, under such rules and regulations as the General Con­ ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church may from time to time prescribe.

ARTICLE II.

MEMBERS, HONORARY MANAGERS, AND PATRONS. The payment of twenty dollars at one time shall constitute a member for life. Any person paying one hundred and fifty dollars at one time into the treasury shall be an honorary manager for life; and the contribu­ tion of five hundred dollars shall constitute the donor an honorary patron for life : any such honorary manager or patron shall be entitled to a seat, and the right of speaking, but not of voting, in the Board of Managers.

ARTICLE III.

BOARD OF MANAGERS. The management and disposition of the affairs and property of the said Corporation shall be vested in a Board of Managers, consisting of the Bishops of said Church, who shall be ex-officto members of said Board, and thirty-two laymen, and thirty-two traveling ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, according to the requirements of the exist­ ing Charter of the Society: vacancies in the Board shall be filled as the 12 MISSIONARY REPORT.

Charter provides. The Board shall also have authority to make By-laws not inconsistent with this Constitution or the Charter ; to print books for Indian and Foreign Missions, and Missions in which a foreign language is used ; to elect a President, Vice-Presidents, and a Recording Secretary ; to fill vacancies that may occur among the officers elective by its own body ; and shall present a statement of its transactions and funds to the Church in its Annual Report, and also shall lay before the General Con­ ference a report of its transactions for the four preceding years, and the state of its funds.

ARTICLE IV.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. There shall be two Corresponding Secretaries appointed by the Gen­ eral Conference. They shall be subject to the direction and control of the Board of Man­ agers, by whom their salaries shall be fixed, and their salaries shall be paid out of the treasury. They shall be exclusively employed in conducting the correspondence of the Society, in furnishing the Church with mission­ ary intelligence, and, under the direction of the Board, in supervising the missionary work of the Church, and by correspondence, traveling, and otherwise, in promoting the the general interests of the Society. Should the office of either of the Secretaries become vacant by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Board shall have power to provide for the duties of the office until the Bishops, or a majority of them, shall fill the vacancy. A R T IC LE V.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS. A t the regular meeting of the Board, next succeeding the final ad­ journment of the General Conference, the officers to be elected by the Board shall be chosen and hold their office for the term of one year, or until their successors shall be elected ; or, if a vacancy occur during the year by death, resignation, or otherwise, it may be filled at any regular meeting of the Board.

ARTICLE VI.

PRESIDING OFFICER. A t all meetings of the Board, the President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice-Presidents, and in the absence of the President and of all the Vice-Presidents, a member appointed by the meeting for that purpose, shall preside.

ARTICLE VII.

QUORUM. Thirteen Managers at any meeting of the Board shall be a quorum CONSTITUTION. 13

ARTICLE VIII.

MINUTES. The minutes of each meeting" shall be signed by the Chairman of the meeting at which the same are read and approved.

ARTICLE IX.

AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. It is recommended that within the bounds of each Annual Conference there be established a Conference Missionary Society, auxiliary to this institution, under such regulations as the Conferences shall respectively prescribe.

A R T IC L E X.

SPECIAL DONATIONS. Auxiliary societies or donors may designate the Mission or Missions, under the care of this Society, to which they desire any part or the whole of their contributions to be appropriated; which special designation shall be publicly acknowledged by the Board. But in the event that more funds are raised for any particular Mission than are necessary for its sup­ port, the surplus shall be at the disposal of the Board for the general purposes of the Society.

ARTICLE XI.

GENERAL MISSIONARY COMMITTEE. The General Conference shall divide the Annual Conferences into twelve Mission Districts, from each of which there shall be one represent­ ative, to be appointed for the term of four years by the General Conference at each of its sessions, on the nomination of the delegates of the Annual Conferences within the Mission Districts respectively, and twelve represent­ atives, to be appointed annually by the Board of Managers from its own members, who, with the Secretaries and Treasurers of the Society and the Board of Bishops, shall constitute a committee, to be called the Gen­ eral Missionary Committee; provided that the Bishops shall fill any vacancy that may occur among the members appointed by the General Conference, so that each Mission District maybe fully represented at each annual meeting. The General Missionary Committee shall meet annually in the city of New York, and at such time in the month of November as shall be deter­ mined by the Secretaries and Treasurers, of which due notice shall be given to each member; and the Bishops shall preside over the delibera­ tions. Said General Missionary Committee shall determine what fields shall be occupied as Foreign Missions, the number of persons to be employed on said Missions, and the amount necessary for the support of each Mis­ MISSIONARY REPORT.

sion ; and it shall also determine the amount for which each Bishop may draw for the Domestic Missions of the Conferences over which he shall preside, and the Bishop shall not draw on the Treasurers for more than said amount. Nevertheless, in the intervals between the meetings of the General Missionary Committee, the Board of Managers may provide for any unforeseen emergency that may arise in any of our Missions, and to meet such demands may expend any additional amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. The General Missionary Committee shall be amenable to the General Conference, to which it shall make a full report of its doings. Any expenses incurred in the discharge of its duties shall be paid from the treasury of the Society.

ARTICLE XII.

SUPPORT OF SUPERANNUATED AND OTHER MISSIONARIES. The Board may provide for the support of superannuated missionaries, widows and orphans of missionaries, who may not be provided for by their Annual Conferences respectively, it being understood that they shall not receive more than is usually allowed to other superannuated minis­ ters, their widows and orphans. The amount allowed for the support of a missionary shall not exceed the usual allowance of other itinerant preachers ; and in the case of Do­ mestic Missions, the Bishop or president of the Conference shall draw for the same in quarterly installments, and shall always promptly notify the Treasurer of all drafts made by him. The administration of appropria­ tions to Foreign Missions shall be under the direction of the Board of Managers. No one shall be acknowledged as a missionary, or receive support as such from the funds of the Society, who has not some definite field as­ signed to him in the service of the Society, or who could not be an effect­ ive laborer on a circuit, except as above provided.

ARTICLE XIII.

AMENDMENTS. This Constitution shall be subject to alteration or amendment only by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. BY-LAWS

O F T H E

Board of M anagers

OF THE

MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

I. DUTIES OF THE OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY,

P r e s i d e n t a n d V ic e -P r e s i d e n t . T h e duties of these officers are defined in the Constitution. The President, or one of the Vice-Presidents, shall preside at all meetings of the Society and of the Board, as prescribed by Article VI of the Constitu­ tion ; and shall hold their respective offices during the year for which they may be elected, unless the Board of Managers otherwise determine. If the President and all the Vice-Presidents be absent, then the Board may elect a President pro iem.

C orresponding S e c r e t a r i e s . The Corresponding Secretaries shall, under the direction of the Board of Managers, conduct the correspondence of the Society with its Missions, and be exclusively employed in promoting its general interests. They shall advocate the missionary cause at such Annual Conferences and Churches as their judgment may dictate and the Board approve. They shall keep a vigilant eye upon all the affairs of the Society, and especially upon all its Missions, and promptly convey to the Bishops having charge of the Missions respectively, to the Board, or the standing committees, all such communications from, and all information concerning, our Missions, as the circumstances of the case may require. They shall also in all cases give to such missionaries as may be sent out the Manual of Instructions authorized by the Board, with such other instructions and explanations as circumstances may call for, and shall explicitly inform all our missionaries that they are in no case to depart from such instructions. They shall also audit the accounts of outgoing, returned, or discharged foreign mission­ aries before the final settlement of the same, and all bills for office and incidental expenses before they are presented to the Treasurer for pay­ i6 MISSIONARY REPORT.

ment. They shall also superintend all property interests of the Society, exclusive of its current receipts, permanent or special funds, and fixed property, subject to instructions from the Board of Managers.

T r e a s u r e r . The Treasurer shall keep proper books of accounts, showing all the receipts and disbursements, and all other financial affairs connected with the treasury of the Society, except such as are committed to the care of the Corresponding Secretaries. He shall, under advice of the Finance Committee, keep all uninvested moneys of the Society on deposit in some safe bank, or banks, in the name of the Society, subject to the order of its Treasurer. He shall honor all orders of the Board on the treasury, and, within the several appropriations made by the General Committee and Board, shall pay all drafts of the Bishops, and furnish the Secretaries respectively with Letters of Credit or Bills of Exchange for the support of Foreign Missions ; and he shall, on the warrant of the Corresponding Secretaries, pay the outfit of missionaries, and the expenses of those au­ thorized to return, and shall pay all bills for office and incidental expenses when properly audited. He shall be subject to the direction of the Finance Committee, and of the Board, in respect to all investments, loans, and other financial affairs of the Society. lie shall report the state of the funds, and whenever required exhibit his books, vouchers, and securities at each regular meeting of the Finance Committee and of the Auditing Committee; and shall report monthly to the Board the state of the treas­ ury. He shall keep an account of all receipts by Conferences, and of all expenditures by Missions and particular appropriations. He shall keep the seal of the Society, and affix the same to such docu­ ments, contracts, and conveyances as may be ordered by the Board of Managers; shall execute for the Society conveyances of real estate when­ ever ordered by the Board.

A s s i s t a n t T r e a s u r e r . The Assistant Treasurer shall reside at Cincinnati, Ohio, and shall be subject to the directions of the Board of Managers and of the Treasurer. He shall forward to the Treasurer, monthly, a statement of his ac­ counts to the first of each month, in order that the same may be presented to the Board at its regular meetings. He shall exhibit his books and ac­ counts, vouchers and securities, to such auditors as may be appointed by the Board.

R e c o r d i n g S e c r e t a r y . The Recording Secretary shall notify all meetings of the Board and of the Society, and shall record the minutes of their proceedings. He shall also certify to the Treasurer, or to the Auditing Committee, as the case may require, all moneys granted, or expenditures authorized in pursuance of the action of the Board. BY-LAWS. 17 He shall, under the direction of the Corresponding Secretaries, make an appropriate record of all wills under which the Society may be inter­ ested, and of all action of the Board, and other information relating thereto. He shall, under like direction, also record a statement of all the prop­ erty of the Society, and of any conveyances thereof, or other proceedings touching the same. He shall, under like direction, keep the roll of the officers and Man­ agers, and of the members of the several standing Committees, in the proper order according to the seniority of their consecutive service respect­ ively, except that the chairman of each Committee shall be first named, and shall see that such lists are printed in such order in the Annual Re­ ports. He shall also record the proceedings of the several standing Commit­ tees in separate books, which shall be brought to each meeting of the Board; and shall notify, when requested, all meetings of Committees; and he shall hold his office during the year for which he may be elected, unless the Board of Managers otherwise determine.

II. FINANCIAL REGULATIONS. Appropriations made by the General Missionary Committee for the payment of salaries of missionaries, where a schedule of salaries has been fixed by the Board of Managers for any Mission, or for the authorized current expenses of an established Mission, or by the Board for the ex­ penses of outgoing or returning missionaries, and all specific appropria­ tions of the Board or of the General Committee, except for the purchase or improvement of real estate, shall be paid by the Treasurer, upon the requisition of one of the Corresponding Secretaries, without further action by the Board. Except when otherwise ordered by the Board, payments made in foreign countries are to be by letters of credit or bills of exchange to the order of the Superintendent or Treasurer of the Mission ; and pay­ ments made in this country on account of Foreign Missions may be made by draft of one of the Corresponding Secretaries upon the Treasurer, payable to the order of the person entitled to receive the same, and the Treasurer shall not be authorized to pay any other. But where the appropriation is general, and for a Mission not yet oc­ cupied, and where the Bishop in charge shall have appointed a mission­ ary, the Board has power to determine what portion of such appropriation shall be applied to particular objects, and what amount may be placed at the discretion of the Superintendent or other persons for general purposes ; and when the Board has so determined, the Corresponding Secretaries may make requisition for the payment of such sums in manner and form as above stated. Office and incidental expenses shall be audited by the Corresponding Secretaries, and paid to their order on the face of the original bills. 2 i8 MISSIONARY REPORT.

No Missionary or other person, other than the Corresponding Secre­ taries, shall be allowed to make drafts on the Treasurer for Foreign Mis­ sions, except on letters of credit duly issued. Real estate maybe purchased for the Society, and improvements made on real estate, by the erection of buildings or otherwise, only by direct order of the Board, and by persons specially authorized and appointed to make such purchase or improvement. And where the General Committee make a special appropriation for the purchase or improvement of real estate in any Mission, as the admin­ istration of appropriations and the management of the property of the Society is with the Board of Managers, the Board shall determine the time and manner of payment, and designate the person by whom such appro­ priation shall be expended, before the Corresponding Secretaries are au­ thorized to make requisition therefor. Appropriations and balances of appropriations unexpended at the close of the fiscal year, of any Mission, whether in the hands of the Treasurer of the Society, or any of its agents, shall lapse to the Treasurer of the Society, and may not be thereafter used for the purposes for which they were appropriated, except to discharge pre-existing obligations.

III. STANDING COMMITTEES AND THEIR DUTIES. A t the regular meeting of the Board in June of each year the follow­ ing Standing Committees shall be appointed :

I. O n M is s i o n s i n A f r i c a . It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all matters relating to Missions in Africa which may be referred to them by the Board or the Corresponding Secretaries.

I I. O n M i s s i o n s i n S o u t h A m e r i c a a n d M e x i c o . It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all matters relating to Missions in South America and Mexico which may be referred to them by the Board or the Corresponding Secretaries.

II I . O n M i s s i o n s i n C h i n a a n d Ja p a n . It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all matters relating to Missions in China and Japan which may be referred to them by the Board or the Corresponding Secretaries.

IV. On Missions in W estern Europe. It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all matters relating to Missions in Europe (except such as may be within the limits of Turkey) which may be referred to them by the Board or the Corresponding Secretaries. BY-LAWS. 19

V . O n M is s io n s i n I n d i a , B u l g a r i a , a n d T u r k e y . It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all matters relating to Missions in India, Bulgaria, or Turkey referred to them by the Board or the Corresponding Secretaries.

VI. On Domestic Missions. It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all matters relating to American Domestic Missions, Indian Missions, and Missions among Foreign Populations in the United States, which may be referred to them by the Board or the Corresponding Secretaries.

V I I . O n F i n a n c e . It shall be the duty of this Committee to aid the Treasurer in provid­ ing ways and means. Said Committee shall have power to advise the Treasurer as to the deposit of all uninvested moneys of the Society; and, in the intervals between the sessions of the Board, to direct him in respect to all investments, loans, and other financial affairs of the Society. It shall also have the management, care, and supervision of the interests of the Missionary Society in the building known as the Methodist Publishing and Mission Building, subject to the order of the Board; also to consider and report on such financial matters as may be referred to them by the Board, Treasurer, or the Corresponding Secretaries.

VIII. On Lands and Legacies. It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all be­ quests made to the Society, and questions arising under wills, or con­ cerning lands temporarily held by the Society, referred to them by the Board, the Corresponding Secretaries, or Treasurer.

I X . O n P ublications . It shall be the duty of this Committee to publish as instructed by the Board, and consider matters respecting publications referred to them by the Board or Corresponding Secretaries.

X . O n W o m a n ’ s M i s s io n W o r k . It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider and report on all matters relating to the work of women in the Mission field, and to the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, referred to them by the Board or the Corresponding Secretaries.

X I . O n E s t i m a t e s . It shall be the duty of this Committee to make an estimate of the salary to be paid to any person engaged, not in the Missions, but in the imme­ diate service of this Board ; and also estimates for such incidental ex­ penditures as may have no special relation to any particular Mission, and which may be referred to them by the Board, Treasurer, or a Secretary. 20 MISSIONARY REPORT.

XII. On Nominations and Public Meetings. This Committee shall consist of the chairmen of the several Standing Committees, and its duty shall be to make arrangements for public meet­ ings ordered by the Board, and to nominate suitable persons to fill all vacancies that may occur in the Board of Managers, or in its list of officers, during the year, and the vote on such nominations shall be by ballot. XIII. On A u d i t s . There shall be two Committees on Audits, one in New York, and the other in Cincinnati. The former shall audit the accounts of the Treas­ urer, and the latter the accounts of the Assistant Treasurer quarterly, namely: in November, February, May, and August; and such other ac­ counts as may be referred to them by the Board.

G e n e r a l R u l e s . 1. The Standing Committees shall, at their first meeting after election, elect their own permanent chairman, and if he be absent at any meeting, they shall choose a chairman pro tern. Each committee shall cause to be recorded correct minutes of all the business brought before it, and the dis­ position of the same, in a book kept for that purpose, which shall be brought to the regular meetings of the Board; and said committee may hold a regular meeting once in each month, or meet at the call of its chairman, a Corresponding Secretary, or Treasurer. 2. Each committee having charge of a particular mission shall make out estimates for the mission under its charge, to be laid before the Gen­ eral Missionary Committee at its annual meeting, to guide it in making the appropriations for the ensuing year. 3. The Treasurer shall be ex officio a member, and the Corresponding Secretaries advisory members without a vote, of each of the Standing Committees, except the Committees on Estimates and on Audits; and the Bishop having charge of a Foreign Mission shall be an ex-officio mem­ ber of the respective committees having charge of the same. 4. When any matter is referred to a committee with power, it shall be the duty of the committee to report its final action in the case to the Board, for record in the minutes of its proceedings.

IV. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD, ORDER OF BUSINESS, AND RULES OF DEBATE.

I. M e e t i n g s o f t h e B o a r d . 1. The Board shall hold its regular meetings on the third Tuesday of each month, at 3:30 o’clock P. M., at the Mission Rooms of the Society. 2. The presiding officer shall preserve order, keep the speaker to the point under consideration, and appoint committees not otherwise provided BY-LAWS. 21

for. He shall not take part in debate, nor propose any new measure, unless he first leave the chair; but he may vote as any other member. 3. All meetings of the Board shall open with reading the Scriptures and prayer, and close with prayer or the benediction, under the direction of the chairman. 4. A Corresponding Secretary, or the Treasurer, or any five Managers, may call a special meeting of the Board.

II. O rder of Business. 1. Reading the Scriptures and prayer. 2. The minutes of the previous meeting shall be read, and, when ap­ proved, signed by the presiding- officer. 3. The Treasurer’s monthly statement, and that of the Assistant Treasurer. 4. Report of the Corresponding Secretaries. 5. Reports from the Standing Committees, in the following order: Africa; South America and Mexico; China and Japan; Western Europe ; India, Bulgaria, and Turkey ; Domestic; Finance; Lands and Legacies; Executive Committee ; Publications ; Woman’s Mission W ork; Estimates • Nominations and Public Meetings; Audits. The reports of each com­ mittee to be made by simply reading the minutes of its proceedings, upon which the Board shall take such action as the case may require. When any one of the Standing Committees may be called in the regular proceed­ ings of the Board, it shall be in order to present any miscellaneous busi­ ness pertaining to the particular matters of which that committee has charge, as well as to receive and consider any reports from the committee. 6. Reports of special Committees. 7. Unfinished business. 8. Miscellaneous business. The Board shall appoint, in the month of October in each year, the members of the General Missionary Committee to which it is entitled, ac­ cording to the provision of Art. X I of the Constitution of the Missionary Society.

III. Rules for the Transaction of Business. 1. A motion having been made, seconded, and stated from the Chair, shall be considered in possession of the Board, but may be withdrawn by the mover before any order is taken on it. Every motion shall be reduced to writing if the presiding officer, or any other member, require i t ; and when the question contains several distinct propositions, any member may have the same divided. 2. A motion to amend shall be considered first in order, and shall be decided before the original motion; and a substitute for any pending mo­ tion or amendment may be offered, and shall, if it prevail, supersede the original motion or proposed amendment, and may itself be amended. 3. Every member wishing to speak shall rise and address the Chair; 22 MISSIONARY REPORT.

and no one shall speak more than once on one question, until every mem­ ber desiring to speak shall have spoken; and no member shall speak over fifteen minutes without the permissiori of the Board. 4. Motions to lay on the table, and motions that the previous question be put, shall be taken without debate. 5. When a report is presented by a committee it shall be considered in possession of the Board, and may be adopted, amended, recommitted, laid on the table, or otherwise disposed of, as the Board may judge proper. 6. It shall always be deemed out of order to use personal reflections in debate, or to interrupt a speaker, except to explain or call him to order. 7. It shall be deemed out of order for any member to leave the .meet­ ing without the permission of the Chair or the Board. 8. A motion to adjourn shall always be considered in order, and shall be taken without debate. 9. A call of the ayes and noes shall be ordered on the demand of any five members present. 10. Any decision of the presiding officer shall be subject to an appeal to the Board, and such appeal shall be decided without debate; but the presiding officer may assign his reasons for his decision. 11. When a question has been once put and decided, it shall be in order for any member who voted in the majority to move for the recon­ sideration thereof; but no motion for reconsideration shall be taken more than once.

V.

PUBLIC A TION AND AMENDMENT OF BY-LA WS.

1. The Charter, the Constitution of the Society, and By-laws, shall be published with each Annual Report. 2. The Board of Managers shall not make, alter, or amend any By- Law, except at the regular monthly meeting thereof, nor at the same meeting at which such By-Law, alteration, or amendment may be pro­ posed. FINANCIAL TABLES

FOE THE TEAE. SppfopiScitioi^ fof l88^. 1. Foreign Missions. 1« A f r ic a « "(1.) Liberia: at the disposal of the Board for work...... $3,500 “ “ “ “ “ for schools...... 1,0(0 (2.) Interior work: at the disposal o f the Board...... 1,500 $6,000 2. C entral A m erica : at disposal o f Board...... 200 3. South A m erica. (1.) North-east South America: at disposal of Board...... $200 (2.) South-east South Am erica...... 10,650 “ “ “ contingent for Buenos Ayres...... &000 (3.) Western South America...... 200 13,050 4. Ch in a : (1.) Foochow ...... Mexican dollars, 17,280; estimated to cost 415,557 “ for theological school, con­ ditioned on donation “ “ 7,778; “ “ 7,000 (2.) Central China, (Kiukiang)...... “ * 25,080; ** “ 22,800 (3.) North China, (P e k in g )...... “ “ 22,000; “ ‘ 20,000 (4.) West China...... “ “ 5,500; ‘ 5.000 70357 5. G ermany and Sw itzerland : For the work...... Marks, 89,360; estimated to cost $21,000 For interest on Berlin debt...... “ 2,550; 600 To be administered by Board for debts...... * 10,210; “ “ 2,400 21,000 6. Sc a n d in a t ia : (1.) Denmark...... Crowns, 35,880; estimated to cost $9,613 (2.) Norway...... “ 52,179; 13,963 (3.) Sweden: for the w ork...... “ 75,0*50; 20,100 At the disposal of the Board...... “ 8^596; 2.250 45,926 7. I ndia : (1.) North India...... Rupees, 152,5?1; estimated to cost (2.) South India: at disposal of Board...... “ 1,224.88; “ “ ouu 62,759 8. B ulgaria and T urkey : For the work...... $9,754 To be administered by Board...... 2,000 11,754 9. I t a l y ...... Lires, 112^00; estimated to cost $22,500 For Church property to be administered by Board “ 12,500; “ * 2,500 25,000 10. M exico...... Mexican dollars, 29,885; estimated to cost $20,000 At the disposal of the Board for property at O rizaba...... * “ 4,597; “ “ 4,000

11. J a p a n ...... 37,052 ; At disposal of Board, conditioned on donation...... 4,666;

Total for Foreign Missions...... $327,327 II. Missions in the United States not in North-west German...... $5,000 Annual Conferences, to be admin­ Oregon...... 1,U00 istered as Foreign Missions. Southern German...... 8,000 St. Louis German...... 4,000 1. Arizona...... $7,000 Southern California...... 1,200 2. Black Hills...... 2,500 Western German...... 5,000 3. D akota...... 4,000 4. Indian Territory...... 500 Total...... $40,000 5. Montana...... 5,500 For Indian w ork...... 3i5H0 4. French M issions. 6. New Mexico...... 9,000 New England...... $200 At the disposal o f the Board...... 2,500 7. Utah, for work...... 5,000 5. Chinese M issions. For schools...... 2,000 California...... $10,750 & West Nebraska...... 2&>5 At the disposal of the Board for the sup­ port of a Bible reader...... 120 T o ta l...... $44,365 New York...... 1,600 Oregon...... 1,000 III. Domestic Missions. 1. Northern N e w Y ork (W elsh M ission) . . $200 Total...... $13,470 2. Scandinavian M issions. 6. A merican I ndian. California (Swedish and Norwegian) $1,500 California...... $500 New York East (Swedish)...... 1,400 Central New York ...... 500 New York East (Norwegian)...... 1.900 Columbia River...... 200 New England (Swedish)...... 800 D etroit...... 700 North-west Norwegian...... 5,000 Genesee...... 300 North-west Swedish Conference...... 6,500 Michigan...... 800 For schools...... 500 Northern New York...... 350 Wisconsin...... 200 Total...... $17ic00 3. G erman M issions. TotaL...... $3,550 California...... $1,800 Central German...... 4.500 7. English-Speaking. Chicago Germ an ...... 3,500 Alabama...... *?*?£)? East German...... 6,000 Arkansas...... 4,lMw APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1 8 8 2 . 25

Austin...... $6,750 Tennessee...... $3,000 Blue R idge...... 3,500 T ex a s...... 3,750 California...... 3,000 Vermont...... 1,000 Central Alabama...... 2,500 Virginia...... 5,000 Central Tennessee...... 3,500 Washington...... 2,000 Colorado...... 6,400 West T exas...... 4,000 Columbia River...... 5,000 West Virginia...... 3,000 Delaware...... 1,200 West Wisconsin...... 2,500 Detroit...... 3,500 Wisconsin...... 2,000 East Maine...... 1,000 East Tennessee...... 1,750 Total for English-speaking Domestic Florida...... 3,500 Missions...... $167,550 G eorgia...... 4,000 Holston...... 3,000 IV. Miscellaneous.* Kansas...... 5,500 1. Contingent Fund...... $25,000 “ colored work...... 2,000 2. Incidental Expenses...... 30.000 Kentucky...... 5,000 3. Office Expenses...... 18,000 Lexington...... 2,700 4. For disseminating Missionary informa­ LittleRock...... 3,000 tion ...... 5,000 Louisiana...... 6,300 Michigan...... 3,200 Total...... $78,000 Minnesota...... 9,000 Mississippi...... 6,000 RECAPITULATION. Missouri...... 3,000 I. Foreign Missions...... $327,327 N ebraska...... 3,200 II. Missions in the United States, e tc 44,365 Ne vada ...... 2,500 III. Domestic Missions: North Carolina...... 2,700 Welsh Missions...... 200 North N ebraska...... 2,200 Scandinavian Missions...... 17.600 North-west Iow a...... 2,500 German Missions...... 40.000 Oregon...... 2,500 French Missions...... 200 Saint L ou is...... 4,000 Chinese Missions...... 13,470 Savannah...... 3,150 American Indian...... 3,550 South Carolina...... 6,500 English-speaking...... 167,550 Southern California...... 3,500 IV. Miscellaneous...... 78,000 “ “ for Mexican work .. 500 Liquidation of Debt...... 60,000 Southern Illinois...... 3,000 South Kansas...... 5,500 Grand total...... $752,262 * Expenditures from the contingent fund are made only for missions, never for administration, (Art. XI, Constitution.) The incidental fund of last year was expended as follows : Interest, of which $380 67 was returned, $9,990 27; printing Reports, Certificates, etc.. $3,601 Bl; Bishops’ travel­ ing expenses to missions, etc., $2,231 89; outgoing of mist-ionaries, $1,657 26; postage on reports, cir­ culars, etc., porterage, etc., $1,475 45: General Missionary Committee expenses, $900 44; insurance, freight, telegrams, gas, periodicals, etc., $846 23: annuities, $680; missionaries returned superannu­ ated, widows of, etc., $250; legal and other services. $458 33; taxes, $189 87; extra clerical services, $360; total, $22,641 35. Office expenses are for salaries, traveling expenses, stationery, etc., of office.

TO BE RAISED DURING THE YEAR 1882. Alabama...... $300 Indiana...... $12,650 N. W . Iowa...... $920 A rizona...... 173 Indian Territory...... 25 N. W. Norwegian...... 1,500 Arkansas...... 518 Iow a...... 9,200 N. W. Swedish...... 2^00 Austin...... 345 Italy...... 230 N orw ay...... 1.150 Baltimore...... 36,800 J a p a n ...... 115 O h io...... 20,700 Black H ills...... 200 Kansas...... 2.415 Oregon...... 1,840 Blue R iiiee...... 400 Kentucky...... 3,450 Philadelphia...... 47,150 Bulcaria and Turkey...... 50 Lexington...... 345 Pittsburgh...... 18,400 California ...... 5,750 Liberia...... 115 Rock Iiiver...... 19,550 Central Alabama...... 300 Little R o ck ...... 288 Saint Louis ...... 4,600 Central America...... 25 Louisiana...... 920 Saint Louis German 5,175 Central German...... 6,900 Maine...... 5.750 Savannah...... 575 Central China (Kiukiang) 58 Mexico...... 230 South Carolina...... 2,875 Central Illinois...... 16.100 Michigan ...... , 11*500 S. E. Indiana...... 9,200 Central New York...... 20,700 Minnesota...... 6,900 S. E. South America 100 Central O h io...... 14.000 Mississippi...... 1,000 Southern California 1,150 Central Pennsylvania...... 23.000 Missouri...... 2530 Southern G erm an 1,380 Central Tennessee...... 575 Montana...... 288 Southern Illinois...... 9,200 Chicago G erm an...... 3,680 Nebraska...... 1,400 South India...... 690 Cincinnati...... 24,150 N evada...... 460 South Kansas...... 2,415 Colorado...... 2.300 Newark...... 23.000 Sweden...... 2,013 Columbia R iver...... 1,150 New England...... 23.000 Tennessee...... 863 Dakota...... 300 New England Southern... 13,800 Texas...... 575 Delaware...... I,380 New Hampshire...... 7,130 T r o y ...... 19^50 Denmark...... 575 New Jersey...... 21275 Upper Iowa...... 11,500 Des Moines...... 9,200 New M exico...... 230 Utah...... 230 Detroit...... II,500 New Y o r k ...... 50,140 Vermont...... 6,32a East Germ an...... 3,450 New York East...... 46,575 Virginia...... l.loO East M aine...... 2,875 North Carolina...... 500 Washington...... 2,875 East Ohio...... 23.000 North China...... 58 Western South America.. 25 East Tennessee...... 200 N. E. South Am erica 25 West German...... 2,300 Erie...... 12,650 Northern New York 17,250 West Nebraska...... 200 Florida...... 700 North India...... 690 West Texas...... 5/5 Foochow...... 230 North Indiana...... 11,500 West Virginia...... 5,7oO Genesee...... 17,250 North Nebraska...... 600 West Wisconsin...... 4,600 Georgia...... 288 North O h io...... 12,650 Wilmington...... 14^»0 Germany and Switzerland 1,840 N. W. German...... 3,680 Wisconsin...... 8,0j>9 Holstnn...... 2.300 N. W. Indiana...... 9,775 W yom ing...... 15,52o Illinois...... 23.000 26 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

fjepoft OF THE TREASURER AND ASSISTANT TREASURER. November 1, 1881.

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CONFERENCES. S a w ! S o Oct. 81, Oct. 81, 1880. Receipts Receipts from to Nov. 1.187i), Receipts Receipts from to Nov. 1,1880. Oct. 81,1881. Decrease. 5 < §2 | Increase. | $88 80 $69 75 $19 05 $2.525 25 350 00 $350 00 6,081 10 278 78 823 86 50 13 8,000 00 148 80 201 00 57 20 7,250 00 22,740 11 25,746 86 8,006 75 Black Hills...... 2,750 00 2,868 2585 95 85 95 2,868 2585 40 78 40 78 11,555 99 8,303 65 2,892 50 411 15 17,772 00 16 80 IS 25 1 45 2,790 01) 131 53 131 58 12,602 07 6.802 58 7,732 62 930 04 4,500 00 9.040 99 10,702 94 1,661 95 1,888 2811.104 00 .12,487 28 1,888 2811.104 493 73 10,427 80 12.605 02 2,177 22 17.581 87 20,180 61 2,599 24 272 80 707 67 435 87 4.141 50 8,447 35 8,685 66 238 81 8,500 00 18.447 64 16.488 60 8,040 96 1,S8S 61 2,866 30 477 69 5.500 00 870 10 883 25 13 15 5,575 00 86 83 86 83 2,635 00 900 00 906 69 66 69 1,285 75 401 74 896 87 5 87 10,056 02 5.7S8 09 7,325 79 1,542 70 6,536 91 8,657 69 2,120 78 4,181 2 5 8,324 88 8.491 89 166 51 5,331 25 1,604 85 1,749 95 145 60 972 25 12,374 BO 14,481 87 2,106 47 151 80 151 80 2,550 00 6,986 82 8.022 86 1,036 04 525 07 896 77 129 80 4.936 75 81 16 182 52 101 86 17,212 30 8.581 97 9,826 17 1,244 20 800 00 167 02 186 92 19 90 4,589 42 Germany & Switzerland___ 1,296 50 1.800 90 A 40 26,4S9 80 1,450 50 1,450 50 2,450 00 14..580 87 16,904 85 2,823 48 6,365 05 6,772 22 407 17 250 00 782 67 6,027 25 7,120 54 1,093 29 28.834 29 100 00 100 00 86,209 51 1.837 89 2.093 84 256 45 7,735 50 2.838 42 2,116 19 717 28 5,000 00 230 56 848 85 112 79 2,800 00 29 75 82 62 52 87 4,489 88 Little Eock ...... 189 50 163 70 25 80 2,181 25 694 35 827 90 866 45 6,137 OS 2,306 59 2,822 37 515 78 201 96 166 48 85 48 29,997 75 7,896 58 7,908 74 12 16 4,175 00 8,694 75 4,3S9 53 694 78 8,143 75 887 65 199 05 138 60 6,895 50 1.613 93 1.805 77 191 84 4,099 00 127 75 127 75 6,108 98 1.256 94 1,660 96 404 02 221 25 258 45 82 20 2^987 50 14,298 80 15.223 48 924 68 13,144 75 12,717 00 427 75 ’ ¿75 00 New England Southern...... 22 00 22 ÓÒ ...... 1881.] TREASURERS’ ANNUAL REPORT. 2J

TREASURERS’ REPORT— Continued.

CONFERENCES. Receipts Receipts from Receipts Receipts from Oct, 31,1881. Increase. Nov. 1,1879, to Nov. 1,1879, Oct. 31,1880. to Nov. 1,1880, Decrease. from Nov. 1,1880, Disbursements to to Oct. 31,1881.

New Hampshire...... ‘ $3,532 87 $3,820 33 $2S7 46 New J e r s e y ...... 15,535 50 16,*66 61 731 11 *• . • • New M exico...... 25 00 150 00 125 00 $13,913 40 New T o r k ...... 2S,048 12 82,029 S3 8,981 71 1,809 53 New York East...... 27,051 70 31,616 05 4,564 35 3,525 10 North Carolina...... 116 01 184 96 68 95 8,061 25 North China...... 47 31 $47 81 28,829 82 Northern New York ...... 8,S33 83 9,228 76 894 93 350 00 North India...... 172 55 24S 24 75 69 68,052 28 North Indiana...... 6,263 90 6,808 86 544 96 North Nebraska...... 5,022 50 North O hio...... 8.579 18 8,879 66 300 48 North-west German...... 2,755 68 3,249 29 493 61 4,775 00 North-west Indiana...... 5.044 33 5,124 01 79 63 North-west Iow a ...... 779 53 1,096 60 817 07 2,750 00 North-west Norwegian...... 1,202 09 1,859 96 657 87 4,925 57 North-west Swedish...... 1,998 89 2,118 30 119 41 6,206 25 N orw ay...... 882 17 535 20 153 03 13,158 23 Ohio...... 14.103 76 15,881 77 1,778 01 Oregon...... 602 50 774 30 171 80 4,381 25 Philadelphia...... 38,010 17 46,240 00 8,229 83 Pittsburgh...... 10,671 35 .11,679 46 1,00S 11 P rovidence...... 7,515 10 8.558 IS 1.043 OS ... R ock River...... 12,161 23 15,308 92 3,142 69 Saint Louis...... 2,490 73 3,4S4 67 993 94 4,250 00 Saint Louis German...... 4,597 45 5,392 56 795 11 3,200 00 Savannah...... 294 53 478 50 183 97 8,650 00 South America...... 125 00 125 00 12,057 62 South Carolina...... 2,337 24 2,288 01 49 28 8,825 75 South-east Indiana...... 4,728 54 4.902 81 173 77 Southern California...... 444 23 649 90 205 67 4,475 00 Southern Central...... 38 01 88 01 600 00 Southern German...... 1.205 40 1,679 95 474 55 ... 10,000 00 Southern Illinois...... 5.881 91 6,497 61 615 70 South India...... 363 66 863 66 3,000 00 South Kansas...... 1,980 74 2,260 96 280 22 ..... 5,502 50 Sweden...... 1,649 28 1,960 22 810 94 ..... 18,47 8 53 Tennessee...... 405 37 412 18 6 81 ... 8,000 00 Texas...... 280 10 538 15 803 05 4,000 00 T r o y ...... 10,119 20 11,475 42 1,856 22 Upper Iowa...... 6,356 69 8,388 78 2,032 09 U ta h ...... 188 75 13S 75 6,687 50 V erm on t...... 2,830 57 8,507 38 626 81 912 50 Virginia...... 560 09 508 40 51 69 5,700 00 "Washington...... 1,978 51 1,071 37 902 14 2,479 25 W est China...... 6,830 00 West German...... 1,654 72 2,207 78 553 06 ...... 4,250 00 West Nebraska...... 78 75 199 77 121 02 2,275 00 W est Texas...... 322 50 410 59 88 09 4,000 00 West Virginia...... 2,744 82 3,078 76 884 44 2,783 50 W est Wisconsin...... 2,547 92 8.156 62 608 70 1,847 50 Wilmington...... 10,024 09 11.818 70 1.294 61 W isconsin...... 4,174 22 4,282 85 108 13 1,027 50 W vom ing...... 8,406 90 9,689 74 1,282 84 Legacies...... 34,710 27 88,865 26 845 01 Sundries...... 22,478 41 *20,832 S6 1,645 55 ...... Incidental Expenses, of which $9,990 27 was for interest 22,641 85 Office Expenses...... 14,979 08 Publication Fund...... 8,335 27 Total...... $557,871 14 $625,668 «9 1 $74,994 17 $6,701 42 $648,084 S2 Total Disbursements to Foreign Missions, $822,636 26,- to Domestic Missions, $284,492 86.

* Of this amount $-4,500 is income from the new Mission Building for the year. A U D IT S.—The accounts of the Treasurer were carefully audited by the Auditing Committee at New York, and those of the Assistant Treasurer were carefully audited by the Auditing Com­ mittee at Cincinnati, and certificates of their correctness, respectively, attached in due form. The above table is a summary of these accounts. ]Vtoi\tl\ly ^tkten\ei\t SHOWING THE CONDITION OF THE TREASURY FOR EACH M O N TH OF THE FISCAL YEAR FROM NOY. 1, 1880, TO OCT. 31, 1881,

TREASURER’S ACCOUNT. ASSISTANT TREASURER'S ACCOUNT. COMBINED STATEMENT. BALANCE.

Balance on Treasury in Halance on Treasury in State o f the hand on the debt on the Disburse­ hand on the debt on the Disburse­ Total Date. Receipts.* Receipts. Total dis­ Treasury on first day of first day of ments.* first day of first «lay of ments. Receipts.* bursements.* last day of the month. the month. the month. the month. each month.

Novem ber, 1S80...... $101,956 40 $10,843 86 $34,838 74 $19,954 69 $1,258 34 $4,887 00 $12,101 70 $89,675 74 $109,575 75t December, M ...... 126.353 03 10,859 44 84.224 47 16,777 28 895 34 8,269 28 11,254 78 42.493 75 140,814 72t January, 18S1...... 149,718 06 11,418 50 44,342 62 8,903 34 8.675 36 13,557 00 15,093 86 57.899 62 183,620 48t February, “ ...... 185,528 48 9,739 00 87,407 24 1,907 95 1,753 85 8,243 25 11.492 85 40.650 49 212,778 12t March, “ ...... 219,196 67 115,519 40 22,460 14 6,418 55 5.799 22 17,082 50 121,818 62 89,542 64 131,002 14t April, “ ...... 130,613 91 130,045 21 55,034 66 $888 23 9.183 48 14,673 25 139.178 69 69,707 91 61,531 36t May, 62,692 36 6,310 29 40,663 65 i.ia i 00 2,933 53 4,924 8S 9,743 82 45,588 03 97,375 57t Juno, “ ...... 104,913 47 8,641 71 83,0G2 11 7,537 90 2.473 09 11,011 4S 11.314 80 49.073 59 135,134 3fit July, “ ...... 131,133 87 10,129 13 65.234 08 l ’.ÒÒÓ 49 1.408 07 14,875 50 11,597 20 80,109 58 203,646 74t August, “ ...... 204,52-3 S2 4,974 50 46,493 24 877 OS 2,882 14 4,756 25 7,850 64 61,249 49 247,039 59t September, “ ...... 251,042 56 5,029 51 81,830 84 4,002 97 130,115 63 14.198 90 135,145 14 46,029 24 157,923 69t October, “ ...... 195,573 71 76,013 03 74,803 24 87,050 02 67,852 76 15,501 50 148,865 79 90,364 74 104,422 64t

Greneral Statement for the Year. RECEIPTS. Treasury in debt November 1.1880...... $82,001 71 Eeceived by Treasurer at N ew Y ork from Nov. 1 ,1S80, to Oct. 81,1881, $400,223 08 Excess of Disbursements over Receipts...... 22,420 98 “ Assistant Treasurer nt Cincinnati “ “ 229,740 81 Treasury in debt October 81,1881...... $104,422 64 T otal...... $629,963 89

^ DISBURSEMENTS. STATE OF THE TREASURY, NOVEMBER 1, 1881. Paid by T rea su rer...... $525,454 53 Treasury in debt at New York...... $124,722 92 “ Assistant Treasurer...... 126 980 29 Cash in Treasury at Cincinnati...... 20,800 28

T otal...... $652,884 82 Net Cash Indebtedness of Treasury, November 1,1881...... $104,422 64

1 i Er! nt ft'0™ ti’ S American Bible Society of $4,300 is included in the above receipts und disbursements, t The heavy-faced type indicates that the Treasury was in debt to this amount. Methodist Publishing and Mission Building Account.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

FROM NOVEMBER I, 1880, TO OCTOBER 31, 1881.

The gross income from rents of the Methedist Publishing and Mission Buildings from November 1,1880, to October 81,1881, w as $38,500 00 There was paid on joint account...... 19,926 99

Leaving net proceeds of rent...... $18,573 01

One fourth of this belongs to the Missionary Society...... $4,643 25

The Society has received on its own account as follows: From contributions subject to interest during the life of contributors, etc...... 52,264 29 For interest...... $6,018 64 Less interest paid on annuities, e tc...... 4,312 12 1,706 52

Total receipts...... $58,614 06 Add balance in Annuity Account November 1, 1880...... 56,919 70

T otal...... $115,533 76

Amount paid into the General Treasury for Missionary purposes from lapsed annuities and income from the building...... $4,500 00 Loaned to the Missionary Society...... 85,000 00 Loaned to other parties...... 26,083 76

Total...... $115,583 76 SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.

W i t h thankfulness to the Church and gratitude to God we present our Sixty-third Annual Report. The year has been one of work, care, and anxiety. But these have been light­ ened by the sympathy of the Church, the co-operation of the pastors, and the helping presence of God. Death has taken from us Rev. Bishop E. O. Haven, D.D., LL.D. He fell at his post, by the shore of the Pacific Ocean. He was elected a member of the Board in 1872. We quote a few words from the minute adopted .by the Board of Managers on occasion of his death: “ Though his distant residence and the duties of his office prevented his often being present at our monthly meetings, yet he was thoroughly familiar with the work of the Society, and was always ready with his pen, voice, and means to promote its interests. . . . By his amiable temper, genial, modest, and unassuming manners, he secured the warm affection of all who knew him, while his deep piety, unwavering faith, and earnest devotion to his Master’s work, commanded their confidence and highest esteem.” Aside from the falling of this prince in our Israel, the Board of Managers of the Missionary Society has been spared to the work, and very hopeful results have been attained. L ast year there was an addition to the debt of $49,1:12 55, making a total indebtedness of $112,150 71 with which to begin the year 1881. So great was the pressure from the fields abroad and at home that, in spite of this increase of debt, the General Committee advanced the appropriations fully $50,000 over the appropriations of the preceding year. This made it necessary to advance the receipts about $100,000 in order to meet current obligations without liquidating any part of the debt. The last winter over much of our contributing field was un- precedentedly rigorous. In large sections of the Church i 8 8 i .] SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 31 great distress prevailed for months, and the usual Church and revival work was prevented. The cold winter was followed by a cold and very backward spring. This was followed by an early and protracted drought extending to the very end of summer. The consequent failure of the crops was felt in our churches. When it seemed almost impossible to secure the necessities of life, it could not be but that our collections should feel the drought. Special efforts were made to pre­ sent the missionary cause, and our people half forgot their losses in their generous support of this important and imper­ iled interest. The result was a grand advance of $74,994 17 for the year, which has been already expended in the work. This year the General Missionary Committee were again constrained to advance on the appropriations of last year. They could not shut their eyes and ears to the fields into which we have not so much as entered. With only three men left in Central China to minister to more than one hundred millions of people ; with only two men on their way to Western China to enter for the first time a region comprising eight of the eighteen provinces of China, with no one for Thibet and the region beyond ; with only half a dozen men in all North China, embracing the capital and a score of other great cities ; with whole islands and provinces in Japan offering every in­ ducement to Christian zeal; with Africa only touched on the short segment of a narrow rim at a point called Liberia, while the great unmeasured, populous, healthful continent stretches far beyond our enterprise and almost beyond our prayers ; while the entire continent of South America, with its ignorant but not barbarous millions, sick of Romanism, of which they have had too much, and hungry for Christianity, of which they re­ ceive next to nothing from us— with all these and all the other fields urging us forward, the wonder of wonders is that the General Committee did not advance another hundred thousand dollars in their appropriations. But the action of the General Committee already surpasses the liberality of the Church. This year has developed a spirit in heathen China and in heathen Japan unrivaled in the history of missions. In China, 32 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

in the Foochow Mission, a native, Mr. T. Ahok, not a pro­ fessed Christian, moved by his admiration of our work, has purchased the most valuable property in the city of Foochow, and has donated it to the missions as the principal building in the new Anglo-Chinese College. This college is essentially the creation of the natives. They want Western knowledge under Christian influences, and so much do they want it that they are ready to found and support the college for the sake of their children and of China. Such an opening as this can­ not be duplicated in history. Japan presents the marvelous spectacle of a heathen nation opening her doors and offering her treasures for the support of the teachers of the new and true religion. She has offered the leading places in some of her schools to missionaries, proposing to support them in part or wholly for a limited amount of teaching, and allow them to devote the rest of their strength and time to distinctive mis­ sionary work. In order to work up toward the great results required of us as a Church, the General Committee places special emphasis upon the importance of training the children in all our Sun­ day-schools to love missions, and contribute for their support. Pastors are exhorted in the name of our Divine Master to pre­ pare these young minds and hearts for the work of the Church. The visitation of all the charges by suitable men, under the direction of the presiding elders, for the purpose of present­ ing this cause and imparting information, is urged upon the Church. The monthly prayer-meetings for missions, at which short speeches shall be made on the various fields and topics .connected with this work, are brought before the Church with the most earnest commendation. The requirements of the Discipline, by which every member is to be reached, and some contribution secured from each, are emphasized. Lists of these contributors and contributions, according to the Dis­ cipline, are asked for to be reported to the Missionary Com­ mittee at conference. W e are pressing toward one million dollars a year for mis­ sions for our Methodism. F o r e i g n ]\í i s s i o n s .

A f r i c a .

Commenced in 1833. Organized as a Conference in 1836.

BISHOP WARREN has Episcopal Supervision.

iMüssionarie s.

M onrovia D istrict : C. A. Pitman, P. E., J. S. Payne, G. J. Har­ graves, T. B. Lane, B. K. M’Keever. St . Paul’s River D istrict : D. Ware, P. E., W. P. Kennedy, Sen., W. T. Hagans, W . M. Richards, H. B. Capeheart, T. A. Sims, M. V. Bruce. Bassa D istrict : J. H. Deputie, P. E., J. Harris, J. P. Artis, J. R. Moore, C. W. Bryant. Sinoe D istrict: C. H. Harman, P . E., W . J. Kennedy, Jun., C. Cummings. Helpers: J. W. Cooper, A. Snorton, W . H. Davis, Murray Railey. Missionary to tJie Interior: Joel Osgood.

^Missionaries o f th.e "W. F . M. S. Miss Mary A. Sharpe, Miss Emma Michener.

Rev. J. S. Payne, of whose severe illness we hear with the greatest concern, and who has been acting as treasurer of the mission, reports to us as follows : The report of this first of the Foreign Missions of the Methodist Epis­ copal Church, for the year 1881, cannot but fall far short of the deep inter­ est which the work in this section of the world awakened in former years. The work has not been prosecuted with the vigor of those years. Its support and encouragement manifestly waned after it became the Libe­ ria Annual Conference instead of the Liberia Mission Annual Confer­ ence. The belief spread abroad in the Church that it should, as a Con­ ference, sustain itself. Not objecting to this, some stations undertook the 3 34 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

work of supporting the preachers appointed to them. But it became pain­ fully evident that a people who had emigrated from the United States in circumstances any thing but flattering, with the hard work of resettling themselves in an unhealthy climate, could do but little outside of the im­ mediate supply of their domestic necessities. The preachers appointed to them have, consequently, been compelled to divide their time, much to the detriment of the work they had under­ taken. But a feeling— a deep, heartfelt conviction— now possesses the preachers and members of the Church, that the Church of Christ is both the honor and bulwark of a land. They are determined to interest them­ selves to the utmost in sustaining a work so vital to their success, pros­ perity, and happiness. The last session of the Annual Conference adopted a plan of assessing the stations which will require some time to operate efficiently, but which, it is thought, will take well with the stations under judicious supervision. The real Methodistic and spiritual character of the membership admits of no question. After fifty years of untiring devotion to this work, spend­ ing life and treasure, with the high aim to give the Church of the Mes­ siah to Africa, it is proposed to change the base of operations from Liberia to some other sp ot! But it should be known that there, wherever it may be, history will have to repeat itself. And the question arises, Why do this, when we have a Church already in a region than which none is more promising ? The sound of the Gospel is becoming familiar to the heathen Liberian ; the character of the “ God-man,” whose life comports with his profession, is held high, and the humane work of himself and the school teacher is regarded essential to the change from heathenism to civilization. In this section of Africa, and during the fifty years of evangelical and literary work, many converts to Christianity have been made. Many still live to give testimony to the ability of the Gospel to elevate humanity. And many out of gross heathenism have been exalted to the Christian ministry, where some shine as stars of the first magnitude. What sound policy dictates a divergency from this section of Africa? Where is the wisdom in forsaking an arena where ideas are rapidly circu­ lating in favor of a change to Christianity and civilization? Here the heathen begins to show a distrust in his ancient habits and baneful prac­ tices. Here he defers to civilized law and the umpirage of civilized government. Should the committee on missions conclude to adopt such a policy they will throw away many advantages, much fruit to be gathered, I believe, in the near future, and find themselves in their new mission field in not much less trammeling circumstances. Iam profoundly thankful to report that the work is prospering. The brethren are active. On some stations gracious revivals prevail. I beg to instance in particular Mount Olive. In the words of Brother Deputie, " Several of the natives around us have recently sent into the station here their ‘ horns and greegrees,’ and desire to serve the true God.” i 881.] AFRICA. 35 With the profoundest respect for the views of the mission committee, and the highest gratitude to the Missionary Society, I think they should be encouraged. The Liberia Conference convened at Monrovia on the 19th of January, 1881, the session having been changed to this place from Virginia City in the hope of having a Bishop pres­ ent from the United States. In the absence of a Bishop, J. S. Payne was chosen President, and James H. Deputie, Secre­ tary. One of the members, Rev. J. C. Lowrie, had died during the year. Five young men were admitted on trial in the Conference. The statistics for the previous year are as follows : Probationers, 141 ; full members, 2,044 5 ordained and local preachers, 58 ; adults baptized, 67 ; children baptized, 47 ; value of church property, $33,434; contributed for build­ ing and improvements, $2,000; collected for ministerial sup­ port, $1,600; for Conference Claimants, $3 50; for Sunday- School Union, $23 07; Sunday-schools, 33 ; officers and teachers, 237 ; scholars of all ages, 143. The following recommendation for new native work among the Maumba people has been made by the Conference:

A permanent station to be opened in the Vey Country on a manual labor system. New work among the Pessas and Golahs settled in the Queah Country, St. Paul’s River District. Durbinville, in the Bassa District, to be taken up again and supplied. The expense of this proposed new work is estimated at about $3,300. Prof. R. P. Hollett was at the Conference, and was treated with distinguished consideration. He communicated to the brethren the order of the Board, by which he was authorized to close his school, with a view of prospecting for interior work, either back of Liberia or up the Niger. He selected the latter, and after completing his explorations returned to the United States, and reported to the Board. We make an extract from the report, showing the conclusions reached by Prof. Hollett. The report is given in full in the M a n u a l for January, i8iji. The professor says: Should the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church de­ 36 MISSIONARY REPORT. [1881.

cide to begin work in this portion of Africa, I would suggest that the first station be chosen on the highland in the neighborhood of the joining of the Niger and Binue. But unless the society went in force, prepared to inaugurate a system o f missions, I doubt if the results obtained would meet the expectations. The missionaries would be cut off from civilization. I had intended to at once begin my journey to the Mandingo Country on my return to Liberia, but landed at Monrovia with the most serious illness I had experienced in Africa. Moreover, the rains had already commenced, flooding the lowlands and filling the narrow country paths; while traders informed me that three native wars were then in progress among the tribes which I would be obliged to pass through. My con­ templated journey would be impracticable for the next six months. In considering the advisability of establishing a mission among any of the tribes back from the Liberian coast, difficulties are at once presented which can be but little appreciated by those who have never visited that portion of Africa. A stranger, attempting to reach the interior, would be subject to re­ peated detentions by the intermediate tribes, though probably a mission­ ary regularly journeying back and forth would soon be able to avoid them. The repeated subdivision of the tribes makes tribal wars frequent, in which the paths are cut off, and the absence of regularly-executed laws would expose his property to the cupidity of the natives. The ill-concealed hostility of the Liberian Government, the vicinity of a nominally Christian people of immoral practices, the constant exaction of oppressive “ dashes,” the unfortunate custom of some of the early mission­ aries of hiring the natives to attend church and school, the difficulties of transportation, and the unreliability of the promises of native kings, would all increase the barriers in the way of establishing a mission in this part of Africa. Rev. J. H. Deputie, Presiding Elder of the Bassa District, reports as follows: The work at Mount Olive is the only purely native work on the Bassa District. On the other charges the membership is made up of Americo- Liberians and natives from the different tribes around, but of their dis­ tinctive numbers I am not able to say how many. I have charge of the mission-work at Mount Olive. Rev. Joseph Har­ ris is a native assistant here, a member of the Liberia Annual Conference, and an ordained deacon. He came to us from the Bassa tribe, and has rendered efficient service among the surrounding natives in teaching them the way that leads to God. Philip Harris is a native local preacher, and is doing good service here. The way is open for the extension of the work in the regions beyond, but we are not able to follow up these advan­ tages. W e are too poor to man the field. Our men are falling by the hand of death, and new recruits are few and far between. Primary schools are asked for by the natives far and near, and school books are in i 881.] AFRICA. 3 ; great demand. We must continue to look abroad for assistance in these matters, as the Church in Liberia is unable to take charge of so great a work as we now find opening up among our heathen brethren. At Marshall the Church is under the charge of Rev. William H. Davis, a local elder. The work there is advancing slowly, and the membership is made up of Americo-Liberians and natives. The Government has a day-school there, the only one in existence in that settlement. Their membership are preparing to build a new brick church, having burnt their bricks the last dry season. Rev. Charles W. Bryant, a member of the Liberia Annual Conference, has charge of the Edina Circuit. His work is in a very healthy condition, and a good revival is now in progress on the charge. Several applications from the natives within the bounds of this circuit are very urgent in their request for missionaries to be sent among them. On this circuit is the old Durbinville Station, suspended for several years for want of means to keep it up, Rev. Walter Brumshine, a local elder, has charge of the Upper Buch­ anan Circuit. He is doing good service in his work, and the Church meets all its expenses, receiving no foreign aid whatever. The last report from the pastor was more encouraging than the one previous, and from what I can gather the work is well manned, and the prospects encour­ aging. The Lower Buchanan Circuit is under the charge of Rev. Josiah Pros­ ser, a local deacon. This work is reported to be in a very healthy condi­ tion, and the circuit bears all its expenses without any assistance from abroad. On this circuit are some very interesting native fields that might be worked to advantage if we had the money. The Bexley Circuit is now under the charge of Rev. N. D. Russ, a local preacher, who succeeds the Rev. James R. Moore, who fell at his post on the ninth of August last. This circuit is large, and the membership re­ side mostly upon their small farms, and consequently are not often found all together. The duties of a pastor here are very laborious, and in the rainy season he cannot travel his circuit to advantage. The work con­ tinues to hold its own,, and though there are but ninety dollars of mission money expended upon this circuit, the membership, being mostly poor, have contributed according to their ability toward keeping up the interests of the Church. Some very important calls from the natives reach us from this circuit, requesting missionaries to be sent to their assistance. On this circuit Miss Michener, of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, is setting up a crusade against superstition, ignorance, and idolatry, and although she has been a great sufferer from the effects of the fever, her prospects for the future are very flattering. Within the bounds of this circuit, Miss Scott is preparing to erect a large female institution for the benefit of the long-neglected females of this land, and our prayer to God is, that her labors may be attended with beneficial results, and that her health and life may be precious in his sight. 33 MISSIONARY REPORT. El88l.

C. H. Harman, Presiding Elder of Cape Palmas District, reports as, follows:

W e have a good work before us in Christianizing the idolatrous nations. From remote parts of the country they come, asking for the Gospel, and our ears are not s'topped to their cries uttered as “ from Macedonia ; ” but we find ourselves unequal to the task before us. The work of our Church has been greatly retarded in some places, and at other points virtually stopped. This does not proceed from lack of love for souls, nor from want of willing heralds of the Gospel; but the pecuniary embarrassments of the people of this State have been, and still are, such, that it is almost impossible to obtain sufficient contributions to keep churches and parson­ ages in good condition, not to speak of sustaining the work of mis­ sionary enterprise in Africa. The work under my immediate supervision comprehends Mount Scott and Tubman Town Churches, which have had as much of my time as could be possibly spared, and I thank God he has been among us and blessed our labors. There is great zeal manifested on the part of the local preachers and exhorters for the work of the Lord. I have established two out-stations among the heathen, namely, Benelu and Graway ; the former about two miles, and the latter not more than eight miles from Harper. A t these places during the year, there have been regular appointments and preaching, (with the aid of my local preachers.) The prospects are good for future prosperity. There is a growing desire for the Gospel among these people; so much so, that I am encouraged to labor with them, and hope ere long to be able to estab­ lish a Sunday-school at each of these places, provided I can obtain suit­ able books, which I very much need. W e must ask for help in this par­ ticular. I have given some of my time to the Churches in Sinoe County, at Greenville, (W. P. Kennedy, Jun., pastor,) Lexington, Louisiana, Blunts- ville, and would have given more of my time to this work, had there been any convenient way of getting up to this place. The mail steamers sel­ dom stop at Sinoe, which is about ninety miles from Cape Palmas; an arrangement not favorable for my journey. Here the work is progress­ ing, and through the mercy of God on my last visit I found a renewing of the Spirit in the Church, and an increase of membership. For this, God be praised ! Some attention has been given to King David s Town, in the interior of Sinoe, and the old field of labor in the Kroo Town. Here zeal is manifested both ways, the heathen asking for churches and schools on the one side, and our brethren zealously giving all the time they can spare to the cause, though suffering from pecuniary embarass- ments. Lexington, Louisiana, and Bluntsville, (Murray Railey, pastor in the latter two places,) are small but growing settlements. At Lexington and Bluntsville unsuccessful efforts .have been made toward the erection of houses for divine worship ; yet they are still holding on, and contributing little by little of their substance. Is there no relief for this struggling i 8 8 i J AFRICA. 39 people ? Who will open their hearts to give something to this most needy and would-be-grateful people ? The station at Settra Kroo, Brother Charles Cummings, missionary, is a good field for labor. The harvest is truly ripe here. The natives desire schools and churches. I do not mean thatch sheds, for this does not tend to elevate the mind of the heathen man as he approaches the light of civilization. God’s house, he will tell you quick, ought to be built after the style of the civilized and enlightened people. When I speak of schools, I mean that good and efficient teachers are needed. W e have men, and, I believe, good Christian men, whose love for God’s cause would stimulate them to a faithful discharge of such duties as might be given them ; such men may be found among some of our local preachers. In closing this report I feel it my duty, as well as pleasure, to say, that in the Church at Cape Palmas, (Mount Scott,) there is a most glorious revival going on which has continued now about three weeks. The zeal of God’s people seems unabating, and sinners seem to be deeply con­ cerned about the salvation of their souls. The number of mourners is increasing every night. As a general thing, there are about three hun­ dred in attendance, agonizing and praying that God would continue to carry on the well-begun work in this part of his vineyard. STATISTICS OF THE AFRICA MISSION FOR 1881. j j j è i .2 A 1 •e JS JZ ■a a ? I 3 £ .a 60 J3 M 1 CIRCUIT OR STATION. "H U -C Ê i è* & S t ­ 1 Q tn O & g t i I g *3 6 i l a c o’ffi Foreign Foreign Missionaries, Worn. For. Miss. Society. Members. Sunday Sunday Worship. Children Baptized. No. of Day Scholars. Estimated Value o fChurches« Nativo Nativo Teachers. No. of Halls and other Estimated Value of Adults Adults Baptized. | Places of Worship. Parsonages. tals, and other Properly. Parsonages, and other Collected for Missionary

sSst £ Value of Schools, Hospi­ Property. Society. Debt on Debt on Churches. Collected for Self- support. Collected for Church fc fc y, è % Building and. Repairing. [ [ Foreign Missionaries. j Other | Helpers. } Probationers. I Average Attendance j on Monrovia District. Monrovia Station...... l 1 9, 4 1 175 fl 1 9,00 1 $8,000 $10,000 $600 1 « 70 7 50 ? 80 9 Payiiesville Circuit...... 1 GO ill) 2 1 81 1 800 $150 ’ i 9 111 1 Cl ? 500 " 2 0 Aunnensville...... 1 Bassa District. Upper Buchanan...... 9 8 97 10 l 10 1 70 1 ' COO $5 75 Lower Buclmnan...... 3 2 75 17 6 2 «6 2 000 Edina Circuit...... ‘i 5 ft 125 an 8 Rn 1 400 Bexlov Circuit...... 1 1 B 4 ca 8 8 8 1 80 1 000 Marshall Circuit...... 8 2 47 5 8 8 1 1 150 25 800 Mount Olive...... ’ i 1 i 9 54 ?0 ÒÓ 1 i 35 1 40 50 ‘ i $50 'è ÓÓ 50 Cape Palmas District. Capo Pnlmtis...... 252 10 175 q 9 295 80 20,907 1 *1 6,000 $200 28 25 125 Gilbert. Haven Station...... 1 150 Since : Greenville anti Lexington...... 1 1 115 100 5 4 9 180 16 1 1,500 1 1 100 20 50 Louisiana and Bluntsville ...... 150 40 1 ? 40 ? SO 1 40 14 140 Mount Scott and Tubmantown......

St. PauFs River Districts...... S

Interior Africa\...... 1

KEOAPITÜLATION BY DISTRICTS Monrovia District...... 1 1 fi 1 10 505 R $89 5 822 6 $8,800 $10,000 $620 $150 Bassa District...... 1 1 16 461 90 12 99 1 86 9 821 7 2.900 1 $50 $10 75 25 850 Cape Palmas District...... 8 1 417 10 8155 126 405 46 5 8,547 s o 6,150 10,000 $84028 25 159 1,129 St. Paul’s River Districtt...... 8 1 Interior Africat...... 1

* Methodist Episcopal school building. 1 1 he statistics of St. Paul's River District and Interior Africa have not been received, and therefore no totals of the Mission ore here given* See General Statistics of January, 1881, on page 35* S o u t h A m e r i c a .

Commenced in 1836.

BISHOP FOSTER has episcopal supervision.

A t the last session of the General Committee the name of this mission, whose operations have been in the region of the La Plata and its tributaries, was changed to South-east South America. Two other missions in South America, namely, North-east South America and Western South America, were put on the list, the field of the former being the basin of the Amazon and the coast regions adjacent, that of the latter the States on the western coast of the continent. These missions have sprung up within a few years past mainly through the efforts of Rev. William Taylor. A mission in Central Amer­ ica, originated in a similar manner, was also put upon the list at the same session of the General Committee. Bishop Harris is at present absent on an official visit to these new fields with a view to organizing them in connection with our work, and a detailed account of these missions may be ex­ pected in our next Annual Report.

SOUTH-EAST SOUTH AMERICA.

English work commenced in 1836. Spanish work commenced in 1867.

Missionaries.

T h o m a s B . W o o d , Superintendent. Jo h n F . T h o m s o n , Jo s e p h R . W o o d .

Assistan t ^Missionaries. Mrs. J. F. T h o m s o n , Mrs. T. B. W ood, Mrs. J. R. W o o d .

Local Preachers Employed as Helpers.

A n t o n i o G u e l f i , J u a n C o r r e a , W i l l i a m T a l l o n . 42 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

Acting as supplies, but not employed by the Missionary Society.

G e o r g e V i n e y , F r a n c i s c o P e n s o t i , J u a n V i l l a n u e v a .

Agent o f American Bible Society, A n d r e w M . M lLN E.

"W . F . TV1. S. M issionaries. Miss C ecilia G uelfi, Mrs. E. J. M. C le m e n s , Miss J. G o o d e n o u g h .

Following is the Superintendents report:

T h e F ie l d . This field embraces the Republics of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and the adjacent provinces of Brazil— the South Temperate Zone of the New World. The year 1881 has witnessed important movements in this vast region, tending toward its development on a grand scale.

T h e W o r k . To evangelize those lands now, while their new civilization is forming, is the work before us. The means in use are: 1. Bible Distribution. This has extended into all the countries named above. The coast regions have been thoroughly canvassed. Those further inland are being worked up now. Books have been sold two thousand miles up the great rivers, and more are being sent there. This work is carried on by the American Bible Society, but the workers are all our members— all converts of our mission save their chief, Brother A. M. Milne, a Scotchman. In 1881 much has been done both on old and new ground. 2. The Preaching. Our mission is too short-handed to extend the preaching as the work demands. With but three ordained missionaries and but three paid helpers, in all the vast field under view, our operations are painfully limited. The superintendent has been tied down at Monte­ video by the pastorate of our important Church there, and the editing of our weekly paper. Brother Thomson has been confined to Buenos Ayres by the double duties that demand his large energies in that city. Brother J. R. Wood alone has been able to itinerate. Leaving the work at Rosario in charge of Brother Viney during his rounds on a vast circuit that has opened up along the Parana River, he has penetrated three hundred miles in that direction, nearly half way from Rosario to Asuncion — a grand field. O f the employed helpers, Brother Guelfi has been preaching in and around Montevideo; Brother Tallon, the same in Buenos Ayres; and Brother Correa alone has been free to itinerate, traversing an immense circuit, embracing all the Spanish and Portuguese territory between the 1881.] SOUTH AMERICA. 43

Uruguay River and the sea, all of which region he had formerly canvassed as a Bible colporteur. Brother Milne, in all his travels, is an increasingly efficient evangelist as well as a model Bible agent. The unpaid helpers supply local necessities and are contributing powerfully to the stability and growth of the work. But its great and speedy extension cannot depend on them. 3. Church Organization. Our established centers are being thorough­ ly organized on the Methodist Episcopal type. Thus the Church at Montevideo has ten class-leaders, (all but one its own converts, and all but two converted Romanists,) six stewards, six trustees, four licensed preachers, with others who preach without licenses in its extensive evangelistic operations, carried on all around the city. The old and efficient organization in Buenos Ayres has been brought more fully into accordance with the Discipline by the creation of a board of trustees and the regular holding of the Quarterly Conference. The Church at Rosario has a less complete but perfectly regular organization. We find that the Methodist Episcopal Discipline works as well in South America as in North America, and mean to labor on that line. The past year has been marked by progress in this respect. The superintendent has published a pamphlet in Spanish, giving a plain account of what Methodism is. This will greatly facilitate such progress hereafter. 4. Sunday-schools. These are very flourishing. Local helpers, male and female, do telling work in them. Their influence is extending wider and deeper. They encounter great opposition from the dominant priest­ craft, but thrive nevertheless. 5. Self-supporting Day-schools. Of these there are no less than seven, with over five hundred pupils taught by Methodist men and women, some of them natives of those lands and converts of our mission. Some of these schools have been established for many years, and there are men now in positions of power and influence in all those lands who were educated in them. 6. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Schools. These form an important accessory to our cause. They meet a local necessity for the Christian education of the children of our converts— the future mothers of South American Methodism— and create a far-reaching tendency to mold the womanhood of those lands on the North American Christian model. These schools are not self-sustaining now, for the reason that they are too intensely evangelical. But they help on the evangelistic work as self- sustaining schools can never do. We ought to have a high grade insti­ tution for young men on the same line, to keep pace with the great educational revival now going on in those lands. 7. The Press. Four annual volumes of our religious weekly, E l Evan­ gelista, have been completed, and the fifth begun. This enterprise has received not a dollar of aid, as yet, from the United States. A lift of $1,000 just now would put it on a new footing, with a higher and wider plane of usefulness. Other printing has been done to supply our members 44 MISSIONARY REPORT. [1881.

with the information they need on points of doctrine, discipline, contro­ versy, and spiritual edification. W e need a regular publishing establishment, with which to keep pace with the ever-increasing activity of the public mind in those countries, now more largely controlled by the local press than by any other agency. A very few thousand dollars would suffice to start such an establish­ ment, and once started it would sustain itself and grow into all that would be wanted. E n g l i s h W o r k . In this field the English work is peculiarly important. From 1836 to 1867 it was the only work possible. Till very late years it has been the chief work. It is now second to the Spanish in numbers, but is still, and always will be, a vital part of our operations. The following facts should be stated in this connection : 1. The English-speaking people go to South America to stay, just as the Germans to North America. Their children are natives, adopt the language of the country, and, unless converted, will sink deep into the prevailing evil ways. 2. The English element is, in the main, the best element of the inflow­ ing tide of emigration to those lands, a tide whose principal volume is from Southern Europe, and nearly all Romish. Yet the English do not form in any sense a dominant class or caste in those young republican States. 3. The vices of Englishmen (especially drunkenness) are considered by the natives as the ripe and legitimate fruits of Protestantism ! 4- The English are the easiest for us to reach, for various evident reasons. 5. The English converts grow the fastest in grace and knowledge. This comes of their freedom from many prevailing prejudices, and their access to English evangelical literature. Such men as Brother Thomson, Brother Tallon, and Brother Viney, are examples. A work that can provide such workers is of incalculable importance. 6. The English element is far ahead of all others in the great matter of self-support. In view of such facts as these, our missionaries give a considerable share of attention to work among the English-speaking communities where they labor. From this they could be wholly relieved by new missionaries, who would thus be doing useful work from the moment of their arrival, while learn­ ing the language of the country. W e need three such men as soon as they can be sent.

S p a n i s h W o r k . Commenced in 1867 with one single worker, (Brother Thom­ son,) and carried on since under great disadvantages, the begin­ i88i.] SOUTH AMERICA. 45 ning of its organized form dates from 1878. In 1881 its en­ rolled members, in full communion and probation together, outnumber the English nearly four to one ; its Sunday-school scholars still more. The day-scholars are almost all Spanish­ speaking. The more gifted converts ripen gradually into efficient work­ ers, (as seen by the foregoing paragraphs,) stewards, leaders, Sunday-school teachers, superintendents, exhorters, and preachers. Our work is sadly hindered by the want of means of instruc­ tion for these workers who know no English. We need a regular institution for this purpose.

A b s e n c e o f t h e S uperintendent . The JBoard granted leave of absence to the superintendent for a visit to the United States to recruit his health, broken down by prolonged overtaxing. Brother Talion, from Buenos Ayres, was put in charge of the Church at Montevideo, leaving Brother Thomson alone. The “ Evangelista ” was left in the editorial care of one of the native converts, Brother Juan Robles, who, although a poor man with a family, undertakes it without compensation, as the paper does not yield any thing to pay for editing. The current responsibilities of the super­ intendency were left with Mrs. Wood, who had already become familiar with them through the constant assistance she had had to render her husband, under his threefold duties as pastor, editor, and superintendent. Thus was it barely possible for him to leave with the work so short-handed. He reached the United States in safety, and has already experienced improve­ ment in health. Happily also the news from the missicm up to the time of printing this Report shows every thing progress­ ing as well as could be expected. Recurring here to the important matter of provision for the instruction of* the native helpers, it should be noted that the numerous and zealous band of workers at Montevideo have now no systematic instruction except what is given them by Brother Talion, himself a student ! To such an extremity is this important mission driven for want of re-enforcement and adequate provision for its necessities. 46 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

P o l i t i c s . Our work is kept carefully clear of entanglements with the political strifes of those ill-governed republics. Yet we watch the movement of their controlling elements with great interest. For a year past things have been very unsettled in Uruguay, the daily press and the public mind being full of alarm of im­ pending revolution. Acts of lawlessness and violence in Montevideo and in other parts of the republic have intensified the uneasiness. This hinders our work to a considerable ex­ tent. In Argentina the situation is steadier, bidding fair to keep quiet for some time to come. The separation of the city of Buenos Ayres from its province, to belong exclusively to the national government as a capital, is working well. This aug­ ments the urgency of the demand on us to evangelize the great province of Buenos Ayres, now in its epoch of reorganization. The new national administration proves very efficient. The damage of the last revolution is being repaired, and progressive measures pushed forward all over the Argentine territory. In Paraguay and the Brazilian provinces things are in as favor­ able a position as we could expect. In Bolivia there is much confusion, and religious liberty is greatly restricted.

F i n a n c i a l D i s t r e s s . Those republics are still groaning under severe and pro­ longed depression of business. The Argentine national revenue fell from $21,000,000 in 1879 to $19,500,000 in 1880. The year 188 r began under prostration, but shows signs of improve­ ment. In Uruguay the distress is even greater than in Argen­ tina, with no immediate prospect of change for the better. Paraguay is rapidly recovering from the destruction caused by former wars. Bolivia is sinking down under the struggle now going on with Chili. Our work in those lands must for some time yet depend on outside resources. Self-supporting operations, 011 a limited scale, can be started at certain points from time to time, as favorable opportunities may be seized. But the great work of evangelizing those lands cannot depend on such operations, 1881.J SOUTH AMERICA. 47 but must be pushed by the strong hand of the Church in this as in other Romish or pagan fields. But the day will come when it will cease to need such aid. The fact that under the present circumstances this mission raises over ten dollars a member annually for the support and extension of the work, speaks volumes on this point.

Details of W ork of i 880-81. The table of statistics and the following paragraphs will give an idea of the most important details of our work at the points occupied for the year 1880-81 : Montevideo. The fourth year of organic life of our Church here has been one of trial and encouragement. We have been holding the fort against political uneasiness and financial distress. These causes have produced a steady exodus of people from the city, in which a number of our members have removed; several also have died. Others, however, have joined, so that the falling off in full members is but four, and in proba­ tioners there is a gain of sixteen. (The figures in the statistics include the Canelones Class, with two full members and nine probationers.) Spiritual growth. This has been very encouraging. The converts from Romanism give thrilling testimony to the work of God’s Spirit in them, enlightening their minds and purifying their hearts. They boldly declare 'themselves to be saved from idolatry, apply to their former experience and the present experience of those around them the passages of Scripture concerning idolatry, and seek complete deliver­ ance from prevailing errors in faith and practice. One brother, referring to his former saint-and-image worship, said in. a public testimony, with tears of gratitude, “ I have trusted in a stick of wood, I have trusted in a piece of paper, I have trusted in a dirty rag, but now I thank God that I have learned to trust in him.” Another, whose wife is still a fanatical saint worshiper, on receiving a brother into his house where the images, pictures, and adornments were to be seen on every hand, said, with emotion, “ You find my home full of paganism, but it is not by my will.” This brother, however, has lately been so happy as to have his wife occasionally come in to the family prayers that he always holds with the children. The class-meetings are held with doors strictly closed to all but those who belong— attendance being set forth as a privilege of the initiated. This secures more intense personal interest, with the absence of uncon­ genial elements, and personal sanctification of heart and life are made the main object. Examples of the cleansing, transforming, and sustaining power of God’s Spirit are continually occurring. One brother, sadly harrassed by a besetting sin, fell into severe trials, in which his friends feared he would make shipwreck of faith, but he is coming through them 48 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

like gold through a furnace, greatly to his own rejoicing and that of some who have been specially moved to pray for him. Another, who had long retained a besetting sin, through warped conscience on the subject, was graciously and suddenly delivered by the Spirit of God from his error and his sin together, and desired to be publicly baptized in testimony of his complete salvation. A number of adults have been rebaptized on enter­ ing into full communion, though this has not been required of them those who wish to consider valid their Romish baptism being allowed to do so. The stewards and leaders are becoming very rigorous about receiving probationers into full communion, more so than has been possible hereto­ fore. They have postponed the admission in a number of cases of good genuine converts, when they thought the candidates not strict enough on the Sunday question. This has wrought wholesome improvement in that regard among both full members and probationers. Some who thought their occupations made it impossible to keep the Sunday have found that they can manage to do it, and are happy in the discovery. Others refuse good employment and content themselves to be poorer rather than be obliged to break the Sunday. In a Romish country it requires far greater monal heroism to stand firm at this point than in countries like the United States. Those that have died left the solid testimony which has been the seal of Methodism in all lands. Financial Growth. In spite of the prolonged crisis that is depressing the country, the aggregate of amounts raised in our work in Uruguay is greater than in any former year. A t last the Church at Montevideo has reached the level of taking collections in all the services every Sunday. It took a long training to work up to this under the prejudices against col­ lections in the community and with a membership mostly poor, but finally it has been attained with almost unanimous approval. The necessity of making repairs in the mission property has strained the local resources to their utmost, and diminished somewhat the amounts given for other mis­ sionary purposes. Meanwhile, the figures for self-support show a hand­ some increase. These include the sums raised for Brother Pensoti, and all contributions for the. current support of the central worship in Monte­ video. Change of Pastors. This took place in July last, without the slightest jar in the working of the Church machinery. Brother Tallón, though inexperienced in pastoral duties, takes to them well, and is received by the official brethren, the members generally, and the public, in almost the same matter-of-course way as in the moves of the itinerancy in the United States. What a splendid system is Methodism! The Rural Subcircuits. Brother Pensoti’s work has continued to sup­ port him and his family, and has progressed with unabated interest. He writes of his joy in the work, of the salvation of souls, of the growth of zeal and knowledge, and says that if he were to be called away that work would not die out, but go on of itself. The Canelones class has become the center of a new subcircuit, under SOUTH AMERICA. 1881.] 4 9 the labors of an exhorter from Montevideo, who has abandoned his occu­ pation to go and preach to the people of that region for what they can give him, which will be very little, as the district is deplorably priest-ridden, and the few people to whom he can get access at the first are poor, and unaccustomed to voluntary giving. This heroic man is Carlos Lastrigo. Francisco Pensoti and Carlos Lastrigo are the first of the long list of South American circuit riders, destined in the future to carry the Gospel to every cabin and hovel in those lands, throwing themselves on the people for support, on the same lines as in the heroic circuit system of North America. God grant that the demons of priestcraft, petty tyranny, and anarchy may be shorn of their power, that this work may go forward ! The Suburban Work. The absence from Montevideo of the two men just named, and of three others of the most active workers, has neces­ sitated a drawing in of the suburban operations. Pocitos, Union, and Bella Vista, the most distant points, are temporarily suspended, and the work is concentrated on other points, and goes on with every encourage­ ment. The city is literally dotted round with Sunday-schools. The cel­ ebration of the Raikes centenary, late in 1880, was a grand affair. Brother Thomson, who was present and presided, declared it the greatest public demonstration he ever saw in South America. It proved a notable public event, attracting attention throughout the land by the discussion it pro­ voked in the press, filling with alarm the dominant hierarchy. This sub­ urban work is to be organized into a regular circuit and vigorously pushed forward. Bro. Correa's Work. This has embraced the principal towns and most populous rural districts in a wide range of country. Out of it grew the works of Pensoti and Lastrigo. Out of it will grow more of the same species. In a country where so many obstacles have to be met, such pioneering is indispensable. Brother Correa is an untiring and dauntless traveler. Not long ago he was away from home three months, during which he suffered all sorts of hardships, including imprisonment, but was as ready as ever to start again. His imprisonment was in no sense a re­ sult of religious persecution, but of the anarchical state of the country where he was traveling. The authorities took him for a spy or a con­ spirator, because they could not conceive it possible that a man should go about, as he was doing, with no other object than to preach the Gospel! As this report goes to press, he is on a trip with Brother Milne, the Bible Agent, to Paraguay and Matto Grasso, regions formerly traversed by him as a colporteur, and now, for the first time in their history, visited by a preacher. The pioneer evangelists held a meeting in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, in September last, attended by the most intelligent people in the city, including the President of the Republic. Brother Correa writes of Asuncion: “ There is here no prohibition of any kind, neither is the fanaticism of the people as much of an obstacle as in some places. They are firmly held by their superstitions, but listen seriously 4 50 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 88l.

to what we say to them.” His theme on this occasion of the first preach­ ing of the Gospel in the valley of the Paraguay was, “ Christ the only Sav­ iour and Mediator between God and men.” Buenos Ayres. Brother Thomson continues to be a “ power in the land.” While Brother Tallón was with him, the two worked together, and the work grew on their hands till they both had all they could do. When Brother Tallón was moved to Montevideo, Brother Thomson had to get on as best he could, with extra exertion, and with the aid of other helpers, whose zeal and talents he is developing. He preaches three ser­ mons every Sunday, and as many moré during the week, with Sunda)1’- schools and other meetings in both Spanish and English to be looked after. A number of faithful men and women help in this important work, which goes grandly on. Mrs. Thomson earns, by efficient labor, her right to the title of “ Assistant Missionary,” notwithstanding heavy family cares. Mention should be made also of Brother Thomson’s venerable mother, a patriarchal princess in Israel, who presides over a class of ladies, and renders other important services. Brother Joshua Negrotto, long super­ intendent of the Spanish Sunday-school, continues his zealous activity notwithstanding advancing years. Brother William Kitching, who put himself in peril of bankruptcy in his efforts to carry an undue share of the burden of the debt on the mission poperty, is still treasurer of the Board of Trustees, and a sustaining pillar of our cause. The Debt on the Property. This grew out of the disasters caused by an awful pestilence, a violent civil war, and a crushing financial crisis, falling in quick succession, making it impossible to realize amounts that were to be raised there, among friends of our cause, for the property. The Church in Buenos Ayres has struggled nobly to work off this debt. Brother Thomson is now making another effort to raise funds to diminish it, and arrangements are perfected that seem certain to speedily remove this incubus out of the way. That event will inaugu­ rate a new era of prosperity, financial and spiritual, for our work in that center. The Anglo-Porteño Youth. A delighfully promising group of young people, of English-speaking origin, trained up in the Sunday-school under Dr. Jackson’s ministry, and now being brought into the Church by Brother Thomson, form a peculiarly interesting element in this Church. Its importance to the great mission work may be seen when it is remembered that these young people use both Spanish and En- • glish, are natives of the country, and are to furnish the most widely use­ ful workers for the future of our mission. The last Week of Prayer was full of precious seasons, and was followed by the admission into full com­ munion of the ripest of the probationers, among whom were several young gentlemen and ladies of the class mentioned. The Spanish Hymn and Tune Book. This came out early in 1881, in Buenos Ayres, after two years of labor and much expense bestowed on it by Brother J. R. Naghten, a talented musician, native of Buenos Ayres. This is the third edition of the Standard Spanish Hymn Book published 1881.] SOUTH AMERICA. 51

by this mission, the first coming out in 1876. The collection of hymns is due to the careful compilation and the able translations and original compositions of Dr. Jackson, the late superintendent. The present edi­ tion, with tunes, is due to Brother Naghten. It is the first printing with music types ever done in South America. All this publishing of hymn books has as yet received not a dollar of aid from outside the mission. Our workers there began to print collec­ tions of hymns for their Spanish services years ago, soon after Brother Thomson began to preach in Spanish. The present hymn book has grown up by degrees, as the necessity for it and the possibility of meeting it with local resources have increased, and as experience has demonstrated what hymns, and what kind of hymns, bade fair to be permanently useful. The Ragged-School. More than a year ago a zealous brother of the Spanish congregation, a watchmaker, began to give several hours a day to teaching a group of native children that he gathered from the streets, to his instruction partly religious and partly secular. A converted night- policeman, seeing this, was moved with like zeal, and gave of his spare hours by day, enough to make, with the watchmaker’s services, a regular six hours’ school. A room was hired and money raised by subscription for the rent and for the few requisites employed. Fanatical opposition arose, but failed to crush the new enterprise. At the beginning of 1881 the school numbered over fifty boys and girls in regular attendance. About that time a zealous Englishman, long resident in the country, Mr. F. Fletcher, came forward and commenced to devote much of his own time to the school. He hired larger premises for it, at his private ex­ pense, and more scholars were taken in and more helpers enlisted. At last accounts the pupils numbered between 100 and 120. They are from the poorest and most neglected classes. Sunday-school training supplements the day-school work. The attendance is very constant, and the results inspiring. Thus the leaven works. Rosario de Santa Fe. Financial matters show excellent progress. The collections have about trebled in the year 1880-1881 over any former year. Church discipline has also improved. This, together with the re­ moval by letter, of five members, has diminished the number on the books, but the spiritual strength of this little nucleus of a great work was never more vital. The missionary, Brother J. R. Wood, being away a large share of the time, Brother Viney has acted as supply. On several occa­ sions the pulpit was occupied by Mrs. Wood, Miss Goodenough, and Mrs. Clemens, a sermon being read, and the service being conducted as usual. The ministrations of Brother Viney and of these godly women have kept the work in Rosario in a healthy and growing state. Improvements in the Property. Nice cedar seats have replaced the old uncouth and uncomfortable benches. A stone stair-way leading up to the entrance, (that was left high in the air by lowering the grade of the street,) has made the church more accessible. But for these changes it would have ceased to be fit for a place of worship. These, with minor 52 MISSIONARY REPORT. Ll88l.

repairs and improvements, have cost some $400, to raise which has re­ quired much exertion on the part of the congregation. Efforts in the same direction are to be continued, as further improvements are needed for the preservation of the property, much injured by the alterations in the level of the streets. The Spanish Work. The Spanish preaching in the city takes place in the largest room of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society’s school. The attendance, order, and attention, are all that could be desired. The audience consists of an English-speaking nucleus, and a much larger body of hearers who know no English. Some of the best native intellect in the city is attracted by it. It gives every encouragement that could be expected under the circumstances. But the work in this city can never become what the Church expects it to be till a proper preaching-place in the central part of the city is provided for it. In the points further inland the Spanish preaching is well attended and gives great encouragement. Its hearers are partly from the old na­ tive elements, and partly from the tide of immigration from Southern Europe that is filling up those regions. It is, as yet, in its preliminary stages, but 1881 has seen good progress. Much house-to-house work has become possible, and has been done, with visible good resulting. Romish parents bring their children to the missionary for baptism instead of taking them to the priests. A Romish civil officer, brother of a priest in high position in the dominant Church, has treated our missionary with marked kindness, and commended his work in strong terms, saying that he is doing the good that the priests ought to do, and do not do. Of course, the fanatical elements are as hostile as they can be, but the way is marvelously opened. The farthest point yet reached is the city of Reconguista, three hun­ dred miles, by river, above Rosario. A nucleus of Welsh Protestants settled near this place help greatly in the singing, and in setting an ex­ ample of devout attention before the Romish men, women, and children, who compose the congregation. Vigorous hostility from the priesthood has not sufficed to turn either public opinion or the local authorities against us. The missionary, Brother J. R. Wood, writing of his call on the chief military officer, who is practically the autocrat of the place, during his last round on the work, says: “ W e called on him. He received us cordially and spoke freely. Said he was brought up an Ultramontane, but now believes in God, and that is all. W e could hold meetings anywhere and at anytime we liked. He wanted to encourage every thing that was for the good of the people, and would help us build a chapel if we wanted to. (!) Has good schools, and compels the children in town to attend them. Says most of the army officers are of the same way of thinking.” One of the converts there, being unable to read, has his little son read the Bible to him, and has become so fond of it that he sleeps with the book under his pillow. He wants a chapel to be built, and offers to help. Many other cheering details might be given from this part of the field. 1881 .J SOUTH AMERICA. 53

G o s p e l T e m p e r a n c e W o r k .

This is carried on with excellent results at several points. It began at Rosario de Santa Fe some years ago, and now has many bright trophies. The past year shows cheering prog­ ress. Wherever Brother J. R. Wood goes on his rounds in the interior he extends the good influence of that good work, sadly needed through all those regions. At Montevideo the president and vice-president of the tem­ perance organization are both reformed drunkards. Some remarkable cases of reformation have occurred there also, and are holding out grandly. Much good has been done through the children, this branch of the work being conducted by Mrs. T. B. Wood and Mrs. E. Van Domselaar. A free reading- room and a lunch-room have been started, as a temperance head-quarters. Prayer-meetings and Bible readings are car­ ried on in it twice a week. The temperance work begins among the English-speaking elements first, at every point, and gradually extends its in­ fluence to the Spanish. The Romish population of every class are all addicted to wine-drinking. Our converts are very slow to leave this off, or to see any harm in it. But by degrees they are coming to view total abstinence as the true ground. The last year shows unusual progress in this respect. The first of the native converts that joined the teetotalers was ridiculed by his brethren and companions as a temperance fanatic. Now, some of those that made most fun of him have followed his example. At present all the local preachers in the whole mission are out-and-out teetotalers and temperance workers, except one, and he has lately had his children join the Juvenile Templars. This work goes on without any un­ pleasant controversy over the difference of opinion which it carries with it. It is inspired and directed by the love o( Christ, and so does good and good only. In due time the lofty position of North American Methodism on the temper­ ance question will be that of South American Methodism likewise. 54 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I88l.

T h e G e n e r a l O u t l o o k . This mission is passing through a transition stage. Its past has been a faithful holding of the fort. As such it is a ster­ ling success. Now it is ready for a grand onward sweep. For this it only needs adequate re-enforcement. Immigration. A rising tide of immigration is flowing into this field, as the following significant figures show. Compar­ ing the number of immigrants coming annually to the Argen­ tine Republic with the number of inhabitants in the Republic, the following percentages result:

From 1860-18641 inclusive, less than one h a lf per cent, per annum. From 1865-1869, inclusive, just about one per cent, per annum. From 1870-1879, inclusive, over two per cent, per annum.

The same statements would be approximately true of the Uruguayan Republic. That these figures may be appreciated let it be remembered that the immigration into the United States, at its present flood tide, is less than one per cent, per annum of the popula­ tion of the country. Our work should be pushed on this rising tide flowing into the Temperate Zone of South America. Wise Legislation. The governments of those countries are awaking to the importance of this influx o f new population, and are doing all in their power to encourage it. It is greatly hindered by the civil wars and the ill-governed condition of those regions. But the fact that it has gone on, in increasing ratio, in spite of that condition, and with almost no proper provisions made to facilitate it, shows that it must take greater proportions in the future, under the efforts now making to keep those countries in peace for longer periods at a time, to increase the security of life and property, and to make more fully available the unsurpassed natural advantages of those lands. The following weighty words, from the last message of the President of the Argentine Republic to his Congress, show the way things are moving. After stating the immense ex­ 1881J SOUTH AMERICA. 55 tent of territory lately opened up for settlement, and referring to their remarkably favorable conditions, he says:

We may assure ourselves that there is not now a nation on earth that has so great an area of available lands, under mild though varied climates, almost all near the coast or of easy access from the sea or from navigable rivers, and susceptible of every kind of cultivation. Here, honorable sirs, is a wide field for your activity, to frame wise and far-sighted laws to serve as a security that we shall not waste, like the prodigal son, so great a fortune, with which Providence has endowed us, designing, undoubtedly, to assign us a grand part to perform in the history of human progress.

Now, let Methodism not waste so grand an opportunity with which Providence has favored her of pre-empting those wide fields for the Gospel, nor fail to perform the grand part, already obviously assigned to her, in the future of South American progress.

APPOINTMENTS FOR 1882. Superintendent and Director of Publications: T. B. Wood. Montevideo Station: William Tallon. Montevideo C ircuit: T. B. Wood and A. Guelfi. Uruguay Circuit: J. Correa. Buenos Ayres : J. F. Thomson. Rosario and Parana Circuit : J. R. Wood. Agent o f American Bible Socicty : A. M. Milne, address, Montevideo, U ruguay.

^ ■ F . M . S. work in Mo?itevideo : Miss C. Guelfi. W. F. M . S. work in Rosario: Mrs. E. J. M. Clemens and Miss J. Goodenough. STATISTICS OF THE SOUTH-EAST SOUTH AMERICA MISSION FOR 1881.

B £ M J a .a t S* £ E fi* CIRCUIT OR STATION. •ss 1 D 2 I H H | - & b £«■ > > ” 1 1 1 1 ci 'c £ » é & ô K Places Places of W orship. Estimated Estimated Value ofChurches. Estimated Estimated Value of Parsonages. Debt on Churches, Parsonages, and other Collected for Missionary

t. Property. Society. Collected Collected for other

fer Collected for Self- support. Collected for Church Pagps Printed during Building Building and Kepairing. —— the Year. 1 ------“ “ 1 Xo. of Hnlis and j other i Benevolent Societies.

Montevideo and its dependencies.. 5 10 4 5 725 8 $0,000 12 $261 $100 $1,177 $200 t l 60,000 Buenos Ayres*...... 1 1 T 875 510 44,000 î $16,0110 $5,597 77 17 28S 2,600 975 Rosario and its dependencies...... 2 1 1 2 2 5'V 5.000 11 40 160 ------— _ Total. 7 12 G 14 2 1,690 11 ¡(MS. $55,000 12 1 $16,000 »5,597 77 $273 $849 $3,817 $1,885 160,000

* The fl*ure. for Bueno. A yr*, are thoee of laet year, m the returns from that point for this year have not been received. These are approximately correct, t N ot including the w eekly, El Evangelutn,” whose fourth volume was completed during the year, amounting to about 600,000 tract page». C hina M issions. Commenced in 1847.

BISHOP WILEY has Episcopal Supervision.

A v e r y marked step of progress during the year in this field is the organization of the Anglo-Chinese College at Foo- cRow, and the purchase by a Chinese gentleman, Mr. T. Ahok, of a valuable building and grounds for its use. To this is added Rev. J. F. Goucher’s liberal gift of $7,000 for the the­ ological department. There are already forty-five students in the college, all of whom pay the stipulated rates. The estab­ lishment of this institution has been welcomed by the mis­ sionaries of other Societies in Foochow, and similar move­ ments are already advocated in other cities of China which are the seats of Christian missions. At Kiukiang, in the Cen­ tral China Mission, a University has also been organized, called, by desire of the Mission, “ The Fowler University of China.” Both here and at Peking our school work calls at once for increased attention and development. A new era of national progress is evidently opening in China. Though slower to move, China seems now almost on the threshold of such changes as have occurred in Japan, and it is important for our Protestant Missions to be ready to furnish all aid possible in guiding the new demands for education after the model of the Western nations. The Mission Press at Foochow has now about completed the issue of an entire translation of the Bible in the classical language, and the colloquial translation is well on toward completion. The “ Isabella Fisher Hospital,” at Tientsin, which was erected this year for the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society on the generous foundation provided by Rev. J. F. Goucher, was formally opened, after an official inspection, by Bishop Bowman, October 15. This is the sphere of Miss Dr. Howard’s labors. 58 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l8 8 l.

Numerous conversions are reported in different parts of the field. The position of our missionaries and their opportunities for evangelization seem to have been rendered still more secure by the formal government recognition obtained this year for the native adherents of Protestant Churches in their exemp­ tion from assessments for the maintenance of certain heathen ceremonies, a legal recognition hitherto accorded only to Roman Catholic converts. The Central China Mission has this year been re-enforced by Rev. C. F- Kupfer and wife, and the North China Missicwi by Rev. F. D. Gamevvell. The latter at the writing of this Report had reached Peking. Rev. L. N. Wheeler, D.D., and family, accompanied by Rev. S. Lewis and wife, sailed from San Francisco Septem­ ber 6, on his way to found our new West China Mission in the Szechuen Province. Latest advices inform us that Mr. Lewis will remain at Kiukiang for the purpose of acclimation, while Rev. B. Bagnall, an experienced missionary of the Cen­ tral China Mission, has accompanied Dr. W'heeler westward on a tour of exploration. The following communication, dated at Kiukiang, has just been received from Bishop Bowman : Brother Wheeler is here gathering information and preparing for an exploring trip to the West. The outlook in that direction is very promis­ ing. I have seen several men who have traveled quite extensively through these regions and they all think Brother Wheeler will find a fine opening. The head-quarters of the Mission will doubtless be fixed at Chungking, a large city on the Yangtse, the commercial capi­ tal of the province. Dr. Wheeler has probably now arrived at his destination, and the establishment of this far-off post completes a line of Methodist missions across the entire em­ pire from east to west. This movement in the extension of our work, which, as will be remembered, is also due to the lib­ erality of Mr. Goucher, will, we trust, inspirit our Missions already established in the country and greatly enlarge the sympathies of the Church toward the grand enterprise which has for its object the conversion of China. I S8I.J CHINA. 5 9

I. FOOCHOW. Commenced in 1847. Organized as a Conference in 1877.

HEAD-QUAETEES, FOOCHOW.

Missionaries.* S. L. B a l d w i n , D.D., (in U. S. A.,) F. O h l i n g e r , N a t h a n S i t e s , N . J. P l u m b , D . W . C h a n d l e r .

.Assistant ^Missionaries. Mrs. E t t i e E. B a l d w i n , (in U.S.A.,) Mrs. B e t h a S. O h l i n g e r , M rs. S. M o o r e Site s, (in U. S. A.,) Mrs. Ju lia W. Plumb, (in U.S.A.,) Mrs. M ary E. Chandler.

M issionaries "W. F . Mi. S.* Miss Beulah W oolston, Miss Sigourney Trask, M.D. Miss S. H. W o o l s t o n , Miss J u l i a E. S p a r r , M.D.

ISTative Preachers—Elders. Hu Yong Mi, Li Yu-Mi, Yek Ing-Kwang, Sia Sek-Ong, Hu Sing-Mi, Li Cha-Mi, Chiong Taik-Liong, Sia Lieng-Li, Pang Ting-Hie.

Deacons. Ting Neng-Chiek, Taing Kwang-Ing, Ngu Ing-Siong, Ting Ching-Kwong, Ngwoi Ki-Lang, Ling Ching-Chieng.

P reachers on T rial.t Ting Siu-Kung, Yong Taik-Cheu, Sie Hwo-Mi, Wong Kwok-Hing, Hwong Taik-Chiong, Taing Kieng-Ing, Ting Soi-Ling, Tiong Ming-Tung, Ting Ing-Cheng, Lau Kwang-Hung, Ting Ung-Chu, Li Tiong Chwi, Ting Ka-Sing, Ting Teng-Nieng, U Sieu-E, Ung Kwong-Koi, Ling Tang-Kie, Tang Seng-Ling, Ling Seng-Eu, Ting Ung-Tiu, Cheng Chong-Ming, Hu Chai-Hang, Hwong Pau-Seng, Ling Seu-Ing, Tang King-Tong, Ting Kieng-Seng, Tiong Seuk-Pwo, Wong Eung-Chiong, Sie Seng-Chang, Li Nga Hung, Wong Hok-Ku, Tang Taik-Tu, Song Kwong-Hwo.

* The missionaries'all reside at the head-quarters, Foochow. + This list is the list o f last year. 6o MISSIONARY REPORT. Ll88l.

Local Preachers acting as Supplies.* Ngu Sing-Ong, Tang Taik-Tu, Ting Ching-Nwong, U Seng-Tung, Ling Ming-Sang, Ting Tieng-Ling, Chai Hi-Seng, Wong King-Chu, Ting Kiu-Seu, Tiong Tiong-Mi, Ling Taik-Pien, Tieng Ung-Chieu, Tieng Hang-Sieng, Ngu Chiong-Ong, Song Kwong-Hwo, Ting Hung-Ngwong, Ting Ung-Kwo, Ling Hieng-Sing, Sie Po-Mi, Ting Teng-Nguk, Siek Chiong-Tieng, Yong Hung-Siong, Hu Ngwong-Tang, Ngu Kwoh-Kwo, Hu Ngwong-Ko, Hwong Taik-Lik, Chung Ka-Eu.

WORKING FORCE OF THE MISSION. Missionaries...... 3 Assistant Missionaries ...... 2 Missionaries of the W. F. M. S ...... 4 Native Preachers...... 77 Native Teachers...... 44

Total Agents of the Society...... 130

Rev. N. Sites writes:

The annual session of the Foochow Conference is. fixed for November 17, quite too late for its reports to reach your office by December 1. We inclose herein such reports as are at hand from the several districts, for which see below. Incidents of triumphant Christian deaths are multiplying. “ Our people die well.” One mentioned in the Yeng Ping report was the mother of two of our preachers, Taing Kwang-Ing and Taing Kieng-Ing. Another, the brother of Elder Sia Sek-Ong. See report on the Foochow District. A new and encouraging feature of our work is the .establishment of an “ Annual Conference Seminary,” under the name of the Foochow Anglo- Chinese College. Preparatory classes were opened in February, 1881, and over forty self-supporting students have entered, two thirds of whom are from Christian families, and all are under the Christian and religious disci­ pline of the college. “ Knowledge is power.” This saying is not less true in China than in England and America. Are not the literati of China the ruling element ? Has not China, by her attention to educa­ tion, always “ conquered her conquerors ? ” Shall we not aid the Church, that, with an enlightened and sanctified “ knowledge,” she may become “ more than conqueror ? ”

* This list is the list of last year. i 8 8 1.] CHINA. 6l

REPORTS FROM THE DISTRICTS.

Foochow D istrict.— F. Ohlinger, Missionary in charge; Sia Sek- Ong, Presiding Elder. There has been steady progress in all departments of the work on this district. Our city (East-street) charge has enjoyed a healthy revival, affecting first and chiefly the large percentage of lukewarm members with which that charge had been burdened for many years. There were also a number of conversions from heathenism, among these a very re­ spectable literary man residing outside the west gate. Our young brother, Tang Seng-Ling, who went to this field a year ago with considerable trepidation, feels greatly encouraged. At Ching Sing Tong, the junior preacher, Hu Chaik-Hang, has worked faithfully to instruct the children of the members, by gathering them in a kind of Sunday-school in which his portable harmonium was made to do good service. The singing of his congregation has greatly improved under Chaik-Hang’s instruction, A few men on each district, with his knowledge of vocal and instrumental music, would be a great blessing to the young Church. These Chinese Christians are fond of singing when they have a reliable leader. At Tieng Ang Tong the aspect of things has been greatly changed by the bring­ ing in of a large number of intelligent heathen young men from the Anglo-Chinese College, who attend preaching and Sunday-school at this chapel. The regular Sunday morning congregation is large compared with any of our other congregations, and offers a special field for evan­ gelizing efforts. It is the only place in all our work where we have any­ thing like a regular attendance of “ outsiders,” and demands the ablest preaching the Church can supply. On all the other circuits good work has been done, which will in due time bring forth the desired fruits. Brother Sia Sek-Ong has traveled the district with his long-tried faithful­ ness, besides giving much valuable aid in founding the Anglo-Chinese College. We have two boys’ day-schools and two girls’ day-schools on the district, all of which are in a prosperous condition. The fourth quar­ terly meetings of the different circuits were seasons of much spiritual profit. On several occasions Brother Sia Sek-Ong gave the “ death-bed experience ” of his younger brother, Sia Heng Ho, which I will endeavor to repeat: "F o r two years I have been walking in the region of sorrows ; our astrologers would call it the ‘ k’o te,’ ‘ hidden, or unlucky region.’ I call it simply the • k’u te,’ that is, ‘ region of sorrows,’ because no such thing as a real misfortune can happen to the child of God. When I started on my last round, leaving my brother sick in the hospital, I asked him whether I might be absent three weeks. He feared this would be too long, and begged me to return after ten days. This was Thursday morn­ ing. I reached my appointment on Saturday, and conducted the meetings as usual on Sunday. I could not help thinking of my brother all the time, and Sunday afternoon I dispatched a messenger to inquire how he was doing before I should go further from home. He brought an unfavorable reply, and I hastened home at once. On meeting my brother he expressed 62 MISSIONARY REPORT. [18 8 1. a desire to return to his own house, saying he could not live more than a week or two. I said to him, ‘ In the first place tell me whether the truths you have learned and believed all these years are now of use to you ? ’ He raised his hand as if about to say something of great importance, and replied, ‘ O f great use ! ’ W e then carried him home, after which he took a little food. The next morning he called me early, and said he wished to hand over his accounts to me. Finding I had not been to breakfast, he urged me to take my meal first, and then return for the accounts. We spent the whole forenoon over his books, he explaining each entry in de­ tail. He was very much exhausted, and begged us all to remain about the house. The following morning he discovered that one side of his body was paralyzed, and said, ‘ To-day I shall go.’ He then called up all his children, touching each one, and giving a few words of counsel and admonition. To his wife he gave full instructions concerning all his children, and admonished her to trust only in the Lord. I then said to him, ‘ Thus far 1 have been enabled to follow my calling in peace, relying upon you to take care of our aged father and all our temporal concerns. Now you not only cease to do this, but your family and all your affairs fall to my lot. You know how I am situated. WThat is your advice? Shall I go into business, or shall I continue preaching?’ He looked at nie and said quietly, ‘ Preach.’ I then said, ‘ If you have any means of helping me after you depart this life, I beg you will do so.’ He nodded assent. In the afternoon the fever rose, and it soon became evident that the last struggle had begun. I prayed with him frequently, and he always joined audibly when I mentioned any of the family. It was more than I could bear to see him suffer, and I felt compelled now and then to leave the room. He continued to give an occasional word of exhortation to both heathen and Christian neighbors who came to see him. Entering the room just as night was setting in, I said to him, ' I would prefer if your departure were delayed until the streets are quiet and until the neigh­ bors have retired, as I fear a great crowd and confusion when they hear weeping in the house.’ He nodded assent. After all was quiet in the streets and the shop doors closed, he said, ‘ Still He delays ! ’ I told him to wait just a little longer. After a few moments he asked me whether I could still feel his pulse beat, and I told him I could, but that it was barely perceptible. He then, with the hand which he could still use, drew out his watch and handed it to me. I felt that with this the burdens he had thus far borne were finally and wholly laid on my shoulders. I said, ‘ Does the blood of Christ now cleanse you from all sin ? ' ‘It fills my whole heart,’ was his reply. When again his suffering became more intense he repeated, ‘ Still He delays.’ I said, ‘ Bide the Lord’s own time, do not yield to impatience. Think how trivial your sufferings are com­ pared with those of the Saviour on the cross.’ He then seemed to look at a distant object long and intently. I said, 'Cast yourself wholly on Jesus, just as if you sprang on board a boat to escape danger.’ He again nodded assent. A few moments afterward he laughed, without producing a sound, however. All expression of pain and anguish was gone from 1881.] CHINA. 63 his countenance. He looked like one greatly pleased. He had lain this way but a few moments when he again laughed, though inaudibly. He also moved his hand. Three minutes later he was gone, a sweet smile lingering on his placid countenance. It seemed to me I could see him embark on the beautiful ship and sail away, leaving only this shell and his old clothes behind. The heathen say of the dead, ‘ Theirs is the loss.’ I can truly say, ‘ Ours is the loss ; his is the g a in ! ’ ” Biblical Institute. F. Ohlinger in charge. W e have an increase of five students to report. Two, having completed the prescribed course of study, entered the itinerant ranks. One was expelled. Instruction was given regularly in natural theology, exegesis, church discipline, Romanized colloquial, Mandarin, and vocal music. Sia Sek-Ong said at the close of the annual examinations: “ Having been the only member of the appointed Examining Committee present this year, I have been busy almost night and day during these examinations. Yet I did not weary of the work because you all seem to have maintained a genuine interest in your various studies. The committee last year pronounced the examinations very good. I am happy to say they were better still this year.” These young men receive about $2 20 per month each from the Missionary So­ ciety, besides the grant of books, room-rent, tuition and incidentals free. OF the $2 20 they require from $1 50 to $1 80 per month for board, leaving a good margin for clothes, head-shaving, etc., etc. A change for the better is readily noticed in the outward appearance of these young men after subsisting for a season on the Missionary Society's rice. A mere pittance, as it seems to be, this support is nevertheless sufficient to tempt many who, by entering the Institute, do the Church an irreparable injury. The Conference has, therefore, endeavored to throw the desired safeguards around the Institute, but hitherto with only partial success. Besides this tendency to draw unworthy young men, there are other serious objections to this plan of supporting them while they are preparing for their future vocation. The most serious is the sad fact that it requires a few years with most of them to recover fully from the pauperizing effects of the plan. Some never recover from it. Yet what can we say when young men in Christian America put themselves on the charity list of the Church that is to employ and support them for life ? There is another objection to be considered here which does not hold in America : it is the influence the plan exerts on the heathen. They are determined to look upon the Christian Church as a grand undiscriminating charity establishment. But a fc\y days since a woman who has been acquainted with our mission up­ ward of fifteen years, said : “ I will attend services whenever it does not rain if you will admit my son into your college free of matriculation and tuition.” A well-to-do middle-aged man said: “ I have heard the Chris­ tian doctrines until I am satiated ; now. Sing Sang, what will you pay me (of course you pay others) to become a Christian ? It is money I want to see next.” W e are prayerfully seeking a solution of this old and vexing problem. The Anglo-Chinese College. F. Ohlinger in charge. This is the first 64 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

time this institution appears in the Annual Report, being not yet a year old. Thé necessity of such an institution in connection with our Foochow work has been ably set forth by Dr. Maclay, the father of Chinese Meth­ odism, by Sia Sek-Ong, by our Chinese presiding elders as. a body, by several leading members of our college Board of Trustees, and others. Most of these communications (made originally to the Board of Managers of the Missionary’ Society) have appeared in one or more of our Advocate? I can only recommend a careful rereading of them, as also of the timely articles from the justly popular pen of Dr. Wentworth, one of the first missionaries to this field, on the same topic. A mere glance at the signs of the times is sufficient to convince almost any one that this is the crucial hour of the Church in China. Infidels, skeptics, and Romanists have already begun the work we have so long neglected, and are materially doing it in their own way and for their own ends. Once let them occupy the field, and we can never retake it. At Canton, Shanghai, Ningpo, Kiukiang, Chefoo, and Peking our fellow-missionaries of various denom­ inations are either moving in the matter or seriously considering it. The question is simply, Shall the Church have the training of China’s millions, or will she yield the opportunity to her pronounced enemies ? But to come right home to the matter : W e have forty-five students in the col' lege ; twenty from our Hokchiang, fifteen from our Hinghwa, and several from each of our other districts, with many from all parts of the province not connected with the Church who are inquiring eagerly ; Have you rooms to rent, and teachers to teach us ? W e are willing to pay room-rent, board, matriculation, tuition, and incidentals in advance ; we will submit to the Christian rules and government of the college— only admit us. 1. What will become of these young men if the college is properly sus­ tained by the Church ? i' A few will become first-class vagabonds. 2 A larger number will become trusty servants in European families in the East. 2 The next larger number will become officers and diplomatists. 4. A still larger number will become intelligent, ' prosperous mer-

Ch5.n An equally large class will become preachers of the Gospel and teachers. 6. The largest class probably will, like true angels of mercy, bring to the hovels of this suffering people the boon of intelligent medical aid and advice. _ uni* II. What would become of these young men without the college . j. Many of them would become first-class vagabonds. 2. A larger number would become opium-smoking chair coolies and burden-bearers. 3. One or two might become petty officers. 4. Quite a large per cent, would become merchants— selling peanuts. chopsticks, and idol-paper. 5. A pretty large class would become Christian preachers— barely aDie i88rj CHINA. 65 to read the Bible in their own classic style, trembling when confronted by the pupils of infidel and Roman Catholic Europeans, every-where de­ nounced as propagators of ignorance, unable to converse with the Bishop who ordains them, to say nothing of participating in the great council of the Church that sends them forth. 6. The majority would become ordinary Chinese literary men— of all men most proud and bigoted. This is a calm view of the case, sustained by such men as Sia Sek-Ongand Hu Yong-Mi, and by our whole Chinese Church. III. What are the wants of the college? Of the Missionary Society we do not ask more than our full quota of men, of whom two should be thorough educators. The finest grounds and, with but one or two exceptions, the best build­ ing in Foochow has been bought for $14,000. Our generous friend, Tiong Ahok, has donated $10,000 ; our native friends are trying to raise the re­ maining $4,000 among their countrymen. We need $10,000 for building students' halls, and another residence for one of the professors. Until we receive $5,000 from some source we must continue to refuse admis­ sion to those who do not live in the immediate vicinity, or who have no friends with whom they can board. At least thirty of these disap­ pointed youths are the sons of Christian parents. Many of our large con­ gregations in America could raise this amount in a Sunday morning service and rejoice over it forever. You have the privilege of naming these halls— Durbin, Cookman, Scott, Dashiell, Eddy— or any name you may decide upon. There is not a college in all the world that has a larger field or grander mission. W e can already say what has recently been said of an American college : Friends, Jesus Christ is in the habit of visiting the Foochow Anglo-Chinese College. Many of these boys who had never been in a Christian chapel, listen with rapt attention to the per­ suasive discourses of a Sia Sek-Ong or Hu Sing-Mi. Many of them are poor, but not one is a pauper; all pay the stipulated rates. The example is stimulating the native Church to renewed efforts in the line of self- support. I cannot ask for space to say more here, and commend the first Methodist college in Asia to the prayers of our beloved Zion. The Boys' High School still continues to do good, though not as much as we could wish. Instruction is given in Chinese only, and we admit students free of all expense, paying those who are the sons of traveling preachers fifty cents per month additional. The mission furnishes teach­ ers, books, rooms, and furniture for this school. It is destined to become an ally to the college and Biblical Institute. The Fuhkien Church Gazette has been enlarged, without raising the subscription price. This was done by means of a few advertisements that are proving themselves beneficial to the advertisers as well as to the paper. Now is the time for American inventors and manufacturers to advertise their wares in China. European manufacturers advertise largely in the Chinese periodicals published in Shanghai. W e would gladly put samples of all such things as are a real blessing to humanity on exhibition in our college museum, and solicit correspondence on this matter. 66 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I8 8 l.

Hing-HWA district.—F. Ohlinger, Missionary in charge ; Hu Sing- Mi, Presiding Elder. This has been a year ol great peace and considerable growth on this district. Being Hu Sing-Mi’s second year on the district, he was able to direct matters with a steady hand. Several classes put forth extra efforts, and, with some aid from the Missionary Society, succeeded in greatly im­ proving their Church property. W e have five boys’ day-schools on the district, all of which are in a good condition. The W. F. M. S. has seven flourishing day-schools, mostly of long standing, on this district. A school for women was opened at Hinghwa City, with twelve students, in February, also under the auspices of the W . F. M. S. The opportunities for work of this kind in the Hinghwa District have always been in marked contrast to the same kind of work in the Foochow District H ok-chiang D istrict. — D . W. Chandler, Missionary in charge; H u Yong-Mi, Presiding Elder. For a general statement of the character of this district and the pros­ pects of our work I must refer the reader to the last Annual Report. During the past year Hu Yong-Mi has continued his zealous efforts to bring up the members to a higher type of Christianity. I have just returned from a visitation to the leading circuits, and am able to report a little prog­ ress in many departments of work. In the instruction and building up of the members most has been done on the Sing-tong Circuit. Hais-Iu and one or two other circuits also show improvement in this respect. In missionary work among the heathen the largest work has been done on the Hai-kau part of Hok-chiang City Circuit, and on the Siek-keng Cir­ cuit. In finances I expect that the statistics will show an increase in the missionary collection, and possibly in the amount raised for the support of the ministry. The statistics will also show an increase in membership, probably equal to that of last year. In educational matters there is a gradual advance. W e have now on the district four boys’ schools and four girls’ schools. As the former have not been systematized, I cannot report positively as to their efficiency; but the quarterly examinations of the latter give evidence of some thorough work. We expect that they will bear good fruit. The presiding elder is laboring to get all the Church members started in systematic study of the Scriptures and other religious literature. Having to work among the poorest and most ignorant classes, his progress is necessarily slow; but visible improvement has already resulted from his efforts. His best co-workers, and in fact our best preachers in every respect, are those men who have been trained in the Theological Seminary. The year has been a peaceful one, no serious troubles or persecutions having arisen on any circuit. The worj^ of build­ ing up our Hok-chiang Church pure and strong is a very serious one, but with faith and faithfulness success is sure. But first we must have our Pentecost. Hoping for this, we again commend this work to the prayers of the Church. In'g-chung D istrict.—D. W . Chandler, Missionary in charge; Sia Lieng-Li, Presiding Elder. i 88 i .J CHINA. 6 /

The work of this district has been continued on the old lines. Nothing of especial interest has transpired during the year. The two most impor­ tant circuits, Ing-chung and Faik-hwa, are in a fairly prosperous condi­ tion. Some progress is being made at Pung-hu and at Chiak-chwi. The circuits of Tai-cheng and To-ngwong are in a weak condition, and there have been several expulsions during the past year or two. Here, as in many parts of our work, the seed fell on “ stony places, where they had not much earth ; and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deep­ ness of earth : and when the sun was up, they were scorched ; and because they had no root, they withered away.” But usually there is some good ground near by, and we believe that on these circuits some will bear good fruit, and that the whole district will requite the labor that has been ex­ pended on it. No statistical report has yet been received, but from what we have learned we do not expect that the statistics will show any mate­ rial increase in any department of work.

REPORT OF THE M. E. MISSION PRESS. The edition of the whole Bible in classic is now about completed, and will be reported at the Annual Conference. It consists of four thousand volumes, half on foreign paper and half on native white paper. It was begun about three years ago. Owing to the completion of this edition the Annual Report will show about the same number of pages printed this year as was reported last year. But, in fact, a less number has been printed. Owing to the large number of books in stock, we have decreased the size of editions and employ a less number of workmen than formerly. Three additional books of the Old Testament in Foochow colloquial were published during the year, and another portion, Isaiah, is now ready for the press. Soon the whole Bible will be in the common language of the people. A large amount of work has been done for other missions, and the demands of our own Church are fully met. K u -C H E N G D i s t r i c t .— Nathan Sites, Missionary in charge ; Yek Ing- Kwang, Presiding Elder. The quarterly visits of the presiding elder have been regularly made, and the quarterly meetings have, in most cases, been occasions of great interest to the Churches, and have produced favorable impressions on the people. A small increase in members will appear on several of the cir­ cuits. On the Teng-Yong Circuit one of the societies has exerted itself, and secured a lot and building for parsonage and chapel, the mission granting fifty dollars to aid in needed repairs. This district is about one hundred miles from Foochow, north-west, consisting of fine fertile valleys, fruitful hills, and surrpunding mountains. The curse of opium-smoking has impoverished many of these mountain villages. Many of our members and inquirers were first brought near the Church, seeking to be saved from the slavish and impoverishing habit of using opium, and many, too, rejoice in being saved from its curse. My personal teacher, a literary graduate, one of a family of seven sons, had 68 MISSIONARY REPORT. Cl88l. used the opium-pipe a dozen years, but now is freed from it, and is an earnest Christian man. A great door is fully opened to the Church in this district. Y e n g P i n g D i s t r i c t .— Nathan Sites, Missionary in charge ; Chiong Taik-Liong, Presiding Elder. The work in this district extends over four counties, or civil districts, and has twelve native agents, averaging three preachers to a county, cov­ ering a territory one hundred miles long from east to west, and fifty or sixty miles in width. Thirteen adults have been received into the Church by baptism, while others have been dropped, and some have died, leaving the total of mem­ bers, 77, and 22 inquirers, an increase of 13. In the Yu Ka County district a good degree of interest has sprung up the past two years. W e now occupy four important centers in this county, and four new places could be occupied at once had we the men and means. The Presiding Elder pleads earnestly that the mission make larger provision for this opening field. He says the country is wide, the people are many, and their hearts and minds are very dark. The officials and literati are crafty and overbearing and oppressive. The “ cruel and unprovoked assault ” on the foreign missionaries in Yeng Ping City, December, 1879, has been, and is yet, under considera­ tion at Foochow and Peking, but no reparation has yet been made. This delay of settlement is against us. No missionaries have visited Yeng Ping City since that time. Yet in due time we hope to see this city a center of a great Christian work, as it is now a center of trade, and the geograph­ ical center of the province. May God hasten the day * A t Chiong Hu-Pwang, Mother Taing died, on the 17th of April, in the parsonage of her son, Kieng Ing. Mother Taing was seventy years of age. She was born of wealthy parents, betrothed and married in a wealthy and influential family. But one of the ever-recurring rebellions of this country swept over the land. Their property was all destroyed, and they fled for their lives. Soon after the husband and father died, and the widow and children toiled on. The eldest son sought business in Yeng Ping City, where he resided a dozen years. Our mission opened a little chapel there, next door to where Mr. Taing was livirtg. The preach­ er’s wife, Mrs. Tang King-Tong, told the woman of the next house about Jesus. This woman, in turn, told young Mr. Taing, and although, at first, he rejected her teaching, he yielded to her request to attend a Sun­ day service. He became a regular attendant, and was never absent from his place on Sunday for seven months. He was baptized, and soon after went to his home, and told his mother “ what a dear Saviour he had found.” She was an easy prize, and for twelve years she has been a faith­ ful Christian, living with her sons, and with them itinerating far and near. For over a year she has been confined to her bed with a paralysis of half her body. In March, 1881, she told her friends that her time was near at hand, and that on the 19th day of the .third moon (April 17) she was going home to heaven. Her friends and neighbors marked the strange words, 188 i.J CHINA. 69 to see what would come of them. The elder, meantime, was out on his district, and returned three days before the time; he visited her, and found her calmly waiting— no more care for worldly affairs. The evening before her departure the elder talked and prayed with her again. She called her family together, called on all to kneel down, receive and wel­ come the Saviour, whom she saw near at hand. The last day came ; it was Sunday. She was anxious for all the mem­ bers to come early to worship in the chapel, next door to her room, want­ ing them all to pray for her. One by one they came. She greeted all with words of peace. They met for service, and during prayer she ceased to breathe, was gone for some time. But again returning to earth, with mind clear and words distinct, gave her last message, and again fell asleep in Jesus, on the very day announced weeks before. “ Our people die well.” STATISTICS OF THE FOOCHOW MISSION FOR 1880.*

s J3 jL 1 CIRCU ITS e a OB STATIONS. S i s i 1 1* i t ® 1 1 i Estimated Estimated V alooofF ar* sonAge«. tal*, tal*, and other Prop­ erty. Collected for Missionary Society. i t Collected other Tor nevolent Be­ Societies. Collected for Self-sup-port. « s i i | Value | of Schools, Hospi­ Fooehore District. Tieng-ang Tong...... $8,000 l $150 Chin g-sing T o n g ...... $40,000 $50 00 $2 60 $61 00 2,000 2 600 200 6 25 45 10 40 Hok-ing Tong ...... 1,500 1 600 Y e k -y o n g ...... 1 45 20 16 80 250 1 50 4 80 H ung-m oi...... 1 80 20 85 1 60 Ming-chlang...... 2 50 8 00 $8 70 .... 4 00 40 15 00 Blng-htoa District. Hing-tawa...... 12 800 2 800 Biong-tal...... 2 40 8 20 14 60 Pah-sai...... 86 5 90 Hang-keng...... 80 2 60 150 i Ì5Ó 8 60 ÌÒ 70 Keng-knu...... " 40 IT 80 100 1 100 2 80 85 8 90 90 Kl»-slota...... 60 100 1 90 P w o-hia ...... 20 15 00 i " *60 2 00 40 Paek-ko-leu...... 10 80 1 100 1 00 Ping-hai...... 6 50 2 100 ’ è 20 70 82 TO 8¿ ÓÒ Nang-nik...... 100 1 80 2 80 19 90 4 85 (?leng-ia...... 100 1 Ì6Ò 6 00 8 20 80 65 12 80 Kie-tleng-li...... 8 800 1 00 Lieng-chu-li...... 17 15 800 1 160 2 00 " ¿6 16 46 2¿ 80 Hing-tai-li...... 85 8a -h ion g ...... 1 80 "i 2 10 Hok-chiang District. Hok-chiang City ...... 2 11 82 16 48 N g n -b k ...... 18 1 2 65 6 70 K ong-ing...... 1 8 09 10 42 Kgu-oheng...... 8 49 S00 1 6 65 82 88 8ing-tong Yong-p’g 1 ...... 6 58 26 97 54 09 &, 1 6 58 88 01 )6 U

A -tt ...... Siek-keng...... 89 105 56 5 18 1 Hai-tang. I ”| i i 78 93 81 1 500 46 IT 10 1 160 • 1 6 0( ) .. H ai-bau ...... 82 18 21 • 84 7Í3 18 91 :::yl •• • 7 9 41 6 41 r .. 14 18 . 81 2!2 49 57 7 4 1 82 2 li Î .. .. Ing-Ciinng District, 5 . 10 7!3 .. .. 2 7< 4 9‘2 . . . . 26 5 tSSÄ ..0!^::: 6 2 25 Chia-chwt...... 18 4 5 1 14 8 99 i 12 1C Tfei-cheng...... !.!..! 5 > .. ..

•00 00 2 48t .. To-ngwong...... ’ i i 5 2 12 5? 22 5 1 1 • 6 81 Ku-cheng District. 2 81 7 82 Ku-cheng City...... L ol-hung...... 1 24 9 9 1 1 1 8 1 10 Hwang-te-yong...... 22 18 1 1 1,000 600 2 60 4 70 Lwang-leng ...... 18 è 6 6 50 1 1 5 1 00 7 60 Tong-hwang j 13 6 2 1 75 5 1 6 1 00 8ek-chek-tu “ ’ 22 4 4 10 2 00 10 1 2 1 10 2 18 2 80 Teng-yong ...... 8 4 1 50 8 1 1 4 1 25 K n -to ...... "" 2 49 25 7 00 2 75 9 12 5 2 iò 8 50 1 18 12 60 1 60 1 00 4 5 1 10 1 20 8 70 19 85 Yong-ping District. 14 00 1 00 8 20 8 00 Jopg-ptng City...... 15 4 29 1 250 SSSfte?:::: 9 8 1 1 260 1 00 N go-sek-tn...... 12 8 8 90 10 1 5 1 14 4 00 Ing-ang City...... 5 9 10 6 1 1 50 2 85 ling City " 1 i " •• 2 'i 50 8 2 8 40 ong City. ... 2 1 1 9 50 85 11 8 2 1 1 10 1 50 2 40 :::: 1 50 4 90

RECAPITULATION BY DISTRICTS. Foochow District.... Hfng-hwa “ .. 9 I 5 229 130 Ilok-chiang « .. IT 887 6 6,150 10 5 1,200 10 159 15 162 40,200 67 60 182 05 Ing-chung “ . ’ 18 641 7 1,150 22 14 1,400 8 TO 8 5 428 29 10 22 60 202 85 183 55 Ku-cheng “ .) 76 21 11 53 68 14 1Ô9 65 6 206 56 137 28 Yong-ping “ 4 84 5 12 00 9 76 9 115 i l’ ÓÓÒ 12 11 8T 85 5 600 18 08 50 25 Total. 44 1 250 6 6 250 82 50 10 70 10 60 21 40 14 1,468 676 19 193 29 934 15 jg jlW . 77 I 62 118,450 $40,20011186 96 $22 60 *650 46 *317 08

ly having »eveml place, o f worship, but the exact number hn„ nnt been reported. 72 MISSIONARY REPORT. fl8 8 l.

II. CENTRAL CHINA.

Commenced in 1868.

HEAD QUARTERS, KIUKIANG.

]YI issionar i es. V. C. H a r t , Superintendent, Kiukiang. Jo h n R . H y k e s , K iuk iang. T . C. C a r t e r , Kiukiang. (In the United States.) M. L. T a f t , Chinkiang.

Assistant Missionaries. Mrs. V. C. H a r t . (In the United States.) Mrs. J. R. H y k e s , Mrs. T. C. C a r t e r .

Local Preacher. B . B a g n a l l .

Missionaries of the "W. F . M. S. Miss G ertrude Howe, Miss D e l i a E. H o w e , “ Kate Bushnell, M.D., “ E lla G ilchrist, M.D.

APPO IN TM EN TS FO R 1881-82.

V . C . H a r t , Superintendent. Kiukiang City, John R. Hykes. Yang-chou, Tsiang Tien Yuen. Kiukiang Suberbs, Shih Tseh Yu. Nang-chang, B. Bagnall. H w ang-m ei, Tai Siu Shih. W u-chen, Nieh Tien Mei. Su i-chan g , to be supplied. N an-king, to be supplied. Chin-kiang, M. L. Taft. W u-hu, to be supplied. Mission Schools and Boys' Training School, C. F. Kupfer, W. J. Hunnex. T . C. Carter, in the United States.

W . F . M . S o c i e t y . Kiukiang, Girls' School, Miss G. Howe. K iu k ia n g , Bible Woman’s Work, Miss D. Howe. Kiukiang, Medical Work, Miss K. C. Bushnell, M.D., Miss E. Gil­ christ, M.D.

The following is the Superintendent’s report: The work at the various stations in the country has been maintained with the single exception of T a Ku Tang chapel, in the vicinity of Kiuki­ ang, upon the Poyang lake. This was given up mainly because the China Inland Mission have a station there, and the place is too small for two missions. W e do not count the five years’ labor spent at that trading- i88i.J CHINA. 7% post as lost, for the greater number of those that haw heard the Gospelt there live higher up the lake and at more distant parts. The mission in 1880 begged the privilege of opening new work upon the Yang-tsi, and, if possible, at Nan Chang, the capital of the Kiangsi Province. Our request was granted, and all we asked appropriated, and the three men asked for promised. We had agitated the opening of sta­ tions at Chinkiang, Nan-kin, and Wuhu at various times during the past eight years, but from embarrassed circumstances, as far as finances were concerned at home, our requests, though considered, were not granted. The mission had made repeated visits to these large cities, and in various ways, as far as opportunities allowed, tried to reach the people; but any practical missionary knows that transitory visits, although perhaps of ultimate service, do not generally result in much direct good. We had supposed long before this date that this great valley, from Chinkiang to Kiukiang, a distance of three hundred miles, would have received the attention of one or more other missionary organizations, and that ten or more missionaries would have been located at these great centers where such excellent facilities are afforded for evangelical work. But such was not the case. We found at the beginning of 1881 the whole field as des­ titute of laborers, yea, more destitute, than in 1875, when we first formally asked to take up these cities. The China Inland Mission has, during this time, been gradually curtailing its work along the river, and sending the men and women to the far west. The Presbyterian Mission, which was represented at Nankin from 1876 to 1879, had, through the death of Mr. Whiting and the departure of Mr. Leaman to another field, left the more important places vacant. The only constant male laborer at Chinkiang had transferred his field of labor to this province and connected himself with us. Thus, at the beginning of this year, when we received the wel­ come word of advance, we found the fields more needy than eight years ago. While we were hesitating which point to fix upon first, a Christian lady who had labored faithfully at Chinkiang for several years, sent us the Macedonian cry for help. The needs of this great city and natural center of influence were deemed first in order; and, as this city is situated at the most eastern extremity we had hoped to reach, we decided to occupy it at once, and the Rev. M. L. Taft was appointed to occupy the place. Regular visits had been made to Nan Chang by Brother Bagnall from Kiukiang and Wu Chen. This city, which stands in the most central part of the province, is the largest and most important center in the prov­ ince. It has been frequently visited for book-selling during the past ten years, and earnest effort was made to gain a foot-hold by opening a chapel, and thus paving the way for the residence of missionaries. From this point all the southern part of Kiang-si lies open to us, and strenuous efforts must be made to occupy it. The mission determined to divide their work into five districts, to be known as the Kiukiang, Wuhu, Nankin, Chinkiang, and Nan Chang dis­ tricts. Three are now occupied by missionaries. Two* Wuhu and Nan­ kin, are unoccupied; but at Wuhu we have a mission site. The superin- 7 4 MISSIONARY REPORT. [18 8 1.

tendent feas traveled at large during the greater part of the year, and reports iharing labored at Nankin and Wuhu, and in their vicinities, during several months. He has made three visits to Nankin and the same to Wuhu. While at Nankin many books were sold and some talking in pub­ lic done. Tiae place was pretty thoroughly visited, and many points looked at as sites for a mission. The place, although having received some light through the instrumentality of transient laborers, is still wrapt in thick darkness so far as a saving knowledge of the truth is concerned. You meet with as many curious eyes as at places where foreigners have seldom been, and with as much ignorance as to our aims. This is a large city and fast growing in population and influence. The Viceroy of these provinces resides here. Here is Li Hung-Chang’s arsenal, and other forces that are opening the eyes of the people to western superiority. We have not taken further steps than to look at lands that would afford good sites if procured. It would be folly to attempt to work successfully in this great city of half a. million without a strong force and that force well equipped. There should be four missionaries at least, and one a medical man. The mission should have a well-furnished hospital. This is a city notorious for it« educational proclivities, and ample provision should be made for educational interests. The country between Nankin and Wuhu and Chinkiang has been gone over, and many books sold, and many people have heard something of the Gospel. W e spent some days at the city of Wuhu in the hottest of the season, and with Brother Taft not only selected a grand mission site, but after a few days’ negoti­ ation we purchased, at a very reasonable rate, the finest plot for building purposes at that growing port It has been our privilege to visit several cities and towns which are con­ nected with these centers by water-courses, and whose trade finds an outlet on the river, and principally at Wuhu. The country wherever we have been is rich, and recovering from the effects of the great Tai-ping rebel­ lion. Wherever we have been we have made it a point to distribute the word of God and religious tracts, and preach as opportunity afforded. The country south and east of Wuhu has been pretty thoroughly trav­ ersed. The people have received us civilly in almost every place. Our latest journey was from Kiukiang to Wuhu, five hundred miles through a region in some parts untraveled by foreigners. W e did all our time and strength permitted to give the people of all classes a favorable view of Christianity. W e spoke publicly in several cities, and frequently by the way-side. In the midst of this work we have felt that our heavenly Father was with us, and we have great reason ,to praise him for such privileges. Since our last Annual Report was written, a faithful man, who had spent seven years at Kiukiang, fell asleep in Jesus, and has gone on high to his reward. A more earnest, self-sacrificing servant of God never labored in a foreign field. His faith never faltered, and he frequently said, “ If I do not see a true Christian among the Chinese for years, it will not affect my faith in the ultimate success of the Gospel.” Rev. Andrew i88iJ CHINA. 75

Stritmatter’s name and influence will not be forgotten, or cease to be felt, by all who knew him. Our mission was re-enforced by the opportune return of Brother Hykes, who brought with him a Christian lady as his wife, to assist him in his work. He returns fresh, and full of youthful vigor to his much-loved field. The reports of the various districts will appear in their order. We send this review of the year feeling that, although we have suffered loss in some respects, we have much to praise God for. The new open­ ings will give us a wider sweep, and greater opportunities for reaching and uplifting the scores of millions embraced within the field of the Cen­ tral China Mission.

K i u k i a n g D i s t r i c t . In the early part of the year the mission secured a very desirable site for a sanitarium, in the mountains seven miles south of Kiukiang. A cheap cottage has been built upon it, the funds for which (as we had no appropriation for this purpose) were advanced by the different members of the mission. Such a building has been a long-felt necessity in the Cen­ tral China Mission. It will soon save more than its cost to the society ; for, hereafter, when missionaries are sick, the only change required will be to the hills, instead of, as heretofore, expensive trips to Chefoo or Ja­ pan. The fact that we have been able to get this plot of ground and build upon it without molestation, shows a marked change in the feelings of the people toward foreigners, for three years ago this would have been an impossibility. The foreign community of Kiukiang determined, subject to the ap­ proval of the home authorities, to turn over to our mission the beautiful English church, on condition of our putting it in an efficient state of re­ pair, and holding services for them every alternate Sabbath. The church cost, exclusive of the lot, ten thousand taels, ($13,500,) and the repairs which we will be required to make will only cost about $500. With the church we would get all of the interior furnishing, including stoves, car­ pets, an elegant silver communion service, and a fine organ. In another month we hope to have definite word from the proper authorities. We feel sure the home-Church will approve of our securing this splendid property upon the easy conditions upon which it is offered. The present year has, we trust, marked an era in the educational work of the missions. In the early spring a high-grade school was organized by Brother Carter, and enough has been done to show that an institution of the kind is greatly needed, and can be made a success in Central China. The institution has been named the “ Fowler University of China,” as a mark of our high appreciation of Dr. Fowler, as a Secre­ tary of the Missionary Society, as a gentleman, and as a friend. The school opened with fifteen young men from the best families in Kiukiang in the English department, and an equal number in the Chinese. The students in the English department pay their tuition, and the amount received from this source has been used to defray the expenses of the Chinese department. W e aim to make this an institution that shall be a 76 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l8 8 l.

credit to the society and to the Church, and in which the young men of this part of China can obtain a first-class college education. Our mission has sustained a gTeat loss in the departure of Brother Carter for the United States. His health is completely broken down, and, from the latest word we have had from him in Nagasaki, it is extremely doubtful if he will live to reach his native land. Brother Carter’s heart was in the great missionary work, and, had his health been spared, he would have made his mark in the department which the mission assigned him. That work will now be left to other hands, and we trust that the Church may secure a successor of equal ability and zeal. If Brother Car­ ter should die before reaching the United States it will be because he remained at his post too long. W e are very greatly in need of more men. The missionary force in this district was formerly five families. It is now reduced to two, and one of these, Brother Hart, will start for home in the early fall. Two men are promised to Central China for this fall, but only one of these will be stationed in Kiukiang ; the other will be transferred to Chinkiang to assist Brother Taft. W e ought to have— we must have— three more mission­ aries for this district during the coming year. W e also need a steam yacht, and we hoped to have had one before this. Our mission stations are now scattered for three hundred miles on the great river, and extend nearly one hundred miles up the Poyang Lake. With a steam yacht we could do the same work with two thirds of the men. Chinkiang D istrict. — Rev. M. L. Taft writes: “ The usual routine of mission work at Kiukiang was suddenly interrupted last spring by an unexpected communication. A Christian lady, living at the city of Chin­ kiang, addressed a letter to our mission at Kiukiang urgently inviting us to take up mission work at Chinkiang. “ This idea of commencing a mission at Chinkiang had been discussed seven years previously, and the mission sent Superintendent Hart there to investigate and report, which work he performed satisfactorily, and re­ ported favorably. The report is to be found in the Missionary Advocate of 1874. Financial depression in the United States at that time, however, hindered commencing operations then, so that this field has lain fallow until this year. “ Although our numbers were small and our force at Kiukiang impera­ tively needed additional re-enfofcements, the mission decided to send one man to Chinkiang, and rely upon the three new missionaries promised for the Kiukiang work. “ The China Inland Mission have buildings here and a small girls’ school, but they have no chapel open for daily preaching. A medical missionary, Dr. R. G. White, had for several years past attended to medical work among natives and foreigners, and still keeps working in that line, leaving the preaching of the Gospel to others. “ The doctor’s office is in the rear of his chapel, which fronts on the street. He has kindly offered our mission the use of this chapel for book­ i88i.] CHINA. 77

selling and preaching. The ‘ sick and sore,’ with their friends and stran­ gers, gather in this chapel to wait for the arrival of the doctor, who generally comes about noon. Previous to this time the people are willing to hear God’s word, and the seed is dropped into ground which will here­ after bear fruit to the honor and glory of God. “ A day-school teacher has been procured, and three or four scholars are already in attendance. This branch of the work is very important, and will grow more and more so as the prejudice of the children’s parents against foreigners is by degrees removed. “ Tsiang Lien-Yuen, student helper from Kiukiang, now assists me in the chapel, and on Sundays he preaches in a room of the house where I am living to a small audience of Chinese and one or more foreigners who have an interest in Christian work among the Chinese. “ Chinkiang is distant from Shanghai one hundred and fifty miles, or as far as New York is from Albany. It is an important commercial and political center. Ocean and river steamers stop here to carry away cargoes of rice, silk, and other articles. “ Du Halde calls Chinkiang the ‘ Key of the Empire.’ It well deserves that title, for it is located at the junction of the Grand Canal with the Yangtsi River, and it is better situated for trade than Nankin. “ About twelve miles north of Chinkiang, on the Grand Canal, lies Yang Chow, a city as large as Chinkiang and Kiukiang put together. To-day not a single Protestant missionary is resident there. A fine new chapel and a two-storied house, erected for the China Inland Mission, we have just rented from that mission, since they propose strengtheningtheir forces in the west of China. These premises will be used, until we are re-enforced, as an out-station from Chinkiang. A native doctor is dispensing medicine there with considerable success, the patients averaging from sixty to one hundred a day. He will, if he proves a suitable person, be retained in that position in the interests of our mission. “ A t Chinkiang we have now only hired premises for work. We hope soon to procure a location, and erect buildings suitable for chapel and school. “ Within a few weeks a telegraph line has been established, connecting Chinkiang with Shanghai and the outside world. Surely ‘ the children of this world are, in their generation, wiser than the children of light.’ Are we honoring our heavenly Father by allowing the children of this world to inform the Chinamen about tidings from New York and London before we tell them the glad tidings of salvation from heaven ?” Nan-Ch’ang D istrict.— B. Bagnall reports as follows: “ This region had been regularly visited from the Nan-K’ang Circuit for several months past. Last year, however, we were much refreshed by the presence of Rev. T. C. Carter and Rev. M. L. Taft, who had recently arrived from America to join the mission, and were also expecting that Rev. J. Hykes would, at no distant date, return to his former field of labor. With this re-enforcement a desire to enlarge our borders might well be per­ mitted ; and to this end the mission decided to make a new district, to be 7& MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l. called the Nan-Ch’ang District, which includes Wu-Chen, where a chapel had been opened and work carried on for some time past. “ I will confine myself here to that part of the work with which I have more particularly to do. The present head-quarters of the Nan-Ch’ang District is Wu-Chen, to which place I removed on the return of Rev. J. Hykes from America last spring. Some account of the position of this important .trading center was given in last year’s report. A t the begin­ ning of the Chinese new year a day-school was opened in connection with the chapel, the number of scholars soon amounting to eighteen; but some prejudices having arisen among the friends of the children on account of the Scriptures, or, as they put it, foreign books being taught, some of the children were taken from the school. The friends of two who wished them to leave were kept from removing them by the earnest entreaties of the little folks. The average attendance at present is twelve; some others are promised for next year. The system adopted is the same as that in most Christian schools of this class in China, namely, half the day with the native books, and half with the Scriptures, or books explaining the doctrine, such as Catechism, etc.; and as the children advance they are taught the outlines of geography and the native mode of reckoning, etc. “ At nine o’clock a-short religious service is held, when all the children who are able read a verse in the Gospels, which is followed by a few re­ marks and questions. It is pleasing to see the apparent interest taken in these simple exercises, and to hear the children repeat the Lord’s prayer. This may be a very .simple thing; but here, in the midst of darkness and heathenism, even this gives joy to those working among this people; for only to hear the name of Jesus in this land is a cause for thankfulness. “ W e also have a service every evening, more especially for our people on the premises ; not unfrequently a neighbor drops in, and quite often some of those who have given their names as probationers are present. The chapel is open all day for the sale of books and Christian conversation ; and during the preaching in the afternoons an attentive audience generally assembles. Sometimes intelligent questions are asked, and sometimes controversies arise, but on the whole our intercourse is only friendly. As the weather permits we go on the streets and to the water-side to sell books, and tell of God’s free gift. Thus, in the course of the year, large numbers have heard of the Lord Jesus, who came to seek and save that which was lost. “ By far the most important place in this circuit is the city of Nan-Ch’ang. It is the capital of this province, and as such, the official center; it is also most admirably situated for trading. A glance at its well-stocked shops and warehouses, and its extensive harbor crowded with vessels, is suffi­ cient proof of the extensive trade carried on here. The western portion of the city is the more busy part; here the well-built streets cross each other in every direction, thronged with busy multitudes. “ I will not attempt to further describe this large city, but will merely add that it is one of the principal cities of China, both as regards population and commerce. Not long since the gates were closed to the foreigner, 188i.] CHINA. 79 but, bless the L ord! now all its busy streets have been traversed by the agents of the Bible Societies and the Missionary Society. Many hundreds of portions of Scripture and religious books have been sold, and in most of the places suitable for speaking, the Gospel has been proclaimed to large numbers who, in most cases, listen with attention as well as curiosity. “ In June last premises were hired in the suburbs of this city, as a step toward more thorough work, but the officials raised some clamor, and finally succeeded in sending our man away. Failing to g^t matters ad­ justed on the spot with the native authorities, the matter has been put into the hands of the United States Consul at Hankow, and by him for­ warded to Pekin. This, of course, will take some time, but we may hope during the coming year, with God’s blessing, to be able to open a chapel there, in the meantime to continue our monthly visits. “ Nan-Ch’ang, however, is far too important a place to be worked effect­ ually as an out-station from Kiukiang or Wu-Chen, being distant from the former place about one hundred and forty miles, and from the latter sixty; and what is of greater consequence, this being the provincial cap­ ital, it is the residence of the leading officials and their respective staffs; also a number of officers waiting for appointments, or on official business, are continually sojourning here. Here also occur the triennial examina­ tions, both civil and military; for these reasons it is the center and at­ traction for the more intelligent classes. “ During the year two members have been received into the Church by baptism, one being the school-teacher, who was one of the earliest in­ quirers ; the other a very interesting old man, who lives in the country. Having business in town, he dropped into the chapel during preaching­ time, and remained for conversation; this he did daily until his business was finished, when he bought books and returned home ; about a fortnight after he returned again and requested to be baptized. Trying to impress on him the necessity of a more perfect knowledge of the truth, I was de­ lighted to find how much he knew. He returned' home again, taking with him a New Testament. About a month from this he came in again, just as we were finishing our evening service; his object this time was as before, to be baptized. I questioned him first on various subjects to see if I could find any unworthy motives for this eagerness— experience hav­ ing often proved that the most eager are not unfrequently the most un­ worthy. But in this case his simple, open way seemed to indicate truth­ fulness and sincerity; and when questioning him on the doctrine his whole manner seemed to prove not only his knowledge of the plan of sal­ vation, but that he experienced the power in his heart. A s I was going to leave for Kiukiang in the morning, I requested him to accompany me, to which he readily agreed. On the journey I had a better opportunity of learning more of him. On arriving at Kiukiang the brethren examined him, and, being satisfied, Superintendent Hart baptized him. Since his baptism, I have sent the helper from Wu-Cheng to stay a few days at his village. He returned with a most favorable report. 8o MISSIONARY REPORT. Cl88l.

“ During the year some of the neighboring towns and villages have been visited, and in the early summer, in company with the superintend­ ent, we visited an important city called Kih-Ngan, which is situated in about the middle of the province. Also other towns and cities were vis­ ited on the same river. I have just returned from a sixteen days’ trip in another direction, visiting three cities and several towns. These cities had not been visited before by Protestant missionaries. In one city, called Ch’ong Ren, there is a Roman Catholic chapel. “ This district is entirely out of reach of ordinary mission work, and will remain so until the hearts of more of the Lord’s people are opened to feel the deep need of this dark land, until some more will hear the Lord calling to them to go work in his vineyard. If twenty men called of God, and desiring his glory above all things, would come, what a field they would find in this single province of K iang-Si! Let as many more go on the river, but Kiang-Si is as needy as any part of this large empire, and far more needy than many parts of it. “ In connection with the chapel at Wu-Cheng, we have : chapels, 1; schools, 1 ; native helper, 1 ; chapel keeper, 1 ; school-teacher, 1 ; bap­ tized members, 5 ; probationers, 5 ; scholars, 12. STATISTICS OF THE CENTRAL CHINA MISSION FOR 1881. \ £ — T é ■a O ä "o cfl .g 1 a pC £ £ e s 2 tr (•S a§ I s ■g W .3 CIRCUIT OR STATION. s. >. 2 , S « « 3 a s O s s EH P-* 2 II o 1 1 •I E •5 ¿ 1 V Foreign Foreign Missionaries. Worn. Fur. Miss. Society. No. of Halls and other No No of Sabbath-schools. | Estimated Value of Churches. Places of Worship. Collected Collected for Self- < r. iZ o Probationers. Average Attendance on < s ¡1 2 ie i3i2 tals, and other Property. support. 1 Foreign 1 Missionaries. | [ Native Uuordniued Preachers. 1 ( Nativo Teachers. j j Members.| I j Sunday Worahip. Children | Baptised. No. 1 of Day-schools. I No. of Sabbath Scholars. No. J of Pupils. No. 1 of Orphans. ! Value of Schools, Hospi­

Kiukiung District.

K iu k la n g City...... 8 8 4 4 1 1 8 9, 1« m 14 4 00 1 TO 1 ?, 80 7 3 $5,500 4 $12,500 $2,500 $15 92

H w a n g Mei Circuit...... 1 ?0 9IS 801.. 1

S h u i Chang Circuit...... 1 8 «> 9, * Chinkiany Dixtriet.

(Including Ymiy-ehoM')...... 1 1 1 1 2 4 15 1 4

Nan Chang District ...... 1 1 1 1 fi fi 15 9 1 12 1

I 4 8 4 4 8 1 1 fi 4fi 44 18fi 9. 1« C 78 1 70 1 9, 80 7 8 $5,500 6 $12,500 $2,600 $15 92 ‘

to 82 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ I SS I.

III. NORTH CHINA. Commenced in 1869. HEAD-QUAETEKS, PEKING.

Missionaries. Hiram H. Lowry, Superintendent. G e o r g e R. Davis, James H. P y k e , (in U.S.A.,) L e a n d e r W . P i l c h e r , O s c a r W . W i l l i t s , W i l b u r F . W a l k e r , F r a n k D . G a m e w e l l .

-Assistant Missionaries. M rs. P. E. L o w r y , Mrs. W . F. W a l k e r , “ M. B. Davis, *• B. G. Pyke, (in U.S.A.,) “ M . H . P i l c h e r , “ T . W i l l i t s .

Missionaries of 'W . F . M. S. Miss M ary Q. P orter, Miss C l a r a M. C u s h m a n , " L e o n o r a A. H o w a r d , M. D., “ Annie B. Sears, Miss E lizabeth U. Y a t e s .

Native Ordained Preachers. . (Deacons.)

C h e n T a -Y u n g , T e J u i .

Native Local Preachers, Acting as supplies.

* Wang Cheng-pei, Wang Chun-tang, * S h a n g C h i n g - y u n , Y a n g C h u n - h o , t W a n g C h i n g - y u n , C h i n P a o - s h a n , C h a o C h i n g -j u n g , W a n g C h i n g - y u , L i H s i a o -w e n .

APPO IN TM E N TS FO R 1881-82. Peking, Tartar City. (Asbury Chapel and Feng-chen Tang,) Wang Cheng-pei. George R. Davis, Missionary in charge. Training School and Boys’ Boarding-School.— President, Hiram H. Lowry; Assistants, Frank D. Gamewell, Mrs. P. E. Lowry, Mrs. M. B. Davis, and Mrs. T. Willits. Peking, Chinese City.— Wang Chun-tang, Wang Ching-yu. Tsun-hua.— Oscar W. Willits, Missionary in charge; Te Jui, Liang- tzu-ho, W ang Ching-yun.

* Recommended for admission on trial to the Ohio Conference, t Recommended for admission on trial to the Detroit Conference. i88i.l CHINA. 83 Tientsin.— Wilbur F. Walker, Missionary in charge; Wesley Chapel and East Gate Chapel, Chin Pao-shan, Feng-jun, YangChun-ho. Tsang-chou.— Chen Ta-yung. Tai-an.— Shang Ching-yun. Nan-kung.— Leander W. Pilcher, Missionary in Charge; Chao Ching- jung, Li Shiao-wen. W . F. M. S o c i e t y . Peking.— Girls’ Boarding School, Clara M. Cushman, Annie B. Sears; Woman’s Work, Elizabeth U. Yates ; Medical Work, to be supplied. Tientsin.— Training School for Bible Women, Mary Q. Porter ; Isabella Fisher Hospital and Female Department of Viceroy’s Dispensary, Leonora A. Howard, M.D., one to be supplied.

The Superintendent says: In presenting the report for another year in the history of the North China Mission it may not be unprofitable to consider to what extent our mission has been accomplished in occupying and working the field as­ signed us, as well as to present some of the facts that confront us as we enter upon another year’s labor. We begin by a survey of

T h e F i e l d . Theoretically, our field includes all the northern provinces of China, but practically only those districts in Chile-li and a portion of Shan-tung where our work has resulted in organized circuits or stations. But even with this limitation we are by no means confined to a narrow territory, for to make the circuit of the field of our active operations requires a thousand miles of travel. Within this region are situated some of the largest and most important cities in the empire, and the population is numbered by millions. The land, though subject to the calamities of drought and flood, which sometimes devastate large districts, is sufficiently fertile to sustain the vast population. Its mines of coal and ore, which are now beginning to be worked according to scientific methods with machinery and under foreign supervision, are both numerous and pro­ ductive. And, with the exception of one or two months of the year, the climate is healthful and invigorating. The people are remarkably civil, and, unless especially excited by false rumors or local disturbance, are well disposed toward foreigners. Although we may occasionally encount­ er an official who is unfriendly to our movements, our position and our rights in the country have been affirmed by the highest tribunals of the government, and we are free to travel wherever we desire, and to carry for­ ward our missionary work with all the force and energy at our command.

T h e C i r c u i t s a n d S t a t i o n s . Peking. This city has been selected as the head-quarters of the mission, and the importance of our advantageous location in the capital of this great empire cannot be overestimated. As the influence of the councils in 84 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

Peking- is felt in all the departments of the government throughout the eighteen provinces, so, too, we believe, the establishment of Christian missions and the regular preaching of the Gospel in this imperial city is not without its influence for good upon all mission work throughout the empire. Tientsin. Soon after becoming settled in Peking it was decided to establish a station at Tientsin, and the wisdom of that decision becomes each year more and more apparent. The population of this city is esti­ mated at four or five hundred thousand, and this fact alone renders it an important field for missionary operations ; but there are other considera­ tions which greatly add to its importance. Commercially, it is the port of entry and of exit for these provinces, for Peking, and for Mongolia. Politically, it is the residence of the foremost statesman in China, Viceroy Li. Geographically, it is the center of our mission work. Tsun-hua. One hundred miles east of Peking and about the same dis­ tance north of Tientsin is situated the Tsun-hua Circuit, with its center in the sub-prefectural city of Tsun-hua. As to situation this city is one of the most beautiful in the province. It is situated in the midst of a beautiful vaHey surrounded on all sides by mountains, and within sight of the great wall. W e are the only laborers in this district and in all the vast eastern region stretching away to the gulf, including some of the finest portions of the province, and perhaps one fifth of its area, ours is the only mission having an organized work. Tsang-chou. A hundred miles south of Tientsin is the Tsang-chou Circuit, bordered on the south by the work of the Methodist New Con­ nection Mission, and on the east by the London Mission ; but north and west the country is entirely unoccupied and is open to our labors, as far as we can desire to go, without danger of interfering with the interests of other missions. Nan-kung. The Nan-kung Circuit, two hundred miles south-west of Tientsin, is in the midst of a populous, fertile country, and presents a fine field for missionary work. Tai-an. Still farther south, or about three hundred and fifty miles from Tientsin, is the Tai-an Circuit. This is our most distant field, and our only work in the Province of Shan-tung. Its great distance from our center of operations renders constant and careful supervision, with our present force, almost impossible, but the providential indications which led us in the first place to begin the work have encouraged us to cariy it forward. Being the scene of the life and labors of Confucius, few re­ gions in China are connected with more sacred associations in the minds of the Chinese than the district embraced by the Tai-an Circuit, and we hope the day is approaching when the chief interest will center in the real of the people for the doctrines of Him who taught as never man taught. M i s s i o n P r o p e r t y . It has been almost a universal experience in mission work— notwith­ standing all the misrepresentations, both of the facts and motives made i 88 i .3 CHINA. 85 by those unfriendly to the cause.— that the character and location of mis­ sionary establishments have a potent influence upon the work of evangeli­ zation. None have appreciated this fact more than the Roman Catholics. Of the million dollars recently left to the American Board one quarter has already been invested in buildings at their various stations, and dur­ ing the past two years alone their mission in North China has received more money for this purpose than the entire value of all our mission property. Permanent buildings give permanency to the mission, and em­ phasize the thought that the Churches we organize are to endure. I think we can point with satisfaction to the investments which have been made with the funds intrusted to us for this purpose. In Peking— Tartar City—-are located three parsonages, Asbury Chapel, and our school prem­ ises ; and, of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, two houses, the Girls’ Boarding-school buildings, and the Hospital; connected with this charge is also a street chapel, which is one of the most favorably located in the city. In the Chinese City we now hold undisputed possession of the premises used by us, and the chapel, with the other buildings, is all that we require for all departments of our work there. In Tientsin we have two parsonages and one chapel, (Wesley Chapel,) also a Home for the Ladies of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, and the “ Isabella Fisher Hospital.” The chapel at the East Gate is rented, and is most favorably situated for gathering audiences for daily preaching. In Tsun- hua we own good premises, situated in the best quarter of the city. Some of the buildings have already been put up, but the chapel is yet to be built. At Liang-tzu-ho we have a neat chapel, a home for the native preacher, and rooms for our own accommodation when there. On each of the other circuits our chapels are rented.

O u r M i s s i o n a r y F o r c e . Our foreign force consists of seven missionaries, including Brother Pyke, now in the United States, and Brother Gamewell, just arrived ; six assistant missionaries; and five missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Our native agents consist of two ordained deacons, nine local preachers, (three of these were recommended at the last an­ nual meeting, for admission on trial to Conferences in the United States,) two exhorters, one colporteur, and four school teachers. Also two Bible- womes employed by the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society. As to the character and work of our native agents, we believe they have generally been faithful, and some of them, especially, have mani­ fested a full appreciation of their responsibilities. Four of those who received license to preach at the last annual meeting are from the training-school, and after the close of the school last spring did efficient service as exhorters in different parts of the field. The other two mem­ bers of this class were employed as chapel keepers, and proved them­ selves valuable assistants. One colporteur has been employed during the past year with some encouragement in the results. Many hundreds of books and tracts have been distributed, which may prove the seed of 86 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

a future harvest. Of the Bible-women the ladies in their annual report said, “ We think them trusty and true.”

The W ork of 1880-1881. Statistics cannot be made to represent all the results of a year’s labor. The last year closed with a total membership of 277 ; this year we number 367. These figures would have been much larger but for disaffection on one of the circuits, and the necessary administration of discipline in other places. One feature of the year’s work that has encouraged us not a little is the fact that the members are learning the duties involved in Church membership, and are beginning to comprehend more fully the spiritual character of Christianity. Self-support does not make as rapid progress as we could wish, but we should not forget the poverty of a large majority of the native Christians, especially on the Tsun-hua Circuit, where the failure of the crops has greatly increased their distress. In a few cases it has been absolutely necessary to furnish relief in order to prevent starvation, yet even then something was contributed toward the current expenses of the Church, and the missionary collection was taken.

S c h o o l s . During the year four day-schools have been in operation— one at Tien­ tsin, and three in the country. In Peking the Boys’ Boarding School had nineteen pupils in attendance. The examinations showed that the boys had made progress in their studies, and that the native teacher had been faithful in his instruction. This school, however, has lacked foreign super­ vision, and many of the details in its management are open to criticism. The school opened this fall with twenty-one scholars, and arrangements have been made by which it is hoped the management may be improved. All the temporal matters pertaining to the school have been committed to the care of Mrs. Lowry, and instruction in various departments will be given by Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Willits. One encouraging feature of the school is the fact that, with only one or two exceptions, the boys are either professing Christians, or members of Christian families, and several have the Christian ministry in view. The Training-school was in session two terms of three months each, with nine students in attendance. Four of this number have completed the course of study prescribed, and were this year licensed as local preachers, and are now used as supplies on several of the circuits. In addition to the regular work in these schools for the coming winter ar­ rangements have been made for a course of six lectures on literary and scientific subjects, to be delivered by friends resident in Peking and vicinity. W ork of the W . F. M. S o c i e t y . The force of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in this field has been increased during the year by the arrival of Misses Sears and i88i.J CHINA. 87 Yates, and other needed re-enforcements are expected. Two Bible-women have been employed, and part of the time three day-scho.ols have been in operation with about twenty pupils. Instruction has been regularly given to the women, both in Peking and Tientsin, and two extended visits were made into the country. Preparations are now being completed for open­ ing a training-school for Bible-women in Tientsin. The Boarding-school in Peking now contains over forty girls, and is a model in its manage­ ment and in all its arrangements. The testimonies of some of the girls given at our meetings evince genuine Christian experience, and it cannot but be that girls going out from under such influences as surround them in this school will be largely instrumental in the evangelization of China, The work of the medical department still devolves upon Dr. Howard alone. Despite the fact that during a part of the year she was prostrated by a severe illness, brought on largely by overwork, she has been enabled to keep up her work, and has administered to the physical needs of several thousand women and children. The “ Isabella Fisher Hospital ” has been completed. On the 8th of October it was inspected by his excellency the governor-general, in company with Mr. Angell, the United States minister, the highest Chinese officials in Tientsin, and the consuls of the several nationalities represented at the port; and on the 15th of the same month it was formally opened by Bishop Bowman. A new house has also been erected for the doctor and the lady to be associated with her.

T h e N e e d s o f t h e M i s s i o n . The immediate needs of the mission are : 1. Proper buildings for the accommodation of the Training-school and the Boys’ Boarding-school. 2. One missionary to give his entire attention to these schools. The interests of our work demand that we give our boys and youth the best possible advantages for fitting them for usefulness in the Church and society. 3. We need more missionaries, not only to care for our extended and increasing work, but to enable us to enter the new and promising fields that are open to us. 4. As Christian ministers, commissioned to a special work among the heathen, we feel the need of a fresh baptism of the Spirit. We are sur­ rounded by discouragements and annoyed by constant vexations, which combine to rob us of our early enthusiasm and zeal. Standing in the midst of this great heathen nation we learn, by an experience that some­ times sickens our souls, that the moral darkness is denser than we ever could have imagined, and that the consciences of the people are so dor­ mant and their prejudices so strong, that it seems almost impossible to awaken the first sentiments of a nobler manhood; and we ask the Church to plead for us that we may realize the Presence that shall not only keep our own love warm, but impart to our ministry power and efficiency. STATISTICS OF THE NORTH CHINA MISSION FOR 1881.

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STATION. Baptized. c 1 Teachers in Teachers in the

Day-schools, ■sS, « X Theological 6 Ig* i V? £ II J C h I Ë £ s •c o 1 .¿S Native Native Touchers. Members. Oilier Oilier Helpers. Sunday Sunday W orship. No. of Children Children No. of Day Scholars. No. of Sabbath Scholar*. No. No. of No. No. of Schools, y.ßt X h srnne. No. of Pupils. Estimated Estimated Value of -q /. s C h u rch «. Pinces of W orship. Value Value of Schools, Hospi­ é y. tals, and other Property. Collected Collected for other Benevolent Societies. Collected Collected for S«lf- ¡ 1 I f support. 1 1 1 Average 1 Attendance on | | I I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 ! No. of Students. ! No. of Halls nnd other

Poking, (Tartar city.)...... 3 8 4 1 2 8 20 9 100 8 1 11 1 150 2 2 58 1 2 9 2 $4,600 5 $18,500 $o,7ro $G2 25 $58 00 Poking:, (Chinese city)___ 1 2 4 10 i 8 1 15 1 4,200 7 75 T ientsin...... 2 2 1 1 8 10 fi °r> 1 1 ir> 1 47 1 6,00(1 Tsun-hua Circuit...... 1 1 2 3 97 34 70 2 2 8 3.001) 2 00 89 62 Tsang-chou Circuit...... 1 40 00 60;i8 1 1« Rented. 1 8 40 1 84 Nnn-kung Circuit...... 0 1 10 20 40 5 2 1 7 1 u 1 Tai-an Circuit...... 1 1 20 22 2S 1 80 1 « » • 2 48 5 20 — — ------—— ______Total...... 5 5 4 5 2 e 14 210 151; 833 30 10 C 49 5 25ö; 2 2 cs 1 2 9 10 $11,700 2 8 $83,000 $12,700 $108 28 $180 02 6 Last year...... 6 3 2 8 162 115 278 61 4 6 79 2 155 9 8,700 7 80,150 6,700 103 84 $14 02 46 23 5 G ermany and Switzerland. Commenced in 1849. Organized as a Conference in 1856.

BISHOP HURST has Episcopal Supervision.

T h e Germany and Switzerland Conference, held at Winter­ thur, Switzerland, July 14-18, was of unusual interest this year, arising from the number of distinguished visitors present from the United States. Drs. Walden, Hoyt, Liebhart, Starr, besides the Superintendent of the English Wesleyan Mission in Germany, and a representative from the French Wesleyans, were all present. The Ecumenical Conference, held in Lon­ don during the month of September, led many other delegates who could not visit Winterthur to look at certain parts of the work. A ll this was inspiriting to the brethren in Germany. Bishop Peck presided, and traveled at large through the work. He reports that he “ found in the Germany and Switzerland Conference a very decided fidelity to our doctrines and disci­ pline— a Conference of 85 members, doing heroic work for God. W e have had a steady growth in spite of all obstructions thrown in our way. W e number 9,717 members, 2,237 pro­ bationers, 380 Sunday-schools, 1,496 teachers, 19,359 schol­ ars. Our periodical and volume press at Bremen is very active and healthy. These peoplé need more churches, but especially at this time need help to relieve the churches they already have of embarrassing debts. Let us rally our ener­ gies in America to help relieve our brethren of this dreadful incubus, and we shall then move on with greatly augmented power.” Dr. Reid, Corresponding Secretary, also visited Germany, preaching at many points, and attending the Conference throughout its session. The Secretary says : There are now twenty-three times as many members as the Conference began with after it ceased to be a mission. The average per member contributed for the work of the mission has increased in twenty years 90 MISSIONARY REPORT. [i 881.

from 2.59 to 18.14 marks, making about four dollars and a half now con­ tributed by each member and probationer in the Conference toward the support of their own work. It will be further seen that about two thirds of the entire cost of the mission is met by the people of the mission, only the other third being provided by the Missionary Society. A table so eloquent in facts needs no supplementary words from any one.

C o m p a r a t i v e T a b l e of the Germany and Switzerland Conference, showing the progress o f the Conference frotn the beginning.

SUNDAY- COLLECTIONS FOR CHURCH MEMBERS. SELF-SUPPORT. TOTAI.S. tiCHOOLS. SOCIETIES.

1 1 H 9 S YEA.P.6. p. ¡ 1 k' j . P. £ i c: 3 •- £ •= 1 Scholar«. Tract Tract Society. On Trial, On in 05 w Collections. < 1 Bihlo Society. Bihlo 1 Marks. Marks. Minks. Murks. M’kf fll’kt Marks. Mmlcs. Minks. 1 S 5 6 ... 424 109 15 1 ,10s 396 39 11 446 1S 5T ... 558 216 16 1.125 1,702 52:> Ì6 2.248 1 8 5 $ ... 755 824 19 1,190 2.979 738 40 84 8.791 1 S 5 9 ... Sl'S 49! 24 1,5S5 3.218 784 97 52 4.146 1 S 60 ... 1.051 586 86 2,0£0 3.290 806 74 76 4.246 1S01. . . 1.354 827 40 2.254 8,216 1,006 12 62 4.i< 6 1 8 6 2 ... 1.753 824 44 2,601 5.9:3 1,182 34 60 7.149 1 S 63 ... 2.126 1.249 51 2,844 4.749 1.019 113 8 5.884 1 8 6 1 ... 2.f'52 1.280 66 2.9S5 5.352 1,625 136 32 7.145 1 8 6 5 ... S.465 1,151 82 2.953 ...... 4.668 1.516 157 61 8.302 I 8 6 0 ... 3.0(15 1.465 117 5 264 8.848 1.009 200 41 5.998 1 86T ... 4.o(l2 1,626 139 5,868 8,625 1.896 233 40 5.794 1S 6S ... 4.816 1,518 14S 6,■'¡50 . 1.272 1,944 76 4 8 2!) G I s (i9 ... 5.396 1,560 161 7.434 64.5(19 2.255 864 1.425 72 42 66.764 2.4! 3 9.95 1 8 7 o ... 5.812 1.447 151 8,378 72.068 4,361 6S7 1.515 57 20 76.444 2,179 9.70 ISTI... 6,092 1.369 21,7 9,216 78.057 9.054 465 1,880 68 15 87,151 1 928 11.90 1 8 7 2 ... 6.230 1.727 229 10,071 86.894' 11.586 869 1.902 108 24 97,9S0 2,403 11.85 1 S 73 ... 6,642 1.S71 244 11.260 103.239 16,170 2.547 1.96S 219 105 119,409 4.Î89 14.45 3 8 7 4 ... 7,(¡22 1.899 262 li:6 6 2 128.769; 15,729 8,564 2.052 803 117 144.49S 6,1 36 16.85 1 8 7 5 ... 7.348 2.319 273 12.395 152.030 IS. 60(1 4.992 2 ,0 7 357 165 170.03!) 7.521 22.40 187C .. . 7.96» 2 264 801 13.355 157,786 29.7S0 5.888 1.055 324 174 1S7.560! 8,( 86 19.15 1 8 7 7 ... 8.537 2.270 814 15.283 149.010 38.‘-'75 6.442 1.735 292 166 187.285 8.035 18.15 1 S 7 S ... 9.ut3 2.287 838 16,476 152.650145,437 li.120 1.889 270 190 19S.( 87 7.919 18.19 1 S 7 9 ... 9.224 2.112 36(1 17,953 154.568 52.811 5.625 1.482 273 220 207.874! 7.55 il 18.95 1 6 8 0 ... 9.444: 2.377 372 lS,716j 151.651 55.651 5.186 1.181 251 636 207.3021 7.254 18.14 1 6 8 1 ... 9.717; 2,237 380 19,359 159,887 57,531 5.898 926 286 289 217,418j 6,894 18.70 1

BY DECADES. 1S60 total membership, 1,637; total collections toward self-support, 4,246 marks; average per member, 2.59 marks. 1870 total membership, 7,259 ; total collections toward self-support, 7G,444 marks ; average per member, 9.70 marks. 1SS0 total membership, 11,621; total collections toward self-support, 207,802 marks; average per member, 18.14. Reports from all the districts are here given. The former Olden burgh District this year forms part of the Bremen Dis­ trict.

BREMEN DISTRICT, Geerdes Odinga, P. E. With the inclosed statistics please accept a few lines in regard to our district work here. As it is only a few months since my appointment to this district, and I have not as yet been able to hold the first Quarterly Conference in every circuit I beg to be excused if the report is not so 1881.] GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND. complete in all the details as could be wished. From each charge alone I cannot at present give a report, only a general one of the district. A few years ago this district comprised also the Oldenburg and the Bremen Districts. At the last yearly Conference Bishop Peck considered it best to unite them. I must confess, to my sorrow, that in some parts of the dis­ trict the work of the Lord does not prosper as it should. W e look at the causes, and, so far as lies in our power, try to remove them, with the Lord’s help. We work and pray for a revival of God’s work in the whole district. We have over all, and in some places in particular, to fight with want and poverty in consequence of a partial failure of the crops for sev­ eral years in succession, and the most of our people are dependent upon the harvest for their existence. The stewards’ treasury is empty, and not only that, the Churches are in debt, and it is impossible for the preachers to raise the amount required by the Conference; consequently some of them are in such financial embarrassment that they can barely meet their expenses. A short time ago a brother wrote me, among other things, as follows : “ I have kept silent now for three years, when year after year the congregation has failed to bring up more than half of the salary, and I was almost continually in embarrassment. This in itself is very depress­ ing and discouraging for a preacher, and can at last become a burden, especially when one must confess there are no better prospects for the future. Then can one well wish to be free from it, and look around for the best means of obtaining self-support.” 1 try to encourage the brethren, and console them in that their cause is in the Lord’s hand. If this district could receive special help from the Church in America it would be a great blessing. The preachers could work under a less heavy burden. In spite of the financial depression the district brought up 15,000 marks by contribution last year, which, of course, is insufficient, while more than 100,000 marks building debt is pressing us down! * But with God’s help we shall yet see better times. W e will not com­ plain. God is always with us. Several precious souls have been converted since Conference, and we hope for a glorious revival. May the Lord hear our prayers, and his blessing rest upon this work here, which the preach­ ers are trying to do with much self-denial and complete resignation to his w ill!

BERLIN DISTRICT, C. D i e t r i c h , P. E. With thankfulness to God I can record that the Lord has been with us, and that we have had a good year. He has blest our brethren, the preach­ ers, and their work. In regard to making up the money, it was pretty hard, because the people are poor, but they did what they could with cheerfulness. In Berlin and New Rupfiin, where Brother C. Weiss and Brother F. Jacob are stationed, the work is going on very well. W e had an increase of members and larger collections. W e should have another preacher in Berlin because it is so large. Brother Weiss has had meetings in other 92 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

parts of the city, which have been blest, but he cannot continue them for want of time and means. In Colberg and Belgard we have a large field of labor, where much expansion may be realized. Brother F. Schmidt and G. Baer are laboring here. We could at once employ two more preachers here if we had them. The authorities favor us, but not the pastors. Lately there was a cemetery consecrated, and our preachers were invited to take part in it. Zwickau Circuit. Here our dear Brother Rohr is laboring with great self-denial, and the Lord has owned his work, and not a few souls have found the Saviour. The meetings and classes have been very well attended. Zwickau has 35,000 inhabitants, but we have no chapel! Our present place is too small, and it is most desirable that we should have a chapel and dwelling for the preacher, particularly as Zwickau is considered as the seat of the Methodist Episcopal Church, (by the authorities,) that is to say, in Saxony. W e would greatly rejoice if some cheerful giver would help this good work, and cause many hearts to overflow with thank­ fulness. This district has 10 preaching stations, 5 Sunday-schools, and 238 members. Schwarzenberg Circuit. Here our Brother Kehl is stationed. The work is doing much good. The preaching of the word of God has become the means of leading souls to Jesus who are now rejoicing in him. Chemnitz Circuit. Here our Brother H. Barkhardt is laboring, and the Lord is with him, and in the course of the last two years the good cause has greatly increased. W e have 72 members and 90 probationers. Although all the full members have left the State Church, they are perse­ cuted and many restrictions are laid upon them. W e have been forbidden to administer the Lord’s Supper or to baptize. W e have sent in a petition for liberty, but as yet we have no answer. Plauen and Reichenbach. Here we are tolerated, and, therefore, our preacher, Brother E. Schmidt, has been able to work without the many hinderances which some of his brethren have to contend with, and the word has been greatly blessed. In the country there is more of the spirit of persecution. W e have even been forbidden to pray! Then we thought of Acts iv, 19. Schleiz and Lautenbcrg. Since our last Conference Brother C. Schwarz and an assistant have been working here. This district is very large. It has 13 preaching-places, which must all be visited on foot. Here we have increase. Langemvctzendorf and Dartendorf Circuit has 10 preaching-places, which are visited by Brother Schaarschmidt. In one sense this district is the poorest in our Conference, but not in faith and love. Our people here show great love for our cause, and do what they can— nay, even more. Waltersdorf Circuit is the oldest field of labor we have in Germany. Brother Kaufmann labors with much blessing, and the work is increasing. W e have a neat church here, which is very well attended. Great pity that Zeitz was not able to get a preacher last Conference, which they so much desired. i88 i.l GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND. 93 Upon the whole district the prospects are very good. The class-meet- ings are regularly held and well attended ; and the class-leaders in the Quarterly Conference give us hopes for the future. Our work is needed every-wbere, because the world lieth in the wicked one.

FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN DISTRICT, F. C r a m e r , R E.

P o l i t i c a l a n d F i n a n c i a l S i t u a t i o n i n G e r m a n y . The financial pressure continues and the national taxes are enormous. We are so fortunate to have had no war for ten years, which nobody expected after the German-French war. But our revengeful neighbors go on to prepare their armies, and we are compelled to do so too, and that costs much money. Yet many who complain very much of the taxes do not diminish their visits to the inns. A free and easy Judaism governs the money-market, the commerce, and the press, to the financial and moral ruin of Christians. It is not easy to say how much of this is due to the Christians themselves. This has called forth an opposite party, called Anti-Semites, of whom the court- preacher, Stoecker, of Berlin, an energetic, good man, is the father, although he will not concede it. He blames severely these extravagances. The so-called “ culturkampf ” is also not ended ; yet it has been turned in a hopeful line, and perhaps soon the end of it will appear, if not, the jealousy with which both parties watch their honor will frustrate its en­ deavors. E cclesiastical S i t u a t i o n i n G e r m a n y . The ecclesiastical situation is unchanged. The State Churches cannot comprehend that the large number of unconverted people must be an open field for mission. He who brings members of the State Church to conversion, and gathers them together as a congregation, is looked upon as a robber against the Church. They like very much to say that we are running after the awakened members of the State Church to win them for members in our Church. But we consider it our task to lead sinners to the cross, and to break the bread of life to the children of God. The State Church itself has won much by our existence in Germany; at least its pastors are much more active than in former times. The authority of the preachers of the State Church is strong enough to fill the people with prejudice and aversion against us. Such are the circumstances under which we have to work here. O u r P r o s p e c t s . Yet we have courage. W e have already become accustomed to the difficulties, and experience teaches us that members who are converted under hard circumstances generally are capable of resistance, like fire-born (volcanian) stones. If we stand firmly to the work of God we must suc­ ceed. Here is a numerous unconverted people, that often have but little oc­ casion to hear the word of God preached quickly and powerfully, and we hope still to save many souls of them. 94 MISSIONARY REPORT. Ì1881.

O u r N e e d s . In the first place, we need a holy priesthood. If our preachers are not really men of God, we have nothing to do here, for here is no need of un­ holy preachers. Our members have to be not only as good as the mem­ bers of the State Church, they must be better, in order to justify our work here. W e further need the powerful financial assistance of our mother Church. Finally, I think it would be a means of progress, if the several branches of the Methodist Church in Germany were united. We should need less preachers and chapels, and the impression we should make upon other denominations would be a good one. But to organic union, a melting together of hearts in love is necessary. God’s blessing we need always.

T h e C i r c u i t s . Frankfurt-am-Main Circuit.— This circuit had eighteen preaching- places, but some of them were last Conference taken off for the new cir­ cuit, Buedingen. The director, professors, and students of the Mission Institute aid the preacher in charge in his work. Many places have been taken up from Frankfurt in former times, which are now circuits. The Mission Institute is in a prosperous state, and is of great profit for our work. Dillenburg Circuit.— Brother Schroeder works here with faithfulness, but has much trouble with financial difficulties. Casscl Circuit.— Our membership is here but a small number, but they are faithful. One brother renounced a good, profitable place on the railroad, in order to keep the Sabbath-day. After a short, hard-time trial the Lord rewarded his faithful servant richly. Vncuznach Circuit has good Christians and good Methodists. They have had a good harvest, and will do well in every line. The pieacher looks and works for a rich harvest of souls. Ccmuenden Circuit.— This circuit is very extended and difficult to serve. The people are poor, but we have good Methodists there. Speier Circuit.— Here we come not forward. The work suffers by an old evil, but we hope for better times. Pirmasens and Kaiserslautern Circuits.— These two circuits belong to Bavaria. Here we have preached for twenty-seven years. We have a beautiful chapel in Pirmasens, and our members have withdrawn from the State Church. Nevertheless, we are hindered here in holding our services. On the last occasion our preacher in Pirmasens was fined fifteen marks. He has protested against this punishment by the government, and petitioned for permission to continue our work. Carlsruhe Circuit.— Here our work prospers. W e have faithful and active members. The meetings are very well attended. But we need a new chapel, which will cost fifty thousand marks. W e have only five thousand marks. Pforzkeiin Circuit.— In Pforzheim we have a numerous congregation, well-attended meetings, and a fine chapel with parsonage. In this factory- 188 r.J GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND. 95 city ungodliness governs. Our preacher, Brother Boedeker, has been suffering since Conference. May the Lord make him healthy! Lahr Circuit.— In Lahr we have a chapel, but only a small congrega­ tion. The hearts in Lahr and the surrounding region are very hard. Knittlingcn Circuit.— On this circuit our people are poor, and have to carry a pressing chapel debt; but they make energetic efforts to dimin­ ish it. Strassburg Circuit.— In Strassburg, the capital of Elsass, we have a good work. W e need a chapel there, but have no money. The circuit is very extended. Prospects good. Buedingen Circuit.— This is a new circuit in the Wetterau, near Frank­ furt. The work is in the beginning. Brother Zimer troubles himself to get a full number of preaching places.

WURTEMBERG DISTRICT, Henry Nuelsen, P. E. From the statistical report of the last two years we give the following result:

1880. 1881. Increase. Decrease.

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Native Preachers...... 19 20 I Native Local Preachers...... 27 26 i Native Exhorters...."...... 47 .... Members...... 2,294 2,263 31 Members— Probationers...... 526 417 109 Total Members...... 2,820 2,680 140 Average Attendance...... 2,945 4,800 1,855 No. of Sunday-schools...... 94 89 5 No. of Scholars...... 3,818 3,225 593 Churches and Parsonages...... r9 19 Estimated Value...... *247,189 235,172 .... 12,017 Value of other Property of Missions... • ••••• *18,607 All Collections and Money raised...... ' 41.715 43.3i 6 I ,6 o i Church debts...... * 1 5 2 4 1 7 151,390 1,027

Having made but one turn on this, my new charge, I am not able to give a satisfactory report of each of the sixteen circuits of this district. Please accept, therefore, a few general remarks: i. The decrease of members and Sabbath-scholars is owing principally to numerous emigrations, mostly to the United States. But another cause is the continual opposition from influential men of the State Church. My predecessor, Brother Cramer, stated in his last year’s report the situation of our work in this respect very clearly. People are very much prepos­ sessed to the advantage of this institution. And then again some that would like to join us shun the financial responsibility accompanied with it. They are not used to Church support, and if they do pay they never­

* Meaning Marks, (23 1-3 cents one Mark.) 96 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ 188 r.

theless have to pay by tax for the support of the State Church ; and these government taxes are at present very heavy on the working people. 2. You will see above that the average attendance at our meetings is better by 1,855 than last year, indicating an increasing influence of our work. Indeed, our prospects are very good. The pastors are all at their posts, and seem to have good hope for prosperous seasons coming. Our first quarterly meetings have been mostly very blessed times. 3. The collections have increased i,6or marks above the last year’s sum, and the debts on church property decreased by 1,027 marks. We made up per member 19.12 marks, nearly $5. This is a good deal for such people as ours are, who have to be very'- economical to make ends meet. At our country appointments a collection of from 60 to 80 pfennig (15 to 20 cents) is considered a very fine one. Sometimes a traveling preacher goes on his circuit for five or six days, preaching and doing pastoral work, and his collections do not amount to more than about one mafk, (25 cents.) Money is very scarce. Persons do not raise much more than for their own use, and a good many people have to buy fuel and eatables with earnings at larger farmers or at factories. You may imagine how high living is, when even in the country meat is sold at from 15 to 18 cents. W e buy here American ham and bacon, and Wilson’s corned beef, from Chicago. The other day I was told by a good brother and grocer that he was doing a good business in American lard, selling it readily for 80 pfennig per pound, (say 20 cents.) He lives in Heimsheim, a country place, one of the best farming regions in Wurtemberg. Those of our members who have become attached to our Church are the most liberal and self-sacrificing people I know of. And our ministers, almost without exception, are devoting themselves wholly to their work, putting up with the people in their poverty, and trying to win them for Christ. W e are sure of success, and go on by the labor of love and by the patience of hope. Let the Church not lose its interest in this our mission. Progress is slow but sure.

SWITZERLAND DISTRICT, A. Rodem eyer, R E. This last Conference year was not commenced without some doubts for the future. The growing demands on our congregations compared with the failing harvests of a few years past, the sinking of industry, and the utterances of discouragement from members otherwise more than willing to give, were the cause of anxiety. More than once we prayed, “ Lord, help us not to be discouraged.” And he did help; he helped beyond understanding. Thank the Lord ! I am not obliged to bring a deficit. If there is in one or the other place a small one our officers cannot bear the thought that I should bring it to the Conference, but rather do the uttermost to cover it. Yet in the last year they often complained that this sacrifice was not acknowledged, for the more a place gave the higher were the charges laid upon i t ; it was time to discriminate, otherwise the burden would be still i88i.J GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND. 9 7 increased. The, for Switzerland, really considerable contributions have not been gathered without great self-denial and sacrifices on the part of the donors. Certainly it contains the mite of the widow, who gave even the last penny which was necessary for support, the penny earned with hard work and often many sighs. But these pennies have summed up to the amount of 111,233 marks; that is, 9,912 marks more than last year. But if the bow is drawn so strict it breaks, and in some places we hear a groaning sound, which reminds us that it is high time to be prudent. Without any doubt the question of giving the tenth, which was some time ago discussed on each circuit of our district, which contribution was directly made by many members, and wherein most of our preachers took the lead, was a great help to the attainment of these results. Were it pos­ sible to win all our people for the idea of giving the tenth or more, not as obligatory, but in showing them the blessing of it, our financial trouble would, according to my opinion, be greatly diminished, and a great hinder- ance in forwarding our work would be removed. But certainly in this matter we must set a good example. Here I should like to make a few remarks as to financial and other matters. I do it especially for the sake of our beloved Church in America, respective of their representatives now in our midst. I will not misprize the blessing the Lord has given us, for, notwithstanding all diffi­ culties we.meet, our work is progressing. The statistics show an increase of 136 members. This is, although proportionally small, not less to be appreciated if we think that seldom or never have we had such a loss by emigration, as this last year. Full 600 have joined our Church during the year in this district. And yet, I feel the increase is not what it ought to be, considering the laborers that are at work and the promises we have. Neither do I seek the cause of our proportionally small progress only in outward difficulties; I seek them first of all in ourselves.* We are not the men of faith and full of the Holy Ghost that we ought to be. We want so much the power from on high, the spirit of Elias. We do not pray earnestly with and for one another. Therefore, I fear that a curse may too easily find place in our hearts, so that the Lord cannot bless us as he is willing to do. O, brethren, we need grace, unction from on high ; then also will be heard the voice of rejoicing in the tabernacles of the righteous. But now let me go back to the financial question. Our circumstances are quite different from those in America. There there is no State Church which charges the people with Church taxes. Here we must provide for the State Church pastors, and the current ex­ penses just as well as if we were not Methodists, and, besides this, for large sums for our own wants. If the people did not find any satisfaction in this State Church, then it would not be a great temptation to them to remain with her. But this is in many places not the case. Let us, for instance, take Basle, Berne, Lausanne, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, and other places, and we will certainly acknowledge that a good and healthy nourishment also can be found otherwise than in the Methodists’ chapels. For those who cannot conform any longer to the organization of the State Church 98 MISSIONARY REPORT. [i88r.

there are other congregations and societies which do provide for a good healthy and less costly spiritual supply. There is the extraordinary activ­ ity of the Pilgermission St. Christhina, which is spread over all Switzer­ land and some parts of Germany. This mission is supported by contri­ butions of friends over all Europe. W e can hear their preachers saying in their meetings, “ Only come ; we do not expect contributions from you; if you wish to bring you may, but we do not ask for it.” This occurs in­ deed. This, then, is a real enticement for those persons to whom we are always obliged to speak of chapel debts, interest, rents, deficits, of ebb in the purse, and from whom we, of course, must request contributions. In some parts of Switzerland there is the Free Church, an organization into which the more worldly people prefer to go, and the Evangelical Society, (not Evangelical Association,) which can dispose of large sums. No­ where does the money question come forth as with us. This is often most disheartening for congregation and preacher. In the beginning of our work it was quite different. Our wants were much smaller, because the Missionary Society appropriated proportion­ ately much more for us. From other parts there was offered less. But since that time the Christians have aroused themselves. In many things they imitated us, and while they are more and more enabled to satisfy the wants of the people in a cheap way, we are obliged to put on a pressure in order to wrench out money. I do not say too much— we are often obliged to wrench it out. Besides this, we have to meet often the power of prejudice which still maintains itself with obstinacy. The mere name, Methodist! It is hard to believe what a bulwark it is against us. Allow me to give this as an example : One of the editors of the “ Kirchenfreund,” a man who became widely celebrated by his discourse at the last (meeting) session of the Evangelical# Alliance, at Basle, took the liberty to remark, on the principles of total abstinence, as follows : “ There is one miracle in the Bible which is just as inconvenient for the Methodists as for the Rationalists. It is the miracle of Cana.” I requested, in a friendly way, an explanation of this sen­ tence. He did it publicly in writing in the same paper, as follows: “ That is what we call Methodism when the Christian life (the inward and outward) shall be regulated by a method; that is, by a human law, instead of leaving it to grow from within, just as we speak of rationalism when one wishes to regulate the Christian state according to a system of abstract philosophy. True Methodism is, as we very well know, by no means found only in a special denomination, but also with many well-disposed members of the State Church. We know just as well that many members of the ‘ Meth- odistical ’ Church well know and possess a freedom from the law in the meaning of the Apostle Paul. But it seems the name of this association is not quite accidental; but represents us the tendency toward which it has, more than other associations, its human inclinations.” So far the eminent professor did not show himself by this conclusion a m o n u m e n t of sound logic. But if this conclusion is made by such an eminent pro­ fessor of theology, what is to be expected of other men ? 188 i.j GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND. 99

In many places we have our trials because of our itinerancy, with its maximum of three years; not because of the itinerancy itself, but of the short term, to which the German mind can never get familiar, and which brings every year large expenses. Even our Annual Conference, which regularly brings every preacher from the North Sea to the Leman together for about a week, is to our best and well-minded officers a stumbling- stone. “ Why every year such enormous expenses ? ” they ask. “ Why in a . time of financial distress and suspended industry this unnecessary expenditure renewed every year? Why, then, must every preacher be present ? And who must pay all this ? Our people, who must pinch themselves of the money, and whose features often are a proof of their need.” There is something to do to calm these brethren, and to persuade reflecting officers that all this is necessary to. the good of the work ; that it cannot be otherwise. And it is the more difficult to do it because we ourselves are wanting more or less in this conviction, and we often come into the embarrassing position where we must either say nothing, or speak against our opinion. Not without a reason did we second so warmly the motion to ask the General Conference for permission to divide this Annual Conference. Not without a reason we asked for that honorable body to make it possible to extend the term of a preacher in some cases from three to five or six years. We have not been heard, because the leading men of our beloved mother Church cannot have a right idea of our position in this land. Our beloved Bishops and other friends, who meet with us at Conference and then visit some of our circuits, cannot possibly get a clear idea of our posi­ tion and of our circumstances, especially as they do not understand our language. The confusion of language is also the cause that we are not able to tell them clearly what lays upon our hearts, and what we so gladly would like to tell them. And much less are they able to learn how' our members and our officers are thinking over these matters. Dear brethren, here I have got into a sphere which oversteps the limit of my district. But I feel it as my duty to give utterance to my thoughts on this subject. I do it because I am probably at the end of my presid­ ing eldership, and might not find a better opportunity again. I do it be­ cause I “ pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” STATISTICS OF THE GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND MISSION FOR 1881. 1 i j c à ‘B85 1 § ¿* § 1 v.~ be 1 CIRCUIT OR STATION.. .1 3 1 2 1 « 1 - « §C>I tn Fm i .2 •SS II o ä £ cM Preacher». Foreign Foreign Missionarie*. | Native Native Unordained Native Local Preachers. | Probationers. ; <50. Members.

< No. of Theolog’I Schools.j No. of Teachers in tome.) No, of Sabbath Scholars. No. of Students. No. of Churches. | Estimated Value of Churches.

¡S Parsonages. Parsonages, and Parsonages, and other Property. Estimated Estimated Value of tals, and tals, and other Property. Debt on Churches, Benevolent Societies. Society. Collected Collected for other f . * Collected for Self- support. Collected Collected for ChurchBuilding and Repairing. | Children | Baptized. ! ! Collected for Missionary I I No. of Halls and j other Places of W orship. : Value of Schools, Hospi­ Bremen District. * Marks. MnrltJ. Marke. Mark«. Marks. MnrlcF. Bremen and Yesresaek...... M arl«. 1 118 17 5 7 500 9 78,000 5 1 33.200 142 1.800 2,900 Bremerhaven...... 1 1 57 8 8 9 100 1 40,000 6 24,000 26 ' 70 1.400 ” i ò Hamburg 02 22 8 9, 110 3 Flensbursr .... 1 88 50 1,800 66 18 1 6 1O't 10 80 45 Delmenhorst and N eerstedt...... ! . . * 900 1 i 179 43 6 10 250: 11.50(1 11 0.615 6 60 2,000 1 81 26 6 6 100' 4.100 9: 1 050 Oldenburg and Varel...... j.. 20 80 1.000 8ÓÒ 1 121 8 4 2 Ilo 22.000 6 2,775 83 75 1,700 81 Edewecht and W esterstede.. | 82 18 1 6 195 8,100 6 2,870 35 Rhauderfehn...... I 40 950 43 14 2 0 0!.. 8.000 8 4.500 27 25 850 Neuschoo and Pud-Arle...... !.. I.. 161 4 9 2 100!.. 13.500 5 3.310 39 Dornum, Esens, and Aeeuminorsiel...... 80 1,300 1 101 2 1 5 looi 21.000 8: 1 18,400 17 15 Aurich and Thlowerfehn. 700 47 11 8 8 lo o l. . $ 10.000 <) 1 6,500 20 20 720 Berlin Dixfrict.f Berlin and New Ruppin...... 9? 07 4 3 850 147.700 62,880 81 87 Colberg and Belgard...... 137 22 2 240 17.250 11,000 .40 13 Zwickau, etc...... 157 81 3 5 2S5 5.004 120 16 Schwarzenberg ...... 72 144 a 1.002 100 12 Chem nitz...... 00 94 1 947 76 Plauen...... 13 110 97 6 8 100 1^.705 15,450 70 12 Langenwetzendorf, etc. 107 23 0 8 75 14.200 7,925 50 11 Schleiz...... 8s 17 8 8 90 ‘2.040 150 80 11 Waltersdorf...... 13!) 24 1 40 1 10.120 2,500 82 6 Frankfurt-am M ai» District. Frankfurt-am-Mnin...... 3 270 37 425 4 18 520 1 2 18 9 1 128.000 212,000 150,162 134 765 §8,625 50 Dillenbunr...... 57 24 125 1 2 50 1 io;soo 5,700 24 84 1.076 54 21 135 ? 6 180 21 422 L24S 269 Kreuznach...... 57 27 175 8 150 7,792 8,458 50 186 1855 194 Gemutieden...... 1 80 23 90 7 6 60 5.220 1.190 24 70 948 Spi-ier...... 1 51 11 7C ? 9 50 2.400 2,300 11 121 1,178 5 Pirmasens ...... 1 7i: 18 180 8 200 81,000 21,752 86 291 2,705 Kaiserslautern...... 1 43 19 160 ? 9 100 6 108 798 Carlsruhe...... 130 35 800 ? 8 250 Pforzheim...... 64 804 1,815 975 2 0i 2C 40( 8 4 380 80,22(1 15^006 40 365 2.091 320 L’.ihv...... 1 31 7 100 1 20 1 14,500 11.000 12 Gl sen 47

ßtrassbuijr...... 1-11 190 9 .9 4 0 Knittling^n...... !! 1 7 «.858: 70 811 3,307 40 U ICO! I S .9 00 15,709 41 151 Buedlngen...... ] 90 1,254 Wurtemberg District. Ludwigsburg...... 13!) 200 29.000 Stuttgart...... 1.079 10,000 40 223 2,765 85 I l l 250 230i Bietigheim...... ’ «00 35 14S 2,448 93 100 1K>: Heilbronn and Sinsheim...... ll.lVld 1.400 5,875 23 187 993 355 800 550 78 3 2 .0 0 0 1,900 40,900 120 809 O ehringen...... ' liol 250 6,708 125 14o! 22.000 823 11,740 65 N uerm berg...... 24i 87 230 1,811 105 30; 300 478 Marbach...... 22di 850 100 888 257 2.400 s’ òóò 84 Ottmersheim...... 94j 150: 819 1,687 123 Bellstein...... 150 3,soil 250 2.200 85 99 161: 223 140 948 1,530 12.srKI| 1,000 4.90C 54 211 Vaihingen...... ’ 100j 400 400 1,244 O.onol 1.200 3.501 88 307 Freudenstadt...... 250 143 2,217 Ì65 O alw ...... ' \ 24.700; 000 21.495 31 14< 202 250 150 1.831 540 19.722 2,478 11.607 44 1S9 Heimsheim and Leonberg . ISO 400 290 2,830 16 23.000 310 14.500 68 272 H errenberg...... 121 25 2,181 400 200 16.000 58(1 7.054 59 173 N a gold...... '' ...... ' 84 350 130 1,715 40 E bingen...... 14.000 1.517 10.425 30 107 1.888 425 103 860 200 Henry and Rosalie Nuelsen...... 7,000 1,300 3,510 80 230 1,950 611 Switzerland District. Zurich...... 40 ï I 800 1,550 105,120 52.000 400 Affaltem ...... 181 48 113,885 150 061 18,900 10474 SO ••f Bulach...... ’ 158 82 1.121 220 291 17,260 7,130 CO U ster...... 290 11 1.223 300 1,098 20,660 12.060 07 Winterthur, etc...... 284 8 1.307 1.350 700 1.137 55,740 80,087 H orgen...... 238 420 130 19 1,744 400 3S7 58,240 29,680 10U Thalweil...... 205 800 92 1,460 475! 40,400 23,000 102 29 Schaffhausen and Ilalien...... 343 775 1.174 170 St. Gallen...... Sso 49,133 30,452 162 12 243 450 1.905 112 Nlederutzwyl...... 500' 78,700 73,500 47 22 205 59 200 SO R h eineck...... 124 30 1.780 100 540 551) 26,920 15,193 124 C h u r...... 70 20 1,988 120 500 13 Lenzburg...... ' ’ 175 6 455 070 36.600 22,9 Ì3 68 Basel...... 310 86 800 810 50,454 82,000 200 Liestal...... 199 44 2.580 " ¿ 7 690 10,5S0 9,000 S9 48 Bern...... I!!!!!'.!'.!!"' 127 4ÓÒ 200 5,890 72 21 La Chaux du Fonds. 72 Ì54 70 10,782 74 Biel and Neufehatel. 140 700 1S 2,298 L yss...... 430 47,480 17 òÓÓ 128 33 06 175 Lausanne and Geneva...... 140 11,000 7,000 21 14 696 250 888 Genef...... 30 1,0S8 53 15 1,658 780 40 24 T ota l...... 48 27 9,097 2,187; Last year...... 119,535 50,000 970.379 5.227 9.332 51 '25 9,33S 2,358 17,440 116.894 10,410 1,011,114 5,967 80,84(1 107.105 25.734 * The Mark is worth 23.8 cents ltSi .• i ,I]1ntlle Berlin District a few columns of the statistics have been rcnoited only in total« i Such comrreiratioim their rented halls and pnrsonages churches and parsonages in this district, have furniture in for mlscoiiaiieouK o b je c t otlier^thiin , i t ? the total, o f this fohnnn, in theFrankfurttile Frankfurt DDistrict, i s W Z aa sninllportion contributed on each circuit not reported. Include, value of parson,,^ exc’c p tZ X iLt" nco In WurtembSi District! ‘ S'vitzerlm.d Dutr.ct the columns thus marked ( [ ) are taken Iron, fast year* Report.~ "5 Bremen District Scandinavia.

Commenced in 1853.

BISHOP BOWMAN has Episcopal Supervision.

T h e work in Norway and Sweden is formed into Annual Conferences. That in Denmark is a Mission, still under the superintendency of Rev. Karl Schou.

I. NORWAY. Organized as a Conference in 1876. The Norway Conference of 1881 assembled at Frederick- stadt, Thursday, August 18, under the presidency of Bishop Peck. Secretary Reid was also present at the session. A great deal of enthusiasm was manifested on the occasion. At all the public meetings the chapel was densely packed, and at the preaching services, held in a large hall, no less than three thousand persons were present. Seven brethren were ordained deacons. Both here and at the Sweden Conference a very interesting discussion took place concerning a union of the three Scandinavian missions in the establishment and use of a common theological seminary. Committees were appointed in each of the missions to confer with each other concerning this object, and to devise means for effecting it. We present to the public, to our able and generous laymen, the claims of this scheme as a practical and efficient means for consolidat­ ing and extending our mission work in these lands, where our presence is so manifestly needed, and where God has already greatly blessed our efforts. An important day for our Norway Mission was the twenty- fifth anniversary of the formation of the first of our Societies there, w hich occurred September 11. Provision was made i88r.J SCANDINAVIA. 103 for religious services and thank-offerings throughout the Con­ ference on that day to found a chapel-building fund. The de­ sign was formed to continue a celebration of the event year by year, with which a collection will be taken to aid students in the ministry. Of the work in Norway Bishop Peck, in reporting his visit to the Conference, says : Norway Conference is doing- a very excellent work. We have 24 mem­ bers of Conference and 1 probationer. These 25 brethren are genuine, hard-working Methodist ministers. They have in charge 2,766 members, and 454 probationers, 38 Sunday-schools, 314 teachers, and 2,391 scholars. Here, as in all Scandinavia, our people suffer from large emigration, chiefly to America. They are oppressed by the State Church, but encour­ aged by large numbers of the people. If we could help them by small ap­ propriations to build economical, decent chapels we could in a short time double our numbers. The Norwegians are making very vigorous use of the press. The report given below refers to the excellent work being accomplished by our press in Norway. Notwithstanding the many emigrations, the total number of members and proba­ tioners exhibits an increase of over two hundred. The col­ lections for the Missionary Society show a very considerable advance. In the column of self-support we have reason to believe many items are included this year which were not em­ braced under that head in the last year’s report. During the year our mission has crossed the Dofrefeld Mountains and established itself in Throndhjem, a large and beautiful city. A preacher was also sent to Hangesund, an­ other large city on the western coast. From these important places we may hope ere long to obtain reports of a substantial and growing work. At the last Conference a new district arrangement of the stations was made. The following report has been received from Rev. J. H. Johnson: It was with profound feelings of responsibility I began the work assigned me in this country at the beginning of the year; but the Lord has most graciously been our help and blessed the work, praised be his holy name! Peace and unity have preserved our hearts in the love of Jesus Christ, and wonderfully strengthened our hands in the work which he has given us to do. 104 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

The missionaries have all labored faithfully, and their work has not been in vain in the Lord. I wall state: 1. That with regard to the spiritual condition of the work, our people are pious; they live for the Lord. As a people we are very poor, and, therefore, despised by many; yet the Lord seems pleased to use us as means in his own hands to spread truth and holiness among the people of this country. Many souls have been richly blessed by the preaching of the Gospel of Christ. In many of our congregations the good Lord has mercifully revealed his glorious power to save from sin and cleanse from all unrighteousness ; for sinners have truly been converted, many fallen reclaimed, and the children of God built up in the faith, and rooted and grounded in the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. Most of the congregations have taken members into full connection, as well as on probation, during the year, but, by reason of the unparalleled emigration to America this year, the statistical reports will show, I think, little if any increase in the membership; but this, however, is no special loss to the Church, for what we lose in this respect here our Norwegian work in America, in some measure at least, gains. 2. With regard to the Sunday-schools in our Conference, I am glad to report that they are in a prosperous condition. Superintendents, officers, and teachers are all diligent and earnest in the work given them to do, and their labor is bearing rich fruit, blessed be God ! W e have here, as elsewhere to contend with persistent opposition, poverty, and many other hinderances, but the Lord has hitherto been our help, and given us grace to conquer. Many precious children and young people are under our care and influ­ ence, and all these must be nurtured and brought up for the Lord. Weekly instruction, as indicated in our Discipline, has been faithfully carried out during the year, and this work has been greatly blessed. In this connection I cannot refrain from saying that nothing should be left undone that ought to be done in order to make all our Sunday-schools, as well as the weekly classes for religious instruction, as thorough, interest­ ing, and profitable as possible. The Church that takes good care of her children and youth prepares for the future her most useful members. 3. The missionary cause has most earnestly been brought before our people, and I rejoice to know that, notwithstanding the poverty of our people, the heavy burdens resting upon them from the State Church, and the many expenses necessary to carry on our mission work, the collections for missions are far in advance of last year. 4. Several churches have been repaired or rebuilt during the year. First Church, Christiania, has undergone a thorough improvement, both as to inside and outside, which has cost. 1,000 crowns. In Frederickshald the lecture-room of our church has been enlarged and refitted very nicely, which cost about 500 crowns. Our small chapel in Kragero has been improved by putting in new pulpit, altar, and seats. In Laervig our church, which for some years has stood without siding, has been sided 1881.] SCANDINAVIA. 105 and painted, so it is now both comfortable and neat. Our church or old chapel in Brevig has been rebuilt, which has cost 1,600 crowns. These repairs have nearly all been paid for as the work has been completed. 5. With reference to the burdensome debts on several of our churches and chapels, I am constrained to say that we have had a very serious struggle in order to save some of our churches from the hands of the law, but with the timely aid from the Missionary Board, for which we are truly thankful, we have been able to hold all our church property up to date. Ever since I came to this country to work for the Lord nothing has lain so heavily upon my heart, nothing has appeared to me so much&to hinder spiritual prosperity among the people, as the very heavy debt resting on several of our churches. We are doing our utmost to help ourselves, but we cannot carry the burden alone. W e must have further aid, and being aided now a year or two more we shall, I think, be on good footing as to church debt. 6. As to new fields, we might go over the whole land if we had the men and means. In Throndhjem, however, we have begun missionary work this year. Here we have already fifty members on probation, and we have rented a hall for two years to preach in. This is a very impor­ tant field. 7. Our book agent, Brother Jonassen, is doing the cause good service, for our book business is in a healthy, growing condition. “ The Chris­ tian Tidings,” our weekly paper, edited by Brother U. P. Bergh, is stead­ ily gaining ground. This, as well as our Sunday-school paper, in connec­ tion with other publications, is doing a great deal of good for our people and country as well. We feel very grateful to the Sunday-School Union of our Church for the aid of $200 to our needy Sunday-schools. 8. One note of deep sorrow and sadness must be touched before I close this report. Our efficient co-worker, T. A. Isaacson, is with us no more. He was drowned on the 15th of July last. Well, “ the workmen die, but the Lord carries on the work.” His work must be done. Trustingly we look to God, and take courage. W e labor, dear brethren, not for our­ selves, but for God, who doeth all things well. In the midst of conflict, sorrow, and care we more than conquer through him that loved us and gave himself for us. By faith we look forward to the work before us. The kingdom of our blessed Lord and Saviour shall spread and triumph more and more throughout our whole country, “ not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” Amen ! STATISTICS OF THE NORWAY MISSION FOR 1881.

i B te & a •d *P 1 1 *8 73 ■c f i ‘2 •1 •o £ 3 À â 1 Ì *a Bs i CIRCUIT OB STATION. n & 1 * 5 <5B | b E ■8 1 = 1 1 t a i ca 0* g _ ÿ > , z i r •fc a 1 •o o o o a Ë Q « £ a 2 a S e i i t 8 a « § jÿ ä t* II tu IE ¡1 Places of W orship. Benevolent Societies. Collected for Self- R d.Hi Building and Repairing. i f support. Collected for Church &■. I I Estimated Value ofj Churches« i i Collected for MissionarySociety«J Collected | for other 1 No. 1 of Halls nnd other 3 Ckristimtiit Dhtfict. Crown».* Crowns. Clowns. Crowns. Cra. Crowns. Crs. Christiania: First Church...... 1 1 824 5S 10 1 800 50,800 10.85S 200 00 14 81 8 30 1,000 26,001 1,840,760 Second Church...... 2 1 78 18 4 1 147 15,000 5,900 63 69 50 52 Odalen and Kongsvingcr...... 1 5S 80 1 2 9 7,200 211 24 77 5 00 Holland and E id sb erg...... 1 29 4 8.600 810 5S 84 86 17 M oss...... i 73 16 11 2 65 20,050 7,000 18 71 67 50 Frcderikstadt...... 1 4 820 20 88 5 293 80,700 5,SOI) 344 00 810 00 Sarpsborg...... 1 8 19S 10 17 8 200 10,000 535 67 10 414 89 Fredorikshuld...... 1 ISO 35 If) 2 250 15,240 3S5 00 1,229 00 *500 Draimnen...... 1 6S 8 11 1 53 42 00 55 00 K o n g sb e rg ...... 136 1T 9 3 111 2,200 ' i 8,000 8,ÓÒÒ 81 00 440 00 Ilon efos...... 97 13 1 1 40 s .s o o 2 1,500 70 60 187 83 H orten ...... 1 125 12 <> 1 40 IS,000 7,404 7,2S4 80 00 5 00 Ton sberg...... 1 47 40 4 1 CO i 8S 74 212 69 Laervig...... 1 105 10 13 1 51 22,800 9,6Ì() 45 75 92 00 Skicn ...... 1 111 14 13 1 70 9,400 «. . 8.0D0 66 98 810 00 Porsgvitnd...... 1 1 129 8 5 1 75 6,000 2.000 116 49 412 00 B revig...... 1 46 17 1 1 50 4.800 2,800 20 00 193 65 1,882 K ra g ero...... 1 44 16 8 1 50 8;700 520 40 13 148 00 250 Christian sa nd District. Arendal...... 1 2S1 27 24 5 180 26,200 1 10,000 12,400 188 50 961 84 L illesand...... 1 12 4 15 00 Christiansand...... 1 19 6 4 1 50 10 40 50 ÓÓ FIckkefjord ...... 1 IS 10 1 120 00 Sandnaes...... 1 41 7 2 1 T 6 05 857 00 Stavanger ...... 1 113 24 1 2 140 22,000 9,420 62 81 226 51 B ergen ...... 1 10S 85 12 1 140 ' i 55 00 100 00

RECAPITULATION BY DISTRICTS Christiania D istrict___ 18 5 2,189 831 102 28 1,874 19 15.404 60,828 1,713 SO 14 81 4,727 55 8,082 26,961 1,840,750 Christiansand District. 4 3 598 113 44 10 517 2 10,000 21,820 342 76 .. .. 1,815 35 ......

This year. 17 8 2,782 444 206 88 2,891 21 282,490 25.404 2.056 56 14 81 6,542 90 8,082 26,9611,840,75082,648 Last year. 12 2,59S 409 219 42 2,290 22 301,878 IS,640 1,557 05 26 00 270 18 * The crown is worth 56.8 oenta* i 88i.J SCANDINAVIA. 107

II. SWEDEN. Organized as a Conference in 1876. The work in Sweden has shown steady advancement dur­ ing the year in nearly every department. The reported mem­ bership has increased nearly four hundred, notwithstanding the great depletion by emigration. The Conference session opened August 4th, at Gefle, a thriving sea-port town where we have a fine new church, erected entirely without aid from the Mis­ sionary treasury, and to the building of which some of the most substantial citizens of the place largely contributed. Our Mission exercises an effective social influence at this point. Bishop Peck presided at the Conference, and also traveled ex­ tensively through the country, preaching in many places, to the great joy of the people. He thus reports on the field :

The work in Sweden Conference is very encouraging-. There are 49 mem­ bers of Conference, and 11 probationers. We thus station 60 preachers, an increase of eight since last year. We have 6,300 members, and 1,905 probationers, an increase of 381. We have 6,283 Sunday-school scholars, an increase of 619; officers and teachers, 525, an increase of 84. Missionary money, 7,313.76 crowns, an increase of 1,159.67 crowns. Our press is vigorous. There are open doors in almost all parts of Sweden. At least six im­ portant places asking for Methodist preaching have this year to be left for want of means. How long must this be so ? Our halls and chapels are too few and too small for the numbers, who crowd to our places of worship. In the name of the Master, “ let us arise and build.” The peo­ ple will do all they can. But the Missionary'- Society must be made able to extend more efficient help. The public meetings held in connection with the Confer­ ence drew crowded audiences. Secretary Reid was present, and enjoyed the privilege of addressing the Conference and the people. Rev. Carl Schou, Superintendent of the Den­ mark Mission, also rendered welcome service here by his ad­ dresses, as at the Norway Conference. Great interest was shown in the project of a union Theological School, and ac­ tion taken here as in Norway. Steps were also taken toward the preparation of a new hymn book, which is greatly needed. io 8 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I88l.

Two interesting features of the work developed this year are the success attending the efforts in Finland, and the move­ ment of a number of people in Delacarlia to join our Church, who had years before experienced a new spiritual impulse, which they made known to the pastor of the State Church, who en­ couraged their aspirations and welcomed the coming of the Methodjsts. Prejudice against us is fast disappearing, but our people feel the need of clearer legal enactments concerning the rights of dissenters. We have, evidently, the favor of the court in the prosecution of our work. Financially there has been improvement. Self-support has advanced in some places, debts on chapels have been lifted, and nine new chapels have been built during the year. In some difficult places there has been particular encouragement. We invite attention to the full reports from the circuits which follow : *

STOCKHOLM DISTRICT, J. K i l s t r o m , P. E. To the praise of the Lord we can say that the Conference year now past has been richly blessed in several ways. Free from inner strife and dis­ cord, we have had to devote our powers undividedly to the great and glori­ ous purpose to carry true and Christian religion to our dear people, and this has prospered in some degree by the grace of God and the persever­ ing and concordant work of the brethren for the saving of souls. The great truth, that “ Christ Jesus came into the world to save sin­ ners,” makes its way, through opposition and prejudice, to the hearts of many, and oft do we hear, as it were, the cries of a perishing genera­ tion, “ Come, and let us know the doctrine of the mighty Saviour, who can wholly help us out from this present evil world and bring us into his king­ dom, where righteousness and peace are predominant; for there, and only there, our souls can find repose, while we look for the rest that remaineth to the people of God.” There has been some trouble this year in our work of getting congrega­ tions in order and legally acknowledged, because there are some (for several venerable exceptions exist) of the State Church ministry who have made all possible and impossible objections against us, and raised as many hinder- ances as they were able, so that it was very difficult to get clear. The in­ distinct determinations of the dissenter law are a great cause of these diffi­ culties, and the unscriptural idea of a State Church authorized of old sanction. Therefore, may that day soon be at hand when we get a dis­ senter law that gives us liberty, and is clear and distinct enough to our Swedish people. i 8 8 i J SCANDINAVIA. 109

Stockholm. Here our labor has not been in vain. Though we have not been able to see so great a success as we had wished, yet souls have been added to the multitude. Stockholm is a place where the people have much to elect between by way of preaching, and, therefore, great talents are wanted here. This our friends the Baptists and Separatists have seen, and they have seijt their best orators here, and these, too, preach almost our doctrine about sanctification. Therefore, we must come as high in talents as these if we will make impression on the people and re­ tain our own friends. When we reach this mark we shall have the best prospects at Stockholm, because the people come in crowds to hear the word. Brother Johansson has observed this and done his best. As for the economy, it is well managed. The last year the debt of the con­ gregation increased more than 1,000 crowns, but this year all inter­ ests are paid and the support of the service made up, which can be said to be a great thing. Money collected 6,874 crowns, 52 ore; preaching- places, 5 ; Sunday-schools, 4, children, 355 ; increase, 34; the value of the church, 90,000 crowns ; debt of it, 33,768 crowns, 50 ore. 25 persons have taken their certificates for America.

Sode7'tclje. At present no work is conducted in this place, the hall being lost to us. Brother Danielsson, the preacher, is very troubled about this state of affairs. But in another place, Morkon, where much opposition has before existed, so that we have been forbidden to preach in the houses, at present we may preach in the school-houses, which the earl, the owner of the whole island, kindly has opened to us in consequence of our writing to him about the deep need of the people, and how bene­ ficial the religion is, both to the family and the community. If we were able to bestow labor there we might have hope for success in the future. Sunday-schools, 1 ; children, 20; preaching-places, 4; collected, 335 crowns, 89 ore ; increase, none. Nyby and environs. In this circuit, Brother Grauer preacher, there are two preaching-houses, one of which was dedicated this year. The value of both, 3,500 crowns; the debt, 800 crowns; collected, 3,134 crowns, 56 ore. Here is to be observed that in this sum the means for the new- built chapel are included, not being accounted for previously. Sunday- schools, 3 ; children, 95 ; preaching-places, 5 ; increase, none. Upsala is a promising working field. Brother Stenholm has prospered in his work in all respects, in the congregation and Sunday-school, as well as in the economy. The doctrine about full salvation has been re­ ceived with gladness by large multitudes, who often expose themselves to difficulties in the crowd, and must return home for want of place. We know that many students believe in this doctrine, live in it, and acknowl­ edge Jesus as a perfect Saviour; and this must have good influence on our country when these young men are going out with such a glorious testimony. Sunday-schools, 3; children, 292; preaching-places, 3; collected, 8,526 crowns, 23 ore ; church value, 30,000; debt of it, 15,000. As for the aid­ ing in church building, the congregation could not do more than make preparations, and these have been magnificent. They dare not take any IIO MISSIONARY REPORT. *[18 8 1.

more steps for fear of incurring too large a debt, but they intend to address themselves in a very humble prayer to our most reverend Missionary Board for a help of $3,000, and then as much could be raised in the place, so that the debt would not be much greater than it is now. If this our thought could be carried out through the favor of the Board, then would a great want be filled. Heby is a very good country-place in the neighborhood of Sala, with about 40 members. The work here has been kept up from Upsala, and the labor has been blessed with success. This congregation wish to have a preacher of their own, and will give a contribution of 200 crowns to his salary-. The place has a central situation by the State railroad, and is populous. Avestad. At Norburg, on this circuit, the Lord has blessed us with success. At Fagerstad, an iron-work, a good Society has been formed. A t Hogtors some have been converted to God. Brother Andersson has labored faithfully, and this has not been in vain. In the circuit there are 4 Sunday-schools, 50 children, 4 preaching-places ; increase, 35 ; collected, 734 crowns, 67 ore. Mora and Orsa. This is too large a circuit for one preacher, and therefore each place in the circuit cannot be visited as oft as it is neces­ sary. A large, fine hall is hired in Mora, and the people are willing to give 100 crowns for the salary of a preacher. In Orna we have a chapel, and Brother Johnsson, stationed here, has labored faithfully and done his best. The success is small as for the number of members, but our doc­ trine is largely spread in Dalarna. Sunday-school, 1 ; children, 70; preach­ ing-places, 6; chapel, 1 ; value, 1,500 crowns; debt, 153 crowns, 11 ore; collected, 519 crowns, 76 ore; increase, 13 from Leksand. Leksand is a populous place, 26 English miles from Falun. Here a class of about 20 members is formed. Brother Eklund, a young man ex- horter, from Linde, has labored here this winter, and God has blessed his labor to the saving of souls. They wish to have a preacher stationed there, and they will give 150 crowns to his salary. If this place could be occupied then there is prospect for success. Stora Tuna, 13 English miles from Falun, a railroad center, is one of the most populous places in the land. Within the circuit we can see there live 10,000 persons, and this field is open to us. A Society of about 30 is formed, and a chapel is nearly ready for dedication. From this place it is easy to visit Falun. Sater, and Hedemora towns. 200 crowns they will give to the preacher’s salary. Here, if any where in the country, a preacher ought to be sent. Sundsvall, our most northern mission. In the neighborhood we have had some success, but in the city it has been slow. Prejudices against our cause are still great, yet we believe that truth shall triumph over prejudice and darkness. Brother Gustafsson has done his best, and he has in some degree prospered. Preaching-places, 4; Sunday-schools, 3 ; children, 70; collected, 1,100 crowns; increase, 12 members. Phtlipstad and environs. Here we had labored many years without i88i.J SCANDINAVIA. I l l any success. This year the Lord has blessed us with his presence. Brother Nilsson has done a work with good fruit. Many have praised the Lord for saved souls, and we have now a good Society there and the best prospects for the future. 2 Sunday-schools, 60 children, 5 preaching- places ; increase, 26; collected, 286 crowns, 50 ore. Ransater is a large working field, abundantly blessed, where thousands are coming together in fhe large school-houses in order to hear the word. These houses are opened to us, and there we hold our communions. Brother Jeppsson, the successful pastor, is highly loved by the people. The congregation has collected not a little for a chapel at Munkfors' iron­ works, where a place is given by the owners of the said works through their agent. There is a half-finished chapel in this circuit, having been in this condition for several years. The causes of its not being ready are that they did “not count the costs before they began to build, and also that the place of it is badly selected. The value might amount to 1,200 crowns, and the debt 394 crowns. Sunday-schools, 3; children, 75 ; preaching-places, 10; increase, 23; collected, 900 crowns. Odensvi. Though this is a country place yet we have a very good mission, a fine chapel, success, and good prospects for the future. Brother Holmgren, working here, has had much blessedness in his labor. From this place Koping and Westeras have been visited nowand then, and from these two towns wishes have been heard that we might commence a reg­ ular work there, but there are some things hindering us yet. Sunday- schools, 2 ; children, 40 ; preaching-places, 4 ; increase, 12 ; collected, 762 crowns, 4 ore ; chapel, 1 ; value, 5,547 crowns; debt, 2,059 crowns. Linde. This mission is very large, being about seventy to eighty En­ glish miles from the one end to the other, and then each of the places cannot be visited as often as is desirable. Some success has appeared at Linde, Bangbro, Ludvika, and Grangesberget. ' It is the second time that Brother Kjellstrand is appointed here in Linde, with an interval of a few years only, yet God has blessed his cause under him. Sunday-schools, 3 ; children, 60; preaching-places, 6; chapel, 1 ; value, 4,500 crowns; debt, 1,800 crowns; collected, 450 crowns; increase, 8. Arboga. There has been no success in the town, but the number of mem­ bers has increased, for some have moved to this place. Surely Brother Wiel has done his best, but the field is hard, and besides, inner strifes have put hinderances in the way. Sunday-schools, 2; children, 80; preaching-places, 5 ; chapel, 1 ; value, 6,000 crowns; debt, 2,550 crowns; collected, 954 crowns, 15 ore ; increase, 9. Glanshammar is connected with this circuit, but it has desired to be joined with Örebro as previously, because these places can only be visited at certain times from Arboga. This under all circumstances is hard, be­ cause we must travel by sea, where there is no proper passage or navigable water, and in old broken boats, and frequently it is impossible, especially in storm, and, therefore, the meetings sometimes have been suspended. The people, too, are often in the city, (Örebro,) and then they wish to take a preacher home with them. There are many dear members. 112 MISSIONARY REPORT. » Li881.

Eskilstuna. Here the work of the Lord has had good success. The labor of Brother Roth has brought forth abundant fruits. The number of those who have been converted is not small, and our cause has gained strength and influence in the whole community, and this is a good foun­ dation on which we can hope for success, because, where this good ground is missed, there the work is found painful and toilsome. To this circuit belongs Torshalla, a small town ten English miles away, with not a few members, and this place is rather easy to attend from Eskilstuna. But it is not so in another little town, Malmkoping, twenty English miles off, and also belonging to this circuit. There we have a chapel, and a congregation legally acknowledged, which during the past year has given a good support, Brother Lindblorn working there as a local preacher. The people express a wish to have a preacher of their own, and will give to his salary 100 crowns. Sunday-schools, 2 ; children 225 ; preach­ ing-places, 5 ; two chapels with value, 40,000 crowns ; debt, 12,500 crowns ; collected, 5,122 crowns, 26 ore ; increase, 40. Kungsor and Westermo. Here the success has been good the whole year. A young man, Brother Nord, was appointed there till April 1, when he went to America. Then Brother Lindstrom carried on his labor, and God has blessed it, so that the congregation had an increase of 28 mem­ bers; collected, 1,328 crowns, 20 ore; Sunday-schools, 3; children, 80; chapel, 1 ; value, 5,000 crowns; debt, 1,341 crowns. Two chapels are in course of building on this circuit, one at Kungsor, and one at Altorp, on the Hjelmare channel. The prospect for the future is bright, especially at Kungsor. Sandviken. Previously a preacher was appointed here, but now, and for some time. Brother Flink, a local preacher, has labored herewith great use­ fulness. Brother Ahgren, from Gefle, has visited this place now and then. Souls have been converted to God and added to the society. Chapel, 1; value, 3,010 crowns ; debt, 831 crowns, 77 ore ; Sunday-school, 1, with 60 children ; collected, 946 crowns,97 ore; increase, 9. Gefie. Brother Ahgren has had great success in his work for the Lord. Our cause has been enlarged in a great measure under him. During the year a new church has been dedicated, an honor to our cause, and the best of all is, that the debt is not very pressing. For this we are obliged to some of the well endowed of this community, the names of whom we are not permitted to mention, but God knows them, and what is done in the name of Jesus will not be unrewarded. Oregrund, with the islands round about, is a place being visited from Gefle. There we have not a few members wishing to have a preacher, and promising to give him on their part 200 crowns to his salary. If a preacher could be appointed here, I believe it would become a fruitful mission field to us. When I visited them great multitudes came to hear the word. To attend them in the summer is not very hard, going by sea from Gefle, but in the winter the way is long and difficult. From Wasa, in Finland, we had a letter to come there and hold the Lord’s Supper; there is said to be a congregation formed with not a few i 88i.] SCANDINAVIA. 1 1 3 members. But we have not had time, and I wished to get an advice of the brethren and our Bishop, before such a work is commenced in Fin­ land. About fifty of our best members have taken their certificates for Amer­ ica, and these only from Stockholm District. If these be added to the increase, it will be 413.

THE STATISTICAL REPORT. Collected amounts...... 41,027 crowns, 16 ore. Increase of members...... 363 Preaching stations...... 16 Preaching-places...... 76 Sunday-schools...... 36 Sunday-school children...... 2,oS2 Chapels dedicated this year...... 2 Chapels...... 14 Their value ...... 215,557 crowns. Their d e b t...... 79,697 crowns, 40 ore. From the above report, it appears that we have very much reason of prais­ ing the Lord, who has, through his grace, bestowed on our labor so abun­ dant a blessing, and has, by feeble instruments, done great things. “ We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” With so much received we owe it to God, our country, and our revered fathers of the Church in America, to still urge on the work.

KARLSKRONA DISTRICT, J. P. L a r s s o n , P. E. During the past ecclesiastic year we have experienced the truth of our dear Saviour’s words, “ Lo, I am with you alway.” Peace and union have still prevailed among our people, and also among the preachers. We have been permitted to rejoice at success on every working field. At some places both the number of the members has increased, and the mem­ bers themselves have grown in grace. In other fields the latter only has taken place, the cause of which is that many of our members have moved to other places, especially to America. The longing of the people to hear the word of God is increasing more and more, our houses of worship in most places have been filled with hearers, and on the Sundays they have been crowded. As far as I know none of our meetings have been dis­ turbed. Our cause seems to gain greater and greater confidence and re­ spect among all classes. New places are opened every-where, and our preachers can in no way visit all these. On many new places they wish to have preachers of their own. Would to God that we were able to comply with their wishes ! Now I will give briefly an account of the state of every place on the district separately: 8 ii4 MISSIONARY REPORT. fl88l.

Karlskrona. As usual our meetings here have been well attended, and some persons under the preached word have, like the prodigal, remem­ bered their sins with sorrow and have been converted unto God. As to number, the success has not been so great this year as during the past years. On account of moving the members have decreased in number to some degree. A t Neuraby, a preaching-place belonging to Karlskrona congregation, a new chapel was dedicated the day after Christmas. The house, being built of wood, has seats for about 400 persons. The prob­ able value of the chapel is 1,400 crowns, and its debt about 600 crowns. God being our help, within some time this debt will be all paid. Through the persevering endeavors of our friends this chapel has risen. This year the chapel at Karlskrona has had a substantial reparation. We have six preaching-places in this working field, being attended by the help of local preachers and exhorters. 15 persons have been received into full connection, and 14 on trial. About 2,150 crowns are collected. We have here 6 Sunday-schools with 100 children. The state of the schools is good. Kalmar. The state of this congregation is good. Union and love pre­ vail. The meetings are well attended. The prayer and class-meetings are highly esteemed. The class-rooms sometimes are crowded, proving that the members are seeking sanctification— this pearl of great price. The state of finances is good. We have prospects that the chapel will be with­ out debt next year. 500 crowns of this debt were paid off this year, and for this we are very thankful to God. In the circuit there are 5 preaching- places, at one of which, Ryssby, 11 English miles from Kalmar, there is a little chapel without debt. W e have here 26 members, very much wish­ ing and asking for a preacher for the next year. Into full connection 22 persons were received, and on trial 15. About 1,500 crowns are collected. There are 2 Sunday-schools, with 90 children, some of whom are converted to God. As the Sunday-school work here is counteracted by the State Church, the number of children has decreased this year. Monsteras. For the past year the success here has been greater than at any time before. The number of hearers sometimes has been so great that the chapel could not hold them all, though the seats were added for a hundred more. Those of our friends who, during the preceding years, have complained of the chapel being too large, this year have complained that it is too small, and they have been thankful to God to have so large a chapel. Here our cause has gained, during the last years, a great confi­ dence, and the word of God has wrought a powerful work and has become the savor of life unto life to many. It is a large field. There are four regular appointments. 29 persons were received into full connection during the year, and 27 on trial. More than 900 crowns were collected. There are 2 Sunday-schools, with 100 children. The children are good, and some of them converted to God. Oskarshamn. During the winter God visited us with a powerful revival here, but on account of our preaching-place being too small to hold the people that would hear the word, (for oft there were hundreds, and i88r.J SCANDINAVIA. 115 again hundreds, who must go back for w^ant of place,) they turned to other congregations, and many of the new converted united with these Soci­ eties. W e suffer for want of a chapel here. In the spring the people bought a lot for the building of a chapel, and for that lot they have collected and paid off 225 crowns, 75 ore. They ask the Missionary Board humbly for help. We shall surely have great success here when we have a house of our own. In the circuit there are 4 appointments. 31 were received into full connection, 44 on trial. There is a Sunday-school with 100 children. The state of the school is good. Not a few of the children are converted to God. Loftahammar and Wraka, country places. Our labor here has been blessed by God with fruit. Souls have been saved. Our chapels are well attended. W e have 4 appointments in this working field. During the year 21 were received into full connection, and 11 on trial. About 900 crowns were collected. A Sunday-school with 50 children. The children attend diligently the school, and they seem to like to hear the story of Jesus. Here, too, the Sunday-school work is counteracted by the State Church, yet the children like to attend the school. We hope God will soon remove the difficulties. Westeruik. At the beginning of the year there was no success, though many attended the sermons ; but during the latter part of the year affairs have very much altered for the better. From Ascension-day to Pentecost preaching and prayer-meetings have been held every night, and this work has been attended by a great blessing, for many have awakened to a new life, and others are more earnest. There are 3 appointments in the circuit. For the year 9 were received into full connection, and 5 on trial. 1,400 crowns were collected. A Sunday-school with 70 children. In this all is well. Waldemarsvick. Glory to God! now we can say that it is better on this hard working field than it has been for many years. As the confi­ dence in our cause has increased, consequently the number of the hearers has increased too. On many appointments in the circuit we have hard opposition to suffer still. In the little congregation all is well. The mem­ bers love God, the Church, and each other. Some strive earnestly to gain the best treasure. All the probationers are hopeful ; several intend to join the Church. In this working field we have 6 preaching-places. 9 were received on trial. About 360 crowns were collected. 2 Sunday- schools are attended by 76 children. The children like to come to the school, and receive with joy the lessons that are given unto them. Norrkoping. The state of this congregation is good. Our people show a zealous devotion. As a proof of this I can mention that a poor sister sold her best dress and gave the money to the cause of God. The best of all is that no one seems to be weary in well doing. Krokek, a country place, being attended by preachers from Norrkoping, is a good working field. Here a stationed preacher is wanted. Success would doubtless follow his labors. Norrkoping working field contains 7 preach­ ing-places. About 4,400 crowns were collected for the year. Not a few i i 6 MISSIONARY REPORT. [1881.

were received into full connection, and 63 persons have joined the Church on trial. 3 Sunday-schools have 140 children highly loving their schools. Eksjo. Here, too, we have the confidence of the people. The meetings are well attended, and the prospects for the future are bright. A student of the school has labored here for the year, and a great blessing has fol­ lowed his work. 4 preaching-places are here. 6 persons were received into full connection, and 9 on trial. About 900 crowns were collected. The children in the 3 Sunday-schools are 80, and they exhibit diligence and attention. Linköping. W e have also here many hearers. Our preaching-hall is always on the Sundays filled with attentive hearers. W e wish that we had here a larger place of worship. Several promising preaching-places are round about the town. The state of the congregation is very good. The members are good, and seek for the full blessing of the Gospel. Great peace is among them. Our people love the Church, and work dili­ gently for her good. In the circuit we have 4 preaching-places. We have received 3 persons into full connection, and 30 have joined the Church on trial. About 1,200 crowns have been collected. There is a Sunday-school with 40 children. Karlshamn. Our friends here have built a fine chapel, which was dedi­ cated immediately after the last Annual Conference. The economy of the chapel is good, and it can also be said that the state of the congregation is good. The members fear God and set their affections on things above. On this field we have 3 appointments. 7 persons were received into full connection, and 8 on trial. 1,934 crowns were collected. 2 Sunday- schools have 100 children. Prayer-meeting has been held every week with the children, and a great blessing has followed. Nassjo, a large railroad station. No increase in the number of the members has taken place this year, but the confidence in our cause has grown, and in consequence of this the number of the hearers has been, greater, so that the prospects for success are brighter at present than they were last year. Several good working fields are round about this place. 3 preaching-places are there. 6 persons have entered on trial, and about 1,500 crowns are collected. The Sunday-school has 40 children. Nykoping. W e commenced our work here immediately after the last Annual Conference. The labor of the first year has not been without fruit. Now we have 80 members in this town. It seems as if we would have good success here. May the Lord keep and bless this young plant­ ing ! Indeed, I can say that the success here has been greater than we have hoped. More than 600 crowns were collected. The Sunday-school has 40 children. Motala. Though the financial difficulties have been great, yet we have had, on the whole, good success, and the best of all respecting this mat­ ter is, that the confidence of the community has not diminished, nor the number of the hearers decreased. No, the chapel has, during the whole year, been filled with hearers of all classes at the Sunday services. A revival has existed, and not a few have been converted to God. On this 188 l.J SCANDINAVIA. i i 7 field we have 4 preaching-places. 39 persons have entered into full con­ nection, and 48 on trial. 900 crowns were collected during the year. We have 2 Sunday-schools, with 200 children— a very large number for so small a town. Lerback. During the former conference year there was great success here, but during that just now passed the number of the members has decreased.' Moving to other places is the principal cause. With large meetings, we have an improved state of finances. 6 persons were received into full connection and 4 on trial. According to the statement of the preacher in charge, 1,787 crowns, 88 ore, were collected during the year. 3 Sunday-schools have 76 children. Wisby. Here is a very good working field, and this year, as well as the preceding years, we have had to rejoice at success, both in spiritual and economical respects. Our chapel is in the summer, as well as in the win­ ter, filled with hearers, and we have universal confidence. Our people love the meetings, and the class-meetings aré well attended. In the con­ gregation peace and unity are prevailing. There are 4 preaching-places in the circuit. Probationers, 24. 3,140 crowns were collected during the year. The Sunday-school has 180 children attending the school diligently. Btittle is a country place. Here we have had no success for several years, nor has the number of members increased this year. The field is large, and the meetings are pretty well attended. When the fourth Quarterly Cqnference was held the service in the forenoon was attended by people from ten parishes. Some persons have been converted to God, but only- few unite with the Church. Here there are 7 preaching-places. Received into full connection, 4; on trial, 4. 333 crowns, 50 ore, were collected. 2 Sunday-schools have 55 children. Ostergam is also a country place. This working field, too, is hard to cultivate, and it has ever been so. Yet the number of the hearers has increased very much this year, so that our chapels (we have here two chapels, one of which is out of debt) have been, indeed, filled, or rather crowded, especially during the latter part of the winter on Sundays, and we have reason to hope for success. Two Lutheran sewing societies have given us their works, and promised to work for our cause for the future, which they suppose to be right, as they get their spiritual food by us. We hope that these friends will unite with the Church soon. This field is very large— 6 preaching-places we have there. Received into full con­ nection, 1 ; on trial, 2. 267 crowns are collected during the year. Here we have 3 Sunday-schools, with 65 children. Slite. Our friends here, through great endeavors and large sacrifices, have got a fine chapel, which was dedicated July 24th. The situation of the chapel is most excellent, and the economy tolerably good. During the last years we have rejoiced at success, which has been the case this year, too, though the preaching place was small, so that many who would hear the word of God could not get places. We hope to have a greater success for the next year, because we have a larger preaching-place now. The state of this little congregation is very good. The members live n 8 MISSIONARY REPORT. El88l.

wholly to God and the Church. To the circuit belong- 4 preaching-places. Received into full connection 10 persons; on trial, 7. 850 crowns were collected during the year. To our two Sunday-schools belong 70 children. Kappelshamn. This year we have had success in this place, though not very great. The state of the congregation has become much better. In this large working place, too, the people are very willing to hear the word of God, so that our meetings in general are well attended. Here we have 3 preaching-places. Received into full connection, 10 persons, and on trial, 13. They have collected 437 crowrns. The Sunday-school has 35 children. Trakumla is a country place. The work here has been much enlarged during the last years, and the confidence in our cause has increased very much. It is impossible for the preacher to visit all the new places which are opened. In Tofta, a parish about nine English miles from Trakumla, is a chapel built this year, with rooms for the preacher, and it will, if God grant it, be dedicated immediately after the Annual Conference. The friends themselves built it and supplied the materials, so that the chapel debt will not be very great. It is very good in the congregation. We have here 5 preaching-places. 12 persons are received into full connec­ tion, and 10 have joined the Church on trial. 1,137 crowns were collected during the year ; indeed, a large sum for a country place in Gotland! 3 Sunday-schools, with 100 children.

STATISTICAL REPORT OF ICARLSKRONA DISTRICT. Total amounts collected during the year, about, crowns...... 27,215 Preaching-stations and preaching-places...... 98 During the year received members into full connection...... 288 During the year received members on trial...... 369 Increase of members...... 201 This year many of our members have moved to other places, especially to America, and this is the chief cause of the real increase not being greater in this district. Sunday-schools in the district...... 44 Children...... 2.421 Chapels dedicated during the year...... 3 Chapels being built...... *...... 1 Then we see that our dear Saviour, the Lord of the Church, has been with us during the last year, and blessed his own cause with success. Praise to God ! The confidence in our cause, as we have already repeated­ ly said, has largely increased this year. Many new doors have been opened during the year, and, in consequence of this, more preachers are wanted in the district. W e wish that we could, at this Annual Con­ ference, appoint preachers for the following five places: Oland, Nybro, Ryssby, Krokek, and Wamlingbo. In all these places we have many dear brethren and sisters who humbly ask the most reverend Missionary Board to send them preachers. In financial matters the year has shown some improvement, for which we are very much indebted to our most r e v e re n d i88i.J SCANDINAVIA. II9

Missionary Board, who have sent help to several congregations. Our friends, too, strive eagerly and sacrifice much so that the chapel debts, which in many places are still burdensome, may be paid off. May God bless the dear brethren and sisters ! To the praise of the preachers it can be likewise said that they have labored zealously and faithfully for the saving of sinners. Many of them preach thrice every Sunday, and besides several times during the week. Now I will also observe that those who are most diligent in vis­ iting from house to house have had the most durable success. No one of our brethren— the preachers— has had a prolonged sickness during the conference year, and none have been called to their eternal rest. All have grown in attachment to the Church and love her highly. May God bless and keep the brethren ! The Sunday-school work, which will greatly contribute to the increase of the Church, has been blessed by God also this year. As we now, from the Sunday-school fund in America, have got a contribution to the salary of a traveling agent of our Sunday-schools here in Sweden, we hope that God, still more, will bless this important branch of Christian work. W e thank God for all, and pray that he continually may hold his pro­ tecting hand over preachers as wrell as members, and bless his cause with greater success, so that we, at the next Annual Conference, if the Lord prolong our days, may have yet greater things to tell and much more to thank him for.

G O T E B O R G D IS T R IC T , B. A . C a r ls s o n , P. E.

RETROSPECTION.— We are now standing at a point of time from which we are able to look back to the past. A church year again is gone, a space of time filled with perils, temptations and cares of various kinds, but rich also in blessings and in fruits of the Gospel’s victories, for all of which we feel heartily thankful to our heavenly Father. T h e P r e a c h e r s .— Proceeding to relate the state of things within the district of Goteborg, I, in the first place, will say that God in his grace has held his hand over all our preachers in the district, enabling them to be active and working during the course of the year. It may also be said of them that they have worked with diligence, and given themselves up as sacrifices, and many of them may be regarded as examples to be followed in their serving their Lord. Each of them has had to fight his special difficulties ; but they nevertheless have prayed and worked, nor have their prayers and labors been lost, as they have rejoiced to witness the conver­ sion of many sinners. T h e S o c i e t i e s .— The general state of the District of Goteborg in days past, as many of us well know, has not been the best; but we be­ lieve, nevertheless, that this district may become the best mission field in our country, and perhaps, ere long, very fruitful. The success in the year, indeed, has not been remarkable, but we can, however, say, to the praise of God, there has been success ; and true success, methinks, speaks better 120 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I88l.

for itself than I am able to do. Though the number of members taken at the last yearly Conference could not by far be found again, nor was all debt noted, yet, for all that, in most of the societies there is some in­ crease both in the number of members and in the amount of collection. This is the more worthy of notice, considering how many of our best mem­ bers during the course of the year have emigrated to America. We have no wish to lose a single one of our dear people that now and then choose to go to America, but we, at the same time, are convinced they will, there­ fore, not leave God and our Church. Moreover, we believe they will be well received and nurtured by our dear fathers and brethren at the other side of the ocean, when happily arrived thither. We therefore need not to lament their emigration, but have rather reason to rejoice that our mother Church in America takes home her own children, born unto her in a far country. At the same time it must be confessed that our societies in Sweden, being in general very poor, have had trouble to collect money enough to pay their current expenses. They have, however, not only found means to that, but have also somewhat regularly paid their interest. Some of them have also succeeded in paying some minor parts of their liabilities, though there are others that at their best will not have been able to diminish their debt, though else they have paid all their expenses. During the year now gone two new chapels have been erected and dedicated, viz. : one in Karlskoga, and one in Goteborg. These chapels have been built simple and cheap ; wherefore, the said societies, having well understood the matter, are not pressed with debts, with little or no probability left afterward to pay them. Some of our dear brethren and sisters in grace have, during the past year, finished their work and gone home to the everlasting rest. We feel sorrow for the loss, but we rejoice at their happiness, as they have all died in the belief in Christ. We can, consequently, also now use the words of our Father Wesley : “ Our enemies may say of us and our work what evil they want, but our people, nevertheless, die happy.” There are in Goteborg District 19 societies, managed by preachers in charge. Out of these societies 11 are legally organized. The societies possess 19 chapels in all. A t the beginning of this year only 3 of these Church properties were legalized in the name of the Methodist Episcopal Church. W e now hold 8 such lawful possessions. In spite of that, in several places, difficulties have arisen to get these properties legalized, as they formerly had been legalized in the names of private persons. I hope ere long every society will stand secure with respect to this matter, a thing which is most pressing. T h e S u n d a y - s c h o o l C a u s e .— In our Sunday-schools the work has been conducted with zeal and ardor. Male and female teachers, with diligence and prayer unto God, try to plant the truth in the hearts and minds of their pupils, and their mutual labors hitherto have not been in vain nor fruitless. W e can see this from the fact that the children show delight and interest in the Sunday-school..and from their attentive be­ 18 8 1-] SCANDINAVIA. 121 havior, as well as from the fact that not a few of them have been led to Christ and now manifest love to God and sincere attachment to the Church. With respect to the religious instruction of the elder children there may still be much to desire. Many of our less enlightened members, accord­ ing to old practice, still permit their fourteen or fifteen years’ old children to be confirmed by the priests of the State Church. This unmeet be­ havior often produced the sad effect that the children not only were for­ bidden to attend our services in general, but also entirely were drawn away from both God and his people. This unaccountable intrusion upon our working, I think, however, may easily be prevented if we only, with the help of God, faithfully and conscientiously follow the rules of our Dis­ cipline with respect to the religious instruction of the children. . Some of the preachers, in fact, have fulfilled this duty, and we say, honor to these brethren. If we, moreover, were able to provide all our children with our little Sunday-school paper and some needful books, then our Sunday- school, without doubt, would produce still more abundant fruit. T h e W a n t s o f t h e C a u s e .— Within our district there are, except­ ing the above-named congregations, eight societies, viz.: one in Karlstad, one in Lidkoping, one in Majorna, of Goteborg, one in Landskrona, one in Ystad, one in Degerfors, one in Laxa, and one in Delary. These societies hitherto have not had any preacher of their own, but they, never­ theless, several years have worked faithfully with us and ever manifested love and attachment to our cause. They are in great need of support and preachers, wherefore I hope that the request of these our dear friends will be granted during the coming year, in case there be sufficient means and supply of men adapted for the work, that is, such as are empow­ ered with commission from heaven. We recognize with sincere gratitude the blessed help God, through the Missionary Society, has brought over to us. Without this help of Provi­ dence perhaps most of us still had erred in spiritual darkness, if not worse. The light of the Gospel has been brought to us, and we now, out of our whole heart, wish that the same light also may be carried to every man in the world. With this holy aim before our eyes, we wish and pray that the Missionary Society, not only continually would grant us a yearly ap­ propriation as large as hitherto, but that the amount, if possible, might be increased, that we thus may be able to strengthen and widen our work, and send the message of salvation to all parts of our country. STATISTICS OF THE SWEDEN MISSION FOR 1881.

C IR C U IT OR i-f S t STATION.

IrownB.* 1 Stockholm District. 8S5 80 1.000 855 1 9 0,000; 2; Stockholm ...... i Boilorti'lje mid M o rk o ... 48 10 150 % 88 11 150 95 2.500 2 Nvbv Circuit...... 292 81.500 1 Vpsaln...... 251 109 750 267 136 800 450 25.000 2 Gello...... 60 3.010 Bandviken...... 81 23 2.50 67 80 400 7d 1.500, 'i Mora and Orsa...... 70 2 Sundsvall...... 42 33 150 90 83 800 . ’. ’ . ’ . 1 8 Ave«ta Circuit...... 3 Philipstad Circuit...... 1 1 78 85 800 fit»!.. 90 49 200 O il,.. 4.500 2 Linde Circuit...... 6.000 Arbosra Circuit...... 100 80 200 289 50 800 225' 40,000 'i Eskilstnna, e tc...... 4.000 2 Kimgrsor and W csten n o. 1 .. 58 24 800 SO SS 40 eoo 1.500 2 Rnnsater Circuit...... 5.547 1 Odensvi Circuit...... 113 24 800 Finland...... ! KiV'hkrontt District, 17.000 1 K arlskrona...... 265 56 1.000 8 ! 6 ’ 160 62 50 V l| 2' 10s 11.000' 1 Kalmar...... 6,670 1 M onsteras...... 75 23 550 11(1 9 i 50 6,000 1 Loftahammer...... 81! 6 600 .. i 1 Oskarsliamn...... 58 26 400 100 .. 68 12 500 l 70 7.Ó62 1 "Westeryik...... 8,500 1 "W aidemarsvik...... 29 16 100 2 60, 284 124 sor ii i; 80 . 85,000, 2 U orrkoping...... 2 Ek>jo...... 42 26 S5( :V SU . ....1 64 50 . ’s l 1 40 ___ i 8 Linköping:...... lt!(V . 10.(1(10 K.avlsnanin...... 51 300j. l 2 •Wisby...... 240 6001 . 0 1 ISO .

B u ttle...... 1 1 94 250 1: 2 55| 3,070 2i 340 63 00 S9 49; 04 25: 150 00 Ostergam...... 1 1 50 11 2Ö0 i 3 65 4.00U 1 345 100 00 7 95 164 34 Knppelshamn...... 1 2 07 14 200 2 1 85 3,175 1 1,149 50 00 52 54 27 90 I 2ÌÒ 4Ì Slite...... 60 16 200 2 2 70 3.073 2 2.550 118 36 29 71 201 001; 517 08 N assjo...... i 32 9 200 1 1 40 9.400 5 0,348 : 61 50 5 00 223 82 1,075 79 Trakumla...... 53 19 200 5i 3 115 1,800 i 200 155 00 6 00 267 00 625 00 N ykoping...... i 00 20 200 ..1 1 40 2 I 39 07 725 00 Lerback...... 91 37 300 2 3 76 8,000 5,ÌÓ8 60 00 12 02 213 77 1,203 2Ò Motala...... 1 102 31 550 4 2 225 '2 120 00 145 18 626 19 15 00 Gotebnrg Di trict. Goteborg and Majorna 3 274 5S 700 10 2 225 80.000 2 15,500 212 70 143 35 8,206 04 4,505 70 Walda and S la p ...... 1 69 Is 200 1 8 60 7,000 2,383 : 93 25 89 40 477 23 8 91 "Warberg Circuit...... 1 30 4 50 7,500 ’ i 400! 45 00 7 50 142 06 6 00 Stromsted and(.n-bbcstad 54 11 200 1 10 '2 05 75 188 10 251 98 111 51 T ossp Circuit...... i i 67 24 800 1 25 1 40 00 33 23 211 00 Seffle...... 45 20 800 i 1 22 6,000 2,383 J 00 49 9 02 620 87 288 90 Iiellstedand Latorp...... i 2 50 20 250 1 4 100 '2 ; lo5 50 25 72 209 09 Jonkopinsr...... 1 46 5 400 1 75 28.ÓÓÓ 13.0 05 65 55 34 SO 2.145 28 2,864 90 Bjnf and R a u s...... 85 2 800 I 2 50 1,250 i i 1,250 2,000 84 (15 12 25 965 06 Lund and Landskrona... i 51 15 3oO 3, 2 eo 2 143 50 j 33 89 1.205 10 Maltno and Ystad...... 1 117 32 500 1 3 190 2 125 00 50 00 1.773 00 Hallsbi-rg...... 2 158 10; 450 8 3 ISO 8.ÓÓÓ 1 l ’,228 105 00 4 50 400 00 850 ÒÒ Örebro...... 1 235 22 550 2: 1 00 18,000 1 6.000 103 15 14 52 940 00 80 00 H ardem o...... 4 165 07 350 7 G 145 8,000 1 i 2,900 90 00 120 00 592 00 251 00 Lf-khyttan...... i 84 30 150 2:1 1 10 2,000 1,085 1 47 00 6 54 17T 89 197 00 Grums...... 96 32 250 5 2 25 8.000 1,35S 120 00 64 24 ; 275 70: 199 70 Kristlnehainn, etc...... 134 3s 5o0 0 2 70 0.300 ’ i 2.730 155 00 145 06 602 001 881 75 Karlskoga and Degerfors. 4 248 OS 000 19 7 260 10.500 4.327 113 85 14 7S; 534 15 447 00 A torp...... i 4 159 24 500 2 6 120 4.700 1.441 141 10 4 90 551 04 20 88 D elary...... 1 21 9! 50 4 1 50 400 1 .... 259 25! 7S 25

RECAPITULATION BY DISTRICTS. __i Stockholm District...... 14 7 17 2,075 753 0,650 88 38 2.112 1 2 8 12* 215.0ST! ' 20 1,000 80,658 2.593 59 1,092 39 ! 15.754 73 17,114 55 7 3,360,000 Karlskrona *■ ...... 13 9 26 2.0S7 643 8.350 46 41 2,434 21 153.350 2sj 64.259 2.799 2S 1.639 SO 13.201 42 12,125 70 Goteborg “ ...... 15 5 26 2,135 509 6,900 73 50 1,827 19 130.050 17 3 1,250 50.800 1,920 89 952 50 15,499 44 9.130 50

42 21 69 6.300 1.905 21,900 207 ¡129 0.373 1 2 8 521 499.057 71 4 2,250 201,717 7,313 70 8,6S4 84 44,455 59 38.370 75 7 3,800,000 Last year...... 87 79 5,988 1,830 1|2241128 0,148 471 402,325 . .1 8 6.153 S9 647 85 43,000 2S 20,277 00 *Thu crowu ia worth 26.8 cents. 124 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l8 8 l.

III. DENMARK.

Missionaries.

K a r l S c h o u , Superintendent. C a r l F. E l t z h o l t z , Horsens and Aarhus. J. d e L o r e n t T h o m s e n , O dense.

.Assistant Missionaries.

M rs. L . S c h o u , M rs. B . E l t z h o l t z .

IN" ative Ordained Preachers.

J. J. C h r i s t e n s e n , Copenhagen. P. M. S. J e n s e n , Frederikshavn. H . H a n s e n , Svendborg. C h r . M . T h a a r u p , V eile.

The work in Denmark is in a very promising condition, as was manifest to the senior Corresponding Secretary and to Bishop Peck in their personal visitation. The Bishop says:

In 1873 we had in the Denmark mission 276 members. W e have made a small margin every year since. W e now number 638 in full connection, and 100 on probation. W e have seven earnest, laborious missionaries. The superintending of Brother Schou is characterized by great industry, strict economy, and undoubted conservatism. The great want of the mission is houses of worship to accommodate the people who wish to attend our ministry. I am thoroughly convinced that the Missionary So­ ciety ought to be made able to extend prompt and efficient aid to our struggling people in their efforts to build a number of plain, decent churches every year. W e are advancing a little, but too slowly. The arrangements made by Brother A. Dollner, ultimately to pay the debt on our church at Copenhagen, and provisions for helping to build two new churches, greatly encourage the brethren. “ W e must do more next year.” Provision has already been made for paying the church debt at Copenhagen of 80,000 crowns. In effect it is already done, the interest only being paid during the lifetime of its generous benefactors. A beautiful lot, one hundred feet square, on a fine avenue, has been purchased at Frederickshavn, and a neat church erected upon it. This is a most important and growing point, it being the entrepot for Western Europe, from Russia, Sweden, and Norway, and a great harbor being 18 8 1.] SCANDINAVIA. 125

in process of erection there by the Government. The little one here will soon become strong, if we mistake not the signs of the times. The brethren being aided by the generous gift of $500 from a visitor, a new church is also going up on an eligible site in the important city of Svendborg. The lot is 100 feet front by 112 deep, between the residences of the Mayor of the city and the district Judge, and within ten minutes’ walk of the City Hall. The church now in process of erection is to cost 8,000 crowns. The distractions and divisions of former years seem to have for the most part passed away, and a noble band of united workers, able ministers of the Lord Jesus, are seizing the hour to advance. One or two churches should be built each year for a decade, and at least one new city entered every year. The annual meeting was, this year, held at Veile, and it was a time of quickening to the Church and inspiration to the brethren. Bishop Peck and Dr. Reid were present through­ out the session. The town authorities, influenced by the big­ otry of State Church officials, refused the public hall for the Sabbath services, and the throng could not be accommodated in our chapel. This was in striking contrast with the liber­ ality displayed at Gefle, in Sweden, and Frederickstadt, in Nor­ way, where Conferences had just been held. Bigotry will have to yield to the advance oi a free Gospel. With the aid now extended to the Churches in Denmark we trust there will be little more embarrassment, and no danger of failures or foreclosures. Great spirituality and fervor characterizes the worship of our people here, and the Lord adds almost daily to their numbers. Some of the societies will ere long be entirely self-reliant. The following is the Superintendent’s report:

In presenting the report for this year I am glad that I am able to say, that, though this mission is one of the smaller missions of our beloved Church,- and thus far has shown itself comparatively less fruitful in that which by many may be considered the only indication of true progress, increase of membership, still I believe it does not prove itself less fruit­ ful, blessed be God ! in that which constitutes its true mission : bringing the Gospel to sinners, being a light in the world, and an example to man­ MISSIONARY REPORT. Ll88l.

kind. Thus its work is progressing, and as a leaven it leavens the State Church, urges it on to activity, and quickens many of its dead members. This has evidently been the case for years, both as regards Sunday-school work and home mission work. The spiritual condition of the mission is, on the whole, good, as far as I am able to learn; the means of grace are well attended, and the weekly attendance at our public services is gradually increasing. During the year three new preachers have been employed; one has left us, intending, as it appeared, to join the Irvingites, but settling finally back into the State Church, in which he formerly had acted as lay preacher. We rejoice also in the prospect of having laborers for our work raised up at home after this. A couple of promising young men are preparing for the work, and a finely educated young man, a graduate of the university here, who has taken a theological course, but is especially well versed in modern and ancient languages, has joined our Church, and hopes to enter our ministry. If he is spared for us, as we earnestly pray he may be, he will become, I trust, before long, a very useful man among us. Our Sunday-schools continue to prosper, the children are much inter­ ested, and many of them are striving earnestly to live lives correspond­ ing to the blessed instructions they receive. Through the liberality of the American Bible Society we have been enabled this year to supply our schools with a sufficient number of copies of the Holy Bible, which has been published this year in a pocket edition. We have formerly used les­ sons entirely from the New Testament, but since we have been supplied with Bibles the lessons are in the Old Testament, and as a guidance we use both the Berean and International Courses, so as to take what there is in both, and the lessons with notes are published every week in our Sunday-school paper. Our publications this year have been confined to tracts, a weekly Sunday- school paper, and a monthly religious journal, which from the beginning of 1882 will be changed to a semi-monthly. The annual report will, to our sorrow, show a small decrease in mem­ bership from last year, which is principally caused by so many of our members having emigrated to America. There seems to be a general desire throughout the country to go West, and whoever can disposes of his little property and leaves. One hundred and twenty-three persons have been lost this year thereby, and through other causes, so that although members have been received into the Church in all stations, our numerical strength is not increased. We have this year been enabled to add to the number of our churches and chapels two new ones, one in Frederickshavn, and another in a coun­ try station on the Veile Circuit; and preparations are being made for building a new church in Svendborg next summer, for which a.lot has been secured from the Lutheran Church in the place on very favorable conditions. Three new Quarterly Conferences have been organized this fall, in Odense, Horsens, and Enkelund. The total receipts for different objects i 8 8 i .] SCANDINAVIA. 127 amount to 10,292.53 crowns, an increase from last year of 2,028.96 crowns. Missionary collection, 1,412.38 crowns. Copenhagen and Christianshavn. Rev. J. J. Christensen, preacher in charge, was appointed to this charge by Bishop Peck after Rev. C. F. Eltzholtz, who had been stationed here two years. Both report the spiritual condition of the society to be good. Two thirds of the members attend regularly class-meeting, and the prayer-meetings, as well as public serv­ ices at the church, are comparatively well attended. In Christianshavn there are regular services Thursday and Sunday, and class-meetings Tuesdays; and Brother Johnson, a brother from Evanston, 111., who came home this summer to visit his parents and, if possible, to study Danish, has that work assigned him. He is doing a good work, and his visiting from house to house is having a good influence. Love and peace has finally conquered, and, I believe, reigns supreme through his charge, blessed be God ! The attempts which for years have been made to utterly ruin this charge have signally failed, and it seems they have given up the battle. The last attack, which probably had a similar origin, was an an­ nouncement in the prominent papers through the country that our church was to be sold for debt. Thanks be to God ! that this has also come to naught, so that the church has not only not to be sold, but the debt on it will, through the munificence of the patrons of our Danish Mission and the Missionary Society, all be paid this year. We have had to close one of our Sunday-schools for the present, not having the men to lead it or a suitable location to meet in. The other two are prospering finely, and are a blessing to many, and especially to the Church itself. The membership numbers at present 137, writh 19 probationers, over 50 persons having either removed or been disposed of otherwise. Our members are, with scarcely an exception, all poor; still, the collections for all purposes amount to 2,156.52 crowns. Missionary collection, 317.50 crowns. Langeland Circuit. Brother L. Christensen is supplying this field since the annual meeting, to the satisfaction of the society. His work extends all over the island, a distance of over thirty English miles. He lias at present ten regular appointments, which he fills with great regular­ ity, walking from place to place and preaching daily, and holding regular Sunday service at our chapel in Skebjerg. He reports large congrega­ tions and close attention to the word every-where. Brother Thaarup, the late pastor here, had a difficult task in raising our Church in the estima­ tion of the people, and regaining that confidence which, through the un­ godliness of a former pastor, had been lost. For that he labored faith­ fully, early and late, and succeeded, and Brother Christensen follows up nobly the work of his predecessor, and hopes to see a good increase as one of the fruits. The people upon this island, having been largely favored by abundance of this world’s goods, are not very earnest seekers of the treasures above, and it is a trying work to sow the seed among them ; but, through the grace of God, the labor will not be in vain. A little band of brethren and sisters are standing by their new and partly inexperienced leader, laboring patiently and praying earnestly for the 128 MISSIONARY REPORT. [i88r.

blessing irom above upon the work. God grant i t ! Collections for all purposes amount to 234.75 crowns. Missionary collection, 125 crowns. Svendborg Circuit. Rev. H. Hansen, preacher in charge. This charge has been connected under one pastor and a supply with Odense, Faaborg, and Trolleborg, etc., but has been made into a separate charge again at this last annual meeting- Large and attentive congregations have filled our hall this year every Sunday, and during the summer, when open- air meetings could be held, these were exceedingly well attended, as were also the meetings held at the country appointments. One difficulty in the way for our work in this town, where we have the respect and confidence of the population, has been our less pleasant and comfortable hall; but during the coming summer there will, God permitting, be built a neat little church, wThich will accommodate four hundred persons at least. A sister who died some years ago left a little property to the mission for that purpose, and lately a kind visitor from the United States, who at a glance saw our need, offered to give $500 toward a church, to which sum the Missionary Society has added $250. The amount of subscription thus far, including the above, is 5,500 crowns, and a builder has taken the job, not including the furniture, for 7,600 crowns. A loan of 3,000 crowns is secured, so that the erection of the church is thus far certain. The lot is bought of the Lutheran Church in the town, on the condition of an annual payment of four per cent, of its price. The principal can never be de­ manded, but we are at liberty to pay it at any time we may desire. Our society is greatly encouraged by these prospects, and we hope it will prove a great blessing to our cause. The collections amount to 943.97 crowns. Missionary collection, 145 crowns. Odense Circuit, including Faaborg and Trolleborg, is in charge of Rev. J. de Lorent Thomsen, who is the first stationed preacher in Odense. He has, indeed, done a great work here, and by his preaching stirred the city and brought the people to think and speak of Methodism. The meetings, held both Sundays and week-days, have been crowded by hearers, and it has happened at times that there have been as many outside as inside. The open-air services in the summer months were attended by hundreds of hearers. God has blessed his word and many have been converted, among whom is a lion-tamer, who once, while under the influence of liquor, put his arm into the mouth of a lion and lost it. He has a second time been saved out of a lion’s mouth. Methodism here is of the old stamp, says Brother Thomsen ; whenever the members meet it is for prayer, praise, and godly conversation, and, although the most of them are young in experience, they have nevertheless a good experience. Such a work could not but meet with opposition from the Lutherans. They are bound to oppose any thing that disturbs their slumbers, and they have not failed to use every means to hinder our progress. This has especially manifested itself in our Sunday-school work. Though Odense is a city of about twenty-four thousand inhabitants, there had been no Sunday-school there before ours was commenced; but two weeks after, the Lutherans came out in strong force, preachers and teachers, and commenced their 188 r.l •SCANDINAVIA. 129

school, and through the means they have in their hands they forced most of our scholars to join their school. It shows itself also in the way those who are, converted at our meetings are labored with to persuade them to leave us, and these attempts are sometimes successful. We have some very excel­ lent members here, and the number is steadily increasing. In Faaborg and Trolleborg we have a few members, who are visited regularly every two weeks, and our meetings in the first place, especially, have been well attended. W e have had some difficulty in Faaborg in getting a suitable hall for services, since the authorities refused us the use of the City Hall, which we had used several years. This was done, I understand, by the influence of the Lutheran clergy, who wanted to drive us out of the city. Another hall, which at that time was not in use, was immediately rented by the Lutheran Home Mission for the avow'ed purpose of driving us out. So we had to go to the hotel, where our meetings have been held since, but often with great difficulty and disturbance. We have the prospect of getting a new hall, fitted up expressly for us, next summer. Trolleborg is an old appointment, which in former years had borne much fruit, and two of the children of this mission are ministers in our Church; but of late years it has been an unfruitful place, with nothing to relieve its bar­ renness but an excellent Sunday-school, which is the hope of our Church here. Cause, sin in the ministry. Brother Thomsen has received many calls from different places to come and preach, and he has visited them as often as possible, and very large and attentive congregations have listened, under very deep feelings, to the word spoken. This field is so large, arid with so many new places ready to hear our preaching, that Brother Thom­ sen thinks he ought to have an assistant. May God bless this new field abundantly! Collections for all purposes have been 360.41 crowns. Missionary collection, 131.49 crowns. Veils Circuit, Rev. Chr. M. Thaarup, preacher in charge, includes the country between Veile and Fredericia, and a large tract of country about twenty miles west from Veile. This is our oldest mission in Jutland, in whose church records all our members in Jutland up to 1878 were en­ rolled. This mother mission continues a fruitful field, and a place where it indeed is good to b e : not without its difficulties and troubles, but with grace and power from on high to come out victorious. The spiritual state of the society is good. The pastor is very active, as was his prede­ cessor, Br. J, J. Christensen, and many fill our nice chapel Sunday after Sunday to hear the word of God. Calls from other parts of the country are accepted as far as time will permit, and this charge will yet be the mother mission of other Churches. The means of grace are largely at­ tended, and the Sunday-school is in excellent condition. One of our exhort- ers, Br. J. N. Uth, is a very active Bible agent, going from house to house through the country exhorting, reading, and praying with the people. He is doing much good. Anoth'er brother, a local preacher, Br. J. Nielsen, who has a large farm to attend to, preaches regularly every Sunday, and attends largely, as if preacher in charge, to our society in the western part of the circuit. The society there secured a house of their own last winter. 9 I3 0 ' MISSIONARY REPORT. Cl8 8 1.

A public school, with many acres of land belonging- to it, was to be sold. Our brethren bought it, parceled out the land, and retained the building and about two acres of land for a chapel and parsonage. It is valued by them at 1,200 crowns, a very low estimate, and there is no debt on it. The debt on the church in Veile is 14,200 crowns, but it is decreasing annually. Many have emigrated to America from this charge. Collections for all purposes, 3,780.92 crowns. Missionary collection, 468.39 crowns. Hornsyld Circuit, supplied by Sv. Johansen, is a country charge with eight appointments. There is a good church, to which the society last year built a good parsonage, and this year the church has undergone thorough repairs. The brick floor has been replaced with a floor of wood, the walls have been painted, and a new altar and pulpit have been put up, so that the church presents a very fine appearance. In the church there are regular Sunday and week-day services, but the congregations are not so large as in the other appointments, perhaps caused by the loca­ tion, being in the midst of a settlement consisting of three or four doctors, a drug store, a couple of other stores, and some mechanics and a few large farmers. We have not been able to exert much influence upon this population, and would not have had a chapel there, if it had not been built and given to the church by a former resident here belonging to our Church, but who with his whole family emigrated to America. The preacher's report shows an increased interest in several places, conversion of sinners, and some additions to the Church ; but also from this charge our brethren leave for America. About twenty have left this year. Br. Johansen is a young and promising preacher, who is doing a good work thus far, greatly to the satisfaction of the official members and the Church. The collections for all purposes amount to 570.39 crowns. Missionary collection, 85 crowns. Horsens Circuit includes the city of Aarhus and some country appoint­ ments, and is in charge of Rev. C. F. Eltzholtz. This is, properly speak­ ing, a mission field. There has been no preacher stationed here before this year, but it has been supplied from Hornsyld. • The membership numbers twenty-four, with four probationers. Horsens has thirteen thou­ sand inhabitants, and is quite a manufacturing place, and our work thus far has been principally among the factory hands and mechanics, of whom many have been converted to God. Our greatest difficulty here, as at other places, is the want of suitable accommodation for service. We had to climb up from a back yard on a pair of steep stairs to a second story room, to begin w ith; then we humbled ourselves, and went down into a basement or cellar, formerly a Catholic chapel, but of late an oyster saloon and restaurant, from which we were driven by inundation of water; then a wine merchant fitted up a room for us, which is very comfortable, and accommodates about two hundred persons; but I fear we may have to leave that also, as he is fitting up a billiard hall on a lower floor, and that will doubtless disturb our meetings. The want felt here is more or less felt every-where where we do not have houses of our own. There are no halls to be found in our towns suitable for religious services ; the people have i88i.l SCANDINAVIA. had no need of such; whatever of halls there may be are either dancing or drinking rooms, and they bring a better income thus than to rent them for preaching. The membership in Horsens is devoted to God and Meth­ odism, and works faithfully in company with their pastor for the extension of God’s kingdom. Their social meetings are much blessed, and their Sunday-school, just commenced, promises success. Collection, 312 crowns. Missionary collection, 55 crowns. Aarhus is the second city in size in Denmark, and we hope will become a large missionary field for Method­ ism. Thus far we have only commenced, and cannot report any thing whatever of the prospect or of success. The country appointments in this circuit are far from the city. The meetings are at times attended by very large audiences, and blessed of God. Asaa and Hjorring Circuit is very large, supplied at present by Br. A. Christensen, local preacher, together with the pastor at Frederikshavn. Hjorring has formerly had a resident missionary, but his work proved en­ tirely unfruitful, and he left us this spring, thereby relieving us from the unpleasant duty of locating him as an unprofitable laborer. Hjorring is the principal city in the county; it has three Lutheran churches, and is quite a thrifty place, but not over-much religious. Methodism has not been able to do any thing there thus far, and it is now only visited occa­ sionally, but the country appointments are more promising. There are generally many hearers, and they are easily moved by the Gospel; but it seems as if their character is set forth in the parable of the sower, as the seed falling in stony places, seeing they so soon forget their resolutions to live godly lives. O what patience is needed to bring the word to such ! The missionary may leave with the best hopes from what he has seen and experienced, but when he comes round next time the influence is gone, and he has to begin again from the beginning. In Asaa Brother A. Christensen has fitted up a room in his own house, where he has regular service, and is doing a good work in being a faithful guardian of our people and letting his light shine before the world. Their missionary offering is 27 crowns. Frederikshavn Circuit is in charge of Rev. P. M. S. Jensen. The town is but small, but, nevertheless, a town of importance as a railroad terminus and a sea and shipping port into which hundreds of vessels go every year. It is a growing place, and will, it is expected, soon become a port of much importance when the new harbor, for which there is asked several million crowns at this session of the Rigsdag, is undertaken. Our work here has from the beginning promised well, and proves itself fruit­ ful. A noble band of active members constitutes our society here, and the blessing of God is evidently resting upon them. Their accommoda­ tions for public worship have been so poor that they were driven to do something for a better hall. In the hope that the way would open for them they began negotiating for a building lot, and were successful in securing a lot in a veiy good location, for 3,000 crowns. A building was then thought of, and a prominent merchant in the place, who had never attended any of our services, but had noticed the fruits of our work, such 132 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

as the conversion of notorious sinners, came forward and promised to lend us 5,000 crowns on a first mortgage, so that we could get us a church. His offer was thankfully received, and the brethren went to work doing what they could. Their subscriptions amounted to 1,470 crowns, the Missionary Society helped the church with a grant of $500, and the church was built and dedicated November 6, last. Many of the citizens of the place attended the dedication, and the paper came out next day with a very favorable notice about the services and our work as a whole. This has not been accomplished without much opposition from the Luth­ eran priest and his friends ; but their endeavors to stop the work by per­ suading the merchant and others not to help us were unsuccessful. Then they tried to start a subscription for a new Lutheran church, as theirs, an old barn-like structure, is situated a distance outside of town; but in this they were also unsuccessful. God has evidently prospered this our undertaking, and we trust that he will also assist us, in ways at pres­ ent unknown to us, to get our debt of 8,000 crowns paid. Collections for all purposes is 1,900.68 crowns. Missionary collection 58 crowns. The extent of our work is enlarging, and calls come to us from several places which we must obey as soon as it is possible for us. The feeling among the brethren, our preachers, is, that the time has come in which God intends to favor our Zion. “ W e have touched bottom,” as Dr. Reid remarked at our annual meeting, and hereafter we must go forward. The missionaries, without exception, are fully devoted to the work and labor faithfully for the advancement of our cause ; and brotherly love, as at no time before, is uniting us all together in Christ Jesus. God be praised! Will the Church remember this mission in its prayers ? STATISTICS OF THE DENMARK MISSION FOR 1881. j j J 2

S* the i a 3 1 « £ a cj s 1 •o 1 © £ J3 V s ë È rJC'C CIBOUIT OR STATION. ‘3 a a •a 2 *2 O > « 3 o H (O •Xi >> TJ * I ■g.2 .1 a iV sU ages, and ages, and other Property. of of Worship. day day Worship. lent lent Societies. 1*8 year. Probationers. Children Baptized. No. of Halls and other Places Debt on Churches, Parsou- No. of Churches. Average Average Attendance on Sun- No. No. of Day Scholars. No. of Sabbath Scholars. Native Native Local Preachers. No. of Pay Schools. Collected Collected for other Benevo- è ¡5 * 1 O Collected for Self-support. £ 3 w O Pages Printed during Assistant \ Assistant Missionaries. j 1 1 1 j i 1 1 J J *Crowns. Clowns. Crowns. Crowns. Crowns. Crowns. Copenhagen and Clu-istlanshavn...... 1 1 1 1 137 12 300 8 2 370 1 232,000 1 1 817 50 215 58 1,623 44 852,000

1 ,|0 4 100 1 1 R 1 26 1 10,000 10 125 00 80 21 29 57 i 1 84 8 150 3 '.. 1 80 8 145 00 128 47 170 00 505 50

1 56 10 200 I 1.. 9 60 3 181 49 58 00 170 92

1 1 1 919 ‘,10 500 11 1 80 4 236 9, 27,200 in 1 14,200 468 39 444 65 1 267 88 1,600 00

1 1 24 4 76 ?, 9 61 5 65 00 257 00

1 8S 9 SO 4 1 18 1 8000 8 1 1 000 85 00 89 85 124 04 822 00

1 ,S 14 1T0 11 1 53 1 18,000 7 8,000 50 00 821 74 1,470 94

Hjorring and Asaa...... 1 16 50 1 1 IB 3 27 00 5 86

This voar...... 8 2 4 4 l 2 007 S7 1.025 42 2 8S 15 922 C 290.200 50 3 23.200 1.412 3S 1.017 12 8.964 59 3,898 44 852.000 Last year...... 3 5 1 8 8 629 110 1.210 1£> 8 * 11 1,079 4 $76,860 47 $26,710 $425 68 $469 96 $1,015 09 $822 00 841,600 3 * The crown ¡a valued at 26.8 ctut». N orth India.

Commenced in 1856. Organized as a Conference in 1866.

T he year past has been one of special encouragement in the North India Mission, and of some numerical increase. “ This year,” it is reported, “ the work has taken a fresh start." The increase in the number of Sunday-school scholars is very considerable— the number being now 1 1,996. To our mission is especially due the honor of establish­ ing or of giving efficacy to this institution in India. It seems to promise indefinite expansion, bringing the Hindu and Mohammedan youth by thousands, not only from our own day-schools, but to some extent from the government schools, to share in Christian forms of worship, and the study of Chris­ tian truths, in which they manifest an increasing interest This institution is doubtless designed by Providence as one of the most important instruments for the conversion of India. The work of developing and directing elementary schools within our mission field is also making advanced requirements. A special appeal comes this year from the Rohilcund District for a considerable fund, for the supply of which we must look to the liberality of private benefactors, to endow a complete system of such schools within a given region, which shall have its central and normal schools after the system estab­ lished by Government. The efficiency of our school work in certain quarters, both of the lower and higher grade, has re­ ceived the special commendation of government inspectors this year, and prospect is held out of an increase of govern­ ment grants. The relation of educational work to the success of our mission in India is such that we believe the above proposition for a special endowment worthy of serious consid­ eration and hearty response. The increasing efficiency of the native preachers is noted in this year’s Report, and the hopes of our missionaries for the 188 t.] NORTH INDIA. 135 future of the mission justly grow still brighter as they see such able men raised up in the field to carry forward the work. There are tokens of a very extended movement, which maj ere long find full development in the adoption of Christian­ ity by whole castes of the Hindus, who have already accepted the Gospel within their circle. During the year two important churches— those of Luck­ now and Cawnpore— have been relieved of debt, a new church has been dedicated at Seetapore, and also one at Nynee Tal, on the new and safer site at the lower end of the lake. The disasters of the mission at this place, by occasion of the land slip, are being fully repaired. The new church here cost 24,000 rupees, most of which has been already paid by sub­ scription. For a fuller account, see the report from the Ku- maon District. . We commend all the district reports to careful perusal. They abound in facts and incidents, which should be brought to the attention of the people, as illustrative of the success of our endeavors to carry the blessings of the Gospel to a hea­ then people, The session of the North India Conference occurs January 11, 1882, and we are therefore only able to give here the dis­ tribution of the laborers in the field during 1881. The mis­ sionaries and assistant missionaries of the parent Society and the missionaries of the W. F. M. S. will be distinguished by their several titles in the lists of appointments under the different Districts.

ROHILKUND DISTRICT, E. W. P a r k e r , P. E.

APPOINTMENTS FOR 1881.

B a r e i l l y .— Missionaries: T. J. Scott, D.D., S. S. Dease, M.D. D. W. Thomas, Suftriy. Assistant Missionaries, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Thomas. Pastor, J. T. Janvier. Evangelist, Mohan. Pilibkit, D. P. Kidder, Ghassi. Bisalphur, Dil Sookh. Aonla, Silas, Chhiddu. Bareilly High School, M. L. Banerjee. Missionaries W. P. M. S.: Miss C. A. Swain, M.D., Miss F. Sparkes. Assistant Missionaries: Miss Miller, Mrs. Jarbo, Miss Durand. Medical Assistants: Rebecca Gowan, Matilda Adams. Girls’ Orphanage— 1 3 6 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

Zenana Teachers: John Moses, Daniel Buck, Ella Moses, Eliza Joel, Isabella Kallu, Mohaniyan Mattara, Amy Chhidda, Rupiya Melville Fatto, Hester Pool. City Girls' School— Ruth Sweet, Lydia Pres Grave. FUTHAGUNGE.— Minister in Charge : A. Solomon; John Net Ram. Bible Women: Rachel, Khairatan. M ir Guge, Ummed Singh, I. Si- roulee, Agru. Sigra, Jawahir Lall. Pardouli, Manee Ram. Kaiosa, Shib Churn. KHERA B a j h e r a .— M inister: Fazl Ullah ; James B riscoe. Bible Women : Aziman, Milkah. SHAHJEHANPORE C i r c u i t .— Boys Orphanage.— Missionary : T . S« Johnson, M.D. Assistant Missionary, Mrs. Johnson. Pastor in Orphan­ age, W. R. Bowen. Head Master, A. Frank. Teachers: Peter Solomon, Samuel Tupper, A. R. Street. SHAHJEHANPORE.— Missionary, C. L. Bare. Assistant Missionary, Mrs. Bare. City: C. Hancock, Matti Istifan. City School— Head Mas­ ter, H. L. Mukarjee. T ilh u r: Ishri Parshad, Edwin Gay. Pawayan, Seneca Falls. Jalalabad, Benjamin F. Cocker. W. F. M. S. Assistant Missionary, Mrs. Fleming-. Bible Women and Teachers: Cassie Barnes, Mona Fish, Salome Gale, Tabitha Rouser, Jenney Singh, Bella Howard, Bella Plumer, Sophronia Hancock, Sarah Perrine, Grace Falls, Anna Crocker. P a n a h p o k e .— Mitiister in Charge, H. J. Adams. Teachers: R. Turner, Ram Sook. Bible Women and Teachers: Minerva Adams; Ranee, Haidri, Khanam Turner, Mercey. BUDAON.— Missionary, R. Hoskins. Assistant Missionary, Mrs. Hoskins. Budaon: Hasan Roza, Khan, Taj Khan. City School— Head Master, Samuel Phillips. Lotanpur, Khub Chan. Maraira, Chhote Lall. Saiswan, James Jordon. Data Gunge, Kallu Singh. Zillah Evan­ gelist, Kallu Dhar. W. F. M. S. Assistants: Mrs. Haddis, Mrs. Butterfield. Matron, Mrs. Bond. Boarding-school Master, Fred. Samuel. Bible Women and Teachers: Luchhami, Mabbo, Maharani, Elizabeth Samuel, Louisa Phil­ lips, Rosina S. Leonard, Manzuran, Karuna, Huliya, Josephine John, Kokila Dass, Duliya Munna, Fanny Peters, Parbati. KAKRALA .— Minister in Charge, Mahbub Khan. Kakrala, Tore Datt. U jhan i: Kaliyan Dass, Khairan Khan. Bible Women, Kaliya Datt.

B i l s i .— Pastor, Antone Datt. Bilsi, Simon Peter. Bisouli, Jhabbu Lall. Zena)ia Worker, Claudia Dass. '

C h a n d a u s i .— Pastor, George Bailey. Teachers: W . Comfort, John S. Higginbottoms, Laura Eve, Bukiya Comfort. •MORADABAD.— Missionary, H. Mansell. Assistant Missionaries: Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Mansell. Moradabad— Pastor, Piran. Teachers: H. K. List, Fazl Hagg, Buddha, Motee, Thannah. Shahupur, Prem Dass. Mousampur, Andrias. Haroura, Prabhu Dass. Bairampur, Prem Singh. W. F. M. S. Missionary, Miss L. Kelley. Girls' Boarding School— jfatron, Mrs. Alexander. Teachers: Lizzie, Sophia, Esther Catharine, 1881.] NORTH INDIA. 137

Lorain, Bakhtawar. Zenana and Village Workers: Jane P. Plumer, Mary List, Sundri, Piraniyan, Bilaso, Matilda Adams, Tijiya. SUMBHAL.— Minister in Charge, Zahur-ul-Huqq. Sumbhal: W . S. Plumer, Mawasi Singh. City School— Teacher, Joti Lall. Rasulpore, Jumman Lall. Sharikpur, Ummed Singh, II. Gangeshri, Yaqub Carnehus. Babukhera, Francis Peters. Hasanpur, Jhabbu Singh. Pithkhera, Gulab Singh. Alichola, Ballu Singh. W. F . M . S. Workers: Susannah Haag, Mary Crocker, Elizabeth Chhidda, Emma Hedges, Gomti, Susan. A m r o h a . — Amroha— Pastor, Peter Merrill, Dulla Singh. Hafizpur, Dand. Joa, Biharee Lall. Narainiyan, Gurdiyal Singh. Dourala, Manphul Singh. Raepur, Prabhu Dass. Dhanaura, H. B. Mitchel. Zenana Workers: Josephine, Lydia Daud, Eliza Mitchel, Nathiya Manphul, Phebe. B lJN O U R .— Minister in Charge, H. A. Cutting. Teacher, A. G. M’Arthur. Mandawar, Yaqub Shah. Mohammadptir, Bala Dass. Najeehabad, B. M’Gregor. Nageenah, Dilawar Singh. Bashta, J. F. Judd. Dhampur, Jukkhan Lall. W. F. M. S. Workers : Miss Maria Seymore, Miss Margaret Seymore, Bella Cutting, Sofi Rodgers, Emily M’Arthur, Agnes Cutler, Jane F. Willing. Rachel Singh, Henrietta M’Gregor, Bholee, Ranee, Loes Judd, Hannah Lali, Bholee Erastus.

N o t e . —All of the above not noted a s missionaries or assistants, are natives em­ ployed in the work. The teachers in our schools who are not Christians are not shown in this list. Hence the table shows more teachers than are given here.

The Presiding Elder reports: This district is more than two hundred miles long, and contains a pop­ ulation greater than that of the entire State of New York. Within our bounds there are little churches or classes in more than fifty different places. There are 160 day-schools, with 4,177 pupils; 1 Theological School; 1 High School; 2 Orphanages, with about 500 pupils, and 172 Sunday-schools, with 7,501 pupils. Our regular Christian laborers, as shown in our list of appointments above, consist of 7 missionaries, with their families; 3 missionaries of the Ladies’ Society; 6 Eurasian lady assistants; 90 native men of various grades, from the members of Conferences to the primary school teacher; and 88 native women employed as zenana teachers, school teachers, and Bible women. This gives us many departments of work and many grades of laborers, yet the work in every department shows encouraging prosperity. While some laborers fail, the larger portion succeed through the careful supervision given to all the work. More native preachers have been placed in full charge of large circuits this year, and they have done well in every case. The growth of these men is, perhaps, the most encouraging feature of our work. One great hinderance in our work has been the evil effects of the climate, forcing 138 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

missionaries to leave their work every few years, thus making- missionary labor very expensive and quite irregular. Hence it is very cheering to see strong men rise up in our midst capable of taking some of our largest circuits and doing efficient work. In future we can only afford to keep missionaries enough in this field to direct and mold and steady the work, and only men who are natural leaders are henceforth required. We can­ not afford to employ an American who, as a workman, is in nowise supe­ rior to the native preacher on an adjoining circuit, while he costs the soci­ ety eight times as much as the native brother does. Our better class of native preachers are certainly giving us very great satisfaction in every respect. They are men with a clear, definite experience, sincere devotion, pure character, and real efficiency in the w ork; and every year tried men come to the front from the ranks of local preachers, acting as junior preachers, who are being faithfully trained for the work. At our late District Conference seven worthy men came up for recommendation for admission to the Annual Conference. One did not satisfy his brethren in his examination, one other waited a year to be free of the use of tobacco, and a third was put off on account of a report of some former wrong conduct. Nearly every man in the Conference believed the report false, yet they put off the case until it could be proved false. Four excellent, well- trained graduates of our Theological School, who have also had several years of experience in the work, were recommended. In this District Con­ ference there were over one hundred natives present, including ministers, local preachers, exhorters, district stewards, leaders, and Sunday-school superintendents, and only six missionaries, and yet no man could get a recommendation, even from this miscellaneous body, concerning whom there was the least doubt of his having a clear record. This, also, is an encouraging phase of our work. Our Sunday-schools still increase. Of the 7,501 pupils in our schools, about 6,000 are non-Christians. It is one of the mysteries of our work to see how God is giving us the children even of those who would op­ pose our religion. These Sunday-schools are conducted exactly like Chris­ tian schools, and encouragements, such as cards, pictures, Sunday-school papers, etc., are given the boys, the same as in America. The work in many parts of the district is spreading among lower classes, and we believe that the way is being rapidly prepared for a very large in­ gathering. Some of the leaders of these classes are already Christians, and others are inquirers, and in many places persons have been baptized, forming a nucleus fora large work. In one class— the Chumars— so often mentioned in this report, there are over 500,000 persons in this district, and so many of their religious leaders and others have become Chris­ tians, that multitudes in the caste are talking of the religion, and many do not hesitate to state that they are soon to become Christians. The call for little schools to teach the children of these people is very general. These schools would cost about $36 per year for each school. Those who ask for such schools fully believe that the result will be that they and their children will be Christians. Could we supply this 188 r.l NORTH INDIA. 139 demand for educating1 the children of these classes by opening one hundred small schools, costing $3,600 per year, and keeping up good cen­ tral schools of higher grades to which the best boys could be promoted for a higher education, we could within a few years gather in a very large Church, in which a large proportion would be intelligent men and women, so that the unlearned, coming along with them in large numbers, with idolatrous habits fixed, would not crush out the pure life of the Church. God gives us success as fast as we get our foundations securely laid so as to raise up a pure Church. Would that some of God’s wealthy stewards would endow a system of schools with $100,000. This would give us a high central school, with one hundred primary schools, from which choice pupils could be promoted to the high school. There are few openings where so little money can do so much good. One primary school a year for $36, and each such school will almost surely prove the nucleus of a Church ! The separate circuit reports show particulars of work:

B a r e il l y C i r c u i t . Rev. T. J. Scott writes: “ Our communicants now number 240. This is ten less than last year, the decrease being caused by removals, including the graduating class of theological students, and the removal by letter of some, and a few expul­ sions. Our number is thus smaller than last year, although we have had growth by the addition of 30 adults by baptism. W e have four more Sunday-schools than last year. Our Sunday-school work is becoming a powerful agency in affecting the non-Christian natives. We are making steady growth in self-support. All give something, and more regularly and willingly than formerly. The native Church during the past year sup­ ported two evangelists on a small salary, started a school for the youngest of the Christian children, paid 30 rupees toward completing the cemetery, besides extending help to the poor, and assisting in other matters con­ nected with the Church. We have had but little persecution. WTe may glance at the different centers connected with this station: “ Bareilly. Bro. Janvier, the native pastor, is improving the Church. The year has been one of trial through the evil conduct of a few members. Satan troubled us greatly— the evil doers were cut off. “ During the year a little congregation of Christians was raised up at a village a few miles from the city. A small school was opened among them, and they have all proved steadfast. Shortly after these persons were baptized, a Moslem, seeing that something new had been organized among them, found on inquiry that they had become Christians. As one of the men was passing him he said, ‘ You people must be looked after soon ; the sword must be applied.’ Still, as stated, we have had no per­ secution during the year. In the city a girls’ school was broken up by the children being all kept away ; their Christian songs and talk and prayers, it was said, had gone far enough. ‘ Our children,’ the parents said, ‘ have become Christians.’ On the other hand, very extensively people of the Chumar cast are beginning to think that they must become Chris­ 140 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

tians. W e have just established two schools in the city, where they under­ stand that, with secular training, we are to teach our religion to the chil­ dren. “ Pilibhit. In this city a Chumar school was for a time broken up through Mohammedan influence. The Mohammedans are ever jealous and watchful of our influence. Confidence was restored and the school again opened. There were a number baptized in this city during the year. The climate of the place is bad, and our helpers and their families always suffer here. “ Aonla. The native preacher has done well— a dozen adults have been baptized. Two girls’ schools were recently opened. The leading man among the Chumars is under instruction, and we hope will be baptized. In surrounding villages there are a considerable number of inquirers among the Sweepers. In general, we may remark on the work in these places, that steady persistent effort will bring large fruit in the next ten years. Large numbers of the lower classes manifest an interest in our teaching, and leaders are raised up from their midst who are bringing them to Christ. Col. Acton, of Her Majesty’s army, has undertaken the support of a native itinerant among the Chumar class of people. The man was recently a priest among them. Our want is trained men for the work. Preachers and Christian school-masters, drawn from this people, must be drilled for the work. W e here touch on the sphere of the

T h e o l o g i c a l S e m i n a r y a n d H i g h S c h o o l . (Bareilly.) “ During this year one theological student was expelled, one was dropped out from incapacity in study, and one, the brightest mind in the school, was laid aside by sickness. Thus the sifting process goes on. Morals, mind, and health, are tested. Twelve students, giving good promise, are now in the regular classes. A class of twelve is forming for next year. W e are seeking to make this school the best of its kind in India. We need not repeat our plans and methods from year to year. Much as to method, and just what theological education should, be in this stage of things in India, has yet to be learned. W e must still learn and toil on. "W e have received valuable aid in the work of the school from courses of lectures by members of the Conference. Rev. R. Hoskins lectured on ‘ Sunday-school Work,' Rev. H. Mansell on the ‘ History of Missions,’ Rev. E. W. Parker on ‘ Practical Methods of Mission W ork,’ and Dr. Dease, of the station, in addition to his other medical work and manage­ ment of the school, gave a number of lectures to the students on ‘ Physi­ ology and Hygiene.’ We are making some progress in the organiza­ tion and consolidation of the interests of the school. “ Arrangements have been completed to register the board of trustees, and thus make it a legal body under the appropriate Indian law. At­ tempts, so far, have failed at converting our troublesome bungalow form o f endowment into something involving less care and vexation. Nothing so far available yields one half the same interest. W e find no encourage­ 1881.] NORTH INDIA. 1 4 1

ment in trying to transfer our endowment to the United States, and seem shut up for the present to the bungalows. “ We are putting our garden and grounds into a more attractive condi­ tion. We have had but little money for this object. There is teaching and molding power in an attractive grove, with pleasant walks and flow­ ering shrubs. The memory of such a place often has a hallowed influ­ ence for life. From their monasteries and groves the mendicants of Europe went further to convert and train savage peoples in religion and art. In the High School and Normal Department we are feeling our way, and learning what is needed to be done. Candidates for the High School have not been numerous. By removals and failures to pass the half yearly examination the number on scholarship has been reduced to four. “ The Normal Department seems to meet a more pressing want. Twenty-one students are in attendance in three classes. The lower class are in elementary studies. Our aim is to pass the higher class in the mid­ dle vernacular studies in two more years. The students coming to us dur­ ing the year have been very unequal in attainments, and it was difficult to classify this department. We had hoped to get students who could pass the middle class in two years, but perhaps must change our plan. The demand for village teachers of a low grade indicates a shorter and lower- grade course for some. We have yet to learn more clearly just what the requirements of the work are. We are thankful for valuable hints and suggestions from those who send pupils and know the wants of the work. The training of Christian teachers for schools among Christians and in­ quirers, is a matter of the greatest importance. Our students, so far, have come to us rather to learn the subjects taught, than how to teach them to others ; yet we keep in view the normal-school idea. We hope to send the pupils away much better prepared to teach than they could become in the ordinary schools of the country. A vernacular text-book on teaching is a want. The one used by the Government in its normal schools is almost worthless. This High School and Normal Department will serve as an important preparatory school for the Theological Seminary. Five students have been recommended from this department for the semi­ nary next year.”

F u t h a g u n g e . Rev. Abraham Solomon, the native minister, writes : “ The Lord Jesus has poured out his blessings on all our work this year. In our Church there are now eighty-three persons, twenty-one being mem­ bers, thirty probationers, and thirty-two baptized children. In worldly things these are all poor, but in spiritual things they are prospering more and more all the time. Twenty-five persons have been converted this year from among the heathen. There are six castes of people represented in our Church, ranging from the highest to the lowest, and all dwell to­ gether in Christian love and unity. They live in seventeen different vil- 1 4 2 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

lages. In Futhagunge there is a school in which Hindu boys are taught God’s word, and also worldly knowledge, and every Sunday these boys come to our Sunday-school and learn our hymns, the Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Bible lessons. We have a firm hope that they will sometime accept Christ. During this year we have collected funds among our brethren, and have built a church for the poor Chris­ tians of Mir Gunge, one of the appointments of this circuit. There is a small school for Christians and inquirers there also, held in the little chapel, and several have been baptized this year. Our persecutors here are becoming tired of trying to hinder us, and are giving us rest at present. “ At Sigra we have this year built a preachers’ house. The work there is in the territory of the Nawab of Rampur, and is very encouraging. No one appears to persecute or hinder us, but daily the people become more and more friendly, and two persons, Hindus, have received baptism this year. “ At Serolee also, eight miles from Futhagunge, a new work has been commenced, a school for boys, and one for girls has been opened espe­ cially for inquirers among lower classes. There is one Brahmin, a land­ holder, who is learning daily, and seems a sincere inquirer. “ At Katosa an old leader was converted, and through his influence agood work is started. Our few Christians are very faithful and true. This leader is a very humble, meek, true man. There is a Hindu temple here that is sure to come into our hands soon, to be changed into a place of Christian worship. Several of its owners are already Christians. This leader is now supported by the Christians of our circuit, that he may be free to go among the people to lead them to Christ. Besides the above laborers there is one exhorter who aids us much, entirely supporting him­ self, and another, formerly a priest, of an inquiring class, who is supported by a Christian gentleman, that he may work freely among his former dis­ ciples. They every-where receive him gladly, and fruit must follow from his labors. “ The work of this circuit, which has been brought up from the begin­ ning by this native preacher, is a model work. All classes are gathered in and well taught, and every year new openings appear. There are at present many inquirers being faithfully taught.”

S hahjehanpore —B o y s ’ O r p h a n a g e . Rev. T. S. Johnson, superintendent, writes : “ The number of boys in the Orphanage is about the same as last year— two hundred and sixty. The moral tone, perhaps, never was better, and the result of this is seen both in the school and workshop, as well as among those who work in the fields and gardens. One of the boys has just been recommended for the Theological School in Bareilly. The mela, just closed, was a means of great grace to many of the boys. The government educational officers, both the director and inspector, have i88r.] NORTH INDIA. 143 visited the institution during the year and wrote very favorable reports, and the government grant in aid has been increased from 220 to 250 ru­ pees per mensem. The collector of the district and the civil surgeon also made an official visit, and gave a very full and favorable report on the sanitary and general condition of the institution. An arrangement has been entered into within the year with the Muir Cotton Mills, at Cawn- pore, which promises to be of great importance to the Orphanage as well as to the native Christian community in this part of India. The directors of the mills very kindly agree to admit a large number of the boys into the mills where they may learn the work and take regular employment as soon as they become qualified. This enterprise involves expense in securing homes for the boys in Cawnpore, but it is an expenditure that will pay in more ways than one. About seventy-five of the boys are to be transferred to Cawnpore in close proximity to the mills, in which they will work part of each clay, and attend school the other part, upon the same principle of school and manual labor so long observed in the Or­ phanage. “ The boys sent from the Orphanage to the Christian village, Panahpore, are working well ; one of them has had fields set off to him, and has commenced work for himself, having made arrangements for a helpmeet; others will soon be ready to follow his example in both respects. The Panahpore estate, which is connected with the Orphanage, has been some­ what improved during the year in the way of sinking a number of wells for irrigation. “ The time of the superintendent of the Orphanage since last Confer­ ence has been partly devoted to superintending the Oudh District, which would have been quite impossible but for the very valuable aid given by the assistant manager and teachers, who have graduated from the insti­ tution, and are reliable and trustworthy men.”

P a n a h p o r e . Rev. Horace J. Adams, native minister. This is the Christian village and estate connected with the Boys’ Orphanage. There is a large tract of land laid out into farms, and cultivated by the Christian community. The native pastor writes: “ There are about three hundred Christians in our village, including chil­ dren, and God has been with us in our work all the year. Ever}' day in the year the work of training up this Church is carried on faithfully. Our plan of work is as follows: Sunday, at eight A. M., our Sunday-school meets; the average attendance is one hundred and eighty, and the school is divided into ten classes. At nine o’clock a preaching service is held. At eleven the women have their four class meetings, and at two the men also meet in four classes. A t four a meeting is held for all the children, at which instruction is given adapted to their understandings. On Thurs­ day evening a general prayer-meeting is held. Every evening we go to some brother’s house and have prayer with the family, with the object 144 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

of aiding the entire family, and of encouraging' family prayer in each house. The pastor’s wife also visits much from house to house, and prays with the women, encouraging them, and teaching them also to pray. There are two educated women who are appointed to work as Bible- teachers. One goes among outsiders, and one teaches the ignorant Chris­ tian women. There is a school for boys and one for girls, in the village, attended mostly by Christian children. Thus all kinds of work are car­ ried on in our village, and efforts are made to train up a Church with intelligent faith and pure morals.”

S hahjehanpore . Rev. C. L. Bare, missionary, writes : “ The work of this circuit is carried on in a district in the southern part of Rohilcund, containing nearly a million souls. This field was one of the earliest taken up by our mission, and one or two missionaries have labored here since the founding of our Orphanage, in 1859. Still there are scores of villages within the circuit which have never seen a missionary in their midst, much less heard of a Saviour bom in Bethlehem. There are three bazars in this city where preaching has been kept up three times a week throughout the year. In Tilhur, Jalalabad, and Pawayan, where native preachers are appointed, there are five bazars where preaching services are held. Hindus are generally disposed to show no respect in the bazars, but the contempt shown at times by Mohammedans for Christians has been the most accomplished thing we ever witnessed. In the case of an old Moulvi this hatred has grown into a sort of religious fanaticism. He evidently labors under the hallucination that it is a mer­ itorious act in the sight of ‘ Allah* to persecute Christians when preach­ ing in the bazars. His plan is to come into our crowd after the work of gathering the people together has been done, and they have become in­ terested in the preaching, and if possible raise a discussion on some im­ portant question. If he fails in this, he turns upon his heel with some contemptuous remark about us or our religion, and, drawing off a part of our audience, goes away a few paces and begins to harangue against us. This Moulvi has persistently kept "up such a course of treatment during nearly the entire year. When we changed our preaching-place he very soon followed us, and there also began his business of distracting our work. The native preachers have visited Ramapore and other villages every week during the year, and as the first-fruit of this work five persons were baptized at the Christian mela in October. Three of these were heads of families, one of whom came to us with the others last February, and asked to be baptized. W e wished, however, to test them more fully, and hence put them off for a time. They then asked us to receive their declaration of faith in Christ before the people of their village. This we consented to do, and at the time fixed drove out to their village. We found the villagers all gathered together, and it was evident that there was ‘ no small stir about that way ’ among them. They were talked to, and the ‘ way ’ plainly set before them, and then the inquirers came for­ NORTH INDIA. i 88 i .] 145 ward and declared their faith in Christ— that they had abandoned Hin­ duism, and accepted Christianity. The villagers were then exhorted not to persecute these new Christians. They immediately replied that the Christians could not draw water out of the well from which they were accustomed to draw. A few days afterward, when the Christians went to the well for water, they found it surrounded by the villagers, armed with clubs, determined to beat the Christians if they came near. As an important principle was involved, a complaint was brought against the villagers in court. The position taken by the villagers was that the well was a private one, surrounded by a wall inclosing private property, and not open to the public at all, and hence the Christians were guilty of tres­ pass. So conflicting were the testimonies that the magistrate rode out to the village to satisfy himself by personal inspection. He found the people very busily engaged in building a wall around the well, in order that the false witness in court might in the end be supported by fact. He also learned from those who were using the well that it was a public well, and hence rendered a decision in favor of the Christians. “ There are twenty-six day-schools connected with this circuit— eighteen for girls, and eight for boys. These are attended by 303 girls and 627 boys— 930 in all— and taught by forty-six teachers, of whom eleven are Christians, and thirty-five are Hindus or Mohammedans. The Bible is regularly taught in all, besides the instruction they receive in Sunday- school. W e also have twenty-six Sunday-schools, taught by Christian teachers. The number on the roll is 1,225. The average attendance has just doubled during the past two years, and may double again in the next two if we can have the teachers and aid required. Regular attendance is encouraged by giving out Scripture tickets, and in exchange for twelve tickets a large Bible picture with Hindu and Urdu descriptions is given. Prizes are also given to those boys who recite all the ‘ Golden Texts,’ ‘ Selected Verses,’ etc. One little boy of the Chumar school was taken sick, and on Saturday evening he told his mother that he would be better to-morrow, and would bathe and dress and go to Sunday-school, and stay after the school to the preaching, and thus worship the true God. On Sunday morning the spirit of the little fellow passed away, and his teacher says he died a Christian. “ The work and meetings for the Church are very nearly the same as that of the other stations, except that we have a little chapel in the city also, where many Hindus and Mohammedans gather to hear preaching and singing. The native Church has done very well in contributions toward the support of their pastor, and in the missionary collection this year. In one chapel near the railway we have regular English services, and this congregation aids much in supporting our Sunday-school work, and in paying general current expenses. “ The persecution and hatred on the part of the caste brotherhood of those who become Christians is very forcibly illustrated in the cruel mur­ der of Hanawant Singh. He was a Thakur by caste, and a landholder in the village of Nagla, and owned a half interest in four villages or 10 1 4 6 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

estates, one of his caste brothers owning the other half. His family con­ sisted of himself, wife, and six children, two of whom were grown. Some years ago he heard our preachers preach in the bazar, and bought a Hindi book of them called the Dharm Tula. He took the book home and read it, and became anxious to learn more, as the book referred to things and truths he knew nothing of. Hence he returned to the city to find some one to explain these mysteries to him. He was directed to the chaplain, and the chaplain, not being acquainted with the Hindi, sent him to the missionary, Brother F. M. Wheeler. Brother Wheeler saw that he was a sincere and intelligent inquirer after the truth. He taught him as well as he could in the time, and sold him a Hindi New Testament. The man continued to come to Brother Wheeler, and afterward to other mis­ sionaries, to secure aid in his studies; and in October, 1879. Hanawant Singh and his eldest son, Mohan, were baptized, and in March, 1880, Tulsa, his eldest daughter. From the very first he seemed a sincere inquirer, and he took Christ as his Saviour, giving up all others. It is said that before he understood our form of worship he would bum incense to Christ. He was true to Christ, according to the light he possessed. His faith in the word of Christ was also exceedingly pure and simple. One day he was at Brother Wheeler’s house, and concerning some sub­ ject Brother W. said, ‘ Let us pray about this,’ and began to kneel down. But Hanawant proceeded to close all the doors. When told that this was not necessary-, he replied, ‘ You know that the Testament says, “ When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door,” ’ etc. In this manner he took Christ’s word as being literal and true in every instance. This sincerity and simplicity attended him in all his rela­ tions with the missionaries, and in all his religious life. In his worship he also showed great humility and meekness. He always seemed to realize that he was in the presence of a loving Saviour, to whom he owed every thing. In prayer he would fall upon the floor, as a child, and con­ ceal his face with his hands, and pray as though he was profoundly im­ pressed with the goodness and majesty and glory of God, who was present in his Saviour. When two missionaries visited his village only a few months before his murder a very large audience of villagers was collected in a grove to see the magic-lantern pictures. The preaching, in connec­ tion with the pictures of the life of Christ, continued until late, and yet the people all sat and listened. At last Hanawant was asked if he would like to testify to his neighbors what Christ had done for him. He replied that he would, and, stepping to the front, he bore witness boldly for Christ. In referring to his worship, he said: ‘ Formerly I prayed without knowing whether any one heard, or cared, or not; but now when I kneel in prayer 1 fully realize Jesus near me, and I know that he hears and gives me peace and help.’ The entire testimony was remarkably original, deliv­ ered in his own village idioms, yet it was one of the clearest testimonies to the abiding presence and saving power of Christ we ever heard. Al­ though this man was a Thakur, which has come almost to only mean proud and overbearing, yet in all his relations with us, and with all our NORTH INDIA. 147 people, he showed only a gentlemanly bearing and a very kind heart. He happened to be in the mission-house once when a little orphan babe was brought in for the Orphanage. Some one said this child must have good fresh cow’s milk if it would live. Hanawant immediately arose and left the room, and the next day sent a cow for the orphan babe. “ This man, whose life and character we have briefly noticed from Octo­ ber 20, 1879, when he was baptized, until May 5, 1881, when he was murdered, was an object of the most cruel and bitter hatred among the Hindus of his caste. He was riding home one night from Jalalabad, when he was attacked by enemies who attempted to kill him, and he was saved only by leaping from his pony, that received a blow which was in­ tended for him, and fleeing into the jungle. On the morning of the 5th of May last he took his gun, as was his custom, and sauntered out into the field. He came to a tank of water where his partner in the estates, with several laborers, were irrigating his fields. It seems that the part­ ner had no right, either by possession or permission, to use water from that tank. Hanawant therefore expostulated with him, and during the conversation they had all come to sit down between the banisters of a bridge near the tank. Hanawant had placed his gun against the bridge at a short distance from him, and wras engaged still in conversation, when four men rose up and beat him to death with clubs. It was the end of a long and bitter hatred of him as a Christian, as will be seer, from what follows. As the murderers were fleeing away toward Jalalabad, some men asked them what the excitement w'as. They replied that they had killed an ‘ Isai,’ (Christian,) and now they would kill the ‘ Munshi ’ (preacher) and the other Christians of the village, and then the village would be pure and clean. The missionaries and others whp investigated this case at once, listening to accounts of Hindus, also believe that the above is the only account that can be given of this murder. The murder­ ers were arrested, and after a long, tedious trial, in which the murderers tried to prove that they acted only in self-defense, two were exculpated, and two were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. The general feeling was that all four were guilty of cold-blooded murder; hence a thrill of astonishment ran through the entire community at the news of the decis­ ion. The magistrate who first investigated the case has appealed it to the high court, where it is now awaiting decision. The two persons who were released had no sooner returned to their village than they began to make threats upon the lives of other Christians. This news reached the ears of the magistrate, who ordered their arrest, and on their failure to furnish bail sent them to prison for one year. While in jail they incited some of their fellow-prisoners to attack the jailer, and for this mean act received a severe flogging, and had three years added to their imprison­ ment. “ The body of Hanawant Singh was made over to his friends at noon on the 6th of May, and received a Christian burial, with suitable memorial services, in the chapel of the Boys’ Orphanage. His son, who was a hes­ itating Christian, often opposing his father's zeal, has been led by the 148 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

sympathy and aid given him through this severe trial to become a decided Christian. He was a very earnest seeker for a change of heart at our late camp-meeting, and he gave evidence that he received what he so earnestly sought.”

B u d a o n C i r c u i t . Rev. R. Hoskins, missionary, writes : “ This j-ear the work in Budaon was divided into three circuits, and two native ordained preachers were put in full charge of their separate por­ tion of the field. This arrangement has worked exceedingly well, for, although these brethren had been living in the same place before this arrangement, they did not feel so free to develop their own plans, and they could not take the same interest in the work for which another per­ son was responsible. These brethren have taken a large portion of my old field, and several hundred Christians are committed to their care. “ Early in the year Brother Kullo Dher was released from the charge of a local work, and appointed evangelist for the whole county of Budaon. He has thoroughly canvassed the field, and has found several people pre­ pared for instruction, and for the reception of Christ. “ We hope to have the necessary funds provided at our next Annual Conference to station low-salaried teachers in ten or twelve of the larger towns. This year the work has taken a fresh start. The candidates for baptism are so many that we delay this ordinance,_ so that we may first properly indoctrinate them. W e have steadily followed up the openings among the Chumars. At first they feared to study lest they be outcasted, but by employing men from among them as teachers, on an average pay of three rupees per month, and by requiring these teachers, with the more promising of their scholars, to attend the school in the mission compound for three hours daily, we have secured constant progress in study for both teachers and pupils. In connection with these Chumar-schools we have a Sunday-school attendance of three hundred, including men, women, and children. “ The desire for education is rapidly increasing among this class. When educated they will get no sympathy from Hindus and Mohammedans. Education will not give them position in the social scale, but Christianity will be a haven of rest to them, and when educated they will necessarily be drawn towarcl us. “ There has been a very large increase to our Sunday-school work. Ob­ stacles which for years seemed unsurmountable have vanished, and the outlook for the next year is still more encouraging. W e have begun to have regular Sunday-school work on the other days of the week, and if this plan works satisfactorily, the men who give their whole time to this work will be able to instruct from one to two hundred pupils daily. The plan of employing Hindu and Mohammedan boys to act as collectors has worked satisfactorily. W e pay these boy collectors at the rate of one rupee per hundred for the average attendance of the month, and to each pupil is given a Scripture verse ticket. At the end of the second or third i 8 8 i j NORTH INDIA. 149

month these tickets are exchanged for some form of reward costing one piece for twelve tickets. With the present resources we cannot much extend this interesting work, though we would delight to have in the Budaon schools ten thousand children studying the way of life. “ The Sigler Girls’ Boarding-school building is a model. Including dor­ mitories and residences for head teachers and matron, it has cost about 8,000 rupees. The money for this school was given by Mr. Sigler, of Osceola, Iowa. There are fifty-seven girls now attending the school, and it is doing a very important work for our Hindustani Churches. Our preaching hall and school in the city is well on toward completion. The audience-room will seat six hundred persons. W e have also arranged a reading-room over some shops connected with this assembly-room. The shops were built by money collected for the education of Christian boys, and they yield 20 rupees monthly. The clock and bell-tower will be completed as soon as our means warrant the expenditure. We hope that before long the clock and bell will indicate the fleeting hours to every man in, the city. We have an average attendance of twenty-fiVe Chris­ tian boys in our central school, of these fifteen have been supported by scholarships; the boys have done very well, and most of them have been soundly converted to God.”

K a k r a l a . Rev. Mahbub Khan, native minister. This is a new circuit— a part of the Budaon Circuit. The pastor writes: “ In Kakrala there is a promising Christian Church which is making fair progress in all respects. There are eleven villages in which Christian families reside, and some of these show much zeal in spreading Chris­ tianity, so that many of their relatives are ready to receive Christ. They, first of all, desire to have their children educated, and also taught our religion. Eight adults and eight children have been baptized this year. The most wonderful thing in Kakrala is, that the women are much more inclined to accept Christ than the men. This is accounted for, doubtless, by the fact that there are among the Christian women some intelligent and pious women who labor faithfully with their neighbors. There are inquirers here among three classes, the Maroos, the Chumars, and the Bairagis. The Bairagis are the priests and religious leaders of the Chu- rnars, hence their conversion is opening an effectual door among this large class also. “ A t first we found it very difficult to start a Sunday-school at Kakrala on account of Mohammedan opposition, but gradually our numbers have increased until now we have one hundred and fifty boys in attendance, and we have had to divide our school, as we have no room large enough to accommodate all at once. The pupils make good progress in learn­ ing the lessons. Some of the boys have learned by heart the Ten Com­ mandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and several stories of the Bible. “ The Christians are generally poor, and are not able to give their chil­ 150 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l8 8 l.

dren a proper education. So that we find it essential for satisfactory progress in this work to make special provisions to aid in the education of the Christian youth and the children of inquirers. There are several places where low-salaried teachers should be immediately employed. Many are candidates for baptism, but need to be well instructed. The Gospel has.been faithfully preached in the markets and village rest houses, and the people have given excellent attention.”

B i l s i C i r c u i t . Antone Datt, native minister. This is also a new circuit set apart this year and placed under the charge of a native preacher. It contains many villages, large and small, and is a very promising field. It was formerly a part of the Budaon Circuit, and the native brother now in charge has been in this field for a long time. He writes : “ In this circuit there are sixteen villages in which Christians reside. These villages are scattered over a large area, and there are in all three hundred and ten Christians in the circuit. There are but two laborers, so that the people are not as well taught as they should be. I have visited all the places of the circuit four times this year, and I have tried faith­ fully to teach all the Christians under my special charge. Twenty per­ sons have received baptism. There are two Sunday-schools at Bilsi, where I live, and one at Bisouli, where the other preacher lives. One of the schools here is made up entirely of outsiders. The three schools number about three hundred. There are many inquirers in this field, but so many difficulties arise when they come near to the point of con­ fessing Christ openly, that they hesitate, and often turn back disheart­ ened. The caste tie is very strong, and to break it is to accept social death and separation from all former associations. Still, our field is ripening for the harvest. The Christians are growing in spirituality year by year.”

C h a n d a u s i . George Bailey, pastor. This is a city of over thirty thousand people, and a very active business center. The pastor here is a Eurasian local preacher. The native Christians are mostly in the employ of the railway, and are subject- to strong temptations, and have few opportunities for attending divine service, as the railway company knows no Sabbath in any of its departments. Brother Bailey writes : “ W e have one school for high-caste boys in the city, and two for Chu- mar boys, and there are Sunday-schools in each. Among the high-caste boys there has at times been great opposition to our Sunday-schools. When we had the lessons concerning the three worthies who were cast into the fiery furnace, one boy refused to longer worship the image of his household, and said he would be thrown into a furnace before he would consent to worship images any more. This led the parent— a very influ­ ential banker— to try and break up the school. He did not, however, 1 881.] NORTH INDIA. 151

succeed, but our boys still come regularly every Sunday and learn gladly. The Chumar Sunday-schools are very encouraging, and many of the boys and their parents are openly inquirers. There are also two Sunday- schools for girls and women held by the Bible women, and also a Chris­ tian Sunday-school. The average attendance of these schools is about three hundred. The Hindu boys sing the Christian hymns heartily, and our Sunday-schools are in every respect like Christian schools. Under my pastoral care I have twenty members, eight probationers, and fifteen baptized children. The Christians serving on the railway are inclined to become careless, as they can seldom attend our meetings even on Sun­ day. Our greatest hope for immediate results is in the Chumar work. We have most earnest calls for more schools for this inquiring class. Will not God move some hearts to respond to these calls by giving the needed aid ?”

M o r a d a b a d C i r c u i t . Rev. H. Mansell, missionary, writes : “ As the report is called for earlier this year than last, it leaves less than a year’s work to report. And as Chandausi Circuit and Kundon’s village have been cut off from our circuit, I have less territory from which to collect my statistics, yet the work has gone on increasing in every respect though statistics be lighter in some items. “ I. State of the Church. Two of our best helpers were sent to the Bareilly Theological School to prepare for more extended usefulness, and our native pastor, Rev. Prem Dass, was sent out to a new circuit where over thirty persons were lately baptized. W e were thus much weakened in the pastorate, yet all our class-meetings have been kept up with more or less regularity. Our monthly love-feasts have not been so well attended, nor so interesting as they were last year. The leaders and stewards’ meetings, on the other hand, have been more regular and more interest­ ing. They do much good in making the native brethren feel that the responsibility of planting, sustaining, and training the Christian Church in India is with them. Brother Prou, one of our evangelists, was appointed pastor, and the brethren have supported him entirely by their contribu­ tions. The Church grows constantly in intelligence, and some have grown very peroeptibly in grace. Our Christian mela, at Shahjahanpore, from which we have just returned, has deepened the piety of all who at­ tended it, and it gives us hope that purer lives and more efficient work will be the results. “ 2. Mohalla work, which is mostly among the Chumars, has been kept up weekly in six or eight places in the city, and many are reported as almost ready to be baptized. I still look upon this as being the most effectual and hopeful of all our evangelistic work, and expect to see much fruit from it even before this year closes. There have been baptisms in three of the Mohallas, but in only one was the opposition severe ; this was the case of a very young woman wishing to be baptized with her hus­ band, who had been baptized a few days previous. She wras also ready, 152 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l8 8 l.

but her friends were very angry, and determined she should not become a Christian. So they had persuaded her to refuse. We retired and waited and prayed, and a day or two after she was baptized in our chapel amid great rejoicing. A t one time her friends seemed ready to shed blood to prevent her baptism. Often we have heart-rending scenes as we witness the fulfillment of the Saviour's words, “ A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” Yet it is sweet to fight and toil on, knowing the victory will come. “ 3. The City Sunday-school has averaged a little higher than last year, and the girls’ Sunday-schools have increased. W e have also started some new ones in villages, but the cutting off of Chandausi brings our number down fifty. We report 1,150 of all ages in our 35 Sunday-schools. This Sunday-school work is glorious, and there is absolutely no limit to its ex­ pansion except the want of laborers to carry it on. W e pray the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers. “ 4. Day-Schools. Our grant-in-aid from Government has been cut down a little, but subscriptions, with constant begging, have increased a little. We have secured a competent head master on 50 rupees per mensem, and increased the expenses of the Central School, and hope this year to pass three or four boys through the departmental examination. W e must by some means keep this Central School up to its present grade, so as to give our Christian boys a fair chance. There are about forty Christian boys in the school now, and our efforts aim at making all our village schools evangelizing agencies by establishing more among inquirers. W e have 26 day-schools, with 771 scholars, boys and girls. “ 5. The work has also its discouraging features. The case of the defec­ tion of a leading Christian teacher was a sad one. His disgraceful inti­ macy with the wife of the other teacher, who had just been sent to instruct the new converts, was by all means the most discouraging event that has happened to me in many years. Again, also, caste feelings that ought to have been dead years ago have sprung up this year in the Church, cul­ minating in the beating of two persons, and the division of the Church into two hostile factions. However, the devil seems to have defeated himself, for the healing of this breach he made seems to have drawn the Church nearer together than it was before.”

SUMBHAL. Rev. Zahur-ul-Huqq, native minister. This is a large circuit in which there are many native Christians. Brother Zahur-ul-Huqq has been a leader in this work from the beginning. And now that several smaller circuits have grown up within the older circuits, it is proposed to make a district of this field, making the branch circuits into separate charges, and ap­ pointing Brother Huqq Presiding Elder over all. This will place greater burdens on the preachers and on the people, and give independence to the work. Brother Huqq writes : “ Sumbhal is a very old Hindu city, surrounded on all sides by idols and idolatry, and the Hindus usually believe that the “ Holy Incarnation ” is i88i.J NORTH INDIA. 153 to be born and commence his work here. Hence this is known as a very- holy place, and pilgrims come very long distances to worship at the many shrines here. Through the grace of God the foundation of Christ’s Church has also been very firmly laid in this city, and every day the bell calling to Christian 'worship is heard above the bells of the Hindu tem­ ples. Constant growth in numbers and in strength is manifest in our Christian community. Thirty-two adults have been added from the hea­ then community by baptism this year on the entire circuit. “ In the city of Sumbhal there are three schools for girls and one for boys. About fifty girls are in regular attendance, and they read our religious books daily, and regukrly attend our Sunday-schools. There are eighty- six boys in the boys’ school. The Sunday-school in connection with this school has greatly increased this year, and many boys who do not come to our day-school come to our Sunday-school. ‘‘ At Hetam Sarai the work has increased this year. Seven persons have been baptized, and our Church there is now encouraged. At this place we have had work among the Chumars for several years, and it has always been encouraging, as many inquirers have ever been present, seemingly, just ready to receive Christ. But as soon as any one would break away from caste and come out boldly on the Lord’s side, persecu­ tion would give the convert no rest until he were driven from the place or drawn back into caste. When a young woman here was determined to be a Christian, a snare was laid to forcibly separate her from her law­ ful husband, and marry her to the most deadly enemy of Christianity, who would keep her from seeing Christians or being seen by them. She was saved by being taken to another city by her brother. During the past year some stronger men have come out boldly for Christ, and the persecution is somewhat lessened. “ Rasulpore, subcircuit, contains about fifteen villages in which Chris­ tians live. The preacher there teaches them and teaches their children to read. “ Gangeshri, Pithkhera, Sharikpore, and Babukhera, subcircuits, are very much like Rasulpore. There are Christians living in the villages sur­ rounding each of these centers making an important work for each cir­ cuit. In the Gangeshri Circuit there are many inquirers, and the demand for a few small schools for inquirers is very great. Hasanpur is a small city about twenty-four miles from Sumbhal, where we have a very good school for boys. The preacher there has some fifteen Christian boys, from villages, boarding in his family, and attending the city school. They are doing remarkably well. There is also a girls’ school among the friends of our cause in the city. Work has been commenced also among the Chumars, and a small school opened for inquirers, taught by an in­ quirer who was himself first taught by the preacher here. This is now our most promising work at this place. The great lack in this entire Sumbhal Circuit is the means to better educate the children of poor Chris­ tians and of inquirers.” 154 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l.

A m r o h a C i r c u i t . Peter Merrill, local preacher, in charge. In this circuit there are eight smaller circuits, like those mentioned in the Sumbhal report, and. there are Christians living in many villages all through this field. The Christians are poor and many of them ignorant, yet they are all improving very much spiritually. Our official members are true men, and aid us faithfully in all the work. The pastor reports “ thirteen new converts have been baptized this year. The only new work of special interest is the work among the Chumars, which is very en­ couraging, both at Amroha and at Dhamaura. We are anxious to open schools among this class soon if we can secure the aid required. There are four Sunday-schools, attended mostly by Christians. We need to do more for the instruction of the children of our Christians, but how to do it is a difficult question. They are so scattered that small village schools can reach but few, and to collect the children in boarding-schools is very expensive. The native preachers in their rounds teach a few children to read, but this is a slow process.” *

B i j n o u r C i r c u i t . Rev. H. A. Cutting, native minister. This is a large county, containing over 700,000 people. A missionary has always been in charge of this large circuit, but when Brother M’Henry was taken sick and sent to America we were obliged to place this im­ portant charge under a native minister. About twenty years ago a boy came to the missionary at Bijnour to be taught. He was received and supported by the missionary, was baptized on profession of faith, and at a proper age was received into the Church. On leaving school he was employed for several years as a teacher, until God called him to preach. After proper trial he was received into Conference, and now, after twenty years, he goes back to Bijnour again to take charge of the most important work yet given to a native preacher. The work has been well done all the year. The native minister writes : “ During this year much of my time has been taken up with work among the Christians in various places. There are three stations, one thirty miles away, and the others eight and ten miles away, in which there are many Christians who require much teach­ ing and training, and the preachers in these places have been very busy in this work. Still, our men have not been negligent of the heathen around, but have faithfully preached the good news to all around. Daily the local preachers and exhorters either go to some place where they can collect a congregation for preaching, or go to some village, or to some square in the city where they can converse with people concerning religion. All of the out-stations have been carefully superintended, and in no place is there any thing that should discourage us. The shoemakers— ‘ Chu­ mars ’— of Bijnour and Mandawar seem to be sincere inquirers, and seeing their zeal makes our faith very strong, that when this harvest shall be ripe 18 8 1.] NORTH INDIA. 155 and God stall give the command for reaping, there will be such an in­ crease in this Bijnour work as has never yet been seen. Our day-schools and Sunday-schools have improved in numbers and in their acquirements. Great care is taken to have the Christian children well instructed, and the advancement of the boys and girls in school is worthy of note. The work of the Woman’s Missionaiy Society is algo prosperous. The Christian girls’ boarding-school has now 46 girls in attendance, and is doing great good. More laborers are required for teaching village women and girls who are inquirers. There is also a loud call for small schools for children of in­ quirers in several places. The sure results of these schools would be to lead the children and their parents to Christ. Hence, the call seems very urgent indeed. Nothing can aid our work so much as to enter these open doors* and teach these children, who come to us to be taught like Christians, with the expectation of becoming Christians. W e urge ear­ nestly that more aid be given for this work.” Conclusion. All the laborers in the Rohilkund District are very thank­ ful to the Church at home for all the aid given us in this work. God has very greatly blessed and favored this mission field, and if the Church will but continue her aid and support us in our advance movements, we will lead multitudes of these people to Jesus within the next ten or twenty years. There are remarkable openings before us, and we can see no reason why there should not be general movements among the classes now being faithfully taught, and who nominally confess Christ, which will bring thousands into the Church within a short time. We must be ready to teach them, or they will conquer us and not we them, and make a half heathen Church of ours. Hence, we plead for more aid for schools for teaching and thoroughly grounding the children and youth of these thou­ sands, who are willing to receive us as religious teachers. Our great dif­ ficulty is, that when for a year our allowance from home is not granted to the same extent as the former year, the schools have to suffer and are broken up and the work scattered. Will not some of God’s servants who have wealth to invest endow a system of schools for this work, such as is referred to in the introduction to the report of this district?

K U M A O N D IS T R IC T , P. M. B u c k , P. E.

APPOINTMENTS FOR 1881.

N ain i T a l .— English Work, Pastor, N. G. Cheney. Boys’ High School, Principal, H. F. ICastendieck. Native Work, Missionary, N. G. Cheney. Supply, G. H. Fray. W. F . M. S. European Assistant, Mrs. Whitby. Bible Woman, Fancy Fray. Teacher, Jane. B h a b a r .— Native Minister, Thomas Gowan. Christian Colporteur, Bya Singh. SUBCIRCUITS.— Dhapla and Kotah, Prabhoo Das. Isainagar and Dervi Dhura, Dharm Das. 156 MISSIONARY REPORT. Li 88 1.

W. F. M. S. Bible - Women: Florence Gowan, Fanny Peters, Miriam, Tulsi, Mangli.

E a s t e r n K u m a o n .— Missionary, R. Gray, M.D. Assistant Mission­ ary, Mrs. Gray.

SUBCIRCUITS.— Pithoragarh: Patras, Edward. Lohaghat, John Barker. Medical Christian Colporteur, Amos Miller. W. F . M . S. Missionary, Miss Annie Budden. Assistant Superintendent “ Womans Home,” Yuhanna. Matron Girls’ School, Martha. Bible- Woman, Fanny. Teacher, Hira.

D w a r a h a t .— Missionary, P. M. Buck. Assistant Missionary, Mrs. Buck. Supplies: C. Shipley, H. K. Wilson. Christian Compounder, Gur Bakhsh. t W. F . M . S. Bible- Woman, Emma Shipley.

GURHWAL.— Missionary, J. T. M’Mahon. Assistant Missionary, Mrs. M ’Mahon. Head Master Boys’ School, Mr. M’Murray. Native Chris­ tian Doctor, E. Thomson. Exhorter, Patras.

SUBCIRCUITS.— Srinagar: John Williams, Sabine Mansell. Dekhwali: Khiyali, Kushmoo. Kotdwara, Gasper Benshoff. Kopalsiyum, H. P. Alexander. Gurarsiyum, Mangal Das. Superintendent Medical Work at Gurhwal, P. T. Wilson, M.D. W. F. M. S. European Assistants: Mrs. Bird, Miss Cumberland. Teachers in Girls' Orphanage: Mary Greenwold, Phulmano Thompson. Teachers and Bible- Women: Bella Mansell, Thagli, Milda.

We present here the Presiding Elder’s report:

As indicated in the above list of appointments, several changes were effected in the district at the last session of our Annual Conference: I. The native and English work in the Naini Tal Station were both placed undefone man, and the former separated from that part of the old Naini Tal Circuit lying outside the station proper. 2. This outlying native work was formed into a separate charge, and named Bhabar Circuit. This new cir­ cuit was placed under the care of Rev. Thomas Gowan, one of the native members of our Conference. This is the first appointment of a native preacher in this district to the charge of a circuit, and thus far the arrange­ ment is proving very satisfactory in every way. 3. These two changes left the presiding elder free from his former station work in and about Naini Tal, and he was appointed to Dwarahat to take up the work more vigor­ ously in that field, in addition to his labors on the district. Dwarahat is an appointment that has appeared for some years past on our Conference list under the name of Palee, and which has until the present year been supplied by a native brother— a doctor— who, however, has given most of his time to medical work, so that a very limited amount of missionary effort has been heretofore bestowed on this field. This point is the most central for the entire district, and is, therefore, peculiarly suitable for the i 88i.J NORTH INDIA. 157 residence of the presiding elder. It was believed these changes would give us access to a greater number of people and better utilize the forces at our disposal. Thus far the indications are that the move was in the right direction. The reports from the various stations will show that in perhaps all parts of the district there has been an advance in the work. One very encour­ aging feature in our work is the manifest improvement and increased effi­ ciency of most of our native workers. We can but look upon these men as the main hope of the Gospel in India, and every mark of growth and increased power in them adds to our hope of the speedy success of the cause of Christ. Our chief anxiety in connection with the native Church is to help on and up her native ministry, intellectually, and, above all, spiritually, by every possible means and in every possible way. Not only is improvement manifest in our native helpers, but also in the rank and file of the Christian community. I think I never knew people to respond more encouragingly to Christian instruction and effort, and as I look over this field, and behold what God hath wrought, my heart swells with a high and cheering hope for the future. True, cases arise occasionally where discipline must be exercised, and once in a while even among trusted helpers; but where in this'world are these painful experiences unknown? The annual session of our District Conference was, by invitation, held in Almora, which is one of the stations under the care of the London Mis­ sion. It began September 29, and closed October 4. It was, perhaps, the most interesting and profitable gathering of this kind ever yet held in our mountain work. The transaction of business was characterized by much harmony of feeling, and the examination of character was search­ ing, to one or two painfully so. Daily preaching services were conducted in a public place in the city, after which the Christians marched, singing as they went, to the hall used for services, followed by a crowd, large numbers of which entered the place of worship, and listened quietly to a sermon addressed especially to them. Perhaps the most interesting, and in some important respects the most profitable, exercises of the occasion were the religious services held exclusively with the Christians. God was graciously present, dispensing rich blessings to the members of both mis­ sions, and such was the perfect harmony and mutual love and joy in Christ that Church lines were forgotten,, and all worshiped together as the children of one household. Some of our people, both men and women, had walked between fifty and sixty miles to be present, and bore their own expenses, and God met and richly rewarded them. Our work to those who have it on their hands and mind and heart per­ haps never looked so promising and hopeful as at the present time. With the number of Christian boys and girls we now have coming on and being educated, we soon expect to be greatly strengthened in the ranks of our native workers, as well as to see those we have develop in efficiency as they become more experienced. The general condition of our work, however, will better appear from the reports of the several stations. i 58 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l.

N a i n i T a l .

English W ork. Rev. N. G. Cheney, Pastor. An epitome of the swift year now closing can quickly be made. The land-slip of last year diverted so many people from Naini Tal that nearly half the houses of the station have stood empty. The four dwellings on our old mission estate have remained unused, because in heavy rain they are considered unsafe. But the ravines are now so thoroughly protected by walls and water-channels, which the Government have built at im­ mense expense, that the danger of another such disastrous land-slip oc­ curring is reduced to almost nothing. Renewed confidence in the safety of Naini Tal is increasing, and next year the station will doubtless be filled with residents. A railway to connect Bareilly and the foot of the hills is projected which will get rid of the expensive and tedious carriage- ride of sixty-five miles now endured by all our people. The result will be enlargement of this station, and increase in population. Naini Tal is in its infancy. Notwithstanding the fewness of the residents, and the dreaded locality of our old chapel, our congregations and the interest of our services have not diminished. The audiences here are evidences of evangelical unity. Members of all denominations not only gladly receive our ministrations, and meet all the current expense of the work, but have heartily united in the task of building the new church edifice. The direct evangelistic efforts of the year have been blessed to a good many hearts. Earnest laborers in every part of our work, but especially among the British sol­ diers quartered here, (of whom there are about four hundred,) have seen a good number of clear satisfactory conversions, for which the Lord be praised. The New Methodist Episcopal Church Edifice. The site for the build­ ing (than which no place could suit us better) was chosen on the 18th of October, 1880. The corner-stone was laid, with the prescribed service, on the 7th of February, 1881. In the cavity of the stone are deposited a copy of the Discipline, latest Conference minutes, latest Church papers, and a manuscript giving an historical account of the progress of our Church in Naini Tal. The building was dedicated, with the full disciplinary rit­ ual on the 9th of October, by the Rev. P. M. Buck. The sermon, from the text Matt, xx, 28, was preached by the pastor. The collection at the dedication was more than 4,000 rupees. The design for this house was made by Mr. B. F. Bartlett, architect, of Des Moines. Now that the building is quite completed, we do not think of any change that would add to the general satisfaction. Its seat­ ing capacity is flexible, so as to be increased or diminished according to the demand of the season. One room will seat 100 people ; another 250; the two together 350, and with the gallery 400. Its arrangement of seats, its light, ventilation, acoustics, and appearance, disappoint none, and the work is all well done, and the location safe. At the date of this writing the treasurer’s statement of account shows i 8 8 i .] NORTH INDIA. 15 9 the total cost to be 24,000 rupees ; the amount in hand or reliable, 19,000 rupees; making- an indebtedness of 5,000 rupees, or $2,500. This amount may vary somewhat by the finishing of the house, but the congregation can easily discharge the debt during the coming season. The new property is held by a board of trustees, according to the Dis­ cipline ; and the deed of conveyance has been properly registered. From the day when the site was selected we have had the constant, patient assistance of the Commissioner of Kumaon, General Sir Henry Ramsay, without whose help we know not how the building could have been completed with such cheapness, quickness, and reliable workman­ ship. But it is the Lord’s house, and has been from the beginning. The Boys’ High School’ Rev. H. F. Kastendieck, Principal. Bishop Merrill appointed the Rev. H. F. Kastendieck to be principal of this in­ stitution, and he put the right man in the right place. The largest house in the station, “ Stoneleigh,” is rented, and yet it is far too small for the school. Forty-nine boarders are enrolled this year, besides a number of day- scholars. In addition many applications have been made for entrance of boarders, which, on account of the limited accommodation of the building, we were obliged to decline. The school has taken a high stand, and gained a permanent reputation. In appearance, deportment, and scholarship, the boys have made very evident improvement. The current income meets the current expense; but so much is consumed in rent of the house that the masters are poorly paid, and the appointments of the school are painfully meager. Many English and Eurasian children in these provinces are left unedu­ cated and neglec.ted. They need just the home-like care and influence, the instruction, and the religious training that only such a school can give. Such children, educated and converted in Methodist schools, will make pillars of strength in our growing Church in India. Many children are detained in the enervating heat of the plains to whom a season in this cool sanitarium would bring renewed life and permanent health. Com­ bine this opportunity of change with educational advantages, and it can be seen that hill-schools must represent a popular demand. Schools in hill-stations will succeed, because they are a necessity. The charge for board and education has been put down to the lowest reasonable figure, 22 rupees ($11) for each pupil per mensem. We desire that none of the poorest shall be shut out from the advantages offered. At present we pay a heavy rent for an inconvenient house that cannot accommodate our pupils. The station has no house that can be rented that will suit us better. A t present our opportunity for doing good, as well as our income, is much limited. We need a place— grounds and suit­ able houses. It is out of the question to purchase them by the receipts of the school. With $15,000 this institution can be put in suitable and permanent quarters. We look to the stewards of the Lord’s money in America to build the necessary houses. i6o MISSIONARY REPORT. Cl88l.

The Girls' High School. The rent of a house was provided by Mrs. Pettman, and this school was commenced last spring. Mrs. Craven most kindly consented to undertake its superintendency. The outlook appeared to equal that of the first year of the Boys’ School. But in the first week of the proposed term severe sickness broke out that prevented the recep­ tion of boarders. The school opened, however, with as many day pupils as could easily be gathered. Subsequently the civil surgeon warned the school out of the house we had taken, which he pronounced an un­ healthy location. W e secured a neighboring cottage, where the little school has continued through the year. The prospect for a thrifty Girls’ School for the coming year appears satisfactory.

N a t i v e W o r k . Rev. N . G. Cheney, Missionary. After the land-slip last year, as the mission premises were rendered un­ safe, most of our native Christian community had to be provided for else­ where, and very few of them have since returned to Naini Tal. The Rev. Dr. Scott and the Rev. H. Mansell, of our mission, during their stay at the sanitarium, sustained bazar preaching, aided by a mem­ ber of our English congregation, L. E. Marston, Esq. G. H. Fray, a young native preacher just graduated from the Theological School at Bareilly, has worked regularly ir> the bazars, visiting from door to door and holding prayer-meetings. A course of lectures to educated natives, by Babu Ram Chander Bose, and lectures also by Dr. Scott and Mr. Mansell, were well attended, the audiences sometimes filling the chapel. The Rev. D. W. Thomas, residing a part of the season here, most kindly undertook the care of the native Sabbath-school, and also carried on a most excellent Sabbath service for jhampanies. Hundreds of village men from the interior of Gurhwal and Kumaon spend the season in Naini Tal, employed as chair-carriers or jhampanies. When these men are instructed in Christian truth, they carry back to their villages informa­ tion that opens the way for Christian laborers. Almost every lady that attends our English service has with her some four or six of these men, who carry her daneli, a sort of open sedan chair. Instead of being left to loiter about, these men have been gathered in the school-house near by, where Mr. Thomas has, week by week, preached to them. The native Boys’ School has been in the care of a European head master, assisted by six native teachers, and has done a good year’s work.

G u r h w a l C i r c u i t . Rev. J. T. M’Mahon, Missionary. The missionary was considerably delayed in reaching this, to him, new field of labor, after Conference, from Roy Bareilly, his former field in the plains, where ten years had been spent, owing, in the first place, to illness, and, in the second place, to the non-arrival of his successor there. Then, when able to start, twenty-two days were spent in making the journey with his family to Paori, the head-quarters of our mission work in Gurhwal. i88i.J NORTH INDIA. 161

There are connected with this charge five subcircuits, manned by native helpers. These smaller fields lie from six to more than forty miles from the mission-house at Paori. They have each been visited from two to six times during the year. Work has also been done in some other places to which we, as yet, have no men to send. The work in most of these fields has moved on encouragingly. The important Anglo-vernacular school at Paori was found without a head, master, the former one having left the latter part of last year. After considerable delay the services of a Eurasian teacher were secured, and the work thus far has been satisfactory. Until the arrival of said teacher the missionary was compelled to give a considerable part of his time to the school. Three new primary schools for boys' have been opened during the year. This gives us in this field 9 boys’ schools, with 322 pupils under constant religious instruction. There are also 3 girls’ schools with 73 pu­ pils. There have been 13 children and 21 adults baptized during the year. The number of communicants has fallen from 124 to 116, owing mostly to removals, but the Christian community has risen from 234 to 245. Three new Sunday-schools have been opened recently, two in con­ nection with the new day-schools, and they are in the village of Paori, a short distance from the mission-house. There are now, all told, in this circuit, for boys and girls, eight Sunday-schools, with 326 scholars of all ages. The small Orphanage for boys under our native preacher, Khizati, located in Dekhwali, some sixteen miles from Paori, has held on its way. There are eighteen boys there now, mostly little boys. Thus far no suit­ able place for this ^institution has been secured where land could be opened and cultivated, as well as trades taught, and the boys properly trained to do such work as most of them are best suited to do. Those who manifest taste and aptitude in learning are provided for in the Paori school. Several boys have been sent from this institution to our Mission Orphanage at Shahjehanpore, to be taught trades ; but the heat of the plains seldom agrees with them, and the experiments have thus far proved unsatisfactory. W e require all the necessary" facilities to fit them for the callings of life here in their native hills. Some of the boys have received some instruction in weaving at considerable expense; but En­ glish clothing goods are imported and sold at such low figures, that weavers can no longer earn a respectable living, and there is little out­ look for the boys in this line. Our native Christian community, which is composed of people from the poorer classes, has done very well in a temporal sense this year. Five more families have purchased land and are on the way to independence. Numbers of the people have secured work as domestic servants, and Christian servants, when properly trained by missionaries or those who appreciate and sympathize with their interests, do very well. They, how­ ever, labor under the disadvantage of being quite new in this line, where­ as Hindu and Mohammedan servants are but following in the footsteps °f generations of their forefathers, and are themselves instructed in their 11 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l8 8 l.

calling from their childhood. For this reason they seem to take to such work more naturally and readily than do Christians at first. Some of our people who were not inclined to engage in heavy manual labor, have been induced to do so by instruction and want. Several Christian coolies may now be seen carrying from fifty to seventy pounds burden from ten to twenty miles per day, as do hundreds of their fellow mountaineers who are still Hindus. One weakness— very prevalent and even quite general in this country— is the disposition to contract debts with no reasonable prospects of ability to pay them. There has been a degree of difficulty in guarding some of our people from this evil. But the strict exercise of stringent rules is producing its fruit, and improve­ ment is manifest. v The usual services and means of grace for our Christian people have been regularly observed in connection with our work in Paori, with Sun­ day-schools, preaching, prayer and class-meetings, teachers’ meetings, daily prayers, etc. Besides those in Hindustani, there have been a preach­ ing service and class-meeting held weekly in English. All our work in this field is full of interest, and grows with increasing rapidity. Gurhival Medical Work. Rev. P. T. Wilson, M.D., Superintendent. During little more than three months the missionary remained in Paori. During this time he treated all the cases of cholera occurring among the native Christians there, and, through God’s kindness, though several were quite ill, all recovered. The mission dispensary here, under the imme­ diate charge of our trained native Christian doctor, Edward Thomson, has done wel^and is appreciated. The government kindly continues its annual grant of medicines, which is of great assistance. The missionary while at Paori, besides supervising the dispensary, has preached weekly in English, and held an English class-meeting, and as­ sisted Mr. and Mrs. M’Mahon in their regular Hindustani services. The greater part of the year has been spent in itinerations among the pilgrims on their way to or returning from the Hindu shrines near the snows above, and other people.* A colporteur, Bhajui, has accompanied the missionary, assisting him in distributing tracts and Scriptures. Many have been spoken to about Christ and his salvation. Labors among the pilgrims must be only known as to results in eternity, for they return to their distant homes in various parts of India, and one never meets them again in this world. The missionary has been thankful to God for the privilege, while among the pilgrims, of to some extent feeding the hungry, relieving suffering ones, and ministering to some dying far from home, without another single mortal near disposed to lend a helping hand. The missionary is under many obligations to Rev. Mr. and Mrs. M’Mahon, and other friends at Paori, for kindnesses received during the year. 1881.] NORTH INDIA. I63

B h a b a r C i r c u i t . Rev. Thomas Go wan, Native Minister. As already indicated, this circuit was formed at the last session of the Annual Conference, and comprises that part of the old Naini Tal Circuit lying outside of the station proper. During the cold weather most of the work is done in the belt of land skirting the hills, the Bhabar proper, which gives the circuit its name. In the summer months the work is largely confined to the villages in the adjoining hills. This change of base is due to the fact that nearly all the people change their dwelling-places with the seasons. ♦ The various branches of mission work in this field have been kept up much in the usual manner. The schools for boys, eight in number, all of a primary grade, are en­ tirely supported by funds provided by the Commissioner of these provinces. The work done in them during the year has been fairly satisfactory. There are five Sunday-schools in connection with these day-schools, with an encouraging attendance. Two melas or fairs have been attended, and considerable preaching was done, which was listened to by large numbers with apparent in­ terest. Frequent itinerating tours have been made through the circuit with en­ couraging results. There are now six villages within the bounds of this charge where Christian families are found. , This is an encouraging fact when it is re­ membered that but few years have elapsed since the first family embraced Christianity. The most important of these villages is Isainagar, which is distinctively a Christian village. It now contains fourteen Christian families, and its influence for good on the surrounding community is very marked. A few years since two missionaries and a native preacher were on an itinerating tour, and visited the neighborhood where Isainagar now stands. On en­ tering one of the villages a Brahmin greeted them with a most shameful tirade of abuse. Now the spirit of friendliness is very striking, and num­ bers of the people frequent our place of worship. There are two or three families in the village which will shortly receive baptism if all goes well. There is another family for which strong hopes are entertained. It is that of a gardener. He came to the village a few years since in time of famine, and, receiving permission to do so, and a little help, he settled down among our people, and remained until the be­ ginning of the present year, when he suddenly disappeared. He stayed away seven months, after which time he as suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the village. He stated that during his absence he had found no rest of mind, and his unrest had driven him back. He begged to be pardoned and restored. Since his return he has been one of the most regular and interested attendants on the services of God s house. MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

The work among the people of Chopra, a village about six miles from the foot of the hills in the mountains, where the preacher in charge makes his home most of the year, and where a small parsonage was erected early in the year, is becoming very promising. Some years since there was much interest in Christianity in this village, and it was strongly hoped a large proportion of the people would shortly embrace Christ and be baptized. But the conduct of an unworthy professor of Christianity, for the time-being, at least, served to blast their budding faith, and with sorrow the workers were compelled to see them go back to their idols and sins. But since they have been under more special instructions again a much better spirit has arisen among them, and they may again be called inquirers, and it is earnestly hoped that ere long a good number of them may be received among us as true followers of Christ. During the late summer and early autumn there is much fever in the Bhabar and adjoining hills, and an excellent opportunity is offered for reaching the people by distributing medicines and visiting the sick. One man a few miles from the parsonage was taken very ill, and the mother insisted that the Christian preacher be called. On his arrival the man was found wild with delirium. Remedies were administered, and prayer with the family offered for his recovery. He soon began to im­ prove, and in due time was restored to health. Two days more were spent with the people of this village, and they listened gladly to the word of life. Before leaving, when prayer was offered for the sick one, the family knelt with the preacher and joined in the petitions presented to God. Thus, while the fruit of our labors is not all that our hearts long to see, still the workers are not left without much to encourage them in their efforts.

E a s t e r n K u m a o n C i r c u i t . Rev. R. Gray, M.D., Missionary. The usual obstacles to a life entirely devoted to winning these heathen from their superstitions to a faith in Christ have been this year in full operation as regards the missionary. Fully one half his time this year has been given to the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society in drawing plans for buildings, superintending their erection, studying and planning how to make one rupee do the work of two. A large portion of the other half has been given to other buildings, and a small portion of his time has been given to real evangelistic work, and efforts for the growth of the native Christian community. The work which has been done by the native preachers has been sadly marred by bickerings and quarrels, and a perfect ignorance of how to go to work to gain the people to Christ. One preacher was discovered drinking and guilty of wickedness generally, and discharged from the work of a preacher. The fact that in these circumstances fruit has been gathered, and goo'd fruit at that, shows that the Gospel is just as vital in this nineteenth as it was in the first century. Souls have been brought out of darkness to light. Seven 1881.] NORTH INDIA. adults have been baptized, and they are all good cases, and have steadily grown in grace since baptism. These cases open out new circles of work and hope. Here, in these Himalayas, we have no large caste closely asso­ ciated, and the work must spread through family connections. In all these cases it is as though a stone had been thrown into the water, and the circle will certainly spread in the family line. The growth of the Christian community in grace and knowledge has been very marked and gratifying. The District Conference meetings which were held in Almora, in October, were means of profit to almost all our people who attended. The meetings had been long looked for­ ward to, money had been saved, and finally, going and coming, men and women footed it one hundred and ten miles over these high mountains and through low valleys. Of course it did them good. But the most useful means for their growth has been the meeting held on Sunday evenings, which is our general class-meeting. It has been conducted on old prin­ ciples, somewhat in the way of John Wesley, as stated in a number of the New York “ Christian Advocate “ John Wesley used the Bible in the first class-meetings, explaining it to those who knew but little of it. The late Dr. Durbin, when a pastor in Philadelphia, took special pains to have his classes group thei^ experiences around some scriptural truth, very much in Mr. Wesley’s way.” That is just what has been done in Pithoragarh this year, and the benefit has been so marked that we can confidently recommend it to every one. It requires a company of mature Christians to hold a profitable religious conversation among themselves, and even they do not always succeed, judging by the printed reports we sometimes see. The Epistle of John, if carefully studied and applied in a class-meeting, will surely develop new and fresh Christian life. The public services have been very well attended, and as satisfactory as ever, except the preaching, which might be very much improved. The people do not seem to know the difference, however, and still come. The Sunday-school in Pithoragarh for men and boys has been given to a native brother to superintend. He is learning how to do that. One lesson he has learned may be worth telling. He came to the missionary and said, “ Sahib, we want some lesson leaves, some cards, some tickets, etc.; will you please make some arrangement for them? The amount of confi­ dence these native helpers have in the missionaries is wonderful. They seem to think nothing is too hard for them. All they have to do is to make the arrangement and it will come to pass. He was told very plainly, “ You are the superintendent; will you please make your own arrange­ ment.” He was very much astonished, but showed he had learned his lesson well, if quickly; and no sooner had his paper been prepared than it was presented to the missionary for his subscription. He has proved a good beggar, and has made his own arrangement. Many of our native Christian men have been nursed so long that they have not found out that they can do any thing. The stewards of our Church seem to think that a pane of glass cannot be put in without consulting the missionary. They are all improving, however, and they do well as soon as they come MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l.

out. The Sunday-school has improved under this native brother, while it had run down under the missionary. The general plan of preaching among the villages has been changed. Formerly it was very general; now it has become special. Each native brother has chosen a village for his special effort, and promises to produce converts soon. They also appointed a village for the missionary, who will very gladly give his effort there. We anticipate very great profit from this plan, and specially so as the buildings are about completed and the helpers at peace and unity among themselves. The day-schools have done well, but the problem how to get the boys in them converted has not yet been solved. The fact seems to be that no one is specially devoted to them, and, seeing the multiplicity of work, it is impossible that any one should be now. The native Church has done well in giving. Four rupees have been paid to a helper monthly, and all current expenses have been met. In conclusion the missionary wishes to say that it is too much to ask one man to do the work of four. In this case there are personal feelings involved, as the writer came to this land to be a medical missionary, and finds himself, in addition to his medical work, which comprises: 1. Being the doctor of 20,000 people ; 2. Superintendent of three outside dispen­ saries ; 3. Instructor of medical colporteur#; also filling the following posts : I. Architect to the W . F. M. S. 2. Builder to the same. 3. Financial agent for Missionary Society in Eastern Kumaon. 4. Pastor of a congre­ gation. 5. General village preacher. 6. Superintendent of eight village schools. Certainly there is a chance to do something.

D w a r a h a t C i r c u i t . Rev. P. M. Buck, Missionary. The head-quarters of this circuit, or Dwarahat proper, is located four marches from the foot of the hills, and is three marches north of Naini Tal. Though entirely a rural district, still the region is very thickly set­ tled. There are about forty villages within four miles of the mission- house, and the most densely populated region of these mountain provinces 'is within the bounds of this circuit, and is easy of access to the missionary. Indeed, on almost every side, and but few miles distant, are broad river valleys lined with scores of villages, thus offering an excellent field for itinerant work. Then these village people are much more simple-hearted and ready to receive the Gospel than are those commonly found in larger towns and cities, and perhaps nine tenths of the converts of our entire mission-field have been won from the rural population. The mission-house in Dwarahat was built several years since entirely from subscriptions raised among the European population of the civil and sanitaria stations within the bounds of this district, but was not perma­ nently occupied until the beginning of the present year. The nearest white neighbor is a tea-planter six miles distant; the next nearest are those living in the military sanitarium, Rani Khet, thirteen miles away. S till the missionary and his wife were never happier in any home, and w o u ld 188 i.J NORTH INDIA. 167 deem it a great privilege to be permitted to spend a life-time among these village people trying to win them to Christ, and would feel it a sacrifice to be compelled to withdraw from this field of labor. As regards our work, that undertaken has been somewhat* hindered by severe and protracted illness in the missionary’s family, necessary building operations, and the demands of this mountain district. The work being carried on may be indicated as follows : 1. Schools. For some years past two small primary schools have been kept up a few miles distant from the mission-house, which were under t-he charge of the native brother stationed here until the present year. These have done very well. In July last a rather large primary government school in our immediate vicinity was made over to us, with the house in which it was held. This gives us a stronger hold on the community, affords a better opportunity for Sunday-school work, and though the build­ ing is small, still, when improved a little in the way of ventilation and light, will supply us with a place where, for the time being, our religious services can be held. There are indications that this school may grow into more importance than has hitherto attached to it, and that there may soon be a demand for enlargement. Several applications have already been made to place boys under our care and instruction, if a place for them to live and proper oversight can be given. W e hope also to be able to give some of our Christian boys, living where school advantages are meager, a good start here under our own training. But these matters cannot be arranged the present year. A like demand for a girls’ boarding- school begins to press upon us, and must receive early attention. 2. Village preaching. In the beginning of the year a plan for village visitation and preaching was prepared, and a good amount of work in this line has been done by the missionary and the native helpers. The people have received us well, and give considerable attention to the word. And not only have they heard in the villages, but numbers have accepted our invitation to the Sunday services. 3. Sunday services. Our Sunday-school has been considerably ad­ vanced in numbers by the school mentioned which has come under our control, and this part of our Sunday work has been fraught with interest. Our preaching services have been not only attended by ail our Christian servants, mission employés, etc., but always some from without are pres­ ent, and sometimes as many as fifty of our village friends have come in and quietly listened to the Gospel. This work we have greatly enjoyed, and we hope for a still better attendance as the people come to know us more generally, and when our accommodations are improved. 1 hus far our services have been held in the veranda, or in a room of the mission- house. 4. Miscellaneous. The work of itinerating has been very limited, owing to circumstances already mentioned. Prayer and class-meetings and daily prayers have been kept up with considerable regularity ; also a daily Bible- class has been held a good part of the year, with manifest profit to our people. i6 8 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l8 8 l.

W e can point to the conversion of none of these villagers as the fruit of the year’s work; but in not a few there is manifestly a favorable change in their views and feelings with reference to what we teach, and we look for tangible results at no distant day. As a new field we look upon this as one of promise. While we are waiting and looking for fruit from with­ out God is leading some of our servants into the light. One of them will be baptized, if all goes well, next Sunday, and another with his family will probably soon follow. On the whole, in reviewing the year, we “ thank God and take courage.”

OUDH DISTRICT, T. S. J o h n s o n , P. E.

APPO IN TM EN TS FOR 1881.

L u c k n o w . — Missionaries: B. H. Badley, T. Craven, J. Mudge. Assistant Missionaries : Mrs. Badley, Mrs. Craven, Mrs. Mudge. Native Pastor: I. Fieldbrave. Local Preachers: Enoch Burge, Ram Chandra Bose, Philip Andrews, Chimmon Lall. Exhorters: C. E. Saville, Orange Judd, Henry Angelo. Native Teachers: S. S. Day, G. C. Day, G. H. Barrow, James Barrow, A. Forbes, F. Steele, Harding Masih, B. F. WToolston, Pliny Wood, Nawab-ul-Haqq, George Richards. * W. F . M . S. Missionaries : Miss E. Gibson, Miss F. Nickerson. As­ sistant Missionaries: Miss Rowe, Miss Hemming, Miss Mispelaar. Teachers: Miss A. D ’Abrau, Miss De Castro, Victoria Janvier, Jemima Angelo, Mary Lall, Grace Haqq, Miriam. Bible Readers: Caroline Rich­ ards, Ellen Richards, Shemo Chattergee, Grace Erasmus, Samaira John, Alice Massey, Bella Chuna, Elizabeth Chailes. C a w n p o r e . — Missionaries : G. H. M’Grew, T . L. Neeld, J. C. Lawson. Assistant Missionary : Mrs. A. J. Lore M ’Grew. Local Preachers: Dr. J. H. Condon, E. T. Farnham, Kanhai Singh, Gulzari Lall. Exhorter: Zabardast Khan. Teachers in Memorial Boys' School: N. Hunt, J. M. Sarkis, E. W . Davies, G. W. Austin, I. W . Greatrex. W. F . M . S. Missionary: Miss S. A. Easton. Assistant Missionary: Miss Jose. Teachers : Miss King, Miss De Sauza, Miss M’Kenzie, Miss Sarkis. ' H a r d u i . — Native Preacher: B. Luke. Local Preachers: Chuna Lall, J. R. M’Gregor. Exhorters: Ghasi Ram, Bhola Singh. W. F . M . S. Teachers: Fanny Girdhart, Jane Ram. Bible Readers: C. Luke, E. Angelo, D. Rubin. SEETAPORE AND LuCKIMPORE. — Missionary: J. E. Scott. As­ sistant Missionary: Mrs. Scott. Local Preachers: P. Gray, P. Nicker­ son, Simon Jacob, Kanhai Singh. Teachers: G. Mayal, J. M’Gee, Mattias. W. F. M. S. Bible Women: Victoria Gray, Anne Jacobs, Minerva Nickerson, Lucy Stone, Caroline. Teachers: Helen M’Gee, Mary Wool- ston, Herter. Gondah AND Bahraich. — Missionary: S. Knowles. Assistant Missionary: Mrs. Knowles. Native Minister: W . Peters. Local 188i.] NORTH INDIA.

Preachers: Charles Luke, Wilbur Fisk, Behari Lall, Steven Paul, Sadalu. Exhorter: Chattar Singh. Teachers: H. C. Sigler, Ahmad Hassain, Samuel Wheeler, J. R. Downey. W. F . M . S. Teachers: Bible Women: Nelly Peters, Nettie Sigler, Phulmania Luke, Susanna, Mohni, Suki, Betsey Paul, Peggy Barrow, Har­ riet Fisk, Pirania, Prem Dari.

B a r a b a n k i .— Native Minister: E. Joel. W. F . M. S. Bible Women: Libbie Joel, Mary Flint.

ROI B a r e i l l y .— Native Minister: A. C. Paul. Local Preachers : Lucius Cutler, Isa Das, J. D. Ransom. Teachers: J. Barnabas, James Burket. W. F. M. S. Assistant: Mrs. Grant. Teachers: Klaini Bhrkit, Bible Women: Salome, Jessie Ransom, Miriam Alexander, Faith Eliott.

The Presiding Elder reports as follows : The result of labor in such a mission field as India cannot be gathered from statistics, while the moral condition of the people, and present pros­ pects for the speedy triumph of Christianity, can hardly be ascertained from reports. In the Oudh District there are not wanting encouraging indications. The preaching of the WTord seems more effectual than formerly; this was especially manifest in the recent Mela at Ajhudiya, the birthplace of the famous Hindu incarnation, Ram. One evening, at the close of preaching, a man came forward from the crowd and declared himself convinced that Christ is the Saviour, and that he would at once accept him. His friends remonstrated and caught hold of him to prevent his accompanying the preachers to the camp. He resisted all their efforts, and spent the evening in receiving further instruction. The next day, which was the Sabbath, he found his way back to the camp, and declared that he would hence­ forth worship Christ. About the same time another very interesting man came forward quite in the same way, and remained under instruction during our stay, and arranged to have this continued. Sunday morning, four men came to us, gave the name of their locality, and declared themselves fully convinced, and indeed anxious to accept the truth. Another said that he had ac­ cepted Christ, prayed only unto him, and that he had peace in believing. True, these were but seven men out of the great crowd of probably seven hundred thousand; still it shows the power of the Gospel, and that we may be encouraged to look for the speedy coming of multitudes to inquire what they must do to be saved. The interest in Sunday-school work is increasing in all directions; thousands of Hindu and Mohammedan children are under instruction, and the number might be almost indefinitely increased could a sufficient number of Christian teachers be found. Some of our preachers attend three or four schools upon the Sabbath. The permanent endowment of a native preachership— the preacher to I/O MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

work as an evangelist— in the Roi Bareilly circuit, inaugurated last year, has been completed, and the amount of 4,500 rupees in government se­ curities has been received and placed in the Bank of Bengal, Lucknow. Major A. P. Orr, the good man who kindly made this endowment, while very ill in the beginning of the year, before the transaction was completed, was most anxious that all should be properly settled while he was able to attend to it, and was greatly gratified when he knew it was completed. The new church in Seetapore, which is most admirably adapted to efficient work, has been completed, and was dedicated in July. The debt on the English church in Lucknow has been cleared off within the year, and the same with the Cawnpore church. There is a heavy debt on the Memorial School, in Cawnpore, which should be paid off at once. The school is improving, and has a grand future before it. Who will come forward and lift off this heavy load of debt ? The Centennial School, in Lucknow, for native Christian boys, is moving for a new building; the Government heartily approves, and promises 5.000 rupees building grant. W e must ask the Mission Board for as many dollars in our next estimates. An arrangement has been made with the Muir Cotton Mills, in Cawn­ pore, whereby a number of the boys from the Shahjehanpore Boys’ Or­ phanage will be admitted into the mills to learn the work, and take em­ ployment as they become competent. About 80 of the 260 boys will be removed to Cawnpore. They will, however, as at present, divide their time between school and work. A number of native Christian families will also find employment there, and thus the enterprise must result in great good to the native Christian community in this part of the country. The District Conference held last month was pronounced the best ever held in Oudh, while the baptism of the Holy Spirit received by many in the camp-meeting at Shahjehanpore gives new life and encouragement for the future.

L u c k n o w . Rev. B. H. Badley, Rev. T. Craven, Rev. J. Mudge, Missionaries. Rev. I. Fieldbrave, Native Pastor. 1. The Year. W e have had a pleasant year, and close with 126 mem­ bers and probationers, as compared with 100 last year. The attendance upon our public services has been larger than ever before. There are indications of prosperity. 2. Bazar preaching has been carried on as usual. W e have certain street-corners and shade-trees where we go week after week to preach to the passers-by. W e meet with but little opposition, and, as a rule, the people seem interested in our message. The annual fairs, held in the suburbs of the city, have been visited, and in this way hundreds have heard of Christ. 3. Baptisms. Five adults have been baptized. this year, four of whom were women. Of the five, four were Mohammedans— the other a Hindu. One of these, a young man, owes his conversion to the teaching received i 88 i.l NORTH INDIA. 171 in school and Sunday-school. He is in the highest class of our Central School in the city, (which contains about 200 boys,) and has gradually been led to accept Christ as his Saviour. He became convinced that no one else could pardon his sins and give peace and rest. Daily, as he studied the Bible, the truth seemed to take deeper hold of his heart, and at last he confessed to his school-mates his faith in Christ. We advised delay, but he declared himself ready for baptism and its consequences. He was baptized three months ago, and bids fair to become a useful worker in the Church. His mother and brother at once drove him away from home, and refused to see him ; he took refuge at the house of one of our local preachers, but was driven away for a time. One day his brother met him and gave him a beating, with the assurance that he would repeat it every time they met. His clothes were taken from him, so that the first thing we had to do was to buy him a suit of clothes. Subsequently his brother relented, and besought him to give up Christianity and again become a Mohammedan. The new convert, however, was not to be won over ; he expressed his belief in Christ, and urged his brother to accept Christian­ ity, as we trust he will. W e anticipated considerable trouble in the school, especially as the young man was in the highest class, and such a baptism often breaks up the class ; but the Lord helped us in this, and there was no interruption.'\ One of his classmates, however, true to the spirit of Islam, expressed his mind very freely, as follows : “ So you have given up our faith, eh ! If it were not that the English Government is here, I would soon have your head cut from your shoulders ? ” A Hindu woman was baptized at the close of October at the Shahje- hanpore camp-meeting, which she had greatly desired to attend. She has been for some time a teacher in one of the city girls’ schools, and from hearing the hymns and Sunday-school lessons, as taught by the young ladies, has lost all faith in Hinduism, and has learned to love Christ. Both of these cases are very encouraging, as they show how much good is being effected by our schools and Sunday-schools. \\ e shall labor more earnestly in future, and pray that God may use these agencies more and more. 4. The Day-Schools have been doing good work. In all of these not only is the Bible taught, but the text-books (readers) are full of religious lessons, while in four of the six the head masters are Christians, and de­ vote more or less attention every day to Bible instruction. The hundreds of boys and girls are being brought under saving influence, and we expect by and by to count converts from these schools by the score. 5. Our Sunday-school work has been very interesting. We report 1,250 scholars— an increase of 250. In several places where we have day- schools we might open Sabbath-schools had we more helpers. As it is, most of our Church-members attend the Sunday-schools m different parts of the city, and one local preacher attends three every Sabbath. The city is so large— at least six miles in extent— that it requires from three to four hours for each school. We frequently close with a preaching service. The Berean Lessons have never been more carefully studied 1 7 2 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 88l.

among us than during the past year. At the close of the third quarter, in September, we held our examination as usual in the Subjects, Golden Texts, Outlines, and Selected Verses, and about 100 scholars, mostly Hin­ dus and Mohammedans, passed perfectly, and had their names entered on the “ Roll of Honor.” The examiners were surprised at the readiness with which the questions were answered, evincing much earnest study on the part of the children. 6. The work among educated natives has been carried on, as heretofore, by Brother Ram Chandra Bose, who is in every respect qualified for it. During the year he has been absent about four months on lecturing tours, visiting Almorah, Naini Tal, Calcutta, etc. Especially at Calcutta the meetings were very interesting, and he lectured to large audiences under the most favorable auspices. As he thus goes from place to place, visit­ ing among and preaching to his educated countrymen, the Lord opens the way and gives special blessings. W e have strong faith that the out­ come of all this work will be the salvation of many of these half-awak­ ened very influential young men. 7. The magic lantern has been of great help in our evangelistic work. We 'have given exhibitions of scriptural scenes in every pait of the city, generally in our school-houses. The last one was held a few evenings since. Half a dozen of the brethren accompanied to assist in the singing. The head master of the school (a Christian brother) had invited the boys, their parents, friends, and others, to attend, and, as the result, we had a congregation of 400, among others a native official (honorary magistrate) and his friends. The opportunity for preaching was excellent, and we returned greatly encouraged. By pictures, hymns, and sermons the people are thus learning of the work and teachings of Christ. 8. Miscellaneous. Our native pastor, Brother Fieldbrave, has long needed a parsonage, and this year, by the combined efforts of the Hindu­ stani Church, the missionaries, and other friends, g 150 were collected and the house was built. It gives our brother a comfortable home. A new organ graces our church. It is one of the results of Brother Bose’s visit to America last year. We had mentioned our need, and he brought it before the Boston Preachers’ Meeting, where Dr. Butler and other kind friends secured the needed funds to pay for the instrument. It reached us safely, and is just what we needed. Many thanks to the good friends at Boston. We have recarpeted our church without expense to the mission. The room is often filled, and we must soon have a larger place. Our Hindu­ stani Literary Society— organized before 11 254, § 6 of the late Discipline was written— has held monthly meetings during the year, to the edifica­ tion of both European and native members. Several very practical sub­ jects have been discussed, and we find the experiment a great success. A Young Men’s Christian Association has also been in operation this year. Several Hindu and Mohammedan young men asked permission to join, and, of course, were not refused. There are about 30 members, and probably there is not another Young Men’s Christian Association in the i 8 8 i .] NORTH INDIA. 173 world so catholic. We hope to see the non-Christians saved. The Chris­ tian members render valuable assistance in our Sunday-school work. There has been no special revival in our Church this year, but there has been steady growth and general co-operation in work. The prospect is hopeful.

C e n t e n n i a l S c h o o l . Rev. B. H. Badley, Principal. Year by year this institution is growing in importance and in helpful influence. It is intended chiefly for native Christian boys, and especial attention is given to religious instruction ; but as we have had urgent ap­ plications from others wishing to attend, we have not confined it to one class. All the boarders are Christians. The number at present in attend­ ance is 116, of whom 58 are Christians, 44 Hindus, and 14 Mohammedans. The highest class consists of 23 young men, who, besides their ordinary studies, read the Bible (in English) an hour each day. Lower classes are taught in Barth’s Bible Stories, the Catechism, etc. The school was ex­ amined by the Government Inspector in July. He expressed his pleasure at the progress made during the year, and promised to assist us in secur­ ing a larger grant from Government, and a building grant of $2,500 for the new school-house, which he pronounced an urgent necessity. Gov­ ernment will most probably give us the $2,500, and we hope, ere long, to have at last a house adapted to our growing school. We have already occupied three houses, none of them large enough ; so we are ail the more desirous of securing an abiding home, with ample accommodations for boarders, a good play-ground, gymnasium, etc.. The boarders have been regular in attendance upon divine service and Sabbath-school, as well as their own school, prayers, and class meetings. The older boys belong to the Young Men’s Christian Association, and go regularly to the city Sunday-schools as teachers. W e hope and are as­ sured that God will call at least some of them to preach. Others will teach ; all are being prepared for usefulness. This school is greatly needed and could not be more happily located than in Lucknow. Here we have a large population of native Christians and Europeans, many of the latter poor, and unable to send their sons away to boarding-schools. By building up a first-class school we can have, by and by, an attendance of 150 Christian boys who, upon graduat­ ing, will be qualified for places of trust and importance. Our own and other Churches will profit from this school. At present we have students whose parents belong to the Church of England, to the United Presby­ terian Church, the Baptist Church, and several Roman Catholics. We thoroughly enjoy this work, and are earnestly praying for its success. We need an endowment of $20poo, furniture, apparatus, etc., but shall probably have to wait for these, and meanwhile do the best we can with­ out them. What whole-souled servant of the Lord will help us in found­ ing this Christian college here in needy Lucknow ?

M is s i o n P r e s s . Rev. T. Craven, Superintendent. The publishing interests have been attended to with the customary 174 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I88l.

degree of care. Nothing has transpired of sufficient importance to call for special remark. No book has as yet come prominently into notice, and no new manuscript has been presented likely to be especially popular. The calls of Sunday-school workers and theological students have been many, and an attempt at meeting their wants has been made. The at­ traction of the youth to the Sunday-school, their education, so far as it can be attendee! to by the issue of interesting monthly papers and the forma­ tion of the theological views of the forthcoming ministry, are objects to which the press has been devoted, and for the attainment of which it is a powerful instrument. The “ Commentary on Exodus,” by Rev. D. W. Thomas, is now passing through the press. The “ Discipline,” (revised translation,) by Rev. E. W. Parker, will be out in a few days. A “ Sunday- school Manual,” in English, by Rev. T. J. Scott, is also in hand. It will be translated and presented to the Church shortly, in Roman and Litho­ graph Urdu. Rev. B. H. Badley revised our hymn book, with the assistance of some members of the Publishing Committee, in the early part of the year, and about 13,000 copies in Urdu, (Lithograph,) Hindee, and Roman Urdu, have been printed. The works of Josephus are still passing through the press. During the past year four parts have been printed. For our day-schools a new Arithmetic has been stereotyped, and 3,000 copies printed. Sev­ eral other books, whose editions had been sold, have been resupplied. For the Sunday-school a new set of illustrated tickets or cards has been prepared, and 75,000 printed. Three hundred thousand attractive colored pictures have been received, and arrangement made for supplying the necessary letter print. Mention may also be made of the yearly sup­ ply of Sunday-school lessons and Picture Papers. The work of editing these was cheerfully assumed by the Rev. R. Hoskins and Rev. E. W. Parker. Of the Sunday-school papers in Urdu and Hindee 192,000 have been printed and sent at different times. The lessons were printed and sent forth cheaply in book form ; so after the year has gone the lessons will remain in this permanent form with many of the larger boys. Our wants are many. Would that the Church could see the flood of impure literature sent forth from the presses of North India ! Could it imagine half of the real facts in the case, surely some of its noble sons would help in this great work. An endowed press and publishing house for India is our great need. Economy as well as the greater call of duty to do greater things makes it important.

S a a d a t G u n g e . Rev. T. Craven has special charge of Saadat Gunge, our suburban ap­ pointment, and reports as follows: " Saadat Gunge is the oldest district in the Lucknow w ork. In early days the good men who pioneered the work in this Sodom o f India, w isely commenced work at this point, built a commodious school-house and native parsonage. After twenty-two years they stand, and are serving the promis­ ing work well. In the school-house meets dailya school and on Sunday a 188 i.J NORTH INDIA. 175 Sunday-school with an attendance of 150 boys. On some Sundays the past year the attendance has reached over 200, all heathen and Mohammedan children. Of this number not a few read the Scriptures and intelligently listen to the explanation of the lesson. A class of sixteen young men, who have formed part of the school for several years, is a special attraction, at all events, to the superintendent. All is hopeful and promising, and we trust that soon the Master will direct us where to cast the net that some of the fish may be taken. Brother Chimmon Lall occupies the parsonage, and he is being blessed. A few have been led by him to Christ the past year. He is a w i ^ a n d soul-saver. He is respected throughout the community, and God is drawing the people nearer to him. We look for great things in this heathen stronghold, whereby our hearts shall be made glad and angels in heaven rejoice.”

C a w n p o r e . Rev. G. H. M’Grew, Missionary. In February last I was relieved of the care of. the English congregation which took up so much of my time last year. Since then my efforts have been concentrated on the native work. Our regular working force has been strengthened by the addition of Munshi Gulan Lai, one of last year’s graduates from the Theological School. Work has been carried on in the same lines as were followed last year. Going two by two, we have preached four nights in the week, at different places in the bazars. There has been less controversy and more inquiry than was noticed last year. The tracts published by the North India Tract Society, especially for this* purpose, have been distrib­ uted in large numbers, and have been a most valuable help. Their strictly devotional and evangelical character has made them much sought after, and they have tended directly and powerfully to stimulate inquiry and awaken the conscience. Only once has any- difficulty occurred in the bazar. A young man who, after having been baptized, had lapsed into Mohammedanism, seemed to be bent upon making a disturbance. Twice or thrice I changed my ground because he interrupted me while preaching. He followed me from one place to another, and persisted in his interruption. Finally, I laid the facts before the chief of police, himself a Mohammedan. The young man was sent for, informed that such conduct was contrary to the rules relating to bazar preaching, and warned to desist. Since that time 1 have not seen him in the bazar. The schools have worked as usual, but with an increased attendance. A new school has been opened recently in a quarter of the city where there are no others, and promises to be useful. Book-selling has been pushed with unusual vigor and success. There are three men now employed in this work. The demand for Christian hymn books and parts of the Old Testament among the heathen has noticeably increased. The number of members on the register has decreased. Death has 176 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

taken away some, others have moved away, and two probationers have been dropped for gross immorality. The Sunday services for native Christians are well attended ; but the need of a larger chapel more con­ veniently situated is felt more and more. The Sunday-school work has increased greatly. W e now have ten schools and 624 children enrolled. Of this number nearly six hundred are heathens or Mohammedans. The Lesson Leaves are used only in two of the schools. In the others the children are taught the Lord’s Prayer, the Catechism, and Christian hymns. They make rapid progress and seem to believe what they are taught. In the Sunday-schools lie our hope for large numbers of converts in the not very distant future. In Cawnpore there seems to be no limit to the increase of this form of work, except that fixed by the difficulty in getting suitable teachers. Already valuable assistance has been given in this work by laymen be­ longing to the English congregation and there is a promise of additional help next year from the same quarter. The two adults who have been baptized during the year are very- interesting cases. One is a woman, the widow of a faithful man who was baptized in 1879, and died suddenly last year. After her husband’s bap­ tism this woman refused to live with him. With true Christian grace he left his own house for her to live in, and taking with him their little girl, who also had been baptized, he moved into a little mud hut in the comer of the yard, near the house of one of our native preachers. “ Working with his own hands,” he continued to support his family, including his wife and little son who had not been baptized. After her husband’s death fhe woman went absolutely to work to sup­ port herself and her boy by “ grinding at the mill.” The little girl was sent away to Bareilly to school. Soon, in spite of her constant'toil, want began to pinch the widow and her boy. At this juncture the native brethren recommended me to give her a trifling monthly allowance out of the poor fund raised by the native Church. As in many other cases, our care for the wants of the body soon opened the way to the heart. Her bitterness died out, and she became an earnest seeker after truth. After eight months of careful instruction, she and her little boy were baptized. Within a few weeks the boy, a bright, amiable little fellow, died of fever. The poor widow had sorrow upon sorrow. Her neighbors told her that all her troubles were the result of her having become a Christian. She was greatly trouble by this thought, but stood fast in the hope of the Gospel. One week ago I had the pleasure of seeing her happily reunited with her daughter at the Shahjehanpore mela. The other convert is a man forty-five years of age, whose case illus­ trates the power for good which may be exerted by Christian laymen in this country. He is a Brahman by caste, and a money-changer by occu­ pation. In a quiet way he has been an inquirer for some years. In the evening, after the business of the day was over, he was in the habit of going to the Young Men’s Christian Association rooms, which are fre­ quented chiefly by European soldiers. Although he does not understand i 8 8 i .] NORTH INDIA. 177

English, he did not fail to observe the spirit of brotherly love which per­ vaded the meetings, and was manifested in the intercourse between the men and himself. Deeply impressed with what he had seen and felt, one evening he asked for a cup of tea, and boldly drank it ; thereby breaking his caste most effectively. Soon after he was brought to me for instruction. I found him to be already well-grounded in the faith, and after three months’ delay baptized him. His family is living in a village some twenty miles from Cawnpore. At first they refused to have any thing to do with him. Soon after his baptism he went to the village to see them. The villagers set upon him, and he was severely beaten with shoes. More recently, however, his eldest son fell ill, and requested his friends to send for the father. The latter went to the place, and was not only permitted to see the young man, but was even allowed to give him fluid medicine from his own hand. I expect to go to the village soon, and hope to find the family in a teachable frame of mind. To me, Cawnpore seems riper for evangelistic work than any other city 1 have seen in India. Every day I am reminded of Corinth, in the days of Paul. The place is full of commercial activity, and men from all quarters of India jostle each other in the crowded bazars. The inhabitants have that nimbleness of intellect which results from commercial pursuits. They are less hampered by prejudice, and less bound by caste, than are those of other cities in North India. God grant that they may speedily “ buy gold refined by fire,” that they may become truly “ rich ! ” Cawnpore English Church. Rev. J. C. Lawson, Missionary, reports: Since my arrival here from America, in February, I have had charge of this work, and it rejoices me to know that through grace divine some­ thing has been accomplished for the Master. We have a large and interesting field. The congregations, especially the Sabbath evening, which we found to be large, have not fallen off, but through the pastoral labor which we have been permitted to do, have rather increased in numbers. The church every Sabbath is well filled, and a more attentive and interesting congregation could not be desired. A good attendance of civilians, soldiers, and school children from the Memorial and Girls’ School, make up the bulk of the congregation. The Thursday evening service has been fairly attended, preaching having been kept up for the greater part of the year. Of late we have turned it into a prayer-meeting, and many have felt the Holy Spirit to be therein power. The Tuesday evening class and fellowship-meeting; in charge of Dr. Con­ don, has always been found to be a little heaven begun below. We Jiave just organized another of these social meetings, and trust that it will be the means of leading many to seek “ vital godliness.” Dr. Condon has also had charge of the Sunday-school, and under his faithful superin­ tendence the interest and attendance have scarcely abated during the year. The debt on the church has been all wiped off. In addition to the service 12 178 MISSIONARY REPORT. [18 8 1.

in the church one has been held in Mirpur, one for the soldiers three or four times a week in the Association Room ; preaching has been had once a week at the East India Railway Station ; also by Rev. Brother M ’Grew in English once a month at Unao, and he has just started preach­ ing service fortnightly at Futtehpore. The first of these has been fairly attended ; the second by a score or more of soldiers; the third has varied from fifteen to thirty-five ; the fourth about thirty; the fifth, we trust, will soon fall into line. Under the efficient superintendence of Brother Beer, the Railway Sunday-school has averaged about twenty. A prominent feature of the work has been visiting from house to house. I am confident that many hearts and homes made sad and sinful by Satanic power have been cheered and made purer by this work. These people highly appreciate this attention from their pastor. More than once have I heard such language as this: “ How can I thank you for your kindness? No one has talked to us as you have, and your prayers have helped us greatly. We have long felt the need of a minister’s counsels.” And then and there some have promised to serve the Saviour, and, I trust, have been truly converted. In the hospital each week we talk and pray with the sick, and the in­ terest they take is a great source of inspiration. One came in from a drunken spree and had to have his foot amputated, and has been a great sufferer for months from fever and pain. But he has given his heart to the Lord Jesus, and his bedside is such as none but a Christian’s can be. Another, with the cold sweat upon his brow, promised to meet me above. These are but samples of the touching scenes we have with the soldiers. The Memorial School, in charge of Brother Neeld, and the Girls’ School, in charge of Miss Easton, are flourishing. The former has increased in numbers from about forty-five to seventy-five enrolled at present; the latter has kept up its numbers steadily, and every-where one goes, in or out of the station, its praise is heard. In both schools the religious wel­ fare of the students has been carefully looked after. A large number of the boys were present at the late Dasehra meeting, at Lucknow, and some fifteen or twenty there gave their hearts to the Lord. I recognize and am thankful for the great aid that Brother M’Grew, Dr. Condon, and Brother Neeld, have given me during the year. Not one of them could well spare the time from his own work, yet their labors have been abundant.

Memorial School. Rev. F. L. Neeld, Principal, writes: I presume that a general report of the condition of the school is what is required at this time. W e have sixty-eight boys on the roll at present. Out of that number fifty-four are boarders, and three of the boarders are on the “ Pitman Foundation.” W e have eight masters and two pupil teachers. Having no head mas­ ter, I had to fill the place during the year. This has left me no time for preaching. If we had another missionary as head master, it would give ns both some time to devote to preaching, or if we had a layman from home specially prepared to enter educational work, he could devote all i 8 8 i J NORTH INDIA. 179 his time to school work, and thus secure to the school undivided atten­ tion of a principal. The health of the boys has been very good through­ out the year; there has been more sickness among day scholars than among boarders. The general conduct of the school is good. Only a few cases have required severity in discipline. A spirit of Christian gentle manliness among the boys of the upper classes has had a very good effect upon the whole school. The spiritual tone is very encouraging. During the year there have been several conversions. Boys’ prayer-meeting twice a week are well attended. We all go to preaching in the chapel three times a week. The O. and R. Railway kindly reduced their fare for us, and more than half the school attended the Dasehra meetings, at Lucknow; some of the boys were converted there, and the whole school has been im­ proved spiritually. I trust that the Lord may raise up from among these young men preach­ ers, teachers, exhorters, and evangelists. We cannot long expect mission­ aries from America to the English-speaking people of India. These young men must help to save the English-speaking people of India. We need to give them the very best possible preparation for the work. The school must be permeated with the evangelical spirit. W e need to con­ centrate the forces sent from America on the strategic points, in order to have the work effective when we are unable longer to send help from home. The school is barely self-supporting at present. It receives no funds from home. Out of the earnings we have to pay interest on a debt of 19,400 rupees. If the debt was cleared off we would have more means and could do much better work. W e could pay teachers more, and thus secure the best. W e could have the books, maps, and furniture which we need. The institution is young yet, but the boys who have gone out may be found in many of the important stations of India. I met the brother of one who has lately gone to Australia. Thus they will increase in num­ ber, and be scattered throughout the land. If nourished in her youth the Memorial School may grow to be a power for Jesus in India.

H a r d u i . B. Luke, Native Preacher. Brother Luke, Conference probationer, fell ill early in the year, and is still, unable to do much work. The work in hand has not been allowed to suffer m uch; still, but little general evangelistic work could be done. The field is an interesting one, and as the workmen improve in health en­ couraging reports may be expected. The preacher’s house and chapel, both badly built buildings, were so damaged by the last rains that part of each fell down, making it necessary to immediately reroof and otherwise repair them. S e e t a p o r e a n d L u c k i m p o r e . Rev. J. E. Scott, Missionary. He writes as follows: Has the past year been a good year? No royal road to speedy and i8o MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

sure success in converting the millions has been discovered. The masses of the people are as obdurate as ever. Hindus are still joined to their idols, Mohammedans still read the Koran and pray four times a day, and that good time when the halo-crowned missionary can sit under a palm- tree, with anxious crowds flocking about him earnestly inquiring the way to heaven, in these regions has not yet dawned. And yet it has been a good year. The Gospel has been extensively preached, in the town and country, throughout both districts. The schools are larger than ever be­ fore. The Sunday-schools especially are a success, being well attended, and conducted with enthusiasm, and to the profit of the pupils. There are more houses open to general workers this year than last. There are many inquirers. Truth seems to take a firmer hold. The helpers and catechists have been, as a general thing, more diligent and earnest in their work. The majority of the membership have grown in grace, and the Christian children, under careful training, have improved very much. The new church in Thomson Gunge has been completed with thank­ fulness, dedicated with joy, and filled every Sunday with attentive congre­ gations and enthusiastic Sunday-school children. The magic-lantern, that new non-Pauline method of reaching the heart through the eye, has been used in city and tnela, attracting large and attentive crowds, holding them spell-bound while the Gospel has been preached to them. The educated classes have, through lectures, been more effectually reached this year than last, and the people seem at least more willing to hear than ever be­ fore. That settles the character of the year of our Lord 1881 ; results in much encouragement, and a general conviction of the ultimate success of the enterprise. With this general outline of work done there are several practical ques­ tions which suggest themselves: I. How can we best reach the masses so as to hold their attention and impress the truth upon them ? The magic-lantern has been named. It is a grand thing; it works like magic. It draws and holds crowds, and the impression made is lasting. The missionary has seen at least a thou­ sand people sitting for two hours, night after night, while the whole Bible history from the creation of man to the ascension of Christ was recounted before them, and they seemed to be far more interested in that than in the picture of the lion with opening jaws, or in the drunkard swallowing a mouse. And the missionary has settled the question of reaching the masses so far as Seetapore itself is concerned. Here is his prescription: Build a large, open, airy, attractive hall in the midst of the town, in the most public place, where it is not too noisy; throw it open to the public, and preach a free, full gospel of salvation to them. Let there be plenty of good, loud, hearty, sprightly, joyous singing, and copious illustrations and abundance of pictures, and the people will come. But the funds to build ? “ Ask and ye shall receive,” and the “ joy ” of seeing a house go up which will be an enduring monument to the Lord, as well as a power far good, will be “ full.” l 8 8 i .] NORTH INDIA. 181

2. What shall we do for the children ? This question is paramount in this empire. What a glorious thought, that more than one half the peo­ ple in numbers, and two thirds of them in value, are accessible to u s ! Here is a responsibility for the Church to accept. O that the garment of Robert Raikes would fall upon us ! The missionary at Seetapore is grandly seconded in his efforts to save the children by his catechists and helpers, showing that Sunday-schools can flourish under native control. In the school at Raisabad, which is conducted by Moonshee Peter Gray and Baboo George Mayal, and which is really a more wide-awake school than the one in Thomson Gunge, under the immediate management of the mis­ sionary, Hindu and Mohammedan boys sing hymns alone, read essays, recite the Golden Texts and Outlines of the lessons, and know Mudge’s Catechism so well that in theology they are more Christian than any thing else. 3. How to circulate books. The catechists and helpers, as well as the colporteurs, have taken more interest in this work than ever before, and as a consequence more books have been sold and much good done. There are helpers who are ashamed to be seen selling books, but the missionary at Seetapore rejoices in the fact that all his helpers are book-sellers, and are not ashamed to be seen standing in the bazars urging the people to buy. There is, moreover, a pleasant rivalry existing between them, which it is encouraging to see. Several interesting incidents have occurred during the year. Ram Sahai, the temple-priest at Hargaun, heard of the dedication of the new church in Thomson Gunge, and came to attend the services, and, taking up his abode in the missionary’s garden, remained during that interesting occasion, much to his own profit. Piran, a servant in the missionary’s family, is an example of how Christ can save these people. Four years ago the woman was a heathen. Now her deep piety and earnest zeal are a help to us all. In Christian benevolence she is a model, and in faith a power. She has been the means of bringing others to Christ, and has but recently adopted a boy to bring him up in the fear of the Lord. But this woman is so ignorant that she has been three years, with constant appli­ cation, learning one line of the Hindu alphabet. Less pleasing are such instances as the following: A native Christian, a namesake of him who came to Jesus by night, came to me by day in search of work. He showed excellent letters, and while he remained with us he was most active in taking part in our services. He said that he had secured a place in the brigade-major’s office, on twenty-five rupees per month, and, as he would not be paid till the first, asked a rupee of me, which I gave, when he left for parts unknown, and has not since been heard from. One day I received the following letter from a would-be inquirer : “S i r :— I most humbly beg to take your honor’s favorable considera­ tion that I have a great desire to fill up the story ol my mind with the- ology. The moonshee told me that he said hair by hair about you to Rev. J. E. Scott. Therefore, I write a private letter to your honor; if it be so, MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

then I hope that your honor will be good enough to inform me. Write down that if your honor can make any arrangement for me then I can come to you. Otherwise I do not want to trouble your honor’s health. “ Yours truly,” etc., etc. The missionary “ wrote down ” very carefully the conditions upon which he could be received, but after that he did not trouble his honor’s health any more. The missionary is very grateful for all the help, financial and other, which he has received from kind friends outside of the mission, and hopes that they will receive this as acknowledgment of their many favors.

G o n d a h a n d B a h r a i c h . Rev. Samuel Knowles, Missionary. William Peters, Native Minister. 1. Bazar Preaching. The gospel of Christ has been preached in the Gondah city on an average three times a week during the past year. In Bahraich this work has been carried on most vigorously and efficiently by Brothers Charles Luke and Chattar Singh. The same may be said of all our out-stations — Colonel-gunge, Ellen pore, and Nawabgunge on the Ghogra— in all these places our native preachers have faithfully labored. From the reports received from these important points of Christian influ­ ence, as well as from our own observation, we are able to say that we have met with much encouragement, both from the respectful and attentive bearing of the people, and from the unusual number of inquirers who have come to learn more of this wonderful Avater who gave his life a ransom for sinners. One man, a young Brahman, was standing in a crowd of impressed listeners in the Bahraich bazar, himself wrapt in deep atten­ tion, listening to a comparison of the coming of the last, or tenth, Avatar of Hinduism with Jesus Christ. The preacher laid special emphasis on the fact that the true “ desire of all nations,” the only pure incarnation which had come into the world, had already appeared; but unlike the last Avatar of the Hindus, he appeared not to destroy men’s lives, but to save them; for “ this is a faithful saying, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” This young man became very angry for a time, but the truth he heard was as a nail fastened in a sure place; and he came to our preacher and said that the Avatar who came to save, and not to destroy, him, was the Saviour he wanted. A few weeks afterward he was baptized and received on probation. A young Madrasi servant heard our preaching in the Gondah bazar. He went home to his master, told him what he had heard, and asked for spiritual instruction. His master kindly sent him to us, and we found him thoroughly convinced of the truth that Christ was the only one that could save him, and fully determined to throw in his lot among us. We had the pleasure a few weeks after this to baptize and receive him into the Church on probation. He is now with his master, in Lucknow. A middle-aged Brahman, with handsome face and fine-flowing beard, i 8 8 i .l NORTH INDIA. 183 heard our bazar-preaching in Colonel-gunge. He became a very earnest seeker after the truth. Many were his doubts and fears, which only those who understand something of native thought, feeling, and habits can fully appreciate; yet he overcame them all, and six months after his first com­ ing to us we administered to him the holy rite of baptism. It is very dif­ ficult to get a Brahman fakir, after the wandering life he generally leads, to do work of any kind ; but this man quite willingly went to work, and is employed as a peon. A Brahman compounder in the Nawabgunge hospital came one even­ ing into the bazar to oppose the preacher and stop the preaching. A padri was telling the story of a king-tyrant who commanded a poor smith to make a long chain, and when the wretched man had completed'it, the tyrant ordered his servants to bind him hand and foot with the chain, and cast him into a furnace. The story vvas explained to mean that the tyrant was Satan, that he tempted men to sin; each sin a man willingly com­ mitted became the link in a chain which, if a man did not repent, would bind him hand and foot at last in helpless destruction. This simple story made such a deep impression upon the mind of Ratu Nath that he gave up all intention of trying to annoy the preacher. He came to us and con­ fessed his fault, and said he feared that he too was bound in the chain of his sins. We pointed him to Christ, who came into the world “ to break the power of canceled sin,” and to “ set the prisoner free.” He has since been an earnest inquirer after more truth, and ere this report is printed will, Providence permitting, be received into our Church by the door of faith in Christ, and open confession of his name in baptism. 2. Visiting. W e have made this one of our most important duties dur­ ing the past year, and -from the reports of our native preachers in the out-stations this feature of our work has met with some success. In Gondah there are more Hindu and Mohammedan officials than in any ot'her station in Oudh. They are all of a most liberal turn of mind, and many of them have their houses furnished in European style. All these have been regularly visited, and without a single exception those visits have been received most kindly. Some of these native gentlemen have come privately to our house to state their religious objections, and have them answered. In one case the answers were carefully written down and taken away to be more carefully pondered. The result of these return visits was the giving of three lectures to the members of the Gondah “ Aujumam-i-Rifah.” The first was on “ The Immortality of the Soul the second on the “ State of the Soul after Death,” dealing with the ques­ tion of transmigration; and the third on ‘ ‘Rewards and Punishments, from a Christian stand-point. That these lectures were well received was seen by the fact that the members of the above society paid for their printing. A t any rate, we have gained the confidence of this influential class of native society, and we hope through that to win some of them at least to a higher and nobler life of Christian faith and love. One native official, whose name we are not yet at liberty to reveal, has decided so far that he will be a Christian in secret. O f course this cannot b e; but the MISSIONARY REPORT. [i8 8 x .

longer I remain in the work, and the more experience I gain, the more I learn not to despise the day of small things. This is a small thing now ; we have faith to believe that it will, by the grace of God, grow into some­ thing greater and better. 3. Itinerating. W e have made many tours in this teeming and beauti­ fully rich district, but none that seemed so satisfactory as the tours we made during the last cold season. The people appeared ready and eager for the Word every-where. W e made two or. three tours to Nawabgunge, on the Ghogra, where an encouraging work opened out last year. The old Garu whom we baptized, and hoped to employ to go among his own caste and try and win them over to Christ, fell sick with an attack of bronchitis. In his sickness and weakness some of his disciples, who were opposed to us, persuaded him to give up all idea of identifying him­ self publicly with us. For a time after his recovery he hid himself from us, and refused in any way to hold communication with us. He sent us word that he believed on Jesus Christ, but would serve him in secret. Latterly, however, he has shown a better spirit by coming to our meet­ ings, and visiting our native preacher. Another tour was made to Colonel-gunge, where we visited and exam­ ined the well-conducted and flourishing boys’ and girls’ school, (in charge of our native preacher and his wife,) and preached many times in the crowded corn and grain market of the town. Bihari Lall has a very en­ couraging work going on in this place. W e also made a tour to Ellenpore. Here we have a small church of some fifty native Christians. W e spent many days among them, holding religious services, and in visiting the large bazar, held a few miles from this grant. In itinerating in this district, fifteen years ago, we found very few per­ sons who could read, and hence were not able to distribute many tracts and books; but now there is scarcely a village we can enter without sell­ ing four or five tracts, and as many copies of the New Testiment. 4. Melas, or Religious Fairs. In the beginning of the year we visited the great mela, held at Ajudhiya, the birthplace of Ram, where over five hundred thousand people assemble to plunge into the waters of the Ghagra at the full moon in November, and to worship at the hundreds of shrines with which this Hindu sacred place abounds. There were three mission­ aries and ten native preachers from our mission present. Encamped in an ancient grove of tamarind trees outside the gloomy old Hanuman fort, we were near to the great mass of people, and could sit and talk, or preach, to large crowds of people by only going a few yards from our tents. Large crowds would gather around each preaching-place and listen to the “ good news” of a Saviour who can save them from their sins, and give to them true peace of conscience and lasting happiness. A large num ber of books and tracts were sold at this mela. Every preacher carried a bundle of Hindu or Urdu tracts in his hand, and cried them for sale as he went to, or returned from, the place of preaching. Who can estimate the good these silent messengers of truth will work out in these dark i 88 i .] NORTH INDIA. 185 minds and superstitious hearts ? It is our work to sow, and God’s to water and sanctify the seed of truth. 5. Sabbath-schools. W e have fifteen Sabbath-schools, six for girls and nine for boys, with a total of 607 on the books and an average attendance of 507. We had our usual Sunday-school fête in last January, at Gondah, where the European residents kindly subscribed enough money to regale over two hundred boys with sweetmeats, and to present a number of the best scholars with prizes. In closing, we must thank God for the degree o- prosperity which has attended all our efforts in every department of our mission work. Our native Church, of fifty full members and thirty probationers, has largely increased in general intelligence, and risen to a higher spiritual life. The blessed way of salvation and the grand fundamental truths of the Bible have been constantly kept before the mind of the people; many who were altogether ignorant of what our holy religion is, now have the name and meaning of Jesus Christ upon their hearts and lips, and some five or six Hindus, whose minds were once as dark as night, and whose hearts were once as hard as a rock, have been awakened, enlightened, softened, and truly converted in heart and life.

B a r a b a n k i . E. Joel, Native Minister. Although alone in this large and interesting field, thank God, I find his promise true: “ Fear not, I am with thee.” During the year I have preached in the city and in the villages, in the melas and from house to house, and find willing hearers every-where. In one of the melas a man, named Ram Pushod— a land-holder— listened to preaching and bought two tracts. About two months afterward I met him, when he said he had been looking for me ; that the tracts told of a Saviour, and he wanted a book which would tell all about him. He urged me to visit him and bring the Gospel with me. When I went he received me gladly, and bought a copy of the New Testament, and is reading it with much inter­ est. I ' have visited him several times since : he always leaves all other business and devotes himself to religious conversation while I remain. I hope he will soon acknowledge Christ openly in baptism. Another man, Bhagmandas, a fakir, declared that he had long been wandering in search of rest of soul, that he had failed to find it, but was convinced that Christ was the Saviour. He pronounced blessings upon me for preaching such a doctrine, and insisted upon my accepting what little food he had with him. He remained two days with me and appeared to be fully decided to become a Christian. He said he had accepted the Lord and would remain faithful to him, then started for his distant home, since which I have not heard from him. May the Lord pour out his Spirit upon the people,that great multitudes may soon come to him and be saved !■ MISSIONARY REPORT. [ I 8 8 l .

R oi B a r e i l l y . Rev. A. C. Paul, Native Minister. It is about eighteen years since the mission was established here, but this is the first time that a native missionary has been placed in charge of it. The district is large, and more laborers are necessary. In the out- station of Bhogpore, Isa Das, who is a local deacon, baptized a woman last May. The husband collected a crowd and came and beat the preacher and his wife, and carried off the convert. She soon evaded them, however, and after two days returned to the preacher’s house, where she remained about two months, when she returned to her people. In March a young man named Ganeshi was baptized. He had made various efforts to reform his life, but finally concluded he must acknowledge the Lord publicly before his relatives. I am sorry to say they persecuted him so that he was obliged to leave the place; but when last heard from he was going on faithfully. The people, both in the city and village, listen with much interest to the preaching of the Gospel. Very little real opposition is offered anywhere to the general proclama­ tion of the Word. We always offer books for sale after preaching. We are all of us book-sellers. The Christians are growing in grace day by day, and the preachers are all faithful in their work. The school and Sunday-school work are doing good and promise much for the children and youth. With hearty thanks to God for his continued grace and help, and to friends for their assistance, we close this report. STATISTICS OF THE NORTH INDIA MISSION FOR .1881.

1 © 9 £ 'Ji S C J3 to _3 I & *3 a b 3 E c •ç ► > „• CIRCUIT OR STATION. ä s' I s o i ir cfj O 3 * £ $ 1 ^ « ■7Î i h ~o s “ •| 1 6 ¿ a i l l Places Places of Worship. Collected Collected for other Benevolent ^>ocieti*s. Value Value of Schools, Hospi­tals, and other Property. Collected for Missionary No. No. of Halls nnd other tions. Society. Average Average Attendance on Collected for Self- £ Sunday Worship. No. of Hiph Schools. j 2 £ & i3 o Ä: ¡S £ o - £ 1 No. 1 of Pupils. j No. 1 of Orphans. j support.1 Other ^ Local Contribu­ i Collected for Church Building 1 and Repairing. [ [ Members. Rohilkund District t 2 Bareilly...... 154 8« 300 817 1 i 21 1 3 13 241 $14,500 3 »7,600 «72,435 «35 50 «109 00 Futhegunpe ...... 21 31 on 95 T 40 1 100 900 1 00 13 00 Kliera Bajhera...... 7 511 118 1 500 7,000 40 (10 1 Sliiihjehanpore...... 91 (16 325 1,225 260 3 6,700 ? 5,000 13,000 37 00 $7 90 00 Punalipur...... 112 5ti 250 2u5 1 492 1 220 5 00 8 00 , Badaon...... 100 lfifl 2nd 2,200 1 3,000 8,000 3 00 30 21 00 35(1 Kakrala...... «1 25 50 1H7 1 50 2 00 2 00 J tils i ...... 98 150 1011 210 1 100 1,000 6 00 3 00 Chandausi...... 20 8 2* 3110 1 750 21 00 î Moradabatl...... m 75 45!l 1,150 <) 8,(KM) 4 4 8,000 8,000 20 ÒÓ 66 00 Sumhhal...... 135 17(i 279 507 2 300 4 1 600 5 00 42 00 •Amroha...... 156 15H 185 66 1 1 500 2 50 28 00 B ijnor...... 194 57 205 446 2 3,250 3 2,700 1,000 6 Ot 80 00 Oudh Dintrict. Lucknow—Native Church... 75 51 150 1,100 1,250 1 8 lfifi 8 3 4 13,000 9,400 18 00 360 00 «3,300 50 English Church.. HI 3 InO 70 1 11,500 35 0C 300 650 0C 350 Oawnpore—Native Church. 18 Iti 00 'Ì5Ó 624 5 00 26 138 00 25 English Church. 35 S 20(1 125 130 1 3,000 V, 6,250 18,000 II «9,700 25 00 500 00 1,500 % H ardui ...... 27 10 2o 119 129 1 100 1 100 3 (X 4 5 OC Seetapore and Luckimpore. 33 20(1 379 466 1 1 1 /0 0 1 1,500 600 6 0( 60 OC 200 200 Gondah and Bahraich...... 50 30 2(Kl 587 607 fl fl 3,000 1,500 5 0( 10 00 425 Barabanki ...... 4 H 40 40 0 60 ltai Bareilly...... 23 3 25 450 300 Î 1 600 2 1,500 1,500 3 00 3ä 50 n o Kumaon District. Nynee Tal...... 35 200 1 3 50 1 13,250 3 3,750 500 2*00 1,500 00 9.300 Bhabar Circuit...... 41 29 105 2 1 50 1 1 225 1 00 26 00 Kastem Kumaon Circuit___ 21 10 «3 1 900 2 1,950 ’ èòó ö 00 ,,,, 38 15 Dwarahat Circuit...... 7 6 50 1 2 1,400 11,125 7 00 . . . Guihwal Circuit...... ti4 52 250 53 2 0 2,800 35 18 Ì3 42 KECAPITULATION BY DISTRICTS.

Kohilkund District...... 7 7 3 88 11 40 3 214 29 1,402 1,065 2,527 25fi 151 Kid 4,177 172 7,501 1 4 21 1 3 13 501 13 «33,282 17 20 «29.120 «111,000 «123 00 «37 «440 OOI «5.482 «383 Oudli District...... 8 6 3 10 45 6 2(1 3 111 4 1 13 296 145 9‘W 111 41 (18 2,95(1 68 3,616 1 8 116 11 5 16,700 5 12 25.35C 31,000 «9.700 99 6(1 330 1,748 50 f 5,535 658 Kumaon District...... 6 3 1 16 2 8 60 4 14 168 97 728 21 13 14 1,426 20 879 1 2 50 57 4 14,200 3 13 10,125 12,225 2^00 48 18 1,577 57| . . . . $,500

Total...... 21 16 7 10 149 IS) 68 (i 388 8 1 56 1,916 1,307 4,248 287 2(15 242 8,553 2611 11,996 3 14 287 1 3 13 569 22 «64,182 45 «64,595 «154,225 «12,-200 «270 78 «367 «3,766 07 «11,017 «10,540 Last year...... 20 19 5 22 104 12 67 11 337 1 2 43 1,666 1.128 3,615 168 245 236 8,281 218 8,977 504,27 59,327 19 49 72,795 94,230 3.375 238 62 21 1.039 * All the men in columns six and seven, in the Kohilkund District, aro in regular pastoral w ork as preachers in chargre or junior preachers. 't The self-support column, in this district, shows only wlmt nativo Christians have paid for their pastors. W o have, besides this, colluded for w ork bore i India, TRohilkund District,] $5,482— which is really self-support, though uot pai*l Vty nntivo» for native pastors. Nearly every circuit in this district supports one man at leant troni native subscriptions.^ ^Onc circuit support« i Sot in rcc u la r w ork . § Eurasians n od Ji.uropottDB. I Memorial School, Cawnporo. L in aid and subscript tom last year «mbrac tbose tw o colu uica in one. S outh India.,

Commenced in 1872. Organized as a Conference in 1876.

BISHOP HARRIS has Episcopal Supervision.

APPO IN TM EN TS FOR 1881-82.

B o m b a y a n d M a d r a s D i s t r i c t .— D. O. Fox, Presiding Elder.— Bombay: Grant Road, J. A. Northrup; Fort, T. H. Oakes ; Mazagon, W. H. Stephens ; Marathi Circuit, G. Bowen; Poona, O. Shreves; Egutpoora, A. G. Fraser, W . H. Bruere; Ahmedabad, A. H. Baker; Bhosawul, G. H. Green ig ; Nagpore, T. F. Morton ; M adras: Vepery, I. F. Row, W. B. Osborn; Blacktown, J. Blackstock; Bangalore: Rich­ mond Town, C. W. Christian ; St. Johns H ill, D . H. Lee ; Tamil Cir­ cuit, I. A. Richards, B. Peters; Bellary, W. A. Moore; Secunderabad, F. G. Davis ;% Chadarghat, R. E. Carter; Colar Mission, S. P. Jacobs; Telegu Mission, C. B. Ward ; Poona School, W. E. Robbins, A. Vardon ; Bangalore School, I. A. Richards. Superannuated, W. E. Newlon.

C a l c u t t a D i s t r i c t .— J. M. Thoburn, Presiding Elder.— Calcutta : English Church, J. M. Thoburn, J. S. Stone ; Bengalee Church, P. K. Nath ; L a i Bazar, G. I. Stone; Hastings, L. R. Janney ; Jamalpore Circuit, W. A. Thomas; Saidpore Circuit, J. P. Meik ; Rangoon, J. E. Robinson ; Rangoon, Seamen's Mission, H. Jacobsen.

A l l a h a b a d D i s t r i c t .— D . Osborne, Presiding Elder.—Allahabad, D. Osborne; Jubbulpore, W. D . Brown ; Hurda, to be supplied ; Khand- •wa, J. D . W ebb; Mhow, C. W. D ’S o u za ; Agra, W. G. T. Curties; Bandikui, M . B. Birk; Meerut, G. K. G ilder; Roorkee, W. Bowser; Mussoorie, M . Y. Bovard; Lahore, J. Shaw ; Kurrachee, J. Lyon.

L a y M i s s i o n a r y .— Calcutta, Boys' School, C. A. Martin. W. F. M. S. M issio n a ries.— Calcutta, Girls' School, Miss M. E. Layton ; Cannington, Girls' School, Miss M. B. Spence ; Rangoon, Girls' School, Miss E. H. Warner.

W e have been furnished with a general account of the work in this field by Rev. J. M. Thoburn, D.D., Presiding Elder of the Calcutta District. In harmony with the form of the Report on North India, we have here given the list of appoint­ ments as determined at the Conference session which opened at Bangalore, November 3, 1881. The names of twenty-four 1881.] SOUTH INDIA. 189 of these preachers, who are missionaries sent out from the United States, will be found in the Missionary Directory. The Church has this year suffered the loss of Rev. F. A. Goodwin, of the South India Conference, who died at Bidde- ford, Maine, August 16, after several months of wasting with consumption. He went out in 1874. During his pastorate the following year at Kurrachee, our church building and parsonage in that station were erected, and the Gospel which he subsequently preached to the seamen in Calcutta was the abundant support of his last hour. Dr. Thoburn reports as follows: The work throughout the South India Conference was organized on a missionary basis, although in its main features it does not very materially differ from the work of an American Conference. In the larger cities of India small settlements of Europeans and Eurasians are formed, and our object is to found Churches among them, and use each congregation thus organized as a base of operations for work among the surrounding heathen and Mohammedan populations. The situation is not very unlike that of the Roman Empire in the days of Paul, when the missionaries invariably took advantage of the scattered Jewish communities, and, by drawing the heathen in among them, suc­ ceeded in winning them for Christ. For many years it has been deeply felt in India that the Church had not sufficiently recognized God’s purpose in scattering so many English-speaking Christians throughout this vast empire, containing a population twice as large as that over which Augus­ tus ruled, and very many still believe that very great results may be reached by faithfully working among these scattered communities on a missionary basis. The South India Conference is now closing the fifth year of its history, and is able to present some encouraging results. It ought, however, to be frankly confessed that the success thus far has not been equal to the hopes and expectations of not a few who have taken an active part in the work from the first. Possibly their hopes were unreasonably high, and possibly the results are really better than are apparent on the surface. One thing, however, is very worthy of notice : the men who have stood at their posts from the first are one and all full of confidence in the ultimate success of the work. It is probable that we did not sufficiently appreciate at the outset the magnitude of the task involved in founding a score of Churches, and training them up in habits of self-support, and disciplining them for aggress­ ive work. This has been found peculiarly difficult among a people who are perpetually changing residences. A generation of Anglo-Indian peo­ ple is estimated at about seven years, and every Church must renew itself at least once in that length of time. Taking this into account, it was per­ MISSIONARY REPORT. Ci 88 r.

haps unwise to expect a feeble little Conference suddenly to develop into a powerful, well-organized, and fully-equipped mission in the short space of five years. W e have not, however, been left without fruit. About one seventh of our members are natives. A t Rangoon two Burmese have been baptized recently. At Calcutta seven Hindus have been baptized during the past quarter, and other baptisms have taken place at Bombay and different points in Southern and Western India. In Calcutta we have a fully organized Bengalee Church, with more than a hundred members. During the latter part of the year this Church has been practically self-supporting, having paid both house-rent and salary of their native pastor. In the villages in the vicinity of Calcutta are sev­ eral congregations with an aggregate membership of nearly a hundred. All this work has grown legitimately and naturally out of the work among the English-speaking people. In Bombay we have a considerable mem­ bership, and at other points smaller classes have been organized. Within our borders, and by our people, the Gospel is preached every week in half-a-dozen native languages. Among the Telegoos, in the Nizam’s territory, Brother Ward is con­ ducting an Orphanage, and also carrying on ordinary missionary work. He has sixty-four orphans under his care, and hopes to train up some men and women who may hereafter do a glorious work in that remote region. During the past year our work has extended, new Churches having been organized at Lahore, in the Panjab, at Mussoorie, a large sanitarium in the Himalayas, and at Connoor, in the Nilgari Mountains, in South India. Other doors are wide open, but laborers adapted to this work are very few. The Church should have sent out a dozen strong young men with Bishop Andrews when he came to organize our Conference. W e still need a strong re-enforcement of able, safe, soul-winning young men. The statistics appended are chiefly taken from the Conference Minutes of last year. STATISTICS OF THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION FOR 1881.

£ a to £ ■ij = £*3 ft P a . B £ °- H 6(5 2 | *--a CIRCUIT OR STATION. *3 s 'fi £ % s' a s T3 £ X 1 ei, c ta 1« bo>* &!S Ò X 1 EE I f 3 '» II E el I I Seg- 8. £ !■< < E*. A p* <7 27 hü'.. 7.i 1 8,00(1 825 Memorial Church...... 1 ‘ ■ 31 3 80j 3 2i 2 6,500 625 Tamil Church...... ÌI 2-')! t> . . 1 17 330 on Bellary ...... i 'ii1:: :: 37 10 75 .. .. 1 aVw 2 Chndarghat...... 1 _ oli 11 7.1. 1 •1 1 0,000 8,000 1,050 410 Secunderabad...... 23 8 600 Telegu Mission...... J *2 ' !. 17 60 I 1,740 Calcutta District. Calcutta: English Church...... r i l i ISO 7ii «10, !» 1 C'V 2 317 . 40,000 8£00 6,740 1,250 Bengali Circuit...... i 1 .!; 2 2 -. .. 8« 126 150 3 311 3 11« , 7,500 60 Seamen's work, L il Bazar. .. i ... 1 ...... (it 21-■> HO 1,200 : II 10 aooo 3.000 1,200 f.,000 Hastings...... 900 Rangoon...... 2' ...... 57 28 loO' 4 5,000 3.000 2 MÒ i.000 Allahabad District. Allahabad: Hindustani Circuit. 5 6 . . !.. 110, 10 2.)(l. 1 1,500 5,500 lj027! Juhbulpore...... 2 31 20 80 . 402; llurda...... l ; 7 4 875 '875 170! 1,250 Mhow and Khandwa. li ...... 14 14 Till! 5 3,300 "Ì50 sot> 24:! Agra and Bandikui.. 1 ...... 17. 1 lid 1 4231 Hot) kee...... 1 1 12. til) . . 1300 614j Musoorie...... o !«: 2 BO!.. 200 Lahore...... 2 ...... 31 40:.. 9001 RECAPITULATION BY DISTRICTS. 647 6 35 (1 209 1C 5

BISHOP ANDREWS h a s E p i s c o p a l S u p e r v i s i o n .

JM issionaries.

D e w i t t C . C h a l l i s , j . s . L a d d , E. F. L o u n s b u r y , a . R. J o n e s .

Assistant Missionaries.

Mrs. I r e n e L . C h a l l i s , Mrs. E m m a K . J o n e s , Mrs. R o s a D . L a d d .

Ordained Bulgarian Preachers.

S t e p h e n T h o m o f f , G a b r i e l E l e i f f ,

J. I. E c o n o m o f f , S t e p h e n G e t c h o f f .

Local Preacher.

Y o r d a k y T s w e t t k o f f .

APPO IN TM ENTS FOR 1881-82. Superintendent, D. C. Challis. Loftcha. Rustchuk, E. F. Lounsbury; Sistof, S. Thomoff, J. S. Ladd ; Tirnova, J. I. Economoff, A. R. Jones; Selvi, Gabriel Eleiff; Loftcha, Stephen Getchoff; Plevna, supplied by Yordaky Tswettkoff. OrcJiania, supplied by Petko Ivanoff— Exhorten

The Superintendent thus reports: As we look over the record of the past year we find no occasion to boast ourselves as he that putteth off his armor. The fight is still raging, and, except to the eye of faith, the battle hangs in the scales. Persecu­ tions have distinguished the experience of some of us, so as to make the year a memorable one. Difficulties of the most discouraging nature have shown us that the romance of missions is best seen from a distance. Successes, moderate but substantial, have kept us from despondency and bidden us hope for a golden to-morrow. W e have felt the inspiration of increased numbers in our force of missionaries and increased efficiency in those who have been preparing for work. 1881.] BULGARIA. 193 The acquisition of a building lot in Sistof marks a new departure in our history. We had hoped also to buy in one or two other places this year, but have not yet succeeded. Our congregations have fluctuated, but on. the whole there is an increase in the number of constant hearers. Steady faith and a fair outlay of means in developing native evangelical agencies will as surely bear fruit in Bulgaria as in any other field. But in no part of the world is the devil’s yoke more firmly fixed upon the necks of the people, and carried in more loving submission than here. Human nature develops, almost unchecked, all its native meanness. Drunkenness and licentiousness were brought in by the war, and are threatening to sweep the whole people into the vortex of filth that is swallowing up the Roumanians across the Danube. The priests are naturally hostile to our work, but they cannot use the secular powers, because the mass of office-holders are coolly indifferent to all religion» except in isolated cases where self-interest unites them temporarily to the priests in opposition to us. Nevertheless, there is power in the Gospel to awaken even such a people, and its conquests are none the less sure for being slow. The Eastern Church is to the higher classes simply a political institution ; to the lower classes it is something more, because they are ignorant alike of the devices of priestcraft and the specious objections of skepticism. As in all other countries the most hopeful classes are the young ; but we are not allowed to reach those who are in the public schools, as they are strictly forbidden to attend our meetings. For this reason our congregations are made up largely of such young people as are not in the schools. Usually they are young men who are just entering into business life. Those in public service can with difficulty get permission to attend our meetings, and but few of them dare risk their places by coming to us openly. Occasionally a Nicodemus comes to us by night. *> In Rustchuk we have a hopeful congregation made up largely of young men. This is the largest city in the principality, and its cosmo­ politan character makes it possible for a larger number of people to attend our services without being noticed by those in power. At Varna there is a small congregation, ready to hear at any time when there is a man to preach to them. W e very much desired to place a missionary in this, the second city in Bulgaria ; but there is no man ready at present, and the bookseller whô occasionally preached there has gone to take charge of our little society at Orchania. In a village near Rasgrad a priest, who sometime since became dis­ gusted with the superstitious practices of the “ Orthodox ” Church, lately announced to his people that he could act no longer as their priest. He was held in high esteem by all, and this announcement was received by thé simple villagers with surprise and tears. But his resolution was formed. He immediately left off his priestly garments and went in citi­ zen’s clothes to the Bishop, at Rustchuk, to present his resignation. The Bishop remonstrated and then threatened, but in vain. But an agent was sent to the village to stir up the people against him, saying that he 13 ~I94 MISSIONARY REPORT. Ll88l.

was no longer his former self, but a devil had taken possession of him. “ Drive him out,,” he said, “ but by gentle means.” Of course, the simple villagers attached more import^ice to “ Drive him out,” than to “ gentle means.” Every kind of insult was heaped upon the ex-priest and his family. Neighbors came by night and helped themselves from his gran­ ary. Becoming convinced at last that it was unsafe for him to remain in the village, he abandoned his home and removed his family to Rustchuk. His brother, also, is in the same condemnation, and has been obliged to leave with his family. The ex-priest desires to work for the Lord, but says he prefers to remain a while in private life, so as to avoid giving his enemies occasion to say that he is after “ Protestant money.” Sistof is the central station of the circuit assigned to Brother Thomofif. A considerable portion o f his time has been spent in visiting the cities in the western portion of the principality, where we have hitherto done but little work. In Sistof we shall have a fine church completed early next summer, with a parsonage in the same building. It is centrally and con­ spicuously located, and will doubtless prove much more attractive than our present remote, and, to a large part of the city, unknown preaching-place. W e were surprised at the readiness of the local authorities to grant us permission to build a church. Many of the citizens expressed a hope that we will start a girls’ school in the building when it is finished. This is contrary to our present plan, but if we fail to secure a place in Loftcha, we may be obliged to make use of the place we are sure of. But we very much desire our school to be located near the Balkans, on account of the superior climate and cheaper living. In Tirnova the average congregation has risen to fourteen ; sometimes the house is full, sometimes there are only the students in the school. Tirnova is as hard as the rock on which it is built, but it is an important and growing city. It will doubtless soon be connected with Rustchuk and Sophia by railroad, which will increase its importance as a center of influence and a favorable location for our boys’ school. Our school was started last winter with five students, four of them pre­ paring to work in the mission. The course is so arranged as to combine a scientific and training-school, giving young men a fair education in the common and some of the higher branches— more than is done in the native schools. The new school-year will open with eight or more students. Seven of them are now engagfcd as colporteurs during the long vacation, which comes in autumn, the best time for book-selling. The peculiar sit­ uation of Tirnova makes it very difficult to select a lot that will accom­ modate any thing more than the bare building. We have a lot in view, the only one we know of that is unobjectionable ; but it is without the city limits, and the city authorities refuse to sell it to us without special permission from the Minister of the Interior. Application has been made lor such permission, and we are waiting for an answer. The Bulgarian schools, owing to the scarcity of good teachers, are in a very low condition. This fact gives us a great advantage, and perhaps our golden opportunity. rS8i.J BULGARIA. 195 In Troian our persecutors, having failed in the courts, succeeded at last by the help of the Bishop, who cursed all who should have any thing to do with us, and made it impossible for us to secure a desirable lot. Renting being out of the question without advancing money to finish some half-built house, we were compelled reluctantly to turn away for the present. At Loftcha we are in temporary quarters, running our school at great inconvenience, but hoping for better days if we succeed in buying the very desirable lots which we have selected. W e do not feel that our year’s stay in Troian has been in vain. We know that a considerable number of the people are fully convinced, and are only kept from openly confess­ ing the truth by fear of the few Pharisees who see in the success of the Gospel an end to their usurious gains. The mass of the people there, as in most other villages, are in the power of a few wealthy tschorbagees, (“ bosses,” ) who can turn them out of their homes when they will. W e know of numbers who constantly read the Scriptures, and we look for them finally to unite themselves with the true people of God. And of such there is a multitude all over Bulgaria. I have just fitted out a young man to sell books till the vacation closes, when he will enter the school at Tirnova. I first became acquainted with him five years ago when he was one of the hidden believers. He has been in various circumstances — at one time in the Servian w ar; afterward in business in Roumania; then a telegraph operator in Sistof, and finally a year in the Bulgarian army. During all this time he has continued his reading of the Scriptures, and while stationed in Sistof last year he openly identified himself with us, bringing with him two other young men, the fruit of his labors in secret; and he assures me that there are many more young men who only lack courage to make them full disciples. In Loftcha the work is promising. Several young men have been at­ tending our meetings regularly nearly all the year. A sermon from the Bishop against the Protestants gave us a generous lift. One of our girls, while visiting the women this summer, found one who gave evidence of a real love for the Master and his word. But she is kept from declaring herself from fear of her husband and relatives, who are bitter opposers. She keeps her Bible under her pillow, and reads when she has opportunity, hastily hiding it when she hears approaching footsteps. Who can say that she is not a real disciple ! Every real conversion in this country is a conquest; a battle fought, in secret it may be, through years of weary discontent; longing for bread, yet seeing only a stone in the hands of those who should feed the hungry. Last winter, when the census-taker was at work in a village near Tirnova, a man who had been some years on the doubting list, when asked of what faith he was, replied, “ By the grace of God I am a Protestant.” Persecution immediately commenced. His children were expelled from the school, but the governor ordered the teachers to receive them back again and attend to their own business. But this by no means exhausted the possibilities of the enemy. He is being tried. 19 6 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l881.

A t Sehri Brother Gabriel saw one brother safely to the bank of the river, and, although he was buried by the priests, he gave evidence that he trusted in Christ alone in his dying hour. His name is not on our Church books, but he is none the less ours in the name of the Lord Jesus. The rock is slowly yielding, and here, where for years it was impossible even to sell a book, and even now there is no congregation, the work is ad­ vancing. Orchania. With constant alternations the tide is slowly advancing. Increased congregations provoke persecutions, which temporarily empty' the house, but as the vigilance of the foe relaxes the people return. 1 For the first time we see in print some of our own books in Bulgarian: Binney’s “ Theological Compend,” and Catechism, No. 1. Both are sell­ ing rapidly, and a new edition of the Catechism will be called for soon. More Scriptures have been sold the past year than any previous year since the opening of the mission. Our prayer for a printing-press has been answered, and we hope to see it doing good work shortly after the opening of the new year. The girls’ school is yet on the hands of the superintendent. Half of every day has to be spent in teaching. We have secured a young lady graduate from Samakoff for assistant, and hope to do better work under less pressure than last year. W e sincerely hope that the lady who is to take charge of the school will not tarry many years longer in America. She is needed in Bulgaria. W e are thankful for the generous treatment we have received from both Societies for the support of our work. An inspection of our statistical tables will show : 1. A small increase in membership all along the line, except in Sistof. 2. A considerable increase in the number of hearers. 3. Fair contributions for the Missionary Society and the American Bible Society. It will also appear from this report that we have made a beginning in the publication of Methodist books, and that statistics do not, cannot, show the real extent of our work. STATISTICS OF THE BULGARIA MISSION FOR 1881. j | | | | I S-K © 1 CIRCUIT OR i 1 STATION. £> 1= « » è «5 £ é "S’S 1 1 'S £ 6 Average Average Attendance on No. of Sabbath-schools. No. of Theological Foreign Foreign Missionaries. Schools. Estimated Value of Parsonages. Preachere. No. of Teachers in the Collected for Church Building and Repairing. No. No. of Churches. Other Other Helpers. | same. No. of Students. Churches. Native Native Ordained Sunday Worship. No. of High Schools. Collected for other Estimated Estimated Value of No. of Halls and Places other of W orship. Collected Collected forSelf- the the year. •3 B ¡5 ê > 1 Volumes Printed during 1 1 I No. of Teachers in the I I I Native | Local Preachers. | Native | Teachers. Probationers.| Children | Baptized. 1 | 1 I game. 1 No. 1 of PupilB. 1 Collected | for Missionary j Society. Benevolent | Societies. ! ¡ support 1 Pages 1 Printed during the year.|

R ustchuk...... i 2 3 28 i 10 1 $150 00 $11 58 $6 76 1,500 169,500

Bistof ...... i ] i 10 5 12 1 i 0 1 $1,000 i $500 600 00 18 51 8 88 $3 8S t$546 52 Tirnova...... i 1 i 1 8 14 i 8 1 1 II2 4 1 848 76 8 58 8 58 1 54 Loftcha ...... i 1 i i 7 *80 1 i 10 ti §2 12 1 800 00 5 69 8 86 Selvl (Sevlievo)...... i 2 7 i 6 98 82

Orcbania...... i T 3 18 i 7 1 25 00 1 01

Total...... 4 8 4 i i 2 27 16 109 2 6 47 i % 18 1 2 4 1 $1,000 4 i $500 $1,512 SS $40 87 $24 22 $8 78 $546 52 1,500 169,500 Last year...... 4 2 4 4 23 13 69 5 6 52 6 i l , 327 25 86 92 6 95 8 70

* Intluding Troian. $500 from missionaries, t Tlis Girl*’ school. § One missionary. ) Missionaries. K This was all in books and furniture. It a l y

Commenced in 1872. Organized as a Conference in 1881.

BISHOP FOSS has Episcopal Supervision.

APPO IN TM EN TS FOR 1881-82.

L e r o y M. V e r n o n , D.D., Presiding Elder. Rome: Via Poli, A. Lanna. Modena, D. Gay. Piazza del Esquilino, D. Polsinelli. Turin, B. Bracchetto. Naples, V. Ravi. M ilan, S. Stazi. Terni, E. Ageno. Outside the Gate Ticinese, G. Perugia and Foligno, G. Gattuso. Cavalleris. Todi, E. Caporali. Venice, E. Borelli. Arezzo, C. Bambini. Military Church, G. Benincasa. Florence, Teofilo Gay, Em. Borelli. Faenza, For li, and Dovadola, A. Pisa, E. Stasio. Guigou. Bologna, D. Gay. Asti, G. Carboneri.

B i b l e W o m e n o f t h e W o m a n ’s F o r e i g n M i s s i o n a r y S o c i e t y . Rome, A. Conversi. G. Folchi. Milan, Camilla Stazi. Turin, M. Monta. Venice, M. Borelli.

The Superintendent sends the following report: A dispassionate survey of the work in this field during the year 1881 affords us comfort and encouragement. New advances have been made, other souls have been wrested from the bondage of sin and superstition, and our cause has gone on gradually gaining daily in breadth, stability, and power. Our position in this kingdom, be it in antagonism with sin of every kind, be it as over against Romanism, or as in the midst of the evangelical Churches here, is becoming ever more and more pronounced and emphatic. Though our Church is still small, and employs a smaller array of agencies than some others, yet it is recognized as second to none in vitality, energy, thrift, and aggressiveness; in courage, promptitude, and efficiency, in every good work equal to the very first. And certainly none are on better terms with the future! The unity and vigor of our cause and the strength of our position have been greatly enhanced by the timely organization of the mission into an Annual Conference. This was done at the annual meeting of our min­ isters in Rome. March 19th, under the presidency of Rev. Bishop Merrill. The Bishop had not expected to organize the Conference, and exercising' that prudence which distinguishes him, manifested his inclinations as averse to it. Yet he gave the readiest and most unbiased consideration to all the reasons for and against it. In the course of business he had seen i 88i.J ITALY. 199 how unintelligible to many of the brethren, and how embarrassing gen­ erally, it was for our ministers to hold their relations in foreign Confer­ ences, some in Germany and some in America. Coming to a clearer un­ derstanding of our work, of our circumstances, and of the embarrass­ ment of our provisional relations, and having had ample opportunity to persuade himself of the ability, piety, and loyalty of the brethren, as well as of the rectitude of their motives in their earnest, unanimous request for the organization, Bishop Merrill accepted the situation and its respon­ sibility in the most reasonable and graceful manner possible, and organ­ ized then and there the Italian Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church just ten years and five days after the original appoint­ ment of the superintendent. If any thing could have been more gratify­ ing to all present than the organization itself, it would have been the ad­ mirable bearing of Bishop Merrill on this occasion. It has been a source of much encouragement and cheer to our mission to have had present with us for some time in the course of the past sum­ mer, so many of our eminent brethren who were delegates to the late Ecumenical Conference in London. They invariably took a lively inter­ est in our cause, evinced hearty sympathy with our preachers, and encour­ aging appreciation of their labors amid so many difficulties ; they greeted with fraternal cordiality the members of our congregations, and thus the Church was inspirited, confirmed, and edified. On one occasion at our Sunday morning services in Rorr?e not less than thirty or forty were present, among them some of the most honored ministers and laymen of the United States. Bishop M’Tyeire, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, preached “ by interpretation.” This peculiar service, the place, and the audience, made up in part of rare elements from the ends of the earth, together constituted a unique occasion of deep and peculiar interest to all who had the fortune to be there. No one of all our visitors, however, was more heartily welcomed certainly than Rev. Dr. J. M. Reid, the honored senior Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society. He visited and preached by interpretation at all our principal stations, looking into and familiarizing himself, as far as possible, with the interests of the work. His services and intercourse with our people gave great satisfaction every-where, and all were gratified with the thought that henceforth at the center of missionary operations there will be one, who, from personal observation, knows something at least of our circumstances, our position, and ourselves. The services and visitations of Dr. Reid among our people were all the more heartily appreciated, because they were known to be not the result of an official mission, but of his per­ sonal interest in the work, and to be at the cost of so much time from the scanty period granted him for much needed recreation. During his visit Dr. Reid had the opportunity, along with the writer, of inspecting personally, and finally of buying, a very valuable and available property in Florence for our church there. The building is admirably located, and sufficiently large for a good church and a parsonage. The necessary adap­ tations once made, it will give our thrifty cause in Florence a first-class 200 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

position, both for respectability and efficiency. The pre-eminent urgent need of our Church in Italy now is respectable places of worship, plain yet genteel chapels, having at least the general aspect and character of a place of Christian worship, of a house of God. That this need is most extreme here amid the gorgeous temples of Romanism, and that without them the best endeavors of my able and devoted colleagues are well nigh paralyzed, must be so obvious as to need no discussion. A little aid in this line goes a long way here, too, especially away from the principal centers. The moral power and spirituality of our Church is continually on the increase. Though encountering the gravest obstacles, and beset by per­ verse and perverting tendencies and influences, we constantly struggle toward the essential and central things of our holy religion ; and we in­ sist ever more and more upon a practical, direct, and efficacious use of all our agencies. The coming of an American colleague is hailed with much satisfaction by the writer, who in that case will be able, doubtless, to give more direct and studied attention to the spiritual interests of the work. Our stations are now so numerous that the proper oversight of them involves much labor, not to speak of much other general work which demands constant attention. The most striking event of the year — indeed, perhaps of the entire his­ tory of this mission— was the conversion of Monsignor Campello, a canon of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Peter's in Rome. He had occupied that envied and distinguished position for fourteen years, after passing six years, in the canonry of Santa Maria Maggiore of this city. For many years he had been restless and unhappy because of serious doubts touching vari­ ous doctrines and institutions of Romanism. More than three years ago Count Campello and the writer became acquainted, and as the result of our relations thereafter, under the blessing of God, he was finally led to reject Roman Catholicism. His resolution was taken early last summer. Finally, on the 14th of September, in our St. Paul’s Church, on Via Poli, Rome, he solemnly abjured popery in a formal letter there read and ad­ dressed to the Cardinal Archpriest of St. Peter’s, Cardinal Borromeo. He publicly professed a personal faith in Christ alone for salvation, em­ braced the Protestant religion, and entered our Church. The fact was like the explosion of a bombshell on the threshold of the Vatican, and pro­ duced a very decided impression throughout all the kingdom of Italy, and even through all Europe. The influence of the event has unquestionably been highly beneficial in many ways. Count Campello is a man of culture and of good natural gifts, and it has been hoped he might become a min­ ister and do effective service in the preaching of the word. Entirely un­ used to the pulpit, however, during the last twelve years, now fifty years of age, and also seriously afflicted with a chronic throat difficulty, any very important service from him as a preacher may reasonably be held to be rather problematical. He has a strong inclination to journalistic labors, and is deeply impressed that, whatever else he may do or it may be his duty to do, it is his providential duty to establish and direct a daily jour­ nal, to be wielded especially in the interests of thé Gospel among his 188 i j ITALY. 201

fellow-countrymen. The urgent need of such an instrumentality is seen in the fact that, aside from the Romanist papers, there is not a single daily journal in Italy that is not either rationalistic or infidel; not one that on any and every occasion may be counted upon for the defense of the Gospel, or to do justice to the Protestant or evangelical principles and in­ stitutions. Count Campello has the sympathy and support of numerous influential parties, Italian and foreign, and has high hopes of real success and usefulness. The hour and the general circumstances offer a great opportunity, and this line of labor, prudently developed and wisely di­ rected, may be made of large and lasting advantage in the present condi­ tion of this people. Embracing a providential opening, we have begun a very auspicious work among the soldiers of the Italian army in Venice. Special services for them are held three times a week, and already the results are most gratifying. Their fresh eagerness for Gospel truth is in joyful contrast with the heedless indifference of most civilians. The exemplary concern and care of these poor soldiers for their own souls has had a most whole­ some and reviving influence upon our congregation of civilians in Venice. This work has been planned and inaugurated most fortunately, not only with the consent, but with the encouragement and covert co-operation, of some of the higher officers, and has already enlisted, besides private* soldiers, a goodly number of officers of the lower grades. Thus is struck providentially a rich lead which doubtless will give forth many a priceless gem for the diadem of our divine Redeemer. Our monthly paper, “ The Torch,” (La Fiaccola,) has been suspended during 1881, as we had engaged to co-operate in a weekly journal, unde­ nominational and available for all the denominations here represented, namely, “ L ’Italia Evangélica.” W e shall not abandon this latter, but we feel the need of our own paper. We expect, therefore, with 1882 to re­ sume our “ Fiaccola,” to considerably enlarge it, and to use all diligence to make it an efficient instrument for good. It was before generally rec­ ognized as the best evangelical paper in Italy, and we shall certainly press the standard to a still higher elevation. Besides other smaller issues we have just published (thanks to the Tract Society) an excellent translation, by Dr. Caporali, of Rev. Dr. D. D. Whedon’s admirable Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. Beyond the general value of this compact and lucid work we judged it to be a most efficacious means to countei’act a certain phase of much of the theological thought of the Continent. All our stations are fairly prosperous, some less, some more so, but in general the movement is onward, with broadening and intensifying influ­ ence and efficiency. Organized into an Annual Conference, fairly planted in the most commanding centers, and well manned by devoted native ministers, this mission sets out on the second decade of its benevolent endeavor more than ever assured of the Divine favor, more than ever con­ fident of increasing success in spreading scriptural holiness through this realm, never doubting but that finally for every faithful herald of the cross here, as elsewhere, there will come the day and crown of rejoicing. STATISTICS OF THE ITALY MISSION FOR 1881. 1 ? CIRCUIT OR STATION. I § E K 1 8 S A 1 l 5s ® 1 O Native Native Ordained Native Unordained Preachers. Preachers. Members. Children Baptized. Children Average Attendance Average Attendance on ! Sunday Worship.

fti Value Estimated of Churches. £ A No. cf other and Halls Places of Worship. j j ! No. of Sabbath ! No. of Sabbath Scholars. II I s Rome: Via Poli...... 1 103 9 75 2 1 42 1 Piazza del Esquilino $ 20,000 1 $3,500 $90 i 10 40 N a p les. i i " s o 15 60 é ‘i “ 20 T ern i... 1 " 6 0 i 41 8 2 Foligno. 40 1 40 1 4 Perugia. i 87 ' 2Ì ’ 40 'i 15 i Collestate 'i ì 45 A rezzo.. 1 1 ” 22 i s 80 i Florence " i ó 1 2 104 48 100 ’ 2 P is a .... 80 6,500 1 8,000 23 Bologna 1 T 30 i 12 1 46 6 '2 Modena. 1 75 1 20 1 12 A s ti___ 25 i '2 T n rin ... 7 " è 25 'i ‘"6 ‘i 1 120 8 100 2 M ilan... 1 20 1 1 'i 83 48 85 8 Yenice.. 1 15 2 1 1 45 5 60 1 Militar} 1 12 1 12 Church 2 111 60 Faenza . Forli .. 4 12 'i 'i 20 ‘ " i Dovadola 20 9 1 .... T odi...... i

Total. 13 0 708 811 872 20 11 242 2 $26,500 15 2 $6,500 Japan

Commenced in 1872.

BISHOP PECK has Episcopal Supervision.

M issionaries.

R . S. M a c l a y , D .D ., Superintendent, (in U . S. A.) Jo h n C. D a v is o n , C h a r l e s B is h o p , J u l iu s S o p e r , M .S . V a i l , M. C. H a r r is , C. S. L o n g , I. H. C o r r e l l , -(in U. S. A.,) G. F. D r a p e r . W . C. D a v is s o n , L. W . S q u i e r .

Assistant Missionaries.

M rs. L iz z ie S. D a v i s o n , Mrs. W . C. D a v is s o n , “ F r a n k C. S o p e r , “ O. W . B is h o p , “ F l o r a B. H a r r i s , “ F l o r a I. L o n g , “ J e n n ie L. C o r r e l l , “ M. E . D r a p e r , Mrs. L. W. S q u i e r .

Lady M issionary.

M iss Je n n ie S. V a i l .

^M issionaries "W . ÜF1. ]M. S .

Miss M. A. S p e n c e r , M iss Je n n ie G h e e r , “ M. J. H o l b r o o k , “ K a t e W o o d w o r t , “ E . R u s s e l l , “ M. E . H a m p t o n , Mrs. C a r r ie V a n P e t t e n .

APPOINTMENTS FOR 1881-82.

Y o k o h a m a D i s t r i c t .— Julius Soper, Presiding Elder; Yokohama, Aibara Yeiken, Hamada Koyotaro; Hachoji, to be supplied; Joso, Mat- sumoto Sogo, Skinoda, Zenichiro ; Yamagata, Takahashi Untai, Naka- yama Chiujo, Takeshita Masakichi. Theological and Training Semi­ nary : M. S. Vail, President; Julius Soper, G. F. Draper, and Jennie S. Vail, Teachers.

T o k io D i s t r i c t .— M. C. Harris, Presiding Elder ; Tsukiji, Abe Sozo ; Azabu, Morohoshi Kiichi; Kajida, to be supplied; Nagoya, Kurimura Sayehachi; Nishiwo, Kikuchi Takuhei; Iida , Kawamura Keichiro ; Mat- sumoto, Miyajima Taizo ; Matsushiro, Onuki Bunshichi. English School: Charles Bishop, Principal. 204 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I 8 8 l.

N a g a s a k i D i s t r i c t .— J. C. Davison, Presiding Elder; Deshima, to be supplied; Bungo Machi, C. S. L on g; Kagoshima, Asuga Kenjiro. Cobleigh School: C. S. Long, Principal.

H a k o d a t i D i s t r i c t .— W . C. Davisson, Presiding E lder; Hakodati, L. W . Squier, Honda Itsuki; Fukuyama, Hiranuma Sakai; Sapporo, to be supplied ; Hirosaki, Honda Yoitsu ; Hirosaki Circuit, to be supplied; Kuroishi, Kosaka Keinosoke.

Dr. M aclay, the Superintendent of this mission, has been absent a portion of the year, in attendance upon the Ecumen­ ical Conference, at London, as delegate, and while sojourning in the United States for the recuperation of body and mind after his long years of labor in the field. By his presence at home and counsels he has greatly aided the Japan mission and the general missionary cause. New openings of great interest have been pressed upon our attention in Japan. The late liberal propositions of Rev. J. F. Goucher before the General Committee have happily enabled us to meet some of these opportunities, and re-enforce­ ments will soon be sent out. During the year Rev. L. W. Squiers and wife have been added to the number of mission­ aries in the field.

The following is the Superintendent’s report: The experiences through which the Japan Mission has passed during the past year have demonstrated the soundness of the work under its care. After eight years of almost uninterrupted service in the field, it became evident toward the close of the year 1880 that the health of some of the members of the mission had become seriously impaired; and during the spring of 1881 the oldest and the youngest of the five members with which, in 1873, the Japan Mission entered upon its great work, were ordered home on furlough by their attending physician, whose decision was supported by the unanimous vote of the members of the mission, and approved by the Missionary Board. But notwithstanding the reduction of the number of its effective laborers, the mission, by the extraordinary efforts of the mem­ bers still in the field, has been able, with God’s blessing, to keep its work well in hand, and to make a gratifying advance along almost the entire line of its operations. To this cheering result the episcopal visitation of Bishop Bowman has powerfully contributed. The mission of the Par­ ent Society has been re-enforced during the year by the arrival in Japan of the Rev. L. W . Squier and wife; and the Mission of the W o m a n s Foreign Missionary Society has been most opportunely strengthened by the accession to its members of Miss Hampton and Mrs. Van Petteo. i 8 8 i .] JAPAN. 205

There is, however, the most urgent necessity for additional re-enforce­ ments to our work in Japan. The failing health of some of the members of the mission, the increasing demands of the work rapidly expanding under the care of the mission, the open doors for Christian work among the unevangelized millions of Japan, and the disasters which must inevi­ tably follow our failure to improve the present golden opportunities— these considerations, and others to which we might refer, indicate the impor­ tance of our at once sending to the front a corps of laborers at least approximately commensurate with the imperative demands of the field. We need re-enforcements to strengthen the points already occupied by our mission in Japan, where we have been laboring since 1873, and where the foundation of a glorious evangelism has been laid. It is absolutely necessary to increase our force at these points before attempting to open new work in the interior of the country. The General Missionary Committee in response to an urgent appeal from the mission, has granted the appropriations necessary to strengthen the positions referred to ; and we most sincerely trust the Church will re­ spond to the faith of the mission and the Committee, by placing promptly in the treasury of the Missionary Society the funds required by this move­ ment. A generous friend of missions, (the Rev. John F. Goucher, of Bal­ timore, Md.,) with far-seeing sagacity, has proposed, in the interest of self-support, a plan for assisting the educational work of the mission; and as the plan has received the hearty indorsement of the General Mis­ sionary Committee, the proposed arrangement, it is expected, will soon be in successful operation, to the great benefit of the work of the Japan Mission. It is proper to state that the Annual Report of the Mission for the present year is prepared in New York city by the writer during his ab­ sence from the mission on health furlough. The members of the mission now in the field deserve the highest praise for the very gratifying record they have made for the Japan Mission during the past year— a record all the more creditable to them when we bear in mind the difficulties by which they have been confronted. I now present the reports as forwarded to me by the brethren in charge of the work:

YOKOHAMA DISTRICT, Julius Soper, P. E. Brother Soper reports as follows, namely: At the annual meeting of 1880 I was appointed the missionary in charge of the Second Tokio District, comprising the Azabu Circuit, (in the city,) and the Joso Circuit, (in the country, about thirty-five miles north-east of Tokio.) In addition to the work of superintending these circuits, and preaching the Gospel from week to week, I have devoted much time to the work of translation. During the year we have translated and pub­ lished the first three parts of the Discipline, and also the Ritual of our Church in full. This latter work, translating the Ritual, was begun by 20 6 MISSIONARY REPORT. Ll88l.

Rev. I. H. Correll, and carried nearly to completion before he left on a furlough for America. It was a great convenience, as well as satisfaction, to have the Discipline and Ritual ready for use at our annual meeting; especially, as we had the presence of a Bishop, and six native helpers were ordained to the ministry, these translations were emphatically a sine qua non. In March last, owing to the return to America on furlough of Dr. Maclay and Brother Correll, I was transferred from Tokio to Yokohama by the superintendent to take charge of the work in Yokohama, and teach in the theological department of our seminary here. I have aimed to teach two hours per day since my removal to Yokohama. Still, with the work of superintending Churches, preaching the Gospel, translating, and performing the duties of treasurer of the mission, my hands have been so full that I fear my teaching has not been what it should have been. Teaching under such circumstances is neither satisfactory to ourselves, nor advantageous to the work. As there is no help for it at present, I shall go on as I have done, and do the best I can, however poor that may be. In the earlier part of the past summer I made a preaching-tour of three weeks to the Province of Yamagata, about two hundred and fifty miles from Tokio. This work was under the care of Brother Harris; but, as he had his hands full looking after Brother Correll’s country work, I have taken it in hand. The trip just referred to was a very interesting and profitable one— one of the most encouraging trips, on the whole, I have ever taken in Japan. I baptized thirty-three adults and six children. I hope to visit this same province again this autumn. Before closing, I wish to give an interesting incident connected with our work here in Yokohama. Our Japanese nurse, the wife of our cook, was very sick during the summer, suffering with a terrible carbuncle on her left side. Her sufferings at times were intense ; yet in all her suffer­ ing she testified to the grace of God in her heart, and said if it were God’s will she would gladly die, as she had no fea r of death or the future, the love of God and the teaching of the Bible having taken all such fears from her mind. She not only thus testified to the grace of God in her heart, while lying for days on a bed of suffering, but she has always since her conversion, some four or five years ago, led an exemplary Christian life. I am happy to say that she has recovered, and is again enjoying good health. How thankful and happy she is ! She now feels like devoting herself entirely to the work of the Lord, by laboring among the women and the children. W e propose that as soon as possible she shall com­ mence work as a “ Bible-woman.” Thus God is working among us, and leading out some of this people as “ chosen” workmen in his service. May the number rapidly and greatly increase! “ The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers— real laborers— are few ! ”

M e t h o d i s t M i s s i o n a r y S e m i n a r y . Rev. Milton S. Vail, President. Brother Vail in his report states ; “ The past year has been very trying, and yet on the whole very successful. i 8 8 i J JAPAN. 207

“ The return to America of Dr. Maclay and Rev. I. H. Correll, which was occasioned by their ill-health, gave us all here much work to do ; but we have kept the two theological classes busy, besides those in the English department. “ Rev. G. F. Draper, though in ill-health much of the time, continued his work in the seminary throughout the year. Miss Vail has succeeded very well in bringing about a marked change in the order of her scholars, and has also gained, I think, their entire respect, though she is a lady teacher. “ Here have been taught about twenty different branches of study, and though our average attendance has been only about forty, yet we have had a great difficulty in arranging the classes; and I am compelled to confess that such is the pressure brought upon us, we often undertake more than we can do, and hence fail to be as thorough in our work as we desire and aim to be. Seven of the scholars have joined the Church, and we trust will become good Christians. One theological scholar has died. Among his last words were these : ' If body and soul were to be separated, I think I could do nothing but sing.’ We believe that he is singing in heaven the hymns he loved to sing on earth. As there is no suitable life of Christ published in Japanese, some of the theological stu­ dents are translating, under my direction, Geike’s work, and all the theo­ logical students are studying it. I hope this work may be finished and published this coming year. Since last March Rev. Julius Soper has given the instruction in theology and exegesis. “ We have been seriously troubled with a disease called kakke, but all who were sick with it have recovered, so far as I know. The prospects for the new year are good. W e need more teaching force, and we trust we shall have it. We are very grateful for the books and other gifts from those at home interested in us, and we still commend, not only to the lib­ erality of the Church, but also to her most earnest prayers, our theological seminary in Japan. “ The Rev. G. F. Draper, notwithstanding his feeble health, has taught faithfully in the seminary during a considerable portion of the year. He has also given some attention to the supervision of circuit work, and in other ways has endeavored to make full proof of his ministry, while at the same time carrying on the study and acquisition of the Japanese language. In the hope of benefiting' his health he passed the heated term of the year in Hakodati; but as his health continued to decline, and recuperation seemed to be impossible in Japan, his physician finally ordered him to leave the country for a period of two or three years. The mission con­ curs in this decision, and it is probable Brother Draper, accompanied by his family, will shortly return to the United States on furlough. This in­ terruption of their plans for life-work in Japan is a very severe trial both to Brother D., and also to his excellent wife. Let the Church pray ear­ nestly that in due time, with restored health, they may return to their be­ loved field of labor. “ Miss Vail has rendered invaluable service as teacher in the seminary. 208 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

The progress of the scholars under her care has been most satisfactory, and her success as a disciplinarian has been of decided advantage to the entire institution. The efficient president of the seminary is doubly fortu­ nate in having associated with him one who is an accomplished teacher, and at the same time his own beloved sister. The Lord bless both brother and sister! ”

TOKIO DISTRICT, M. C. H a r r i s , P. E. The Rev. M. C. Harris and the Rev. Charles Bishop have conducted the work of our mission in Tokio during the past year; and although deprived, by his transfer to Yokohama, of the valuable services of the Rev. Julius Soper, they have had quite a successful year. Brother Harris, in addition to his other duties, has made two protracted visitations to cir­ cuits in the interior, and during one of his preaching-tours he was accom­ panied by Mrs. Harris, who rendered most valuable assistance by her efforts in the Japanese language, both private and public. W e learn with extreme regret that the health of Mrs. Harris is much impaired, and pray that she may soon recover, so as to be able to prosecute her faithful and successful labors for the Japanese. Brother Bishop has devoted himself chiefly to the study of the language and educational work connected with our school in Tokio. Mrs. Bishop also has rendered effective service in the good work. Referring to our educational work in Tokio, Brother Harris writes: “ Our school in Tokio opened with sixty-five young men, all self-support­ ing. If some Christian man would only give us sufficient money to erect a suitable building we could have a fine school, and self-supporting. Mr. Tsuda (a member of our Church, and a prominent man in Japan) offers us ground near his place (in Tokio) for the purpose. The location is ex­ cellent. The students in his school suffer very little from sickness, and are removed from the temptations of the city. I think we ought to em­ brace the offer of Mr. Tsuda. I am sure that we could in a few years build up an institution there that would command attention and respect. A Chinese course of study, an English course, a scientific course; and these, united with the Agricultural College of Mr. Tsuda, would furnish a great attraction to the men of Japan. The building need not be in for­ eign style, as that is not necessary. No danger from fires. None of the temptations which now assail the students in the midst of the city. If one missionary were to live out there, it wou^d be sufficient, as those who live in Tsukiji, if they wished to teach in the school, could go out and back daily. The professors in the Tokio University live quite a long distance from the university buildings. The Japanese gentleman, Mr. Wada, who is at the head of our school, is doing quite well.” Charles Bishop’s report: “ Our school in Tokio had not been as successful up to the middle of last winter as we could have hoped, owing to a lack both of a s u ifa b le building and a sufficiency of suitable native teachers. March 1 we secured i 881.1 JAPAN. 209

the services of two earnest young men, Messrs. Wada and Sugita, mem­ bers of the Congregational Church, (Mr. Sugita has since married one of the girls from the school of the W. F. M. S., and joined our Church,) and April 1 moved into the building just vacated by the school of the W. F. M. S. During the spring term we had sixty-eight in all under our instruction. On opening, September 1, we rented another house, to be used for a dor­ mitory, and have now fifty boarders and twenty-seven day scholars. But one of these is a Christian, all, or nearly all, coming from idol-worshiping homes. Still several are being taught what Christianity is, and there is a great discussion among the boys concerning it. “ A preaching service is held in the building on Sabbath evening, and we are about to start a Sunday-morning Bible-class, and we are hoping, pray­ ing, that a goodly number may not only become convinced of the trujh of the Christian religion, but also experience its power to save their souls, during the year we have just entered upon. The Sabbath-school in our new church is nominally under my charge, though the work is done chiefly by a Japanese. Here from fifty to one hundred and fifty assemble each Sunday— dirty little urchins, many of them with younger children upon their backs, but they can recite the Commandments, Creed, Lord’s Prayer, and Catechism, with a ‘ vim ’ that might well put the majority of Sunday- schools in America to the blush. Often on the streets we hear some little voice piping A h Iyesu d i su, (Jesus loves me,) and we are encouraged to feel that not all the seed sown will be lost. “ Mrs. F. B. Harris has a class of the larger girls and women in the Sunday-school which she teaches, and the girl who graduated last year in the school of the W . F. M. S. assists her, and also plays the organ in the Sunday-school.” W. F. M. S. The work in Tokio of our Woman's Foreign Missionary Society has been efficiently conducted during the past year by Miss Spencer and Miss Holbrook. The new school-building has been completed, and the school exercises within it were formally opened in September. The attendance of scholars is large, and the building is already crowded to its utmost capacity. At the opening services of the school in the new building the Governor of Tokio, accompanied by his wife, the Hon. John A. Bingham, United States Minister, and other distinguished guests, were present and expressed great satisfaction with the school. During the recent annual meeting of the Japan Mission, presided over by Bishop Bowman, all the members of the meeting were entertained at meals by Miss Spencer in the new “ Home,” to the great delight of all concerned. Miss Holbrook was temporarily laid aside by a severe illness, from which she has now happily recovered, and is again at work with her accustomed zeal and success. Mrs. Van Petten has recently joined the mission, and gives evidence of admirable fitness for the work. The mission has passed triumphantly through the disaster of the great fire,'and now, with the most cheering outlook, presses forward in the accomplishment of its high duties. It richly deserves the sympathy and support of the Church. 21 0 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

N A G A S A K I D IS T R IC T , J. C. D a v i s o n , P. E. Rev. J. C. Davison writes : Since forwarding my last Annual Report I have made three visits to the work in Kagoshima, and though the time is now at hand when another round is in order, I have postponed it till next month, owing to the neces­ sity of answering calls in the provinces of Chikugo and Hizen, the pass­ port for which places I am now awqiting. Most of my time from this till Christmas will be spent in traveling about doing evangelistic work in the country, January and February being dan­ gerous months, owing to the frailty of the native ship in which the pass­ ages must be made. My visit to Kagoshima in January last was a stormy trip in more senses than one. First, on account of a dissension in our Church at that place, by which, after a vexatious experience, our roll suffered a reduction of some fifteen adults and several children, all of whom, with the exception of one family, went into the mission of the Dutch Reformed Church, and these, later still, into the English Church Mission. Secondly, on account of a pro­ tracted voyage on my return, occupying six days, whereas it is usually made in one. The extra delay at the end of a long country trip in winter added not a little to the exposure. All of which discomforts, not to say perils, are soon forgotten when satisfied that a struggling Church is faith­ ful to duty and joyful in its solitude and tribulation. A number of candidates for baptism are now waiting my coming, and I trust the present year may give us back more than we have lost. The school at this charge, under the general care of Brother Asuga, is in excellent condition, and now numbers ninety pupils. We have enlarged the building to meet the demand for more room. At Nagasaki I preached three times each week in our Deshima Church, and we now have a house in the town for holding services, and also for the retail of Scriptures and tracts. The erection at this place of Cobleigh School, now just completed, will add a new and long-cherished feature to our work in Nagasaki. This school will be under the superintendence of Brother Long, who shares great hopes of its future success and permanent good to the com­ munity in which it is located. The building is in excellent order and every way adapted to its end, but much remains to supplement its highest efficiency, chief of which is a stirring man from home to take charge; and, aided by what help the regular missionaries may be able to give, time alone will tell its story of usefulness in our work. Most of my time for literary work has been spent in revising and en­ larging our hymn book, which we hope to republish in time for our next annual meeting. The ladies of the W . F. M. S. have done nobly. Trial they have had, but this brings patience and affords a reserve of experimental wisdom for continued effort. They are now in the midst of busy scenes c o n n e c te d i 8 8 i .] JAPAN. 211 with their building enterprise, besides the usual care of their school of over a score of girls, and which seems likely to be doubled by the time they expect to get into their new house. Bishop Bowman spent at most a week with us en route to China, and got a good idea of our work and its needs at this point. We hope to see him again on his return from China. It is still my joy to add testimony to the goodness of God, who has kept us all in our usual and encouraging state of health— a blessing not to be lightly esteemed, and without which aggressive work in these fields is next to an impossibility. Rev. Carroll S. Long, who is intimately associated with the educational work of our mission in Nagasaki, writes: “ Two years ago, when I was taking leave of my friends in the chapel of the East Tennessee Wesleyan University, on the eve of my departure for Japan, ‘ a certain poor widow’ placed in my hands two dollars, saying, ' I would love to do more for you, but this is all I have.’ Not feeling disposed to use this widow’s mite for my personal benefit, I resolved, after prayerful reflection, to make it the foundation of a school in Japan. Accordingly I wrote private letters to brethren in the various Southern Conferences, asking them to assist me in accomplishing my purpose. Liberal responses came from both North and South, and in a few months the two dollars grew to $500. This sum, increased by grants from the mission, soon became $1,200, with which we have erected during the past year, on a magnificent location overlooking the ancient city of Nagasaki and its far-famed bay, a beautiful two-story house, 40 by 50 feet, containing twelve splendid rooms, which I now ask the Society to accept and recognize as ‘ Cobleigh Seminary,’ in honor of the poor widow who gave me the two dollars, and in memory of her lamented husband, Rev. Nelson E. Cobleigh, D.D., LL.D., my old friend and teacher. Twelve young men have already matriculated, and are study­ ing English, Chinese, and their own language, with good success. All are required to recite a lesson from the Bible each day. The prospects for the school are all that we could hope for. “ I am more than ever convinced that education is one of the most im­ portant elements in the missionary work of Japan. The Church that offers to the Japanese the best system of education will finally predomi­ nate in this empire. The people are clamoring for higher education, and it is the extremest folly to underrate this fact. As a Church we cannot move too fast nor too soon in this line, and it is well for us to understand the situation at once. Our duty is to meet this thirst for knowledge with Christian teachers and a pure science, thus preventing the Japanese mind from falling into materialism and infidelity. W e have reached a crisis and must act. No short-sigHted, temporary system will satisfy this rapidly developing people. W e must plan broad and deep and for a thousand years. During the year I have received on probation three young men, students in Cobleigh Seminary, and two young ladies, members of Miss Russell’s school. I have baptized two adults and one infant.” 212 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

VV. F . M . S. Miss Russell and Miss Gheer are the faithful missionaries in Nagasaki of our Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society. It would be difficult to speak too highly of their services. Their field is probably the most diffi­ cult one in Japan; and yet, unintimidated by obstacles, they have suc­ ceeded in organizing a work which bids fair to be remarkably successful. They are now engaged in erecting a Home, which will afford them neces­ sary and most desirable facilities for the prosecution of their holy work. The school under their care is developing finely, and promises to be a powerful auxiliary in the prosecution of their evangelistic efforts.

HAKODATI DISTRICT, W. C. D a v i s s o n , P. E. Brother Davisson labors most zealously, and administers with excellent judgment the work of our mission in North Japan. The good cause is steadily advancing. In addition to his directly evangelistic efforts he has expended considerable time in supervising the erection in Hakodati of a parsonage for an expected re-enforcement to his station. While in Hako­ dati his attention is given chiefly to public preaching and teaching in the flourishing school under his care. The demands of the work on his dis­ trict, however, compel him to travel considerably, and the gratifying de­ velopment of the native societies at Sapporo, Hirosaki, Fukuyama, and other places under his jurisdiction, attest the faithfulness and efficiency of his services in this direction. The re-enforcement above referred to, Rev. L. W . Squier and wife, arrived safely in Hakodati, October 6, 1881, and have entered on their great work under very favorable conditions.

w. F. M. S. Miss Woodworth and Miss Hampton continue in Hakodati the work for the women of North Japan, so well begun a few years ago by Miss Priest, who was compelled by ill-health to return to the United States. Hakodati is second only to Nagasaki in the difficulties it presents to the efforts of Christian missionaries; but here, as elsewhere, patient labor in the Master’s name is not in vain. Already cheering results are apparent, and the outlook is inspiring. A suitable Home for the mission has been commenced in Hakodati, and is now approaching completion. Possess­ ing the comforts and conveniences of a Home, the mission may be regarded as permanently established, and as having fairly entered on its grand work. W e earnestly commend to the sympathizing prayers of God’s peo­ ple the faithful toilers occupying this important field. STATISTICS OF THE JAPAN MISSION FOR 1881

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< >5 No. of Teachers same. in the Estimated Value of Churches. No. of Halls and Places other of Worship. 1 1 No. of TheologicalSchools. tals, and tals, and other Property. (u ¿ fcs Valuó of School», Hospi­ Collected for Missionary £ I i l Society. Volumes Volumes Printed during the the year. ! ! Native Local Preachers.

| Other Helpers.| | ÔÎ ÍJ j j Members. | | Sunday | Worship. I I Native UnordainedPreachers.1 Adults | Baptised. Children | Baptized. No. J of Sabbath Scholars, j 1 No. 1 of Pupila. j No. 1 of Students. No. 1 of Churches. | | Yokohama District. fi i i i 4 5 s R 4 140 fi 9 4 8 «1 4 200 SO 1 60 1 1 $2,000 8$12,000 $1 500 $28 25 $5 52 8,100 808,700 Hachoji...... 1 7 6 1 10 1 10 8 Joso...... i 2 3 88 6 50 4 1 18 1 is i 250 4 1 100 18 65 81 00 Yainagata...... i 2 2 41 11 9U\ 38 è 1 80 9, 40 5 Tokio District. Tsukijt...... 9 3 4 1 4 7 69 12 120 12 ti 100 s 120 1 70 i 1,500 2 2 7,000 87 75 14 00 A z a b u ...... 1 20 4 41) 8 i 1 2 70 2 2 45 8 88 Na«roya...... ' i ÍW 8 30 5 9 4 06 8 40 .... Nishiwo...... i 17 1 ftO 9, 1 0 5b 8 25 Iir t a ...... ]9, 2 0 150 79 00 Matsumoto...... 5 2 37 7 75 7 2 70 2 70 4 18 30 2 60 Adzum i...... 40 Mataushiro...... i 1 1fi fi 50 9, 8 4 0 2 80 Nagasaki District. 9 o 9 2 11 50 3 15 1 i i 1 2,000 1,200 11 00 4 29 Kagoshima...... 1 4 40 12 75 2 1 DO 1 70 i 300 4 't 40 7 77 Hakodati District. Hakodati...... 9, 9, 1 8 1 9, 1 1 90 4 40 8 26 1 20 i 400 1 2 5,250 400 5 50 .... Fukuyama...... t 9 2 80 4 1 1 Sapporo...... 17 20 1 1 Hirosaki and Knroishi. 1 i i 94 6 50 1 25 i 250 3 —— , ______Total...... 9 ft 7 R fi 24 507 104 1250 88 15 14 424 8 19 59S 1 9 $ 6 ,5 0 0 53 $26,850 $8,100 $101 15 $194 18 26 8,100 808,100 Last year...... ilo 9 4 7 15 15 $121 1 8 20478 160 765 74 15 18 407 15 422 6 6,250 68 7 28,000 1,500 100 00 88 88 186 47 M exico.

Commenced in 1873.

BISHOP MERRILL has Episcopal Supervision.

Missionaries.

C h a r l e s W . D r e e s , Superintendent.

J o h n W . B u t l e r , G e o r g e S. U m p l e b y ,

S a m u e l P. C r a v e r , A l m o n W. G r e e n m a n , S a m u e l W . S i b e r t s , D u s t o n K e m b l e ,

J o h n M . B a r k e r , H e r m a n n L u d e r s .

A ssistan t ^Missionaries.

Mrs. C. W . D r e e s , Mrs. J. M. B a r k e r ,

“ J. W . B u t l e r , “ G. S. U m p l e b y , " S. P. C r a v e r , “ A. W. G r e e n m a n , “ S. W . S i b e r t s , “ D . K e m b l e .

^Missionaries o f W. M . S .

M iss M a r y H a s t i n g s , M iss M a r y F . S w a n e y ,

" S u s a n M . W a r n e r , “ C l a r a L . M u l l i n e r ,

M iss M a g g i e E l l i o t t .

Ordained !NTative Preachers. Augustin Palacios, Emilio Fuentes y Betancourt.

Unordained Native Preachers. Felipe N. Cordova, Conrado A. Gamboa, Simon Loza, Justo M. Euroza, Francisco Montero.

Local Preachers. Doroteo Mendoza, Crescencio Ramirez, Abundio Tovar, Camilo Arrieta* Pedro F. Valderrama, Jorge Lopez,. Leon Baillet, Manuel Fernandez, Epigmenio Monroy,* Aurelio Celis.

* Died April 10, 1881. i 8 8 i .] MEXICO. 215

APPOINTMENTS, 1881.

C. W. D r e e s , Superintendent. J. W. B u t l e r , Treasurer.

M e x i c o C i t y C i r c u i t : J. W. B.ntler, Missionary in Charge; A. Palacios, E. Fuentes y Betancourt, C. Arrieta, and J. Lopez. Mission Press and Book Depository : Publishing Agent, J. W. Butler ; Editor of “ El Abogado Cristiano,” and all other publications, C. W. Drees ; Publishing Committee, C. W . Drees, S. W. Siberts, and J. M. Barker. IV. F . M . S. Missionaries.— Girls' Orphanage : Misses M. F. Swaney, C. L. Mulliner, and M. Elliott.

M i r a f l o r e s C i r c u i t : S. W. Siberts, Missionary in Charge ; A. T o v a r and C. Ramirez. Theological School: S. W . Siberts, Instructor.

P u e b l a C i r c u i t : H. Luders, Missionary in Charge; F. N. Cordova. Boys' Orphanage: In charge of H. Luders. W F. M . S. Missionary.— Girls' School: Miss S. M. Warner.

O r i z a b a C i r c u i t : G . S. Umpleby, Missionary in Charge; F. Montero, L. Baillet, A. Celis.

P a c h u c a C i r c u i t : J. M. Barker, Missionary in Charge; J. M. Eu- roza, P. F. Valderrama. English Congregation: Served by J. M. Barker and four local preachers. W. F. M, S. Missionary.— Mexican and English Girls' School: Miss Mary Hastings.

Q u e r e t a r o C i r c u i t : A. W . Greenman, Missionary in Charge ; C . A. Gamboa, M. Fernandez.

G u a n a j u a t o C i r c u i t : S. P. Craver, Missionary in Charge; S. Loza, D. Mendoza.

L eon C i r c u i t : D. Kemble, Missionary in Charge.

O u r Mexico Mission during the past year has been called to suffer persecution even unto martyrdom. At Queretaro, where an attempt was made to open public services in the spring, the house occupied by our missionary, Rev. A. W. Greenman and his wife, with the native preacher, Senor Car- dozo, was assaulted on Sunday, April 3, by a mob of over two thousand people. The local authorities were culpably dilatory in attempts to quell the riot, and subsequently professed themselves unable to protect our missionaries, who took refuge in Mexico City. By the interposition of the general Govern­ ment, they returned to Queretaro, July 1, and services have 2IÓ MISSIONARY REPORT. [l8 8 l.

since been held without interruption. During the period of peril our Superintendent, Rev. C. W. Drees, manifested his fidelity and devotion by his presence at the post of danger. At Silao our native preacher, Senor Mendoza, has been fre­ quently threatened and his house assaulted. On the 8th of April, also, occurred the murder of one of our Mexican preachers, Epigmenio Monroy. He had this year been appointed to the charge of the work at Apizaco, and had gathered a few followers in the neighboring village of Santa Anita. On his way from that place he was violently assailed, and died from the wounds a few days after in a state of great peace, and with a spirit, like Stephen's, of for­ giveness for his murderers. One of his companions also died from wounds received at the time. These circumstances have excited the special sympathy of the Church this year for our Mexican Mission, where the work is still exposed to obstacles and perils. Rev. Duston Kemble and wife were sent out early this year, as a re-enforcement to the mission. Dr. Emilio Fuentes y Betancourt, formerly a highly educated Romish priest, who became convinced of the errors of the system to which he had been attached, visited Mexico this year, with the recommendation of the Secretaries, and has already rendered very acceptable service in connection with our mission. The completion of a new Spanish Hymn and Tune Book within the past year has been a matter of great interest and importance for the mission. The work is the product Qf very careful labor continued through four years, under supervision of the publishing committee, and will doubtless prove to be of great value in all our missions to Spanish-speaking people, as well as for the field in which it was prepared. The Superintendent reports as follows: In order to the formation of a just estimate of the progress and results achieved by the Mexico Mission the following facts should be duly con­ sidered : 1. The Mexico Mission is the most recently established of all the foreign missions of our Church. It dates only from the beginning of the year 1873, and is, therefore, just closing the ninth year of its history. I88i.] MEXICO. 217

2. Mexico is still a new field for missionary labor. Though the prin­ ciple of" religious toleration was affirmed in the Constitution of 1857, the way was not fully open for Protestant evangelistic effort until 1868, after the commotions and civil strife consequent upon the French intervention and the effort to establish the empire of Maximilian. The reform laws did not take their present form till December, 1874, nearly two years after the establishment of our mission. Our Church was, therefore, called to enter upon an almost untried field and encounter the full force of the first and greatest obstacles to be overcome. It has passed through the period, not yet closed, which will perhaps be known in history as the heroic age of Protestantism in Mexico— a time of baptism in fire and blood, of mobs, and violence, of fanatical hatred and obloquy. 3. Due regard should be had for the great and peculiar difficulties to be overcome by evangelistic effort in a country which has until very re­ cently been under the exclusive dominion of Roman Catholicism. We may mention a few of these : a) The deadening, brutalizing influence of Romish dogma and practice over the mind and conscience of the masses of the people. b) The great prevalence, almost unrestrained, of ignorance and per­ sonal and social vices, such as lying, drunkenness, impurity, lack of re­ spect for the marriage tie, and infidelity to the conjugal relation. c) The difficulty of attracting the attention and securing a hearing from people accustomed to the religion-made-easy of Rome, taught to satisfy the conscience with religious forms, clothed with external pomp, but de­ void of all spiritual life and power. d) The fact that the prestige and power of wealth and social position are still held by the Roman Church, which has thus many resources for the persecution of those who walk in the right ways of the Lord, deter­ ring many from following their convictions and confessing their faith. e) The strong tendency of educated men toward skepticism, rational­ ism, and irreligion, which, in the rebound from the errors and abuses of Romanism, confounds therewith in one sweeping anathema all forms of Christianity. 4. It should be remembered that the financial provision for the work of the mission, though the missionary authorities have done all in their power, has never been commensurate with its opportunities and just demands. We believe that if due consideration be given to these facts and circum­ stances, a careful study of the present state of this mission, as imperfectly set forth in the following report and statistics, will afford abundant ground for encouragement and for deep gratitude to God. The general plan and distribution of the work of the mission remain essentially the same as heretofore, following out the wise designs of those who were instrumental in its first establishment. Speaking geographically, it may be said that our work is laid out in two principal lines which con­ verge and meet in Mexico City, the natural center of the mission. The first of these lines extend eastward for a distance of nearly two hundred 218 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

miles, passing through the Miraflores Valley, the city and State of Puebla, Orizaba, and Cordova. The work of the mission in Miraflores and the surrounding country is connected with Mexico City by the Morelos Rail­ road, and comprises two important congregations now established, with many other important openings. The work in Puebla, Orizaba, and Cor­ dova is on the line of the Vera Cruz Railroad, and is situated in one of the most productive and populous portions of the Republic. About thirty- five miles north of the main line of the Vera Cruz Railroad, and connected with it by another road now almost finished to the point of junction, about forty miles distant from Mexico City, lies the important city of Pachuca, capital of the State of Hidalgo, and center of a rich mineral dis­ trict. W e have in that city and its tributary country seven interesting congregations, with many and urgent calls for the opening of additional ones. The second main line of our work extends northward and westward from Mexico City, along the line of the Central Railroad, for a distance of nearly three hundred and fifty miles, taking in as central mission stations the cities of Queretaro, „Guanajuato, and Leon, with work already estab­ lished in the large towns of San Juan del Rio, Celaya, Salamanca, Ira- puato, and Silao. All these places will within a very few months be in direct communication by rail with Mexico City. Our central station is Mexico City, with its five congregations already established. This central field, and both the lines above described as diverging from it, command a wide extent of populous territory, affording every promise of a rapid development and extension of our w ork; while the simple pro­ longation of our northward line from Queretaro and Leon will keep our Church abreast with the march of railroad communication, and lead us through the northern centers of population and commerce to a junction with the mission work of our Church in New Mexico and Arizona. We speak with confidence when we say that no other mission in Mexico has secured so wise and provident a selection of fields and distribution of forces. W hat we now need are resources proportionate to the vastness of the field already mapped out and in part occupied. The subjoined statistical table will afford sufficient information as to the working force now distributed in the field, and the results thus far attained. W e, therefore, turn to a brief review of the history of the year just clos­ ing. The following general facts may be stated in few words: 1. The limited appropriation made to the mission for the year made it necessary at the beginning of the year to cut off, either finally or tempo­ rarily, all support for at least three congregations which reported an ag­ gregate last year of sixty-two probationers, and an average attendance of seventy-five. Two of these congregations were practically transferred to a sister Church, the third is still suspended. Other portions of our work, though sustained, have suffered from insufficient means, and we have been unable to take up many other places to which we seemed providentially called and for which estimates had been made. i 8 8 i J MEXICO. 219

2. This has been a year of severe, tenacious, and very general persecu­ tions. Our people and preachers have been in many places called to suf­ fer from deprivation of the means of support, from imprisonment and mob violence. One of our dear brethren in the ministry loved not his own life even unto death, witnessed a good confession, and is written among those who have won the martyr’s crown. 3. It is conclusive evidence of substantial progress, that the losses from transference or suspension of certain congregations have been fully made up by gains in other places in the number of congregations, of members, probationers, and average attendance on public worship. The number of Sabbath-scholars shows an absolute increase of eighty two. It is to be remembered that the statistical returns of members, probationers, and average attendance, afford no adequate measure of the influence exerted by our Church and its agencies. After a somewhat careful inquiry we are satisfied that the number of adherents of our Church may be esti­ mated at from four to five times the average attendance; that is, at from four thousand to five thousand, while the numbers reached through cer­ tain of our Church agencies and our general influence are many times greater. 4. Our Churches are growing continually and rapidly in the elements which constitute real Christian character and life. 5. The organization of the Church is approaching slowly but surely the disciplinary ideal. The following resume, and extracts from the reports of the several mis­ sionaries in charge of stations will, it is hoped, afford a .satisfactory view of the present state of the mission, and the most salient points in the his­ tory of the year. M e x ic o C i t y C i r c u i t : Rev. J. W . Butler, Missionary in charge, says: “ It may seem that the statistics for this circuit do not show a very large increase over those of last year. This is due to some deaths, several re­ movals, and the fact that a few of our people have been called into the work of other circuits. Then, again, the statistics are so drawn that they do not show the full strength of our work. Take, for instance, the aver­ age attendance on Sunday worship for Trinity Church. This we have put at 185. Sunday mornings we have from 130 to 150; but many of our people are household servants and cannot attend morning service. When they come our evening attendance runs up to 250, and sometimes 300. In the majority of cases these servants are employed in fanatical Roman Catholic families, and are, in some instances, positively forbidden to attend Protestant worship, while in other cases so many obstacles are placed in the way of their doing so, that they are rarely seen in the house of God. . . . It is very gratifying to me to be able to report a great im­ provement in the general stability of the Church, as well as increased evidence of true spirituality in our members. Our people are more con­ stant in their attendance, seem more concerned for the salvation of their friends and neighbors, and evince more regard for the influence of their daily life than I have ever seen in them before. I think this is very largely 220 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

due to the efficient work being done by Mrs. Butler among the women. Her Bible-class in the Sabbath-school now averages over forty, while the attendance upon her prayer-meeting is about fifty, and the Woman’s Mutual Aid Society has now sixty-six active members. “ The Bible-woman supported by the Woman’s Foreign Missionary So­ ciety devotes at least six hours per week to her work, which consists in systematic visitation, reading the Scriptures in the homes of the people, distribution of religious tracts, and inviting people to the services. Mrs. Butler's personal example in this regard has been such an incentive to her, that now she is frequently found doing this kind of work in more hours than her contract calls for. “ It may be interesting to chronicle the fact that during the year we have organized a Mutual Aid Society among the poor male mejnbers of Trinity congregation, which now numbers forty-nine active members. The object of this society is rfot only to give mutual aid in case of neces­ sity, but also to bring workingmen to the Church and to Christ. Already we have had abundant cause for gratitude to God for the existence of this young society. “ One of the most interesting cases of conversion from Romanism dur­ ing the year has been that of an entire family who came to this city four months ago. The family consists of two brothers, with their wives, and another brother unmarried. They came here from the State of Michoa- can on business. One of them was favorably disposed toward Protestant­ ism when they first came, and hence was easily led to accept the truth. Then followed the second brother, who, after a little explanation, gladly received the word. With all the enthusiasm of new converts, they then tried to persuade the other three members of their family. Now, thank God ! we have the joy of seeing in nearly every service, the happy faces of the entire family. When we called the other day to see them, we found all seated around a small table, on which lay open the large family Bible, so recently purchased, and which, with Bereari Leaves in hand, they seemed to be searching with great eagerness. On approaching still nearer we found that the oldest brother, who is a book-keeper, had indexed the en­ tire Bible, by pasting slips to the margin at the beginning of each book, and allowing them to project sufficiently to permit the title of each to be readily seen. Other cases of special interest might be cited, but we fear to make this report too long. " In all our three out-of-town congregations our people have suffered continued persecutions, some of them of the severest kinds; but in the midst of it all God has sustained them wonderfully, proving once more that the Church still affords noble Christian martyrs. “ Don Camilo Arrieta, our native helper in San Vicente, is an illustra­ tion of that fact. He has experienced the fulfillment of those words of Christ: ‘ They shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.’ But a more patient or happier man we never saw than old Don Camilo, the day we visited him in the prison at i 8 8 i J MEXICO. 221

Texcoco. Indeed, as we sat down on an old bench by the side of this prisoner of the Lord, heard of his wonderful confidence in Christ, and saw his happy countenance, we could not help thinking thdt

*. . . prisons would palaces prove, If Jesus would dwell with me there,’ as he evidently did- dwell with him. “ Since then one of the members of this same congregation was dragged across the floor of the town court-room by the hair of his head, because he had dared to ask permission to bury his dead child in the parish church­ yard, where the Government had ordered that all dead should be buried. Yet two days after he walked into town, twenty miles, and told me the whole story with a calmness and resignation wonderful to behold ! “ From all these persecutions comes the glory of God. Other towns of great importance invite our labors throughout this circuit. Persecution does not prevent us— nothing prevents us but our limited appropriations.” The working force of the mission has received an important accession in the person of Dr. Emilio Fuentes y Betancourt, a native of the Island of Cuba, highly educated in the leading universities of Cuba and Spain, an ordained priest in good standing in the Roman Church, blameless in reputation, who has been brought, after prolonged mental conflicts, to re­ nounce the errors and the priesthood of Rome, and consecrate himself to the work of preaching the Gospel among the Spanish-speaking people. He comes to us with recommendations from the Mission Rooms of our own Church. His thorough culture, and his ability as preacher and edu­ cator, promise to be very useful in different departments of the work of this mission. M i r a f l o r e s C ir c u it : Rev. S. W. Siberts, Missionary in charge. The work of the year has been in a degree embarrassed by the absence of the missionary during several months of the earlier part of the year, during which he made a brief visit to the United States in order to ac­ company his family in return to Mexico. Brother Siberts voluntarily abbreviated his well-earned vacation, acting under the impulse of his hearty devotion to the missionary work. Further embarrassment has been experienced in consequence of the continued ill-health of Mrs. Siberts, who has at last, under advice of competent physicians, been com­ pelled to remove temporarily to Mexico City. Notwithstanding these untoward circumstances the annual report gives testimony to a good year's work. Brother Siberts says, in speaking of the Church and school in Miraflores : “ Relatively speaking, we have a very good congregation, and its order and regularity have been improved. Our school is in a very prosperous condition. The attendance is almost too large for thorough and successful work ; yet by means of extra effort on the part of the teachers, good and thorough work has been done. The school exerts a good influence wherever it is known. We expect some of the pupils will yet preach the Gospel of Christ; some are even now urging me to admit them to the Theological Seminary, and they are 222 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

very promising boys indeed. All the pupils, one hundred and forty in number, study the Catechism of our Church, and on Saturdays receive thorough instruction in the Berean Lessons, and in recitation of portions of God’s word. Thus, though most of them are prevented by their Roman Catholic parents from attending our Sabbath service, they are receiving efficient Christian training. “ In Ayapango we have met with continu'ed and bitter opposition. Some of our people have lost their employment, and have been supported for a time by their brethren. Others have been imprisoned. A few have turned aside, and taken their children from the school in order to keep their work and maintain their position. Our chapel is going forward to completion, and we hope to be able to dedicate it soon. W e are confi­ dent that our people will then be more resolute, and that we will be much more respected than at present. The place where we now worship is a dark, gloomy room, with no window and but one door. It is not possible to build up a Church in such a place; yet it is the only place we can get in the village.” P u e b l a C i r c u i t : Rev. H. Luders, Missionary in charge. This mis­ sion includes, as heretofore, the well-established congregations of Puebla and Apizaco. The former place reports a membership of sixty-six, with an average attendance of sixty-nine. The night services are frequently much more largely attended. Two other Protestant congregations have been established in Puebla, but our own maintains unquestionably the pre­ eminence in all the characteristics of a reliable and well-sustained work. The membership is composed of poor people, who live in the midst of con­ stant and unrelenting persecution. The influence of the Gospel is seen in * many who were formerly idle, inebriate, and clothed in rags and filth, who now attend our services with punctuality, clothed neatly, and in their right mind. “ But the influence of our work is not limited to the mem­ bers of our Church and attendants on our services. There are many friends in the city whose faith is not strong enough to impel them to attend our public meetings, but who read the Bible and Protestant books, tracts, and periodicals with much interest. The governor of the State and other officials are decidedly favorable to Protestantism, and great numbers of the common people begin to shake off their old superstitions and to be ready to receive the truth. Collections for selfrsupport are taken in every service, and, though our people are very poor, these collections have aggre­ gated this year $75 05. The Sunday-school embraces five classes, with an average attendance of sixty-two. “ In Apizaco the work of the year was begun faithfully by Brother Epigmenio Monroy. In addition to the regular religious services he opened a day-school, which soon enrolled about thirty pupils. His influ­ ence soon extended to several surrounding villages. Arrangements were made to open services in Santa Anita, five or six miles distant. The day had been appointed for the inauguration of the work. Five days previ­ ously Brother Monroy was returning home from this village in the early morning, accompanied by two brethren. They were assaulted by four­ teen. fanatics, armed With knives and bludgeons. Brother Monroy was i 8 8 1.3 MEXICO. 223 defenseless, and, having received many wounds, was left for dead. After some delay he was found and taken to his home, where he died after twenty-eight hours of suffering. He is the first martyr of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mexico. His dying words were full of compassion for his enemies, and of hope for the future triumph of the truth in Mexico. His two companions were also wounded, one of them very severely. This last, after lingering many weeks in pain, finally died in the hospital of Tlaxcala. His body was taken by his Protestant brethren to Santa Anita for burial; but the fanatical authorities refused permission for the burial in the village cemetery, so he was laid to rest out in the open field.” His dust will be precious in the sight of heaven till the morning of the resur­ rection. Brother Monroy left a wife and three children, one bom since her father’s decease, who are now the wards of the Church. Brother Felipe N. Cordova succeeded to the work in Apizaco, where he has labored with great zeal and success. Many other openings present themselves to our faithful workers on this circuit, which we hope soon to improve. O r i z a b a C i r c u i t : Rev. G. S. Umpleby, Missionary in charge. “ Not­ withstanding the general persecution of Protestantism in Mexico, the Lord has given us a year of steady and marked advance'ment, especially in Ori­ zaba. W e rejoice in this prosperity ; but, after a prayerful study of the field, we are forced to conclude that our work must greatly suffer unless property is secured in this city at an early date. . . . Our cause is grad­ ually winning with the more influential citizens. . . . We are thankful to be able to report forty-five subscribers for our Church paper as compared with thirty-five last year, twenty-nine probationers as compared with eight­ een, the organization of a women’s meeting, under the care of Mrs. Um­ pleby, one young man in waiting to enter our Theological School, the opening of new fields all about us, and a rise in the spiritual tide, which, we trust, will widen and deepen until many may be swept out into the full­ ness of gospel liberty, and be able to exclaim, as did one poor Mexican woman in her dying hour, ‘ I have received Christ, and he saves me; I shall soon be with him ! ’ ” Of Cordova, Brother Umpleby says: “ The yellow-fever scourge of this year was scarcely surpassed by that of 1876. As many as twenty-five vic­ tims were swept off in a single day. All of the eight persons composing the family of our native preacher were stricken with the disease ; only one of them died. This great affliction has caused a protracted suspension of our services. Many of our brethren left the city; others suffered from the terrible disease, and seven fell victims to it. W e rejoice to learn that at least some of those called hence had made timely preparation. One of our stewards, Brother Galicia, on being asked a few moments before his death, by his Roman Catholic mother-in-law, if he desired a priest to be called, placed his hand upon his Bible and said, ‘ I have the assurance that faith in Christ is sufficient! ’ ” PACHUCA C i r c u i t : Rev. J. M. Barker, Missionary in charge. The report from this field, in very condensed form, is as follows: “ During the 224 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

past year our work has been encouraging. Regular preaching services have been held in six different cities and towns ; besides which we have had meetings occasionally in other places. The work has not always given the most satisfactory results, yet we are pleased to record a growth in zeal and spirituality. W e have not sought to increase our congrega­ tions with simply numbers ; our aim has rather been to train and develop good Christian workers and exemplary members. # “ The work in the town of El Chico has been sustained throughout the year by Dr. William B. Rule, who is doing good and noble service. Through the liberality of this Christian layman religious work has been done during a portion of the year in Ixmiquilpan, Alfajayucan, and Ato- tonilco. New work has been commenced in Tulancingo and Acayuca. The opposition on the part of the Roman Catholic priests and people has been at times severe. Nevertheless, our work has had a steady growth. W e have more calls than we are able to meet to send the Gospel to neigh­ boring towns. We greatly need men and means to meet these urgent demands. “ Our day-schools, with nearly one hundred and fifty children enrolled, are doing a good and, we hope, a permanent work. W e have been able to sell and distribute thousands of Bibles, tracts, books, and periodicals during the year. The people are eager to know the true light of the Gos­ pel. Our way is generally prepared faster than we are able to occupy the field. With the increased interest in silver mines and railroads which American capital is now introducing in this State we are brought face to face with increased opportunities and responsibilities. W e hope and pray for the triumph of Christ’s kingdom in this prosperous State of Hidalgo.” W e may add to the above the statement that work has been begun on the new chapel in Mineral del Monte. The appropriation made by the Missionary Society is being prudently used so as to serve as a stimulus to the members and friends of our Church in that place and in Pachuca to contribute to the work. It is hoped that within a few months the work will be in such a state of advancement that the building may be occupied for public services. Q u e r e t a r o C i r c u i t : Rev. A . W . Greenman, Missionary in charge. The Church at home has reason to look with special interest upon this important and difficult field. The events of the past year ought to be memorable in the history of Methodism in Mexico. W e include the entire report of the Missionary in charge, with only slight omissions of matters of a personal character. Brother Greenman writes : “ I feel that I cannot better preface this report than by devoutly ac­ knowledging the wonderful providence of God which has been so signally manifested in connection with the Queretaro Mission during the past year. The year has been an eventful one, yet we think successful, espe­ cially when due consideration is given to the peculiar circumstances and difficulties. " It was our intention to open public services in this city during the month of A p ril; but the persistent and bitter persecution kept up by the people, 188 i.J MEXICO. 225 who were incited thereto by the priests, finally culminated, April 3, in a violent mob attack of four hours’ duration, participated in by over two thousand people. The authorities of the State of Queretaro professing themselves unable to provide adequate protection, it was thought best to temporarily abandon the field and proceed to Mexico City, there to place the matter in the hands of the United States Minister. “ On the first of July, the Mexican government having guaranteed pro­ tection, the missionaries returned, and on Sunday the 3d the first public Protestant service was held in Queretaro, the superintendent of the mis­ sion# being present and preaching. Three services each week have since been held without interruption or molestation. The Sunday congrega­ tions have increased from four present at the first service to an average attendance of twenty. They are composed, however, of persons who have recently removed to this city from other places where Protestant worship has been established, so that they have before known something of evangelical work. We have been unable to secure the presence of any who have long been residents of this city. This, according to the state­ ment of the superintendent, is a state of affairs without a parallel in the history of our missions in this country. It shows the intense fanaticism and well-organized opposition with which we have to contend. The pres­ ence of federal troops prevents the priests from instigating the populace to acts of violence ; but all other means short of this are used to keep them from having any thing to do with the Protestants, or with their religion. “ We are trying to overcome these difficulties by personal intercourse with the people, the circulation of tracts and the Scriptures, and the reg­ ular preaching of the Gospel. The repeated attempts and failures to establish work here which have been made during the past five or six years have greatly increased and intensified the natural intolerance of this people, and will account for some of the present difficulties. It may re­ quire some time to convince the inhabitants ol this city that Protestantism is to be a permanent institution in their midst. The early purchase of property suitable for mission purposes would go far toward assuring the public of the permanency of our work. Foreigners of long residence in the city, and of ample experience, feel certain that property values will be greatly advanced upon the completion of the Mexican Central Railroad to this point in January next. “ We have, since our return in July, repeatedly tried to arrange for visit­ ing our work in San Juan del Rio, but it has as often been necessary to postpone. Our cause there is represented by Brother Manuel Fernandez, who labors without salary. During the past year he and his friends there have endured the severest persecution. They dare not meet except at dusk, in the fields away from the city. We hope early next year to report the opening of public services in that place. With the early completion of the Central Railroad to Celaya, a city of fifteen thousand inhabitants, that point, as well as several others only a few hours ride from Queretaro, will be open for work.” 15 226 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

It is not compatible with the limits of this report to give any adequate description of the trials and dangers through which our faithful and heroic missionaries and their co-laborers in Queretaro have passed during this year. They have shown, and still show, that patient courage which can only spring from true faith in Christ and single-hearted devotion to his cause. Even now that there seems no immediate danger of personal vio­ lence, it is impossible for one who has not felt it to conceive of the pecul­ iar isolation of their position, and the great trial to their faith in connec­ tion with the slow progress of their work and the evident hostility of the multitudes by whom they are surrounded. But the victory is secured by God’s unfailing promise. Let the Church pray that its fulfillment be hastened ! G u a n a j u a t o C i r c u i t , Rev. S. P. Craver, Missionary in charge. After five years of faithful and remarkably successful work in his import­ ant field, Brother Craver received permission to visit the United States. This was all the more proper in view of the state of Mrs. Craver’s health, and of the fact that the leave of absence involved no expense to the mis­ sionary treasury. Brother Craver left his work in June, the general direc­ tion and supervision of it being commended to the Rev. Duston Kemble, under appointment to Leon, but temporarily detained in Guanajuato in preparation for the active entrance upon his own work. Brother Kemble writes as follows concerning the present state of that mission : “ During the past year our work in this field has enjoyed a fair degree of healthful growth. The large congregation which attended our services on the occupation of our new Trinity Chapel fell off somewhat when curiosity was satisfied ; but there is still an increase as compared with the attendance before that time, and several influential persons have recently shown a new and marked interest in our meetings. There is also a nota­ ble improvement in the numbers present at the week-night services in San Pablo. Owing to the many serious hinderances to our work in Mar- fil and La Luz, these congregations have been temporarily suspended, but some of our friends from these places come occasionally to Trinity Chapel. Severe persecution has recently almost smothered our work in Silao. Although at various times in imminent peril of his life, Brother Mendoza has bravely held his ground. The local officials at one time connived with the Romish clergy to frighten the people away from our church by imprisoning their pastor in the public jail for an im­ aginary offense; but they were finally deterred by fear of the General Government. “ Several visits have been made to Salamanca, about forty-five miles south-east from Guanajuato. In that city the prospect is very encourag­ ing, and the people are entreating us to send them a pastor. From sev­ eral other points throughout the State come tidings of new seekers and followers of the Gospel; but at the same time we learn that the priests are wide awake, and that experience has developed in them remarkable activity and shrewdness in isolating the people from our influence by means more subtle and more effective than open persecution. W e expect 188 r.] MEXICO. 227 the victory, but we see that it can only be won by great energy, wisdom, patience, and faith in God.”

L e o n S t a t i o n , Rev. Duston Kemble, Missionary in charge. Leon is in population the second city of this Republic. The number of its inhab­ itants may be stated approximately at 120,000. It is rapidly growing in importance, and from its central position, and agricultural and commer­ cial advantages, seems destined to wield a powerful influence over a wide extent of territory. For a number of years it has been a cherished plan to establish one of our central mission stations in this city. Preliminary work was begun under the direction of Brother Siberts, but had to be sus­ pended for lack of funds. Our estimates for the opening of the mission were not granted till one year ago. Early this year, Rev. Duston Kemble and wife were appointed to this field, and arrived in Mexico in May. It was thought best that they should remain for a little while in one of our established missions, in order to acquire direct preparation for their life- work, by learning something of the language and the peculiar character­ istics of our general work. This, together with Brother Craver’s temporary absence, has detained them in Guanajuato, where they have been doing useful work ever since their arrival, while at the same time they have been unusually successful in their study of the language. Brother Kemble now preaches in Spanish, and his wife is able to conduct the woman's meet­ ing in the same language. Brother Kemble has already made one visit of reconnoissance to his future field, and expects immediately after our ap­ proaching annual meeeting to lay formal siege to the stronghold of the enemy. An immense advantage would be gained for our work in Leon from the very outset by the purchase of property suitable for a permanent home and place of worship. The work will be difficult, and accompanied with great danger. May the prayers of the Church strengthen the hands of our brother, and of his companions in labor!

Having passed in rapid review the special features and incidents of the work of the several sections into which our mission is geographically di­ vided, in order to secure proper supervision and a suitable division of labor, we must now ask attention to a brief special statement concerning two of the general agencies connected with our work.

Education. As will be seen from the statistical tables, this mission has established, besides its exclusively religious agencies, sixteen day-schools with 558 pupils upon the rolls. Nearly all of these are primary schools, established in order to afford the children of our families and congrega­ tions a secular and religious education, free from the Romish and perse­ cuting influences too commonly to be met with even in the public schools. But the demands of our work have called into existence three special in­ stitutions, namely, the Boys’ Orphanage in Puebla, the Girls’ Orphanage in Mexico City, under the patronage of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, and the Theological School in Miraflores, 'under the direction of Rev. S. W. Siberts. 228 MISSIONARY REPORT. El88l.

The Orphanages were established with a view to taking under the care of the Church young children, orphans, who could be retained for a term of years under our control, to receive such primary, intermediate, and special course of instruction as would fit them for usefulness in the several departments of our mission work. The existence of these institutions has secured for our mission a certain degree of,public sympathy and approval, and has attached some persons to our Church. But we have as yet not had the satisfaction of seeing any such results as were the prime motive for their establishment This is due, in part, to the character of the ma­ terial with which we have had to work, to certain legal difficulties in the way of securing the necessary control of the children, to the obstacles growing out of the incipiency of the work, and insufficientVesources and other un­ avoidable circumstances. It is true, also, that most of the beneficiaries were received at so tender an age that it is too soon to judge whether they will be useful. Most of those who were received at a more mature age have been occasion of great sorrow to those who have labored for their good. The difficulty in securing real orphans, and acquiring full control of them; the small proportion of children received at the age of from five to eight years, and from the very lowest classes, who may reasonably be ex­ pected to develop aptitude and inclination for work as teachers or preach­ ers ; and the great expense involved in the maintenance of orphanages in Mexico, are facts which, in connection with our experience, seem to indi­ cate that orphanages cannot be looked to as the only nurseries of Chris­ tian laborers for our mission. Moreover, the exclusive character of these institutions as orphanages leaves us no school for the higher training of children and youth connected with our families, schools, and congregations, who, after pursuing their primary studies, give evidence of aptitude, inclination, and vocation for Christian work. Clearly there is a radical defect in our educational sys­ tem, which can only be remedied by the establishment of an institution for the systematic, intermediate, and higher training of our boys and girls. It is our personal conviction that this can best be attained by the modifi­ cation of the character of our orphanges, so as to make them academies and training schools, open to applicants of mor.e advanced age, and pre­ ferring those who can be supported wholly or in part by their parents or relatives. It is to be hoped that the approaching annual meeting will take this matter under advisement, and adopt a well-considered educational plan. • The Theological School This institution, under the care of the Rev. S. W . Siberts, is giving, as heretofore, the happiest results— far beyond what could be reasonably expected in view of the very limited provision made hitherto for its support. The total number of students received, in­ cluding those now on the roll, is not more than fifteen, of whom we have now in active and faithful service in the mission five young men who are of our most reliable and diligent workers. Six are still in the institution. In spite of the difficulties and embarrassments connected with this depart­ ment of his work, Brother Siberts reports a year of good conduct, faithful application, and successful work on the part of the students. The future 1881 .J MEXICO. 229 success of our mission requires largely increased support for this institu­ tion in order to provide for a large number of students. T H E M is s i o n P r e s s . This work has been; as formerly, under the ad­ ministrative care and financial supervision of Rev. J. W. Butler. He says : “ It will be seen that we have issued during the year five books and eight volumes of periodicals and tracts, making a total of 2,590,700 pages. Our Sunday-School Berean Leaves have reached a monthly circulation of 1,800 copies, while E l Abogado Cristiano Ilustrado, has increased its circulation to nearly 2,500. There is not a State in the Republic of Mex­ ico where this, our monthly paper, is not read, while in several of the South American States it numbers its readers by scores. Probably no other religious paper in* the world, printed in Spanish, has such a circu­ lation and consequent power for good. When we add to this the influ­ ence of our Christian books and tracts, with a constantly increasing cir­ culation in all the Spanish world, we cannot doubt that our press is to-day wielding' power for good greater than any half dozen missionaries could command with the voice alone.” Of the work done under the auspices of our press, special mention should be made of the issue of our Spanish Hymnal, which has been so long in preparation, and was so much needed. The mechanical work was done by the Book Concern in New York. Its introduction has been pro­ ductive of great good. Of its influence over the work under his care, Brother Butler speaks as follows : “ The introduction of our new Method­ ist Hymn and Tune Book has been productive of great good. Those who have labored for years to give us a suitable hymn book would, I am sure, feel amply compensated in seeing the joy with which our people re­ ceived this work, and the grand use to which they put it. Their apprecia­ tion of it may be partially understood when I state that, personally, I have sold 216 copies of the edition with music to people of my circuit, besides copies sold in the bookstore and given gratuitously to the worthy poor. During the seven years of the history of our mission press its issues have aggregated about eleven millions of pages. These have been widely circulated ; but what are they among so many ? About one page to each inhabitant of Mexico during seven years ! How the aggregate dwindles in view of this simple comparison ! Yet the demand for evangelical lit­ erature, especially tracts, is insatiable. With the appliances now pos­ sessed by our printing establishment, its fruitfulness could be vastly increased with only a slight addition to its available funds. Let the Church look with favor upon this important agency ! W e come to the close of this report with a deepened conviction of the great importance of this field, not only from its intrinsic necessities, but from its intimate relations with our own land. W e see greater promise than ever for successful labor in the growing interest of the people, and in the multiplication of the facilities for evangelistic operations. We would earnestly call upon the Christian people of the United States to look with compassion upon Mexico and her millions, and we rest our cause before the great Head of the Church. STATISTICS OF THE MEXICO MISSION FOR 1881.

CIRCUIT AND STATION.

$225 82 $13 2,590,700 Mexico City Circuit...... 2 2 $85,000 >15,000 + $12,500 $27 10 T rinity...... 185 ..! 1.200 850 Santa Inez...... 35 4SI 1! 50 San Vincente...... 55 i,ióò is: ij so 300 Coatlinchan...... 50 10j l! 40 30li Ixtacalco...... 15 .. i; is Miraflores Circuit: 2,C00 500 §549 75 Miraflores...... 19 35 . 140 l! 30 250 827 00 Ayapango...... IS 28 .. ! 1 ' 1,000 Puebla Circuit: 5.000 10,000 850: 12 OS 1,190 15 75 05 P uebla...... 59 .. 11 1 62 1.500 300 100 .. 3 47 Apizaco...... 1 20 Orizaba Circuit: 6G5 .. .. 23 94 107 2G Orizaba...... 35 50 Cordova...... Pachnca Circuit: S.OOo 500 ! 40 00 421 00 Pachuea...... 116 1 35 2.500 ioo; .. Tezon tepee...... 20 1.501 Acaytica...... Real del Monte...... Om itlan...... El Chico...... Atotonilco...... English Cong’n, Pachuca

Queretaro Circuit: 4 00 «TS0 00 Queretaro...... 16 Ban Juan del E io...... 15 Guanajuato Circuit: 16 6,000 eoo I 14 73 113 64 139 6G 00 T rin ity...... 125 13 6,000 St. Paul’s ...... It o' .. La Luz and Marfil...... 20 Silao...... 20 Salamanca...... 25 Leon Circuit...... 1 1

RECAPITULATION BY CIRCUITS. 13 2,590,700 $18,000 $27 10; $881 01 $225 82 $150 00 32: 2 130,700 8|$15,000 827 00 Mexico City Circuit...... 2: 2 3] 2 2: ..I 8 1 8 101 1(58 840 10 » 63; 5 835 750 549 75 Miraflores “ ...... 1 30 2. 5.000 2 2.000 05 l j 1 • • i 2 41.. 6 1 19 32 53 7 3 168 450 12 08 •193 02 75 Puebla “ ...... 10(5 82 0,500 10,300 26 l i . . i ‘ 1 i . . I . . 1 59 7 112 18 4 2 715 23 94 107 Ij 1 ¿ 1 1 40 41 72 1 35 2 78 235 9\ 3 18(5 9, 500 4 00 Queretaro “ ...... 1 l ! 1 1 3 1(5 85 1 18 14 73 ris 64 139 66 16 00 90 6.000 0,000 S85 Guanajuato “ ...... 1: 1 ■•! i 2;.. 1 3 7S 51 240 13 i i 2 45 1 Leon “ ...... 5 i 1 "I" .1,(178 00] IS 2.'i0 >.7.0 ir.t41.900 $10 050 $93 911 $1.133 21:$1,192 04: T otal...... » ! 8 5; 8 3 12] 4 15 r, 17 338 388 1.087 18 7416 558 14 693 50; 9 ¡¡¡>55,200 151 52 24 2.G45.100 111 4(5,Mil) 12.055' 203 Oil 60S 1 •> l-»>4 i4 1.0.0 Last year...... b; 7 5| 10 8 14] 4 9 5 25 338 398 l,098jl0 93,16 644,16,609 661 S| 51,050 10! Property of «lie Mission Pr.'sw, «1-2, Misaion Press. X 5 Book volume*, 8 Periodical«, Tiucts etr. § Funds o.olle. ted for ^If-supp’-rt of school. | Bv friends i«>r support of orphans, $1*4 *0. U By friuuds for purchase ofuu organ for cbupeL D omestic M issions

Commenced in 1812.

O u r Missionary Society had its origin in Domestic Mission work, and has ever maintained a growing interest in this cause, as manifested by the appropriacion and distribution of its funds. The same precise account of the Domestic Mission funds, traceable to each particular station, and thus to each individual receiving them, is given in the present as in former reports. The claims of this cause have never been greater than now, in the midst of a year of unprecedented immigration. A tide of foreign population is flooding both our Eastern and Western States, and reaching out into the Territories, which demands, as a meet provision for spiritual wants and as the simple dictate of patriotism, the most strenuous exertion on the part of the evangelical Churches to bring to these multi­ tudes the light of the Gospel. The number of alien arrivals in the city of New York alone, for the year 1881, was 455,681. At the present writing the following precise statistics of general immigration are accessible at the Statistical Bureau in Washington. Total immigrant arrivals in the United States for 1881, 716,868. Of this number there came from Germany, 248,323; England and Wales, 77,750; Ireland, 70,896; Scotland, 16,441; Dominion of Canada, 94,159; Austria, 19,667; Norway, 26,824; Sweden, 55,805; China, 20,628 ; all other countries, 86,375. A t least 2,000 may be added to this number by estimate. In view of these figures we may, with unquestionable force, call to mind the action taken by the Church in respect to Domestic Missions. The Discipline, 79 and 80, says:

It shall be the duty of each Annual Conference to examine strictly into the state of the Domestic Missions within its bounds, and to allow none 188 i j DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 233 to remain on the list of its missions which, in the judgment of the Con­ ference, is able to support itself. Each Annual Conference shall report through its Secretary', annually, to the Secretaries of the Missionary Society at New York, the name of each District, Circuit, or Station within its bounds, sustained in whole or in part by said Conference as a mission, together with the amount of mis­ sionary money appropriated to such for the year.

The General Conference, in order to secure information in respect to our Domestic Missions, has issued the following instructions: 1. Each Superintendent of Missions, and, where there is no Superin­ tendent, each Missionary, shall make a Quarterly Report to the Corre­ sponding Secretary at New York, giving information of the state and prospects of the several missions under his care. 2. Each Missionary shall report to his Superintendent once a quarter in writing the state and prospects of the special work in which he is engaged. Blanks for this purpose are furnished from the Mission Rooms. The following resolution was adopted by the General Con­ ference on the 26th of May, 1876, to which we* invite very particular attention: Resolved, That paragraph 108 of the Discipline be so changed as to require the Annual Conferences, in reporting the missions and appropria­ tions, to report also the number of years that each mission has received appropriations from the missionary treasury, and whether consecutively or otherwise.

Our Domestic Missions are of two kinds, namely, those administered as foreign missions by the Board of Managers, and those administered by the Conferences. There are eight in the first-named class, namely, Arizona, Black Hills, Dakota, Indian Territory, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and West Ne­ braska. Under the second head are embraced missions to the Aborigines, Welsh, Germans, Scandinavians, French, and Chinese, and to needy points in forty-six Annual Confer­ ences, most of which are on the frontier or in the South. A French Mission was this year put on the list of our domestic work. The Rev. Ebenezer Brown, the first mission­ ary of our Society to the French in this country (the, field of 234 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

operations being New Orleans,) is still living. We have long desired to enter France itself, and rejoice at this new effort in behalf of French people in our own land, the success of which we hope next year to chronicle. For an account of our frontier work during the past year, we refer to the reports of several missions given below. It will be seen that these fields are full of promise, and that a substantial advance has been lately made in them in some re­ gions, especially in the way of church building. The rapid progress of railroad building through the vast open regions is an important element in the urgency of the new claims made upon us. The Mormon influence is still growing in the territories adjacent to Utah, and whatever political meas­ ures may be taken to meet the threatening aspect of the case, an indispensable part in this struggle is committed to Christian Missions. As to our work in the South, the Secre­ taries have this year gathered precise information on many subjects, and particularly concerning new points open to our efforts on the several districts. Nearly three hundred such points might be mentioned which would require an average of $135 in aid, $60 being collectable at once in the way of self- support. The accounts received at the Missionary Office in response to inquiry are of thrilling interest in many respects on which we cannot here enlarge. Immense circuits are described as large as the State of Rhode Island, or others five hundred miles across ; vast spaces on the map are to be filled up ; we are asked “ to come and help the scattered members of our Church ; ” “ the people are waiting for us.” A paper presenting a summary review of our Domestic Mission work, was this year laid before the General Missionary Committee. It showed, among other things, the aggregate ex­ penditures of the Society for this purpose at certain successive periods. In 1821, the third year of the Society’s existence, $407 87 was expended for Domestic Missions ; in 1825, $4,704 21 ; in 1830, $10*544 88; in 1840, $120,323 75 ; in 1845, $64,528 34; in 1850, $64,155 83; in 1855, $149,071 64; in i860, $127,510 62; in 1865, $132,430 08; in 1870, i88i.l DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 235 $320,269 90; in 1875, $362,617 17 ; in 1880, $254,904 71. The total expenditure of the Society for Domestic Missions up to November 1, 1880, was $8,072,157 46. The aggregate dis­ bursements for Foreign Missions up to the same date was $5,684,106 68. In the earlier years of the Society’s opera­ tions the term “ Foreign” was applied to a portion of the work which we now denominate “ Domestic,” and the aggre­ gate sum expended for missions within our own country is much larger than that above indicated. A tabular view of our work among the English-speaking Conferences was also presented to the Committee. The table embraces a list of forty-four Conferences to which appropria­ tions were made in 1880, giving the dates of the formation of each Conference, the missionary grants made at a few suc­ cessive periods, and showing the progress at each of those periods in membership and Church property. There are a few deviations from the normal rate of increase in these fig­ ures, arising from special causes, which we will not here under­ take to explain. It will be readily seen that some of the Con­ ferences began with a full membership, being set off from other Conferences, the stations embraced within their boundaries having, in most cases, long before received missionary aid. We ask especial attention to the growth in membership and Church property of the Conferences formed since the War of the Rebellion within the limits of the Southern States. These figures are an eloquent and ineffaceable testimony to the benefi­ cence, wisdom, and great fruitfulness of the work carried on by the Missionary Society in this direction. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

Year Members in Church Clutrcli Church Church of Grant in this Grant In Year ot‘ Members in Members in Members ln Property in CONFERENCE. (ìmnt in ISTI. Grant in 1875, Property in Property in Property in Form a­ year.* 1880. Origin. 1870. 1875. isso. Yenr of 1810. 1816; 188U. li. n. Origin.

Alabama...... 1S08 $1-2.040 00 $9,712 50 $10.950 00 $2,500 1.049 11,862 10,212 + 4.740 $12.800 $24,225 $82,705 $24.275 Arkansas...... 1873 7.000 00 5,?i75 00 iì.OdO 8.805 4,449 8,437 57,300 68,825 2o>87 A ustin...... 1>77 8.5.'0 00 7.250 4.10 928 41,000 07,825 «Ino Iìi.ìjre...... 1S>0 8,500 0(1 3.51)0 C a l if o r n i a ...... 1 >• )- > Î 5.300 33 27.412 60 17,428 75 8.000 1.274 5,815 8,629 7.844 s . . . . 001,250 722,700 847,180 C o n t in i Alabama...... 187(i .875 1)0 2,800 5,209 0.15(3 17.235 88.154 C o n t r a i Tennessee...... 1877 0“Í5 00 4.0DI) 4.015 5,070 90.250 80.81)5 Colorarlo...... 1804 950 00 9,SÍ2 50 7.400 0Ò- 5.400 11214 589 11,661 2,953 22.500 91,000 046,450 137,007 Columbia River...... 1 STO 1.000 00 5.000 1.120 2,169 37,9,80 02.850 D e l a w a r e ...... 1850 292 00 1.050 00 1.709 36 1.200 13.052 10,048 11.490 13.980 129,227 223.701 »32.285 D etroit...... *...... 1850 1.831 25 2.259 50 4.5(10 00 8,500 9.508 19,475 21.204 24,598 **810.200 1,274.200 1,809.772 1,403.830 East Maino...... 1S4S 703 00 1,800 U0 2,300 00 1.000 8.805 8,535 8,365 9.010 852,460 425,100 887.520 Fast Tennessee...... 188.) 2.<:0;i 00 2.000 2.491 2,491 11,780 11.780 Florida...... 1873 2.953 00 4,237 50 8.700 1.070 1.840 2.44S 17,085 25.945 49,5(59 G e o r i r la ...... 1S0> 15. )15 00 11.870 00 10.472 00 4.000 10,903 14.310 12.177 2,070 84.8S0 52.110 118.005 87.025 Ilolston...... 1806 17.852 9-2 8,927 50 1(1.117 00 8.50;) 18.9 IS 20.219 20.033 18.242 88,225 131.8-5 159.800 180,750 K ansas...... 1850 1,450 00 0,212 50 5.875 00 8.001) 1.057 10,290 9.408 15.510 **12,100 229.711 201.800 311,270 915 00 6,787 50 6.931 50 5.000 1,840 13 413 15 731 17 002 834.850 408.403 415,795 L exinuton...... 1809 175 00 C25 00 2.509 00 8.000 4.813 5,875 6,109 72.000 140.1150 130.553 Little lìoek ...... 1S77 2,20i) 00 2.5)0 1,862 8.951 Louisiana...... 1800 9.0 )0 Oí) 8,512 50 10.105 00 7.000 10.662 8,787 9,666 9.548 166,200 172.'60 250.930 216,517 Michiiran...... 1849 1.125 00 8.11S 75 4.500 00 8.20,) 11,303 21,627 28,937 28.879 963.3-4 1,270,251) 1,201,S85 M innesota...... 1856 1.975 00 9.375 00 15.055 00 9.000 1.130 9.663 12.201 13.211 325.058 5^1,710 578.424 ^Mississippi...... 1807 34,794 25 0.D00 00 O.ime 25 0.500 0.503 15.211 26.453 23,029 121,000 28.350 IS 1.485 144.812 M i-souri...... 1848 75 ) 00 5.430 75 4.775 00 3.250 1,528 11.631 14.082 10,734 209,925 806.160 814,075 N ebraska...... 1801 2.25 ) 00 5.150 22 8.400 25 5.000 948 2,070 7.822 9,511 8.300 142.730 101.945 188,269 N e v a d a ...... 1805 3.325 00 2.175 00 8.750 00 8.000 267 294 515 R5S 50.100 85.050 07.000 88.600 North Carolina...... 1800 8,400 00 8.050 00 8.000 2.859 8,330 7.399 6149 2.000 7.100 85.595 41.795 Nortli-west Iowa...... 1872 750 00 0.290 00 2.2(10 8,392 4.133 5.902 27,425 87,500 182.892 Orciron ...... 1853 t 5 300 33 3.1S7 50 2.025 0(1 2.50J 706 3.899 3.240 8 966 189,825 197,600 200.830 Saint Louis...... 1860 10.137 50 12,787 50 5.987 50 4,250 18.401 18,217 14,119 14.171 829.811 868,8.0 420.210 408,455 Sw atinali...... 1877 3.050 00 8 500 10.950 11.092 5.390 132.686 South Carolina 1807 26.003 06 18,740 00 8,654 HO 7.0(10 7.101 18.737 24,825 27.044 59.300 93,355 171,090 199,110 Southern California...... 1870 025 00 4.000 1.479 1.030 08.017 75.750 South Kansas...... 1874 4.50 ) 00 4.935 (II) 5.500 9.220 9.339 17,138 125.745 121.350 258.766 Tennessee. .. 1806 12 950 25 12,550 00 10.325 ni) 3.000 2.089 S.S21 10.127 5.678 59.100 117.20S 198.195 68.414 Texas...... 1807 9.2-10 00 8.412 50 4.785 50 4.000 1.093 5,840 10,994 9.052 4,850 85.000 53,670 81,050 "Vermont ...... 1^45 249 l'O 1.331 25 1.295 00 l.roo 9.010 9.880 9.730 11.967 490.750 501.144 548,282 1807 Ì 21.075 00 11.500 01) 9.825 00 5,50:1 $595 3.884 5.380 0.180 100.550 123.925 105.349 “Washington ...... 1800 8.538 08 2,975 O0 3.440 25 2.5(10 11.349 21.450 23,' 80 20.49« 149.700 873,883 444.507 528,904 West. Texas ...... 1874 7.83.') 00 5. '-01 25 4.000 15 014 5.338 5 793 00,9.15 40.575 45.820 TV est Virginia...... 1S4S 258 50 8.925 00 4,015 ()() 3.000 21,059 25.110 30,892 434.480 600.255 610,000 W e st Wiseniipin...... , 1856 890 HO 3.980 00 3.481 00 2.500 5.003 11.005 10.743 11.544 894.035 502.255 491.515 VVi'Consin...... i 184S 459 58 4.889 75 6,725 00 2.000 0.790 12.590 13.900 12.450 824,300 973,850 824,720 In th e parlier yimrs th<> fijrures in Hu* »‘olum n of “ p-mit« m th*» v ciir oi o r ig in ” Kiurnify Hi<* nctim l receipts o f tim (.'ontVrriiri» in Huit year. + Tin* CVntrnl Alnb:inm Cmfercmco was form ed from tht Atabamu in 13T6. % O ne h a lf the gnint to O regon nn*l California MUsii n. § Chuveh property not tabulated in the Genomi Minutes of the earlier years. |j K or Including’ Norifc OiTolma. **■ Vor 18?>7. i 88i.J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 23 7

AMERICAN INDIANS. Commenced in 1 8 1 4 . A s is well known, a portion of our Indian work is found in missions of long standing, nearly all at present within the bounds of Annual Conferences, which take a supervision of them. W e stand also now in intimate relation to a number of Indian Agencies on the Reservations, to which part of the work we direct particular attention in this report. The policy inaugurated by the Government, in 1869, of granting to the respective Churches the privilege of nominat­ ing the Agents in certain of the Indian Agencies has been practically beset with some difficulties for the missionary au­ thorities, but these difficulties have of late diminished. We welcome the good results which, under the “ peace policy,’' the combined efforts of the Government— mainly through the gratuitous labors of the Board of Indian Commissioners— and of the Churches, have hitherto developed in the way of ad­ vancing Indian civilization. We are also impressed with the importance of certain additional legislation which is proposed as a means of perfecting the civilizing work already begun. We have in former years made note of industrial progress among the Indians, under operation of the present policy, and will give here the tabulated statement on this subject of the Indian Commissioner’s Report for 1881, putting the same in comparison with items of production and property in the year 1867, which preceded the new era: 1867. 1881. Acres cultivated by the Indians...... ----- 76,065 205,367 Bushels of wheat raised...... 451.479 Bushels of corn raised...... 687,668 517,642 Bushels of oats and barley raised...... 90,633 343,444 Tons of hay cut...... 75,745 76,763 Horses owned...... 57.205 188,402 Cattle owned...... ------34.041 80,684 Sheep owned...... 977,017 Houses occupied...... 12,893 Houses built during the year...... 1,409 Apprentices to trades...... 456 The total Indian population of the United States, exclusive 238 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I88l.

of Alaska, is this year stated at 261,851. Of these 246,417 are embraced within the sixty-eight established Agencies. On the subject of education among the Indians the Com­ missioner’s Report says: The day-schools during the past year, exclusive of those among the civilized tribes, have numbered 106, and have been attended by 4,221 pupils. 68 boarding-schools have been in operation during the year, an increase of 8 over last year. They have been attended by 3,888 pupils. . . . The interest, aptness, docility, and progress of the pupils is remarked on by their teachers as being fully equal to that of white children. . . . The in­ terest of parents in education continues to increase, and some schools have been overcrowded. The Agency boarding-school is the object- lesson for the Reservation. The parents visit the school, and the pupils take back into their homes new habits and ideas gained in the school­ room, sewing-room, kitchen, and farm. For Indian education the Government last year appro­ priated, in fulfillment of specific treaty stipulations, $64,000, and for “ schools not otherwise provided for” $75,000, making a total of $139,000, which is still, for the 50,000 Indian chil­ dren of school age, but a very inadequate provision. The Missionary Secretaries have been in communication during the past year with the several Agencies (fourteen in number) committed to the care of our Church, and from nearly all of them definite reports have been received. In some of these Agencies regular religious services are held, and in all of them the missionary authorities expect that the Agents, who are religious men, will see that such services, in some form, are maintained, and that the spiritual, as well as the temporal, in­ terests of the Indians are cared for. On the Mackinac Agency no less than seven camp-meetings have been held solely for the Indians, some of whom traveled two hundred miles to attend them. These reports all confirm the above statements of the Indian Commissioner in reference to the good influence schools are exerting. It seems to be unques­ tionable that the Churches should seek to efficiently .co-operate with the Government in promoting the educational work. The Government has already provided in some cases school accommodations, though much is still required in this direc­ tion. Very many new points are indicated on some of the 188 i-J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 239 Agencies where schools, which would gather at once 25 to 30 children, and in some cases 70 or 80, are eagerly desired. Boarding-schools are almost universally considered preferable to day-schools, as the children are thus kept away from the heathen influences which surround them at the Indian settle­ ments. We quote from some of these reports of the agents. The agent at Klamath, Oregon, Rev. Linus M. Nickerson, says: We have a splendid class of Indians for missionary work. For the short period of time during which they have been under civilizing influences they have made good progress. W e have church service and Sunday-school every Sunday at the Agency. I have been filling the place of Indian Agent and missionary among the people. Of course, I can do but little compared with what is possible and ought to be done. We have a few reliable Church members. The Indians all accept our teachings. They believe the Bible is God’s book. The way is open for a man of missionary spirit to do a good work. . . . We have a church in the Indian settle­ ment, twenty-six by forty feet, about half completed. Will have it done this fall, or by next summer at the furthest. Please send us a good, wide­ awake man to preach to and teach this people. Rev. John Harris, recently appointed to the charge of the Lemhi Agency, Idaho, met the Indians in council. Pie writes:

The chief, “ Tendoy,” who exercises a very beneficial influence, said the people of his tribe were like himself— they wanted their children to learn like the white children. They believed I wanted to do them good, and would conclude I meant to if I really got the school for their children. In concluding the council the chiefs, subchiefs, etc., tendered me their friendship and co-operation in whatever I had in view for the benefit of the Indians. Fort Hall, Idaho, has been recently visited by Rev. L. A. Rudisill, of the Utah Mission. There has been no regular religious service here during the year, and attention to the spiritual wants of the Indians is greatly needed. They are already invaded and deluded by the emissaries of Mor- monism. Any recent want of success in educational or Chris­ tian work at this Agency may be explained by the frequent changes of the Agent. Mr. Rudisill writes : There are here 485 children of proper age to go to school. The Indians are anxious to have a school, a Sunday-school, and religious instruction. They interested me very much, and came to me of their own accord and 240 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l88l.

asked me “ to talk more about the Great Spirit.” A good work can be done by a Christian teacher, backed by employes who will help run the Sunday-school. The Government has appropriated $4,000 for suitable school buildings. The Crow Agency, within the bounds of the Montana Mission, has been visited by Superintendent Riggin. The agent, A. R. Keller, writes :

The field is certainly a very promising one for either missionary or educational work, and I cannot state too strongly the possibilities of such work. The Government supports a school, with matron and teacher.

We have sent Rev. T. D. Lewis with his wife to take charge of the school and do mission work at this point, and they have already entered upon their labors, as they report, with much love for the work. A t the Siletz Agency, Oregon, the Government pays a salary to a pastor and teacher, who are furnished by the Oregon Conference. The present pastor is laboring with great zeal at his post. Regular religious services are also maintained at the Quinealt Agency, conducted by the agency physician, a local preacher of our Church. The long, faithful, and emi­ nently successful labors of Rev. J. H. Wilbur, in charge of the Yakima Ag-ency, Oregon, are well known and have been ex­ hibited in former reports. He is doing this year a like vigorous and successful work on this model Agency. John Young, of the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, continues his plea for a missionary, and we hope soon to send a proper person for this work. Among other things Mr. Young says : The Blackfeets, Bloods, and Piegans were some years ago the most cruel and unruly tribes we had. Now over eighty families have abandoned their roaming habits, and express a desire to live as the white man does. Until lately labor of any kind was considered disgraceful by the men. When a warrior was asked to peform some task in return or payment for food, he would reply, “ Do you take me fora squaw? ” Now they not only work their own patches of ground, but aid in the agency farming, in building fences, cutting and hauling wood, and such other labor as is necessary. The day-school is well attended and the scholars make fair progress. Arithmetic is a favorite task, and when the alphabet is mas­ tered and they begin to spell and read, their delight is manifest. There is, perhaps, no heathen field so likely to repay the labor of a Christian missionary. They number over 7,000. 1 8.8 1.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 241

The negotiations alluded to in last year’s report concerning a teacher for a scholastic and industrial school at Fort Peck Agency, resulted in the sending out of Rev. S. E. Snider and wife to that post. They found that the erection and equip­ ment of suitable buildings promised by the Government had been delayed, but there is hope of seeing the buildings com­ pleted the coming spring. Mr. Snider soon began a day-school with fifty scholars. He has worked’ much of the time with his own hands upon the buildings. We have great confidence in the energy and devotion of both himself and wife. The location of thé school is Poplar Creek. Mr. Snider writes*:

We shall keep the school running all winter, doing the best we can. By the help of the Lord we are going' to make a success of it. I have organized a Methodist class, seven by letter, one on probation ; have married two couples, in both cases Indian women ; also administered the sacrament of baptism to an infant. W e have a good little Sunday-school, keep up a semi-weekly prayer-meeting, and all are growing in grace.

W e have brought to view in this report, besides some notice of new steps taken by the missionary authorities, the great wants of the Indian field, and the obligations in this regard not yet met by the Church. We need men for the work, and for many places money to support them. The attitude and action of the Government, however imperfect hitherto, is, nevertheless, such as to greatly increase the responsibility of the Church to take up and carry forward with all energy the work to which it is invited. Under different circumstances and with new aids to success, the old enthusiasm of our own Church for Indian missions should be again aroused. We give a statistical table of this work, partly as reported to the Con­ ferences, but are as yet without sufficiently regular statistics of church and school work in the Agencies to admit of its being fully exhibited in tabulated form. A portion of the. Indian work in the Conferences is connected with the white work, and not distinctly reported, and in the following table, probably, in case of two or three stations some white work is included. The table is a very inadequate representation of our Indian work.

16 242 MISSIONARY REPORT. [i88r.

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS BY CONFERENCES. California. Detroit. Isabella...... $200 Superintendent...... $100 Taym outh...... $125 Riverton ...... 125 Missionary...... 400Saganing...... 115 Gran d Traverse District.. 11 to Indian Mission Circuit... 225 Missions, 2 ; Money, $500. K ewaw enon...... 100 Iroquois...... 60 Northport Indian Mis­ Hannahville and Grand sion ...... 50 Central New York. Island...... 100 Missions, 6 ; Money, $S00. Superintendent...... 200 Bennett’s Comer, Onei­ Northern New York. da Iteservation 287 P0 Missions, 6 ; Money, $700. St. R egis...... 820 Onondaga...... 262 50 Genesee. Superintendent...... 80 Missions, 2 ; Money, $500. Gowanda...... 800 Missions, 2; Money, $350. Mission, 1 ; Money, $800. Columbia River. Wisconsin. Yakima...... 200 Michigan. Oneida...... 200 Mission, 1 ; Money, $200. Big Rapids District 100 Mission, 1 ; M oney, $200.

STATISTICS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN MISSIONS FO R 1881.

C IR C U IT

OR STATION. ■Sj S 2 = E CD EuC«<£. California Conference. Hound Yalley...... 40 20 2 4 100 $8 00 $11 00 Central New York Canf Oneida...... 1 50 10 8 100 $2,000 1 $800 21 00 11 00 Onondaga...... 8 55 54 1 25 2,000 1 1,000 Columbia Biter Cottf. Yakama...... 520 185 20 870 5,000 .. 120 00 265 00 Detroit Conference. Bridgeport and Taymouth.... 7 34 2 00 Pen conning and Saganing___ 1,600 820 8 00 4 18 K ew aw enon...... 1,000 500 10 00 4 00 Hannahville and Grand Island Iroquois...... 200 1 100 L ’A nse...... 4,000 .. 2 00 24 00 O sc o d a ..;...... 4 00 Geneaee Conference. Gowanda...... 65 2,500 Michigan Conference. Isabella...... 215 118 2,500 10 00 Riverton...... Charlevoix...... 100 5 00 Elk Rapids...... 800 N orthport...... 4 ÓÓ 1 00 Petoskey...... 550 Northern New York Conf. S t Regis...... 75 Wisconsin Conference. Oneida...... 168 44 100 1,500 1 1,000 80 00 50 00 Indian Territory. 'W yandotte...... 21 600

Total. 1,706 42687 1,120 28,850 $8,720; $279 84 $872 18 i88i.J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 243 WELSH DOMESTIC MISSION.

Commenced in 1828.

T h e only mission now maintained by our Society among the Welsh in this country is that within the bounds of the Northern New York Conference, in the city of Utica, and at Remsen, Oneida County. Rev. L. D. White, Presiding Elder of the Utica District, sends the following account of this work : The Welsh Mission in this city is of much more importance than its numbers would Indicate. There are many Welsh people here, and several Calvinistic Welsh Churches, and those who prefer devotional services in their native language would go to the other Churches were it not for this little mission Church. As the members become familiar with the English language, and their children, taught in the mission Sunday-school, desire to go to some English Church, they go to our own societies, instead of being lost to Methodism ; and sometimes the parents go with the children. 1 have known a whole family to take letters and go to an English Church together. This transition from Welsh to English has been going on for many years. Nine members removed by letter, and ten without letter during the last Conference year. During the current year the member­ ship has increased from fifty-nine to seventy-eight, and there are now fourteen probationers. The Sunday-school is also increasing in numbers and interest. Rev. W. R. Griffith is at present supplying this work. He is a member of the Wesleyan Conference, in Wales, having leave of absence, and has recently decided to remain here to serve this important field. I think we have found the right man for the place. He is young, cultured, truly pious, and full of zeal for Christ and his cause. Rev. Daniel Williams, of Wyoming Conference, labored the last two years faithfully and success­ fully, and prepared the way for Brother Griffith, who is entering into his labors and doing a noble work, a work which brings material, social, and spiritual prosperity. This mission has not been in so prosperous a con­ dition before in many years. Being the only Welsh mission in all our Church, it deserves support. The Welsh people make good returns for labor bestowed on them. We have a Welsh chapel and a small class of twelve members in a Welsh community in Remsen, Oneida County, about twenty miles from Utica, which will come under the pastoral care of Brother Griffith the ensuing year. Statistics.— Missionaries, 1 ; Members, 7 8 ; Probationers, 14.

MISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS Mission...... $188 | Superintendent...... $12 Missions, 2 ; Money, $150. 244 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

GERMAN DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

Commenced in 1836.

T he immense immigration from Germany during the past year, amounting to about a quarter of a million, (248,323, so far as yet tabulated,) gives an increased and vast importance to this part of our mission work. It is well to recall some re­ sults of the effort already bestowed. The fact that our Confer­ ence in Germany sprang out of the domestic work we pass without further mention. The domestic work itself has expand­ ed into seven Conferences, extending over the country, north, south, east, and west; which aggregated, by the Conference statistics of 1880, 38,379 full members and 4,741 probationers. The church buildings numbered 641, valued at $ 1,886,459 5 Par_ sonages, 306, valued at $335,081. The increase of members in these missions shows a more regular advance than in the case of the parent Church. In 1847 there were 4,385 members ; in 1867, 27,876; in 1877, 40,578 ; in 1880, 43,120. Besides this some of the German work is found connected with English-speaking Conferences. There are four collegiate institutions among our German brethren, and their periodical and book publi­ cations at Cincinnati have increased to large proportions. Our Cincinnati Book Concern is probably issuing more German books than any other publishing house in the country. Certainly these German Domestic Missions are doing a work of measureless good in a spiritual view, and the circumstances of the case make them a most notable source of blessing to the country. We have before referred to the fidelity of our German brethren in applying the disciplinary plan for missionary collections, by which means their average per member has placed them in the first rank. Recent in­ vestigations have also shown that, taking into view all the benevolent collections, and tabulating the Conferences in the order of their proportionate contributions, four German Con­ ferences lead the list. Missionary outlay certainly does not fail of fruitfulness here, and yet an exacting work still opens ¡before us our German Churches. i 8 8 i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 245

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS BY CONFERENCES. California, ( German.) North-west German. ICibolo...... $225 150 German District .-... D ecorah ...... $175 (Assistant). 5-Jii <00 O akland...... 400 ...... ' ^fcSenburgh 175 San Francisco : St. Paul’s. 850 Victoria... 8U0 *■ “ S u p p ly ... 800 Freeport.' ! ! ! ! . ' . ' lUO1 Hochhehn and Winona District 50 Hoch heim and Victoria “ “ Folaoin-st 800 Supply...... H okah...... 100 100 Stockton...... 350 Williamson...... ii-5 Missions, 6; Money, $2,100. La Crosse...... 100 M enomonee___ 50 Austin...... 825 Rockdale...... Central German. 50 25 J Minneola...... Missions, 27 ; Money, $10 000 Hamilton and 'M t PIs’nt. $175 Owatonna...... 50 , . Rochester 50 Greenville...... 250 St. Louis German. Aurora and Milan...... 100 Tom ah...... 300 Ripley and Higginsport.. W aseca...... 100 St. Charles...... $40 Waverley and Greenfield. W in on a...... 60 Warreiiton...... 80 Ironton...... St Paul District...... 50 New Melle...... 80 N ew Palestine...... A d a ...... 150 Montgomery ...... 120 Brookville...... Clear Water and Howard Jefferson City...... oil Pittsburgh: 40th-street.. L a k e ...... 80 Mt. V ernon...... 2-i0 Cleveland: Scoville Ave. Crow R iver...... 95 A lton...... 75 »'anal D over...... East Minneapolis...... 75 Bible Grove...... 125 Newark...... 100 Marine and Prescott 75 Chester...... 75 Alleghany City...... 100 Minneapolis...... 100 Highland...... 150 Pittsburgh Mission 250 Morris. 100 Pinkneyville...... 75 M ansfield...... 200 St. Paul: 2d Church. 50 Burlington, Lucust-sL... 175 D elaw are...... 100 Valley City...... 100 W. Point & Rock Spring. 25 Detroit: 16th-street 110 Wadena. 125 Farmington ...... 50 Caseville...... 150 Charles City District 200 Lancaster...... 175 Grind Rapids...... 100 Alden‘ & Webster ‘ City ~ . .. 100 Geneseo...... 110 Montague and White Hall 150 Algona------100 Rock Island...... 200 Toledo: Segar Avenue... 175 Eldora...... 150 Davenport...... 175 Perrysburgh & E. Toledo. 200 Fort Dodge 200 Callamus...... II» Bay City...... 150 Glad B ro o k ...... 150Iowa City...... 60 Petosky...... £00 Ida and West Side N ew ton...... 120 Kendallville and Auburn. 100 Nora Springs...... 100Des Mpines...... 145 Muskegon...... 150 Odebolt...... 100Quincy, Jefferson-street.. 100 Ann A rbor...... 50 Mankato District...... 170H annibal...... 200 Salem and H enderson.... 60 Beaver Falls...... 50 Jacksonville...... 200 Nashville...... 230 D anville...... 130Bloomington...... SO Jefferson ville...... 50 Mankato...... 250Strawn...... 25 Charlestown...... 50 Marshall, Watertown, and Springfield...... 175 Louisville: Jefferson-st.. 100 R edfield...... 250 Missions, 28; Money, Terre Haute...... 125 Mountain Lake and Lam- berton...... 100 Missions, 83; Money, $4,500. West German. Parker and Mitchell 100 Chicago German. Sheldon and Spencer...... 100 Kansas District...... $325 Nut reported in time for press. Yankton and Sioux City . 850 Eudora and Lawrence 320 175 Missions, 48; Money, $5,000. Topeka...... East German. Halstead and Kingman... 175 N ew Y ork District $500 Oregon. W ichita...... 100 “ St. Paul’s Miss. 600 Allegan and Peace Creek. 150 “ Harlem 100 Portland Dist..: Portland.$1.200 Great B end...... 150 “ lSSth-street.. 100 Mission, 1 ; Money, $1,200. Lacrosse and Hayes...... 175 Brooklyn, Wyckoff-street 150 200 Southern California. Council Grove..! . Mount Vernon and New Salina...... 100 Rochelle...... 200 Los Angeles D istrict $1,200 Junction City...... ISO Danbury...... 100 Mission, 1; Money, *1,200. Cherry Vale and Coffey- Bridgeport...... 75 v ille ...... 125 New H aven...... 100 Southern German. W eston...... 50 H artford...... 800 Houston District...... $700 Lexington...... 100 Turner’s Falls and Green­ New Orleans: Cameron...... 150 field ...... 250 First Church...... 450 Booneviile...... 100 Lawrence...... 100 Second Church...... 700 Kansas City...... 600 Fort Hunter...... 100 Third Church...... 500 Graham...... 150 Philadelphia D istrict 400 H ouston...... 500 Nebraska District...... 185 Philadelphia...... 400 Galveston...... 775 Lincoln...... 2(10 Baltimore, Penn. Avenue. 100 Bear Creek...... 850 Omaha...... 200 Baltimore, Light-street.. 550 Spring Creek...... 825 W est P o in t...... 200 Newark Mission...... 150 Brenham...... 850 Y o r k ...... 120 Hudson City&JerseyCity, 850 Falls...... 250 Columbus...... 120 H oboken...... 425 W aco...... 500 Furnace...... 175 Elizabeth...... 100 Dallas and Palmer 800 Harrison...... 180 Jeffersonville...... 100 Giddings...... 1 5 0 ------Nebraska City 90 Rochester...... 100 San Antonio District 700|Hebron...... 75 Buffalo...... 200 San Antonio...... 500IJerusalem. 75 North Buffalo...... 200 Medina...... 850|Western Nebraska Mis- D unkirk...... 250 Fredricksburgh...... 250 sion...... 855 Missions, 26; Money, $6,000. Liana...... 1001 Missions, 80 ; Money, $5,,000. 246 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

SCANDINAVIAN DOMESTIC MISSIONS. Commenced in 1845.

T h e immigration from Scandinavia for the year past is very large, being at least 100,000, and though our Scandinavian Churches have not the pecuniary strength of the German, and have not yet developed the same educational and literary forces, they possess a vigorous life and have a very hopeful future. They are distributed among two Conferences, the North-west Norwegian and North-west Swedish, in which the membership aggregated in 1880, 6,937, with 831 probationers. Besides these there are Scandinavian stations and districts embraced within English-speaking Conferences. The very encouraging reports from our foreign Scandinavian work con­ tribute to increase our interest in this portion of the domestic field. MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS BY CONFERENCES.

California, (Swedish.) Manistee ...... $175 St. Louis...... $500 Milwaukee and Ocono- South Chicago...... 50 Superintendent...... niow oc...... 200 Chandler’s Valley 150 Siin Francisco...... Neenah and O shkosh... 100 Galva and Watauga 175 Oakland...... Bichland...... 100 Iowa District...... 800 Additional Missionary... »W Sheboygan and Manito­ Burlington...... 250 Missions, 4; Money, $2,000. w o c ...... 100 Keokuk,Melrose, and N ew Stoughton and Primrose. 200 Sw eden...... 100 St. Paul District...... 560 Des Moines and Belinda.. 250 Atwater...... 160 Swede B e n d ...... 40 Mew England, ([Swedish.) Danville and Sioux Falls.. 140 Kansas and Nebraska Dis­ Franklin...... $S6 Deer P a rk ...... 70 trict ...... 400 Oxford. 40 Forest City...... 100 Stromsburgh...... 20 Beverly...... 100 Fergus Falls...... 175 Lindsburgh...... 175 Swampscott____ 2fi Hill C ity ...... 225 Clay Center...... 170 W est Medford__ 42 Grand Meadow...... 140 Scandia and Seapo 20!) Monroe Memorial. 42 Minneapolis...... 175 W est H ill...... 150 Sutton and Fillmore 150 Sudbury . 42 M ontevideo...... 150 Turners Falls 75 Plain Yiew, Belvedere, Oakland and Sioux C ity.. 80 Orange ...... 50 and Bed Wing...... 150 Minnesota District...... 400 Lansing and Bound Prai­ Minneapolis...... 200 Missions, 9 ; Money, $508. r i e ...... 150 Scandia Grove and Clear St. Paul...... 140 L a k e ...... 140 Sioux C it y ...... 275 Atwater and Litchfield... 40 Hew York East, (Sotmdin.) Swan Lake...... 140 Kandiyohi...... Missions, 27; Money, $5,000. Murdock and Ortonville.. 150 Swedish ...... $1,200 St. Paul...... 160 Norwegian...... 1,900 Stillwater and Alfton 140 Missions, 2 ; Money, $8,100. Center City and Marine.. 140 Grantsbui;gh and Trade North-west Swedish. Lake...... 100 North-west Norwegian. Bed W ing...... 200 Chicago District...... $150 Chicago District...... $500 Shurtleff A venue: Chica- Vasa and Goodhue S'* •go...... Maiden 450 Kock...... 100 Chicago, Second Church. 275 Ishpeining...... 100 Soath Side Mission 125 Evanston...... 125 Escanaba and Norway... 140 Coon Prairje...... 100 Geneva and Batavia Theological Schools 500 De Pere and F t Howard. 100 Bockford...... 150 La Crosse...... 2751 Chesterton...... 126 Missions, 89 ; Money, $6,810. i 8 8 i J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 247

CHINESE DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

Commenced in 1866.

T h i s work is distributed in three Conferences— California, Oregon, and New York— and is under their respective super­ vision. The work advances with a degree of encouragement, and no abatement of zeal on the part of the laborers in the cause. The difficulties in the way of building up a permanent Church work among these immigrants are, from the nature of the case, great, but are yet not insurmountable with a gen­ eral and hearty co-operation of the Churches in the locality of the missions. Elementary school work must constitute a large part of our operations. The Sunday-school attendance is reported only in the average, the number occasionally present being many times greater. The work in California has acquired increased breadth and system, as is indicated partly by the statistical table com­ municated in the report. The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast is progressing in its noble efforts. The work in Oregon and New York city is presented in the reports that follow. Rev. A. J. Hanson has collected certain summary statistics of Chinese missions in California, giving the number of Chi­ nese Christians connected with the different Churches as follows:

SUMMARY OF CHINESE CHRISTIANS IN CALIFORNIA. Presbyterian Mission, San Francisco...... 85 Presbyterian Mission, Oakland...... 55 Other Presbyterian Churches...... 60 Congregational Churches...... 126 Methodist Episcopal Mission...... ? ...... i n Baptist Mission, San Francisco ...... 12 Other Baptist Churches...... *...... 3° Episcopal Churches...... J5 Not reported, probably...... 3°

Total...... 524 24s MISSIONARY REPORT. 11881.

I. CALIFORNIA.

Commenced in 1868.

Missionaries. O tis Gibson, San Francisco. Andrew J. Hanson, Sacramento.

Assistant Missionaries. Mrs. E. C. G ib s o n , Mrs. Jane W alker, Mrs. N. S. H a n s o n .

T eachers. Mr. H. W . S t o w e , * E f f i e E. Y o r k , M iss M a r y A . S a l i s b u r y , *Mr. Verbeck, L i z z i e B i b b i n s , ♦ M a r y J. R o s s , *M r. C h a r l e s F a r m a n , Mrs. — W i l l i a m s , M y r a A . G ib s o n , U. Kai Ming.

ÜN’ative Helpers, L e e T o n g H a y , * C h a n P a k K w a i , C h a n H o n F a n , k. Meiyama.

lr*laces Occupied. S a n F r a n c i s c o , O a k l a n d , S a n J o s e , S a c r a m e n t o , ♦Gr a s s V a l l e y .

Summary« S tation s...... 5 Sunday-Schools...... 5 Missionaries...... 2 Sunday-School Teachers 23 Assistant Missionaries 3 Sunday-School Scholars 250 T each ers...... 10 Members Last Y e a r...... g8 Native Helpers...... 4 Lost by Death and Removal.. 11 Evening-Schools. . . . . 5 Gained ...... 24 Girls’ Schools...... 1 Present Membership 111 Total Scholars . . 500 Probationers.-...... 12 The following report of the work during the past year has been received : The thirteenth year of our Chinese Mission in California has been one of unremitting toil, unlooked-for trials, and some cheering successes and triumphs, which give encouragement for the future prosecution of our work. A slight departure from former usagé was entered upon early in the year, and forces formerly concentrated in San Francisco were distributed to other parts of the work, and set to work on their personal responsibility under the general supervision of the senior missionary, resident in San Francisco. Thus far the experiment, while it has had some disadvantages,

* Part o f the year only. i 8 8 i J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 249

has proved on the whole successful, and promises still better results for the future. It has the one great advantage of giving the several places occupied the benefit of the personal oversight of those who have had some training in the Central Mission, and are familiar with the best methods of work. In all the places named, except the last, evening-schools, Sunday- schools, regular religious services on the Sabbath, and class and prayer meetings, have been maintained throughout the year. The attendance and interest have varied somewhat according to seasons and local circum­ stances. Owing to the fact that the Chinese population of the State has been scattering very much out into other States and Territories, there has been little, if any, increase in attendance at our schools during the year. Still, there has been no great falling off at any point, and while our num­ bers are not much increased, we have the satisfaction of knowing that the great aggregate of those brought under the Christianizing influence of our schools becomes greater each year. We note in detail the condition of the several stations:

SAN FRANCISCO. At this point, the center of our missionary operations, our work, under the direct personal care of the superintendent, aided by two most excel­ lent assistant missionaries and a corps of able teachers, has attained its highest success for the year. The five departments of the evening-school have been unusually full; the Sunday-schools, Bible classes and prayer meetings well attended; the public congregations have grown somewhat, now averaging seventy; the religious interest has been quite encouraging, and a goodly number have been baptized and added to the Church. With mingled sadness and joy we record the triumphant death of Su- guwara, a young Japanese ; and of little Ah Mui, one of the Asylum girls. These died in peace, and their memory is blessed. Others have taken letters and gone back to Japan and China; and so there has been decrease as well as increase this year. The Superintendent.— After thirteen years of almost uninterrupted toil, and close personal care of the mission, Dr. Gibson has at length found opportunity for a much-needed vacation and a visit to Europe, through his appointment as delegate to the Ecumenical Conference of Methodism in London, September, 1881 ; and in this deserved, though temporary, res­ pite from labor, and this mark of distinction from the Church, his many friends rejoice. During his absence affairs at the Central Mission are un­ der the brave, wise management of Mrs. E. C. Gibson, who bears double burdens with admirable skill and endurance. The Girls' Department.— No part of the work has been better conduct­ ed or produced better results than this. A few more waifs, helpless girls and women, have been rescued from a bondage worse than death, and under the motherly care of that vigorous manager and devoted Christian lady, Mrs. Jane Walker, have been led out into the light and freedom of 250 MISSIONARY REPORT. [‘18 8 1. the Gospel. All honor to those noble ladies of the Pacific Coast, and some in the East, who have done so much to sustain this work, and whose faith and zeal never tire. For more definite information, reference must be had to the report of the Corresponding Secretary of the Woman’s Mis­ sionary Society, hereto appended. The Japanese Gospel Society.— This interesting adjunct of our mission has continued its good work throughout the year, but has unfortunately suffered from the vicissitudes and distractions of contending factions and final division. Through the machinations of Mr. Yanigea, Japanese Con­ sul in San Francisco, a skeptic and avowed enemy of the Christian relig­ ion, who sought to control the society and eliminate its gospel element, dissensions arose early in the year) finally resulting in the division of the society about the first of June. Mr. Yanigea's faction drew out and formed a new society with a less pronounced religious character. Never­ theless, the original society maintains its vigor, and has borne some excel­ lent fruit this year. There is no more devoted and zealous member of our missionary force than our Japanese helper, K. Meiyama, the leader of this society, who is preparing for the ministry in his native land, and by whose efforts mainly, seven of his countrymen have this year been baptized and become mem­ bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

SAN JOSE. Here our mission enterprise originated some seven years ago, and has been carried on largely by the patronage of the Ladies and Pastors’ Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church of that city, and under the immediate supervision of that devoted Christian worker, Mrs. M. F. Burns. Aided by a band of noble teachers, she has carried on the Sunday-school regu­ larly through all these years, every year gaining some converts from hea­ thenism. Though embarrassed for some time by the removal of many members to a distance, still the good work has gone on. The Sunday and evening schools have been well attended, preaching and exhorting kept up, and this year two have been baptized, making twenty-nine in all since the foundation of the school. A t length we have in part succeeded in the long-cherished hope o securing in San Jose a building for school and chapel purposes, and a permanent location for the same. A public school building 28 by 40 feet, with an ell 16 by 20 feet, all in excellent repair, has been bought for $225, and when a lot is secured by lease or purchase, and our building is placed^ thereon, we shall have, at comparatively small cost, a commodious chapel, school-rooms, and home for our class in San Jose. This we hope to have accomplished by January 1, 1882.

OAKLAND. A t this point our work began with a Sunday-school in the First Meth­ odist Episcopal Church some six years ago, conducted by Mr. W. H. i 8 8 i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

Rouse, and some half-dozen faithful, self-sacrificing Christian teachers. This generous and noble-hearted man, and his excellent helpers, have continued their good work through the past year, and very greatly aided in the success of our enterprise. The evening-school, now in the third year of its existence, has had considerable increase both in attendance and influence, and at present requires the services of two teachers. The ist of January, 1881, Mr. H. W . Stowe, who has been so long connected with our mission in San Francisco as teacher, and by whose generous patron­ age a school for Chinese children was long maintained at the Foke Yam Tong, (Gospel Temple,) on Jackson-street, was transferred to Oakland and placed in charge of the school. It is almost needless to say that the godly influence of this faithful Christian man, whose means and time are wholly consecrated to God, has not been lost upon this Chinese school. Lovingly and wisely he has labored with discordant elements, and is fast bringing order out of chaos, and discipline out of intractability. His work will tell mightily in the year to come. The mission building in this place, completed and dedicated, fr e e o f debt, some two years ago, has been kept in excellent condition, and well serves the purposes for which it was intended.

SACRAMENTO. Here was the pioneer Methodist Chinese Sunday-school of California, begun in 1865, and carried on for many years by that elect lady, Mrs. E. M. Carley, and a number of devoted helpers. On her departure from the city the good work was taken up by Mr. Peter Bohl and others, and stead­ ily maintained until December, 1879. A s one result of this faithful serv­ ice, several were at different times baptized, and joined the Sixth-street Methodist Episcopal Church. Some of these remain in Sacramento, and are leading Christian lives. With this as a beginning, we opened an evening-school for Chinese about the ist of March, 1880, under care of U Kai Ming, a young man of pleasant address and good abilities, who had received several years of training in our San Francisco school. So successful was the work in the following months, and so promising of results, that it seemed best for one of the missionaries to reside here and give it his whole attention. Ac­ cordingly, and on the recommendation of the California Conference at its last session, the writer of this report removed to Sacramento, and assumed charge of the work, October 1, 1880. It has been a year of many difficult­ ies and discouragements, but to the missionary in charge, exceedingly fruitful in experience, such as could not have been gained under other cir­ cumstances. Though much had been done before, the work, as a genu­ ine missionary enterprise, has been almost de novo, foundational in char­ acter. W e have had a good evening-school in spite of some denomina­ tional competition, and have gained a firm hold on our scholars ; we have established a Sunday-school, and held our own with it in face of great embarrassments; a Chinese service at eleven o’clock each Sabbath has 2$2 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

been maintained the greater part of the year, conducted by the missionary in the Chinese language ; street preaching by native helpers of our own and other missions, under direction of the missionary, has been carried' on when the weather would permit; and, on the whole, the missionary has gained an influence which is felt on the entire Chinese community. Our working force is small, about half our membership of eight persons having removed to distant places. The missionary and his wife have done regu­ lar duty as teachers in the evening-school, aided more or less by native helpers. We need more laborers in this vineyard, and devoutly expect more fruit. GRASS VALLEY. In this little city of the mountains we opened a school about the middle of December, placing U Kai Ming in charge. He soon became homesick and discouraged, and abandoned our service. Then Chan Hon Fan, an excellent local preacher, took charge and maintained the school with ex­ cellent success till the 1st of June. The Chinese there showed a good degree of interest in learning, and paid the rent of the school-room themselves, and more than met all the incidental expenses. But in our scarcity of native helpers Hon Fan cannot well be spared from the work at large. In the difficulty of obtaining a suitable American teacher for the place, it is now an open question whether we can carry on this work at Grass Valley. W e do not like to abandon it, and yet cannot see our way clear to maintain it.

FINANCIAL. Herewith is submitted a statement of receipts and expenditures for the year ending September 1, 1881. As heretofore, the income from rents and tuitions at the mission in San Francisco has been regularly transmit­ ted to the Treasurer of the Missionary Society in New York, and the ap­ propriation made by the General Missionary Committee covering all expenses. This amount, and also that collected by the Woman’s Mis­ sionary Society of the Pacific Coast, are given below. And here must be made our grateful acknowledgment both to our Annual Conference for recommending, and to the General Missionary Committee for making, ample appropriations of funds for carrying on this work.

R e c e i v e d : From the Missionary Society, total amount...... $11,016 00

E x p e n d e d : Missionaries and Assistants’ Salaries...... $3,200 00 Teachers and Native Helpers’ Salaries...... 2,497 50 Woman’s Missionary Society...... i)92° 00 Presiding Elder...... 100 00 Water Bills...... 158 4° Gas Bills...... 236 55 Furnishing...... 107 00 Repairs...... 213 15 i88i.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 253

Brought forward...... $8,432 6 q Insurance...... i . . 197 50 Rents Paid...... 515 15 T axes...... 307 52 T ravelin g...... 176 70 Books ...... 7° 60 Sundries...... 75 35

Total Expenses to September 1st...... $9,775 92 Balance of Appropriation...... $1,240 08 Rents and Tuition for third and fourth Quarter. 332 43

Total remitted to New Y o rk ...... $i>572 51 Total Expenses of the year ending Sept. I, 1880. 10,333 88 Total Expenses of the year ending Sept. 1, 1881. 9.775 92 Balance in favor of this year...... 557 96

I n c o m e : From Rents and Tuitions (Remitted to N. Y .)... 807 71 From Woman’s Missionary Society...... 1,200 00

T otal...... $2,007 71 Actual Expense to Missionary Treasury...... 7.435 78

In addition to this general financial statement, mention must be made of the fact that our schools in San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, and Grass Valley, have each raised considerable amounts toward paying’ rents and meeting incidental expenses, and by so much have been self-supporting. The classes in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland, have also aided in support of the Native helpers by the payment of “ class money,” and in San Francisco, the society has this year paid $55 toward the support of the presiding elder. This is in addition to the missionary appropria­ tion of $100 /or his benefit. In each of the other societies collections for the poor have been made at each sacramental service. This was done also in San Francisco until the fund became sufficient to render it unnecessary.

GENERAL REMARKS. 1. The mission in San Francisco has been greatly blessed and benefited by the regular visits of the Rev. H. B. Heacock, Presiding Elder of the San Francisco District, who has rendered great service in the quarterly examinations of local preachers, in the love-feasts, and as a firm friend and defender of our work at'all times. 2. Our “ Native Helpers,” Lee Tong Hay, Chan Hon Fan, and K. Meiyama, have rendered faithful and efficient service throughout the year, and done much to save their countrymen. W e intensely regret to say that Chan Pak Cwai, after many years of service as local preacher and teacher in our evening schools, has abandoned the work. The great tide of temptation to engage in secular pursuits, under which he had been drawn away, now threatens to deprive us of another “ helper” and leave 254 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

us with but two— one Chinese and one Japanese. The money-making spirit has become somewhat rife in the Church, and is now the source of our greatest anxiety; we pray God to save us from the infection, and enable these young men to devote themselves wholly and for life to the work of the ministry. 3. The eminent success attained in evangelizing the Chinese by such noble Christian workers as Mrs. Bums, at San Jose, Mr. Rouse, in Oakland, and Mrs. Carley, at Sacramento, through the agency of Sunday-schools, etc., is convincing proof that the same results might be had in other places, were the same efforts put forth ; nor can we resist the conviction that herein our local Churches have abundant opportunity for home mis­ sionary work, and are under some obligations to offer the Gospel to these “ heathen at our very door.” And before us we have also the inspiring example of sister denominations— the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches of California— which in this respect have done better than our­ selves. The missionaries are ever ready to help inaugurate and carry on this good work, and only pray that willing hearts may take it up in all our towns and villages.

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA MISSION.

*D s © f? fcC •a JS V O H & STATIONS. e c O) a o c? 'C'O o 5 « Members Members Received. Evening Schools. No. No. of Schools. Average Attendance. Avernpte Attendance. Probable Value. Other Benevolent Collections. port Sui of the School. 1 Misslonnries. Assistant Misslonnries. 1 Girls' Schools. Sunday schools. Teachers. Mission Buildinps. Missionary Collections. , Support of the Ministry. < 5 o < Teachers. Scholnrs Enrolled. Scholars Enrolled. 1 1 1 Native 1 Helpers. Members. | 1 1 I 1 I 1

San Francisco 1 2 2 65 5 20 20 l i 70 2 6 275 34 100 2 7 100 1 $30,000 »80 *62 50 «108 *305 15 9, 9 ftO 1 1 4? 90 1 8 35 1 300 II) 95 1 Wl 9 1 1 80 1 9 90 1 ìli 1 eoo 15 5 00 26 flti Sacramento.. 1 1 1 9 3 1 1 10 I 2 80 15 1 3 12 15 12 50 75 Grass Valley. 1 1 14 8

Total.., 2 3 4 111 12 24|24 li 140 6 •12 456 34 168 5 23 172 3 $30,800 120 »80 00 «134 $706

* Five of these are counted as Missionaries and Native Helpers.

n. THE WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Organized in 1870. Mrs. Eliza C. Gibson, Corresponding Secretary of the Soci­ ety, sends the following report: The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast was organized especially for work among the Chinese women in this country. Till the time of the organization, some eleven years ago, nothing had been done for the women of China, who were cast helpless and friendless on these shores. There were a few schools for men and boys, but none for women and i88i.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 255 girls. Our Society opened a school, hoping they would come for instruc­ tion in the English language, as men do. We visited them in their homes inviting them to come and send their girls, but they could not, or did not, rise above the prejudice that women and girls do not need education. Two or three girls came to school, but only for a few days or weeks, then the teacher would have to go and fetch them each day to insure their at­ tendance. There was a class of girls we wished very much to reach ; girls who were sold while quite young by their parents or guardians as servants to the buyer. Many of this class are brought to this country. They are in reality slaves, and are treated with all the harshness and cruelty that an ignorant degraded people can show to those over whom they have control. After some time had elapsed a girl here and there, having heard of this mission-school, ran away from her master, often bruised and blackened by blows and abuse, and sought the protection of this Society. The teacher, Mrs. Walker, is appointed the legal guardian of the girls, whose ages vary from six to fifteen years. Five have married Christian Chinese men, after staying in the school from four to six years. Three have died, and twelve remain. These girls are generally bright and anxious to learn. They speak our language with much greater ease than older persons, and they readily accept the religion of Jesus. Nearly all have been baptized and are try­ ing to lead Christian lives. Mrs. Walker teaches English five hours each day ; they also have half an hour or more of reading the Scriptures in Chinese, Sun Ho, one of the older girls, teaching the younger ones. The more advanced pupils study arithmetic, history, and geography. Tuesday evening of each week a prayer-meeting is held, led by the teacher, in which all the girls take part. Wednesday evening an hour of praise service in connection with the boys’-school, after which there is a prayer-meeting and a short sermon in Chinese. Friday afternoon is devoted to a Bible-class. Sunday, preaching at half past twelve o’clock. Sunday-school at half past one, and a mixed Sunday-school in the evening. Work, such as finishing men’s underwear, can be obtained a part of the time, and thus they earn enough to furnish their own clothing. The ladies of the Society cannot take the girls on the street without receiving insults, and in some instances the girls have received injury from stones and clods thrown by men and boys. The ladies generally provide an entertainment during the Christmas holidays, a Christmas-tree loaded with inexpensive presents for the girls, which gives them great pleasure. One or two picnics are arranged for them each year, when they are accompanied by some of the ladies and a police officer, to prevent any serious hostile demonstrations toward them. Women are also placed in the school by heathen men who wish to marry them. A t first they were received into the school for a longer or shorter time, as they might choose, but experience led to the adoption of the present rule, by which none are received for less time than a year. The 256 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

man marrying one of these women pays $5 per month, or $60 for a year's board. Thirteen baptized women and girls have married Chris­ tian Chinese men, and are living as Christian families. One family has returned to China, one is in the Sandwich Islands, the husband being a missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church to his countrymen there. The women who have married heathen men often attend church, and generally over forty women and girls are in the Sunday congregation. Our Bible reader’s health failed and she gave up the work, but Ah Foon, our first Bible reader, has begun the work again among those who were formerly in the mission-school, as well as among all others who are will­ ing to listen to the reading of the Scriptures. It seems probable that our work will have to take another form, our chief labor heretofore having been in the school; more ought to be done among the families in China­ town. Few women and girls come to this country now, and those who are here are treated much more humanely than formerly. Then there are many little children whose parents reside here, and who ought to attend school, but who will not go far from home. Our Society should establish a school in Chinatown for the children, boys and girls who could be in­ duced to come, and thus keep them from becoming so grossly ignorant and immoral as they are almost sure to be if neglected. W e thank God for the encouragement we meet with in our work. W e sometimes think that the work is slow and weak in results, but occasionally something occurs that gives us fresh courage, as in the case of Chy Hay, who, after being in the school a year, married a heathen man and removed to Sacramento ; inquiry failed to elicit any thing con­ cerning her; no one even knew her place oi residence ; but last winter Ah Foon was spending some weeks in Sacramento, and she, by dint of great perseverance, found her. She had kept very quiet, never stirring out of doors for fear of her old master. But she had not forgotten all that was taught her in the mission-school. She could repeat the Lord's Prayer and the Apostle’s Creed. She placed herself under instruction, and was a few months ago baptized and received into the Church. It is very gratifying to know that the seed sown so long ago has at length borne fruit to the glory of God. Ah Ngan came to us over two years ago accompanied by her little sickly girl, six years of age. After a few months the child regained her health and developed into a bright, ambitious pupil, full of love for her books, and loved and petted by the scholars. Ah Ngan concluded to remain and keep the child in the school until she is grown. In May mother and daughter made a public profession of faith in Christ Death has entered the school this year and removed one of the brightest and most studious of the girls, Ah Moy, thirteen years of age, who died in great peace, in February. W e have been called to mourn the death of the first president of our Society, but who several years ago removed to Ohio, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Phillips, whose memory we all love. Our Society has lost a friend in the death of Bishop E. O. Haven, who i 8 8 i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 257 took a deep and kindly interest in our work, and was ready at any time to advise with us as to the best means to be used to advance the Master’s cause. A few of the girls are supported by ladies who pay $5 a month or $60 a year for their board. Mrs. Goodall, our beloved president, and Mrs. Finch, of Oakland, have each paid $60 a year for a number of years toward the support of girls in the school; Howard-street Sunday-school supports one; Mrs. Briggs’ Bible-class one, and the ladies of the Church one. The Society has held three successful meetings during the year; at Howard-street, Grace, and Central Churches, in each of which the cause was ably presented and the congregation cheerfully responded. $425 have been paid to the Society by heathen Chinese men this year for the board of women in the school. The number of women and girls who have been in the school six months or longer is more than 120. The number during the year has varied from 23 to 29. Ten have been received, nine have married, three have returned to China, and one has died.

FINANCIAL. Appropriation for Woman’s W ork...... $1,920 00 Collected from other sources...... 1,181 50

Total Received...... $3,101 50

Expenses for Boarding Girls...... $1,070 50 Teachers’ Salary...... 750 00 Bible Reader, (six months,)...... 60 00 M edicine...... 8 80 Funeral Expenses...... 46 00 Incidental...... 20 00

Total Expenses...... $1,955 30

Remitted to New York...... $1,145 *5

III. OREGON.

Commenced in 1878.

T. B. M a x w e l l , Superintendent. The Chinese work in this region is located at Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, W. T. At Portland there are over two thousand Chinese. We make the following extract from the Conference report: The Chinese School at Portland , commenced in January, 1878, still holds its regular sessions, and is doing a good work. Excepting a single month’s vacation in July, there has been no break or interruption during 17 258 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

the year. The attendance varies from twenty to fifty, and could be in­ creased considerably if a larger building could be secured in a proper loca­ tion, and it could receive the sympathy and help such a school needs. It is held every evening from 7 to 9 o’clock, under the superintendence of Brother Thomas B. Maxwell, who keeps from ten to fourteen very excel­ lent teachers employed, giving them such little compensation as the Chi­ nese boys themselves can give. W e think they ought to give at least one dollar a month each, but this they often are too poor to do. In. such cases a small allowance is made to supplement the amount paid by the class. The services of good teachers cannot be expected for less than six to ten dollars per month. Three other Chinese schools are supported in Portland, and each one is much better patronized by the Church to which it belongs than this one is by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Now, to teach a Chinamen — to sit down to this task, with from four to eight pupils, six nights in the week, two hours each evening— is quite a task, and requires self-denial and skill, and perseverance. There is no romance about it, or honor either, except that which comes from God. Rendering my own services from the beginning without any remunera- tion whatever, I have applied the appropriation as follows : Rent from August 13, 1880, to August 13, 1881, at $12 50 per month $150 Services of Superintendent for the year (T. B. Maxwell)...... 224 Moy Chung, assistant, two months...... 3° Moy Sing, assistant, four months...... 4 ° For fuel...... 3 My own traveling expenses...... 36 To supplement pay of two teachers, Miss Maxwell and Miss Blackwood.. 17

Total...... $500 The hunting up and teaching of these Chinamen whom God has thrown among us, making them acquainted with our language and our Saviour, is a very plain, matter-of-fact piece of business, and we propose to follow it up with care and diligence, regardless of the strong temptations to select other less reproachful labor in the Master’s vineyard. I have received four drafts on New York of $125 each— $5°°* The Sabbath-school, which meets at 5 P. M. every Sabbath, is well attended, in which are two Bible-classes, besides quite a number who are learning to read. Prayer-meetings are held every Friday evening, in which the Chinese sing and pray just as Americans do. Some thirty-four have united with the class, some of whom are converted, and two have been baptized. These Chinamen pay for gas and fuel, and seem very eager to study and learn about Jesus. Last Friday night there seemed to be a great awakening among them, as some ten united with the class at that time. This mission is greatly opposed by some of the leading China­ men in the city, and now in order to sustain it we must have missionary aid, as last year. And now as we have a room nicely arranged, with chairs, seats, and an organ, and a class of thirty-three Chinamen, we hope 188-1 J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 259

that the Conference will grant us at least, per year, $500 missionary money to carry on this mission. A t Seattle, IV. T., the excellent work done by Brother De Vore and other fellow-laborers deserves special mention. This mission was founded some two years since by organizing a class of some ten or twelve persons, all of whom essayed to seek Christ. $250 was obtained from the Church Extension Society in Philadelphia to aid in constructing a basement under this the present house of worship for said mission, which was accom­ plished, and said basement is now occupied by the mission. This mission is controlled by a Board of Directors who employed Mrs. Belle Thomas and Mrs. H. E. Parkhurst to teach the evening school during the past year, (said school consisting of seventy-nine different China­ men,) and they paid these teachers $250 each out of- the $500 missionary fund furnished by the Conference through Brother Atwood, the Presiding Elder. IV. NEW YORK CITY. Commenced in 1879.

J. Ja c k s o n , Missionary. T h is work has been continued through the year under the faithful labors of Rev. James Jackson and wife, whose ac­ quaintance with the Chinese language, acquired during their work in China, has been of much service. We present here Mr. Jackson’s report: The work of our mission during the past year has not been marked by any special features which call for notice. Our preaching service in Mott- street has been held every Sabbath throughout the year, and has been attended by some attentive hearers who seem to be deeply interested in the truth. Many of our hearers, however, have been but transient visitors, attracted only by curiosity into our mission. The greatest hinderance to our work in this locality is the existence of so many gambling and opium dens, fifteen or twenty of these being in full operation every Sabbath, crowded always with victims to these vicious habits of gambling and opium-smoking. Our Sabbath-school, formerly held in Mott-street, we now hold in the auditorium of the Seventh-street Methodist Episcopal Church, kindly granted to us by the trustees. Since our removal, in July last, the school has been better attended, and our work in every way more satisfactory. A larger number of Christian workers have joined us, and the attendance of the scholars has been more regular. Since our work began in this city many schools have been opened in connection with other Churches. There are now not less than ten Chinese schools in this city, and two or three others in Brooklyn. The result has not been altogether satisfactory, as it is common for the Chinese to go about from school to school, being regis­ tered at several different schools as scholars, and permanently attending 2Ó0 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

nowhere. For this reason we do not now keep a register of names, but note only the average attendance. W e have paid attention during the year to visiting the Chinese in their places of business, and have distributed a number of tracts, particularly the tract entitled “ Who is Jesus ? ” written by one of the native preachers in Foochow. W e have had one baptism during the year. One of our members, re­ ported last year, Moy F ui, now holds his church relation at Pennington, N.J. where he is a student in the Seminary. Statistics of th e New York Chinese Mission. Missionaries, 1 ; assistant missionaries, I ; native helpers, 1 ; members, 3 ; probationers, 1; adults baptized, 1; members received, 1 ; members removed, 1 ; average congregation, 17; Sunday-schools, 1 ; teachers, 12; average attendance, 17 ; missionary collections, $2 12 ; support of the school, $6 38.

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS BY CONFERENCES. California. Oregon. ! New York. Chinese M ission $11,400 Portland Dist : Portland. $500 Missions, 1 ; Money. $1,600. Mission, 1 ; Money, $11,400. Puget Sound : Seattle... 500 Missions, 2; Money, $1,000, STATISTICS OF THE CHINESE DOMESTIC MISSIONS FOR 1881.

<5 1 a g ? « s 0 e .£ s CÛ 'S MISSIONS. I ja. £ O. *►» < 1 X c Ä "c « i É O {ft & .0 0 1 g .0 £ 1 ä « £ -5 Benevolent Benevolent Societies. : Estimated Estimated Value of Mission Buildings. Collected for Mtssionnry Collected for other Collected for Self- Society. support. Sunday Sunday Worship. u* < z £ i a. Average Attendanco on < ¡1 ¡5 ê «! 1 1

California...... 2 2 4 12 111 12 140 24 6 500 5 172 8 $80,800 $120 00 $80 $840 00 Oregon...... 2 14 88 2, 2 119 • - New York...... 1 1 1 3 1 17 1 1 2 1 2 6 8S 17 Total...... 5 8 fi 26 114 46 157j27 ! S 619 6 189 8 $80,800 $122 12 .$80 88 Last year...... 4 luojio 4; 1 18 50 1Ï9 250 00 "1 2

ARIZONA. Commenced in 1869.

BISHOP SIMPSON h a s E p i s c o p a l S u p e r v i s i o n .

Missionaries. G. H. A d am s, Superintendent, Prescott

C. W . G r e e n , Prescott. B. F. E d w a r d s , Tucson. G. F . B o v a r d , Phoenix. J. P. M’I n t y r e , Tombstone. E . H . B r o o k s , Pinal and Florence. J. J . W i n g a r , Verde Circuit. D. W . C a l f e e , Globe City. J. H a r e r , Tonto Basin Circuit.

T he field of this Mission is becoming more readiiv accessi­ ble. The recent opening of the Southern Pacific Railroad i 8 8 i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 26 i

will hasten its settlement. The past year has been one of very vigorous work in Church building. In all these frontier missions the labors of the Superintendents are very arduous, involving long and difficult journeys. In the instance of Superintendent Adams, he had spent but thirty-two days at home out of fifteen months, up to the time when the following report was rendered. The Arizona Mission has made more advancement in the way of accu­ mulating church property during the present year than in all the former years of her history combined. Two years ago we had but one church— namely, at Prescott. Last year we erected two, namely: at Globe City and at Tombstone. The latter, however, was not dedicated until the be­ ginning of the present year. Since last March we have built three, namely: at Phoenix, Pinal, and Tucson. All these churches are substan­ tial, neat, and commodious, and admirably adapted to the wants of the communities where they are located. We now own in Arizona about $35,000 worth of church property, which is nearly twice as much as is owned by all the other Protestant Churches combined. All the leading towns are now supplied by Methodist houses of worship. We are happy to be able to report them practically unembarrassed. A few months will enable us to pay perhaps all the obligations except the loans from the Church Extension Board, and these are being met promptly, in accord­ ance with the terms upon which the loans were granted. The Church Extension Board has dealt liberally with us, and enabled us to build where it would have been otherwise impossible. On the whole we have reason for encouragement, and are profoundly grateful to God for the measure of success we have realized during the year. The work, as it has been ar­ ranged during the year, is as follows: P rescott, with Rev. C. W. Green, appointed by Bishop Bowman, as pas­ tor. Our Church here is very weak, both numerically and financially; yet we have a splendid church property, consisting of a comfortable house of worship and a beautiful parsonage. It is free from debt, with the excep­ tion of about $300 on the latter. Brother Green left in September, and we are now without a pastor. We hope soon to obtain one. The town has not been improving, but with the advent of a new railroad, which it is expected will soon be built, the population must increase, and we must hold the field. Phoenix is one of the most promising of our mission fields in Arizona. It is the garden spot of the Territory, and is having a steady growth with the surrounding country. W e have a neat brick church, which will soon be finished, and it is a credit to the Society and Methodism. Rev. G. F. Bovard was appointed to this charge, but has left for the purpose of attend­ ing school, and we have obtained a temporary supply in the person of Rev. Calvin Coates, a local preacher of piety and devotion, who is sustaining the work well. 262 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

Pinal and Florence was left “ to be supplied ” at our annual meeting-, but Rev. E. H. Brooks, who was appointed to Globe City, was transferred to this field. W e have built a beautiful frame church there, and Brother Brooks is doing heroic service in carrying it forward to completion. The Sabbath-school mounted up to about one hundred pupils in a very few weeks after its organization, and is one of the best schools in the Ter­ ritory. Globe C ily is now in charge of Rev. D. W . Calfee, who was appointed agent of the American Bible Society. He is an earnest preacher, and has very large congregations in attendance on his ministry. The Church has never been in so prosperous a condition since its organization as now. The indebtedness of the property is less than $100, and will soon be en­ tirely removed. Methodism here is doing its mission well. Tucson has at present Rev. B. F. Edwards for its pastor. He is a new accession to our working force from Kansas. Our church there is a marvel of beauty and comfort. It is of brick, thirty by fifty feet in the clear, and is the admiration of all who see it. The Sabbath-school has been but recently organized, and starts well with about seventy-five pupils in attendance. W e have a very valuable property here — a large lot on the corner of the two best streets in the heart of the city, and ample room for a parsonage and a main church to the present building, which is in­ tended as the chapel of the principal church. The city is rapidly growing, and our lot has more than quadrupled in value since the ground we own was purchased. Tombstone has had another eminently successful year under the pas­ torate of Rev. J. P. M’lntyre, who has been the pastor from the organiza­ tion of the Church until now. Brother M’lntyre has shown himself an able minister in every department of his work. Very little of the debt remains, and the congregations are as large as the church will hold. The Sabbath-school is one of unusual interest and success. Verde Circuit is a field which has in the main been neglected hitherto, but is now in charge of Rev. J. J. Wingar, who reports the openings for work both numerous and promising. The circuit embraces a large dis­ trict of country in the vicinity of Prescott, in which are several valleys very fertile and under cultivation by the farmers who occupy them. Brother Wingar is establishing preaching-places among them and organizing Sabbath-schools, which are very much needed. Tonto Basin Circuit is in the hands of Rev. James Harer as pastor. Little is known of the work, as I have not had the opportunity to visit it. Brother Harer is hopeful of results in the way of conversions among the people, and is working faithfully to that end. Safford and Clifton were “ left to be supplied ” at our annual meeting, and we have not been able to secure the “ supply ” as yet. The region embraces the upper Gila River, and ought to receive attention as soon as a suitable man can be found to occupy it. The foregoing embraces the work in Arizona as now arranged. The field is peculiarly a hard one, because of the fact that it is a new frontier, i88U DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 263

made up as to its population of a people who, for the most part, came from California and Nevada. These men have not been accustomed to churches, and do not know their value. They are not hostile to religion, but are indifferent; and it is generally more difficult to reach the indifferent than the hostile. Con­ versions have been almost entirely unknown in the Territory. Hitherto we have had no churches to which they could be invited. Now, by God’s blessing, we have overcome that feature of our difficulties, and we have attractive places of worship in all the leading towns of the Territory. Dur­ ing the next year it is our purpose to strive hard as ministers to co-operate with each other in revival meetings, making special efforts for the conver­ sion of souls. Church building has up to the present time been the chief work we have had in hand. Now we propose to try hard to make these altars what they were designed to be— the birth-place of souls. But, while giving attention to this specific work, we shall labor as minis­ ters to build churches as fast as they are needed ; and we are mistaken in the ability of myself and co-laborers if towns can be multiplied faster than we can build churches. But we are a unit as ministers in Arizona in the determination that no embarrassing debts shall remain on churches to cripple their usefulness and be a burden to our people. Great care is necessary to avoid these financial embarrassments. The conditions under which we labor are very unfavorable, and we are liable to suffer in comparison with other sec­ tions in consequence. In the Mississippi Valley it is comparatively easy to build a church with $250 of aid, where lumber is from §20 to $30 per 1,000 feet, and labor from $1 to $3 per day. The conditions under which we labor are very different in Arizona. Take the church at Pinal as an illustration. I purchased the lumber for the edifice in San Francisco, for $285, which was perhaps more than it would cost in the Mississippi Valley. On this bill of lumber I paid $523 65 for freight alone! The labor cost from $3 50 to $5 per day. These conditions are insurmount­ able obstacles in the way of church building, except to the stoutest heart and the most implicit faith. Arizona will soon contain a large population. She has fabulous mineral, wealth, and this alone will attract a large immigration. She will produce this year at least $12,500,000 of gold and silver bullion, while Colorado, with six times the population of Arizona, will produce but $25,000,000. Her mineral wealth embraces gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and almost every other mineral known to the commerce of the civilized world. Her grazing interests are superior perhaps to those of any other region in America. Added to this, she has the finest climate'on the continent for pulmonary diseases, and as soon as the fact becomes generally known the Territory will become a great health resort for invalid tourists, many of whom will come and make permanent homes. Arizona is no longer the inaccessible region she has so long been. One great through line of rail­ road is already completed across her domain, and two more will soon be finished. Then the great wave of immigration, which by some mysterious 264 MISSIONARY REPORT. [1881.

law, rolls perpetually toward the setting sun, will fill her mountains and valleys and plains with a busy people, who will need the salvation of God. May the great Head of the Church make us faithful and equal to the re­ sponsibility of feeding these hungry souls in the wilderness with the bread of life, as the Master fed the multitudes by the sea !

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS.

G. H. Adams, S n p t $1,500 Tonto Basin Circuit $150 Traveling expenses of P re sco tt...... 250 T u cso n ...... 700 missionaries...... $254 85 Phoenix...... 800 “ (extra for last year). 200 Traveling’ expenses of Pinal and F loren ce...... 800 Tom bstone...... 800 Superintendent...... 819 10 Globe C ity...... 475 Verde Circuit...... 225 Missions, 9 ; money, $6,473 95

STATISTICS OF THE ARIZONA MISSION FOR 1881.

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STATION. •S'C £ g I e I Is, wo

Prescott...... 200 $8,000 $3,000 $500 $40 $100 $2,500 Phoenix...... 19! 6 150 8,000 500 85 2.500 Pinal & Florence. 125 2,500 29 2,250 Globe City...... 3.000 300 85 ièò Tucson...... 5.000 500 5ÓÓ 26 8.500 Tombstone...... 4.000 200 400 35 $8 55 8.500 Verde Circuit___ Tonto Basin Cir.. Safford & Clifton. San Carlos Bes’n.

Total...... 18114 21; 90uj 1 7 9 650 ),500 l 4 $4,000 $1,900 *200 $8 55 $250 $14,250 Last year.... 4| 57j 5; 755 .. 10 6310 ),500j 4 3,100 1,000 150 .. . 8,900

BLACK HILLS MISSION. Commenced in 1878.

BISHOP WARREN h a s E p i s c o p a l S u p e r v i s i o n .

Missionaries. Je s s e D. S e a r l s , Superintendent, Pastor fit Central City.

W . D. P h i f e r , Lead City. J a m e s W i l l i a m s , Crook City and Spearfish. I r a W a k e f i e l d , Rapid City and Custer Circuit. We have the following report from the Superintendent of this very important mission, where a thickly settled population is in prospect. It will be seen that the year records very marked progress: Having been recently appointed Superintendent, my report will not be so complete as it might, under other circumstances, have been made. i 8 8 i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 265

At Deadwood our people are without a church-building. They have a church lot valued at $1,000, and funds and personal property equal to $1,000. They intend to build a church soon, worth about $3,000. Rev. R. H. Dollner is pastor. A t Central City we have a church valued at $3,000, and a parsonage worth $1,000. A series of meetings just closed have given four proba­ tioners, and called out several Church letters. Twelve, including proba­ tioners, have united with this Church since the Mission Conference was held in August last. At L ea d City, W. D. Phifer, pastor, we have completed a good church at a cost of $2,300. A debt of $500, including the amount loaned from our Church Extension Society, remains upon the church. One year ago last autumn we had nothing there; the growth since then has been rapid. In all three of the above-named places we have flourishing Sabbath- schools. At Crook C ity and Spearfish charge, Rev. James Williams is pastor. We have a church-building at Crook City worth $1,000. W e have a Sabbath-school there ; also one at Centennial Park. W e need a church at Spearfish. A t R a p id and Custer Circuit, Rev. Ira Wakefield, pastor, we have no church property within the bounds of the circuit. Brother Wakefield preaches at four places to at least two hundred hearers. W e have no Sunday-schools on this circuit. W e labor in hope. Including the quar­ terly meeting that I am now holding at Rapid City, I have held the first quarterly meeting upon all these charges. I preached at Sturgis last Monday evening, and organized a class of twenty-seven supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Among them are four or five who will join our Church on probation at our meeting next Monday evening. This is a novel method, but works well here. They have already subscribed $300 toward the support of a Methodist preacher at Sturgis, and have pro­ cured a small parsonage and two lots for our church. They have also organized a Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school of forty members. Bear in mind, we have no Church members there, and carry on this work with the material that we have at hand. On Tuesday evening last I preached at Galena, and organized a class of thirteen supporters of our Church on the same principle as at Sturgis. This place is twelve miles from Sturgis. At Boulder Park, three miles from Sturgis, Brother Dollner has been preaching for some time. They offer $150 toward the support of a Meth­ odist preacher. I propose to form these three places into a circuit, and call a Methodist preacher to serve them who shall live at Sturgis. I need a preacher besides to live here at Rapid City, and form a circuit with this place for its center. A t least this ought to be done, if we had missionary money to aid in its support. It grieves me to throw away such golden opportunities, and hand them over to other Churches for want of means to carry the work forward. When will our membership awake to see the necessity of giving liberally to the support of our missions ? I have been here since Thursday, and have held four meetings and our Quarterly Con­ 266 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

ference. I am to preach twice to-morrow. I go to Sturgis (forty miles) to preach on Monday evening next, and then to my charge at Central City, after an absence of nine days, to preach the word there. The mis­ sion work demands every moment of my time. The interests of our Church demand it. Central City itself needs every moment of the pastor’s time. Our limited appropriation led the brethren at our last Mission Conference to put the two fields into one. Thus needed district work must go undone, and a promising station must often be neglected. I hope that our offerings will enable us to pursue a nobler policy in the near future.

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATONS. Superintendent...... $1,200 ILead City...... $600¡South Hills...... $300 D ea d w ood ...... 500jCrook C ity...... 4001 Missions, 5; Money, $¿,000.

STATISTICS OF BLACK HILLS MISSION FOR 1881.

c I c BC i a. £ £ e} «£■ «S 1 g c •s .§ t c l •I E Property. Building Building and Repairing. N«. N«. of Churches. Parsonages, and other Collected for Church Debt on Debt on Churches, Collected for support. S S £ Average Attendance on £ No. of Sabbath Scholars. I s fcs I I Sunday 1 Worship. 1

D eadw ood...... 1 58 8 150 i 100 $ 2 ,0 0 0 1 $ 8 0 0 $400 $750 $1,000 Central C ity ...... 1 80 5 160 i 100 i 8,0 0 0 1 1,000 8 0 0 800 100 Lead City...... 1 16 2 80 i 4 8 i 2.800 500 500 1,300 Crook City and Spearflsh...... 1 .8 0 100 2 60 i 1,000 100 200 300 Rapid City and Caster Circuit.. 1 9 200

otal...... 5 148 lß 680 5 8 0 8 8 $ 8 ,3 0 0 2 $1 ,8 0 0 $1,800 $2,250 $2,700 Last year...... 4 105 5 255 3 160 1 3,000 1,800 1,850 1,200

DAKOTA.

Commenced in 1873.

BISHOP FOSS has Episcopal Supervision.

Missionar ies. T . M. W illiam s, Superintendent, Elk Point. A . O. P hillips, Aberdeen. W illiam M’Cready, Elk Point. J. M. R ogers, Ashton. L. B. W iles, Gary. G. E. H u n t l e y , Brookings. P. J. P. N e a r y , Lodi. S. A l d r i c h , Chamberlain. L . W . M i l l e r , L en ox . H. J. G race, Canton. A. T . L y o n , Milbank. A . F. T h o m p s o n , Cavour. C . M. B r o w n , Montrose. G. R. Oa k e , Dell Rapids. A. S h e r i n , Pierre. J. W. D i b b l e , Egan. O. S. Basford, Redfield. i88i.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 267

L. H a r t s o u g h , Sioux Falls. A . H e r b e r t , Valley Springs. G . J. C o r w i n , Sioux Falls Circuit. A. B. S m a r t , Wessington.

F. E . M a t l o c k , Silver Lake. A . A m b u r n , Vermillion. T. O. K e n t , Tyndal. W . W h i t f i e l d , Yankton. W i l l i a m F i e l d e r , Watertown.

W e much regret being unable to present a full report from this very interesting and promising field ; but from some unexplained cause the report has failed to reach us. A terri­ tory which but ten years ago was the hunting-field of savage tribes, is now presenting a good portion of its area for admis­ sion into the Union as a State. The official returns of the population of the territory in June, 1880, gave the number at 135,180. So large has been the immigration, that, now, esti­ mate places the figure as high as 175,000. The increase on the valuation of property in the year 1881 has also been very large, amounting to perhaps forty per cent. The southern and most thickly-settled section, which is also our present mission-field, is said to be very rich in agricultural, mineral» and timber resources, and the foreign immigrant population is said to be generally of a superior class. The statistics for the year, which we are able to exhibit, show that the energy of our mission work has done some­ thing to keep pace with the population.

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS.

Superintendent...... $480 B rookin gs...... Canton and Beloit $50 G ayville...... G a r y ...... 100 Valley Springs...... 5J Vermillion ...... 80 A sh to n ...... 100 Dell R apid s...... 50 E d en ...... 80 M ontrose...... 50 M adison...... 50 Lodi and M t Zion ___ 40 Yankton...... 150 M edary...... 5'i T y n d a l...... Elk P oint...... 40 W atertow n...... 60 L e n o x ...... 70 Richland...... 70 Big Stone City...... 100 Sioux Falls...... 100 Silver Lake ...... 60 W anbay...... 80 Sioux Falls Circuit ... 50 Swan L ake...... 50 Fort Pierre...... 200 Flandreau...... M itch ell...... 50 Missions, 29 ; Money, $2,520. STATISTICS OF THE DAKOTA MISSION FOR 1881.

1 A H M to jj 1 1* 1 5 g ■p ■3 ■a A Ì CIRCUIT OE STATION. A 1 a 1 é s 1 1 s 1 £„• s ej el *cs i t 1 Cm ¡5 1* W 01 V ì i 6 s X a 1 1 s 0 | 'i ! i i g £ £ a. Children Baptized.

? £ Debt on Churches, Parsonages, and oil Collected for other Benevolent Societies è Property. !§? ¿3(2 Collected for Self-

1 1 support. Building Building and Repaii I Collected for Chord Yankton...... 1 50 18 14 1 1 $8.000 $15 80 $877 00 Sioux Fulls...... 1 il 8 4 72 20 1 100 $465 o3 oO 104 50 1.075 00 1 5 1 $1,400 E lk P o in t ...... 58 2 100 500 565 80 Vermillion...... 80 1 12 1 40 1 1,200 1 400 500 00 362 50 G ayville...... 'i 40 ‘ 2 è 1 25 5 00 8 80 225 00 4S 8 8 50 i 1,200 5 00 2 00 290 00 750 Dell Rapids...... 1 84 1 29 Ì2 i i 4 100 •¿ÙÒ 4 00 90 L e n o x ...... 1 24 3 1,0110 302 00 T y n d a l...... 1 2 4 8 1 88 120 2,200 *406 Silver Lake...... 1 48 10 R 3 90 1 1 48 49 8 0 Flandreau ...... 3 2 1 88 ¿8 1,100 l ’.ióò L od i and Mount Z ion ...... 1 1 100 15 5 4 125 1 TOO 400 B rook in gs...... 1 1 1 1 5S 1 2 25 1.800 1,250 Swan L ake...... 25 1 1,000 P ierre...... 1 20 1 1 1,200 l ’éóó Chamberlain...... 1 29 1 10 * * ’ * "W ntertown...... 1 52 1 60 1 H u ron ...... 1 45 G a ry ...... 1 1 81 Canton and Beloit...... 1 1 40 1 40 T)e Smet...... 40 Richland...... 20 M itch ell...... 25 M ontrose...... 1 25 IVaubay...... 85 »... Big Stone City...... 1 30 M ilbank...... 1 B edfleld...... 1 Valley Springs...... 1 W'essington...... 1 E g a n ...... 1 Aberdeen...... 1 A sh ton...... 1 1

T otal...... ?0) 14 1 175 162 50 28 81 18 1 0 $ 9 ,2 6 7 80 $S,S20 L a s t y e a r ...... 10 1 1.299 I 90 19 ’ STT12 IR , TUOT 2.TOO 1.180 70 95 92 2S 1 4 2 78 0,100 i 8 8 i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 269

INDIAN TERRITORY. Commenced in 1879.

BISHOP HURST h a s E p i s c o p a l S u p e r v i s i o n .

J. M. I l i f f , Superintendent. N . J. B u r t o n , Missionary.

T h i s mission, as explained in our last year’s report, differs from our other Indian Missions in being administered by the Board as a foreign mission, and not by a Conference. We present the following report from the Superintendent:

It would be desirable to give a full report of our Church interests and opportunities in that vast country known as the Indian Territory, but, owing to the limited means set apart to that work, I have been able to gather information only from a small portion of said Territory. Yet, dur­ ing the year, I have visited ten different tribes of Indians. and traveled quite extensively throughout the north-eastern portion of the country. I also have letters from persons in the southern portion of the Territory soliciting help and the extension of our work into their country. A part of these applications are in the interest of the colored people in the Choc­ taw Nation, where many of them were once in slavery. In the Cherokee Country a bitter jealousy still exists among our Meth­ odist people. Many of them served in the Rebel army, and are enjoying themselves in the Church South, while others were in the Union army, and now prefer to remain outside, rather than affiliate with said Church. This is especially the case near the borders of Missouri and Arkansas. I have arranged with two local preachers in Arkansas to preach in the Territory at two places where the people had been loyal during the war, and they report some interest in their work. The Southern Methodists and the Baptists are each working with some success with the Cherokees. The Seneca tribe are hard to Christianize; the Friends, however, to some extent, are overcoming their prejudices. They have been very suc­ cessful with the Modoc tribe, and nearly all of them are in the Society of Friends. The Ottówas, Peorías, Weas, and Miamis are generally of the Baptist faith, and the Osages, if any thing, are Catholics. Our field for successful labor is with the Wyandottes, Shawnees, and Quapaws in this agency and in certain localities in the Cherokee and Choc­ taw Nations, but especially in this agency, and more especially with the Wyandottes, where God has so signally blessed the labors of the past, and where the true spirit of Methodism is so deeply fixed in their hearts. Many of our old hymns have been translated into their language, and they sing them with spirit and with power. 270 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

They are worthy of our best service and care, and I feel that it would show ingratitude now to neglect them. The Friends have charge under the agency of the school at Wyandotte Mission, but at other points in the agency two devoted members of our Church are appointed’ as teachers, one at the Miami school, and the other at the Ouapaw Mission school. The fruit of the latter appointment is seen in the organization of a Sunday-school, while the first teacher referred to has organized, and is conducting, a Sunday-school without other aid as yet. The Church at Wyandotte Mission is having some prosperity under the labors of Rev. N. J. Burton. He has received three members into the Church here, and two at Quapaw Mission. The number was twenty- one at last report, some of them probationers ; two were dropped, two were dismissed by letter, and one deceased. While the members are the same the membership is better, and all are full members. The elderly Wyandotte people are Methodists, those that are Christians, and their children are favorable to our Church; but before we can ac­ complish much with the young people, they must feel that we are going to remain with them. They look upon this year as only an experiment with us, and our opponents and rivals try to inculcate that idea among them. The Wyandottes are talking about the support of the ministry, have elected their stewards, and are desirous of helping if they only had the ability. They have promised to raise their assessment for missions, which is $25 ; but they are poor, and their crops this year nearly an entire fail­ ure, and I fear they will not be able to raise the full amount. Certain statistics of this Mission are given on page 242.

M i s s i o n s a n d A ppropriations .— W yandotte, $500.

MONTANA.

Commenced in 1864,

BISHOP WILEY h a s E p i s c o p a l S u p e r v i s i o n .

Missionaries.

F r a n c i s A. R i g g i n , Superintendent, F ish Creek. J. j. G a r v i n , Butte. G e o r g e C o m f o r t , B ozem an . H u g h D u n c a n , Sheridan and Jefferson Valley. S a m u e l E . W i n g e r , H elen a. M. J. H a l l , Sun River. W i l l i a m A . S h a n n o n , Virginia City. M. O . M ’N i f f , Miles City. O l i i } W . M i n t z e r , D illon. F. L . T u t t l e , Fort B enton. i 8 8 i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 271

Local Preachers acting as Supplies«

L. C. A l e y , Lemhi; P. 0 ., Junction, Idaho.

Missionary at Large. W . W. Van O rsdel ; P. 0 ., Fish Creek. We here give the Superintendent’s report:

introduction . The following comparative summary, drawn from the statistical returns for the years 1880 and 1881, will indicate the progress of the mission in some of its most important interests since my last annual report:

1880. 1881. Increase. Decrease.

xo 1 Assistant Missionaries...... 1 2 2 307 356 49 49 44 505 540 35 13 16 24 16 18 600 719 119 X $30,000 00

100 00 $1 100 00 Debt on churches, parsonages, and other property.. 3,600 00 6,500 00 2,900 00 79 25 72 06 126 00 *38 35 12 35 3,801 76 1,506 76 2,769 251,195 00 3*964 25 2,769 251,195

This statement is worthy of the most careful study on the part of every lover of the missionary cause, and is here presented with great gratitude to our kind heavenly Father for his continued presence with us in our mission work. W e call attention to the following facts which it demonstrates : 1. The proportionably large increase in nearly every particular: a, In the number of missionaries, assistant missionaries, and native local preach­ ers ; b, In the combined total of members and probationers; c, In the number of Sabbath-schools and scholars ; d, In the number of churches and parsonages, and their valuation ; e, Especially in amount contributed for self-support, and church building and repairing. 2. The increase of debt is more than covered by subscriptions taken on the day of dedication of Butte Church, which are considered reliable, and other reliable subscriptions, and in cash in hand on Lemhi and Salmon City Circuit, not reported in time for statistical report. 3. The decrease of missionary collection is also only apparent, and due to incomplete returns in time for report. 4. For every dollar of missionary money expended in the mission in the interim of the two reports, the members and friends of the circuits or sta­ 272 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ I 8 8 l .

tions have added nearly four others in contributions to the various insti­ tutions and property of the Church, and in reliable subscriptions in hand. Those who study missionary operations from a business stand-point will be convinced from this that investments for God and Methodism on the frontier pay in larger returns than ordinary business investments. 5. By far the greatest results of missionary work in the mission are not seen in the increase of dollars and cents, or in mere statistics. There are wandering boys here reclaimed, the rescuing of each one of which is worth to mankind and Methodism all it costs to maintain the entire mission force. Homes in the Church for newcomers are here maintained of incal­ culable value. Spiritual forces are in operation, manifesting themselves in revivals of religion, and in the great spirituality of some of our mem­ bers, that cannot be estimated in gold or silver, the results of which will only be fully revealed in eternity. I am glad of the temporal prosperity of the mission, but much more of the spiritual. This will show itself ulti­ mately to temporal success. I firmly feel, if we can get the people con­ verted, it is the sure road to self-support.

THE CIRCUITS. I will now mention some facts concerning each of our circuits, which may be of particular interest to those desiring to know more of the vast­ ness and importance of our mission work. B u tte. Rev. J. J. Garvin, Pastor. Our beautiful church has been completed, and was dedicated by Bishop Wiley, July 17, 1880. On the day of dedication a subscription of $3,000 was taken, leaving an in­ debtedness of $1,000 on the church and parsonage property. The entire property has cost nearly $10,000, and is increasing rapidly in value. Butte is a very prosperous mining center of nearly ten thousand people. It is now the terminus of the Utah and Northern Railroad, and destined to become one of the most flourishing cities of the West. Brother Garvin is very useful. Bozem an. Rev. George Comfort, Pastor. Our large brick church has been much improved, and excellent taste displayed in reference to the interior. The membership of the Church has largely increased. We have fine property in this growing agricultural town of fifteen hundred people. Brother Comfort is getting hold of the community, and is doing good work. Jefferson Valley. Rev. Hugh Duncan, Pastor. Brother Duncan preaches at Fish Creek, Waterloo, Silver Star, Iron Rod, and Twin Bridges. This work is principally in agricultural sections, though Silver Star and Iron Rod are very promising mining localities. The Utah and Northern Railroad will be completed through the valley very early next season, and the growth of new towns requires much attention. Brother Duncan has just closed a revival meeting of great power at Fish Creek. He is very prompt in all of his appointments, and energetic in his work. I8&J.1 DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 273

H elena. Rev. Samuel E. Winger, Pastor. Helena is the capital of Montana, and is growing very rapidly. It is the proposed junction of the Utah and Northern Railroad and Northern Pacific Railroad. This charge suffered greatly in the loss of Rev. S. P. Longstreet, its former pastor, and was without a pastor for several months until our mission meeting. Brother Winger has taken a very wise course in the management of the work, and is now holding a very interesting revival of religion. I antici­ pate the new year will be the most prosperous of its history. Lemhi and Salmon City. Rev. L. C. Aley, Pastor. This charge is supporting its pastor and raising funds for church building. It has now nearly seven hundred dollars in cash, and a prosperous community, in sympathy with the enterprise, will soon add the necessary amount to com­ plete it, with such Church Extension aid as ought to be granted to aid so worthy a people. This circuit will probably be divided, and two made out of it. The work demands it. Miles City. Rev. M. O. M ’Niff, Pastor. This circuit embraces the Lower Yellowstone Valley, a region rapidly growing with the progress of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It has already two prosperous cities, Miles City and Glendive, the former of two thousand inhabitants, and not a church of any denomination in all this Yellowstone region of five hundred miles in length. W e now have a lot of ground, one hundred and fifty by one hundred and fifty feet free of debt, and Brother M’Niff is energetically pushing forward a subscription for a church. On my visit there I found our brother was getting a warm place in the hearts of the people, and would do grand work for Methodism. He deserves great commendation, and is worthy of much aid in his heroic stand. May the Lord help him ! Miles City is to be the winter terminus of the Northern Pacific. The im­ portance of this work cannot be overstated. Sun R iv er. Rev. M. J. Hall, Pastor. Our brother has had a prosper­ ous year and done some heroic work. This circuit is wholly on the plains. In traveling from one appointment to the other during last win­ ter, the severest ever known in that region, th e' roads were so covered with snow as to render it impossible to travel them ; and, no other land­ marks visible, he had to resort to the compass, and by land navigation, worthy of the days of our fathers, he never missed an appointment, though only able at times to see his compass in facing blinding storms. He will probably be able to build one or two churches on his large cir­ cuit. He is now having a revival of religion. Virginia City. Rev. W . A . Shannon, Pastor. Our brother is closing a most delightful term of three years. Since our last mission meeting he built, and very nearly paid for, a nice parsonage, the best in the mission without Church Extension aid, and in a little over a month of time. It is fine property, and worth $1,500. It will greatly add to his comfort and the future growth of his charge. From his study window, and on the ground floor, one can see, nearly one hundred miles away, the snow-capped peaks of the Big Hole Range. No wonder he has large views of Church work. His is the banner charge for benevolent collections, and Brother 18 274 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

Garvin’s Is for church building. This is now nearly a self-supporting charge. Sheridan. Rev. Olin W . Mintzer, Pastor. Since my last report there has been built and paid for a church building at Dillon worth over $2,000. This is a fine circuit, and embraces several flourishing towns. It has been neglected since our mission meeting on account of its being deprived of the watchful care of a pastor; but on the arrival of Brother Mintzer, its newly-appointed pastor, who is expected in a fetv days from Pennsylvania, it will enter upon a most prosperous career. Our brother comes highly recommended, and will receive a most cordial welcome. Fort Benton. Rev. F. L. Tuttle, of Minnesota, was appointed to this charge, but, owing to providential hinderances, has been prevented from coming. He does not expect to be able-to come before spring. Fort Benton is a town of nearly two thousand people. It is the head of navi­ gation bn the Missouri River, and one of the most prosperous towns in Montana. W e have church lots in the main part of the town of consid­ erable value. I desire also, in connection with this detailed statement of our mission work, to record the heroic work of Rev. W. W . Van Orsdel, who is travel­ ing at large as an evangelist, without any aid from the missionary fund, and who is of incalculable help to our work. He is acceptable every­ where, and in revival work his long experience in Montana and knowledge of mountain character render him almost indispensable. He is a man of God, and his work will be best known in eternity.

I t i n e r a n t O bservations . As superintendent I am almost constantly from home. During the month of August I visited the points nearest my home, and was away every Sabbath, and started for the Yellowstone, and spent six weeks on this tour, visiting Bozeman, Crow Agency, and the most important places on the Upper and Lower Yellowstone, including Fort Custer, where I met my old friend and brother, Rev. J. H. Macombe, of the Minnesota Con­ ference, now post chaplain at Fort Custer, and his estimable wife, who are doing a grand work, both among officers and their families and the soldiers. Methodism is fortunate in having so excellent a representative at so important a post. It would be well if more of our Methodist preach­ ers were assigned to chaplancies in the army. I was much pleased with the improvement I saw at the Crow Agency, and in the civilization of the Indians. They are actually engaged in farm­ ing. Chiefs who a few years ago were ready for the war-path or the buf­ falo hunt are now living in houses and working on small farms. A much greater improvement will be manifest in the near future. Agent Keller and his employés offered to co-operate most fully in missionary work. It is a fine opening, and ought to be occupied at once.

U n o c c u p i e d G r o u n d . Allow me to put in a plea for our newer work and unoccupied ground: I. There are very nearly as many places, and of as much importance, un­ 1881.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 275 occupied as are occupied, simply for want of means to assist in their snpport. 2. Our missionaries now are nearly seven hundred miles apart east and west, and five hundred miles north and south, with rich, fertile valleys and mineral lands all the distance between. We now have large sections of country as big as whole States where we have no preachers. 3. The tide of emigration has set in. The Utah and Northern Railroad has been completed far into the central part of the Territory, and is now branching through the various valleys. The Northern Pacific is now nearly to Miles City on the east, and will run rapidly up the Yellowstone, and will reach Missoula from the west in a short time. W e are poorly prepared for this great work. W e ought to have at least twice the amount we now get from mission funds. 4. Our making such progress as we have the last year, when other Churches are entering the same field, and drawing from the same resources, and dividing the sympathy and support of the people, is remarkable, and shows great permanency. If it were not for this constant drain all of our older circuits would be self-supporting and we could go to new fields. As it is, we make remarkable gains, and every year enter some new field ; but the country is growing faster than Church work, and we must have aid, or fall far below our duty. 5. The Church can form no idea of the importance of our securing ground for churches, or it certainly would contribute $500 a year to a mis­ sionary whose circuit would be fifty miles long, and embrace several grow­ ing centers of trade. W e can, through our pastors on almost every cir­ cuit, secure property that now has nominal value that will become of great worth. It is my firm conviction that our real estate, now in trust for our Church, increases in value every year as much as the entire appro­ priation for the work of the mission.

G e n e r a l C l a i m s o f t h e F i e l d . 1. The General Government realizes the needs of new Territories, and pays in full the salaries of the governors, judges of district courts, legisla­ tors, and gives them all necessary expenses of government. How much more important that the Church assist liberally in providing for the spirit­ ual wants of the wandering boys on the frontier, and who are making new homes and building up new States ! Montana has a future promise un­ excelled by any portion of the great West. 2. Could the parents, brothers, and sisters of o u r wandering boys see the importance of our work, how, with warm hearts and kind words and loving entreaties, our missionaries hunt up these bright but profligate and stray­ ing ones, I do not doubt but that they would gladly help the benevolent agencies that send and sustain these missionaries and help build our churches. 3. Our missionaries are self-denying and industrious. I do not believe a nobler band of workers are found any where. One brother gave all the missionary aid he got to his new church. Another, to save a fine property 2 76 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

for the Church, gave of his hard-earned means nearly $1,000; another, his credit and largely of his means. All of them at times, in their travels through storms, over mountains of snow, and in heroic deeds, manifest heroism worthy of their work, and can narrate experiences as thrilling as Cartwright’s. Notwithstanding these things, we have a hopeful work, are happy in it, propose to stay with it, are well treated, and have an intelli­ gent and enterprising people among whom to labor. W e can’t leave them. Years of association attach us to them ; duty constrains us. Some of us will live and die with them, and on the morning of the glorious resurrec­ tion from these mountain heights and beautiful valleys we will arise with them and journey together to our home in heaven. 4. Our mission greatly needs a seminary, which ultimately should grow into a college. One of the highest monuments that a man of wealth can rear for benevolence, or in memory of a loved one, is to plant the first Methodist college in Montana, on one of our beautiful mountain sides. Many of our girls and boys are compelled to go elsewhere for higher edu­ cation. Another year ought not to close before this much-needed enter­ prise is inaugurated. May the Lord guide us and open the hearts of some wealthy ones to help u s!

C o n c l u s i o n . W e are much indebted to the Missionary Board and the Corresponding Secretaries for their most hearty co-operation, and also to the Board of Church Extension. Our beautiful churches are largely due to them. They have helped us liberally, and will help us when we need their aid. Our Bishops have been of untold value to us. Each in his turn has greatly strengthened us, particularly Bishop Wiley, whose visits two years in succession have contributed largely to the present efficiency of our mission. His constant supervision of the work gives to it a wise coun­ selor, and without his co-operation in securing suitable missionaries, and other invaluable services, we would be at a great loss. Our prayer is that he may be spared for long years to the Church and our Montana Mission. Dr. Larew, of New Jersey, accompanied the Bishop on his last visit, and endeared himself to our people and preachers. I close my report with gratitude to God for his blessings on us and our work. During the many years of mission labor in Montana but one has been called away from our midst by death. Rev. S. P. Longstreet, of Helena Charge, died a most triumphant death April 9, 1881. He was a noble man, and his remains are with us— a precious legacy. With this exception we have had unusual health and much prosperity. W e are now in the midst of gracious revivals. God’s presence is with us in the conversion of sinners. W e are trying to plant spiritual Methodism in the Rocky Mountains, W e are craving the spirit of our fathers. Pray for us that this revival flame may spread all over our mission. MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS. Superintendent...... $1,000 Glendale and Jefferson.. $500 I Bozeman...... $500 Butte...... 600 Helena ...... 800 Virginia City...... 800 Sheridan and Bannock.. 400 Sun River and Ft. Benton 400 | Missions, 8 ; Money, $5,000. STATISTICS OF THE MONTANA MISSION FOR 1881.

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g 'I 1 CIRCUIT OR STATION. J) 1 3* JS a ■s fc8 ta 6 1 i o O 1 1 o 'S Members. Average Attendance Sunday on W orship. Missionaries. Churches. Estimated Estimated Value o f Parsonages. Estimated Estimated Value of Debt on Churches» No. of Sabbath Scholars, Parsonages» and other Property. Collected Collected for Missionary Collected for otherBenevolent Societies.

Z Society. support. à Z z Collected for Self- Collected for Church Building and Repairing. | Probationers.| Adults | Baptized. Children | Baptised. j

Butte...... 1 67 18 100 2 5 1 150 1 $8,000 1 $1,200 $4,000 $9 85 $550 00 $1,654 25

Bozeman...... 1 1 49 6 75 4 2 1 60 1 8,000 600 $10 00 45 00 789 71 150 00

Glendale and Jefferson...... 1 1 82 80 1 8 70 1 8,000 2 00 219 00

H elena...... 1 62 5 125 1 1 125 I 7,000 1 1,000 1,200 10 86 10 00 668 25 60 00

Lemhi and Salmon City...... 1 1 14 4 80 4 2 48 548 50 M issoula...... 80 1

Miles C ity...... 1 1 6 80 2 1 28 Lot. 500 5 00

Sun River and Benton...... 1 18 4 40 1 18 7 20 10 00

Virginia City...... 1 27 4 60 5 8 4 120 1 4,200 1 900 25 50 54 00 651 80 200 00

Sheridan a n d Beaverhead ...... 1 57 8 50 2 1 4 100 8 5,500 12 00 10 00 880 00 1,900 00 Superintendent of Mission...... 1

Total...... 10 4 856 44 540 18 •24 18 719 9 $88,200 8 $8,100 $6,500 $72 06 $188 85 $3,801 76 $8,964 25

Last year...... 9 807 49 505 9 16 1C 600 8 80,000 2 2,000 2,700 79 25 126 00 2,295 00 1,195 00 278 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 8 8 l .

N E W MEXICO.

Commenced in 1850.

BISHOP BOWMAN h a s E p i s c o p a l S u p e r v i s i o n .

Missionaries.

T h o m a s H a r w o o d , Superintendent. H . H . H a c k n e y , S anta F 6. D . W . P o t t e r , S ocorro. D. M. B r o w n , Las Vegas. B e n i t o G a r c i a , Ciruilita and Red River. J. A. C a l l e n , Raton. P a b l o S a l a z a r , Gallina and Ocute. N. H . G a l e , Albuquerque. M . M a t t h i e s o n , Peralta. E. L. A l l e n , Silver City. J u a n G a r c i a , Manzana and Joya. L. F r a m p t o n , Cayote. B l a s G u t i e r r a s , Val Verde.

S om e notice of the early history of this work was given in last year’s report. The material prospects of the Territory grow now with each year, though the increase of population is not yet rapid. The Southern Pacific Railroad, now opened, and the advancing Mexican railroads, must soon tell effectually upon this region. The people are progressing in the matter of self-support for Church work. The Orphanages, which were established as an experiment a few years ago, constituted a work possessing much interest, especially for the superintend­ ents and teachers engaged in them ; yet, in view of all the cir­ cumstances, the Board have thought it best to discontinue them. The Superintendent sends the following report:

GENERAL STATISTICS. American missionaries...... g Mexican missionaries...... 5 American teachers...... 5 American preach ing places...... 15 Mexican preaching places...... 16 Ameriean churches dedicated...... 3 Mexican churches dedicated...... 4 Mixed churches dedicated...... 3 Others in process of erection...... 3 American members and probationers...... 175 Mexican members and probationers...... 305 Day schools...... 7 Day-school scholars...... 211 Sunday-schools...... 15 Sunday-school scholars...... ’ 675 1 881 .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 279

I. TH E R E G U LA R W ORK.

I. THE ENGLISH WORK. Santa F e, (City of the Holy Faith.) This is the stronghold of Roman­ ism in New Mexico. There reside the archbishop, the vicar-general, and several Roman Catholic priests. There, the Catholic Brothers have a col­ lege, the Sisters their convent and hospital, and the Church has a cathe­ dral and several smaller churches. A t the time of my last report Rev. H. H. Hall was there organizing the work and building a church. He finished up a neat church building, had all his Church work in good condition, when his health failed, and he was compelled to retire from the field. Like .a brave warrior, however, he held his post until his successor was appointed. A t his last appointment he fell in the pulpit, and would likely have died in a few minutes had he not had medical aid. H. H. Hackney, of the West Wisconsin Conference, succeeds Brother Hall, and so far is doing well. Our work here so far is all English. The congregations are good. The Sunday-school is well attended. The finances are looked after, and the preacher’s support pledged, with a small aid from mission funds. The membership is small, but it is a working Church, and we think a bright future is before it. The little church groans, however, under the burden of $1,200 assumed to be raised during the com­ ing year for preacher’s salary, current expenses, Sunday-school, Church Extension debt, and repairs. L a s Vegas. The city papers style this “ the Metropolitan Town ot New Mexico.” D. M. Brown, of the North Indiana Conference, succeeds D. W . Calfee, who left us and engaged in the American Bible Society work as a colporteur, and went to Arizona. Brother Brown is bringing the work up grandly. His report at his last quarterly meeting showed much work done outside of the Sunday appointments. This, by the way, is very essential in a country like this, where strangers are coming in all the time. The following extract from one of his letters will indicate the true character of his w ork: “ When I came to this place, October 29, 1 found twenty-four names on the church-roll. Seven of these had gone from the town to live, at least for a while. During these four weeks we have received into the Church ten by letter and two from probation. W e are hoping, praying, and work­ ing for a great ingathering. To obtain this we are seeking the presence of the Holy One, a most thorough organization, and a most energetic movement of the Church. With the great assistance you rendered us while here, Brother Harwood, in securing a good number of pledges to aid financially in supporting the Church, and with energy and system in this department, wre expect success. Our Sunday-school now numbers fifty-four, and is rising. We are asking the Lord’s blessing to rest upon this entire mission and its superintendent.” Later he writes: “ We now have 40 members and 4 probationers, an average congregation of about 120, and a Sunday-school of 70 scholars.” This work, like the work at MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

Santa F6, is purely American. W e ought to be doing some Spanish work in both places, as the major part of the population is Mexican, but so far it has not been practicable to attend to more than the English work. Raton. This is a new town, and really is the gateway into New Mex­ ico. It is yet hardly a year old. J. A. Callen is in charge. He took charge in August last, and organized a class of twenty-six August 19. He had charge of the work at Tiptonville, and for a while kept up the appoint­ ments at both places. He is doing a grand work. He attended the Austin Conference at its session at Fort Worth, on the 29th of November, and was ordained a deacon by Bishop Warren. He speaks hopefully of his work, as follows : “ W e have just organized our Sunday-school. Ninety-six were present last Sunday. We have had to move into larger quarters for our services. The congregations are increasing all the time. W e have now a hall, twenty-five by forty feet. Will soon commence building a church, thirty- two by fifty feet, of stone. W e are holding prayer-meetings around at the houses this week every night, observing the Week of Prayer. The Lord is blessing us most wonderfully; praise his great and glorious name ! ” New Albuquerque. Brother Gale has had a year of hard work and struggle, organizing Church work, and erecting a church-building. He has his new church, thirty by fifty feet, built after Church Extension plans and designs, up, and is now occupying i t ; but owing to indebted­ ness has not yet dedicated it. A t his last quarterly meeting he had re­ ceived some fourteen members and four probationers into the Church. The debt of $1,000 is now worrying him badly, and there are some fears we may not be able to save the church. His Sunday-school was in fine condition at my last visit there, and numbered that day seventy-six. New Albuquerque is fast building up, but the people have not taken hold of Church work quite as well as at some other points. Silver City. This work is now in charge of Rev. E. L. Allen, late from Fort Collins, Colorado Conference. He succeeds Rev. E. H. Brooks, and took charge in June last. The people seem well pleased with their new preacher. All the interests of the Church have revived. The preacher, however, like many others in this far-off field, including the superintendent, is pressed in finances. Living is extremely high in this Territory. The railroad reduces the prices of a few articles of living, but raises others. The extremes of high prices meet in our Territory, as it is about the half-way point between the East and West, from which our products are mostly brought. Our people at all of these points are struggling toward self-support of the ministry. The highest membership at any of these points is forty, yet not one of them will be able to get through the year with less than $1,000, including current expenses of the Church, church improvements, Sunday-school, and their part of the preacher’s salary. Silver City, with a membership of twelve, have shouldered for 1882 about as many hun­ dred dollars. Of course we expect those outside to assist. Brother Allen and his trustees, finding rents so high, and the people so poorly prepared 1881.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 28i to pay one half of the entire support of the pastor, resolved to purchase a parsonage and thus save to the Church the rent. They purchased a property for $1,200. The ladies raised at a festival $300 to apply on the same. These people ought to be helped on this parsonage property. W e do believe, with all respect and almost reverence for the sacred funds of the Missionary Society, that our people in this country, where prices are so extremely high, ought to be aided in the erection of houses for your missionaries. The writer of this report came near losing his sight writing and reading in a dark, cheerless, rented adobe house in Santa Fe, during a few weeks of leisure time at home. We rented a cheap house so as to have more funds to extend our work. I do believe also that our preachers are doing more work, and on less expense to our Missionary Board, than those of any other denomination. I further believe that our preachers are collecting more money from their people to carry on their work, ten to one, than those of any other denomination. White Oaks. W e have had no one here yet. I have preached there myself a few times; had good congregations. W e ought to have some one there. Some Wilmington bankers have made a very liberal con­ ditional offer of $2,000 for the erection of a good, respectable church- building. Also the same firm, $500 for part pay toward the support of the ministry. W e are watching the place. Georgetown and D em ing's. These places would make a fine work for some active preacher. Brother Allen occupies these occasionally, as they are adjacent to his work at Silver City. He may be able to hold them this year. W e would occupy them at once if we had the men and the means. W e had an eye to all this unoccupied work when we made our appeal to your last general meeting.

2 . THE MIXED WORK. Tiptonville. This work, with a few of the following-named places, we called mixed, because it is part English and part Mexican. Rev. J. A. Callen, who is now at Raton, was in charge at this place until he went to Raton. Since that time we have had no regular preaching. I have preached there myself; also Bro. Callen a few times; also Brother Frampton, from Cayote. This place takes in Watrous, which is two miles away and on the railroad, and a few other places. The Sunday-schools, however, are kept up at Tiptonville. The people at Watrous want a church-building put up. They will give us the lots and help us to build. Cayote. This is a small place up at what might be called the foot of the mountains, and some twenty miles from the railroad. It is an im­ portant place, because it is the center to quite a farming and grazing country occupied mostly by Mexican people; also some mining and American trading. Rev. L. Frampton is in charge of the work at this place. He speaks good Spanish. He was converted with us here, and felt called to the work of the ministry. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Bowman at our last Conference at Socorro, and holds his Confer­ 282 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

ence relation in the Colorado Conference. W e have a church-building and a parsonage at that place. He has had to make some repairs. Did most of the work with his own hands. Socorro. This is destined to be probably one of the first places in New Mexico. The place is well located on the Rio Grande, is said to be the center of some sixteen mining districts, and is not far from the geograph­ ical center of the Territory. Rev D. W. Potter is in'charge of the American work at that place, and Rev. Benito Garcia had been in charge of the Spanish work, both occupy­ ing the same church at different hours. The Mexican people, being few, seemed hardly to justify the keeping a native preacher there. Conse­ quently Brother Benito Garcia was removed to Ciruilita, his former place, and Rev. Bias Gutierras, of Val Verde, will fill the appointment occasion­ ally, or, perhaps, about once a month. Brother Potter has received into the Church some thirteen persons. Had seventy-five present at the Sunday-school. The work is growing finely.

3. THE MEXICAN WORK. Ciruilita and Red River. Benito Garcia is back again to this field, and starts in with renewed vigor. W e hope the work will come up. The first-named place is about six miles west of the railroad, and the same distance west of Pinkerton, a new post-office on the road. Red River is about twenty miles east of the road. Gallina and Ocute. Rev. Pablo Salazar is in charge of this work. At our last quarterly meeting we had nearly a hundred persons present. Quite a number were Roman Catholics. Forty-seven communed with us. Ten united with us on probation. All this congregation were Mexican except two. Brother Salazar is a live preacher. P era lta . This work is now in charge of Rev. M. Matthieson, who had long been at Socorro. He went into the American Bible Society work as Superintendent for New iftexico and Arizona. He came back to us at our last Mission Conference, and was appointed by Bishop Bowman in charge of the work at this place. He is doing, as usual, a good work. Manzano and La Joyo. This work is still in charge of Brother Juan Gracia. Manzano is east of the Rio Grande, and up in the mountains. La Joyo is down in the Rio Grande valley. The work moves slowly at these places. V a l Verde. This place is in charge of Brother Bias Gutierras. We have frequently written up this place with all others of our Mexican work, and a glance must now suffice. We have a neat parsonage at this place and a small piede of land belonging thereto. Las Cruces. This place, with Dona Ana, Palomas, and Hillsborough, is in charge of Rev. Marcos Barila. He has a good work. It is de­ veloping quite well. W e have lost by death during the year four mem­ bers, one of whom was Brother York, of Silver City, killed by the In­ dians. i 88i .J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 283

II. OUR SCHOOL W ORK. La Junta Mission School. This is the oldest school in our mission. It is now in its thirteenth year. It is located at Tiptonville, a small town two miles distant on the railroad, and the same distance from its rival town Watrous, and about one mile from its rival Jesuit school on the op­ posite side of-the Moro River. These counter influences draw heavily upon the school, and have made it necessary (with the change of teachers also) to apply a small amount of mission funds to aid the teachers. The school is doing well, however, and now bids fair to pass its transit and in a few years to shine with brighter luster among schools of like grade than ever before. Mr. J. C. Holmes and his wife are the teachers. They have a good school. I glean from his report the following facts in reference to the monthly attendance of the scholars. The whole number in attendance in December was 36. The average was 35. Of these 36 scholars, 12 were Mexicans ; a few were mixed, and the balance pure Americans. Cayote. This school has been taught during the year by two different teachers. The present teacher is Mrs. M. S. Cutter, a lady capable of teaching in almost any of the high-schools East. She has a good school, but not large. The school is mixed. About one half are native children. The school has been kept up about nine months of the year. La Gallina. The school at this place has been kept up during a part of the year by Saul Padeka and his wife. They had a very good school. The parents were not very well pleased with it, because they preferred an American teacher. Brother Saul and his wife speak very good English. He was educated in our mission school at Tiptonville. He reads and writes very well in English; understands geography, arithmetic, and Spanish grammar very well. He only attended our mission school about two years. His wife attended a Roman Catholic convent about seven years. Their education is about equal. It is strange what a preference our Protestant Mexican people have for American teachers, and I might say American preachers. San Miguel. W e opened a school at this place during the early part of the spring. It cost about seventy dollars, but this was paid by the good people at Shaunee Mound, Ind., principally by the Meharry brothers. The design was to sustain a first-class school at this place; but the place being almost wholly Romanistic and Mexican, we thought best to aban­ don the enterprise, as but very few scholars attended. P era lta .— W e have at this place quite an extensive church and school property. The same is true of all the other school points, but especially at Peralta, Tiptonville, and Socorro. The school was taught in the early part of the year by Rev. L. Frampton, who was then in charge of the mission. Since July 1 Rev. M. Matthieson has had charge of the mission, and also has taught the school since about September. The school is doing well. All are natives. Socorro,— The school at this place was taught in the earjv oart of the 284 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

year by Mrs. Harwood and Mrs. Fulton. Since September last it has been in charge of Mrs. Hulda Foot Moore, an experienced teacher from Chicago, assisted by a Mr. Shaw. The school has been well attended, and the scholars have made fine progress. V a l Verde.— There was no school at this place during the year past. W e had a school there during a part of the year 1880, taught by Miss Juanita Harwood. The people at Val Verde often speak in praise of the school and their little school marm. The opening of our schools makes a new era for these people. The children not only enjoy it, but the old folks gather around, and the neigh­ bors gather in to hear the children read English. W e have secured a good lady teacher for this place for 1882. It is Miss Mary Webber, of Santa F6. L a s Cruces.— The school in this place is in charge of Miss A. L. Hilton, who formerly taught at Peralta. The school is not large, but seemed to be doing well. For the average attendance of these schools see the sta­ tistical tables at the end of this report. These schools are doing a slow but grand missionary work. I think our lady teachers, as a rule, are doing more real missionary work in their schools and Sunday-schools than our gentlemen teachers do. If the Missionary Board can only continue these schools a few years, I think it will be a fruitful work. A mission school with forty, fifty, or sixty schol­ ars may seem like a small affair, but a few years only will develop important results. When Mrs. Harwood and myself were in charge of our school at Tiptonville we often felt discouraged, but as small as the school was, and as short as the time has been since the school ,was first opened, the results are certainly encouraging. W e find scholars from this school, now grown up to mature life, more or less in all parts of the Territory. A few have already become professional men ; some are clerks in stores, merchants, mechanics, farmers, and stockmen. About fifty have married and settled down in life, and almost without an excep­ tion they are honest, industrious, energetic, and for the most part Chris­ tian men and women. Our regular work and school work have never been more promising than they now are. W e have no debts upon our church or school prop­ erty, except at New Albuquerque, that are at all alarming. We owe a few loans to the Board of Church Extension. W e are under many obliga­ tions to said Board for aid on nearly all our church-buildings in the mission. MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS.

Superintendent...... $1,000 Manzano...... $800 Tiptonville...... Debt at T ip to n ville 414 Val V erd e...... 400 Circuilita and Galena — ¡jo0 Debt at Socorro...... 686 Silver City...... 600 Coyote ...... Support of School...... 1.023 Traveling Expenses 621 Peralta...... Boys’ Orphanage...... 834 Superintendent’s B en t... 150 Socorro...... Santa F6 ...... 800 Moving & other Expenses 859 Lax Cruces...... Albuquerque...... 800 Las V eg a s...... 600 Missions, 20 ; Money, $11,91«* STATISTICS OF THE NEW MEXICO MISSION FOR 1881.

•S'c * ! 101 •5 A OosII CIRCUIT OE STATION. Zl in .1 g 3:3 wo 3¡SS* t, Cm o a 93 og oca S English Work. 9 Santa F 6 ...... 75 100 $5,000 $25 $2,500 Las Vegus...... 120 120 4.000 $1,500 800 260 600 Raton and Springer...... 70 100 15 01 New Albuquerque...... 65 110 4,600 1,000 25 250 1,600 Silver City, Georgetown, etc. 125 5.000 Í.8ÓÓ 1,000 250 400 08 W hite Oaks...... Mixed Work. Tiptonville and W atrous.... 10 4.000 $ 8 000 210 ('».Vote...... 1,500 1,000 120 Socorro...... 450 5.000 1,(100 l’ÓÓÓ 450 Mexican Work. La C iruilita...... 1,300 La G ill lina...... 1,000 75 1,200 100 Peralta...... 2,000 2,600 Manzano and La Joya ...... 100 50 Vnl Verde...... l’ÓÓÓ 1,066 Las Cruces, Dona Ana, etc.. 100 O.B 17 1,000 600 .5'» Superintendent...... 100 2»ö

T otal...... 800 234 867 5.000 $9.900 $9,000 Lust year...... $3.800 $155 ¡,445 $5,525 659 180 5.000 4,000 12,500 1,558 160 900 4,700 286 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 88l.

UTAH. Commenced in 1870.

BISHOP WILEY has E piscopal Supervision.

Missionaries»

L. A. R u d i s i l l , Salt Lake City. Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. G. M. P i e r c e , East Salt Lake City. T. B. H i l t o n , West Salt Lake City. A . W. A d k i n s o n , Ogden and Corinne. J. P. M o r r i s , Tooelle. G e o r g e .E . J a y n e , Provo. W . J. B o n h a m , Spanish Fork Circuit, E. S m i t h , Beaver and Minersville. D. T. H e d g e s , Frisco and Milford. H. D. F i s h e r , Dist. Supt. A. B. Society.

Teachers in Day-Schools. Sail Lake Seminary.— T. B. Hilton, T. W. Lincoln, Miss Ida Bard well, Miss Mary Wheelock. Ogden Seminary*— A. W . Adkinson, Miss Rebecca Daily, Miss Lizzie Stephens. Provo Seminary.— W. J. Bonham, George E. Jayne. Tooelle Seminary.— J. P. Morris, Mrs. N. Morris, Miss Mary Hamond. Beaver Seminary.— E. Smith, one to be supplied. The dangers arising from the continued vigor and spread of Mormonism are so well known, being brought now, in a political way, to the attention of the whole country, that we will not enlarge upon them here. Our mission in Utah is doing effective work, and yet we are surpassed in outlay of money and force by some other denominations. Our mis­ sionaries in this field are engaged in a brave struggle with fanaticism, evil passions, and persecution. They should re­ ceive all sympathy from the Church, and their calls for help should be heeded. The energy displayed in an evil cause should be met by superior energy in behalf of Christian truth. We commend to attention the following report from Rev. L. A. Rudisill:

From the Statistical Reports of 1880, and those of the y e a r n o w closing, we make the following summary, which will show the progress made in some of the important interests since the last annual report: i88i.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 287

1880. 1881. Increase. Decrease.

131 M3 29 44 15

257 472 215 6 8 58s S35 5° $67,700 00 $700 00 $150 00 2,750 00 4,850 00 49 00 143 75 94 75 52 00 36 00 7,750 00 5,450 00 2,300 00 910 00 i,359 00 44Q 00 2,3°7 95 z,3°7 95 * Decrease caused by closing of a school at Silver City for the winter; cause, suspension of work during winter. This statement demonstrates the following facts: 1. An increase of twenty-five per cent, in the working force. 2. An increase in the membership, notwithstanding a heavy loss by death and removals. 3. A marked improvement in our finances, as shown in the reduction of $2,300 in church indebtedness; an increase of $130 75 in the benevo­ lent collections, and by the contribution of $3,666 for other purposes. Utah has a population of 143,000; of this number about 110,000 are adherents of Mormonism ; only a small per cent, of the remaining 33,000 take an interest in establishing Christian homes, and the destruction of Mormonism and its foul system of polygamy. Thousands of persons are brought annually from the Old World to swell the ranks of Mormonism. It is a sad picture to contemplate, and one to which pen cannot do justice. The story of Mormonism, its crimes and wrongs, should arouse the Chris­ tian people to action. Our church and school work is carried on against the most bitter oppo­ sition of the Mormon leaders, who publicly and privately denounce our missionaries, and warn their people against sending their children to our day or Sabbath schools. A few quotations taken from the addresses of some of the leaders will be sufficient to show the extent of this opposition. At a Sabbath evening service, in Salt Lake City, President Joseph F. Smith said : “ I would rather my children were allowed to play in a yard where there is an open w ell; I would rather my children were allowed to play about where the rattlesnake was known to be; and would rather concentrated lye was sown broadcast in my nursery or my kitchen, than hear of them growing up and sent to the schools of these outsiders. ’ Apostle (?) Lyman said in a public address, after exhorting his hearers not to allow their children to attend one of our schools: “ I would rather bury my children than send them to a Gentile school.” One of our teachers, while on his way to the school-house, was pointed out as " A Methodist.” A t another time, while passing along the street, some one cried, “ There goes a Methodist.” On another occasion, when 288 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 88l. accompanied by his family, as he passed by the “ Zion’s Co-op. Store,” some one remarked, “ There goes Jesus Christ and his family.” A t another time he was pointed out as “ Satan.” A gentleman, seeing the error of Mormonism, renounced it, and united with one of our Churches. He was discharged from his situation, and was so bitterly persecuted that he shortly afterward left the city, taking his Church letter with him. Young men have been disowned and abused by their parents for seeking Christ and uniting with one of our Churches. I know of a case where a son was refused a home for himself and family by his mother, because he forsook Mormonism for Methodism. It was witl\ great difficulty that he could get a room to move into. His determination to stand for Christ cost him dearly, yet he rejoices in the midst of his persecutions. Our missionaries are slandered and charged with foul crimes by the Mormon press. These are a few of the discouragements and difficulties we have to contend against in this work. The laws of the land forbid polygamy, and yet polygamous marriages are constantly taking place in the secrecy of the “ endowment house.” It is almost impossible to prove a plural marriage. Perjury has been re­ sorted to to prevent justice. W e have the following case on record : A plural wife, in Salt Lake City, under oath, before a grand jury, denied that she had ever known the man who was her husband, and when asked who was the father of the child she was holding upon her knees, said, “ I do not know.” The following is a brief outline of the work : Salt Lake City. The past year has been one of debt paying and church improvements. Chaplain M’Cabe finished paying the $40,000 assumed by him some years ago. A claim of several years’ standing, and amounting to over $200, was paid last August. The pastor has arranged with J. D. Blake, Esq., for the donation of a note of $800 held by him ; this leaves only $300 of the old indebtedness to be provided for. W e expect during next year to remove all the indebtedness. During the past few months improvements amounting to $800 have been made on the church property. The society increased its benevolent collections from $15 50, reported in 1880, to $82 25, being an average of over $1 per member. Class, prayer, and young people’s meetings are held weekly. W e are growing spiritually. The seminary, under the charge of Professor T. B. Hilton, is moving along pleasantly and successfully. The Ladies’ Home Missionary Society will erect next spring a $5,000 building for a boarding department of the school. It will be a three-story brick. By this time next year Professor Hilton expects to report the school property free from debt. The faculty of the seminary is second to none in the territory. During the year there were enrolled 4 Mormon children, 80 children of parents who had apostatized from Mormonism, and 49 Gentile children. Improvements have been made in the school-rooms, adding very much to the success of the school. Ogden and Corinne. Last March, at his request, Rev. G. B. Hyde was released from the pastorate of this charge, and Rev. A. W . Adkinson ap­ pointed as his successor. Brother Adkinson arrived at his work in April, i 88i.J DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 289

and met with a hearty reception from his people. A school building has been erected in the rear of the Ogden church. It is a one-story adobe, thirty-three by twenty-four feet, with two rooms connected by a tempo­ rary partition. The design is to put on another story in the future, and have two large school-rooms. The cost of the building ^as $600. A night and day-school are carried on under Brother Adkinson’s supervis­ ion. The benevolent collections were advanced from $17 to $45. Tooelle. At this point our work is chiefly among the young people and the children. The school work has been encouraging. The roll for the past scholastic year shows that there were fifty-two Mormon children, twenty-three children of parents who had apostatized from Mormonism, and ten Gentile chik^en, attending the school; a total of eighty-five. A gentleman (Mormon) on being informed of the success of the school said : “ It is strange how many go to your school, when there is so much preach­ ing against it.” Brother Morris is having an addition put on to the church to accommodate the demands of the school. It will consist of a hall and a school-room fourteen by twenty-four feet, with a fourteen feet ceiling. Probable cost, $350. There will be no debt contracted. Provo. This charge was visited with a gracious revival of religion. Some of the conversions were from the ranks of Mormonism. Brother Jayne will expend about one hundred dollars on repairs on the church and parsonage property. During the summer months, while mining operations are carried on at Silver City, an official of Bro. Jayne’s church conducts a Sabbath-school at that point, with an attendance of about fifty. The enrollment of*the day-school at Provo for the past year was : Mormon children, 12; children of apostates, 42 ; Gentile children, 27 ; total, 79. B eaver. The school enrollment for the past year was 53 Mormon children, 49 children of apostates, and 7 Gentiles; total 109. The suc­ cess of our school work has, doubtless, aroused the Mormons, for they are erecting a good two-story brick school-house. A number of young people are deeply interested in their personal salvation, but opposition at home has prevented them from coming out fully for Christ. This charge suffered great loss by removals, and the discontinuance of probationers, hence reports this year a decrease of over 100 per cent, in the membersship. F risco. This is a new charge, organized last April by Rev. D. T. Hedges. It has a membership of eighteen. A small parsonage property has been purchased and paid for. Since the organization of this charge the Mormons have erected a church, and the Catholics sent a priest to the town, so that bitter opposition has met us in our work. Brother Hedges teaches the District School, and has eighty-one scholars enrolled. Interesting prayer and temperance meetings are sustained.

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS. 8alt Lake School $600 Ogden...... $750 Bingham...... $300 Ogden School...... 400Tooele...... 500Treasurer’s traveling ex­ Tooele School...... 100,Provo...... 750 penses . 100 Provo School...... 200B eaver...... 550Missions. 9 ; Schools, 5 ; Grand Beaver School..... 2001 Frisco...... 500 Total, $4,700. Salt Lake...... 1,000iBlackfeet ...... 250 19 STATISTICS OF THE UTAH MISSION FOR 1881. | b JS i g © J *5 03 O 'S s J-of i CIRCUIT OR á § II é T 1 S 1 1 S N CO c £ts I £-• t£~*E STATION. 6 Í. •1 e J ê Ik •o 8 "i JK 1 Î ! im l i g § & •S'S * S O I I f f gtnos 1 I a | | | Other Helpers. Other on Attendance Average Sunday Wonhip. Sunday

¡3 1 Baptized. Adult* 2 At Scholar*. Day of No.

fc £ or Parsonages of No. Homes.” “ è Hospi­ Schools, of Value Collected for Missionary Missionary for Collected other for Collected Insurance, etc« Insurance, Benevolent Societies. Benevolent tals, and other Property. other and tals, Expenses, Current Collected for Self- Self- for Collected *J. ¡5 Society. I d wo. 00.01 support. J Children Baptized. Children J Balt Lake City__ 8 4 8 71 11 100 1 7 1 188 1 150 1 $55.000 $4,000 $8,500 $51 25 $80 00 $380 $50« $716 45 Ogden and Corinne 1 8 31 8 60 1 GC 1 70 2 5.500 i $100 COO 200 45 00 805 400 120 00 Tooele...... 1 8 8 80 1 85 2 55 1 1,500 250 250 5 00 8 00 125 250 26 00 Provo...... 2 2 21 16 75 1 79 1 100 1 2,000 i 500 1,500 10 00 75 100 150 00 Beaver...... 1 6 2 2 70 1 109 1 60 1 2,500 11 00 7 00 215 100 60 00 Frisco...... 1 11 7 100 4 1 75 i 250 11 50 8 50 12S Blackfoot...... 1 40 1 23 10 00 8 50 65 22 50 Bingham...... 1 1 500 8 T otal...... 11 14 8 143 44 465 11 5 472 8 585 7 $67,000 8 $850 $4,850 85,450 $148 75 $52 00 $1,288 $1,858 $1,094 95 year...... 8 Last 9 8 181 29 590 4 5 257 6 585 7 67,700 2 1,000 2,750 7,500 49 00 16 00 910 940 i 88i.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 291

WEST NEBRASKA.

Commenced in 1850.

BISHOP HURST h a s E p i s c o p a l S u p e r v i s i o n . • \ Missionarie s.

T. B. L e m o n , Superintendent.

Jo n a t h a n T u r n e r , Sidney. J o s e p h B u c k l e y , Clarksville. • P. C. J o h n s o n , North Platte. L e s l i e S t e v e n s , St. Paul. T h o m a s A i k m a n , Cozad. H . C . H a r m a n , Scotia. G e o r g e S. M i n e r , Plum Creek. W e s l e y W i l s o n , Ord. A . C o l l i n s , Elm Creek. J. F . W . C o l e , Sargeant. A . H. S u m m e r s , Kearney. G e o r g e W . B r o o k s , H iggins. M . S. St o r e r , Pleasant Hill. R . C . H a r d e n , Cedarville. J. M a r s h , Gibbon. S. S. P e n e p a c k e r , Loup City. J. M . D r e s s l e r , Wood River. J. L. V i n c e n t , B eaver City. I s a a c S. C a r r , Zurich. T . W . O w e n , A rapahoe. G e o r g e G. G e n s e r , Grand Island. J. H. S a v a g e , Cambridge. W i l l i a m E s p l i n , Chapman. A l l e n B a r t l y , Indianola. S a m u e l W o o d , Central City. B. B l a i n , Middle Branch. J. D e l o s W i l s o n , Inman. The Superintendent sends the following report: The territory within the bounds of this mission has not received the in­ crease of population from emigration the past spring and summer which was anticipated the preceding fall and winter. The cause, we presume, was in part the short crops last year, the very severe winter, the lateness of the spring, and fearful freshets, which swept bridges from streams and overflowed much bottom land along the Republican, South Fork, and Elk- horn rivers, rendering it difficult to reach much of the land within the counties bounded by these streams. Physical disturbances of such extent are Unusual in this region. The past winter has not been equaled for severity since 1856 and 1857 ; but from indications the near future will witness a heavy emigration to different parts of this territory. The great railroad companies are extending their lines through different parts of it, and thus opening up the country and inviting population, and they will not fail to secure the peopling of the valleys and divides, and to increase the demand for church-buildings and preachers to shepherd souls. The two principal railroad companies, the Union Pacific and Burlington and Missouri River, which have done so much to people and develop the rich interests of our State, are building their roads in different directions through the territory within this mission, showing their faith in the future of this country, and the different branches of the Church are employing large means and their best talent along these lines of road and wherever settlements are forming. At one time in the history of our growth toward the setting sun the brave pioneer moved out in front. Then came the circuit-rider and school 292 MISSIONARY REPORT. [188'r.

teacher. The ox and horse were used for transportation, and long after the railroad. But now the railroad kings give an order to advance, and surveyors and builders of roads enter new and unoccupied territory. Then towns spring up as if by magic, and the prairie sod is turned in every direction, and in a short time the bloom of prosperity is every-where seen; and the preacher follows the crowd, and organizes societies and builds churches for the population the railroad brings to these rich and productive lands. The Union Pacific Railroad, from Omaha to San Francisco, passes along the Platte Valley, entering* this mission field at Silver Creek, and moving west along the valley to Sydney, the most west- * era charge. The St. Joseph and Western Railroad, under lease to this company, having heretofore its terminus at Grand Island, in the Platte Valley, is being extended north through Howard, Greeley, Valley, and Wheeler Counties, along the North Loup River, to some north-east con­ nection or outlet, thus bringing these distant counties near the great cen­ tral thoroughfares for either the Chicago or St. Louis markets, and open­ ing up these counties to settlers. There is also a branch from the Union Pacific at Columbus to Norfolk, m the beautiful Elkhom Valley, where it forms a connection with the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, running from the Valley Station in Iowa, on the Chicago and North-western, across the Missouri River at Blair; thence along the Elkhom Valley, through Washington, Dodge, Norfolk, Neighly, and Holt, to Fort Niobrara. The result of this road passing through Holt County has been a large immigration, and our society has in­ creased during the year from 23 to 141 members, rendering it necessary to form two charges, and two more are needed to meet the wants of the people. More men and money are needed for this county. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, from Plattsmouth and Omaha, passes on the south side of the Platte River, through Cass, Saunders, Lancaster, Crete, Fillmore, Clay, and Adams Counties, to Hast­ ings, where a branch goes to Kearney, and intersects the Union Pacific; and the main line runs from Hastings, south-west to and up the Repub­ lican Valley, passing through Webster, Franklin, Harlan, Furnas, Red Willow, Hitchcock, and Dundy Counties, en route for Denver. It passes through the part of the mission lying in the Republican Valley, while it opens up the counties along the road, and Gasper and Frontier Coun­ ties, lying along the divide betweeen the Republican and Platte Valleys. The trains on this road are running now to Culbertson, in Hitchcock County, and grading is done almost through Dundy County, on the Colorado line, and it is thought within one year the road will be completed to Denver. This company is building a road from Red Cloud, east alorig the Republican Valley to Wymore, in Gage County; thence on to the Missouri River, in Nemaha, giving an entrance to this great valley by way of Omaha, Plattsmouth, Nebraska City, Brownville, and Atchison. One can see at a glance what the future of West Nebraska Mission must be if we can employ the men and means as rapidly and to the same extfent that demands are made upon us to meet the increasing calls for the bread ISSI.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 293 of life, and help the people until they are able to help themselves. Churches must move and keep up a regular advance if they expect to do the work Providence is opening up before us in this country. With the ability, purpose, and means at command the leading men of these rail­ road companies have to populate and develop the western part of this State. The Church or preacher that waits to see results will be left be­ hind, for the movement of these great men means success in all their undertakings, and all parts of the State stand as proof of it. The results of well-directed efforts on the part of the missionaries laboring in the dif- * ferent charges, as will be seen by the table of statistics, cannot fail to be encouraging to the lover of Church work. At Sidney, the most distant point west on the Union Pacific Railway, we have purchased a building formerly used for hotel purposes, with two lots two hundred and fifteen by one hundred and fifty feet, the building twenty-five by fifty-five feet, two stories high; the main room on the first floor, is twenty-five by forty feet, used for church and Sabbath-school purposes ; two rooms off the west end, each twelve and a half by fifteen feet, and nine rooms on second floor; the pastor, Rev. J. Turner, uses part of the rooms, and lets others be occupied as need be by worthy per­ sons needing temporary lodging. W e have a small society in Sidney; the changing of the people by moves from this to other places causes such a fluctuation that growth is not as perceptible as the facts show. Our missionary is gaining in confidence among and influence with the people, and we look for greater results than we have seen. A lady, through the Church Extension Society, in Philadelphia, gave $300 toward purchasing our mission house— which is the only Protestant place or house of worship within one hundred and twenty-five miles; the population of Sidney is about one thousand. At North Platte, one hundred and twenty-five miles east from Sidney on the same road, Rev. P. C. Johnson is doing a good work. The society .here is largely made up of ladies, but of the most earnest and active character. They have built a neat parsonage, and lately purchased a lot for $500 cash, and steps are taken to build a church. North Platte is an important place of two thousand one hundred population, and under Brother Johnson the Church has enjoyed a gracious revival and steady growth. This charge will become self-sustaining after they get a church- building up and paid for. Quite a revival has occurred here under the •ministry of Rev. Thomas Aikman, an earnest, plain, practical, and faith­ ful laborer. On the Cozad charge some thirty additions have come to the Church since Conference. P lu m Creek is making some advance under Rev. George S. Miner, who is taking active measures to build a church. We have two good lots in the center of the town. Some promise of a revival begins to show itself. The friends at E lm Creek are moving in the mat­ ter of building a church. Rev. A. Collins is doing a grand work on this charge, extending the lines quite a distance in different directions. The work is growing very greatly in interest at Kearney, under the ministry' of 294 MISSIONARY REPORT. Cl88l.

Rev. A. H. Summers. An old church debt here keeps them poor, but the prospect seems promising of making a move at no distant day to pay it off. The Churches on the border ought not to be compelled to borrow— many reasons could be given for this. Rev. M. S. Storer is doing well on the Pleasant H ill Charge. Gibbon is moving on nicely under Rev. J. Marsh. They are building a church at Shelton, on this charge. Rev. J. M. Dressier is doing good work on the W ood R iv er charge. Z u rich is a charge fifteen miles north from Wood River, and we have a most ex­ cellent and promising young man from Upland, Pa., Rev. Isaac S. Carr, on this charge. They are taking steps for a church on several. acres given to us in the country. Some increase has been had since Confer­ ence. Rev. George G. Genser is doing well at Grand Island. They raised the amount by pledges at Conference to' pay off an old debt, which will enable them to take some advance steps in the matter of building a large house, we hope, through the year. Chapman is enjoying a gracious revival under Rev. William Esplin, the pastor. They did well last year, and bear the banner in missionary offer­ ings— having given $40, thirty over the assessment. God is blessing them. Rev. S. Wood is an able preacher and good manager. The last year he built a very nice and convenient parsonage near the church in Central City, and is doing a good work. Rev. Joseph Buckley is faith­ fully doing the work of a pastor at Clarksville. A good sister in Phila­ delphia gave us $400, through the Church Extension Society, to aid in building a church in this place, and when we were last in Philadelphia she gave us $200 to aid in building a tower to hang a bell she gave us last Christmas. The church bears her maiden name— Somers Chapel— was so baptized when dedicated. May God bless her for her noble charity ! Silver Creek is united with Clarksville. Rev. Leslie Stevens is doing a fine work at S t. P a u l; he has the new church ready for dedication, which is set for next Sabbath. Rev. H, C. Harman is moving ahead nicely at Scotia, and gaining on the public confidence, and bringing the people to the Saviour. Movements are on foot to build a*church. At O rd, under Rev. Wesley Wilson, they are nearly ready to begin a good-sized church, thirty by fifty feet, of brick. Rev. J. F. W. Cole is a temporary supply at Sargeant, a good, safe man, who serves the little flock well. The work in H ig g in s is doing well under Rev. George W. Brooks, and C edarville under the prudent and efficient services of Rev. R. C. Harden. Rev. S. S. Penepacker is succeeding on Loup City Charge. W e expect to be through the Loup country in two weeks, on our first quarterly round, and may be able to add some items not in this report. Beaver City is doing admirably under the pastorate of Rev. J. L. Vin­ cent. He dedicated a neat church at Wilsonville, on this charge, on the 27th. These brethren had wisely managed their matters, and only asked for $228 to meet all indebtedness, except what they owe the Church Ex­ tension Society, and they readily responded in the sum of $321. A rapahoe was formed at Conference from the Beaver Charge, and Rev. F. A. Thompson appointed to it. He failed to enter an appearance, 1881.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 295

and we employed Rev. T. W. Owen, a good man and able preacher. Cambridge is a new charge formed from a part of Indianola, Beaver City, and some unoccupied territory. Rev. J. H. Savage is on the charge do­ ing well under the blessing of God. The Indianola Charge is growing under the able ministry of Rev. Allen Bartly. The extension of the Bur­ lington and Missouri River Railroad west is opening new stations an.d communities west from this place, and will soon require other charges and men. The new church in Indianola is nearly ready for dedication. The work in Holt County is being well done by Rev. J. Delos Wilson on the Inm an, and Rev. B. Blain on the Middle Branch Charge. We need two or three more young, active men in this county, to do the work of shepherding the souls calling on us for the bread of life. The two men who are there are doing double work in travels, preaching, and pastoral work. Pray for the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into this great harvest field. We have a fine, rich soil; a very healthy and delightful climate. The Railroad Companies own large forests of land in the counties of this mission, which they sell on long time.and low rates of interest. The Government still has some good lands for homesteads. Pre-emption is to be had under the Timber Act. With all these advantages the men of moderate means come in and settle, and begin to improve their homes, and are laying broad and deep the foundations of independence. Let our people come to this rich garden of the West, and the young theological student take a finishing course in this field of promise, and the future will prove the wisdom of the choice. W e have now twenty-seven charges and a preacher on each, some temporary supplies, and new fields opening. W e have twenty-one coun­ ties in this missions. When the Territory was formed into a mission there were twelve charges; at our first session we formed ten more; we now have twenty-seven, with an average of five to six preaching places; we had five church-buildings, we now have ten, and four in course of build­ ing, and others soon tq. be started. The Church Extension Society has nobly and promptly responded to our calls, and done grandly for us. We will try in our offerings to take advance steps for this, the missionary cause, and other benevolences of the Church. W e hope some day to pay back from West Nebraska Mission fourfold for the help we now get and” so much need, and even much more.

MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS. Superintendent...... $680 Wood River...... $60 St. P a u l...... $70 Sidney...... 15u Zurich...... 40 Scotia...... 50 iiorth Platte...... 50 Beaver City...... 150 Ord...... 50 C ozad...... 40 Grand Island...... 60 Loup C it y ...... 60 Plum Creek...... 40 Chapman...... 80 His-gins...... 40 Kearney...... 100 Central City...... 60 Black B ud ...... 70 Pleasant Hill...... 81) Clarksville...... 60 Indianola...... 150 Gibbon...... 6Q1Silver Creek...... 40 Missions, 28 ; Honey, $2,250. STATISTICS OF THE WEST NEBRASKA MISSION FOR 1881.

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S é Collected for Self- support* Current Current Expenses: Gas, schools, etc., etc. I I No. of Parsonages or j ** Homes.*’j ** | Collected | for other

Sidney...... 1 18 1 5 27 1 $700 $1 65 $ 2 5 5 $ 8 1 0 00 North Platte...... 1 69 5 i 8 2 15 $ 8 0 00 150 i $ 800 20 00 1 2 7 5 961 00 210 00 Oozad...... 1 'i 46 9 8 15 50 Kim Creek...... !!.”!!! 1 8 50 2 86 70 Plum Creek...... ".I!!".'... 1 i ¿à i i 8 8 2 20 1ÒÒ 7 50 82 20 *8 0 « ÓÒ 50 ()() Kearney...... !.."!!!! 1 1 93 5 1 1 j 2 15 90 4,ÓÓÓ $ 5 0 5 80 00 Pleasant Hill...... '.!!!! 1 87 47 25 619 50 150 00 10 6 1 5 45 105 8 CO Gibbon...... !!!!.! 1 i 213 7 01 8 7 4 12 10 00 19 17 2 2 21 123 i 825 15 00 Wood River...... 1 1 88 11 4 5 78 682 P8 80 00 2 1 1 9 68 i 1,506 190 1(1 00 Zurich...... 1 86 9 18 00 271 29 1 2 12 100 1 00 2 70 Grand Island...... ___ ...... 1 'i 85 5 2 5 8 65 2 '2 1 11 25 'i 2,ÒÒÒ i 6ÒÓ iôô 6 40 24 76 491 00 Chapman...... " ” 1 77 7 8 75 00 5 4 82 153 4 0 00 12 10 8 4 0 75 85 00 Central C ity...... " __ . . . . . 1 1 1 ' j 61 2 1.5ÓÒ i 650 150 24 51 Clarksville...... 1 1 1 2 85 561 00 80 00 80 1 1.200 Saint Paul...... ’ ’ ' 1 1 800 à 70 8 ‘ 2 74 2 8,000 . 600 9 65 Scotia...... 1 8S 4 84 831 20 28 ÓÒ O rii...... | '' _ ’ ] 44 1 i 48 i 12 Seargeant...... ___ ! 1 850 1 00 i 95 *292 ÓÌ 8 05 Hi.srgins...... 1 'i 52 2 50 100 Cetlarville...... 1 '8 ÓÓ 8 ÓÒ " ¿ i 95 Loup city...... !!!!." '. I !! 1 78 g ô Beaver City...... ’ ] ’ * ’ j ’ 1 125 103 ' 6 6 89 Arapahoe...... 1 22 Cambridge...... 1 Indianola...... 8 ’ 2 75 60 l’ ióó e 55 ’ Ì7Ó ÓÒ Middle Branch...... 1 28 Inman...... 1 » ' " ' '

Total...... 27 18 1 4S7 OR 7 1 11 142 42 81 82 ¿01 1,384 HI 113,100 6 $3,5 2 5 $ 1 ,545 $ 1 7 0 10 $ 2 8 9 40 $6,808 49 $701 05 i881.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 29 7

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MISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS.

Arkansas. Lawrence...... $150 Central Alabama W hitesborough...... 200 Little Eock District $-300 Huntsville District...... $325 Seymour and Vernon 200 Lincoln and Madison ... 25 A m ity...... 88 Marshall...... 400 Center Valley...... 40 Pond Beat...... 25 Conway ...... 20 Missions, 28; Money, $7,250. Decatur and Trinity__ 25 .Tudsonia...... 180 Claysville and Honeycomb 25 Little Rock...... 400 Blue Ridge. Scottsborough and Belle- London...... 80 Asheville District,...... 500 fonte...... 25 Morrillton ...... 20 Asheville...... 175 Boyd's Switch...... 25 R ondo...... 40 Asheville Circuit 65 State Line ...... 25 Texarkana...... 80 Hendersonville 50 Huntsville and Jones...... 55 Texarkana Circuit 80 Leicester...... 60 Triana...... 25 Fort Smiih District 800 Waynesville .. 90 Courtland...... 25 Bloomer...... 50 Pigeon liiver Limestone...... 25 Chickelah...... 20 Webster and Highlands... 90 Warrenton and Gunters- Danville...... 10 Murphy...... 50 ville...... 80 D ayton...... 50 Transylvania...... 85 Stevenson and Bass’s Sta­ Ellsworth...... ' 10 Blue Ridge District 870 tion...... 30 Fort Smith* ...... 50 Boone...... 25 Gurley and Turn Creek.. 80 Hiickett City...... 10 Jefferson (moving expen­ Dadeville D istrict...... 810 Locksburgh...... 2u ses)...... 25 Lafayette...... 20 Mount Ida...... 20 Dadeville and Rome...... 85 Antioch and Roaring Gap 25 35 Magazine...... 40 Taylorsville...... '---- 50 Alexandria...... Waldron...... 40 Wilkesborough...... 40 W etum pka...... 85 Harrison District...... 8110 Bakersville...... 40 Pleasant Hill and Locust Clear Creek...... 80 Catawba...... 40 B lu ff...... 85 Cedarville...... 20 Greensborougli D istrict.. 675 Blufton and Opelika...... 80 Eureka Springs...... 220 Forsyth and Guilford. . . . 50 Chambers...... 85 Fayetteville...... 80 Davidson...... 25 Roanoake and Tallapoosa. 40 Green Forest...... 80 Snow Camp and Deep Soccapatoy...... 85 Hico...... 60 River...... 75 Montgomery...... 60 Harrison...... 60 Uwariah...... 50 Fredonia, Mt. Pleasant, Huntsville...... 20 Mount Mitchell...... 50 and Pine G ro ve...... 85 Jasper...... 20 Shiloh...... 80 Marion District...... 825 Mulberry City...... 80 Gastonia...... 50 Pratt and Oldtown...... 15 Prairie G rove...... 80 Gastonia (moving expens­ Walthall...... 25 Yellville...... 20 es) ...... 25 Clinton and Cameron’s North-east District 100 Mocksville...... 50 Mountain...... 20 Curia...... 20 Yadkin ville...... 50 Shiloh...... 20 Dalton...... 20 Eastern District...... 870 Brewton, Sparta, and Pol­ Franklin...... 20 Harker’s Islan d ...... 100 lard ...... 20 Mountain Home...... 40 Davis Shore...... 2. Tuscaloosa...... 100 Milburn...... 40 Strait’s...... 25 M arion...... 80 Polk Bayou...... 80 Bogue...... 25 Newberne and Oak Grove 15 Gainesville...... 15 W a nut Ridge ...... 20 Missions, 83 ; Money, $8,500. Missions, 44 ; Money, $8,000. Eu taw...... 25 Mobile and Fowl River... 25 California. Chocktaw...... 25 Austin. Half Moon B ay...... 100 Massey Chapel...... 20 Austin District...... 775Mayfield and Redwood Missions, 41; Money, $2 105. Austin...... 800 Kentucky-street...... Berkeley and Temescal... Austin Cmjuit...... 1 100 Central Tennessee. Kerrville...... 800 lo n e...... Mason...... 175Oakland, Centennial 200 Annville District...... 800 Palestine ...... 400East Oakland...... 200 Laurel Hill...... 20 San Antonio...... ■ 500 Sonora...... M’Minn ville...... 150 Houston...... fc00Dutch Flat...... 100 Falling Water...... 40 Waeo...... 8u0Orland and Newville 100 Monroe...... 80 Round B o c k ...... 50 Oroviile...... 200 Red Springs...... 100 Dallas D istrict...... 650Placerville...... 100 Sparta and Bloomington. 100 Dallas...... 150Redding...... 130 Watertown...... 20 Fort Worth...... 150Roseville and Newcastle.. Short Mountain...... 20 AVeatherford...... 200Sacramento City Mission. Memphis D istrict 150 Denton...... 150 Sacramento, Kingsley.. . Collierville...... 40 D ecatur...... 200Williams...... 150 H athaway...... 80 Henrietta...... 200Areata ...... 150 Huntingdon...... 40 Cambridge...... l-'0Bolinas...... Lexington...... 40 Gainesville...... 250Clear Lake...... St. John’s ...... 440 Sherman...... 850 Matole and Blacksburgh. Nashville District...... 800 Denison...... 100Middletown...... 150 Cam den...... 125 Clarendon and Mobertie.. 25'1 Willetts ...... 100 Cliaseville...... 80 R ice...... 150Valley’s ...... 800 Clarksville...... 125 Eastland...... 250 Missions, 24; Money, $3,000 D ickson...... 200 298 MISSIONARY REPORT. E1881.

Dover...... Union...... |150 Roscommon and Grayling $125 Erin...... Wiilowa...... 100 Indian Kiver...... 100 Nashville...... Baker City...... 200 Long Rapids...... n o Pinewood...... Willow Creek...... 50 P in co n n in g...... 50 Stewart...... Weiser...... 15URifle River...... 50 White Bluff...... Payette...... 100 G a y lo r d ...... 125 Shelby ville District 250 Bellevue...... 100 Cheboygan...... 175 Bedford...... Ketchum...... 100 H ollo well...... 75 Farmington...... C us tar...... 100 W est Branch and Church- Hollow "Springs...... Middletown...... 40 -«1 100 PeterBburgh...... Idaho City...... 200 Point St. Ignace ...... 200 Rover and Williamson.. Kittitas...... 2oO Shelby ville...... 150 Yakima City...... 250 Missions, 82; Money, $3,500. Winchester...... Klickitat...... 200 Waynesbnrougli District. Prineville...... 200 East Maine. Adamsville aud Shiloh... Mitchell and Anteloi e ... 100 W in terp o rt...... 18 Corinth and Purdy...... Ileppner...... 250 B rew er...... 15 Cypress...... Pendleton...... 250 O ro n o ...... 22 Decatur...... Centerville...... 2u0 P itts fie ld ...... 25 Houston and Horse Creek Missions, 32; Money, $5,000. E xe ter...... 17 Lawrenceburgh and Surn- D o v e r ...... 20 mertown...... Brown ville...... 45 Linden...... Delaware. Sebec...... 40 Saltillo...... Philadelphia District .... G u ilfo rd ...... » 20 Shawnettee...... Salem Station...... Patten...... 10 Walnut Grove...... Salem Circuit...... Monticello ...... 20 Missions, 45 ; Money, $4,000. Bridgeton Circuit...... Danforth...... 15 North Penn Station...... C a rm e l...... 20 Cape May Circuit...... Atkinson...... 60 Colorado. Newcastle C ircuit...... B u ck s p o rt...... 50 Bucksport Center 40 Southern District. 400 John Wesley Station __ North Denver...... 100 Middletown Circuit...... Tremont and Cranberry Morrison Dover Circuit...... Isles...... 82 120 Cherryfield...... 40 Castle B o c k ...... 1(50 South Chester Station.... Machias...... 40 E o sita...... 10C Law s M. E. Church (Frankfort, Pa.)...... E. M achias...... 24 Silver Cliff...... 160 C u tle r...... 82 Buena Vista...... 140 S cott M . E . Church (Cen­ terville, N. J.)...... M illtown...... 50 Fair Play...... 140 Edm unds...... 24 Del Norte and W. W. Gap 100 Janes M. E. Church (Ger­ mantown, Pa.) ...... Columbia Falls...... 28 O u rr .y ...... 400 Harrington...... 28 Trinidad...... 160 20tli and Oxford (Haven M ission)...... R ob b inston...... 22 Breckenridge...... 100 South Thomaston 90 Alpine and St. Elmo 160 Lewis and Harmony...... Cambridge District 125 W israsset...... 50 Kokomo...... ICO Pittston...... 40 Gothic...... 200 Sassafras Circuit...... Denton Circuit...... E. Pitlston ...... SO Gunnison...... 100 N. & W. Waldoborough.. 28 Duraneo...... 250 Eadsville Circuit...... Bed Cliff...... 160 Salisbury District 125 Missions, 8 1; Money, $1,000. Alamosa. 200Stockton Circuit...... Northern District...... 400 Parsonsburgh Circuit.. East Tennessee. Evanston...... 270 Green Hill Circuit__ Ilaw lina...... 200Snow Hill Circuit...... Chattanooga District...... 268 Laramie...... 100 Chincoteague Station. Chattanooga...... 40 Platte ville ...... 120 Custer’s Neck Circuit. Cleveland...... 65 Clinton and Coal Creek .. 50 Fort Collins Circuit 125 Missions, 27; Money, $1,200. Ebenezer...... 40 Loveland...... 175 Georgetown...... 40 Longm ont...... 100 Detroit. Jasper...... 50 Erie and Lewisville (Boul­ 65 Webberville ...... 80 Kingston...... der Circuit)...... 10Q 170 Arvada...... 100 Clarkstnn...... 200 Knoxville...... Caribou...... 100Hope...... 50 liice ville...... 50 Oakley...... 100 Robertsvllle...... 86 Gold H ill...... 100 Soddy...... 40 Id ah o...... 140 St. Charles...... 100 45 Copao...... 100 Washington...... Missions, 82; Money, $5,200. Morristown District...... 275 Bad Axe...... ‘...... 50 55 Tyre...... *...... 50 Arcadia...... Columbia River. Bean Station...... 55 Croswell...... 25 50 Five Lakes and Deerfield. • 50 Dandridge...... Spokane...... 80f Greenville...... 60 Colfax...... 250 Imlay City...... 100 60 Eoylton and Lamater.... 60 Midway...... Moscow...... 200 Mossy Creek...... 50 Lew iston...... 2W Port Crescent and Meade. 50 75 Sand Beach...... 50 Moristown and Greenville Palouse ...... 150 Newport...... 50 Orangeville...... 150 Sandusky...... 75 50 Cheney...... 100 Lake Superior District.. 400 Powell’s Valley...... Russellville...... 60 Cœur d 'A len e ...... 200 ftscanaba...... 80 44 Menominee...... 40 Rutledge...... Pataha...... 100 St. Clair...... 55 Union Flats...... 70 L’Anse...... 80 60 Sanlt Ste. Marie...... 80 Taylor-i ville...... Waitebm-glt...... -40 Tazewell...... 45 La Grande...... 200 Bouth SanltSte. Marie 80 Summerville...... 200 Alpena District...... COO Missions, 28; Money, $2,000. i 88i.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 299

Florida. Morganton...... $87 T r o y ...... $40 Gainesville District $405 Financial Agency of Elli­ A lm a...... 40 Gainesville ...... 50 jay...... 230 Bala...... 40 San Pulaski...... 25 Ogeechee D istrict...... 287 Camden and White City. 40 Mount Zion and Tatnall.. 70 Olay Center Circuit 40 Pleasaut Plains and Pine- Burnt F o r t...... ville...... 25 120Garrison...... 60 Charlton...... 150 Gordon and Freedom. . . . 25 Havensville...... 40 Archer and Bronson 30 Missions, 84; Money, $4,,300. Louisville...... 60 Levy ville and Old Town.. . 20 Manhattan Circuit 40 Cedar K e y s ...... 81» Milford...... 40 Holston. Morganville...... 40 Cornell’s and Ammond's Chattanooga District . . . . ISO Pond...... 20 Parkerville...... 40 Athens ...... 150 Mlcanopy...... 20 S t George...... 40 Athens Circuit...... 60 Wabaunsee...... 40 Morrison’s Mills...... 80 Blue Spring...... 60 Westmoreland...... 40 Owen’s and Flemington.. 20 Cleveland Station...... Ocalla and Little Chapel.. 85 100 Kussell...... 75 D ucktown...... 50 Bunker Hill...... 75 Wesley Chapel...... 35 Ooltewah...... Newmansville...... 20 100W ilson...... 75 Sew ee...... 4 0 Sumpter ville...... 20 Ellsworth...... 75 Mudisonville...... 7 5 M ikesville...... 20 Elis worth Circuit...... 50 Hiwassee...... 40 A rredonda...... 20 Lincoln Center...... 50 Greenville D istrict...... 140 .Jacksonville District 500 Abilene Circuit...... 50 Elizabethton...... 60 New Work...... 50 Wakefield...... 50 Madison...... 60 Johnson City Circuit.... 80 Salina Circuit...... 40 Live O a k ...... 20 Irvin ...... 50 Brookville...... 40 Lake C ity...... 75 Parrottsville...... 40 Delphos...... 40 Greenville Station...... 150 Sanderson...... 80 Bennington...... 40 Starke...... 20 Jonesborough and John­ Gypsum ...... 40 W aldo...... 50 son City Station...... 100Beloit .District...... 100 Wrightsville...... 20 Kingston District...... 200Jamestown 40 Lone Star...... 20 Battle Creek...... 50 Seapo...... 69 Hibernia...... 80 Crossvllle...... 50 Clyde...... 90 St. Augustine...... 800 Jamestown...... 50 Clifton...... 60 Palatka...... 25 Kingston...... 90 Belleville ...... 40 Kingston Circuit...... King’s Ferry...... 30 100Mankato...... 60 Pikevilie...... 40 Glen Elder and Solomon New Hope and New Zion 50 Huntsville...... New Kiver & Providence 100 R apid s...... 80 Moncrief...... 20 Scai borough...... 50 Cawker City...... 80 St. John’s District 800 W artburgh...... 50 M t Hope...... 40 T rinity...... 2T5 Knoxville District...... 100Oak Creek...... 40 New Berlin and Mayville 150 Fair Garden...... 50 Downs...... 60 Lake George and Norwalk 100 North Knoxville...... 170 Scandia and Republic City 50 Titusville Circuit...... 200 Newport...... 100Hound Spring...... 40 Thorn Grove...... 30 Orange City and Deland.. 20t1 Cuba...... 30 Kingsley Lake and Starke 200 Powell’s Valley District.. 250 Green leaf...... 40 Battonsville...... 100 Big Valley...... 50 Beloit Circuit...... 25 Clinton...... 50 New W ork...... 75 Nelson Center and Enter­ East Jacksonville...... 150 Jaeksborough...... 60 prise...... 25 Maynard ville...... 60 Jewell City ...... 25 Missions, 45 ; Mouey, $8,700. Rogersville...... Petersburgh...... 25 Eutledge...... Kirwin District...... 500 Georgia. Sneedville...... 50 K irw in ...... 1Delhi...... 50 Educational Agency . . . . 280 North Lawrence.... 60 Ellis...... 50 Dalton District...... 812 Eosedale...... 60 Wa K een ey...... 55 Dalton and Eesacca 200 Wyandotte Circuit.. 40 Graham and Leanora 50 Tunnel H ill...... 105 Easton...... 40 Rosooe...... 50 Spring Place ...... 80 Wells ville...... 25 Hnyes City and Smoky Coosawattie...... 55 Eskridge...... 100 Hill Valley...... 100 Jasper...... 70 Lyndon ...... 60 Logan ...... 50 Ellijay...... 220 Osage City...... 90 Phillipsburgh...... 50 Toccoa...... 75 St. Mary’s...... 80 Marvin...... 100 Lafayette...... 100 Topeka Circuit...... 50 N orton...... 100 Gainesville District 287 Tecumseh...... 40 Long Island and Deer Gainesville...... 120 Wilmington...... 40 C re e k ...... 50 Rock Spring and Walton. 180 Wakaru*a...... 60 Osborne and Bristow 20 Simpson...... 70 Axtel and Corning.., H) Smith Center...... 40 Dawson vilie and Blue Blue Eapids...... 50 Cora...... 20 Hidge...... 75 Frankfort...... 40 Atwood and Beaver Val­ Cherokee...... 60 Mu sco tah...... 40 ley...... 50 H iawassee...... 60 Robinson...... 70 Oberlin and Jennings 100 3 0 0 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 88l.

Sheridan...... $80Hopkinsville...... $50 Mount Pleasant, Martin’s Kansas District...... 805Webster...... 50 Ferry, and Bridgeport. $80 Atchison and Topeka 175 Owensborough...... 50 Cadiz, Georgetown, and Burlingame...... 175G reenville...... 80 Flushing...... 20 Manhattan and Clay Cen­ Missions, 68 ; Money, $5,000. Steubenville...... 85 ter...... 120 Cleveland and Painsville. 12 M t Olive and Wakarusa. 80 Oberlin...... 12 Saline and Abilene. 175 Lexington. Elyria, Berlin Height, and Wyandotte...... 175 Black River...... 4 Wamego and Alma 120 Lexington District 800 Marion, Owen’s, and Rush- Baxter Springs...... 175Sharpsburgh and Sher­ sylvania...... 20 Emporia...... 120 burne ...... 24 Troy Circuit, Dayton, Independence and Cofifey- North Middletown and Piqua, and Hamilton .. 20 vilie...... 80 Greenwich...... 16 Cnmminsville...... 6 Parsons...... 250Lew’s Chapel, Marble Louisa Circuit ...... 10 W infield...... 100 Creek, and Kiddville... 22 Ironton...... 14 Missions, 108; Money, $5,500. Boyd’s and Lair’s ...... 22 Indiana District...... 850 M t Olivet and Washing­ City Mission and Green­ ton ...... 20 field...... 14 Kentucky. Oxford and Black’s 20 Greencastle and Danville. 18 Ashland District 800 Orangeburgh and Mount Shelbyville and Rushville. 14 Catlettsboi'gh...... 100 Carm el...... 24 Connorsville and Cam­ Prestonsburgh.- - • ¡joWaco and T e x a s ...... 24 bridge C it y ...... 28 Plkeville...... 20 Harrodsburgh and Shelby Newcastle...... 14 Salyersville...... 80 C ity...... 22 Rising Sun and Cleves... 26 Beech Grove...... 45 Corinth...... 20 Warsaw and Liberty... . IS Bethel and Blaine...... 45 Williamstown Circuit .. . 20 Madison and Graysville.. 14 Greenup and Grayson__ 50 Cadentown and Warren- North Yernon and Sey­ E d en ...... 85 to w n ...... 20 mour ...... 14 Willard and Olive Hill... 45 Browningsville Circuit. Watson Station...... 20 Letcher...... 85 Louisville District 800 Bloomington and Martins­ Russell ...... 40 Louisville: Lloyd-street.. 25 ville ...... 28 Barbourviile District__ 200 Eday-street.. 25 Princeton and Lyle’s Sta­ Barbourville...... 100 Mount Washington and tion...... 80 Booneville...... 80 Cedar G rove...... 20 Mt. Carmel and Ellison Bangor...... 185 Chaplain & Catnp Branch 25 Prairie...... IS Campton...... 50 Woodforks Chapel and Newburg and Booneville. 20 Harlan...... 50 Buck Creek...... 25 Terre Haute and Brazil.. 20 London...... 60 New Haven, Shephards- Carmi and Gray ville 80 Stanton and L-ving. ville, and Strawberry Missions, 75; Money, $3,000. Watt’s Creek...... 60 Station...... 25 Bedford and Patton Cm»k 15 Williamsbui-gh...... 60 Little Rock. Pineville...... 65 Frankfort and Eminence. 80 Main-street...... 75 Brunerstown aud Wilson- Little Rock District 630 Ludlow and West Coving­ ville ...... 10 Bledsoe’s Landing 100 ton...... 100 Bowling Green District.. 850 Cotton Center...... 80 Germantown...... 120 Bowling Green...... 25 Clarendon...... 120 Crittenden...... 110 Franklin and New Salem. 10 Forrest City...... 120 Flem ing..,...... 90 Cave City, Bacon Creek, Forrest City Circuit 120 Foster ...... 70 and Green's Chapel__ Lonoke...’...... 80 Concord...... 40 Owensborough, Yelving- Lin wood...... 60 Asbnry and Alexandria.. 25 ton, and Grissom's L'd’g 30 Pine Bluff...... 160 Lexington District 185 Bewleyville, Webster, and Watson...... 180 Danville...... 200 Germantown...... 15 Hot Springs District 450 Harrodsburgh...... 125 Smithland and Golconda. 15 Hot Springs...... 140 Som erset...... 75 Paducah...... 10 Hope and W ashington... 160 Highland...... 60 Eddy ville, Gum Springs,. Louisville...... 40 Columbia...... 70 and Halleck Oha|iel. . . . 15 Little River...... 100 W ayn o...... 50 Green ville,Render’s Mines, Sweet Home...... 60 Clinton...... 50 and Litchfield...... 12 Missions, 16; Money, $2,500. Bethel ...... 50 Auburn, Bibhtown, and Louisville District 800 Cedar Ridge...... 12 Louisiana. Wesley Chapel 40 Morgantown and Crom­ Shelbyville...... 100 well ...... South New Orleans D is­ Milton 50 Rockport, No. Twelve, trict...... 1,000 Union Star__ 75 and Lewisport...... 40 Ames Church...... HK) Vine Grove... 25 Ohio D istrict...... 800 Mount Zion...... 125 Hardin»burgh . 60 Cheviot and Delhi. New Orleans : Sixth-st.. 50 Litchfield...... 50 Batavia, Milford, and Simpson Church...... 100 Morgantown .. 40 Laurel...... Camp Parapet...... 60 Bowling Green 50 Madisonville, ML Healthy, Craigsville...... 85 Scottsville__ 50 and College H ill...... H oum a...... 20 Tompkinsville 70 N ew po rt...... Morgan City acid Center­ Hardy ville __ 60 Dover and R ipley...... ville ...... 25 North Lynn 60 Aberdeen, May.slick, and Raceland...... 40 Greenville District...... 800 Lewisburgh...... 85 North New Orleans Dis­ Paducah. 200Portsmouth and Vance- trict ...... 850 Marshall...... 50 burgh ...... Algiers and Asbnry 1,|:) M arion...... 80 Belpre and B arlow ...... Pleasant Plains...... *100 Madison ville 76 Bellaire...... Thomson Chapel...... 60 i 88iJ DOMESTIC MISSIONS. SOI

Assumption and Wood- Norwood...... $25 Mandan...... $25 iawn...... $50 Petosky...... 150 W ahpeton...... 100 Mandeville and Springfield 40 Petosky Circuit...... 45 Hillsborough...... 100 Pearl E iver...... 50 South Arm ...... 80 Grand Forks...... 100 Shady Grove ...... 40 Sherman...... 5u Kensington...... 100 St. John and St. Charles. 75 Traverse City...... 140 Pembina...... 200 W hitehall...... 40 Cross Village...... 20 Warren...... 100 La Teche District...... 700 Missions, 41; Money, $3.,205. Crookston...... 250 Cheneyville...... 50 Missions, 77 ; Money, $9,000. Holmi’svillu and Marks- Minnesota. ville...... 40 Duluth...... ^ Mississippi. Jeanerette...... 40 D undos...... La T ech e...... 75 Hastings...... 75 Holly Springs D ist 600 New Iberia and Thompson 25 Clinton Ave...... 75 Batesville...... 40 Opelousas...... 50 Taylor’s Falls...... 100 Byhalia...... 20 St. Martinsville...... 20 Wyoming...... 100 Chulahoma...... 80 Stuart Chapel and Spring Forest City...... 100 College Hill C irc u it 2u0 H ill...... 80 Delano...... 50 Grenada Circuit...... 40 Baton Eouge D istrict.... 800 Howard Lake...... 100 Hernando...... 28 Bethel...... 40 Dassel...... 100 Hogan’s Chapel...... 40 C om ite...... 25 Chain plin...... 50 Mt. Pisgah...... 40 Jackson...... 40 Bird Island ...... 150 Eidge Circuit...... 200 Magnolia and Stony Point 20 Granite Falls...... 175 Spring Valley...... 82 Macedonia...... 20 Appleton...... 150 Shady Grove...... 40 Mt. Carm el...... 80 Morris...... 150 Schooner...... 40 Musson Station...... 25 Herman.. . -...... 100 Walthall...... 60 Hod Eiver Landing 50 Fairhaven...... 10'i Woodward...... 60 Clinton...... 40 H utchinson...... 50 Okolona Dist...... « 400 West Baton Rouge 20 Bethel...... 50 A thens...... 20 The Plains...... 10 Albert Lea...... '...... 200 Corinth...... 20 Shreveport District 700 Pine Island...... 1()0 Columbus...... 25 Allensville Circuit 45 Blooming Prairie...... 75 Crawford ...... 20 Bastrop ...... 20 Glenville...... 100 Greensborough...... 20 Compte...... 40 Grand Meadow...... 100 Houston...... 40 Scott Circuit...... 2o Kasson...... 100 Okolona...... 20 Dixon C ircu it...... 40 Medford ...... 100 Pontotoc...... 20 Fort Jessup...... 40 Waterville...... 100 Starkville...... 20 Island and B echelle 20 Sleepy Eve and Lambor- T upelo...... 20 Leesville Circuit...... 40 ton...... 75 Greenwood D ist...... 500 Eed Springs...... 40 Cleaveland...... 100 Attala...... 40 Missions, 51; Money, $0,800. Tracy...... 200 Benton...... 82 Pipestone...... 75 Carthage...... 80 Rushmore...... 100 D urant...... 40 Michigan. Windom...... 75 Deasonville...... 40 East Mai 11-st, Jackson .. 200 Worthington...... 150 French C am p ...... 25 Sherwood and Athens... . 50 Currie...... 75 Green H ill...... 24 Burr O ak...... 50 Lake Benton...... 12Ò Goodman...... 80 Benton Harbor...... 100 Beaver Falls...... 75'Kosciusko...... 24 Breedsvilln...... 50 Lone Tree...... 75 Lodi...... 40 S. Division-street: Grand Le Sueur...... 100 M t Pleasant...... 40 liapids...... 200 Balaton...... 125 Pickens...... 40 PlainlieldAvenue: Grand Wells...... 100 Pindarville...... 80 E ap id s...... 200 Mapleton...... SO Vaiden Circuit...... 40 Grand Haven...... 100 Mankato Circuit...... 15li Winona Circuit...... 20 Newaygo...... 25 Herron Lake ...... 50 Yazoo City Circuit 40 C lare...... 40 Caledonia...... 50 Jackson District...... 600 Fremont...... 80 Fillmore...... 50 Bolton...... 20 Free Soil...... 50 Granger...... 50 Brandon...... 20 Hesperia...... 50 Leonora...... 60 Clinton...... 80 Howard City...... 40 St. Charles...... 60 Edwards...... 24 Mecosta...... 50 Lancsborough...... 175 Evergreen...... 20 Montague...... 60 A d a ...... 100 Forest...... 20 Reed C ity...... 800 Glyndon...... 50 Jackson...... 80 Sears...... SO D etroit...... 200 Lake Station ...... 24 Harrison...... 50 Wadena...... 100 M t Salem...... 20 Grand Traverse District.. 850 Brainerd...... 200 Myersville...... 80 Almira and In lan d 20 St. Cloud...... 200 Eicks...... 20 Bear Lake...... 40 Sauk Eapids...... 150 Simpson...... 24 Boyne...... 40 Melrose ...... 50 Trenton...... 20 Cadillac Circuit...... 80 Grove Lake ...... 100 Vicksburgh...... 80 Spencer Creek...... 20 Long Prairie ...... 100 Warren...... 20 Charlevoix...... 50 O sakis...... 150 Meridian D ist...... 500 Elk Eapids...... 95 Alexandria...... 150 Brookville...... 23 Fife Lake...... ‘¿0 Fergus Falls...... 100 De K alb ...... 40 Frankfort...... 50 Moorhead ...... 200 DaleviUe...... 23 Kalkaska...... 46 Castleton...... 160 Ex-Prairie...... 25 Harbor Springs...... 100 Tower C ity ...... 50 Enterprise...... 24 Manton...... 20 Valley C ity ...... 100 Enterprise Circuit 25 Marcelona...... 100 Jamestown...... 250 Garlandsville...... 40 Monroe Center...... 40 Bismarck...... 600 Hickory Circuit...... 24 302 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I 88l.

Louisville...... $40 Steele C ity ...... $50 Reidsville...... $25 Lauderdale...... 28 F airb û ry...... 40 Pelham and Chapel Hill.. 85 Meridian Circuit...... 28 H ubbell...... 2ä Kernersville...... 120 Mashulaville...... 25 Cnrleton...... 50 Guilford...... 80 P aulding...... 28 Franklin...... 25 Central D istrict...... 800 Philadelphia...... 25 E x e te r...... 70 Charlotte...... 95 Quitman and De Soto 25 Wilber and D ew itt 40 Anson and Union ...... 75 6huqualak ...... 2S W ester...... 25 Ham let...... 25 Shubuta Circuit...... 28 York District...... M oore...... 25 State Line...... 40 York Circuit...... 25 Laurinburgli...... 60 Waynesborougli...... 24 West Blue...... 25 Shoe-heel...... 25 Gulf District...... 600 Utica...... 50 New H ope...... 60 Augusta...... 70 Ulysses...... 50 Lumberton...... 70 Brookhaven and Summit. 48 Bellwood...... 50 Columbus...... 35 China Grove...... 40 Stromsburgh...... 50 New Bethel...... 20 Uo;umbia...... 44 Aurora...... 80 Wilmington...; ...... 125 Crystal Springs...... 40 St. Joseph...... 60 Goldsborough Merrill...... 40 Polk and M’Dowell 50 S en ey...... 40 Nebraska. Haywood...... 65 Sheldon...... 90 Nebraska City District... 100 Jefferson...... 60Sibley Ciruuit...... 60 P e r n ...... 50 Lenoir and H ick ory 65 Pattersonville...... 40 Palmyra...... 40 Caldwell...... 26 Portlandvilie...... 6° Syracuse...... 40 Alexander and W ilks 86 Ida Circuit...... 8u Lincoln D istrict...... 160 Newton...... 25Rock Rapids...... 80 Lincoln Circuit...... 100 South Catawba...... 80Blairsbuigh...... 40 W averly...... 26 Cleaveland and Gaston... 75 Boyer Circuit...... 60. Elm wood...... 50 Mount Airy District 800 Davton...... 60 Valparaiso...... 50 Mount A iry ...... 75Elsworth...... 100 Beatrice D istrict...... 800 Boone and Jonesville 60 G ow rie...... 100 Blue Springs...... 50 Danbury...... 26 Hubbard...... Jjj Odell...... 26 Madison...... Homfer.4V ...... 26 i 88i .] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 303

Jackson Center...... $50Liberty-street...... $100¡Savannah City Mission.. $110 Newell...... 100Sixteenth-street...... lOOi.Millen and Washington.. 05 Pomeroy and Rockwell.. 50 Summit-street...... 100 Darien...... 110 Webster City Circuit.... 40 Independence ...... 1(H) Valdosta and Brooks...... 180 Stratford...... 50Holden Circuit...... 50 Appling...... 25 Algona...... 6RichU Hill...... 100 Augusta...... 100 Whittemore...... 40Harrison ville...... 50 Munnerlyn and C lark.... 30 Pence Grove...... 40Wan-ensburgh Circuit .. . 50 Missions, 60; Money, $8,500. G arner...... 60Greenfield...... 75 East Side Circuit...... 40Maiion ville...... 76 Livermore...... 40Joplin...... 250 Dakota and Humboldt... 40 Neosho and. Pierce C ity.. 100 South Carolina. B r itt...... 60 North Springfield and Orangeburgh District__ 700 Rutland...... 50 Marshfield...... 200 Orangeburgh...... 80 EstherviUe...... 40Clinton and Calhoun...... ‘25 Orangeburgh Circuit...... 40 Ruthven...... 40St Louis Circuit...... 38 Branch ville Circuit...... 20 Spirit Lake...... 60Neosho...... 80 Reeves...... 82 Millford...... 40Springfield Circuit...... 20 Summerville ...... 100 Hartley...... 40Cartilage and Joplin...... 80 Cattle Creek...... 40 Sioux Rapids...... 40Arrow R o ck ...... 50 Enoch Station and Beech Spencer Circuit...... 40Brownsville...... 80 H ill...... 40 Missions, 43: Money, $2,200. Smithton and Otterville.. 80 S t Andrew’s and Ten-mile Kansas City ...... 110 H ill...... 70 Butler and Nevada...... 60 Kingstree...... 90 Oregon. Wellington...... 80 S t Stephen’s & Pineville. 40 70 Clear C reek...... 60 Rolla and St. Jam es...... St. John’s ...... 20 East Portland Circuit 75 California Ciivuit...... 55 St. Mary's...... 84 Lebanon ...... 50 Forreston ...... 20 Forest Grove and Corne­ 55 lius...... 50Harrison ville and Holden Turkey Creek and Hick­ Greenfield and ML V er­ Hillsborough...... 75 ory Grove...... 20 Salem Circuit...... 100 non ...... 37 Cedar Swamp and Jere­ Powell’s Valley...... 75 Missions, 49 ; Money, $4,1 50. miah ...... 40 Puget Sound District.... 250 St James’ Santee...... 12 Cooper River...... 20 Olympia...... 100 Savannah. New Tacoma...... 75 Columbia D istrict...... 700 Ferndale and Nooksack Atlanta DistricL...... 250 Columbia...... 800 Indian Mission...... 125 Mnrkham-street and West W ateree...... 40 Port Townsend...... 125 End...... 30 Rock Spring ...... 30 Turn W ater...... 75East Atlanta...... 25 Camden Circuit...... 26 Chehalis...... 50 Fulton Mission...... 40 Sumter Circuit...... 40 Oysterville...... 75 Marietta...... 50 Mechanicsville and Spring Astoria...... 150 La Grange Circuit...... 25 H ill...... 82 Cowlitz...... 50Hamilton and Belmont.. 75 Maysville Circuit...... 20 Lewis River...... 50 Grantville C ircu it...... 25 Lynchburgh...... 20 Centerville...... 50 Senoia...... 100 Timmonsville & Lynch’s Whidby Island...... 50 Carroll and Bow doin__ 30 Creek...... 20 Skagit...... 50 Douglas...... 80 Florence...... 30 Eugene City District.... 250 Fairburn...... 25 Marion...... 20 Ashland...... 110 Decatur...... 80 Horry Circuit...... 50 Jacksonville...... 150 Oxford and Covington.. . 40 Pee, Dee Circuit...... 40 Roseburgh...... 50Heard...... 30 Mars’ Bluff...... 20 Drains ...... 1 4Macon 1 District...... 275 Darlington...... 50 Springfield...... 100Macon, 1st Church...... 125 Darlington C ircuit _____ 2D Forsyth...... 60 Cheraw...... 80 Missions, 26; Money, $2,500. Milner andBnrnesville... 70 Bennetts ville...... 50 Clayton...... 25 North Marlborough...... 40 Butts and Summer II11I.. 5d Marlborough Circuit...... 80 Saint Louis. Columbus...... 175 Marion Circuit...... a 0 Bloomfield...... 50 Culloden...... 25 Chesterfield and Oro.. 40 Cape Girardeau...... 100Toomsborough aud Irwin- Jefferson and M t Zion ... 80 De S o to ...... 75 ton...... 80 Port Royal District...... 800 Farmington...... 100W oodbury...... bo Old Bethel...... 101 Houston 50 Fort Valley and Americus 75 W esley...... 60 Ironton and W ebster__ 75 Butler and Talbott on...... 60 John’s and Wadmalaw’s Licking...... 75 Milledgeville and Sparta.. 90 Is'an d...... 24 Marble Hill...... 60 Greenville ...... 25 James’ Island...... 20 Piedmont and Poplar Telfair and Eastman.. 60 Beaufort and Port Royal 150 B lu ff...... 60 Montgomery...... 25 Comhahee...... 66 Salem...... 75 Rome District...... 275 Walterborough and Afih- Goode Ave., and Tower Cartersville...... 75 apoo...... 60 Grove...... 260 Canton Circuit...... 60 Colleton...... 40 Water Tower...... 100 Whttefield...... 80 ilickory Hill...... 50 Carondolet...... 200 Adairsvllleand Pine Log. 20 Syke’s and Savannah...... 24 S t L u k e 's...... 200 Gainesville Circuit...... 80 Gillisonville and Hilton Montgorhery-street 200 Jackson 80 H ead...... 40 High Point ...... 100,ElberL...... 40 Spring-street Mission . . . . 100 Knob Noster...... 60 ¡Buford...... 25 Allpnaale and Brunson... 60 W arsaw ...... 60Bowman Circuit. 80 Bentlv Hill and Millettville 60 Schell d t y ...... 50 Savannah District, 250 Blackvil!e and Williston. 66 Nevada ...... lOOiSavoojiab, Asbury 80i Barnwell...... 66 304 MISSIONARY REPORT. 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Midway...... $50!Harrisonville...... $25;Sttn City...... $50 Edisto Forks. 52 Grenoia, Iuka 60 Elizabeth...... 50 Elk Fails.... Missions, 95 ; Money, $5,500. Wi-sley Grove 52 Cedarville__ Lexington .. . 20 Howard City Johnstown... 20, P e r u ...... Tennessee. Toogoodoo and S t Paul. 24 Sedan...... 100 Greenville District TUO Altoona...... 40 Nashville District...... 850 Greenville Circuit. Mound Valley. 20 Nashville Circuit...... 100 Golden Grove...... Labette. 80 Franklin...... 50 S t Mark’s...... Cherry vale...... 100 Spring Hill...... 75 Marietta...... Liberty 25 Lewisburgh & Liliards.. 75 W elford...... T h a yer...... 75 Gallatin...... 100 Biedsville : ...... Elk C ity...... 85 Gallatin Circuit...... 25 Spartan burgh...... 40 Burton...... lOOjHartsville...... 50 Spartmburgh Circuit.... 150 Sedgw ick...... Mitchell ville. 100 Piedmont...... 50 W alton...... Spring HilL...... 75 Cherokee...... 40 Florence...... D ickson...... 50 Gaffney...... 40,Matfleld Green. D over...... 50 Turk ville...... 151) Caí i ton Murfreesborough D ist... 875 York Circuit...... 80 R o xb u ry...... 60 Murfreesborough Circuit. 25 Chester Circuit...... 40 ¡Marquette...... West Tennessee District. 4S0 Saluda...... 20;Little Arkansas...... Lawrenceburgh...... 80 Macedonia...... 40 Hutchinson Circuit... W aynesborough...... 3 0 Walhalla...... 40! Marion Center...... Linden...... 20 Seneca...... 20 Marion Circuit...... Purdy...... 30 Tugaloo...... 20 ¡Toledo...... Henclerson...... 40 Mount Sinai...... ' 40,Little Eiver...... Mansfield & Miinuerville. 85 Belton...... 201 Cottonwood Falls...... Gardner's...... 41) Greenwood...... 40 lo la ...... Cypress...... 50 Edgefield and Newberry. 100 Humboldt...... Stone Eiver...... 50 Abbeville. 20'Straw n ...... W oodbury...... 50 New W ork...... 85! Leroy Shelby ville...... 50 Missions, 92 ; Money, $7,000. Colony...... Shelby ville Circuit 25 M elvem ...... Spaila . Mineral P o in t. M’Minnville...... Southern California. V ir g il...... M’Minnville Circuit. Los Angeles District 175 Dunlap...... Caney Fork...... for Mexican W o rk ... 200 Elsinore...... North Lebanon__ Los Angeles: Eose-street 100 Clim ax...... C ookville...... Pomona and Azusa. 175 Madison...... Sunimersville. Florence...... 150 Richmond 40 Martin’s Creek. Santa Monica...... 100 Arkansas City...... 75: Van Buren Circuit San Bernardino...... 150 Andover...... 80|Bell...... Santa A n n a...... 175 Augusta...... 40i Brownsville...... Augusta Circuit...... 40j Mason San Diego Circuit 100 40¡ Fayette...... Santa Barbara District... 225 Belle Plaine Berdan.. 60¡Memphis Centenary ... for Mexican W o rk ... 250 75 Memphis Circuit...... Ventura Circuit...... 150 Caldwell Goleta...... 125 Chelsea...... 25 Missions, 42; Money, Santa Maria...... 100 D ouglass...... 40 Pasa Robles...... 125 D e x te r...... 60 Cam bria...... 100 East Wichita...... 40 Texas. Los Alam os...... 125 Ilayesville...... 80 Yisalia District...... 85' L eo n ...... 25 Marshall District...... 625 Bonham ...... 25 V isalia...... 175 Mulvane...... 75 Mayfield...... 40 Clarksville...... 25 Bakersfield...... 200 Cypress...... 20 Tehichipa...... 100 O xford...... 40 Plum Grove...... 25 Jefferson...... 20 Plano...... 100 M arion...... 20 Tulan C ity...... 100 South Haven...... 80 Tresno...... 100 Valley Center ...... 85 Marshall...... 20 WestWachita...... 85 P aris...... 20 San Benito...... 100 Pittsburgh...... 25 Mariposa...... 200 Rolling Green...... 40 Lamed District ...... 800 Queen City andKildare.. 20 Missions, 26; Money, $4,000. Larned...... 190 lied Eiver and Indian Na­ Garfield...... 100 tion...... 25 South Kansas. Dodge C ity ...... 80 Sulphur Springs...... 25 Pawnee...... 40'Pawnee Rock ...... 100 Texarkana ...,...... 20 Osage Mission...... 50;Great Bend...... 100 Texarkana Circuit 15 B eulah...... 401 Sterlin g...... 20C Woodlawn...... 20 Cherokee...... 401 Nickerson...... 125 Butler...... 20 Baxter Springs...... 65 L yon s...... 75 Cotton Gin...... 20 Pleasanton...... 40; Walnut City...... 75 Crockett...... 25 La Cygne...... 40 Bazine...... Fairfield...... 20 Gulesburgh...... 40 Brown’s Grove...... 40 Henderson and Troupe .. 20 Mulberry Grove... 60 Kingman...... 100 Jacksonville...... 20 Galena...... 85 Waterloo...... 80 Jew ett...... Monmouth and M’Cune. 40 H arper...... 80 Leona...... 1® Pittsburgh and Opolis .. . 10 Antnony...... 75 Madison...... 20 Coffey ville...... 85 ¡Medicine Lodge 80Mineola 80 1881.] DOMESTIC MISSIONS. SOS.

Palestine...... $201 Virginia. „ Kcvser City...... $60 Palestine Mission...... 16 Alexandria District...... $330 Wytheville District...... Soft- San Augustine and Nacog­ [Norfolk...... 220Mount A iry...... 40 doches ...... Portsmouth ...... 200Glade Springs...... 40‘ Shelby and Sabine...... Old Point...... 200Bristol...... 40 T yler...... 25jFalmouth . . : ...... 220Draper’s Valley...... 20 Tyler Circuit...... 15 Falls Church...... 100Christiariburgh...... 20 Hous.ton D istrict...... 450 Herndon...... 250 Salem...... 3S Chance’s Prairie...... 26 Leesburgh and Hillsboro’ 200Big Lick...... 50 Columbia and Oyster Berryville...... ISO Fincastle...... 20 Creek...... 20;Vienna...... 100Thaxton...... 41) Frost’s Chapel and Pitts- Greenbrier District...... 2(10 Liberty...... 16 ville...... 20 Highland...... 20Franklin...... 40 Harrisburgh and Lynch- Greenbrier...... 60 Giles...... 25 burgh ...... 25 Monroe ...... 75 Tazewell...... 25 Hockley and Rose H ill... 20Forest Hill...... 100Buchanan...... IS St. James...... 50 Potts’ C reek...... 115 Missions, 47 ; Money, $2,500. Sloan-street...... 30 Sweet Springs...... 120 Houston...... 25 Pocahontas...... 80 West Texas. Richmond and Oak Hill. 70 Augusta & Rockingham. 275 Spring...... 80 Roanoke District...... 325 Waco District...... 450 Huntsville District...... 400 Roanoke...... 60 Waco Mission...... 40 Beaumont...... 25 New Eiver...... 60 East Waco...... 35 Cold Springs...... 25 Fincastle...... 120 Marlin and Big Creek .. . 40 Liberty and West Africa. 50 Eockbridge...... 120 Marlin C ircu it...... 60 Livingston...... 3!) Catawba...... 120Bremond and Long Lovelady...... 25 Bedford and Franklin__ 175 Branch...... 40 Montgomery...... 25 Floyd...... Calvert...... 20 6 Port Sullivan and Milan Moscow...... 30 Auburn...... S W alker...... 25 Grayson...... G r»ve...... 60 Wallaceville...... 25 Wvthe...... Groesbeck...... 40 W illis...... 20 Spring Ilill...... 75 Bland and West Giles... . I)a’las and M’Kinney 60 W oodville...... 20Abingdon District ...... 825 Navasota D istrict...... 524 Smy the...... 85 Denton and Pilot Point.. 80 San Antonio District 435 Anderson...... 20Tazewell...... 85 Belleville and Hempstead 20Buchanan...... 7c San Antonio & Boerne... 20 Brenliam and Washington 35 85 Pleasanton...... 30 New Garden...... Fredericksburgh & Hando 30 B ryan ...... 20 Russell...... 70 Burlison...... 18 05 Seguin and Mt. Pleasant.. 2.'> Wise...... Luvernia and Floersvillc. 3'J Courtney...... 20 Lee...... 35 Heai-ne and Franklin__ 20 Scott...... 65 Riddleviile and Stock dale. 80 Io la ...... 14 NichollsviUe...... 80 Xockermft...... 25 Plantersville...... 20 North Fork...... 65 Belmnnt...... 8 J Gonzales...... ;.. 55 Prairie P lain ...... 28 Three Forks...... Missions, 64; Money, $3, 755. Mount Vernon...... 100 Missions, 43; Money, $5,; Cuero and New Hope 25 MissionValley and Center­ ville ...... 80 Verm ont. Washington. Victoria on4 Indianola... 25 Gaysvillo...... 50 Lynchburgh District__ Corpus C liristi...... 110 Worcester...... 25 Norfolk...... 50 Tcxana and Morales 25 Bethel Gilead...... 25 liichmond...... 65 Brownsville...... 20 East Elm ore...... 25 Leesville...... Goliad...... 25 Canaan...... 25 Brownsburgh...... Columbus District 525 Peacham...... 70 Northern Neck...... 35 Columbus Circuit...... 25 Wheeioek...... 25 Waterford ...... 30 Alleyton and Eagle Lake. 25 North Concord...... 25 Woodlawn...... 25 La Grange...... 25 West Topsham...... 25 Leesburgh ...... 25 Oakland ...... 20 Stowe ...... 25 Charlottesville...... 30 Hallettsville...... ¡>0 Box bury...... 50; Staunton District...... 200 Boxville...... 30 Corinth...... 25: White Hall...... 32 Fiatonia and Schulonberg 40 Guildhall...... 60 Jefferson...... 40 Peach C reek ...... 80 East St. .Tolinsbury 25 New Market...... 25 Lockhart & San Marcos.. 30 West Concord...... 20 Rockingham...... 25 Industry...... 40 Athens & Cambridgeport. 8U Som ers...... 84 Wharton and Cana 120 E. Dover & Williamsville. 90 Union...... 40|Austin District...... 425 Putney...... 30 Spring Creek. g2 Austin, Simpson Mission. Sit North Thetfurd...... 80 Highland.. .. ¿¡»¡Austin C ircuit...... 55 Norwich...... 80 Peterstown. goiM’Dade...... 40 South Tunbridge 80 Mount Vernon...... 32 Georgetown and Bound West Bradford...... 80 Wheeling District...... R o ck...... 55 Johnson...... 40 Fairm ount...... 40 Giddings and Burton 35 Morrlsville...... 50 Grafton...... 40 Cunningham & W. Point 45 Waterville...... 40 E om ney...... 20 Taylorsville...... ' 30 Underhill...... 25 Olarksburgh...... 25 Lampasas...... 8l> Milton...... 25 Moorefield...... 35 Eockdale and Davilla 50 Montgomery...... 25 Wardensville...... Belton...... 85 S t Albans Bay...... 20 Weston...... 60 La Grange Circuit 25 Isle La M otte...... 25 Point Pleasant...... 40 Bastrop and Cottonwood 20 Missions, 80; Money, $1,000. Huntington ...... 40 Missions, 55; Money, $4,000.. 20 3 o6 MISSIONARY REPORT. Ll88l.

West 'Virginia. Logan...... $85 'Barron...... Hinchman...... 85 Clear Lake...... 100 Fetterm an...... $100 West F ork ...... New Martinsville Station. 100 85 Ells worth...... 50 Flat Top ...... 40 Menominee...... lflO New Martinsville Circuit. 85 Quinamont and Hinton. Deer P ark...... 100 40 Osceola Mills...... 50 Fayette...... 60 Pepin...... iao Pleasant Hill...... 75 Clay. Pleasant Grove...... 65 85 Eice Lake...... 50 Randolph Mission...... 25 St. Croix Falls...... 50 B urton ...... 40 Missions, 50 ; Money, ¡,000. Missions, 39; Money, 82,500, Pine Grove...... 40 Worthington...... 40 Sinitlitown...... 40 West Wisconsin. W isconsin. Beverly...... 40 Avoca and Orion...... 40 Hartford...... Upshur...... 65 Juda...... 60 W atertow n...... Mingo...... 100 Mazomanie...... 50 Jefferson...... Suttou...... 25 Wauzeka...... 125 M’Farland...... Elizabeth...... 50 Georgetown ...... 50 Princeton...... Hughes Eiver Mission... 40 Portage District...... 50 Sheboygun ...... Raymond City...... 60 New Lisbon ...... 100 Monticelio...... East Charleston...... 50 Eeedsburgh...... 100 Kingston...... Charleston Circuit 80 Westfield...... 60 Chilton...... Mill C reek ...... 60 Plainfield...... 75 Kew aunee...... Bipley...... 50 Coloma...... 25 Kaukauna...... W alton...... 50 Strong Prairie...... 25 Oconto F alls...... Sandyville...... 20 Tomali...... 75 Peshtigo...... M alden...... 50 Wonewoc...... 75 Sturgeon B ay...... Guyandotte District 100 La Crosse, 2d Church.. . . 100Suamico...... Guyandotte Station 75 Mt. Sterlin g...... 50 W nukau...... Milton...... 50 Ean Claire District...... 100 West Pentsaukee...... Barboursville & Ceredo., 150 Arcadia...... 50 W inneconne...... Winfield and St. Albans.. 100 Cadott and Thorp...... 100 Wrightstown...... Mt. Union...... 40 Medford...... 60 Waupaca District 100 Hamline...... 75 Merrillan...... 100 Autigo...... 120 East Hamline...... 40 Colby and U n ity ...... 25 Amherst...... 40 Coalburgli...... 50 Bloomer...... 60 Auroraville...... 40 Coal Eiver...... 40 Durand...... 65 Clintonville...... 100 Cassville...... 40 Neillsville ...... 80 Dale and Freemont 80 Laurel Mission...... 40 Pleasant Valley...... 25 Iola and Ogdensburgh... 50 New Eiver District 180 Whitehall...... 60 Tigerton and Nora...... 140 Elk E iv e r ...... 70 Spencer and Marshfield.. 125 Merrill...... 40 Pleasant Retreat...... 75 Alma Center...... 25 Wautoma...... 50 Mountain Cove . 70 Alabama...... 60 New London...... 100 M ercer...... 45 Arkansaw ...... 25 Missions, 85; Money, $2,000.

Kcme.—Report from Alabama Conference not received in time for press. T h e grand totals in the statistics of our Foreign Missions, found in the table which here follows, are no less encouraging than those of last year. They show advance in nearly every particular. The total of members and probationers, the latter being in most cases communicants, is 36,909. The average attendance upon Sunday worship is represented by a largely increased figure, (55,931,) owing, indeed, very much to the fact that report of this item is now rendered in some cases where it was before lacking, though the column is still incom­ plete. Certain additional columns are included in the Report of this year, namely: those on High Schools or Colleges, and on The­ ological Schools. These are items of great interest and im­ portance. Of the former class of schools we have now 12, with 653 pupils ; and of the latter 8, with 79 students. We may expect continued growth on this line, as we have entered upon a new era in our educational work. The growth in the number of day-schools, and particularly the notable advance in the number of native teachers employed, is also indicative of the demands made upon us in this direction in our foreign fields. The Sunday-schools at least keep pace with our gene­ ral progress. The column on self-support requires the ex­ planation given in a note. In our Domestic Missions’ Summary, only the total of missionaries over the wide field of the Conferences where aid is bestowed is tabulated. Other general statistics in this field may be found by consulting the General Minutes of the Con­ ferences for 1881. The grand total of members and churches, with all that appertains to them, ministered to by these 2,438 missionaries of the home field, is indeed great, and contains a large promise of the future, fortified by such a record of past progress as is exhibited on pages 236 and 244 of the present Report. SUMMARIES OF THE FOREIGN m i s s i o n s . u 1 ë | 1 £ 'V ! 1 1 MISSIONS. t i 2 ua «C 1 £ - T-t- 1* u 1 • « b £ 0 6 £ £ i t g|| ? tjj ti •3 cï= 1 II É §• Churches. Churches. 5 Estimated Estimated Value of Benevolent Benevolent Societies.

[2:5 Collected for other Pages Pages Printed during A frica...... i l| 1 l£ : Otc 0 a tlie Year. South-east South America I No. of Halls and Pinces | other of Worship. Foochow t ...... 23 $33,434 00 2 $390 00 $10,000 00 $340 0:v! $39 00 $26 57 $1,600 00,$2,000 001 .... Centnil China...... 6 8 55,000 00 12 1 16,000 00 5,597 77, 278 00 349 00 3.817 Oil, 1.335 00 it;o,o6o 9.150 00 77 52 3,450 00 40,200 ÔÙ 185 96 22 60 650 4li North C h im i...... 3 i?' 15 317 03 21,975 4,878.790 Germany and Switzerland ..I 3 5,500 00 6 4 12,500 00 2,500 00 ...... 15 92 Norway...... 2 9, 10 11.700 00 2 8 33.000 00 12,700 0(1 ...... "i03 23 130 02 Sweden...... 2!13 75 378,M5 8b 510 49 11,000 on 54,820 20 230,940 20 1,244 02 2.Ù2Î 6i 27,820 77 2,477 58 Denmaik...... 21 75,707 32 5 3 6,808 57 22,149 66 551 15 2 85 1,753 49 825 97 2ÛÎHÎ1 1.810,750 North India...... *2! 52i 133,757 27 71 4 603 00 54,060 15 1,890 08 987 03 11,914 09 10.284 97 7 3,36(1,(100 South India 1 6 77,773 60 50 3 6.217 60 378 51 272 58 1,052 51 1,044 78 352,000 313 569 22 . 64,082 00 25 45 64,595 Ôi'l 1M.225 0(1 12,200 00 270 78 367 00 14,783 07 1 0 ,5 « 00 857,001 14,000,000 Bulgaria...... ; Italy...... 0 4i 22 131,725 00 7 0 16,475 00 27,050 00 58 00 24,579 00 13.861 00 Japan...... 1 1,000 00 4 1 500 00 ’ Ï,5 Î2 58 ” 40 37 24 22 8 78 546 52 1,501 169,500 Mexico...... 2 26.500 0( 15 0 6,500 00 216 00 1 3 9i 7 6,500 00 53 9 26,350 00 ' 3,iÔÔ 00 'iôi iè Î94 Î3 121 26 3,101 306.7ÔÔ Grand Total. |fl9 70 1|®! 50 9 58,200 00 15 11 41,900 00 16,950 00 93 91 1433 21 1,192 04 1,073 ÔÔ 13 2^90,700 1879.683 271i *1,068,775 05 852 203 $240,971 57 $296,007 78 $338,555 3« $5,176 16 $5,658 70 $79,674 41 $44,305 85 110,53b 17,660.440

§ The erTor in last year’s statistics in giving dollars for rupees (41.8 cents) in South India is to be considered in making comparisons on the total in this column and iu some that follow. | These figure* are from the North India report (text) of 1880, no statistics under this head having been received this year. These figure» " r t e V T i 4 ne p ' Mro?-ary rT S i .“ w °,the1 hnv? retired from active 8ervice rt.iriner the past y e n . statistical tabl«. âre probably m excess of the true figures for 1881. H The column of Self-support in the statistical tables of some of the Missions represents, as was designed this year, purely l**cal contributions for the pastor’s salary and current expenses; but more was embraced in some cases, and the general summary under this head therefore include«, * Correct by this figure the misprint on page 35. as heretofore, a variety of contributions for local purposes. 1 The statistics of last year. ** In Germany and Switzerland value o f parsonages included in churches. 1 No report from Foochow and Norway and ose district in Germany and Switierlund. it There are 21 separate works reponed in this column (uot reckoned in the aggregate) which would greatly increase the number of volumes.

SUMMARIES OF THE DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

i i 1 I* j È J IT. ôi 1 I t 1 1 | = rZ c « MISSIONS. s li* Ê h ■fi § £ * 1 s E .- <8 1 E O £ I f s ? 1 c ft* J -* •o ■B 2-c ¡ 1 c ¿ 1 •| | » " c American Indian. . 1 ¡1 ¡5 I s i s 5 y. II Ücß C a o f 3 1 21 1,731 Welsh...... ;;; l.lL'l) German ...... 1' 78 19 $20,530 8 $4,120 $SH9 34 $515 3« 229t 1 3300 14 00 20 00 $402 ÔÔ ‘ $68 ÔÔ Scandinavian...... C lt Chinese...... 5 Arizona...... 114 40 7 114 21 ‘ ièsi ‘ 3 20,800 : : : : 122 i'2 “ ¿0 ÖÖ "84Û 38 Black Hills...... «50 14,250 06 Dakota...... 5 143 15 6 20,500 ■i 4iÔÔ0 $1,900 200 00 3 55 250 00 Montana...... 26 1,175 102 28 308 3 84500 i^ a o 1,300 2,250 00 2,700 00 10 356 44 24 1,058 18 23^00 10 4,7C0 1399 *647 Î8 249 60 9 3 7 00 8.820 00 New M exico...... 14 719 5,964 25 utah ...... 416 75 13B 9 38£00 3 3400 G.500 72 06 138 35 .V O l 76 « 143 44 11 867 12 35,000 8 9,900 $9,0(10 3,300 155 00 2.445 00 5,525 00 West Nebraska...... 27 535 1358 00 English ¡Speaking...... a 1,187 142 31 7 67,000 3 850 4,830 5,450 143 75 * 52 ÔÔ 2527 95 2,021+ la s t 10 13.100 6 3,525 1,545 170 10 239 40 7.009 54

Total Missionaries. 2/138 I .. i .. 1 ...... 1 ...... * Certain statistics of this Mission are here given which nre not found on roee 5 German, Scandinavian, and English-Speaking Conférence*» » . the o i ï t e g iSSF °f Bt8“°“ aide1' by tbe M“ i0nary S0C“ ‘y 1116 f^edei|>t$ of tl\e $ o é ie ty from tìje 8 e ^ :q iq g .

Contribationa D a t e s . by Conferences. L epicic*. Bible Society.

Received during the year 1820 $828 04 1821 2,328 76 1822 2,547 89 » 1828 6.427 14 *• 1824 8,5S9 92 « “ 1825 4,140 16 1S26 4,964 11 1827 6,812 49 1828 6,245 17 1S29 14,1; 6 11 * « 1830 18,128 68 1881 9,950 57 1882 11,379 66 « 1838 17,097 05 » “ 1884 86,700 15 « U 1835 80,492 21 1886 59,517 16 1537 57,096 05 1538 96,087 36 1839 182,480 29 “ “ 1840 136,410 87 1841 189,925 76 « » 1842 189,478 25 1843 144,770 80 1844 146,57S 78 1845 94,5G2 27 1846 89.52S 26 184T 7S.982 78 184S 81,600 84 « 1849 84,045 15 May 1,1849, to April 80,1850 104,579 54 “ 1850, “ 1851 126,471 81 1851, “ 1852 $188,284 44 *2,804 68 $9,893 38 150.482 48 1852, to Dec. 81,1858 298,473 89 21,262 03 16,282 97 835,968 89 Jan. 1, 1854, “ 1854 211,902 01 4,930 74 6,529 80 228,412 05 •» 185?, “ 1855 204,464 86 6,924 IT 6.815 01 21S.204 04 1856, “ 1S56 199,996 59 7,784 81 29,660 52 287,441 92 “ 1S57, “ 1S5T 247,753 18 8,544 96 12,592 89 26S,890 48 “ 1S58, “ 1S58 220,987 64 8.S13 55 26,428 42 255,224 61 1859, “ 1859 248,863 44 8,824 64 12,479 11 265,16T 19 1860, “ 1860 236,269 21 10,109 9T 10,843 69 266,722 77 “ 1861, “ 1S61 222,709 28 10,051 44 18.864 21 246,124 98 1862, “ 1862 241,247 29 12.8T4 7S 11,026 64 265,148 71 1863, “ 1863 888,109 18 16,941 24 11,748 83 416,798 75 1864, “ 1864 497,867 17 22,172 93 29,958 16 549,998 26 1865, “ 1S65 687.569 41 12,705 76 81,405 50 631,740 67 “ 1866, “ 1866 641,450 82 18,686 79 27.298 19 682,880 80 186T, “ 186T 658,520 85 28.532 17 20,468 44 607,520 96 1868, “ 1868 675,024 90 11,009 36 10,627 48 59S,16l 69 « 1809, “ 1869 576,897 48 27.01S 21 14.210 92 61S,226 61 1S70, to Oct. 8 1 ,1S70 576,774 10 12.194 45 5,775 22 694,743 77 Nov. 1, 1870, “ ISTI 603,421 70 11,456 41 8,581 14 628,459 25 “ 1S71, “ 1872 627,641 60 10,364 16 8,250 84 661,056 60 » 1872, “ 1873 647,108 76 15.817 88 17,915 60 680,886 64 “ 1878, “ 1874 618,004 99 47,003 87 9,471 96 675,080 82 “ 1874,- “ 1S75 618,927 12 85,123 15 18,485 62 662,4S5 89 1875, “ 1S76 633,594 45 61,838 09 9,255 h4 694,188 88 “ 1876, “ 1877 666,765 66 89 ,616 74 22.594 85 628,977 25 1877, “ 1878 477.166 15 41,652 12 82.546 78 651,866 05 “ 1878, “ 1879 480,42s 80 88.818 65 82:611 95 551,899 80 1879, “ 1880 500.182 46 84,710 27 22.47S 41 657,871 14 “ 1880, “ 1881 670,965 77 88,865 26 20,882 SC 625,663 89 Cioi^tófeutioi^^ ài\d fof ¥ei\ Yeài%

T h e following table shows the membership in full connec­ tion with the Church as given in the General Minutes of the calendar year named, the contributions as reported that year by the Treasurer, and the average per member for each Con­ ference each year :

BULGARIA AND TURKEY. CENTRAL ILLINOIS-CW’d.

Members. Animili!. Averti gt*. Member,-. Amount. A veraçe. Members. Amount A v erase. 1872 9,052 $145 90 «0 01.6 1876 50 $40 00 $0 80 1878 23,706 $8.977 41 $0 37.8 1873 8,141 93 65 0 91.1 1877 44 1879 23,757 9394 06 0 39.7 1874 9,764 139 75 0 01.4 38 ' 1Ô 341878 0 27 '.2 1880 23,097 9,040 99 0 39.1 1875 10,212 172 65 0 01.6 1879 22 29 75 1 ài.2 1881 21,990 10,702 94 0 48. S 1876 4,351 57 50 0 01 1880 23 ■ 40 78 1 77.3 1877 5,030 34 05 0 00.6 1881 27 CENTRAL NEW YORK. 1878 5,133 1872 27,639 22,700 79 0 82.1 1879 4,512 40 35 0 óòlà CALIFORNIA. 1873 28,532 15,512 80 0 54.3 1880 4,710 88 80 0 01.8 1872 6,314 605 15 0 09.5 1874 29,003 14,115 81 0 48.6 1881 4,272 68 75 0 01.5 1873 6,416 5,791 33 0 90.2 1875 29,980 14,157 30 0 47.2 1874 7,392 6527 59 0 85.6 1876 20,502 8,351 57 0 40.7 ARIZONA. 1875 8,029 5,641 74 0 70.2 1877 20,964 7,996 59 0 38.1 1880 | 57 I 1 50 I 0 02.6 1876 7,640 5,395 50 0 70.6 1878 20,973 8,570 66 0 40.8 1881 1 1 350 00 1 6 14 1877 8,088 4,093 36 0 50.6 1879 21,166 8,581 42 0 40.5 1878 8,17« 2,145 25 0 26.2 1880 30,614 11,104 00 0 35.9 1879 8,195 1,866 93 0 22.7 1881 30,049 12,487 28 0 41 ARKANSAS. 1880 7,844 3303 65 0 42.1 1873 3,805 416 75 0 10.9 1881 8£29 2,892 50 0 35.1 1874 4,532 346 10 0 07.6 CENTRAL OHIO. 1875 4,449 383 20 0 08.6 CENTRAL ALABAMA. 1872 19,418 10.799 27 0 55.6 1876 4,148 550 63 0 13.2 1876 5,209 4 00 0 00.7 1873 20,796 12,500 91 0 60.1 1877 4.519 401 60 0 08.8 1877 5,369 21 85 0 04 1874 21,705 11,857 24 0 54.6 1878 4,518 372 80 0 08.2 1878 6,178 30 70 0 04.9 1875 21,618 12,839 22 0 59.3 1879 3,025 250 15 0 08.2 1879 6.901 62 65 0 09 1876 22,520 10,412 36 0 46.2 1880 3,437 273 73 0 07.9 1880 6,126 16 80 0 00.2 1877 23,860 11,25« 08 0 47..1 1881 3,6« 323 86 0 08.8 6,255 IS 25 0 00.2 1878 24,099 9,540 92 0 39 1881 1879 24,281 ] 0.558 65 0 43.4 AUSTIN. 1880 24,854 10,427 80 0 41.9 CENTRAL CHINA. 1881 24,727 12,605 02 1877 400 87 15 0 21.7 0 50.9 1878 536 92 2 3 0 17.2 1876 23 .... 1877 31 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. 1879 947 299 65 0 31.6 1878 ...... 1880 913 143 80 0 15.7 48 1872 27,176 1&440 12 0 67.8 1,098 201 00 1S79 49 1881 0 18.3 18S0 52 'Ì3Ì 53 2 63" 1873 28,721 19,498 72 0 67.8 1881 57 1874 20.480 19,301 21 0 65.4 BALTIMORE. 1875 31,799 18,074 11 0 56.8 1876 32,041 17,5;j9 04 0 54.7 1872 27,660 80,775 98 1 11.2 CENTRAL GERMAN. 1877 34,840 16,595 79 0 47.6 1873 2a250 31,605 Ü5 1 11.8 1873 9,564 6,543 90 68.4 1878 33,990 15,186 56 0 44.7 1874 28,003 81,575 49 1 12.7 1873 9,962 6,20« 37 62.3 1879 34,274 15.324 97 0 44.7 1875 2i>,547 99 0 90.5 1874 10,381 53 53 20 51.5 1880 34,189 17,581 37 0 51.4 1876 27,800 20 0 94.6 1875 10,781 6.442 93 59.6 1881 34,758 20,180 61 0 58.1 1877 26,068 94 0 81.3 1876 11,020 6,097 89 55.3 1878 30,522 23,135 27 0 75 1877 11,225 6,079 41 54.1 CENTRAL TENNESSEE. 1879 33.1125 21,024 73 0 65 1878 11,322 5,797 72 51.2 1830 33,784 22,740 11 0 67 1879 11.360 6,374 70 56.1 1878 4,408 0 06.1 1881 33,351 .25,746 86 0 77 1880 11,515 6,802 58 50 1879 4,613 26H 31 0 (6.6 11,828 7,732 62 65.2 5.070 273 30 0 05.3 1881 1881 4,725 707 67 0 14.9 BLACK HILLS. 18801 CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 1881 1872 24,054 12,204 10 0 50.7 CHICAGO GERMAN. ill :: :: I 1873 22,378 12,767 37 0 57 1872 4.166 1,992 20 0 47.8 1874 34.181 12575 83 0 51.1 1873 4*329 2315 00 0 53.4 BLUE RIDGE. 1875 26.155 13,733 65 0 52.5 1874 4,552 2.347 18 0 51.5 18801 1876 24,255 11,265 48 0 46.4 1875 4,739 2,74» 42 0 58 18811 4M I 85 95 I 0 ÔÜ7 1877 21,201 10343 88 0 51.1 1876 4,811 2,557 24 0 53.1 312 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I 88l.

CHICAGO GERMAN— DETROIT—Continued. GEN ES RE— Continued.

Amount. Average, Members. Amount. Average. Memlfts. Amount. Averag». 1877 6,029 •2,901 85 $0 48.1 1875 21,204 $7,405 60 $0 34.9 1879 30,552 $11,072 04 $0 36.S 1878 5,130 2,853 89 0 55.6 1876 21,098 7,983 12 0 37.8 1880 23,380 8,581 97 0 3(>.7 187Î1 5.2(32 3,448 34 0 65.5 1877 25,(07 7,097 63 0 28.3 1881 24,003 9,826 17 0 40.8 1880 5,389 3,447 35 0 62.8 1878 25,575 7,962 40 0 31.1 1881 5,431 I 3,ü85 06 0 67 1879 25,436 7,021 71 0 27.6 1880 24,598 6,536 91 0 26.5 GEORGIA. 1881 24,651 8,657 C9 0 35.2 1872 13,036 316 70 0 02.3 CINCINNATI. 1873 11,542 13 20 0 00.1 1872 31,375 19,434 10 0 61.9 1874 11.168 344 50 0 03 1»73 32,244 17,989 08 0 55.7 EAST GERMAN. 1875 12,177 488 45 0 04 1S74 33352 16525 07 0 50.7 1872 2,776 3,279 27 1 18.1 1876 2,591 18 00 0 00.0 1875 32,623 19,609 80 0 60.1 1873 2,778 3,7)3 71 1 33.6 1877 2,459 216 80 0 08.« 1871) 33,498 15,520 92 0 46.3 1874 2,884 4391 85 1 52.2 1878 2,575 19 50 0 00.7 1*77 34330 17,801 :4 0 51.8 1875 3,065 3,953 71 1 29 1879 2,514 127 3d 0 05 1878 35348 15,264 36 0 43.1 1876 3,145 3,801 74 1 20.8 1880 2.677 167 02 0 HO 3 1879 35.486 14,743 05 0 41.5 1877 3,229 3,156 77 0 97.7 1881 2,749 186 92 0 06.7 1880 35,690 13,447 64 0 37.6 1878 3.217 2345 26 0 72.9 1881 35,643 16,488 60 0 46.2 1879 3,205 2,760 07 0 86.1 GERMANY &SWITZERLAND. 1880 3336 3324 88 0 99.6 1872 6,230 COLORADO. 1881 3,454 3491 39 1 01 1873 6,642 603 34 0 09 1872 1,070, 514 10 0 48 1874 7,022 937 67 0 13.2 1873 1,330 1,417 30 0 10.6 EAST MAINE. 1875 7348 1,366 67 0 18.6 1874 1,720 1,430 42 0 83.1 1872 8,616 2,543 °2 0 29.ß 1876 7,900 1,526 80 0 19.1 1875 1,S23 1385 45 0 76 1873 8,223 2,793 35 0 33.9 1877 8,637 1,548 12 0 17.9 1«76 1,839 1,044 50 0 56.7 1874 8,280 2,502 05 0 30.2 1878 9,083 1.S26 70 0 16-8 1877 1,916 1,157 30 0 60.4 1875 8365 2,449 92 0 29.2 1879 9,191 1,3! 1269 0 15.1 1878 2,035 1,218 7a 0 61.3 1876 8,430 1,899 63 0 22.5 1880 94« 1.296 50 0 13.7 1879 2,623 1.584 90 0 60.4 1877 8317 1,783 6H 0 2 0 .2 1881 9,717 1,300 90 0 i3.a 1880 2,953 1388 61 0 63.9 1878 9,156 1,51« 91 0 16.5 1881 3.253 2366 30 0 72.1 1879 9,435 1,687 90 0 1 HOLSTON. 1880 9,616 1,604 35 0 16.6 1881 9309 1,749 95 0 18.7 1872 I 20,233 891 21 0 04.4 COLUMBIA RIVER. 1873 20,725 1,096 09 0 08.1 1876 1,120 473 27 0 42.2 EAST OHIO. 1874 21,397 20 00 0 00.9 2,413 99 1877 1,587 652 30 0 41.1 1876 40,048 719 68 0 01.7 1875 20,(33 0 11.7 1873 1,714 143 00 0 08.3 1877 41,627 19293 3 0 60.7 0 12.1 1880 3C.1C2 6,365 05 0 21.1 1878 618 350 00 0 56.6 1879 2356 289 25 1881 29.470 , 6,772 22 0 22.» 1879 G26 396 37 0 63.3 1880 2,448 525 07 0 21.4 1880 401 74 1881 2^47 396 77 1 0 15.5 IOWA. 1881 *607 396 37 0 65 FOOCHOW. 1872 19,408 6,687 23 0 34.4 6.058 91 0 31.8 1874 100 00 1873 18,985 DES MOINES...... 1874 18,971 6,358 79 0 33.5 1875 1875 18,888 7,492 05 0 39.6 1872 15331 2.772 51 0 18 1876 1.255 0 32 1>C! 15,732 3,629 78 0 23 1877 1541 1876 19,653 6306 92 1x74 4,029 43 1877 20,416 6.027 04 0 29.4 16331 0 24.6 1878 1355 'ióó ÓÓ 0 07.3 08T I «75 17,5:» 5,450 96 0 31 1879 1384 260 0(1 0 18.7 1878 19,987 5,411 43 1876 19,670 : 3,573 06 0 18.1 1879 19,501 5,till 03 0 28.it 1880 1468 81 16 0 05.5 18,423 6.027 25 0 32.7 1877 20,885 7,012 12 0 33.5 1881. 1468 182 52 0 12.4 1880 1878 21.110 5,418 58 0 25.6 1881 18,873 7,120 54 0 87.7 1879 22,493 4,655 49 0 2(1.6 GENESEE. 1880 21,148 5,783 09 0 27.3 ITALY. 1881 22433 7325 79 0 33.1 1872 522 25 1873 1881 1 720 1 .... 1874 DETROIT. 1875 JAPAN. 1872 20.147 I 8.874 68 0 44 1876 59,116 "27 45 0 00.9 1875 I 1873 19,824 8.411 97 0 42.4 1877 29,247 12,130 08 0 41.4 1876 43 :::: 1874 20,731 I 7,813 70 0 37.6 1878 81,533 10,458 74 0 33.1 1877 I 114 .... 18 8 1.] CONTRIBUTIONS AND AVERAGE. 313

JAPAN--Continued. MEXICO—Continued. NEWARK.

Members Amount. Average. Members Amount. Average. Members Amount. Average.

1878 255 $100 01) $ 0 3 9 . 1 1878 314 $200 00 $0 63.6 1872 28,419 $17,162 82 $0 60.3 1879 477 100 00 0 2 0 .9 1879 241 200 00 0 S3 1873 29,319 19,479 57 0 66.4 1880 478 100 00 0 20.9 1880 337 201 96 0 59.9 1874 29,993 19,594 01 0 65.3 1881 507 1881 338 166 48 0 49.4 1875 31,634 17,753 63 0 56.1 1876 32,494 15,740 42 0 48.4 KANSAS. MICHIGAN. 1877 35,108 16,887 10 0 48.1 1878 35567 14,568 81 0 41.3 1872 14,725 3,074 42 0 2 0 .8 1872 21,579 9,174 07 0 42.5 1879 35,494 11,198 40 0 40 1873 15,083 2.913 56 0 19.3 22,463 9352 97 0 41.6 1873 1880 34,499 14598 80 0 41.4 1874 9,161 1,783 19 0 18.9 1874 23,295 7,913 58 0 33.9 1881 34,932 15,223 4b 0 43.6 1875 1,093 01 0 11.6 7,945 63 0 33.1 & ÎÎ8 1875 23,937 1876 9,219 1,323 63 0 14.3 1876 25,766 6,618 00 0 25.6 1877 9,505 1,649 02 0 17.3 1877 26,300 7,364 02 0 28 NEW ENGLAND. 1,551 32 0 14.7 1878 10,540 1878 28,174 6,766 35 0 24 1872 24,213 18,510 37 0 76.4 1879 12,^55 1,827 93 0 14.6 1879 28349 6,199 07 0 21.4 1873 25,159 25554 23 1 00.3 0 11.8 1880 lo,ill 1,837 39 1880 28,879 7396 58 0 27.3 1874 26596 21,589 14 0 82.1 2,093 84 0 12.3 1881 17,126 1831 29,171 7,908 74 0 27.1 1875 26,9 U 19,840 85 0 73.6 1876 26,862 15,547 57 0 57.8 KENTUCKY. MINNESOTA. 1877 27,549 17,318 58 0 62.8 1872 15,099 2,092 33 0 13.8 1872 10,450 7,464 72 0 71.4 1878 28,330 12362 16 0 45.4 1873 15,636 2,343 23 0 14.3 1873 10303 4,429 77 0 41 1879 27,968 12,156 85 0 43.4 1874 15,704 2,572 58 0 16.3 1874 10380 1,042 15 0 09 5 1880 28,280 13,144 75 0 46.4 1875 15,731 2,375 90 0 15.1 1875 12,2)1 4,520 30 0 37‘ 1881 29,129 12,717 00 0 43.6 1876 16,512 2,364 05 0 14.3 1876 12,o93 3,970 18 0 31.5 1877 15,592 2,222 83 0 14.2 1877 12,549 5J36 19 0 40.9 NEtt BNGLJlND SOUrDHERN. 1878 15,687 2,070 38 0 13.1 1878 13,500 4,090 11 0 34.6 1879 16,074 1,857 99 0 11.5 1879 14,257 4,226 05 0 29.6 Formerli! Providanee.) 1880 17,002 2,833 42 0 16.6 1880 13,211 3,694 75 0 27.9 1872 17,175 11,655 85 1881 16513 2,116 19 0 13 1881 13,195 4,389 53 0 32.2 0 69 1873 17328 12,003 66 0 73.1 LEXINGTON. 1874 17,904 12,014 42 0 67.1 MISSISSIPPL 1876 18,680 1872 6,830 I 62 50 0 0 0.9 11,017 15 0 59 1872 23,250 487 70 0 02 1876 18,974 9,137 41 0 48 1873 O VIO fili QX 0 00.8 1873 26,446 331 65 0 01.2 1877 19,426 9,433 43 0 48.5 1874 0 ,739 19(3 51 0 02.9 1874 26,189 542 81 0 02 1878 19,903 8,769 52 0 44 1875 5,875 134 30 0 02.1 1875 2;i,453 1879 20,407 7,508 86 0 36.8 1876 6,871 148 73 0 02.1 1876 25,721 "Ü 2 ÒÓ 0 òó:4 1880 20,880 7,515 10 0 35.5 1877 7,0H1 10,) 56 0 01.4 1877 21,775 208 75 0 00.9 1881 20,678 8^80 18 0 41.4 1878 8,471 153 12 0 01.8 1878 24,091 297 00 0 01.2 1879 5,826 161 63 0 02.8 1879 20,101 128 10 0 00.4 1880 6,109 230 50 0 03.7 1880 23,029 337 65 0 01.4 NEW HAMPSHIBlE. 1881 6502 343 35 0 05.5 1881 21,491 199 05 0 00.9 1872 11,992 o,818 74 0 48.6 LIBERIA. 1873 11,931 6,472 08 0 54.2 MISSOURI. 1872 2,065 1874 12,273 6,417 62 0 52.5 1873 2,000 1872 13341 2,021 48 0 14.6 1875 12,372 5332 77 0 47.1 1874 1,892 1873 12,783 1,693 60 0 13.2 1876 12,173 4,052 82 0 38.2 1875 2,100 * 30 ÓÓ 0 ÔÜ4 1874 14,609 1,630 66 0 11.1 1877 12,515 4,523 81 0 36.1 1876 2,115 1875 14,682 1,516 55 0 10.3 1878 13,049 3,985 85 0 30.5 1879 13,001 3,851 88 0 29.6 1877 2,200 ’ '3 3 ÔÔ 0 oils 1876 14,188 1,606 40 0 11.3 1878 1544 29 75 0 01.5 1877 11,706 1,679 35 0 11.4 1880 12,073 3,532 87 0 27.8 1879 1878 16,025 1,216 61 0 07.5 1831 12463 3,820 33 0 31.4 1880 1,962 " 2 9 75 0 ÔÜ5 1879 16,020 1.304 43 0 08 1 1881 2,044 82 62 0 04 1880 16,731 1,613 93 0 09.6 NEW JERSEY. 1831 17,595 1305 77 0 10.2 1872 28,045 17,244 87 0 61.4 LITTLE ROCK. 1873 27,592 18,259 73 0 66.1 18791 1,443 102 20 0 07 MONTANA. 1874 29,278 19.136 90 0 65.3 1880 1,362 189 50 0 13.9 1875 28,863 10,804 52 0 58.2 18811 1,6281 163 70 0 10.7 1877 248 137 00 0 65.2 1876 29,455 15,821 41 0 53.7 1878 295 131 00 0 44.4 1877 31,805 15333 69 0 48.2 LOUISIANA. 1879 327 136 00 0 41.6 1878 32,554 13,9-15 72 0 42.8 1880 298 1879 33,714 14,384 85 0 42.6 1872 8,564 884 80 0 1 0 .3 1881 343 "Ì27 75 0 37Ì2 1873 8,760 727 72 0 08.3 1880 34.290 15,535 50 0 45.3 34,918 1874 9,043 876 95 0 09.6 1881 16,266 61 0 46.6 1875 9,666 531 20 0 05.4 JNEBUASliA. 1876 9,258 562 80 0 06 1872 4,618 775 46 0 14.6 IIK W XIT’-VTT’ A 1877 9,201 412 75 0 04.4 1873 5,672 1,062 7« 0 18.7 1878 8.806 484 20 0 05.4 1874 7,444 821 48 0 11 1874 20 00 1879 8,824 488 80 0 05.5 1875 7,822 793 23 0 10.1 1875 11 20 1880 9,543 694 35 0 07.2 1876 8,851 801 09 0 09 1876 'i r ë 45 00 0 26 " 1881 8,938 327 90 0 03.6 1877 a039 1,091 46 0 1 3 6 1877 197 90 50 0 45.9 1878 9,618 944 50 0 09.8 1878 208 10 00 0 04.8 MAINE. 1879 9,982 1,370 09 0 13.7 1879 261 100 00 0 38.3 1880 9,511 1,256 94 0 13.2 1880 272 150 00 0 55.1 1872 11586 4,533 77 0 40.1 1881 335 150 00 0 44.7 1873 11,223 5,238 83 0 46.6 1881 10,047 1,660 96 0 16.5 1874 11,328 5,402 11 0 47.6 1875 11,661 5,312 91 0 45.5 NEVADA. NEW YORK. 1870 10,599 4,260 00 0 40.1 1872 411 262 70 0 63.9 1872 36,960 40.357 29 1 09.1 1877 11,941 3,626 48 0 30-3 1873 494 236 21 0 47.8 1873 38,499 41,092 41 1 06.7 1878 12,410 2,687 35 0 21.6 1874 296 25 0 72 1874 38,447 36,949 24 0 96.1 1879 411 11,021 2,593 24 0 22.3 1875 515 303 35 0 58.9 1875 38,011 39,633 03 1 02.7 1880 2306 59 11,537 0 19.9 1876 585 177 50 0 30.3 1876 39.265 30,819 71 0 78.7 1881 >10,421 2382 37 0 27.6 1877 709 189 50 0 26.7 1877 42,024 41,932 28 0 98.3 1878 631 198 30 0 31.4 1878 43,393 29.689 33 0 68.4 1879 710 225 35 0 31.7 1879 43,698 28,2-22 81 0 65.2 1876 120 .... 1880 858 221 25 0 25.7 1880 44,475 28,048 12 0 63 1877 273 : : : : : : .... 1881 745 253 40 0 34 1881 44,199 32,029 83 0 72.9 314 MISSIONARY REPORT. [ l 88l.

NEW YORK EAST. NORTH-WEST GER.- Çont'd. PITTSBURGH.

Members. Amount. Average. Members. Amount. Average. Members. Amount. Average, 1872 35,705 $42,097 17 ♦1 17.9 1877 4591 •Ì992 51 •0 59.9 1872 47332 •22,576 65 •0 47.5 1878 35585 41,616 30 1 15.6 1878 6,232 444 25 0 08.4 1873 48334 21,460 40 0 44.4 1874 36341 37,938 05 1 02.9 1879 5389 4.608 96 0 85 1874 51,438 24,617 15 0 47.9 1875 38,165 32352 32 0 86 1880 2,755 68 1875 52,075 254)94 46 0 49 1876 37,921 28,178 13 0 74.3 1881 5,512 3*249 29 0 5819 1876 32,185 27/105 29 0 85.5 1877 39,602 80,322 63 0 76.5 1877 30386 10.224 60 0 32.4 1878 3 8 3 0 25,128 09 0 65.1 NORTH-WEST INDIANA. 1878 30,801 7,847 06 0 25.5 1879 40,503 24,063 22 0 59.4 1872 20,831 6,302 77 0 30, 1879 82542 10,210 13 0 31.7 1880 41,074 27.051 70 0 65.8 1873 21,591 6,052 15 028 1880 32,058 10,671 35 0 33.2 1881 41,551 31,616 05 0 76 1874 23,(135 5,492 30 0 23, 1881 82346 11379 46 0 38.1 1875 23,092 5335 18 0 22, NORTH CAROLINA. 1876 23,780 4,398 26 0 18 ROCK RIVER. 1877 25,002 6,083 38 0 24. 1872 7,230 198 70 0 02.7 1872 22,548 334)61 93 0 57.9 1873 7,255 483 85 0 <)6.6 1878 24,178 3,853 48 0 15, 1879 23,264 4308 51 . 1873 22372 12,445 27 0 55.6 1874 7,803 170 65 0 02.1 0 20 1874 23,116 1875 7,399 159 35 0 02.1 1880 23,327 5,044 33 0 21.6 12,447 84 0 53.8 1881 23,374 5424 01 0 21.9 1875 23,703 14.100 32 0 63.7 1876 8317 138 97 0 01.6 1876 23,101 11,620 a5 0 50.3 1877 a728 74 69 0 00.8 NORTH-WEST IOWA. 1877 25,478 13,104 03 0 51.4 1878 ai4s 119 69 0 01.4 1878 25,708 9,869 68 0 38.4 1879 8,762 109 62 0 01.2 1872 3392 368 80 0 10.8 1873 3.459 552 46 0 15.9 1879 25381 11.995 84 0 47.2 1880 6,149 116 01 0 01.8 1880 25,243 12,161 23 0 48.1 1881 6,384 184 96 0 02.9 1874 3,403 519 14 0 15.2 1875 4J33 619 70 0 15 1881 24,116 15303 92 0 63.7 1876 4.994 15 00 0 00.3 NORTH CHINA. 1877 4555 1308 77 0 26.4 SAINT LOUIS. 187« 39 ...... 1*78 5336 675 05 0 12.6 1872 16,150 2.978 10 0 18.4 1B77 59 •••« • • 1879 6,184 947 32 0 15.3 1873 13,574 2,621 70 0 19.4 1878 77 50 00 0 64.9 1880 5,902 779 53 0 13.2 1874 13,841 1,848 00 0 14.3 126 50 00 0 39.8 1881 4,495 1,096 60 0 22.8 1875 14.119 2,120 26 0 15 18B0 162 47 31 0 29.2 1876 13,917 2,213 62 0 16 W81 210 NORTH-WEST NORWEGIAN. 1877 13,125 3.231 68 0 24.6 1880 1 2336 I 1,202 091 0 51.4 1878 13,489 3,141 27 0 23.3 NORTHERN NEW YORK. 1882 1 2321 I 1359 961 0 80.1 1879 13,230 2356 23 0 17.8 1873 21,318 13,780 93 0 64.6 NORTH-WEST SWEDISH. 1880 14,171 2,490 73 0 17.5 1874 214557 13,070 27 0 63.1 1881 9303 8,484 67 0 37.4 187a 14,016 90 0 63 1877 3343 2,025 14 0 55.6 1876 22,807 11,955 06 0 52.4 1878 3,912 1,603 92 0 41 SAINT LOUIS GERMAN. 1877 23355 10,567 88 0 44.3 1679 4,180 1581 25 0 47.4 1878 23,046 10,046 75 0 44 1880 4,571 1598 89 0 43.7 18791 7364 ¡ 4,544 30 I O 60 IS 79 24X10 8,436 93 0 34.2 1881 4,930 2,118 30 0 48.2 1880 7,9081 4,597 45 0 58.1 1880 24,478 8^33 83 0 36 1881 1 7,9821 5392 56 1 0 67.5 1881 244387 9,228 76 0 37.3 NORWAY. 1873 269 34 SAVANNAH. NORTH INDIA. 1874 577 69 1875 970 20 1876 9,728 240 80 0 02.4 1872 687 1876 2,185 1356 75 0 4¿:¿ 1877 10,950 206 30 0 01.8 1873 793 1877 2,04 2363 20 0 89 1878 10304 250 32 0 02.4 187-t 876 1878 2,821 623 72 0 22.1 1879 9535 311 55 0 03.1 1875 1,145 1367 35 1 19.4 1879 2,823 564 67 0 20 1880 11,092 294 53 0 02.5 1876 1,283 512 50 0 89.9 1880 2,558 382 17 0 13.3 1881 II453 478 50 0 04.3 1877 1,281 545 30 0 42.5 1881 2,782 535 20 0 19.4 1878 1,298 330 70 0 25.4 SOUTH AMERICA. 1879 1,468 197 17 0 13.4 OHIO. 1881 1! 224 1 ...... 1 1880 1,532 172 55 0 11.2 1872 35,792 19,483 71 0 54.4 1881 1,916 248 24 0 14.9 1873 36*513 19,269 64 0 53 1874 36,694 16,804 33 0 45.7 SOUTH CAROLINA. NORTH INDIANA. 1875 86,459 164507 15 0 44.7 1872 24,304 2,862 78 0 11.3 1872 24,700 8,595 51 0 34.7 1876 88,653 13,121 49 0 33.9 1873 21,344 2,t>37 71 0 12.3 1873 24.7G8 8,493 95 0 34.2 1877 41,417 14398 75 0 34.5 1874 25,608 2,195 91 0 08.5 1874 25,030 8,174 44 0 32.6 1878 41,607 13,222 09 0 31.7 1875 24325 2,C38 05 0 10 8 1875 25,079 7,512 30 0 29.9 1879 42,0!6 14,218 22 0 33.8 187« 26,271 2.325 56 0 08.8 1876 25,501 5.989 18 0 23.4 1880 41,933 14,103 76 0 33.6 1877 2'),0D2 1,403 54 0 05.6 1877 26352 5,890 02 0 21.8 1881 ' 42,7111 15381 77 0 87.1 1878 26,058 1,720 71 0 06.6 1878 27300 5^29 83 0 20.2 1879 26,026 1,924 98 0 07.3 1879 27,584 5,745 88 0 20.8 OREGON. 1880 27,044 2,337 24 0 08.6 1880 29308 0,21« 90 0 21 1872 4,218 1,779 02 0 42.1 1881 28,939 2,288 01 0 07.9 1881 27m 6,808 86 0 24.5 1873 4,349 2,702 86 0 62.1 1874 3,012 336 82 0 11.1 SOUTH-EAST INDIANA. NORTH OHIO. 1«75 3,240 419 45 0 12.9 1872 23,147 6,533 98 0 28.8 19,004 11,401 75 0 60.1 1876 8,'¡23 848 02 0 23.3 0 29 1872 60 0 24 1873 23,193 6,717 11 W73 20,308 11.702 76 0 57.4 1877 8.782 908 1874 24,028 64364 66 0 23.5 1874 20,651 10,239 68 0 49.5 1878 3,798 777 25 0 20.4 1875 25,835 5,773 17 0 21.9 1875 21 ”80 10,717 72 0 50.3 1879 4,013 918 58 0 22.8 1876 24,910 6,711 87 0 22.9 1876 22Ï>9* 8.521 72 0 37.7 1880 3,9(16 «02 50 0 15.1 1877 25,468 4,583 37 018 1877 23.25« 9,203 42 0 39.5 1881 4,048 774 30 0 19.1 1878 25.107 4,665 21 0 18.3 1878 2-Ì821 7,701 08 0 33.7 PHILADELPHIA. 1879 25,483 4,606 99 0 18 1879 23.449 8,314 86 0 85.4 I860 24,724 4,728 54 0 19 1880 23.178 8,579 18 0 37 1872 35382 51,325 00 1 43 1881 24,090 4,902 31 0 16.8 1881 23,607 8379 66 0 33.3 1*73 34.529 Sil^lO 95 1 54.6 1874 35578 5.5,017 5' 1 52.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 1875 38,534 46,000 00 1 19.3 NORTH-WEST GERMAN. 1876 1,257 352 10 0 28 1876 39341 42.755 35 1 07.2 0 34.4 1872 3327 2,463 90 0 «7 1877 41,969 45,099 00 1 07.4 1877 1.479 sor» 70

1873 3,87« 3,020 91 0 77.9 1878 40.(UiO 44,484 00 1 09.4 1878 1,576 832 50 0 21 1874 . 4,137 34)42 40 0 73.5 1879 41,010 84,125 70 0 S3.1 1879 1,674 296 85 0 17.7 1875 4397 8.2-53 71 0 74 1880 43,816 38,010 17 0 86.7 1880 1,630 444 23 0 27.2 1876 4,763 2.727 75 0 57 1881 44,521 46240 00 1 03.8 I 1881 1,735 649 90 0 37.4 i 88i.l CONTRIBUTIONS AND AVERAGE. 315

SOUTHERN GERMAN. TROY. WEST NEBRASKA,

Member«. Amount. Average. Members. Amount. Average. Members. Amount. Average.

1874 438 $301 00 #0 68.7 1872 29,010 ♦16,176 67 $0 55 ISsO *78 75 1875 602 710 70 1 18 1873 28,395 18,316 57 0 64.5 1881 1.605 199 77 » 0 i s u 1876 743 844 85 1 13.7 1874 29,550 18,555 87 0 62.1 1877 924 919 90 0 99.5 1875 30.769 17,4,-.7 68 0 56.7 WEST TEXAS. 1878 1.048 1,132 20 0 98.4 1876 31,516 15,280 67 0 48.4 1874 89 50 1879 1,085 1,316 70 1 21.3 1877 32.372 12,761 15 0 39.4 1875 5338 215 40 0 04 “ 1880 1.251 1,205 40 0 96.3 1878 33,128 10,968 02 0 33.1 1876 6,751 214 35 0 U3.1 1881 1,251 1,679 95 1 35.7 1879 34,004 10,198 51 0 29.9 1877 4,524 307 51 0 06.7 1880 34,673 10,119 20 0 29.4 1876 5,020 266 57 J) Ü5.7 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. 1881 29,502 11,475 42 0 38.8 1879 5,705 352 15 0 <16-1 1880 5,793 322 50 0 05.6 1872 23,030 6,652 14 028.8 UPPER IOWA. 1881 5,940 41U 59 0 Û S .9 1873 22,238 6,271 74 028.2 5,752 30 0 30.4 1874 22,732 5,162 40 022 7 1872 WEST VIRGINIA. 1875 23,370 4,811 57 021)17 1873 17,657 5,864 ‘JS 0 33.2 1876 23,653 4,272 73 018 1874 17,427 5,911 61 0 33.9 1872 23,842 3,585 34 0 15.4 1877 23,603 4.753 80 020.1 1875 18,362 0,410 82 0 34.9 1873 22,407 3,467 47 0 16.4 1878 23,808 4,810 85 020.2 187K 18,679 5,249 02 0 28 1874 23,830 3,528 51 0 14.8 1879 23,771 5,096 33 021.4 1877 20,562 7,769 93 0 37.3 1875 25,116 3,703 24 0 14.9 1880 24,616 5,881 91 023.8 1878 21,445 5,936 40 0 27.6 1876 26,640 3,403 61 0 12.7 m i 23.428 6,497 61 Q22.8 1879 21,101 6,263 02 0 29.0 1877 26,535 5,681 58 (I 19.9 1880 20,090 6,356 69 0 30.7 1878 30,189 2,276 58 0 07.5 1881 8,388 78 0 42.2 1879 29,451 2,501) 13 0 08.4 SOUTH INDIA. 1880 30.892 2,744 32 0 08.8 18791 1,439 I 363 66 I 0 25.2 UTAH. 1881 30,477 3,078 76 0 10.3 1880 1,363 363 66 0 26.6 1877 143 39 65 027.7 18811 1,253 I I 1878 118 162 25 1 09.7 WEST WISCONSIN. 1879 159 •125 75 079 1872 10,623 3,213 21 0 30.2 SOUTH KANSAS. 1881) 142 1S73 10,638 3,280 17 0 30.9 1881 142 "Ì38 75 097” 1874 11,178 3,024 87 087 1874 9,226 799 04 008.6 1875 10,743 3,306 90 0 30.7 1875 9,339 702 45 007.5 VERMONT. 1876 11,018 2,507 12 0 22.7 1876 11,135 1,013 79 009.1 1877 1&09Ó 2,892 67 0 23.9 1877 12,141 1,131 55 09.7 1872 9,978 4,791 51 048 0 II 48.5 1878 11,901 2,329 48 0 19-5 1878 13.362 1,425 98 010.6 1873 10,044 • 4,877 31 1879 11,812 2,66874 0 22.5 1879 15,686 1,794 37 011.4 1874 9,632 ! 4,415 19 0 44.9 92 9,736 4,529 00 0 46.5 1880 11,544 2,547 1880 17,138 1,980 74 011.5 1875 1861 11,138 aiot) 62 1881 16,855 2,260 96 ; 0 13.4 J876 10,926 4.017 67 0 36.7 1877 11,443 3,783 57 0 Ü3.1 WILMINGTON. SWEDEN. 1878 12.799 3,298 63 0 25.7 1879 11,676 2,987 71 0 25.5 21,376 15,411 71 0 72 1874 1.337 90 1880 11,967 2,8311 57 0 24 1873 21,774 11,198 94 0 51.4 1875 1,666 73 1881 16,024 3,507 36 0 21.8 1874 5&312 11,617 90 022 1876 4,136 1,056 70 0 25,5 1875 23,228 10Æ51 04 0 45.4 0 43.8 1877 4,171 2,363 20 0 56.6 VIRGINIA- 1876 23,980 10,521 28 1878 4,922 1,658 00 0 33.6 1877 24,908 9,494 12 0 38.1 1879 5,53ii 1,641 68 0 29 6 1872 4,993 714 43 014.3 1878 24,932 10,167 35 0 40,7 1880 5.938 1,649 28 0 26.6 1873 4,799 787 13 016.4 1879 25Æ19 9,204 28 0 36.5 1881 6,300 1,960 22 0 31 1874 5,240 869 56 016.5 1880 26,734 10,024 09 0 37.4 1875 5,06 789 10 014.6 1881 26,429 11,318 70 0 41.6 TENNESSEE. 1876 5,638 62D 43 011 1877 5,661 464 36 008.5 WISCONSIN. 1872 10,166 397 07 0 03.9 1878- 5,565 501 61 009 1873 9,728 965 71 0 03.2 1879 5,902 663 45 011.2 1872 13,-505 7,068 69 0 83,3 1874 9,895 758 90 0 06.2 1880 6,186 560 09 009 1873 13,552 7,166 23 058 1875 10,127 742 88 0 07.3 1881 6,124 508 40 008.3 1874 13,642 6,067 52 0 44.4 1876 10,594 503 81 0 05.3 1875 13,960 6,321 66 0 45.3 1877 10,328 632 56 0 06.1 1876 13,896 5,244 37 0 37.7 1878 5,195 107 13 0 02 WASHINGTON. 1877 14,106 5,817 74 0 41.2 1879 6,921 307 04 0 04.4 1872 22,355 1,562 62 0 07.4 1878 18,974 5,222 66 0 37.3 1880 5£73 405 37 0 07.1 1873 22,136 1,649 50 0 07.4 1879 13,965 5,151 18 0 »¡,8 1881 6.684 412 18 0 06.2 1874 23,160 1,983 95 0 08.5 1880 12.456 4,174 23 0 33.5 1875 23,080 1,998 37 0 03.6 1881 12,136 4383 35 0 35,2 TEXAS. 1876 24,703 2,103 53 0 08.5 1872 8,667 227 70 0 02.6 1877 23,9» 1,666 04 0 06.9 WYOMING. 1S73 11,882 648 00 0 05.5 1878 35.559 1,746 18 0 06.8 1872 22,509 11,70« 07 0 52 1874 15,014 382 00 0 02.4 1879 27,113 1,769 99 0 06.5 1873 22,827 11,602 02 0 50.8 1875 10,994 282 50 0 02 1880 26,498 1.973 51 0 07.4 1874 23,187 11,605 85 0 50 1881 1,071 37 0 03.7 1875 24,215 12,191 66 0 50.3 1876 10 00 004 1876 24,953 11.704 03 0 46.9 1877 7,874 196 74 0 02.5 WEST GERMAN. 1877 26,344 10,730 98 0 40.8 1878 7,600 168 70 0 02.5 1878 26,698 aOii 39 0 33.4 1879 7,256 189 05 0 02.6 1879 3,015 I 1,481 981 0 49.1 1*79 26,935 7,721 49 0 28.6 1880 8,799 230 10 0 02.6 1880 3,193 1,654 72 0 51.8 1880 27,519 8,406 90 0 30.5 1881 9,484 533 15 U 05.6 1881 8.340 ] 237 781 0 06.1 1881 27,565 9.689 74 0 79.8 ©ifedtctfy of iW eigq

SENT FROM THE UNITED STATES TO FOREIGN LANDS.

P ost-O f fic b A d d r e s s .

Badley, B. H ...... Lucknow, India...... Des Moines. Baldwin, S. L...... In U. S., Newark, N. J„ P. O. Newark. Bare, C. L ...... Shahjehanpore, India...... Des Moines. Barker, J. M ...... Pachuca, Mexico...... East Ohio. Bishop, Charles...... Tokio, Japan...... North Indiana Blackstock, John ...... Madras, India...... N. W . Indiana. Bovard, M. Y ...... Massoorie, India...... S. E. Indiana. Bowen, George*...... Bombay, India...... 1879 Bowser, W ...... Roorkee, India...... Erie. 1870 Buck, P .'M ...... Nynee Tal, India...... Kansas. 1874 Butler, J. W ...... City of Mexico, 5 Calle de Gante New England. 1869 Carlsson, B. A * ...... Carlskrona, Sweden...... Erie. 1879 Carter, R. E ...... Hyderabad, India...... Wilmington. 1880 Carter, T. C ...... In U. S., Huntingdon, Tenn Central Tenn. 1875 Challis, D. C ...... Loftcha, Bulgaria...... Detroit. 1874 Chandler, D. W ...... Foochow, China...... Erie. 1875 Cheney, N. G ...... Nynee Tal, India...... N. Y. East 1879 Collyer, J. W ...... Iquique, Peru...... E. Maine. 1873 Correll, I. H ...... In U. S., Morristown, P a... Philadelphia. 1872 Craven, T ...... Lucknow, India...... Rock River. 1875 Craver, S. P ...... In U. S., Red Oak, Iowa... Iowa. 1871, Cunningham, E ...... in U. S., Belfast, Maine__ N. Y. East. 1875 Davis, F. G ...... Secunderabad, India...... Rock River. 1870 Davis, G. R ...... Peking, China...... Detroit. 1877 Davisson, W. C ...... H akodati...... N. W . Indiana. 1873 Davison, J. C...... Nagasaki, Japan...... Newark. 1880 Dease, Stephen S., M.D. Bareilly,.India. Pittsburgh. 1879 Derrick, Israel...... 'South America E. Maine. 1850 Doering, C. H." Bremen, Germany...... New York.' 1880 Draper, G. F.... Yokohama, Japan...... Central N. Y. 1874 Drees, C. W.... City of Mexico, Mexico...... Providence. 1876 Economoff, J. J.. Tirnova, Bulgaria...... Newark. 1880 Eltzholts, C. F.* . Horsens, Denmark...... Wisconsin. 1872 Fox, D. O ...... Bombay, India ...... North Ohio. 1878 Gamble, J. W.... Agra, India...... Genesee. i88t Gamewell, F. D . Peking, China...... Newark. 1879 Gilliland, J. P ... Lobos Island, Peru...... Troy. r87i Gill, J. H ...... In U. S., Kalamazoo, M ich... Rock River. 1871 Gladwin, W. J ... Bombay, India...... Saint Louis. 1873 Gray, Dr. R ...... Pithoragarh, E. Kumaon, India. Delaware. 1880 Greenman, A. W. Queretero, Mexico...... N. Indiana. 1865 Hart, V. C Kiukiang, China...... Black River. 1873 Harris, M. C ...... j Tokio, Japan Pittsburgh. 1879 Higgins, J. W ...... ICoquimbo, Chili E. Maine. West. German. 1879 Hoffman, H enry...... jValdivia, Chili.. * For the purposes of this directory, the names of the persons designated by the asterisk, who are not strictly Foreign Missionaries, are inserted in this list. I oc .] DIRECTORY OF FOREIGN MISSIONARIES,

Da t j OF P o st -O f f ic e A d d r e s s . A p p’t 1867 Hoskins, R...... Budaon, India...... 1857 Humphrey, Dr. J. L ...... Nynee Tal, India...... 1873 Hykes, J. R ...... Kiukiang, China...... 1880 lacobs, S. P ...... Bombay, India ...... 1876 [anney, L. R ...... Calcutta, India...... 187g leffreys, A. T ...... Concepcion, Chili...... 1862 [ohnson, Dr. T. S...... Shahjehanpore, India...... 1880 [ones, A. R ...... Timova, Bulgaria...... 1879 [Castendieck, H. F ...... Nynee Tal, India...... 1881 •Cemble, Duston...... Leon, Mexico...... 1879 iCirkfM. B ...... Bandikui, India...... 1879 inower, O ...... Valdivia, Chili...... Cnowles, S.*...... Gondah, India...... 1881 «Cupfer, C...... Kiukiang, China...... 1880 .add, J. S ...... Sistof, Bulgaria...... a Fetra, A. H ...... Santiago, Chili ...... 1879 ^atham, C. L...... Aspinwall, South America.... 1855 ^arsson, J. P .* ...... Calmar, Sweden...... r88o ^awson, J. C ...... Cawnpore, India...... 1875 ^ee, David H ...... Bangalore, India...... 1881 ..ewis, S...... Kiukiang, China ...... 1857 -ong, A. L ...... Constantinople, Turkey...... 1880 -ong, C. S ...... Nagasaki, Japan ...... 1875 ^ounsbury, E. F ...... Rustchuck, Bulgaria...... 1867 ,owry, H . H ...... Peking, China...... 1879 *0“ . J ...... Kurachee, India...... 1872 laclay, R. S...... Yokohama, Japan...... 1862 lansell, Henry...... Moradabad, India...... 1875 l ’Grew, G. H ...... Cawnpore, India...... 1873 [’Henry, A. D ...... In U. S., Boston, M ass...... 1870 1’Mahon, J. T ...... Roy Bareilly, India...... i860 lessmore, J. H ...... Lucknow, India ...... 1873 ludge, J ...... Lucknow, India...... 1880 leeld, Francis L ...... Cawnpore, India...... 1875 lewlon, W. E ...... Madras, India...... 1850 iippert, L ...... Frankfurt-au-Main, Germany . 1877 forthrup, J. A ...... Bombay, India...... 1851 luelson, H ...... Carlsruhe, Germany...... 1880 >akes, T . H...... Bombay, India...... 1870 )hlinger, F * ...... Foochow, China...... 1874 )sborne, Dennis...... Allahabad, India...... 1877 >sborne, W. B...... Madras, India...... 1878 >sgood, Joel...... Monrovia, Africa...... 1859 'arker, E. W ...... Moradabad, India...... 1870 'ilcher, L. W ...... Nan-kung, China...... 1870 'lumb, N. J ...... Foochow, China...... 1873 yke, J. H ...... In U. S., Tipton, In d ...... 1879 Lichards, Ira A ...... Bangalore, India ...... 1872 ¡.obbins, W. E ...... Poona, India...... 1874 Lobinson, J. E ...... Rangoon, Burmah...... 1876 Low, I. F ...... Madras, India...... 1873 chou, K a rl*...... Copenhagen, Denmark...... 1879 chreeves, O ...... Poona, India...... « 1862 cott, T. J ...... Bareilly, India...... 1873 cott, J. E ...... Seetapore, India...... haw, James*...... Lahore, India...... 1875 iberts, S. W ...... Miraflores, Mexico...... 1862 ites, Nathan...... Foochow, China...... 318 MISSIONARY REPORT. [1881.

P o st -O f f i c e A d d r e s s . F b o m w h a t C o n f b b - x k c e .

1879 Smith, Magness ...... Copiopo, Chili...... E . M aine. 1873 Soper, Julius...... Yokohama, Japan ...... Baltim ore. 1881 Squier, L. W ...... Hakodati, Japan ...... Ohio. 1879 Stone, G. I ...... Calcutta, India ...... South India. 1880 Stone, J. S ...... Calcutta, India ...... E ast Ohio. 1879 Stowell, A. P ...... Tacua, Peru ...... E . M aine. 1880 Taft, Marcus L ...... Chin-kiang, China ...... N. Y. East. 1873 Taylor, William In A m e ric a ...... California. 1859 Thobum, J. M ...... Calcutta, India ...... Pittsburgh, 1861 Thomas, D. W ...... Bareilly, India ...... Black River. 1878 Thomoff, Stephen...... Sistof, Bulgaria ...... N ew a rk . 1866 Thomson, J. F ...... Buenos Ayres, Argentina ...... Central Ohio. 1879 Umpleby, G. S ...... Orizaba, Mexico ...... Ohio. 1879 Vail, M . S...... Yokahama, Japan ...... Maine. 1871 Vernon, L. M ...... 3 Via Poli, Rome, Italy. Saint Louis. 1873 Walker, W. F ...... Tientsin, China ...... North Indiana 1876 Ward, C . B ...... Ghutburga, India ...... Central Illinois 1865 Waugh, J. W ...... In U. S., Evanston, 111...... S. Illinois. 1866 Wheeler, L. N ...... Chunking, China ...... W isconsin. 1881 Wilcox, M.C ...... K iu k ia n g , China...... Rock River. 1880 Willitts, O. W ...... Peking, China ...... D etroit. 1862 Wilson, P. T ...... Paori, Gurhwal. India...... S. Illinois. 1869 Wood, T . B ...... Montevideo, Uruguay ...... N .W . Indiana. 1875 W ood, J. R ...... Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina N .W . Indiana. 1879 Wright, W. A ...... Santiago, Chili...... East Maine.

MISSIOKAEIES OF THE W. F. M. S.

P o s t -O f f ic e A d d r e s s . F b o m -w h a t B r a u c h .

1872 Blackmar, Miss Louisa E . Lucknow, India ...... W estem . 1880 Budden, Miss Annie ...... Pithorogarh, India ...... W estern. 1879 Bushnell, Miss Dr. Kate C. Kiukiang» China ...... North-western 1874 Chapin, Jennie M ...... In U . S., C h icopee, M a ss------New England. 18S0 Clemens, Mrs. E. J. M .... Rosario de Santa Fé, Argen. tine Republic : ...... North-western 1878 Cushman, Miss C. M ... Tientsin, China ...... New England. 1874 Denning, Miss Lou. B .. In U. S., Normal, 1 1 1 ...... North-western 1878 Easton, Miss S. A ...... Cawnpore, India ...... Cincinnati. 1880 Elliott, Miss Margaret.. City of Mexico, Mexico ...... Philadelphia. 1879 Gheer, Miss Jennie M .. Nagasaki, Japan ...... N e w Y o rk . 1878 Gibson, Miss Eugenia.. Lucknow, India ...... N e w Y ork. 1880 Gilchrist, Miss Dr. Ella. Kiukiang, China ...... W estern. 1880 Goodenough. Julia E... Rosario de Santa F é, A r g e n ­ tine Republic ...... New England. 1878 Guelfi, Miss Cecelia.... Montevideo, Uruguay ...... North-western. 1881 Hampton, Miss Minnie. Hakodati, Japan ...... N e w Y ork . 1874 Hastings, Miss Mary... Pachuca, Mexico ...... N e w Y ork . 1872 Hoag, Miss Lucy H .... In U. S., Albion, M ichigan... North-western 1878 Holbrook, Miss M. A... Tokio, Japan ...... Cincinnati. 18 77 Howard, Miss Dr. L . .. Tientsin, China...... North-western 1879 Howe, Miss Delia ...... Kiukiang, China ...... Philadelphia. 1872 Howe, Miss Gertrude... Kiukiang, China ...... North-western 18 8 1.] DIRECTORY OF FOREIGN MISSIONARIES. 319

P o s t -O f f i c e A d d r e s s . F r o m w h a t B b a n c h .

1881 Hoy, Miss Ella J ...... Cawupore, India...... Cincinnati. 1880 Kelley, Miss Luella...... Moradabad, India...... Baltim ore. 1881 Kerr, Miss Harriet...... Bareilly, India...... Philadelphia. 1881 Knowles, Miss Emma L .. Nynee Tal, India ...... N orth-westem. 1878 Layton, Miss M. E ...... Calcutta, India ...... Baltim ore. 1878 Mulliner, Miss Clara L.... City of Mexico, Mexico ...... N . Y . and W. 1880 Nickerson, Miss F. E ...... Lucknow, India ...... Cincinnati. 1871 Porter, Miss Mary Q ...... Peking, China ...... W estern. 1878 Priest, Miss M. A ...... In United States ...... N e w Y ork. 1879 Russell, Miss Elizabeth... Nagasaki, Japan...... Cincinnati. 1880 Sears, Miss A . B ...... Peking, China...... Cincinnati. 1879 Sharp, Miss Mary A ...... Monrovia, Liberia ...... N e w Y ork. 1870 Sparkes, Miss F. J ...... Bareilly, India ...... N e w Y ork. 1878 Sparr, Miss Dr. Julia A... Foochow China ...... North-western. 1880 Spence, Miss M. B ...... h a b ad In d ia ...... North-w estern.Alla 1878 Spencer, Miss M. A ...... Tokio, Japan ...... Philadelphia. 1869 Swain, Miss Dr. C. A ...... Bareilly, India...... New England. X878 Swaney, Miss M. F ...... City of Mexico, Mexico ...... Baltim ore. 1869 Thobum, Miss I ...... Lucknow, India ...... Cincinnati. 1874 Trask, Miss Dr. S ...... Foochow, China ...... N e w Y ork. 1881 Van Petten, Mrs. Carrie... Tokio, Japan ...... North-western. 1881 Warner, Miss Ellen H.... Rangoon, Burmah ...... Cincinnati. 1874 W arner, Miss Susan M... Puebla. M exico...... Cincinnati. 1880 Woodworth, Miss K ...... Hakodati, Japan ...... Philadelphia. 1858 Woolston, Miss Beulah... Foochow, China ...... Baltim ore. 1858 Woolston, Miss Sarah.... Foochow, China ...... North-western. 1880 Yates, Miss E. U ...... Peking, China...... Cincinnati.

UNMARRIED FEMALE MISSIONARIES EOT OF ¥ . F. M. S.

P o st -O f f ic b A d d b e s s .

1879 Benson, Cora B... Tacua, Peru. 1879 Birdsall, Lillie __ Calcutta, India. 1879 Collier, Edith B.. Iquique, Peru. 1879 Langley, S. E.... Concepcion, Chili. 18.79 Miller, Mary M... Goolburga, India. 1880 Vail, Jennie S.... Yokohama, Japan. 1879 Vas Binder, M. A. Copiopo, Chili. 1870 Waterhouse, L. K. Concepcion, Chili. 1879 Winslow, Sallie... Madras. India.

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Abbott, Asher Miner Alford, Rev. James Archer, Miss Delia Abbott, Stephen H. Allaire, Philip Embury Archer, Mary Ackerly, Rev. John W. Allen, Oliver Archer, Nellie Louisa Ackerman, C. W. Allen, Solomon Archer, O. H. P. Ackerman, W. B. Allison, Michael S. Armstrong, Edward V. Adams, Annie M. Ames, Rev. A. H. Armstrong, Clark Adams, Russell W. Ames, Edward R. Armstrong, Francis Adams, W. W. Ames, Miss Laura A Armstrong, Joseph Adams, Mrs. W. W. Ames, Mrs. Mahala Armstrong, Francis A. Agnew, W. G. E. Andaver, John S. Armstrong, James Aiken, Rev. A. P. Anderson, Augustus B. Armstrong, Mrs. M. Aitken, Benjamin Anderson, Rev. Samuel Armstrong, Thomas Alabaster, Rev. John Andrews, Samuel W. Arndt, Rev. Ralph S. Albro, Sarah A. Antrim, Benajah Arnold, George W. Alday, Rev. J. H. Applegarth, Nathaniel Arnold, J. M. Alder, William D. Appold, George I. Arnold, Samuel Aldridge, Rev. S. H. Archer, Harry Mortimer Arthur, Richard 18 8 1.j LIST OF HONORARY LIFE MANAGERS. 323

Ashmead, Samuel Beatty, Miss Mary E. Bowman, Rev. J. Atkins, Isaiah Bear, Rev. John Boyce, James Atterbury, William Beaver, Peter Boyd, Jun., Samuel Atwater, W ilbur O. Beek, Samuel Boynton, Anthony Atwood, Dr. J. F. Beers, Lizzie Bradford, Henry E. Austin, Rev. H. F. Beers, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Bradford, Rev. Elisha Auten, James W. Beidelman, Sen., D. Bradley, Frank Auten, John G. Belmont, Miss Emma Bradner, William B. Auten, Mrs. Eliza M. Benedict, Charles A. Bradon, Frank Avery, C. A. Bennett, Mrs. Eliza Bradstreet, Henry Avery, Ledyard Bennett, Rev. C. W. Bradstreet, John M. Avery, Lyman R. Bennis, Mitchell Brainerd, B. C. Ayars, S. Benny worth, John Brakeley, H. W. Ayres, Carlton Bensley, Daniel Brandon, James Ayres, L. S. Bentley, Georgia Bray, Rev. Spencer H. Ayres, M.D., Chauncey Bentley, Charles W. Bray, Rev.W. M’Kendree Ayres, Daniel Bentley, John H. Brenton, Hon. Samuel Ayres,Samuel L.P..U.S.N. Bentley, Charles Bresee, Rev. P. F. Baer, Rev. Robert N. Benton, Rev. Erastus Bridges, Charles Baird, Rev. Isaac N. Bernsee, C. Dollner Briggs, Alanson T. Baker, Charles Bernsee, Frederick Briggs, Rev. M. C. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Berry, Eliza. Brooke, Rev. B. F. Baker, Mrs. Mehitabel Berry, Rev. L. W. Brooks, Rev. Asa Baker, Rev. Bishop O. C. Berry, Rev. Thomas R. Bross, Joseph Baker, Samuel W. Beswick, Rev. George M. Brown, Amos W. Baldwin, Annie Bettleheim, Mrs. B. J. Brown, Rev. Benjamin N. Baldwin, Summerfield Bettleheim, Bernard J. G. Brown, Rev. C. S. Baldwin, William H. Bettleheim, Miss V. R. Brown, Rev. J. D. Balker, William Beyea, J. L. Brown, Mrs. J. D. Ballard, Rev. A. E. Bicknell, Becker Brown, Rev. James H. Ballau, Rev. A. E. Bidwell, Ira Brown, Rev. P. R. Bancroft, Rev. Earl Bidwell, Rev. Ira G. Brown, Rev. Samuel C. Bangs, Rev. F. B. Binkley, Rev. S. L. Brown, Rev. S. D. Bangs, D.D., Rev. N. Bird, Rev. Isaac Brown, R. O. Banner, John J. Blackmar, C. P. Brownfield, John Barber, Rev. Cicero Blake, John Browning, Rev. W. G. Barber, Mrs. E. A. Blake, Rev. Henry M. Brush, William A. Barber, Rev. B. F. Bloomer, Wm. H. Bryan, James R. Barker, Mrs. Mary A. Blyth, Elijah K. Bryant, Charles E. Barker, William L. Boardman, Hannah E. Buck, Rev. D. Barker, Stephen Bodine, Charles Buckalew, Sarah F. Barndollar, Amy S. Bolton, John Buckingham, Rev. G. Barns, Rev. H. N. Bond, Charles W. Budd, William A. Barnes, Benjamin H. Bonnell, Charles F. Buell, L. H. Barnes, Rev. John W. F. Bonnell, Nathaniel Bugbee, Rev. Lucius H. Barnes, Samuel S. Bonney, Nathaniel Bulley, George F. Barnhart, Rev. Thomas Bontecou, Francis Bulley, Mrs. Anna M. Barnice, John J. Boorman, Hon. A. J. Burhaus, — Barrett, Rev. Riley Booth, Ezra Burch, Mrs. Mary E. Bartine, Rev. D. W. Booth, Samuel Burch, Rev. Thomas Bartlett, Miss Martha M. Borden, Gail Burling, W . J. Bartlett, Smith Boston, John E. H. Burnham, W. R. Barton, James Botsford, J. K. Bums, James Bates, Rev. L . B. Bottome, Rev. Francis Burrows, Lemuel Bates, Miss Sarah Bourne, William O. E. Burrows, Rev. Waters Bates, Samuel D. Bowdish, Wellesley W. Burr, Rev. J. K. Battie, Richard R. Bowdish, Jennie C. Busey, Rev. E. F. Baylis, Rev. Henry Bowler, Rev. George Butler, Charles Beacham, Mrs. H. Bowles, Mary Butler, Miss Julia A. Beattie, John Bowman, John Butterfield, Frederic Beattie, Mrs. John Bowman, Rev. Dr. But trick, George M. 324 MISSIONARY REPORT. [l88l.

Byrne, William W. Clark, William D. Cottier, John Caldwell, Samuel C. Clark, Mrs. Rev. W. W. Coulter, H. Cameron, Cornelius Clark, Rev. Daniel Coutant, Rev. Lewis J. Camp, B. F. Clark, Rev. W. W. Cowan, William D. Camp, Rev. Harvey Clawson, J. M. Cox, Abram Campbell, Rev. J. O. Clemen, William T. D. Cox, Charles Campbell, Rev. Alexander Clements, Jun., S. Cox, Joseph Carey. Isaac Cobb, Mr. George T. Cox, William A. Carey, Mrs. P. E. Cobb, Mrs. Helen W. Coxe, Rev. J. C. W. Cary, Benjamin H. Cobb, Samuel Craford, Robert L. Cary, Mrs. Cobb, J. H. Crane, Theodore A. Carlton, Charles T. Cochrane, Charles Cranford, Robert Carlton, Henry Coddington, George F. Cranmer, Emeline Carlton, William J. Coffman, Daniel Cranston, Earl Carlton, Rev. Thomas Coffin, Mrs. Caroline Craske, Harry Carman, Mary T. Coffin, W illiam J. Crasto, Emma Carmichael, Jun., A. Coffin, Eliza J. Crawford, Rev. J. F. Carpenter, James M. Coggeshall, W illiam S. Crawford, J. G. L. Carpenter, Nathan Colesbury, John Crawford, Dr. J. S. Cafr, Lizzie Colgate, Mr, and Mrs. B. Crawford, D.D., M. D’C. Carr, Mary E. Colgate, Bowles Creamer, David Carr, Rev. J. M. Collins, D.D., Rev. C. Creighton, Rev. Samuel Carroll, Rev. J. M. Collins, Joseph W. Creshall, Mrs. Sarah E. Carson, Charles L. Collins, Rev. W. F. Criswell, Miss Jennie E. Carson, William Colloid, Rev. G. W. Crocker, Thomas Carson, Mrs. D. Compton, Henry Cromelin, Rev. Richard Carter, Duras Conable, Rev. F. W. Cronhan, John Cartwright, William Cone, John A. Crook, J. D. Kurtz Cassard, Howard Conklin, Benjamin Y. Crooks, Rev. George R. Cassatt, Rev. J. W. Conklin, J. L. Crouch, Rev. George Cassidy, James Connolly, Nettie Crowell, Stephen Castle, Rev. Joseph Cook, D.D., Rev. Charles Croxford. Ira Cattell, A. Cook, Ephraim Cubberly, D. P. Cattell, Alexander G. Cook, Rev. R„ C. Culgin, James Caughey, Rev. James Cook, Rev. Isaac P. Culver, Tuttle Chadwick, Rev. James Cooke, D. D ., Rev. Edward Cummings, Hon. Alex. Chaffee, Herbert W. Cooke, Rev. Horace Cummings, Rev. Joseph Champion, Hiram J. Cookman, Rev. A. Curry, Amos G. Chapman, Rev. J. A. M. Cookman, Mary Curry, D.D., Rev. Daniel Chapman, Myra H. Cooley, Emma F. Curry, William H. Chapman, Rev. W. H. Coombs, W. Cushing, G. B. Chapman, William H. Cooper, George W. Cutter, Miss Julia Charlier, Elie Cooper, Mrs. Lavinia Cutting, Mrs. Martha B. Chattin, Rev. Samuel Cooper, Rev. V. A. Cutting, William G. Chattle.M.D., Thomas G. Cooper, Rev. W. Dail, Daniel Chesnut, John A. Copeland, George M. Dale, John W. Childs, B. F. Copeland, George Dallas, Israel Choate, Warren Corbit, Mrs Rev. W. P. Daniels, Rev. John Chubb, Samuel Corkran, Benjamin W. Daniels, Rev. j. R. Chubbuck.M.D., Hollis S. Corkran, William Daniels, Rev. W. V. Chumar, Esq., John A. Cornelius, Rev. Richard Daniels, Sabin A. Church, Rev. A. J. Cornell, James E. Darling, Daniel S. Claflin, Lee Cornell, J. B. Dashiell, Mary J. Clapp, Rev. D. E. Cornell, William W. Dashiell, Rev. Robert L. Clapp, Frederick A. Cornish, John Davenport, Benjamin Clapp, Mrs. Sarah Cornwell, Abram Davidson, Mrs. Ann Jane Clark, Anna Cornwell, Richard H. Davis, Calvin Clark, D.D., Rev. D. W. Cornwell, Timothy Davis, Edgar Clark, Francis M. Corse, A. E. Davis, Elijah M. Clark, Miles Heber Coryell, Dr. William Davis, Ira Clark, Thomas Cosgrove, Joseph Davis, James 18 8 1'.] LIST OF HONORARY LIFE MANAGERS. 325

Davis, James L. Dunn, Jacob Foote, Rev. John B. Davis, James R. Durbin, D.D., Rev. J. P. Forrester, Frederick Davis, Thomas Eager, Jun., M.D., W. B. Forrester, George Davis, Rev. W. R. Eaves, Rev. William Forrester, H. M. Day, Elizabeth Edmonds, J. A. Forshay, Wilbur F. Day, John H. Edsall, William Foss, Rev. A. C. Day, Rev. Rufus Edwards, Fannie Foss, Rev. C. D. Dayton, Rev. D. W. Edwards, J. B. Foster, Joseph A. Dayton, Mrs. D. W. Edwards, Nellie Foster, Rev Milton K. Deal, George H. Edwards, D.D., Rev.W.B. Foster, Randolph J. Dean, Clement R. Edwards, William H. Foster, D.D., Rev. R. S. Dean, David J. Eggleston, Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler, Anderson Dean, Rev. Sydney Elliott, George Fowler, Lindley H. Dean, William Elliott, John Fowler, Cornelia W. Deas, M.D., Stephen S. Elliott, Thomas M. Fowler, J. N. De Camp, Sen., Hiram Elliott, Rev. W. H. Fowler, Jonathan O. De Hass, Rev. F. S. Ellis, Mrs. Lydia A. Fowler, Jun., J. O. De Hass, Mrs. F. S. Ellsworth, Henry Fowler, Hon. Oscar F. De La Cour, J. C. Elmer. Nelson L. Fowler, Olive E. De Vinne, Daniel Emory, Rev. B. B. Fowler, William De Voursney, A. Erskine, John Fox, Rev. Henry L. De W itt, Rev. M. F. Evans, M.D., John Fox, Rev. R. C. Demarest, David Evans, G. W. Freeman, Edward Demoyer, Rev. John A. Evans, Rev. W. W. Freeman, Mary A Dennis, Mrs. Benjamin F. Excell, Rev. Benjamin French, John Dennis, Mrs. Emory Fabyan, Dr. C. W. French, J. Milton Denyse, Simon Fairweather, D. B. French, John Wesley De Puy, Alexander Fairweather, Mrs. Lucy French, Mrs. Sarah Dettmar, John F. Fairbanks, Hon. Erastus French, Thomas R. DeU rquiza, Gen. DonJ usto Fairchild, J. H. Frey, Edward S. Dickinson, Martha Falconer, John Fried, F. G. Dickinson, Mary E. Falconer, Wm. H. Frost, Norman W. Dickinson, Rev. George F. Farmer, Silas Fry, Hannah Diehl, Rev. Israel S. Fanner, Mrs. Silas Fullager, James Dikeman, John Farragut.D. G.,Vice-Adm. Fuller, Rev. James M. Dikeman, W. H. Farlee, William A. Fuller, Rev. S. R. Dilks, Chester Farley, J. P. Gable, Miss Julia E. Dill, Rev. Henry G. Fay, Henry Gallien, Henry Disbrow, Benjamin Fay, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Gallien, Mrs. Henry Disney, Wesley Fay, John G. Gamble, Elizabeth Disosway, Cornelius R. Felton, Rev. Cyrus E. Gamble, James Dobbins, Rev. Joseph B. Ferguson, Rev. A. H. Gardner, Aaron Dodge, Hon. W. E. Ferris, Rev. D. O. Gardner, David A. Dodge, Jun., William E. Fielding, George Garibaldi, General G. Dodge, Rev. David S. Fielding, Mrs. Matilda Garrettson, Mary Dollner, H. Fillmore, Rev. Glezen Garrison, Rev. Stephen A. Dollner, Samuel L. First M.E. S. S., Erie, Pa. Gascoigne, James P. Donnelly, Rev. James Fisbeck, Mary F. Gedney, Sylvanus Douglass, J., of Scotland Fish, Rev. Abraham George, Rev. A. C. Douglas, Mrs. Ophelia M. Fisher, N. D. Gerald, Miss Fannie Drake, Elkanah Fisk, Gen. C. B. Gerard, Miss Fannie M. Drakely, George Fisk, Mrs. Gen. C. B. Gibb, Samuel Drew, Daniel Fite, Conrad Gibson, Mrs.Rev.Dr.A-E- Drown, Mrs. Emma H. Fitzgerald, Cornelia Gibson.. Mrs. A. E. Drummond, Rev. Dr. Fitzgerald, James B. Gibson, Rev. 0 . Dryden, Joshua Fleming, Rev. C. K. Gillett, Rev. S. T. Duff, Alexander Fletcher, Rev. Charles Gillies, Wright Dunham, George B. Flint, John D. Gillingham, Rebecca A. Dunlap, William H. Folger, Mrs. Ella Givan, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop, John S. Foot, Norman B. Gladwin, Rev. W. J. Dunn, E. W. Foote, A. H., Com.U.S.N. Glass, James 326 MISSIONARY REPORT. [I 88l.

Glover, Rev. Charles E. Halsted, E . S. Hermance, Rev. John P„ Glover, Mrs. Charles E. Halsted, Lottie A. Herrick, Rev. A. F. Glover, John F. Halsted, Samuel Herrick, Mrs. M. B. P. Glenn, David Halsted, Schureman Hester, Milton P. Goldsmith, Louise Ham, John Heston, Rev. Newton Good, Rev. W. A. Hamilton, George Y. Heyniger, Lambert Goode, Rev. William H. Hamlin, D.D , Rev. Cyrus H ick, Jonathan P. Goodrich, Hon. Grant Hamlin, Rev. B. B. Hickman, Rev. J. W. Goodwin, A . S. W . Hamma, T . Jefferson Hicks, Rev. Benjamin Goodwin, Mrs. S. C. Hammond, Edwin R. Hicks, Harvey E. Goodwin, Rev. John Hammond, Ezra Hildreth, Rev. T. H. Godwin, J. Hand, Jacob Hildt, Rev. George Goss, Oliver S. Hanford, John E. Hill, Charles A. Gouldy, N. E. Hard, Bradley R. Hill. Rev. John Gracey, Rev. J. T. Hard, Rev. Clark B. Hill, Sarah V. Grant, Richard Hard, Rev. C. P. Hill, Rev. W. T. Grant, Lieut-Gen. U. S. Hardacre, William Hillman, Samuel D. Grasto, Emma Harding, Rev. A. F. Hinckley, M.D., J. W. Graves, H. A. Hare, Rev. G. S. Hinkle, Rev. Richard Graveson, William Hargrave, Rev. R. Hindes, Samuel Graveson, Jun:, W. Harper, Jun., Fletcher Hiorns, Rev. Richard Graw, Rev. J. B. Harriot, John A. Hirst, Jun., Rev. William Gray, Abraham Harris, Rev. Bishop Hiss, Mr. and Mrs. P. Graydon, John W. Harris. M.D., Chapin A. Hitchens, Rev. George Graydon, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harris, John M. Hitchim, Owen Greatsinger, Rev. C. Harris, Mrs. N. Ann Hobart, Rev. John Green, Amon Harris, William Hodgkinson, Job Green, George E. Harrower, Rev. J. P. Hodgson, D.D., Rev. F. Greenewald, F. W. Harrower, Rev. P. P. Holcomb, Mrs. Statira Greenfield, A. H. Hart, Richard P. Holden, Jun., B. F. Greenfield, Aquila Hartranfft, Rev. C. R. Hollis, Holman Greenwood, Elizabeth W. Hartzell, Miss Alice Hollis, Rev. George Gregg, Samuel • Haslup, George G. Hollister, Stephen D. Gregory, Mrs. Dr. Haslup, Mrs. George H. Holmes, J. P. Greschall, Mrs. Sarah J. Hatfield,Mrs.Elizabeth A. Holmes, Rev. D. J. Griffen, J ohn Hatfield, Rev. R. M. Holmes, Jun., John F. Griffing, Lester Haughey, Theodore P. Holt, William H. Griffin, Lulu Haven, D.D., Rev. E. O. Holt, Woodbury D. Griffin, Rev. Thomas A. Haven, Rev. Gilbert Hooly, Abraham Grippon, Theodore E. Havens, J. H. Hooper, William E. Groesbeck, E. A. Havens, Rev. James Horton, D. P. Grose, James Havemeyer, W. F. Horton, Henry M. Gross, Samuel Havenner, Thomas Houghroout, Rachel Guelfi, Cecelia Hawley, Bostwick Howard, George W. Guest, Alonzo Hawthorne, Enoch Howe, M.D., Rev. J. M. Guibord A . Hays, James L. Howe, T. A. Guile, Rev. Charles H. Hayter, Rev. Richard Hoxsie, George W. Gurlitz, A. T. Hayter, Samuel G. Hoyt, Oliver Hacker, William P. Hayward, J. K . Hoyt, Philip Hadgeman, F. D. Hazleton, Edward Hoyt, Professor B. F. Hagany, Rev. J. B. Headley, Milton Hughes, C. C. Haight, Joseph Headley, S. F. H uking, Leonard J. Haines, Benjamin F. Heald, William H. Hulbert, Lester Haines, Mrs. Benjamin F. Heath, F. W. Hull, Mrs. Rev. C. F. Hall, Joseph B. Heather, D.D., D. D. Hull, Henry M. Hall, Joseph, F. Hedstrom, Rev. Olif G. Humbert, Mrs. Theodore Hall, William H. Heiskell, Colson Hunt, Mrs. Clara Haller, R ev J. P. Heisler, Rev. J. S. Hunt, G. H. Hallett, Henry W. Hemenway, Rev. F. D. Hunt, Mrs. Jane Halliday, Rebecca Hemmers. Thomas J. Hunt, W . S. Halsted, Emma Herbert, William F. Huntley, Mrs. Annie 1-881.J LIST OF HONORARY LIFE MANAGERS. 3 2 7

Hurlburt, Rev. R. H. Keyes, Rev. Edwin R. Lewis, Rev. W. G. W. Hurst, Rev. J. F. Keyes, John Lloyd, John R. Hurst, William R. Keyes, Mrs. John Liebe, Mary A. Huse, Rev. O. Keyser, Abraham Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hyatt, Charles E. Keyser, John Lindsay, D.D., Rev. J. W. Hyde, Augustus L. Kidder, D.D., Rev. D. P. Lippencott, Rev. B. C. Hyde, Edwin Kilmer, Miss Emeline Little, James Hyde, Edwin Francis Kimberly, Edward Little, Mrs. Sarah J. Hyland, James Kincaid, Rev. William H. Little, William.Mayo Igleheart, William T. King, Annie Loane, Jabez W. Infant school of Broad-st. King, John Locke, D .D., Rev. J. W. M. E. Church, Newark. King, Gamaliel Lockwood, Henry Ingle, Jun., John King, George W. Lockwood, Henry T. Irving, Charles King, Rev. Isaiah D. Lockwood, Robert M. Ives, Hon. Willard King, D .D., Rev. J. M. Loder, Lewis B. Jacks, David King, Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Logan, Charles W. Jacks, Mrs. Mary C. Kingsley, Rev. I. C. Logan, Henry Jacobus, William Kinsey, Isaac P. Long, Mrs. Jane Jayne, F. A. Kinsley, Rev. Hiram Longacre, Rev. A. Jeffery, Oscar Kirby, Leonard Longfellow, M.D., A. J. Jellison, George W. Kirkland, Alexander Longhurst, James S. Jenkins, Miss Susan A. Klein, Rev. John Loomis, Rev. B. B. Johnson, Algernon K. Kline, Isaac A. Loomis, Rev. H. Johnson, D.D.,Prof. H.M. Kneen, Alice Lord, Benjamin Johnson, Hon. Andrew Kneil, Thomas Lord, Rev. G. M. Johnson, Charles T. Knight, Edward Lord, Joseph Johnson, Eugene Knight, Henry Lore, Rev. D. D. Johnson, Mrs. Grace E. Knight, Theodore B. Loud, Rev. Henry M. Johnson, Robert Kodama, J. C. J. P. Lounsbury, Rev. Henry Johnson, Samuel Kuhns, W illiam J. Loveland, Oliver Johnson, William B. Kurtz, M. D. Lowden, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston, William Ladue, Nathan W. Lowden, George W. Jones,Capt.C. D., 28RegL. Lamb, J. M. Lowe, William E. Jones, Joseph Lambright, William Lowrie, D. R. Jones, Rev. John M. Lanahan, D.D., John Lucas, Mrs. Susan Jones, Jun., William Landis, Enos Y. Luckey, Robert Jones, Levin Lane, John Ludlam, E. Ferdinand Jones, Rev. Thomas L. Lane, Park H. Ludlum, George B. Jones, Zeanett Langstroth, Abbie Ludlum, M.D., Jacob W Jordan, Rev. D. A. Langstroth, Mrs. Jane Luke, John J. Jost, Rev. Casper Lankford, Mrs. Sarah A. Lunt, Orring Judd, Rev. Charles W. Lavery, Mrs. Eliza Lynch, Rev. William Judd, John B. Lavery, Miss Jane Lyon, Stephen Judd, Mr. and Mrs. O. Lavery, Mrs. Margaret Lyons, James D. Karr, Frank D. Lavery, John Young Lytle, W. H. Keeler, Walter Lavery, Richard Maclay, R. V. Keeney, Timothy Lavery, Robert Maclay, Rev. R. S. Kellogg, Charles G. Law, Mrs. Sarah A. Macy, David Kellogg, Charles Y. Lawrence, Henry Macubbin, Samuel Kelley, Richard Larence, Rev. William Madison, Rev. Joseph Kelly, Rev. Thomas Lazenby, Cornelia A. Magee, John Kelley, Warren S. Le Count, H. M. Magee, James P. Kelso, Thomas Leavitt, Rev. Dudley P. Magill, C. W. Kennaday, D.D., John Leavitt, Samuel R. Mallett, Samuel Kenneday, Rev. J. Leach, Charles Manierre, Hon. B. F. Kenney, Pardon T. Leech, Abner Y. Mann, L. M. Kenney,.Rev. Wesley Lee, Col. G. W. Mansfield, Rev. John H. Kent, Luke Leek, Rev. J. W. Mapes, Mrs. S. S. Kerr, Thomas Leidy, Rev. George Maps, W. R. Kessler, Miss Mary L. Lenhart, Miss Lulla Mark, Sen., George Kettell, Rev. G. F. Lewis, Henry Marlay, F. H. 328 MISSIONARY REPORT. [1 881.

Marlay, M. Mead, Melville E. Mundell, Jeremiah Marrinor, George Mead, Ralph Murphy, Rev. T. C. Marshall, Thomas W. Mead, Sen., Ralph Murray, Laura V. Marshall, William B. Mead, Staats O. Myers, George E. Marston, Hannah Medary, Jacob H. Myers, John N. Martin, Ann H. Meeker, Rev. B. O. Myers, Peter D. Martin, George C. Menson, L. W. Myrick, James R. Martin, W illiam S. Meredith, Rev. R. Nagai, J. Wesley Iwoski Martin, W. R. Meredith, Rev. R. R. Naylor, Henry R. Martin, Rev. Alexander Meredith, Richard Nelson, M.D., J. B. Mason, Rev. Joseph Merrick, E. G. Nelson, Mrs. Louise Mason, Perez Merrill, Rev. C. A. Nesbit, Rev. S. H. Mason, Thomas T Merrill, Jacob S. Newell, Henry J. Mason, William Henry Merritt, David F. Newman,Mis.Angeline E. Mason, William Merritt, Stephen Nichols, Lafayette Mason, R. W. Milburn, Rev. W. H. Nicholson, Jacob C. Mattison, Rev. A. T. Miles, John Nicholson, Mrs. Mattison, Rev. Hiram Miles, Mrs. Mary Nickerson, Pinly Maynard, John Q. Millard, Mrs. Eliza M. Norris, John M ’AUister, Rev. W. Millard, Rev. Jeremiah Norris, Mrs. Sarah M. M ’Calmont, A. B. Miller, G. M. Norris, Rev. S. M ’Calmont, Mrs. Miller, Rev. John Norris, Rev. W. H. M'Canlis, Thomas Miller. John P. North, Charles R. M’Carty, Rev. J. H. Miller, D.D., W. G. North, C. C. M’Cauley, Rev. James A. Miller, Gordon North, James M’Clellan, Gen. G. B. Miller, John Norton, Rev. J. D. M ’Clain, Damon R. Miller, John P. Nostrand, Mrs. Sarah E. M ’Conkey, Jun., James Miller, W. Oakley, Gilbert M ’Conkey, W illiam Milligan, W. C. Oakley, Rev. J. G- M’Cord, James Mills, John H. Oats, John M. M ’Cormick, R. S. Mintram, Alfred C. Odell, Isaac M'Cown, William B. Monroe, Eliza Odell, Samuel U. F. M ’Curdy, Rev. C. L. Monroe, Rev. S. Y. Olney, L. F. M'Curdy, Mrs. John Monroe, Rev. T. H. W. Onderdonk, Nicholas M’Daniel, James L. Montrose, Newman E. O ’Neal, D. M’Donald, Rev. William Mooers, E. M. Osbon, Rev. A. M. M’Elhone, John Moore, D.D., Franklin Osbon, Mrs. E. S. M’Gee, Robert Moore, F. D. Osborn, Mrs. Alice M ’Gregor, David L. Moore, George Osbom, Rev. E. S. M’Gowan, Rev. Peter M. Moore, Joseph A. Osborn. Rev. Thomas G. M’lntyre, James E. Moore, Laura A. Ostrander, Amanda B. M’Intosh, James H. Moore, Samuel J. Ostrander, James S. M’Kenzie, Heman Bangs Moore, Richard Otheman, Rev. Edward M’Keown, Rev. Andrew Moore, Sampson Owen, Edward M ’Kissock. Miss J. A. Moore, W. K. Owen, John M’Kown, Mrs. M. E. Morgan, Frank R. Owen, D. R. M’Kown, Rev. J. L. G. Morgan, Rev. L. F. Owen, Rev. E. D. M ’Lain, Mrs. O. D. Morgan, Rev. N. J. B. Oxtoby, Henry M’Laren, Ida L. Morgan, Wm. Truslovv Paine, Rev. C. H. M’Lean, Rev. Alexander • Morris, Mrs. D. Palmer, William H. M’Lean, Ann Morrow, Thomas J. Palmer. William S. M ’Lean, John S. Morse, Rev. Charles W. Palmer, Rachel C. M’Lean, John Morton, J. D. Pardoe, Jun., Hunter M'Lean, William Morton, J. E. Pardoe, Rev. H. C. MMillan, John Moses, W illiam J. Parish, Ambrose M’Murray, Miss Charlotte Moss, Mrs. W. P. Parker, Rev. E. W. M ’Nichols, H M. Mudge, Rev. James Parker, Rev. John M'Nichols, Rev. R. T. Muff, Rev. Isaac Parker, Rev. Lindsay M ’Roberts, William Mulford, Furman Parker, William A. Mead, Ezra Mulliken, Edward C Parlett, Benjamin F. Mead, Fanny E. Mumford, Anna L. Parmalee, Catharine E. 18 8 1.] LIST OF HONORARY LIFE MANAGERS. 329

Parrott, Rev. George * Pratt, Henry Roberts, Rev. B. T. Patton, John Pratt, James W. Roberts, John Paul. George W. Pray, Matilda Roberts, Virgil Paul, of India. Prentice, Rev. E. L. Roberts, W. C. Payne, Mrs. Mary Eleanor Prentiss, S. M. Robertson, Lucy Pearce, Rev. J. A. Preston, David Robinson, Mrs. Alanson Pearne. Rev. Thomas H. Price, Hon. Hiram Robinson, Mrs. J. Norris Pearne, Rev. W. H. Price, S. W. Robinson, Rev. R. H. Pearsall, Treadwell Price, William Roche, Rev. and Mrs. J .A Pearson, Rev. Thomas W. Price, Rev. J. A. Rockefeller, Jane E. Peck, Rev. J. L. Prickett, Edward Roe, Rev. Edward D. Peck, D.D., Rev. J. T. Prosser, William H. Rogers, Robert Peckham, Reuben Pughe, Hon. Lewis Roll, Eliza Ann Peirce, John Pught, Mrs. Daniel W. Rome, Church in Peirce, D.D., Rev. B. K. Pullman, John Romer, James L. Pepper, PI. J. Purdy, M.D., A. E. M. Romer, Mrs. Jane R. Perego, Sen., Ira Purdy, M.D., A. S. Root, R. T. Perkins, John S. Pusey, William B. Rose, Mary M. Perrin, Noah Putney, Rev. Rufus C. Rossiter, Hon. N. T. Perry, John B. Queal, Rev. W. O. Ross, Daniel A. Perry, Mrs. J. K. Quigley, Rev. George Ross, Daniel L. Periy, Rev. James H. Quinan, Henry E. Ross, Rev. Joseph A. Perry, Rev. S. C. Quin, Henry W. Rothwell, James Pershing, Rev. Israel C. Quincey, Charles E. Rounds, Rev. Nelson Peters, John Ramsay, John F. Rowden, George Peters, Mrs. Mary Ramsdell, M.D.,Edwin D. Rowe, Mrs. A. Theresa Pettibone, Payne Rand, Franklin Rowe, Edward Pettit, Foster Raymond, Aaron Rowlee, J. W. Pfaff, John Raymond, L. Loder Roy, Frank Pfaff, Mrs. Louisa M. E. Raymond, J. M. Runyon, Maj.-Gen. T. Phayre, J. N. Raymond, William L. Rushing, Gen. J. F. Phelps, Rev. Azra J. Read, Thomas Rushmore, Benjamin Phelps, Willis Rector, George Rushmore, Thomas I. Phillips, Daniel B. Reed, Rev. George E. Rushmore, William C. Phillips, Mary V. Reed, Mrs. George E. Russell, Henry Phillips, Robert Reed, Henry, England Russell. S. L. Phipps, J. B. Reed, Rev. H. W. Russel], W. F. Pilcher, Rev. E. H. Reed, Mrs. Seth Rust, Rev. Dr. Pilkington, Cordelia L. Reeve, Tappin Ryan, M .D.,Rev.W .D. M. Pillsbury, Rev. C. D. Reid, John Ryer, William Pitcher, M.D., Lewis H. Reid, Rev. John M. Ryland, Rev. William Pitcher, Mrs. Rev. E. T. Reiley, Rev. J. M’Kendree Salter, Edon J. Pitcher, Rev. William H. Relyea, Rev. M. Sammis, Joel Place, Barker Resseguia, Rufus Sanborn, Orlando Place, Ephraim Reynolds, Frank Sandaver, John Place, James K. Reynolds, George G. Sanders, George Ployd, Jacob Reynolds, S. C. Sandford, Watson Poisal, Rev. John Rice, Mrs. D. E. Sandford, Rev. A. K. Poole, Achish H. Rice, William Sappington, Samuel Pollard, Samuel L. Rich, Isaac Sargent, Rev. Thomas B. Pond, Lucius W. Rich, Richard Savin, M. D. Poppino, M.D., Seth Richards, Joseph H. Sawyer, John Porter, D.D., James Richardson, Mrs. Eliza Saxe, Charles J. Porter, Mrs. Jane T. Richardson, Hon. Samuel Saxe, Rev. George G- Porter, Rev. John Smith Richmond, Rev. G. W. Sayre, Israel E. Porter, John V. Ridgaway, D. D., Rev. H. B. Schaffer, Jacob Post, Rev. Samuel E. Ridgaway, Henry B. Schoeder, Annette Potter, Mrs. Phebe Rigby, Philip A. Schuyler, Capt. Thomas Povie, Frank Riggs, D.D., Rev. Elias Schvedel, Annette Powell, William Roach, Mr. Schwarz, Rev. W. Power, Rev. John H. Roath, Frederick Scott, D.D., Rev. Bishop 330 MISSIONARY REPORT. Íl88l,

Scott, Rev. Robinson Smith, J. Thomas Stowell, Frank W. Scott, George Smith, Job Stowell, George F. Scudder, Rev. M. L. Smith, Mrs. Eliza Stubbs, Rev. Robert S. Scull, Miss Smith, Rev. Philander Studley, Rev. & Mrs.W. S. Seabury, Adam Smith, P. R. Sturgeon, M.D., Hon. D. Seager, Rev. Micah Smith, Rev. Henry. Suckley, Miss Mary Seager, Rev. Schuyler Smith, Rev. Isaac E. Suckley, Rutsen Seaman, James A. Smith, Rev. S. H. Sudlow, John Seaman, John Smith, Rev. W. T. Suppléé, J. Frank Seaman, Mrs. Samuel Smith, Hon. Joseph S. Sutherland, William H. Seaman, Rev. Samuel A. Smith, W esley Swetland, William Searing, Ichabod Smith, J. Wilson Swett, John W. Searles, John E. Snively, Rev. William A. Swope, Frederick E. Searles, Martha Snow, Asa Tackaberry, John A. Searles, William Snyder, Rev. E. B. Taff, Henry Sellichie, George Soder, Louis B. Taft, Azariah H. Selmes, Reeves E. Soper, Samuel J. Taft, Mrs. Caroline E. Seymour, William D. Southerland, Benj. D. L. Taft, James Sharpley, W. P. Spaulding, Erastus Talbot, Rev. Michael J. Shaurman, George H. Spear, Ann Talmage,D.D.,T. DeWift Shaurman, Isaac Spellman, Samuel R. Tappan, Thomas B. Shaw, Charles R. Spencer, William G. Tarring, Rev. Henry Shaw, Rev. J. K. Spencer, P. A. Taylor, M.D.,Rev.Charles Shelling, Rev. C. Spencer, William Taylor, Cyrus H. Shelton, Aid. George Spinney, Capt. Joseph Taylor, Forrester Shelton, W illis C. Spinney, Joseph S. Taylor, Rev. G. L. Shepard, Rev. D. A. Spottswood, Rev. W. L. Taylor, John M. Sheridan, Maj.-Gen. P. Squier, J. Taylor, Mrs. Charlotte G. Sherman, Maj.-Gen. AV.T. S. S. M. E. Ch.,Wash., Pa. Teale, Charles E. Shickney, Mrs. L. Stagg, Charles W. Terry, David D. Shiels, Ella Stamford, John Terry, Rev. David Silverthome, Rev. W. Standish, Miles Terry, Rev. G. Washington Simmons, Ella Stannard, E. O. Terry, Rev. M. S. Simmons, Thomas S. Start, Joseph Terwinkle, Rev. Charles Simmons, W illiam Stebbins, Rev. L. D. Testavin, Alfred Simmons, Rev. I. Steele, Rev. Daniel Thatcher, Rufus L. Simpkinson, H. H. Steele, Rev. W. C. Thayer, Rev. Lorenzo R. Simpkinson, John Steel, Rev. C. Thomas, Rev. Eleazer Simpson,D.D.,Rev.Bishop Steel, Rev. W . C. Thomas, Sen., Sterling Sing, Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Stevens, LL.D., Rev. Abel Thomas, Sterling Skeel, Rev. Marlow Stevens, Mrs. M. O. Thompson, Rev. James L. Skidmore, William B. Stewart, William Thompson, Rev. J. J. Shillicom, John Stewart, Daniel Thompson, Mrs. H. B. Skinner, Mrs. Eunice Stewart, Hiram Thompson, H. B. Skinner, James R. Stewart Rev. James C. Thomson, D.D., Bishop Slayback, John D. Stewart, Rev. John Thomson, Rev. J. F. Slayback, W. Abbott Stewart, Rev. William F. Thomson, Mrs. Helen Sleeper, Hon. Jacob Stickney, George Thomson, Frederick W. Slicer, Mrs. Rev. Dr. Stickney, Leander Thomson, Louisa H. Slicer, Eli Stiles, Jun., Rev. Loren Thomson, Helen F. Sloan, Charles Still, Joseph B. Thomson, Maude A. Sloat, John L. Stillwell, R. E. Thomson. John F. Smith, Emily L. Stilwell, R. E. Thomson, Edward O. Smith, George G. Stitt, Rev. Joseph B. Thomson, Mary D. Smith, Henry Peters Stokes, Whitall Thorn, Abia B. Smith, H. Morris Stokes, Rev. E. H. Thorpe, J. Mason Smith, Rev. J. Ilyatt Stone, Rev. D. H. Throckmorton, Job Smith, Julius D. Stone, Miss Sabella Thurston, F. A. Smith, M. H. Stone, Pardon M. Tiffany, D.D., Prof. O. H. Smith, Addison M. Story, Jacob Tiffany, Comfort Smith, I ram Stott, James Tilley, Mary i 8 8 i .] LIST OF HONORARY LIFE MANAGERS. 331

Tinker, Rev. Ezra Ward, Rev. F. W. Wilmer, John Toby, R. Waring, Thomas Wilmer, Rev. William A. Tobey, Rev. R. Warner, Rev. F. M. Wilson, Hon. Henry Todd, Robert W. Warner, Rev. Horace Wilson, Henry C. Tower, Stephen A. Warren, Rev. George Wilson, Mrs. Luther Townsend, J. B. Warriner, Rev. E. Wilson, Mrs. Mary H. Travers, Samuel H. Washburn, Marcus H. Wilson, Prof. W. C. Treadwell, M. H. Washburne, Cyrus Wilson, Rev. Samuel A. Tremain, Mary A. Waters, F. G. Wilson, Rev. William Trimble, D.D., Rev. J. M. Watkins, Joseph P. Wilson, William Trippett, Rev. John Watkins, Rev. Wilbur F. Wiltberger, D. S. Trowbridge, F. E. Watters, Mr. and Mrs. P. Winchester, Augustus Trowbridge, F. S. Waugh, Rev. Bishop Winegardner, A. A. Truslow, Miss Hester Weatherby, Charles Winne, Walter Truslow, Miss Jane Webster, J. J. Winter, W. P. Truslow, Mrs. Annie F. Weed, J. N. Wise, D.D., Daniel Tucker, Jennie Weed, Rev. L. S. Wolff, Charles H. Turner, William Weeks, F. G. Wolff, L. W. Turner, John Weeks, Jotham Wood, J. A. Turner, Robert Welch, N. W. Wood, C. R. Turner, William L. Welch, W. Abbott Wood, James Turpin, Charles J. Welling, Oscar B. Wood, John Turpin, Joseph B. Wells, E. H.. Wood, Maria H. Turpin, Phoebe Anne Wells, George N. Wood, Levi Tuttle, Ezra B. Wells, Rev. Joshua Wood, Mrs. Charlotte Tuttle, Robert K. Welsh, Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. D. M. Tuttle, Mrs. Eliza J. Welsh, Mrs. Margaretta Wood, Rev. Aaron Twombly, Peter Wendell, Harvey Wood, S. S. Tyson, Henry H. Wentworth, D.D., Rev. E. WTood, Thomas W. Underhill. Thomas B. Westerfield, William Woodruff, Mary E. Urduch. Nicholas H. Westervelt, Mrs. II. R. Woolton, Jun., Jonah Utter, Samuel S. Westwood, Rev. Henry C. Woolston, Rev. B. F. Utter, William T. Wetherell, Jun.. John Worne, Edward H. Vail, Rev. A. D. Wheeler, Mrs. Eliza Worrall, Mrs. Noah Vancleve, Rev. C. S. Whedon, Mrs. Eliza A. Wray, Hen 17 Van Cleve, Rev. L. F. White, Edward Wright, Archibald Vanhorn e, Rev. R. White, Mrs. Emily Wright, Rev. Alpha Van Nostrand, Daniel White, W. W. Wright, Rev. Henry Van Pelt, Henry Whittendale,Miss Mary A. Wright, James S. Vansant, Rev. N. Widerman, Rev. L. F. Wright, Mary E. Van Velsor, Benjamin Widerman, Samuel B. Wright, Samuel Van Velsor, Charles B. Wilbor, Rev. A. D. Wright, William Veitch, David S. Wilbur, Thomas B. Wright, W. S. Viall, William Wilcox, W . J. Wyatt, Rev. A. H. Vincent, D.D., Rev. J. H. Wilde, John D. Wyckoff, Mrs. Ruth Voorlie, John Wildey, Joseph W. Wymen, Abraham Wade, Rev. R. T. Wiles. Robert P. Yard, E. J. W akeley, Rev. J. B. Wiley, A.M., M.D., I. W. Yerrington. Walker, Thomas Wilks, Mrs. Deborah Yerrington, Miss Mary Walker, Wm. J. Wilkes, Samuel York, Rev. A. L. Wall, Christie Wilkins, Mrs. Achsah Young, D.D., Rev. Jacob Walsh, Josiah Wilkinson, Charlotte Young, Hon. Thomas Walsh, Mrs.' Cornelius Wilkinson, Lottie Young, John Walters, Rev. Luther M. Wilks, Seth Young, Rev. J. W. Wand ell, B. C. Willey, Hon.SenatorW.T. Young, Townsend Wandle, Sarah Williams, Ann Young, Rev. William Wandell, Townsend Williams, William A. Youngman, Rev. T. H. Wardle, M.D., Rev. J. K. Williams, John F. Youngs, Joshua Warfield, Dr. Jesse L. Williams, W. M. Youngs, Mrs. Caroline A. Ward, Ella B. Williams, Phillip H. Zurmehly, Peter 332 MISSIONARY REPORT [l88l.

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Abramson, S. A.. DuBois, Adelia Malcolm, Mattie Ackerman, Minnie Ducker, M. E. Matheny, Elizabeth J. Atwater, Florence Duff, Eliza H. M ’Ardle, Mrs. J. W. Atwood, J. Freeman M’Donald, George W. Auten, Grace L. Edmunds, Carrie M’Mulkin, Frank Badeau, Mrs. Espenchied, John M. M ’Mulkin, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. A. F. Evans, Martin, N. M ’Williams, J. Barnes, Fannie Meixel, Jeremiah Baldwin, Mr. Feldmeyer, Miss Lizzie Miller, Emma S. Baldwin, Master Fisk, Clinton B., Jun. Miller, Edith T. Bell, Mrs. Folger, Ella Mitchell, Mary Bennett, Thomas S. Fluck, Lizzie Monk, Miss Bishop, John Forster, Mary F. Moore, Robert M. Bradley, Sarah J ane Francis, James Morgan, Getty Brown, R. A. Muldoon, E. C. Bunce, R. Gehr, T. L. Mullholland, Alexander Bume, Theodore S. Gilpin, Job Murray, M. J. Burtis, Priscilla Goodwin, E. A. Butler, Susan Green, M. E. Nalls, Benj. F. Grogan, W. R. Nast, F. A. Galley, Arthur E. Guhrauer, H. H. Nesbeth, Edith Carisle (Iowa) M. E. Sun­ Guhrauer, M. Addie Nevins, Jane E. day-school. Carpenter, Mrs. H. C. Hall, Sarah A. Palmyra (la.) M. E. S. S. Carpenter, Lizzie Halliday, Samuel Pearsall, Mrs. M. E. Carraugher, John Hammond, Fred H. Peck, Miss Bella Carroll D. H. Hammond, Mary Presby, Rev. James W. Chadwick, Mrs. D. S. Harriatt, Mrs. K. B. Preston, Andrews Chadwick, Ella M. Hause, Anne Preston George Clancy, Georgia Hawley, Francis M. Potter, Nelson S. Clarington (Ohio) M. E. Hecker, A. L. Price, Miss Mary H. Sunday-school. liegeman, W. R. Clark, Rhoda Helfrish, Katie E. Reast, W. J. Clayton, L. C. Hilton, Mrs. • Reid, Edgar F. Cobb, Mrs. O. C. Humphreys, Dr. Rhoades, Cassie K. Cooper, Grace Hutchinson, Henry Richards, George S. Richards, Harry N. Dallas Center (la.) M. E. James, Arthur Riverston (la.) M. E. S. S. S. S. Robinson, J. Dammers, John Kellogg, Lucy Rulon, Ella Davidson, Mary Kipp, Elma Rusher, W. J. Dean, John Kitching, W. Dean, Miss Phoebe A. Kohler, Frank Sanford, Rev. Arthur B. Denton, Alfred Koontz, Mary Schick, Sarah J. Disbrow, Ella P. Koontz, Richard G. Scott, Alexander Dodge, Mrs. A. T. Scott, Maggie Draper, Frank Le Count, Oscar Scott, Mary Draper, Miss Lowe, W. E. Seymour, Mary i 8 8 i .] LIST OF LIFE MEMBERS. 333

Shannon, Lulu Belle Tackaberry, Lulu Walker, G.W. Shaw, E. Thayer, Orris Walker, Mrs. William L Shepherd, Belle Thickett, Nettie Wallace, Anna Shepherd, Harriet Thompson, David Wallace, Bertie Shopland, Richie M. Todd, Edmund K. Weber, Kate Sinclair, R. H. Towne, Lizzie Weeks, Cornelius Smith, Arabell Trusheim, John Wellman, Henry Smith, Artemesin Wengrovius, A. C. Smith, George A . Utter, J. L. Wengorovius, W. R. Smith, Hattie White, Euphrasia Smith, H. C. Valentine, Ella Whitney, MaryE. Somerville L. Van Dorn, Josie W ilcox, Mrs. Jennie Stevenson, Agnes Van Glahn, M. Winner, R. Steves, Harry Viel, F. W7ood, Lottie Stout, Andrew V., Jr. Vraae, Christine Wright, James P. Stout, W illiam H.