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Treasurer: JAMES H A C K TUKE, H itch in .
Secretary:
HENRY STANLEY NEWMAN, Leom inster. Assistant Secretary, pro. tem. :— J. NORMAN SHEPPARD, H itch in . Executive Committee:
RICHARD ALLEN JOHN T. GRACE G. S ATTERTHWA ITE STAFFORD ALLEN THEODORE HARRIS FREDERIC SEEBOHM W ILLIAM C. ALLEN THOMAS HARYEY J. S. SEWELL J. GURNEY BARCLAY HENRY HIPSLEY ISAAC SHARP WILLIAM BECK JONATHAN B. HODGKIN SAMUEL SOUTHALL J. B. BRAITHWAITE JOSEPH HUNTLEY J. FYFE STEWART C. L. BRAITHWAITE CALEB R. KEMP GEORGE STURGE WILLIAM BREWIN RICHARD L1TTLEBOY JOHN TAYLOR ISAAC BROWN JOSIAH NEWMAN JOHN B. TYLOR ALBERT J. CROSFIELD HENRY NEWMAN JAMES THOMPSON THOS. W. FISHER GEORGE PALMER, M.P. MARRIAGE WALLIS ALFRED L. FOX THOS. B. PEACOCK, M.D. CALEB S. WILSON JOSEPH S. FRY ARTHUR PEASE, M.P. JOHN E. WILSON THEODORE FRY, M.P. ALFRED RANSOM WILLIAM WHITE GEORGE S. GIBSON WILLIAM RANSOM JOHN WHITING GEORGE GILLETT WALTER ROBSON
Madagascar Sub-Committee:
ALFRED RANSOM FREDERICK SEEBOHM JAMES HACK TUKE WILLIAM RANSOM J. S. SEWELL
Indian Sub-Committee:
STAFFORD ALLEN WILLIAM BREWIN HENRY S. NEWMAN WILLIAM BECK ALBERT J. CROSFIELD JOHN B. TYLOR HENRY HIPSLEY RULES
o r THE FRIENDS' FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION.
1.— That the name “ Friends’ Foreign Mission Association” be adopted.
2.— That its object is to aid the spread of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and Mission work abroad, chiefly by assisting such members of the Society of Friends, or those in profession with them, as are believed to be called of the Lord to this service.
3.— That all Annual Subscribers be members, and that a General Meeting be held annually at such time and place as London Yearly Meeting may appoint.
4.— That the business be transacted by an Executive Committee, to be appointed annually by the General Meeting, with power to choose a Treasurer and Secretaries.
5.— That Friends who feel it their duty to engage in Foreign Gospel service, or to reside abroad for educational purposes, may communicate with the Secretary, who shall bring the matter before the Committee.
6.— That the Executive Committee meet at such times and places as it may appoint, and the Secretary or any Sub- Committee shall have power to call a meeting thereof by circular to its members. FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
MADAGASCAR.
R e p o r t o f t h e S u b-C o m m it t e e .
As in former years we have again thankfully to record the kind care of our Heavenly Father ex tended to the missionaries of our Association in Imerina since the last Annual Meeting. Nothing has been permitted materially to interrupt the steady progress of their work. The country has been unusually free from political excitement; no fearful epidemic has prevailed as in 1878 and 1879 ; and though the health of some of the missionaries has occasionally been far from what we should desire, the general work of the Mission has not been seriously hindered on this account. H. E. Clark’s yearly report shows that the ener getic course he has pursued in superintending the country Schools has been attended with fair success. He has under his care more than half of the coun try work, and during the past year this has involved his being away from home 88 nights, and 46 days of riding in his palanquin. This affords a striking illustration of the uneconomical expenditure of time and exertion necessarily involved in working the parts of our district at a distance from the capital. But our missionaries regard this apparent loss of time as far more than counterbalanced by the im portance of this country work. And yet the 6 progress there is slow, hardly appreciable sometimes from one year to another, though on looking back for ten years, or even half that time the improve ment is very striking. The 118 village congrega tions and 90 schools under our care, with their native evangelists and teachers, however much we may deplore their imperfections, and the low standard, intellectual, moral, and spiritual, that prevails amongst them, are steadily working for the good of the 150,000 or more people who live in our district. The leaven of the Gospel is gradually permeating this population scattered over about 2,000 square miles, a better public opinion on moral and social questions is being formed and increases in power, and here and there signs of true spiritual life are manifested. As our missionaries all live in the capital, and are thus brought more continually into contact with the church and scholars who come under their influence, there the results are more apparent. Both our large schools continue to flourish, and the great regularity in the attendance of the pupils is very gratifying from every point of view. It is now more than eleven years since the erection of the present buildings— the Boys’ School at Ambohijatovo, the Girls’ at Faravohitra, about ten minutes’ walk apart. The last letters from Madagascar inform us that the alterations in the Boys’ premises are now all but completed, and promise well for future comfort and efficiency. W m . Johnson has taken some pains to ascertain the present condition of the boys and young men who have received their education in this school. He says :—
“ The total number of scholars admitted since the beginning of the School has been over thirteen hundred, of whom probably as 7 many as twenty per cent, did not stay more than a few months. Of those who remained long enough to receive permanent benefit, it would be interesting to know in what way their talents are now being used; but to get very definite information on the subject is very difficult. Of those who have left us we have only been able to follow about one in four. The greater part have returned home and taken their place as ordinary members of the com munity, who obtain their living by trade, or have sufficient pro perty for their maintenance- They perform their allotted share of government service, either in a military or civil capacity, and we see little more of them, except that in our own district we often find them occupying places of usefulness in the church, where, doubtless, they might be found in other districts, for we gather from all parts of the country. Of those of whom we have more certain information, twelve left us to enter the London Missionary Society’s School for training teachers ; and thirty-two became students in their college for training ministers. Most of these are now teaching or doing evangelistic work. Sixteen youths became printers at one or other of the Mission Presses, or at that of the Government; thirteen studied medicine under one or other of the doctors ; nineteen became clerks in various Government offices ; but by far the larger number left to become teachers. Of these we have knowledge of eighty-seven. The majority of them are in our own district, many also in those of the London Missionary Society, and a very few in the Norwegian Missionary Society, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. They do not con fine their efforts to school teaching, but many of them do the work of evangelists in their own villages and neighbourhood. They vary greatly in religious understanding, but what they know they speak, and testify that they have heard, and we hear of them in far distant and unexpected places, diffusing the light and knowledge of the Gospel where all else is dark and heathen.”
Of the Girls’ School we hear of similar results:— “ Many of our old scholars reside in town, where we often see and hear of them. Several are here teaching in our schools, or in those connected with the different congregations. Others are teaching, in the country, of whom we often hear good reports. One of our earliest scholars is doing a good work among her fellow country women on the borders of the Sakalava territory, where, by diligent visiting from house to house, she keeps up a good attendance at her classes and at chapel. There are several of our old scholars at work in our district, some of whom we supply with materials for teaching sewing to the members of Bible classes which they have already formed. But of the greater number we have quite lost sight, especially in cases where their stay with us was only for a short time.” Important changes in the management of both these schools will take place this summer. William Johnson, who, together with other pressing engage ments, has, as superintendent of the Boys’ School, most sedulously and efficiently studied its best interests for ten years, will probably leave the island in July. Herbert Standing, who, with his wife, left England in April, and who should reach the Capital in June, is expecting to occupy the vacant post as soon as the acquisition of the language will enable him to do so. L. H. Brockway also, who, for three years, has greatly assisted H. Gilpin in the manage ment of the Girls’ School, is to come home with her parents this year; Annie Pumphrey will very much take the position she has hitherto occupied. The last account of H. Gilpin’s health was more encouraging than has sometimes been the case, and she cheerfully continues at her post. The annual report of the work accomplished in the Printing Office during the year 1880, shows a very decided increase upon that of 1879, though it is still much below that achieved when A . King- don superintended it. Since he left Madagascar, now two years ago, the office has been under the special oversight of S. Clemes, and has added not a little to his work. In.a letter, lately received, he says: “ We are nearly all of us working with more irons in the fire than is quite good, either for the irons or ourselves; and so we shall be glad to hear of fresh recruits on the way. Specially shall I be glad to hear of someone coming out to take charge of the Printing Office.” W e are sorry to be compelled to say that there is little probability of this pleasure being realised 9 before another year. The home Committee has done its best to obtain the services of a Friend, whose chief work should be to superintend the Printing Office, but who would also be able in other ways to assist in the general work of the Mission; but though some enquiries, in answer to advertise ments, have been received, they have not as yet resulted in any engagement. In our last annual Report allusion was made to the Medical Mission, carried on in co-operation with the London Missionary Society, as a new feature of our work in Madagascar. The management is in the hands of our friend J. Tregelles Fox, M.D., assisted by a committee composed of three members of the London Missionary Society (Imerina committee), and three of our own. J. T. Fox and his wife reached the Capital on the 14th of August, and received a very cordial welcome. Before many days had passed, patients flocked to him in crowds, and on the 2nd of October, the out-patient department of the Hospital was opened for three days in the week. Several Malagasy youths have applied for admission as medical students. Two of these, William Johnson’s pupils, have already been of much service, on account of their knowledge of English: they now keep the register of patients, dispense the medicines, and also vaccinate success fully. Five more students have been taken since the new year came in, four from W m . Johnson’s school, one from the London Missionary Society’s Normal School. Of these, J. T. Fox says: “ I feel it a great responsibility to have these lads under my care, and it is emphatically entering into other men’s labours.” The opening of the in-patient de partment has been long delayed from the want of an English nurse. Attempts have been made to 10 obtain the help of one trained in England, but hitherto without success. By the last letters we hear that the Medical committee have secured the services of an English lady who has for some years shown great aptness for missionary work among the native women. In many respects she is believed to be well fitted for the situation; and since she joined the work, we expect the in-patient depart- ment of the hospital has been opened. But Miss Graham is not a trained nurse, and the Committee will still be glad to hear of one who is, and who could enter upon Hospital work in Madagascar as the line of service assigned her by the Lord. In concluding his report, J. T. Fox speaks of the pleasure it has been to him to render medical aid to the missionaries who have come under his care. “ Prevented,” he says, “ by numerous engagements, from doing any direct mission work in the way of preaching and teaching, it has been a great satis faction to me to do all in my power to attend to the apt-to-be-forgotten physical needs of those who are actively carrying forward the great work for which this Mission exists; and which, together with the action of a tropical climate, often makes consider able inroads, even upon the constitutions of the strong.” Our committee in Imerina have just published a very interesting little volume, containing three valuable maps, being a review of the work of this Association in Madagascar, from its commencement in 1867, to the present time. Five hundred copies of it are now on their way to England.* No one can read this review without being struck with the * Those who wish to possess copies of this Review, will kindly apply, by Post-card, to J. H. Take, Hitchin; or J. S. Sewell, .Belgrave, Leicester. The price is Is. 11 remarkable progress of the Mission during these thirteen years. There have been sore trials to bear, many serious difficulties to surmount, and threatening dangers to avoid, and also many im perfections send shortcomings to deplore. But, through all, our gracious Lord has been with His servants, granting them His support, His guidance, and His blessing. To maintain the Mission within its present limits, and this is almost impossible, even if it were desirable, fresh labourers are urgently needed. Some of those now in the field greatly need a change. William Johnson, as has already been said, is coming home this year; Samuel Clemes and his wife will soon follow. The work is the Lord’s, and we know that He who has begun it will also carry it on ; but He calls upon us to be co-workers with Him in it. W ho will cheer fully respond to the call ? On behalf of the Committee, JOSEPH S. SEWELL.
INDIA.
R epoet of the Sub-C ommittee. Two or three features present themselves in the record of the Indian Mission during the past year to mark definite progress. Foremost among these is the opening of the New Meeting House at Hoshangabad. This Building is well-situated in the Jumerati Bazaar, and has brought the Mission more prominently before the inhabitants. The Boy’s Day School in the Balagunj, has for years been held in a low dilapidated shed, quite 12 unfit for a school, and through the kindness of some English Friends, in sending out a special donation of £250, a good New School House is now being erected. This is in the Chamars quarter of the city, and the new buildings will be available for Mission meetings, Bible readings, and lectures, as well as for the regular School work. The Committee at home, has often felt that it would be an advantage for some member of the home Committee to have personal acquaintance with our Mission Station at Hoshangabad and the surrounding District, and in the autumn of last year, our friend Henry S. Newman, offering to pay such a visit to India, the Committee cordially accepted the proposal. This visit will, we hope, result in permanent good. Our missionaries at Hoshangabad, meet regularly every month as a Committee, to arrange the work of the Mission; and copies of their minutes are regularly sent home, for the information and con sideration of the Committee in London. There is also a Monthly Meeting held at the Friends’ Meeting House, in Hoshangabad, consisting of all those who are in membership with us, for the transaction of their own Church affairs, and thus the little band of native Christians are trained to take their own part in the discipline and activities of a Christian Church. Such a body strongly claims the kind sympathy of the Church at home, and we have much pleasure in commending to thoughtful perusal the accompany ing reports from India of the different departments of their work. A t the last meeting of the Executive Committee, held in London, it was resolved to send out instructions to India, authorizing the purchase of a plot of land at Sohagpur, in order to establish 13 an out-station there, and the following account of the work at Sohagpur, which has since been received, will be read with interest, showing that the “ fields are white unto harvest.”
ANNUAL REPORT FROM Hoshangabad, Central Provinces, India,
FOR THE YEAR 1880-1.
The year we have just passed through has been made memorable by deep experiences of both joy and sorrow. It pleased G-od to remove, by death, two of J. H. and E. Williams’s little children, and J. H. Williams was himself laid by for six months, in con sequence of a long and tedious illness, brought on by a wetting in the beginning of last rains. The chief event of the year in the history of the Mission is the opening of the New Meeting House, which took place on the 7th of eleventh month, full reports of which have already been sent home. On Christmas Day we had a Christmas-tree in the new meeting house, decorated with the toys kindly sent by English friends, which, with the prizes to the school children, were distributed by H. S. Newman —the highest prize in the case of both boys and girls being a Hindi New Testament. Some of the officials of the station at tended, and seemed very much pleased. After the prizes had been distributed, and the Christmas-tree moved aside, we showed some of the new magic lantern slides so kindly sent us from Dublin by the Strand-street First Day School children. The meeting-house was well filled, and a great many native gentlemen, including the magistrates, were present.
B a z a a r P r e a c h in g In the city has been kept up regularly as heretofore, with only three exceptions,—once in ninth month, on account of district work 5 and twice in tenth month, once on account of the weather, and once on account of the Ram Leela festival, the latter time we went to our usual preaching place, but the people did not come together. We have often had really good times, when the Word preached seemed to be taking effect on the hearers. There have 14 been very few interruptions, and those few have generally been from Mohammedans. By this means, and frequent visits to some of the houses in the city, and the distribution of tracts, we believe that the knowledge of Christ, as the Saviour of the world, is spreading.
I t in e r a n t W o r k . The usual course of this branch of the work has been interrupted by the welcome visit of our Secretary, H. S. Newman, as S. Baker went with him on his journeys through the country, and J. H. Williams was detained by the ordinary work of the Mission in Hoshangabad. Sohagpur and Seonee have been visited regularly almost every month, and we have invariably found open doors in both places for the preaching of the Gospel. On one occasion, in Seonee, a carpenter was met with, who said he had learned of Christ in Nagpore, but was not prepared to leave his wife and family for His sake. On another, a Brahmin, in the post-office, frankly confessed before the people that, according to the New Testament, Christ is true. The last time J. H. Williams was in Sohagpur with Bal Mukand they had a most remarkable time, of which J. H. Williams gives the following account:—“ On the morning after our arrival we paid a visit to the city, when we had a very striking instance of how our Heavenly Father can overrule evil for good. We had just taken our seats a few minutes beside some poor people who were engaged in making earthenware vessels, and were reading to them from the New Testament, when two Brahmin youths came forward and asked for tracts. Bal Mukand gave them each one, but they no sooner had them than they proceeded to read them aloud and to ridicule what was con tained in the tracts. Bal Mukand reproved them for their con duct, but they only laughed at him and did it so much the more. Soon quite a large company of men and lads gathered round them, all entering very thoroughly into the fun, and in order the better to enjoy a little sport at our expense they went and sat down in a nicely-shaded verandah, only about twenty yards from where we sat conversing with these poor persons. After spending a little more time with them we came away, and were walking slowly towards the verandah where the crowd of men were sitting, when one of them, a clever pandit, stood up and invited us to come and sit down also. We gladly availed ourselves of the invitation, and the pandit, no doubt, was thinking in his own mind that now he had a good opportunity for letting his admirers see how clever he was, and how easy it was for him to dispose of anything contained in the book that the Christians teach from. I asked them to give us a fair attentive hearing. The pandit promised that it would 15 be so, and after exchanging a few knowing winks and glances with some of those sitting round, he placed his elbows upon his knees, poised his head upon his hands, and sat looking at us with an air of mock solemnity. But the word of God had not lost any of its power, and as passage after passage was read and explained, the pandit became more and more interested in what he heard, and the perfect attention of all was truly striking. For fully an hour, and with scarcely any interruption, we sat and spoke to those men of the love of God, and pointed them to Jesus Christ, the willing Saviour of all mankind. When we prepared to come away, many of those present gladly received tracts from us.” On another occasion, a man invited B&l Mukand and Jugal Kishore to his house, and gathered all the household together including women and children. On hearing the story of the widow of Nain, and the raising of Lazarus, some of the women were much affected. H. S. Newman visited Sohagpur and Seonee with J. H. Williams; he also went with S. Baker to the Birman mela, held on the Nerbudda sands, about fourteen miles from Nursingpore. It is partly a religious and partly a commercial fair, and people come from great distances to it. We had a good opportunity of preaching Christ, and gave away a great many little tracts. Jugal Kishore and S. Baker went on a tenting tour to Babai, Semree, Sobhapur, and Futtehpore, taking the magic lantern with them. Large crowds gathered in Babai and Semree, affording a good opportunity for preaching Christ. At the little village of Ankmow, near Babai, we had a nice conversation with a number of men, some of whom, remembering our visit of last year, seemed glad to see us again. Itarsee Bazaar and Sonasa- waree have also claimed a large share of our attention, and the apparent feeling of opposition seems to be less marked in the former place. In addition to the foregoing, the native brethren have visited many of the villages in the district and have almost invariably found a great readiness to hear. We note, with pleasure, that during the latter part of First month and the beginning of Second, during a visit to Sanwalkhera, our friend Sugra, (Ali Bakhsh’s wife) had some meetings with the women of that place, a detailed report of which has been sent home. Ruth, Bal Mukand’s wife, regularly visits one of the Zenanas in the city, and several others would gladly receive visits, but, unfortunately, the rules of the Zenana are so strict that none of the native sisters could begin the work alone. E. Williams and R. Metcalfe would gladly avail themselves of these open doors, but have neither time nor strength to give to the work. It is a work of a special kind, which, to be carried on successfully, must be done during the middle of the day, and requires workers specially set apart. 16
S t a t e o p t h e C h tjb oh . We have a membership of 13 adults (5 women and 8 men ; there are also 6 children (3 girls and 3 boys); and 5 non-members (1 woman and 4 men.,) Lakshman Prasad, has gone to the Canadian Presbyterian Mission at Indore, and is studying with one of the mission aries, to qualify himself as a catechist. Three, reported as non-members last year, have been received into full member ship. We have had one addition to our numbers from among the heathen during the year, a man of the Tailor caste. He has been somewhat unsteady, but is now working industriously in the city, and we have hopes that he may yet prove himself worthy of being admitted into membership with us. We have held our meetings for worship and discipline regularly throughout the year. We have often felt the presence of the Lord in our midst, and that He has been dispensing blessings. The monthly meetings have latterly been more interesting, and the whole tone and feeling of the church seems very much deepened. We were very much helped and encouraged by H. S. Newman’s visit. We have not as many outsiders in attendance as we could wish, but, generally, some do come in. The attendance of our members has been very fair throughout the year, though on account of outside work and illness, of which there has been a great deal amongst us, we have sometimes sat down, but very few. Since the open ing of the new meeting-house, we have regularly held a meeting for prayer and fellowship on the Seventh day evenings.
T h e B i b l e C l a s s f o r M e n , Conducted by S. Baker, has been regularly kept up, with a better average than last year. During the year, the histories of David and Abraham have been gone through, and part of the Epistle to the Romans. R. Metcalfe and E. Williams have begun a Bible class for the women, once a fortnight, on Second day evenings. The lessons have been from the Epistle of James.
T h e S e r v a n t s ’ B i b l e C l a s s, At the Bungalow, on First days, has been kept up with but one or two exceptions. The lessons have been altogether from the Gospels, and the interest taken in the class seems to have deepened considerably. SCHOOLS.
T h e B o ys’ S u n d a y S c h o o l , Under the care of J. H. Williams, has been regularly held; the averageo attendance has been about 23. J. H. Williams has been 17 prevented by illness from giving all the attention to it which he would have wished, but the school seems to promise well for the future. The attendance during the past two months has occasionally been small, sometimes not exceeding 12 boys. This is partly to be accounted for from the fact that several of the lads have been engaged in the harvest field, while others are doing coolie labour on the new railway works. There has also been much sickness among young and old, especially since the late rain and hailstorms. Twelve of our boys have been ill at once during the past month—some from fever, but mostly with measles. The boys are almost always very attentive while in school, and seem to enjoy their Scripture lessons. We may not be able to point to any very marked results from our teaching; still it is evident, in the case of several of the lads, that the Spirit of God is at work in their hearts.
I n t h e G i e l s ’ S u n d a y S c h o o l , Under the care of Effie Williams, the attendance has been about 12. One of the Christian women regularly attends and helps in the teaching. In consequence of illness, there have been times when the attendance has been very small; but the interest of the girls keeps up well, and seems to be increasing.
A t t h e B o ys’ S c h o o l , B alagttn j, The average for the year has been 19. The interest in the school has been well sustained, both by the teacher, Devi Dyal, and the scholars. One of the elder boys has been appointed junior teacher, and this arrangement seems to work very well. At present the school is held in Devi Dyal’s house, but, through the liberality of some friends in England, we have been furnished with money to build a new schoolhouse. The work has been begun, and we hope the building will be finished by the end of Seventh month. There has been one death amongst the scholars.
R . M e t c a l f e ’ s S c h o o l f o e G ie l s Continues to be held in the old meeting-house. The average for the year has been 1 2 |. An examination was held at Christmas time by S. Baker, who noticed a very marked improvement in the school. Since then there has been a good deal of unsettlement, the teacher, Dorcas, was ill for some time, there has been much illness, chiefly measles, among the girls, and the harvest work has kept many away. Besides this, for a time, a Moham medan woman had to be employed to collect the girls, and we fear that she discouraged them from coming. The attendance has, however, begun to improve again. There have been two deaths amongst the scholars. B 18
T h e C o l p o r t e u r
R e p o r t s having made the following journeys during the year, calling at many of the towns and villages on the way :— Sohagpur, once; Seonee, Hurda, and Khandwa, twice; Bhopal State three times; Betul, once ; and the Birman Mela. The total amount of Bibles and Portions sold and distributed have been as follows :— Rs. A. Pie. 936 Bibles and Portions ...... 59 2 6 1670 Tracts and Little Books ...... 57 12 3
i£116 14 9 and many more have been distributed freely by us.
SAMUEL BAKER, J. H. WILLIAMS, RACHEL METCALFE, EFFIE WILLIAMS.
H. S. NEWMAN’S REPORT.
Hoshangabad, 2 Mo. 2nd, 1881. To the Members o f the Indian Sub-Committee.
D e a r F r ie n d s ,—Now that I have had opportunity, week after week, of watching the work at Hoshangabad, it may be well to make some definite report to the Committee at home. First, with regard to the
B u il d in g s . The Bungalow that was erected by Charles Gayford as the residence of our missionaries is a thoroughly commodious house, well furnished with the comforts so necessary for Europeans in this country, and is acknowledged on all hands to have been built with great economy. It stands in the centre of the compound on rising ground, with the houses of the native Christians and servants close at hand, and it is probably one of the most healthy positions in the whole of Hoshangabad. The Friends’ Meeting House in the city, to which J. H. Williams gave so much attention last year, is also a substantial structure, in an excellent position, with large Nim trees in front of it, and tamarind trees in its rear. The building will hold some 250 people, and has been crowded on three or four occasions. The interior is lofty and airy ; and its erection has added very perceptibly to the position of the Mission among the 19 people of the town. The Balagunj School Room is in a very dilapidated condition. We have to stoop low to get in at the door. It is unfit for a school. The ground on which it stands, with the playground behind, is our property. I have just received from some kind Friends in England £250 for the erection of a new School House in Balagunj. Rachel Metcalfe’s house is rented of a native for 16 rupees a month. It is a very suitable house for her, being all on the ground floor, with an open court-yard in the centre, the Girls’ school being held in the front portion of the house. The Book Shop in the Bazaar is a small place for the sale of Bibles and tracts, and for religious conversation with the natives. Respecting the
H eat/ th o f t e e M issionaries , Rachel Metcalfe is in better health than for some time past. She is in good spirits ; and though pretty much confined to her chair and couch, is exercising an excellent Christian influence on all around her. Time after time, when I visited her, I found little groups of women sitting at her feet, listening to her, and confiding to her their troubles. Samuel Baker usually has capital health, though subject, like so many European residents, to occasional attacks of fever. John H. Williams does not seem strong, probably having overdone himself during the last hot season. The sciatica has nearly left him, but he is suffering from the effects of a severe fall he met with in driving on a bad road. Effie Williams is in good health at the present time, and her influence for good on the Mission is very marked. Their son James is not very strong, but is at present in good health.
T h e M e m b e r s o f t h e N a t i v e C h u r c h Can scarcely be expected to show those signs of vigour we find in mature Christians at home. They are very much like children who need to be led by the hand, and their tendency is to expect only too much to be done for them by the European missionary. They have little capacity for initiating work, and need continual oversight. Several of them are in the employ of the Mission, and are evidently sincere in their attachment to Christianity. There are 13 members, and one or two others in connection with us who are not in membership. There have been delinquencies among some in the past, but every one of them now appears to be living a consistent moral life. Those who have known them longest speak strongest of the change for the better that has taken place in them. There is among them an earnest spirit of prayer, and a simple true-hearted faith; but, in practical Christian work and life, they need much further training. 20
Otte M e e t in g s f o e W o b s h i p Are kept up with much interest, and ail our members are in very regular attendance. There are not many besides the members who attend these meetings. Four of the native members frequently and willingly take part. The preaching department of the Mission is rather peculiarly effective. The Monthly Meetings for Church affairs, consisting of all the members, are times of great interest, the natives reporting respecting their own department of service; and our system of Church government appears to be well adapted for stimulating their individual growth in grace.
T h e D a y S c h o o l , Under Devi Dyal’s care, works capitally. It has greatly improved. I examined the boys, and am glad we have such an energetic Christian schoolmaster. The Girls’ School is small.
T h e F i e s t D a y S c h o o l Is attended by almost every member of the Meeting, young and old, by the children from the Day Schools, and a few others. Effie Williams conducts the class for the women and girls. There is a good class of boys; and Samuel Baker takes the adult class of men.
B a z a a e P r e a c h in g Is carried on twice-a-week ; and I am impressed with the value of this means of evangelizing the people. We thus reach large numbers who will not come into the Meeting House. There is often a large attendance at these open-air services. The people listen courteously and attentively. The Scriptures are read, and tracts distributed. In conjunction with this outside work, the catechist and the reader are daily engaged in Bible exposition and religious conversation.
T h e A t t it u d e t o w a r d s t h e M is s io n Among the educated natives has evidently undergone a marked change during the last year or two. The hold the Mission has on the people is strengthening. The heathen festivals receive less attention, and are not so well supported, and we have much of the goodwill of the English-speaking part of the native population. This has been partly owing to the valuable friendship of two or three European residents (one of whom regularly attends our meetings for worship). The attitude of the mixed population in the Bazaars is also much changed. Many will acknowledge the truth of that which is spoken, but so very few are willing to come and confess Christ. The large number of people just now employed in the construction of the railway and telegraph line 21 through Hoshangabad has given an impetus to the life of the town; and the railway in itself will be a great boon to our Mission, placing Hoshangabad in a still better position towards the neighbouring districts.
T h e V il l a g e W o r k Is felt by all the members here to be of great importance. There is great readiness to hear the truth in many of the villages. I have accompanied our friends on some of their country journeys, and can see there is a very wide opening for preaching the Gospel. The power of the English Government commands respect for an English man, and for those representing the Englishman’s religion. This secures a hearing; and though it may have some drawbacks, it makes the headman of the village obliging, and inclined to make way for us. Several of these patels are very friendly. S o h a g p u e and S e o n e e present admirable positions for out-stations; and, considering the healthy character of Sohagpur, the considerable population in its vicinity, and the valuable labour we have already bestowed upon it in former years, I think there can be no doubt that we ought to occupy Sohagpur as soon as any of our brethren at Hoshangabad are sufficiently advanced to form an out-station. The population of Sohagpur is 6008; and the large town of Sobhapur is in its immediate neighbourhood. The Tahsil of Sohagpur has 416 villages within its compass, with a population of 115,657 souls, and not a single missionary is stationed among them. I do not think it is at all desirable at present for us to attempt any Mission among the Gónds to the south. We had much better occupy the Hoshangabad District, which includes Sohagpur and Seonee, more efficiently before we enlarge our area.
The work of B ib l e C o l p o e t a g e Goes on steadily all the year round.
T h e W e l l . After careful investigation, we have accepted the tender of Nanabhoy Nasserwanjee, a Parsi of Hurda, to complete the well, with tank, and iron pipe connections, and water hoist for the bullocks, for 2275 rupees (£189). His previous tender was much higher than this; and wells round here have cost much more. The price of labour is double what it was two years ago. Men are now getting 5d. a day that used to work for 2¿d. The well is to be commenced this week, and is to be finished this summer. The well is a necessity for the health of our missionaries. 22 In conclusion I may say that the Mission, as a whole, gives encouragement. There are weak points requiring care, which must be the case wherever a Church is so recently gathered from among the heathen, but an excellent and substantial nucleus is formed. The native members have great faith in their own future progress and increase, and we may do well to have faith also. Tour sincere friend, HENRY STANLEY NEWMAN.
SYRIAN MISSION. P.S.— The Report o f the Syrian Mission is published separately. Copies may be had from. W . C. ALLEN, 72, Albion Road, Stoke Newington, London. 23
MISSIONARIES AND OTHERS NOW ABROAD
in c o n n ec tio n w it h t h e
MADAGASCAR.
H e n r y E. C l a r k and R a c h e l M. C l a r k , and Children.
H e l e n G il p in . W illiam Johnson (whose wife and children are in Eng land.)
S a m u e l C lem es, and his wife and children. W illiam W ilson (at present in England.)
A n n ie P u m p h r e y .
E l iz a b e t h H . B r o c k w a y .
H e r b e r t F . S t a n d in g , and his wife.
MEDICAL BRANCH.
Joseph Tregelles Fox, M.D., and his wife S. E. Fox, in charge of the Medical Mission and Hospital.
INDIA.
S a m u e l B a k e r . R a c h e l M e t c a l f e . J o h n H. and E ffie W illiams, and child. FRIENDS’ FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION, IN ACCOUNT W IT H J. H. TUKE, TREASURER.
From jth Mo. içth, j 88o, To jt h M o. 17th, t88i . «Tr.
MADAGASCAR. £ s. d. To payments as under: £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. By Balance in hand...... 379 2 5 Drawn in Madagascar, including travelling expenses £ s. d. £ s. d. to England, also including Drafts delayed in pre Two-thirds Collection at Annual Meeting, 1880, sentation, £2 ,200 ...... 2942 15 11 shared with the Syrian Mission ...... 41 o 3 Paid in England on account of House and Personal Annual Subscriptions ...... 4063 12 8 expenses at home and abroad, including education Donations...... 506 9 o of children ...... 471 3 2 Young Women Friends’ Christian Union for Annie Paid on account of Schools ...... 23 1 10 Pumphrey’s expenses ...... 50 o o 3437 0 11 ------4661 I 11 Printing Office and Book Stores for paper, type, &c., Legacy from the late J. M. Knight, Northfleet, ^ 5°°> including final payments to A. Kingdon ,¿191 5s. 355 9 2 less Legacy duty ...... 450 o o Freight, Insurance, &c., on goods sent out and home 05 15 3 Dividends on Investments ...... 156 10 5 Paid on account of passage money, travelling expenses, Two-fifths of dividend on George Sturge’s Gift, ap and outfit of Herbert and Lucy Standing ...... 361 7 2 plied, as per deed, for General Expenses ...... 97 12 o Paid on account of Missionaries during residence in Received on Private Accounts ...... 57 0 o England...... 279 13 7 Balance transferred from the Medical Mission and 4499 6 I Hospital Fund to the General Fund ...... 352 18 o Cash transferred from “ Contingent Fund” to General MEDICAL MISSION AND HOSPITAL. Fund ...... 191 5 o Paid on account of passage money, travelling expenses Cash transferred from the “ School enlargement” Fund, and part outfit of J. T. and S. E. Fox ...... 251 11 9 being amounts already expended in Madagascar 312 1 10 Drugs, Surgical appliances, and Hospital outfit ...... 207 2 7 Paid on account of Hospital and Dr. Fox’s expenses Per Priscilla A. Fry— in Madagascar ...... 299 15 Madagascar Embroidery and Curiosties ...... ,...... 65 17 o 758 9 5 English Contributions ...... 5 3 0 Less received from the London Missionary Society, ------71 o o being their share of expenses as per agreement ... 242 11 6 Less Expended : 515 17 H Materia] ...... 19 6 2 INDIA. Sundry charges ...... 2 13 10 Drawn in India on account of S. Baker, R. Metcalfe, ------22 o o J . H. & E. Williams & family, including Schools, ------49 o o Native Teachers, &c...... 992 9 6 Sale of Friends’ Mission Almanacks ...... o 19 3 Paid by H. S. Newman, balance of Well-sinking and Discount returned ...... o 10 3 expenses of John & E. Williams’s visitto Bombay... 72 o o Balance due to Treasurer ...... 110 14 3 Henry Stanley Newman’s total expenses in India, including passage out and home ...... 249 15 o 1314 4 6 HOME EXPENSES. Printing, Carriage, &c., of 3300 Reports...... 81 o 6 Advertising Subscriptions, &c...... 37 12 6 Examined and found correct, Stationery, Postage, and Sundries...... 51 0 1 1 Assistant Secretary’s Salary ...... 65 o o C. STANSFIELD WILSON. ------234 13 11 Life Insurance Premiums ...... 88 10 3 Deputation expenses ...... 9 12 3 ------332 16 5 Interest on Investments transferred to Contingent fund...... 156 10 5 ¿6818 15 4 ¿6818 15 4 26
George Sturge’s Gift.
£5,000, MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL
WAY FIVE PER CENT. PREFERENCE SHARES.
Trustees ;— J. H. Tüke, G. S. Gibson, J. S. F ry.
1881. 1880. 5th Mo. 17. £ s. d. 8th Mo. 23. £ s. d. „ Interest applied as „ Half Year’s Interest 122 2 8 per Deed: 1881. „ 2/5 to General Ex 2nd Mo. 9. penses ...... 97 12 0 TTalf Year’s Interest 121 17 6 „ 2/5 to School En largement Fund... 97 12 2 „ 1/5 to Contingent Fund ...... 48 16 0
£244 0 2 £244 0 2
School Enlargement Fund: Ambohijatovo.
(Hr.
1881. £ s. d. 1880. £ s. d. 5th Mo. 17 5th Mo. 15, Balance in hand 238 11 6 Expended in Madagascar 1881. during the present year 312 1 10 5 Mo. 17, 2/5 Interest on Balance in hand ...... 24 I 10 G. Sturge’s Gift 97 12 2 £336 3 8 £336 3 8 27
CONTINGENT FUND.
Amounts directed by Donors or Committee to be invested, and interest applied for retired members o f the Mission, or otherwise, at the discretion o f the Committee.
£ s. d. Deborah Gibson’s Donation (1873)— United States Funded Loan 1000 0 0 Robert Charleton’s Legacy— Leeds and Bradford (Midland) Rail way, 4 per cent. Preference Stock 400 0 0 Alexander Peckover’s Donation ditto 105 0 0 Amount from General Funds (1877) ditto 250 0 0 Deborah Gibson’s Bequest (1877) on loan to the Meeting for Sufferings 2000 0 0 Dividends on Investments, 1877-9, on deposit...... 272 16 2 Ditto 1879-80 ditto (including one-fifth Interest on G. Stnrge’s Gift 181 4 8 Balance of ditto, 1880-1 ditto (see Statement below) 30 12 2
¿£4239 13 0
CONTINGENT FUND STATEMENT
FOR 1880-1.
% 1881. £ s. d. 1881. £ s. d. 5th Mo. 17. 5th Mo. 17. Transferred to General Interest on Investments Fund on a/c of A. King- (see General Fnnd) 156 10 5 don’s retiring allowance 191 5 0 One-fifth G. Sturge’s Gift 48 16 0 Balance for this year, trans Interest on Deposit a/c ... 16 10 9 ferred to above a/c ...... 30 12 2
¿221 17 2 .£221 17 2 ANNUAL MEETING.
This meeting was held in the large Meeting-house, Devonshire House, London, on Monday, May 23rd, 1881, at 6.30 p.m. Acts xvii. 22-31, was read, followed by prayer. The Treasurer, James Hack Tuke, gave the financial account for the year ending May 17th, 1881. The total expenditure for India and Madagascar was £6,818 15s. 4d.; the income, including the balance from previous year, ¿£6,708 Is. Id.; thus showing a deficiency due to the Treasurer of ¿110 14s. 3d. This compares with an expenditure in 1879 of £6,108 and an income of ¿£6,487, showing an excess for that year of £379. During the past year, then, £710 more has been expended, and £220 more received, than in 1879. The chief cause of the increased ex penditure has been the extension of the work in Madagascar by the establishment of a hospital and medical mission. The ex penditure in Madagascar, independent of the Medical Mission, has been £4,499 (in 1879, £4,200). For the Medical Mission and Hospital ¿758 has been spent, of which £242 has been received from the London Missionary Society, so that the actual cost to this Mission has been £516. In the case of India, the ordinary expenditure has been increased by the visit of the Secretary, H. S. Newman, but stands at £1,314, against £1,390 last year. The Home expenses have been £332, for printing, advertisements, salary of assistant secretary, &c. Turning to the credit side of the account, the balance in hand from 1880 was £379. The annual subscriptions have been £4,063, the donations, ¿£506, including ¿£50 from the Young Women Friends’ Christian Fellowship Union for Annie Pumphrey, showing a total of ¿£4,661, as against ¿£4,709 in 1879. Legacy from John Messer Knight, ¿£450 ; dividends on investments, ¿£156 10s. 5d. ; two-fifths of dividend on George Sturge’s gift, ¿£97; received on private accounts, ¿£57 ; balance transferred from Hospital and Medical Mission Fund, ¿£352 ; cash transferred from the Con tingent Fund, ¿£191; from the School Enlargement Fund, ¿£312; from the sale of Madagascar embroidery work, by Priscilla A. Fry, ¿£49. This last means of income could be extended with advantage. The Contingency Fund now amounts to ¿£4,239. Two points are noticeable in the account. We have felt it right to depart from the usual practice, and absorb a legacy into the current account, applying it toward the Medical Mission Fund. 29 An extra expense lias also been incurred in the journey of the Secretary—H. S. Newman—to India ; a journey performed with the maximum of good to the Mission, and a minimum of expense. We did not think that this legacy of ¿6450 could be better ap- ’’ 'r ’ 1 ' sent usé of it for these two purposes. Medical Mission in Madagascar has been added to the work, although it will prove rather expensive. We cannot look to a less cost than ¿£700 a year for the main tenance of the hospital, training of nurses and students, &e. Dr. Fox, in the seven or eight months he has been there, has already rendered important service in this direction. We think, too, there is an added interest in this medical work. We have had the teaching and the preaching, and now, however humbly, we are endeavouring to follow in the third great work of our Divine Master ori earth—the healing of the sick.
Theodore Fry : I feel it a great pleasure to preside on this occasion, and, looking back, I think we may be thankful for the increase of interest that is taken year by year in these subjects. We meet this evening under special circumstances of great in terest. The Yearly Meeting has agreed this afternoon to take this Association and its work more under its own wing than has been the case; and anything which tends to bring Foreign and Home Mission work into closer connection with the proper work of the Society will tend to the benefit of the Society, as well as to the good of the mission work. We are also welcoming back amongst us to-night our Secretaiy—H. S. Newman—after his long travel. In these meetings, in some previous years, the work in Madagascar has seemed to overshadow the work in India, partly because the latter is older and less extensive ; but we have one to-night returned from India, and how much more interesting it is to hear accounts from one who has really visited the locality ! Whether we look to Madagascar, or Syria, or India, I think we shall see that there is much to be done in all these fields of labour. We have also here to-night two Friends who have paid a visit to Syria—Maria Feltham and Ellen Clayton—and they will be able to tell us something of the Missionary work carried on in that land of the Bible. We must have been glad to hear of the extension of the work in Madagascar by the opening of the Hospital and Medical Mission that Dr. Fox and his wife are working there; but the Association still needs a qualified nurse for the hospital, and one who is connected with the Society of Friends would be of great service. It is now thirteen years since this Association Avas started, and God has blessed the work begun in hesitation and trembling but with prayer; and now, when the 30 record of those years is brought before us, I think we may lift up our hearts in gratitude that He has put it into the hearts of some to labour m these foreign fields. Labour abroad in no way interferes with labour at home. The two great branches of work are intimately connected; if one does not prosper the other suffers with it. I trust this meeting will stimulate us all, and lead us to ask ourselves what is required of u s; and what it is that we can do to help this work. More labourers are wanted in the harvest-field. Year after year the invitation has sounded forth. It was interesting to hear from Herbert Standing, the account of his being led to go out to Madagascar; how he dated his feeling from the time when, as a boy at Ackworth, he listened to a Friend giving an account of foreign missions. And it was striking that his intended wife was drawn quite independently in the same direction. We cannot doubt that they were led by God’s own Spirit. Are there not some here to-night who have been touched with the call which has come from those who are labouring in foreign lands amongst people who have never heard the sound of the Gospel, and are thirsting to partake of the River of Life ? Francis King, of Baltimore, will also tell us something of the work in Matamoras. An ample repast is set before us, if only we have time to digest and understand it. Joseph S. Sewell read the report of the Madagascar Sub- Committtee. It recorded, with thankfulness, the goodness of our Heavenly Father during the year. The work had not been in terrupted, and the country had been free from political excite ment. No epidemic, as in 1878 and 1879, had ravaged the island. In the Capital, the boys’ school at Ambohijatovo, and the girls’ school at Faravohitra, are well kept up, and the regu larity of attendance is very striking. The work at the printing office shows an increase over the previous year, although it is below that achieved when under the energetic supervision of A. Kingdom In our last Annual Report we announced that an arrangement had been made with the London Missionary Society to re-establish, with them, a Medical Mission and Hospital. We can now say that this Mission has been opened under the manage ment of J. T. Fox, assisted by a committee appointed by the two missionary societies. Fresh labourers are urgently required. Those now at work are needing change. W. Johnson is returning this year; S. Clemes and his wife will soon follow. William Wilson (not long arrived from Madagascar, and now studying medicine in this country, with a view of returning to the work there) said: I am glad that our friend has acknow ledged the guiding hand of the Lord in Madagascar. Had it 31 not been for His strength, we could never have accomplished the work that has been done. I do not wish to bring myself into prominence, but I must refer to the work in which I have had a share. Three and a half years ago, in 1877, I went out to Madagascar, and the first thing was to master the language. This required careful, earnest work. My first work was at the Ambohijatovo school, and I would thank friends who have sub scribed the money that has enabled W. Johnson to make the necessary alteration in the premises there. If friends were able to see these changes they would not grudge the expense. After arriving at the Capital I took charge of a class of students, and in teaching them from the Bible was often confused by the simi larity of some of the words. We do not know much about a great number of the students who have left us; still we know a good many who have become teachers—not merely those who are sent and paid by us, but others who go into far distant tribes on their own account for purposes of trade, and whilst so engaged teach the people gratuitously. Thus, we have letters from these parts begging for books and school materials. The Ambohija tovo school is doing a grand work. Well, we went on steadily, day by day, and friends know that this is the work that tells in the end, and is marked by sure progress. On Hepy E. Clark's return to us you may imagine how we welcomed him. A redis tribution of the work was made out, and we laid on his shoulders a good share of it. In addition to the teaching, the country dis trict of Mandridrano fell to my charge, and in October, 1879, I attended the Four Months’ Meeting there, when the district was formally handed over to me by S. Clemes. Isaac Sharp was there ; he sat beside me, and told the people that it was not by the strength of man, but by the Holy Spirit of God, that the work was to be carried on. This district had twenty-nine con gregations, and fifteen schools with 300 scholars, and nearly 2,400 people in attendance at the churches. I had had no experience in this kind of work when in England, and felt quite incapable, and it was only in simple dependence on the Lords strength that I undertook it. Every two months I visited the central towns to hold Bible classes with the teachers and others. I attended also the Four Months’ Meeting, to which twenty-one congregations send up representatives, and which is held in some respects like a Friends’ Quarterly Meeting. We used to have a discussion on some general topic, started, perhaps, by the reading of a short essay, such as—How to teach the adults to read; The distri bution of Church moneys, or the general subject of Church moneys. Tavo hours were thus spent in an interesting way, and 32 the faculties of the natives were brought out. Although at first many of them might speak chiefly to “ show off,” yet gradually they got to speak to the point and to take a real interest in what was going on. Very sorry I was to leave these people. Not long ago I had a letter from one of the teachers ; he said, " As soon as you have finished your business, you must come back.” There is a great need of workers in the island. This is my one absorbing topic, and I feel it laid upon me very heavily. I want fresh labourers to feel an interest in the Friends’ vineyard out there. If any who hear my voice now feel that God has laid it upon their hearts to join in the work, I hope they will not neglect the call. The Ambohitantely chapel in the town is attended by about 330 people. Samuel Clemes has charge of this as well as of seventeen other congregations. I hope to get back in 1882, and trust that some will accompany me. The work at Faravohitra is one of great importance. The education of the girls and women is an essential element of success, especially with regard to the teachers. If we bring up teachers from the country to be educated we must also educate their wives. In this way, then, H. Gilpin, E. H. Brockway, and A. Pumphrey are doing great work. Friends must not lose sight of it. Then as to the Medical Mission, when I left Antananarivo Dr. Fox was working with a will. He seemed determined to make his way. Of course he did not know the language, but he set to work and tried to make himself understood. And now we see the result : The Medical Mission is in full work, and I hope that the In-patient Department is now open. The country work is much on my heart. Although the schools and other work in the capital must occupy much of our energy, we must not forget that the country has an important claim upon us. Our district stretches away for two Hundred miles towards the sea, and in its western portion is inhabited by the large tribe of Sakalava. It is a great question whether we shall send out preachers of the Gospel to these. Henry Stanley Newman said : In considering India, it is important to remember that God has made of one blood all nations of men. We have also to bear in mind in passing from people of one race to another, that God 1 ’ 1 1 ' salvation for all men—one Sacrifice world. In bringing this thought before the people of India their common answer is, “ Our religion for us, and yours for }'ou.” There are no fewer than ninety-eight languages spoken in India, not including the dead languages, such as Sanscrit and Pali, nor 88 V O r r ' ^ the intrusive languages, such as English and'^£?aMcr~'TEere are 16.000.000 who speak Punjabi; 100,000,000 who speak Hindi and Urdu ; 36,000,000 speak Bengali; 7,000,000 speak Guzerati; 15.000.000 speak Marathi; 14,000,000 Tamil ; 15,000,000 Telugu ; 9,000,000 Canarese ; and 4,000,000 Malayan. During the last few months I have travelled amongst the races speaking all these languages. On landing in Bombay I was struck with the crowded streets, the multitude of foot passengers, their caste marks on their foreheads, denoting the idols they worshipped. The Hindoos boast that they have 330,000,000 deities, so that it is not easy for the English traveller to understand the religious systems of India. There are in India about half-a-million native Christian converts, 51,000,000 of Mohammedans, 174,000,000 of Hindoos, and 15,500,000 persons of other religions, making a total of 241,000,000. I passed on into the central provinces to Hoshangabad, situated in the very middle of this great country. Hoshangabad stands on the river Nerbudda, which is an object of worship. In the evening, at certain festivals, people present thousands of tiny oil lamps to “ Mother Nerbudda,” and very beautiful they look as they float down the broad stream. On the first morning I was there I went out and saw the people burning their dead by the river side. The missionary band at Hoshanga bad consists of Rachel Metcalfe, Samuel Baker, and John Williams and his wife. R. Metcalfe was the first to go out, in 1866, and it is interesting to see little groups of native women sitting at her feet looking up to her and listening to her advice. The Friends’ Meeting-house has now been opened in the centre of the city, in the Jumerati Bazaar. There was a great crowd at the opening, including native Brahmins and Babus. Out there they have few clocks and watches, so we call the people to meeting by a gong which a native rings on the top of the house. We have there a little company of thirteen converts in membership with us, and these form, with our Friends, their Monthly Meeting. Besides B&l Mukand, the catechist, and Devi Dyal, the school master, there are Jugal Kishore and Ali Bakhsh, who go about among the people preaching the Gospel and distributing native books. Our work in India is just in its beginning, but we thank God that the work has begun. Shall I take you to one of the villages I visited ? to a tent in a mango-grove, in the village of Sanwalkhera ? This village has three patels, or head-men, resi dent in i t ; these men are held responsible to the English Government for the good order of the place. Many are heavily in debt, and some are paying twenty-seven per cent, interest on borrowed money, and this almost ruins them. We found a market 34 held weekly, but not a single coin passes on the market day ; the whole is conducted on the old principle of barter. We entered the house of these head men, the three patels living all together, with their relatives and children, in one large house. The ladies of the house were ready to receive us, a very unusual thing in India. They were profusely decorated with jewellery. Bill Mukand read the Bible while they listened, and afterwards they heard the old, old, story, of Jesus and His love, with great interest. The Spirit of God was there, and prayer was offered at the conclusion. The people afterwards thronged round us outside the tent door. A young Brahmin, with the caste marks on his forehead, was asked why he painted his forehead in that way. “ So that the people in the village may feed me,” he said. Norman de Lange asked him if he was not ashamed to have the people feed him, a strong young man. He hung his head, and confessed that sometimes he did work hard in the fields. One of the first effects of Christian teaching is that smaller amounts are given to the Brahmins and to the idols. As we passed northwards to Calcutta, our attention was directed to the Zenana work of the Presbyterian Mission. We visited the large liigh-caste girls’ school, conducted by the Zenana mission aries. These girls do not mix with the low-caste children. They receive a good education, and are taught our favourite hymns in their own tongue. Year by year these high-caste girls are married, and enter the Zenanas, and where these girls go, the Zenana is forthwith thrown open to the access of the girl’s lady friends, who have given the girl a good religious education. At Delhi very .successful work is carried on by the Baptists. Here the system of Panchayats has been introduced into the native church or ganisation. This consists of the very ancient Hindu method of appointing five men as elders, or overseers of each little com munity. The native communities thus become self-supporting, and manage their own affairs. At Lucknow we visited the Mission of the American Episcopal Methodists. The English owe a great debt of gratitude to America for work carried on in India by the American missionaries. At Lucknow they have most successful Sunday schools, with 1,000 children. The chil dren study the Bible at school and go home telling their parents what they have learnt. I also went south, to Madras, accompanied by Samuel Baker. Here there is the large Christian college where Dr. Miller has under his care more than a thousand of the finest young men in the Madras Presidency. Only one hundred of these are Christians. I asked Dr. Miller how it was that he succeeded in securing the attendance of so many who are 35 not Christians. The fact is, the young men are learning that if they would rise, and get a good salary and social position, they imist be well educated. They talk just as good English as ourselves, and look as bright and intelligent, and full of vigour. The teachers are devout Christians, and the young men get daily Bible lessons. I asked whether the scholars objected to the Bible study. “ No,” was the reply, “ there is no lesson they are more interested in.” Bangalore is the centre of the Wesleyan Mission, in the midst of the great population of Mysore, which is a native state. In Mysore one million persons out of five millions died from the famine. Near here, at Colar, Miss Anstey has a large famine orphanage. She has taken in 1,400 children, but, I am sorry to say 1,000 have died on her hands. When the famine has really taken hold of these little children they seldom recover. When marshalled out before us we could see by their faces that some of them must die ; and the doctor is able to say, as he runs along the line when the children are first admitted, “ This child will die,” “ This child may get over it,” “ This child will recover.” It was a touching sight. I was present at a prayer meeting amongst the 330 children who are left. A lad of sixteen read a portion of Scripture in Canarese ; they then sang a hymn—“The great Physician.” Afterwards they bowed their heads in prayer in perfect silence. Then, right at the back of them, a little boy prayed aloud. Afterwards I asked what it was he prayed for. It was not for himself : he was praying that they might be able to present the Maharajah of Mysore with a Bible that Miss Anstey had it in her heart to give him. Then another little boy prayed, and two or three girls. When the meeting was over the children had their supper, consisting of round balls of boiled rice, with curry. From Colar we went to Calicut, where the Germans conduct a large Industrial Mission. They are a practical sort of people, and their style would very much suit Friends. They expect every man to work hard for his own living. If a man makes profession of Christianity, they do not let him be idle, but give him work to do, as well as two or three hours’ daily instruction. They have very large tile works, also a large mercantile establish ment, a weaving factory, and a carpenter’s shop. Each of these departments is entirely self-supporting. The district is covered with palm trees right down to the edge of the sea, and these Basle missionaries are doing a noble work on the Malabar Coast. Pass ing further south we came to North Tinnevelly. No European missionary is now left in the whole of that district. Thousands of native Christians manage their own church affairs, and carry on a vigorous evangelistic work. The district of South Tinne- 36 velly is divided into two parts. One portion is under the care of the Church Missionary Society, and is superintended by Bishop Sargent, at Palamcottah. He has a first-rate college and large girls’ school, besides other educational work. We received a warm welcome. The memory of the visit of H. Hipsley, W. Brewin, and Russell Jeffrey served as a passport for us. Bishop Sargent took us into his house, and did all he could to further our object. On First-day morning, at half-past seven o’clock, we went into his church, where 1,015 people were in attendance. The Bishop adopts a question-and-answer form of service, which keeps up the interest of the people. As he put question after question an swers came straight back from the congregation. The European missionaries are steadily withdrawing also from this district, and the work is being left more and more under the care of the native church Councils, although there are 55,000 native converts. The other portion of South Tinnevelly is under the care of Bishop Caldwell, of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He also had everything ready for us at Edeyengudy, so soon as he heard there were two Friends coming. This Society has 45,000 native Christians in this district under its care, making a total of 100,000 Tamil Christians in South Tinnevelly. I found the people very intelligent, and most of them tolerably educated. The work here is the work of three generations ; it is not just in its infancy, and has had more time to develop than the work in North India. These Tamil palmyra climbers have raised a Widows’ Fund, with 55,000 rupees in hand, and in the eight districts in South Tinnevelly there are in each district 3,000 to 8..000 rupees in hand for the support of native pastors. They also sent over liberal contributions for Irish distress, and help to support the British and Foreign Bible Society. When Bishop Sargent first went, forty-five years ago, to Palamcottah, there were only forty-two adults and a few children in the native con gregation, and as he bade us farewell, he said, “ What God has done in one place He can do in another.” In Travancore, the London Missionary Society is at work with good results. In Nagercoil the people are entirely Christian, and the streets of the town are named after the missionaries who have worked there. No open-air preaching is consequently needed, and the workers go out into the villages. Near there, at Kotar, we saw the very spot where Francis Xavier preached hundreds of years ago, and although we may not admire his sys tem, we must admire his zeal. Years ago the foundation stone of the enormous Congregational Chapel of Nagercoil was laid bv Mr. Knill. His faith was strong, and he believed the work would 37 grow; and though he laid the foundation stone with but 300 converts, there were no fewer than 2,000 crowded into that very building on New Year’s Day, 1881. The Lord knows how to bless His work if His children work in faith, whether it be at Nagercoil, or Hoshangabad, or at home. it. Hingston Fox : I am glad to be allowed to say a few words about your Mission in Syria and Palestine. I say your Mission, because these Missions of which we are speaking to-night belong to the Society at large, and we, each of us, have a share in the responsibility of the work. I will mention two or three of the chief events of the year in our Syrian Mission. In the first place, a visit has been paid by our two Friends, Maria Feltham and Ellen Clayton, who felt called upon to go amongst these people for awhile, to enter into sympathy with them, and to endeavour to show them something of the true position of women out there, where woman is so degraded from her right place. Then the chief event has been the opening of a Cottage Hospital in Syria, the only hospital on Mount Lebanon. We have already heard of the hospital in Madagascar, in which one who is so nearly connected with me is working. The hospital at Brumana is much smaller, and contains eight beds only. It is, however, a most useful adjunct to the work, and directly promotes the spread of the Gospel amongst the poor people. When we have the people night and day under our care we can exercise a great deal more influence upon them than if we only saw them now and then. Another important question, as I have hinted, is the con dition of the women. With a view to this, Theophilus Waldmeier has projected a girls’ training home, to be opened next year. The home is now building, a special fund having been subscribed for the purpose in America. We all know how, from her com mercial advantages and other causes, England is more largely blessed in point of means, yet American Friends have liberally contributed £700 for the building, and we have now to furnish the money for fitting it up. We may all hope that this home will do a great work in the future. At Ramallah, in Palestine, the circumstances are somewhat different. Here the mission is entirely carried on by natives. It is on these ancient hills of Benjamin, with their clustered mud-houses looking like round grassy hills in miniature, that Jacob Hishmeh and others are labouring. The work here has not extended during the year; not because there is not scope for its extension, for we get frequent petitions from villages lying further away than our present schools. But our Committee are obliged to say “ No;” those who are working there have already as much as they can do. But the 38
work is prospering. The Boys’ School at Ramallah has gained quite a reputation ; boys there get an education that they cannot get elsewhere, so that even Moslem sheikhs are sending their sons to the schools. Whether Moslems, Greeks, or Maronites, all the boys learn the Bible, and the same influence is extended to all. This school is a source of great satisfaction. I would mention also the Scripture reader who journeys about from village to village with his Bible, which some whom he visits have never seen: they don’t know what it means. At one place they thought he must be some travelling poet or musician, but they listened for five hours to him while he told them what they never heard before, the simple story of the Gospel. In conclusion, let me say a word on the subject of our finances. This year we have a deficit to face of £350 ; not because our subscriptions are de clining ; by no means ; but because our work is growing faster than the subscriptions. Some Friends will say, “ Why extend the work then ?” Hear what T. Waldmeier writes :—“ Some may think we are going on too fast, but we are out here in the thick of the battle, and we must fight, and we must go forward ; and then when we have gained the victory, we and they and all of us will rejoice together.” I think, then, that we have a fair claim to your continued support. Mahia Feltham : I feel to-night something like the sense of responsibility and of privilege which came over me as, riding up from Beyrout, we came in sight of Ain Salaam, Brumana. We came on horse and donkey back over the rough tracks, which sometimes we could scarcely distinguish. As we came near we saw the plain square building, with its red tiles and green shutters, standing on a raised platform because of the uneven nature of the ground : its walls three feet thick in order to weather the winter storms and to keep out the summer heat. They hope to build a verandah some day. Around were the beautiful snowber trees, so carefully tended by Charles Saalmiiller, and I would like to say how valuable his work and diligent service for the mission are in many ways, though less prominent than that of others ; in looking after the property, superintending the industry school, blacksmith’s work, &c., he is very useful. All the labourers there feel themselves stewards of the powers the Lord has given them. The Training Home for Girls is greatly desired by the people themselves : there are several children now waiting in hope of admission. The building, which is being erected, and which was rapidly' progressing when we left, stands on the right of the Mission-house as we face the Mediterranean, and a little below it, the Cottage Hospital, being snugly sheltered on the left-hand side. 39
Ten minutes’ away, in the village of Bruinana, is the meeting house, where a good deal of work is carried on. About 150 people attend the First-day meeting, and mothers’ meetings are held in the adjoining room, whilst the boys’ and girls’ school are carried on overhead. On our way to one of the branch schools we passed by the ruins of a house burnt down in the time of the great massacre, twenty years ago. I do want to appeal on behalf of liamallah. The workers there are few, and they greatly need support. It was to this place that my thoughts were first drawn, until I found the help wanted was not such as I could offer : young strong men are needed there. I have thought of that passage where the king of Israel is told that the people would be saved "by the young men of the princes of the provinces.” I want to appeal to such to-night. I know much work is needed in England. Still, amongst the many here, cannot two or three be spared for the mission-field abroad ? In the testimony to our beloved friend, Stanley Pumphrey, who was with us here last year, but whom now we miss, we have heard the call put forth, “ Who, then, is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord ?” Ellen Clayton : Our Friend, Dr. Beshara, when he was here last year, did not over-estimate the need of the Cottage Hospital. Only those who have been there know how thankful the people are. It often struck us how he must have been puzzled what to do without this adjunct, as patients must constantly have been brought to the dispensary to whom he could do little good with out a hospital. It has been a great blessing already. It was opened and is being conducted in a very economical way. I do not suppose any cottage hospital in England was ever begun so economically. The house was there already, a few rooms being emptied and adapted for use. The furniture was manufactured in the Industrial School belonging to the Mission. This was a great saving of expenditure, as it would all have had to be brought up from Beyrout on mule or camel back. Besides, this gave the opportunity of teaching the lads in the school a good useful trade. The religious influence upon the patients in the hospital is of the utmost value. I am sure many Friends are following with earnest prayer our fellow-members on Mount Lebanon, and they feel this to be a great strength. We did thankfully feel that they are as lights shining in a dark place. In one of my early morning walks at Ain Salaam I watched the lights and shadows over the mountain ridge before the Sun had arisen ; and, upon the wide expanse of sea opposite, there was a soft rosy glow here and there reflected from a crimson cloud. 40
And then the sun itself rose from behind the mountain peaks. I thought it was emblematic of our Friends’ work there. We see amongst that mountain population, here and there, the light of Christ shining in the hearts of the people with its warm glow. We see the band of Friends, shining as a cloud ; but not with their own light—it comes from Christ, the Sun of Righteousness. And though sometimes that Sun is hidden by the mountains of superstition, we believe that one day he will arise over all the land. Now, what is our part in helping on this cause ? Each one can help by heartfelt, earnest prayer. Some the Lord has made stewards of His silver and gold, and they can help with these. But is there not another way ? Have not some heard the voice, calling them to go and offer themselves to this work ? “ Is it too great a thing ? W ill not one rise and go ? Layinghis joys aside, as the Master laid them down, Seeking His lone and lost in the veiled abodes of woe, Winning His Syrian gems to shine in His glorious crown !” F ran cis T. K ing, of Baltimore: The work of American Friends in Mexico is an outgrowth of the missionary work which sprang up in the South at the close of our war. An appeal was made for young men to teach in the schools. One young Friend, not quite of age, went to teach in a quiet way in North Carolina, and his mind was turned to the Spanish language. He sent North for the required books, and there he mastered the Spanish tongue, without any teaching or other help. The Lord moved his heart to go to Mexico, and Indiana Yearly Meeting responded, Matamoras being selected for the locality. This was the begin ning : what is the result ? In ten years it has resulted in the establishment of a regular Friends’ meeting, with sixty adult Mexicans in membership. Last year a regular stone place of wrorship was opened, costing 6,000 dols. There is also a printing press conducted by this young man and his wife, who is from North Carolina. An interesting feature in this mission is that it is being extended by native colporteurs, who attend our meet ing there. There are one or two acknowledged ministers, and some elders and overseers, and the Monthly meetings are con ducted with as much dignity and propriety as in your country. One or two have moved about thirty or forty miles up north, and formed a little settlement there. By means of the printing press a number of persons are being reached in Yucatan, to the extreme east. Samuel Purdie has been on a visit there, and we hope that the work will be strengthened and extended. Friends’ attention has also been turned to the Indians and coloured people in the west and south. It is remarkable that the growth 41 of this missionary spirit has been about simultaneous in the two countries. Both in your country and in ours it is founded on the same principle: the same Divine Spirit is in it all, producing amongst you the same results as amongst us. One of these re sults is that of identifying the young people with the support and continuance of the Society of Friends. Well, this worn is not going to stop. Our Church has a great mission before it. I long that we may know and feel that; and as we raise the quality, the working power of the Church, the matter of numbers will take care of itself. We want to feel our power : let us look to the Moravians and take a lesson from them. There is a diversity of gifts, but there is a power in all gifts that are employed in the strength and service of the Lord. I cannot close without saying something of what has been passing through my mind for one or two years, almost like a dream. When I look at the testimony which has been borne by your Yearly Meeting against human slavery, and the record of the work which England did in freeing her colonies, and in relieving the sufferings of our freedmen ; and when I look at the difficulty and sacrifice with which our own people stood up to manumit their fellow-creatures, and join your country in opposing this great national crime, I see also what has been the result of all this testimony, borne on the religious ground, in that meekness which should attach to all work for our Saviour. This result of such work is trace able long after. My heart has been turned towards Africa. The Lord’s hand is moving there, and your Livingstone has awakened deep feelings in the minds of Englishmen and Ameri cans. I feel that the Lord will send the Grospel to that land. There are now sixteen to twenty enterprises for opening Africa up to commerce, and the missionaries will follow. I saw a letter from the King of the Belgians to a countryman of mine, in which he refers to a conference to meet at Brussels to consider this question. Dear friends, something is pointing us that way. I have no more to say; give it your thoughts and your prayers— remember that country and the slave-trade. I trust that before long your country or ours will plant a mission in Central Africa, and none are more suited than we Friends to go there. The Chairm an referred to the work carried on by Elbert S. and Emma Clarke, in Natal; and, after a short pause, the mee1>- ing, which had l)een fully attended, concluded. MADAGASCAR REPORTS.
No. 1. HENRY E. CLARK’S REPORT.
It seems but as yesterday that we were preparing our reports for 1879, and now 1881 is upon us, and we are considering the history of 1880, in so far as it concerns the mission work in which we are all united, as well as that particular part of it for which each is responsible. As so much of my work is in the country, I propose that the first part of this report shall tell, as briefly as may be, what I have been enabled to accomplish there during the year. It may be interesting to some to know that, in con nection with the oversight of the two large country dis tricts committed to my care, I have been away from home 88 nights, and have travelled 550 hours in the palanquin, at a total cost, in travelling expenses, of £61. (1) In the Arivonimamo district, there were, at the be ginning of 1880, twenty teachers at work, there are at the present time thirty-one; the district consists of thirty-three churches, only two of which are now without schools con nected with them. At the beginning of the year, very great changes were made in the staff of teachers; at that time some round men were occupying square holes, and square men round ones; a fairly-successful attempt was made to alter this, so that at the present there are only about ten teachers settled at the places they were occupying at the same time last year. An arrangement I have been able to make, in many schools, has worked admirably. In some places the people had an idea that the teacher was but an ornament, and it did not matter whether he had any scholars 43 or n o; but if they had no teacher, they thought they would be in disgrace with the Queen and the Prime Minister. So in all cases where a new teacher is settled, I have an agree ment made that if his scholars fall below a fixed number, he will be removed; in several cases, in carrying out this agreement, I have had to stop the teaching, telling the teacher that when there was a proper school he could resume work, and that if at the end of a month the school was not collected he must leave; but in no case has it as yet come to this. Again, last year was the first in which we have been able to carry out the plan of insisting that all the churches should provide sufficient rice for the use of the teacher and his family during the year. There is one great advantage arising from this : it leads the people to see that the teacher fulfils his part. Very recently I had a complaint from the people at one place, that although they gave rice to their teacher, he was idle, and did not attend to the children. At the present time, although some schools are smaller than formerly, I believe that, taking the district as a whole, they never were in so satisfactory a condition as they are now. What may be in the near future for the schools of Madagascar we know n ot; great things are talked about as to what the Govern ment intend to do. At the time of writing this, the state of things described last year remains unaltered. With very few exceptions, no new scholars have been admitted into the schools for four years. The people are still waiting for Government action ; and we are sadly hindered by the presence in our schools of a considerable number of young men— yes, and some not very young— who ought to be at work earning a living, and who are yet, in some eases, prevented by the local authorities from leaving ; others, again, of their own will, keep up a connection with the school only sufficient to enable them to call themselves scholars, and so, by this means, escape their fair share of Government service. By the action they have already taken, 44 the Government are pledged to go forward, and we are all curious to know what, after having waited so long, will be the line of action they decide upon. (2) The condition of the churches in the Arivoni mamo district. Turning from the schools to the churches, from the children to the adults, it is not so easy to estimate progress. Our work extends over so large an area, and we have so little opportunity of coming into individual contact with the people, and know so little of their inner life, that it is very little we can say about this. That there is an advance year by year in the religious life of the people, their appreciation of religious truth, their desire to live more in accordance with it, to know the old things to have passed away and all things to be new, I do not doubt; but this is an advance that can not be tabulated: and yet it is true, as has elsewhere been said, that 11 Ideas of moral purity are growing and are increasingly appreciated. Social and moral questions are beginning to call into existence that powerful and useful potentate, public opinion. Parents, who formerly would encourage their children in sin and uncleanness, are learning to realize their duty to shield their offspring as much as they can from evil influence and temptation.” * We may rejoice in this, although we may have to lament so much that we know of that is contrary to this, even among those professing to be Christians. William Johnson, not long ago, spent a Sunday at Arivonimamo— this he had not done for more than eight years— and I was very much encouraged by the very great change for the better which he noticed in the congregation, such earnest attention and evident appreciation of that in which they were taking part. One very important step we have satisfactorily made this year is the formation of a Four Months’ Meeting, uniting together the thirty-three churches of the district. Isaac Sharp was at the first of these held at Arivonimamo in February last, and two others have since been held. To this meeting all matters referring * Ten Yeari Review o f Mission Work in Madagascar, L. M. S., p. 130. 45 to the establishment of new churches, the choosing of new pastors, the support to be given by the churches to their schools, are committed. It is also agreed that before any new member is received, his case must be considered by this meeting ; we hope this will do something to prevent the admission of improper persons : the fact of their knowing that their names will be read out at this meeting will prevent many unsuitable ones from applying. We have now all the names of the church members written in a book, the property of the Four Months’ Meeting, and only those whose names are there will be recognized as members. I receive great help in my work in this district from Rakotovao, the evangelist sent out by the Queen in the name of the palace church ; he is proving himself a most useful country missionary. He was a member of the congregation of Ambohitantely before his settlement in the country, and has, therefore, naturally a warm interest in the district belonging to this church. His wife, Ratsivery, formerly a member of my wife’s classes in town, is doing a good work among the women at Arivonimamo ; she has well-attended classes for Scripture, writing, ciphering, etc., as well as for sewing, the latter of which is very much appreciated ; all the materials consumed are paid for by the scholars. In this large district the Monthly Meetings have been regularly held during the year. They are, I believe, a not unimportant element in the progress of the churches. They are principally attended by the teachers and such others as are willing to accompany them. We have classes for ciphering, grammar, etc., which precede the Biblical lesson. During the past year these latter have been taken from Romans, and I have reason to believe that these lessons often form the basis of the sermons given in the various churches on the Sunday, thus illustrating the command of Jesus, “ What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in the light ; and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the house tops.” Besides these Monthly Meetings, I have, throughout 46 the year, had a fortnightly class at Iraerintsiatosika, a town in this district, about four hours’ ride from Antananarivo, where about 50 of the more advanced scholars from the churches within a reasonable distance meet me for instruction. I leave home at 5 a.m., and about 9 generally arrive at my destination. After breakfast, my time, until 2 p.m., is very pleasantly occupied in teaching some very diligent scholars ; and, as their teachers accompany them, they also receive benefit and instruction in the art of teaching. Some hours are then occupied in dispensing medicine; then, after a late dinner, we invariably end with a short open-air service, which is generally attended by several of the inhabitants. I am then early to bed, and up in the morning so as to arrive back in town at 8.30 or 9 o’clock the next day in time for a day’s work there. (3) The Vakin’ Ankaratka d i s t r i c t . After our return to the island from our visit to England, I very reluctantly consented to take charge of this district; and I think I may say that now I should just as reluctantly give it up, if such a course seemed necessary. Including my visit in company with Isaac Sharp and Langley Kitching, I have now been right through it five times ; and have been enabled, without interruption during the past year, to carry out my intention of paying quarterly visits to it. But it is a most difficult task to superintend a district the farthest limit of which is four days’ journey from town. The churches, too, are so widely scattered that in visiting them it is necessary to travel four or five hours in the early morning before commencing work, leaving the next morning for the next place as early. In October of 1879, during our visit in company with Isaac Sharp, Samuel Clemes and myself suspended several teachers, owing to the absence of scholars. When this was done there were only eight teachers left in the some 25 churches of the district; but this number has, I am glad to say, gradually increased, and, as the new year opens, we have seventeen at work. The number of scholars present at three examinations 47 held has been respectively, October 1879, May and November 1880, 239, 299, 433 ; the number of readers (passes in standard 4, 5, 6), 79, 140, 176. Years ago the numbers in attendance were much higher than now ; various causes have contributed to this result, but I hope that the lowest point has been reached, and that now we shall have steady progress from year to year. Our training school in the town is doing good service in this part of our district, and now several of the teachers have been trained there ; and not only this, but their wives also have received instruction at the Faravohitra girls’ school, and, in one or two cases especially, have become most useful helpers to their husbands in duties connected with their teaching. At Antoby, the late residence of Samuel Clemes, there is at present no teacher; the house in which he lived has passed back again into the hands of the owner. Giving it up was much felt by the inhabitants, as they looked upon it as a sign that Antoby was in future to be no more in the Vazahas’ eyes than any other place, and that they must look out more for themselves. They were plainly told that if they wanted a teacher they must provide him with a house and rice, as other places did. They have lately been asking loudly for a teacher— how far they mean what they say, I don’t know,— but the difficulty now is to get any one willing to go and reside there. As a rule the chapels of this district are in a most dis reputable condition, being very much out of repair. There are, however, exceptions to this state of things, and especially at two places, Isaha and Ambohimandroso, good brick chapels with proper roof timbers given by our committee, have been erected during the year. At the former place this is the more remarkable, as at the same time that our church was being erected by the people without any pay, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel— or those who represent it, and were acting in its name— were erecting, within a stone’s throw, a building in the construction of which they were paying for all the labour done. One would think that this 48 Society might find greater scope for its energies and the expenditure of its money than in doing this at a place where there is already a good church and an able teacher. I am hoping to secure further help in these parts from our old friend, Rainifiringa. He was one of the first evangelists sent out by J. S. Sewell, and for ten years has now done good work. He is not so young as he once was, and not quite up to the present standard of school teachers ; we are, therefore, just making a fresh arrangement by which he will be liberated from this work, and be employed more as an evangelist to visit the different churches, and as I cannot go as often as I should like into the district, he will in some way take my place, though I hope to keep up my quarterly visits as formerly. Throughout all my district I make great exertions to induce the people who can read to purchase books, that they may make use of their powers, and increase their knowledge; and I have taken during the year, £14, the proceeds of these sales. One important addition to my country work, since our return, is the dispensing of medicine to the sick, concerning which a little knowledge was obtained when in England— (how little !), and now I am always provided with a supply of simple medicine, and with but little knowledge I know it has been much blessed in many cases. In the country district it is not a question of obtaining the best medical aid, but that of obtaining the best under the circumstances. It must be remembered that by far the larger number of those who come have only trifling ailments which are comparatively easily dealt with, and even in serious cases God’s blessing upon my limited knowledge, helped by the unlimited faith of the natives in European skill, has enabled me to do much to relieve the suffering. Only one instance shall be given of the benefit arising from this plan. Some four months ago one of my teachers brought a man and his wife who were both suffering from the same complaint. I saw at once what was the matter with them, and prescribed accordingly. They 49 paid me fourpence. The medicine produced the effect intended ; and the teacher— who had only just settled in the place— tells me that this couple have become his best friends, and his help in every difficulty. This work is not accomplished without considerable sacrifice of time. After a day’s teaching, or school examination, it is not always pleasant to have to set to work examining the sick ; but cases like the above are a great encouragement to persevere. My books show that I have administered to 781 persons during about 13 months. The money received amounts to £9 5s. Id. All are expected to pay twopence for the medicines they take; this will nearly cover the first cost, though not the wages of the man who carries the medicines ; but I think most will agree that the results justify the outlay. (4) The report of my work in town must be told briefly. Rather more than two days a-week are pleasantly occupied with classes at Ambohijatovo with our country students, the care of whom, since W. Wilson’s return home, has de volved upon me. He was very successful in his manage ment of these students ; his regularity and firmness, tempered with much kind sympathy with them, were much appreciated. Some of his scholars wanted to accompany him— of course not at their own expense— to England. At Christmas, six students left to occupy posts as teachers in various places. On two or three Sundays in each month I am generally visiting country congregations in our district, nearest the town, which for six years was under my care. In these journeys it is pleasant to meet many now occupying most useful places in the churches, who during those six years attended my classes, and it is pleasant also to observe the progress that is evidently taking plaee in these churches under the efficient oversight of S. Clemes, assisted by Andrianony. In addition to the nine churches in the capital, there are several large suburban ones, some of the latter even larger than the former. Two of these— one to the west, and the other to the east of Antananarivo— are especially upon my D 50 mind, their afternoon congregations are often larger than their morning ones, and so, very frequently, after being in the country in the morning, I find myself on a Sunday afternoon at one or other of these two large places of worship. (5) In last year’s report, I alluded to the fact that I had accepted the post of president of the Young Mens’ Christian Association. This useful Society was then in very low water, and it was doubtful whether any attempt to revive it would be successful. But it was worth the attempt; for some months after I joined it, the Society dragged very heavily, and often seemed as though it must die. Our time of meeting is 8 a.m. on Saturday— evening meetings being out of the question in this country— and frequently we used to meet with only five or six present, ten being thought a large number. But gradually the numbers increased, and now we have a membership of thirty-eight, and not unfrequently have as many as twenty-five present. We have had some capital essays given by the members, and rejoice in the ready help given by other missionaries in the shape of lectures, special lessons, &c. Isaac Sharp, in the early part of the year, gave a public lecture to upwards of a thousand people, on his journeys in many lands; and during the year we have had lectures or addresses on ii Mahomet,” “ The Inquisition,” and many other subjects. Dr. Borchgrevink, of the Norwegian Mission, gives regular lessons in Natural History ; Mr. Briggs, lessons from the Gospel of John, and the president is giving a series of lessons on early Jewish history, beginning with the life of Moses. Frank is a most earnest worker in the society, being one of the secretaries; on one occasion, he read a tract he had written on Drink, under the name of “ Goliath;” seven thousand of these have been printed, and have attracted a large amount of attention to the evils of rum-drinking. A small temperance society has been established, consequent on the very great increase of rum-drinking in the town ; but since the recent much stricter prohibitory policy of the 51 Government, the need for this society is not so pressing as it was. The Young Men’s Christian Association is uniting with another cognate society in the town, in arranging for a series of special meetings during the first week of the new year, in which pointed efforts will be made to influence for good the young men of this city. From the very commencement of the Mission in this land, the London Missionary Society have acted as agents for the British and Foreign Bible Society, in their noble work of providing the Malagasy with the Scriptures. But at the beginning of 1880, a change was made, and all questions connected with the sale and distribution of the Bible, in Madagascar, were entrusted to a committee composed of representatives of all Protestant Missionary Societies at work in the island. I was appointed by my colleagues to repre sent them on this committee, and was subsequently elected secretary, and correspondent with the Parent Society in England. Since February, 1874, 20,000 shilling Bibles have been sold in Madagascar, and the edition is now just exhausted. Communications have been commenced with the Bible Society in reference to its reprint, incorporating the work of the Revision Board so far as it has gone, together with the more correct orthography now adopted, and the simplified spelling of the proper names. Many of our friends in England are warmly interested in the work of the Bible Society, and they may rest assured that, probably, in no part of the world has the work of that Society been more richly blessed than in this land. In concluding this report, I should not do right without acknowledging the goodness and mercy which have followed us, as a family, all the year, and have given me a full measure of health and ability to carry on that which has been com mitted to me. True it is, that the year has closed some what darkly upon us, and we have had intense anxiety, hardly knowing from day to day, what might arise ; and even now (Jan. 4, 1881) we are by no means free from 52 anxiety, though the dark cloud has always had a silver lining. In my last journey to Vakin’ Ankaratra, late in November, we came to Andranomanjaka Kely, for a school examination. On arriving there, we found that there were several cases of small-pox in the village. Very few children came to the examination, which, however, went on as usual, the children from a neighbouring school also being there. After we had been home some days, my servant, who had been with me in this journey, and who lives in the house with us, was taken ill of this terrible complaint; he was removed to a house in the suburbs to be nursed, and we were placed in quarantine. Two weeks went on, and we hoped that there were going to be no more cases, when our baby’s nurse was attacked ; she also left us, and the quaran tine commenced again. We felt almost sure that our dear little child must take it, as he was not vaccinated; once, even, he became very poorly; but in a few hours he was better again, and has since shown no signs of anything of the kind, for which we cannot be sufficiently thankful. But we had not done with the complaint; after other two weeks, and as we were again hoping that we had seen the last of it, my native assistant took the complaint,, and it assumed a more violent character than in the other two cases. But still we hope he may be spared to recover; he is a most valuable helper to me, relieving me of a great deal of routine work, copying manuscript, whether English or Malagasy, answering letters from my country teachers, &c*. I am sorry to have to add, that after we left the village alluded to above, the disease became much worse, some of the children who were examined took it and died ; and the teacher tells me that in consequence of this, both the church and school are at a standstill— there are no worshippers in the church on the Sunday, and no children come to be taught during the week. HENRY E. CLARK. P. S.—With sorrow, I have to add, that Rajosefa (spoken of above), died on Jan. 8, leaving a wife and one bright little boy. 53
No. 2. WILLIAM. JOHNSON’S REPORT.
T h e year 1880, like many which have preceded it, has been one of quiet, steady progress. Isaac Sharp was with us during the earlier half of it, cheering us by his presence, and adding a new element of interest to our work by the part he was able to take in it. In October, William Wilson returned to England, and his work has been divided among us as could be best arranged. The fact of having no printer entailed extra labour on Samuel Clemes ; so that, altogether, at the latter part of the year, we find ourselves all too few for the needs of the Mission, and unable to give that time and attention to some parts of the work, which they demand. But this seems to be the normal state of Missions— every body working at high pressure, and yet being obliged to leave undone much that needs doing. We were cheered in the Autumn by the arrival of J. T. and S. E. Fox, to re-open the Medical Mission, so long neglected. They were soon able to open the out-patient department of the Hospital at Analakely, to the great satis faction of the people, whose appreciation of the benefits to be derived from our friend’s work, was shewn by the crowds awaiting attention every day at the dispensary. Of my own work during the year, there is but little to report. The school buildings at Ambohijatovo have been all covered in, and the new rooms are now all in use. Some little still remains to be done to staircases and caretaker’s room, when the whole will be complete. Some extra furni ture is being made, in the way of tables for teachers, and desks and forms for scholars; and very shortly, nothing further will be needed to render the premises in every way fitted for their purpose. During the alterations, the School has been held without interruption. It continues to be well filled with scholars, both in the boys’ department, and in that of the country students. Both teachers and 54 scholars thoroughly appreciate the efforts that have been made for their comfort; and the new arrangements promise to work well, and greatly benefit the school. Several of our old scholars have entered as students under Dr. Fox, and we hope will prove of service to their fellow- countrymen in days to come. At the recent examinations at the London Missionary Society’s college, the first two students in the theological division were old Ambohijatovo scholars, as was also the first in the secular division, where a more ad vanced education is aimed at than can be reached in the schools. The district under my charge in North Ankaratra has suffered a good deal from interruptions and unsettlement, caused by a few men of position, both within and without the district, who preferred that the work there should be kept in abeyance, rather than that they should lose their influence over the people. For the first six months, things went on as usual, but on a proposition being made that the district should be definitely incorporated in that of Ambohi- tantely, these difficulties began. Half the congregations, forming the Western side of the district, quietly acquiesced in the proposal, and the work there has been continued without interruption ever since. But in the Eastern half, things have been very much at a standstill, pending some settlement of the disputes which have arisen. These having been entirely among the natives, and apart from the missionaries, have at length claimed the attention of the leading people in town, and there now seems a prospect of the district quietly returning to its former position, and of the work being once more resumed there. Meanwhile, we are awaiting such a settlement before taking any part in, or giving any help to the disturbed congrega tions. There are many of the members of these who are sincerely desirous of advancing the cause of the Saviour in their respective churches, and who heartily rejoice that a prospect of quiet is once more afforded them. 55 I have been a good deal interested during the latter part of the year in editing and preparing a Review of the work of the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association,* since its be ginning in this country. This is now in print, and will shortly be sent home. In reporting the state of the Mission year by year, it is not always easy to estimate its true progress ; but looking back over thirteen years of its history, and noting how a place has been made for it in this land, and how the feeble and imperfect efforts of the workers, long continued, have been made to tell on the mass of dark ness and superstition which they encountered, there cannot be a doubt that the desires and prayers of many earnest hearts at home are being fulfilled, and the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour is advancing here. That a long period of political quiet may be granted for this work to continue and deepen in the hearts of the people is my earnest prayer. WILLIAM JOHNSON.
No 3. SAMUEL CLEMES’ REPORT.
I t is somewhat difficult to realise that a whole year has elapsed since our last reports were written; and, as far as the home district and Ambohitantely congregation are concerned, there is nothing new to chronicle. The work has been steadily carried on in its old lines, It is only by com paring their present condition with the state of things existing ten or twelve years ago that a fair judgment can be arrived at. Something like this has been aimed at in the review of our work which is nearly completed, and I shall content myself with noting a few things that will help to fill in the picture.
* This may be obtained on application to the Treasurer or Secretary, in England. Price Is. 56 A stranger coining into Ambohitantely Chapel would be struck, first of all, by an air o f untidiness and confusion which means that the building is undergoing repairs. Unfortunately things move slowly in Madagascar, and hence this state of things has lasted longer than we at all like. Now at last the roof is finished, and is water-tight, so the people are vigorously attacking the interior. Most of the money spent thus far, as well as a considerable share of the labour, has been contributed by the people themselves ; and as their money is not yet exhausted we have not yet drawn on the sum voted for this purpose by the committee in England. We are to have tiles for the floor, because wood is too dear for our shallow pockets ; and, when all is finished, we are hoping to have a neat and commodious building that will not disgrace us. The building fairly represents the state of Christianity in the congregation, and in the country as a whole. There has been a great deal of labour expended, and a quantity of material collected, and extensive plans concocted, but as yet there is not much finished. By God’s blessing a good foundation has been laid, and the building is slowly rising into sound and strong proportions, but it will be some time before its full beauty can be seen. It has been from the first a leading thought with us how best to make the people independent of our help; and I think, as years go on, there are more and more signs that they are becoming more self-reliant, and less inclined to lean upon the Europeans for everything. This year a notable advance has been made by them with regard to church monies. Formerly the missionary kept all the accounts; but this year they have appointed four men from among the deacons to keep account of all monies received and spent. It was quite a pleasure on Christmas day last to hear the business-like way in which they gave account of their stewardship. Since Annie Pumphrey’s arrival, the school for young children, held at Ambohitantely has been better looked after than had been possible for some years, and, in consequence, 57 has much increased in numbers and efficiency. It is pur posely used as a preparatory school, the elder scholars being continually drafted off to Ambohijatovo or Faravohitra. In our own weekly Bible-class for the members of the congregation and others who care to attend, the proportion of strangers is always rather large, but this is chiefly owing to the fact that most of our congregation are traders, and hence can command little leisure on week-days. We have finished the book of Job, and are now going through Joshua. It should be mentioned that the class is allowed to choose the subjects. The discussions are often very lively, and always most interesting. Questions connected with slavery, etc., are by no means avoided; and it is always plain, when such matters are mooted, that the leaven of truth is working. The Malagasy have so few books that the Bible is com paratively well read and carefully studied. It was the Bible that gave them strength in their short but severe struggle with heathenism, and its hold upon them is so great, that, despite all their despotic surroundings, I think it would be very difficult openly to introduce sacerdotalism to any great extent. The u Old Story” is repeated here in Madagascar, and under a despotic rule with no notion of political rights, the Christian church stands forth clearly as the only witness for the true freedom and dignity of man. And so, with slavery still existing, we have master and slave sitting on the same benches, treated as equals. The preachers and deacons are chosen indiscriminately from the ranks of the bond and the free. The same discipline is, entirely in theory, and increasingly and considerably in practice, extended to them both, giving the assurance that, though still distant, the day is approaching when the Gospel will here bring u liberty to the captives,” as it has done in so many other countries in the world. In the Home District there has been little change. The weekly class for preachers and pastors, etc., has been regu larly kept up during the year ; and the mode in which all important church business is now conducted, leaves very 58 little room for any special favour being shown to the rich and powerful, in matters of discipline. We find the people more willing to subscribe money amongst themselves for church purposes, and are hoping this next year to induce some of them to bear part of the expenses of the teachers in addition to the houses and rice they now provide for them. We find the united Bible-classes help them to a more systematic knowledge, and thus they are better qualified to preach and teach to others “ the things concerning the Kingdom.” There are two places in the Home District where, on alternate weeks, a dispensary is opened for those who are sick and care to come. Many avail themselves of it, and much gratitude is expressed for this part of our work, as it saves them a long tramp to town, and, possibly, some expense for lodging, etc. In the Printing Office we have done a fair year’s work, as the accompanying report will show; and it is encourag ing to find that, financially, we have done better than last year. The sale of books still continues small. Our friends of the London Missionary Society have stereo typed our arithmetic for us, and we have lithographed two maps for their Ten Years’ Review. The two offices working in harmony will be able to supply all the wants of Madagascar in the way of literature for several years to come. In Bible Revision we are still doing our share in common with the other protestant Missions. The work is necessarily slow, and will still take some years before it can be com pleted, but the portions already finished are a manifest advance on anything we have previously had. The spelling of proper names has been very much altered, chiefly ' in deference to the strongly expressed wishes of the Norwegian delegates, but I think several of the better known names will retain their old pronunciation for a long time. SAMUEL CLEMES. 59
No. 4.
H. GILPIN’S REPOET.
On the 6th of First month, 1880, we re-opened school with 166; the highest number present during the year has been 181, and the lowest 137, while our average attendance has been 162. On the 6th of Fourth month, Isaac Sharp most kindly gave our scholars an account of some of his interesting journeys, which L. H. Brockway very ably translated for him, and in which our girls were much interested. On the 25th of Fifth month, our committee gave our girls the treat of a day in the country, and the Prime Minister most kindly lent us a garden in which to play. We did not leave the town in procession, as we think the less notice attracted by girls’ schools the better, but we agreed to meet on the top of a hill some little way out of town, and we thus avoided a good many “ hangers-on ” which we should otherwise have been sure to have had. It was a beautiful day, and our girls most thoroughly enjoyed a good game of play before the rice was cooked. We had banana leaves for tables ; and the girls looked very picturesque sitting on the ground under the mango trees. After dinner, they arranged themselves on a bank, and sang hymns ; then fruit was handed round; and we wound up by giving away some cards Isaac Sharp had had printed for them. The Prime Minister had most kindly appointed two men to keep the gate, and this greatly added to our comfort, as those unconnected with the school were kept outside. After this we broke up for our winter holidays, but re-opened on the 6th of Seventh month with 167 present. Samuel Clemes examined the school, class by class, from the 19th to the 30th of the Seventh month, and he says, “ There is, no doubt, a great advance in the general standard all through the school. In Scripture, they are well taught. The reading and arith 60 metic are all that could be expected. Dictation they do w ell; and writing they are improving in. Grammar is weak ; in English they are making good progress; but in geography they might do better.” One hundred and ninety were examined, including the teachers; and we gave away 125 prizes, which consisted of fancy boxes of cotton, needlebooks, scissors, writing desks, which have been kindly sent us from time to time from our friends at home. If the girl to whom the prize is awarded has no Bible, we always supply this want first of all. Thirty-three prizes were given for Scripture knowledge; this comprises two lessons, viz.: Bible history, and Biblical geography; thirty-two were given for geography, twenty-two for arithmetic, fifteen for writing, eight for grammar, seven for English, four for mental arithmetic, and four for drawing. We feel encouraged that Scripture stands as high as it does, but greatly desire for our dear girls a deeper knowledge of this most important subject, for we are again and again reminded of the truth of the exclamation of the Psalmist, “ The entrance of Thy words giveth light, it giveth understanding to the simple.” The Bible-classes, although they have been unavoidably inter rupted from time to time, are well attended; and the teacher has been much encouraged by the evident increase of earnest attention which has been shown, as also from the fact that some of our former scholars come to join in these classes. All our teachers are most diligent in recapitulating the lessons given with their scholars, thus keeping them up to the mark. The teachers of our country class have often great difficulty in implanting in the minds of their women the first seeds of knowledge: but it is quite surprising to me how fast these poor ignorant women improve, and how useful they are when they return to their own homes; truly our God chooseth the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. The advanced standard of our classes is owing much to L. H. Brockway’s unremitting 61 diligence and systematic attention throughout the school. Some idea of the success of her work may be gathered from the small table added to this. In the two last examinations, our teachers are included. Passing 1st class means that the girls have obtained over two-thirds of the marks attainable, 2nd class over half, and 3rd class over one-third. The absentees are not included in this statement.
! ist. 2nd. 3rd. Missed. Total.
Eleventh mo., 1878 ! 35 29 45 27 136
Fifth mo., 1879 75 63 34 7 179
Seventh mo., 1880* 81 74 25 10 190
* Last year’s examination was delayed on account of the serious illness of our kind examiner. HELEN GILPIN.
No. 5. R. M. CLARK’S REPORT. During the past year my Women’s Class has been held, with but little interruption, twice-a-week, and, as far as numbers are concerned, has been very satisfactory ; out of the seventy who compose it, many have had but few, and some only one or two breaks in their attendance. As a large proportion of them are married, and have some house hold duties and cares, they are probably more frequently kept away from the Class than children are from a day school. Their children may be sick, and need carrying to a doctor ; their husbands may be ill, and require nursing; their rice, when ripe, must be reaped, and they must super intend - the reaping. Family responsibilities sit but too 62 lightly on the shoulders of Malagasy ladies, and when any of these stay at home in the discharge of such, it is, perhaps, more a cause of rejoicing than regret, particularly as Classes of this kind are held with a desire to promote moral advancement even more than intellectual, though the latter is by no means overlooked, and some who have come to us for many years have made considerable progress in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Our Bible lessons have, I believe, been much enjoyed, and besides the hour devoted to them weekly, some have spent much time at home in the further study of the chapters under consideration, which have been, for the last twelve months, from Exodus, illus trating the History of Moses, and the Wanderings of the Children of Israel, in connection with which I have used a “ Life of Moses,” compiled by my husband. From these, many lessons for daily life have been drawn; and as they have been studied and given prayerfully, it is hoped that some have derived help in their heavenward path. In the Sewing Class, various kinds of work have been carried on— the making of garments either for the scholars themselves or for their children ; the making-up of patch work quilts into skirts ; the knitting of stockings, which are now worn by many natives ; and the making of anti macassars and other trifles, more for ornament than use, by a few who have money and leisure, and rather superior homes. About six months since, we had a very enjoyable time with the women who were invited to tea, which, however, was only a part of the afternoon’s entertainment. Shortly before leaving England a kind friend gave me from her “ Mothers’ Class ” a large number of work-bags, with the various sewing apparatus so highly prized here— scissors, thimbles, needles, pins, and cotton— to be given by hard working women in England to their sisters far away, of whom we had told them whilst at home, and in whom they had shown a most kind interest. These gifts, however, were lost by shipwreck, and very sorry I was to write to our 63 friends and tell them of the loss, when, instead of being discouraged, they were so good as to repeat their former' kindness, and the distribution of these articles after tea, with some appropriate words from Andrianony and my husband, gave great pleasure, the scene which our garden presented being very pretty. Knowing that our guests would come in very clean dresses and lambas (nearly all of print or calico), we had large mats spread on the grass under the shade of peach and other trees, and numerous dishes were placed at intervals before our friends, the con tents varying a little, and each visitor partaking of every kind, as is the custom here. There were rice in large quantities, curried fowl and duck, roast fowl and duck, stewed beef and herbs, with tea as a beverage, and oh ! how much the last was enjoyed— the filling of cups from large urns was no sinecure. All sat on the ground and ate with horn spoons, such as many of our friends at home possess. Most of the seventy women comprising this Class are members of the Friends’ Chapel, Ambohitantely; we might have many more who are now waiting to milatsaha, that is “ fall in,” but we have thought it better to teach these well than to take others to whom we could npt devote suffi cient time personally. Nearly all those with whom we commenced more than nine years since, are among the regular attenders. One class is taught by my husband, another by myself, and another by our eldest daughter. Annie Pumphrey, too, gave kind help for some weeks when we were temporarily short-handed, and we have one native teacher to instruct those who cannot read or write well. We still have in the house six girls as boarders, who were men tioned in my last report, one of them has recently had several very eligible offers of marriage, but seems very reluctant to accept any. In a land where nearly every girl makes an early marriage this surprises us much, and we tell her that she must not be long in deciding in favour of •one, or it may be a case of “ She that will not when she 64 may, when she will it shall be nay.” Of course, we do not use any pressure, though we should be glad to see so steady a girl happily settled, and at the present time she is taking a month to consider the last proposal made to her. E. M. CLAEK.
No. 6. A. PUMPHEEY’S EEPOET. During the first five months of the past year, most of my time was employed in the Girls’ School at Faravohitra. At the same time that for younger children at Ambohi- tantely, where seventy-seven scholars re-assembled after the summer vacation in January, was visited three times a-week. This school, which was held in the chapel, was commenced in the end of 1873, for little children of both sexes, and has since been more or less under European superin tendence. This is very necessary to the success and order of a school, as the Malagasy, though many of them fair teachers, are apt to grow careless without constant super vision, and at the best are but poor disciplinarians. Until quite recently there were four classes,— the first was taught by a youth who was trained at Ambohijatovo, and the three lower ones by female teachers, who have been, and still are, members of Mrs. Clark’s women’s class. School is held every morning except Saturday, from 8 o’clock to 10.30; and three afternoons from 1.30 to 3.30. An extra class is held on Tuesday afternoons for the girls only, who then learn to sew and knit. After the work follows a Bible lesson, which is usually illustrated by a good picture. We find this adds greatly to the interest, and is also a means of encouraging the little ones to ask questions and to look forward with pleasure to the next lesson. School is opened and closed every day by singing a hymn, reading a chapter from the Scriptures, and by prayer. 65
There have been two examinations during the year. Isaac Sharp came to see the result of the first the day before he left the capital. Prizes were given to the boy and girl who stood highest in each class, and Isaac Sharp, favoured them with a short address, which was kindly in terpreted by Miss Gilpin. Towards the end of the year, the increase of scholars rendered it necessary to engage an extra teacher, and after the last examination the seven highest boys were promoted to Ambohijatovo and six girls to Faravohitra. We have some very small children in the lower classes. Those most recently admitted are still wading through their first difficulties with the alphabet, and very amusing it is to see them counting on their little bare toes as they squat around their teacher. Some of these little ones are willing to pay a trifle for their first lesson book, which is expected of them, as visible proof that they are anxious to learn. The first class, who have been much longer in the school than the others, are taught Scripture, the three R’s, mental calculation, geography, and grammar. A little English is also taught out of school hours to about a dozen of the older and more intelligent children, who take an interest in this lesson. The daily attendance has been good, but many of the children who are slaves are not so regular as we should like, being sent to school or kept away at the pleasure of their owners. For the same reason, some only remain but a short time in the school. We have latterly given a copy of the Children's Friend to each child who has not been absent once during a month. The attendance was most broken when the Queen was paying her annual visit to Ambohimanga, when no less than twenty of our scholars were away for several weeks together with their parents or relatives who were for some cause or other following their sovereign. We have suffered some inconvenience during the time of the re-covering of the roof of our chapel, often having to teach amidst noise and dust; but, with the exception of one week when some E 66
of the classes only could be allowed to remain, the school has been regularly carried on. There are at the present time 110 children in the school, which is almost as many as we can comfortably accommodate. On the 9th of Tenth month we invited all the children with their teachers to an entertainment at our house. After a good dinner in the garden, they were gathered together, sang a hymn, and were addressed by H. E. Clark and Andrianony, the native pastor. Out of the 104 who were present on this occasion, 20 were in the school three years ago, and came to a similar gathering before the Clarks returned to England on furlough. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in playing games and running races, which, to judge from their happy faces, the children most thoroughly enjoyed. In reviewing the past year we can say that there has been a marked improvement in at least two important respects,—one, that the scholars no longer come to school in the almost filthy lamba many of them used to wear; and the other, they have learned to be much more quiet and orderly in their behaviour, but a stranger from England would probably think there was still room for improvement in both these particulars. Had not the superintendence by a missionary been unavoidably inter rupted in previous years, there would have been less room for advancement in these matters. A. PUMPHKEY. Antananarivo, 5th First month, 1881.
No. 7. REPOET OF J. TEEG-ELLES FOX, 1880.
MEDICAL MISSION. T h e r e is, at present, but little to report, as to the work done in this department of the Mission; nevertheless it may be of interest to mention a few points. 67
Soon after our arrival in Eighth mo., the joint committee of the London Missionary Society and the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association, for the Medical Mission and Hospital, was called together to consider the arrangements for re commencing the work at Analakely. It was decided to begin to see out-patients as soon as the dispensary was sufficiently furnished. This was found to be necessary, because very soon after settling in our house on the 1st of Ninth month (William Johnson having kindly taken us in at first), Malagasy patients began to apply to me at Faravohitra at all sorts of hours; and it became evident that our garden would soon be filled with such, if a regular time were not set apart for seeing them. Accordingly, on the 2nd of Tenth month the Out-Patient Department was opened; 9 a.m. on the three even days of the week, being the time appointed. From the first, a minimum payment of 2d. was received from the patients on each attendance; and the money so collected amounted, by the end of the year, to £10 19s. 4d.; but this would be quite insufficient to pay for the medicines, &c., which have been used. The number of patients seen in that time is about 600, and most of these have returned a number of times for more medicine. A meeting of the missionaries and the town pastors was held at Analakely, in the Hospital, on the 18th of Tenth month, in connection with the opening of the Hospital. A short time is devoted each morning to reading the Scriptures and Prayer, before the patients are examined. They assemble for this outside the Dispensary window, under the new verandah. One unavoidable result of the Medical work being com menced thus early, has been that I have been unable to give up as much time as was desirable to the regular study of the language. The want of more knowledge of this, 68 has also made the examination of the patients occupy much more time than otherwise it would have done. I have had many pressing requests to visit the Malagasy in their own homes, but have been obliged to make a rule not to do so, on account of the increase of work it would involve, being more than I could undertake by myself. The Hospital also stands empty, for want of a nurse to superintend it in my absence. Many Malagasy youths have applied to me, wishing to be trained as medical students; and many women, also, have requested to be taught one or other department of nursing. Of the former, two of Wm. Johnson’s boys have been received, and have been a help in seeing the patients, &c., from their knowledge of English. They now keep the register of patients, and dispense the medicines, and also vaccinate successfully. More students will soon be taken, an Entrance Examination having been held, at which ten young men were present. One young woman is now under training as a nurse, and helps in the out-patient department in dressing wounds, applications, &c. When there is a competent superintendent at Analakely, I trust the number of such will be increased. Vaccination has been carried on every week almost ever since my arrival, the number vaccinated being considerable, and on the increase. It is much appreciated by the natives, on account of its effect in checking the ravages of small pox— which is something for an ignorant people! Lately, the scholars at Ambohijatovo, and the Faravohitra girls’ school have been vaccinated, except such as had good marks from previous vaccination. Before concluding this report, I must record the pleasure it has given me, from time to time, to endeavour to render some medical aid to the over-strained and hard-worked missionaries, who have come under my care. It has been a great satisfaction to me (though, at present at least, quite unprepared, as well as prevented by numerous engagements, 69 from doing any direct Mission work, in the way of preach ing and teaching,) to do all in my power to attend to the apt-to-be-forgotten physical needs of those who are actively carrying forward the great work for which this Mission exists; and which, together with the action of a tropical climate, often make considerable inroads, even upon the constitutions of the strong. J. TREGELLES FOX. Faravohitra, First mo. 28, 1881.
No. 8. FRANK’S REPORT.
In connection with Ambohijatovo School, my work has been pretty much the same as it was. I still take the second division of the first class, and teach English, ciphering, and Euclid. Most of my scholars, for the second half of 1880, were very intelligent lads, and promise to be clever men. These have all gone up to the first division, and now I have new boys from the second class, who are much younger lads, but quite as intelligent, and extremely diligent. In my Scripture lessons with the junior classes, I have chiefly taken a series of lessons from the life of our Lord, and some of the most eminent characters out of the Old Testament. I always make the lads write the answers on their slates, and ask the teacher of each class to examine them while I am teaching. I am about to take Mr. Wilson’s English class, with some of the Ambohijatovo teachers, who are very desirous to continue their lessons in his absence. With regard to the Sunday School, I am happy to say that I have the largest class; the number of my children is never under forty, and they do love hearing Bible stories, 70
and if interesting anecdotes of dogs, elephants, and horses, and anything pleases them, one often sees their bright faces full of smiles. In connection with the Printing Office, I have scarcely done any other work, except writing and translating for The Children's Friend. As we have so few contributors, the editor and myself have had to write nearly all the articles for each month. But a few months ago, some cir culars were sent round begging missionaries, pastors, and others to help us. Many of the books at the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association library, especially “ Chambers’ Encyclopcedia,” have rendered me most valuable assistance in this work, and also some books kindly sent by some of my good English friends. It is very good of friends to send us such good pictures for The Children's Friend, and the young people here do appreciate them; but they are sometimes inclined to dis believe too wonderful anecdotes about them. May I here avail myself of the kindness of friends, to ask that they will be so kind as to send along with each picture, the description of it, because it is extremely difficult to make up a story out of pictures one knows nothing about, as we have often had to do. A few of the most interesting articles in the bound volume for 1880, are : “ Dogs and their doings;” “ The Bible is a better weapon than swords;” “ Dr. Adam Clarke;” “ Elephants and their doings;” “ Eng land and its inhabitants;” “ George Stephenson;” “ Power of little children;” “ The oceans, and what they contain;” and a very beautiful temperance poem by Rajaonary, a very dear friend of mine, and the first Malagasy poet. There are also descriptions of different countries; many anecdotes illustrative of God’s care; and also a few articles on Natural History, etc. I used to wqrk at the Printing Office every day, but now I have had permission from the superintendent to work at home, because I could not get on very well with the noise of the machine, and hammering of 71
the bookbinders, etc. I desire that the blessing of God may attend this publication, that it may do much good to the young and the children of our country. I am happy to be able to report that the Young Men’s Christian Association, of which I am a member and one of the secretaries, is getting on very well. Our good president has spared no amount of trouble, in doing what he thinks will be beneficial to the Association, and this year our number has increased to nearly as many as forty. The subjects that are taught the members are so very interesting, that many of us are sorry to miss any of them. The first tract that we printed in connection with it, was a temper ance tract, by means of which several young people have formed a “ Temperance Society.” I am sorry to say that my friend Rasoa can scarcely ever attend any of our meet ings, because he is so very busy with other work. It gives me great pleasure to .be able to say that my wife and myself are able to render a little help to the students and their wives, who live in the cottages close to us. If they have any trouble they look up to us as their most accessible friends. They come down together to reading at our house every evening. Either one of the students or myself reads from the Bible, and then I explain a little the chapter that has been read, and prayer is offered. Some times we give them a little admonition on domestic affairs. Twice a week we take singing class with them, and teach them some of the best hymns. Very often they come down to spend an hour in looking at the pictures in my books; and when I tell them of many wonderful things beyond the seas, they are thoroughly amazed, and can scarcely be lieve them. But we sincerely hope that our influence upon them may be on the good side. I feel that I have done very little, and not worth re porting ; but though little, it is done for the Lord, and I trust that it may be owned and blessed by Him. FRANK. EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT
F. F. M. A. Printing Office, Faravohitra, Antananarivo. MADAGASCAR, 1880.
For whom No. of Description Price at English Name of Work. Malagasy Name of Work. t Size. No. No. No. in Executed. Pages. which Printed. Binding. Issued. Sold. Stock.
£ s. d. Lesson Sheets ...... Fianarana I ...... i F. F. M. A. Dem. folio...... i 0 0 o§ 2000 62 1938I Do...... Do. II ...... ! Do...... Do...... I 0 0 oS 2000 191 1809 Do...... Do. I l l ...... Do...... Do...... i 0 0 o§ 2000 120 1880 Do...... Do. IV ...... Do...... Do...... i 0 0 o§ 2000 1885 . * Do...... Do. V ...... Do...... Do...... 115 i 0 0 08 2000 1895 Do...... Do. V I...... Do...... Do...... I 0 0 *25 n ™ °§ 2000 88 1912 Do...... Do. V II...... Do...... I 0 0 I 2000 101 1899 J Hymns ...... Fihirana ...... Sunday School... Dem. 32mo...... 16 Sewn __ 500 500 — F. F. M. A Temperance Tract...... Ilay Goliata'...... Dem. i2mo...... 20 Sewn , — 7000 7000 — Anaran’ ny Tanána sy ny Tany Sasany voalaza ) Names of some Towns, etc., mentioned Do...... Do...... in Scripture ...... amy ny Soratra Masina...... ) 20 Col. wrap. 0 0 I 500 500 — Questions on the Penny Geography .... Fanontaniana ny ao amy ny Geografy Ilavoamena Do...... Do...... 14 Do. 0 0 I 1000 234 766 Report of Union Meeting ...... Fiangonana Isan-Enimbolana ...... Do...... Do...... 36 Do _ 1200 1200 — ¡ English Lesson Book, I I ...... Lesona Englisy, I I ...... j Do...... Do...... 136 i Cloth ... 0 0 9 2000 250 1750 ! Questions on Genesis ...... Fanontaniana ny ao amy ny Genesisy...... Do...... Do...... 20 Col. wrap. 0 0 1 500 500 — ! Do...... Translation of the Dublin Text Book . Rakitry ny Soratra Masina ...... Do...... 216 i Cloth ... 0 I 0 2000 154 1846 Do...... Do...... Do...... Do...... — Cloth 0 I 6 1000 985 Life of the Apostle Paul ...... Tantarany Paoly Apostoly ...... Do...... Dem. 8vo...... 15 134 i Cloth ... 0 I 0 900 25 875 Í Do...... Do...... Do...... Do...... Cloth 0 I 6 100 ---- 100 Questions on the Old Testament...... Fanontaniana ny amy ny Testamenta Taloha ... Do...... Dem. i2mo. 20 Col. wrap. 0 0 I 500 — Do...... 500 Questions on the New Testament ...... Fanontaniana ny amy ny Testamenta Vaovao ... Do...... 20 Do. 0 0 i 500 500 — Malagasy and English Vocabulary...... Vokabolary Malagasy sy Englisy...... Do...... Dem. 8vo...... 72 i Cloth ... 0 0 6 2000 243 1757 Report of Union Meeting ...... Fiangonana Isan-Enimbolana ...... Do...... Dem. i 2mo...... 53 Col. wrap. — 1200 1200 — Do...... Tune Book...... Hira Voafantina...... Dem. 8vo...... 50 Do 0 0 3 300 13 287 Answers to Fractions ...... Valin’ ny Fraktiona ...... Do...... Dem. i 2mo...... 32 Do, 0 0 6 600 Diary ...... Diary ...... Do...... 43 557 Fcp. i 2mo...... 69 Cloth, limp 0 0 3 800 706 94 Children’s Friend (monthly)...... Ny Sakaizan’ ny Ankizy Madinika...... Do...... Fcd.wr t4tow*...... ••••••••• 16 Sewn ...... 0 0 c§ 18000 11018 6982t Sheets for Registers ...... Rejisitra ...... ^ Do...... Dem. 4to. 4 — 5000 1000 4000 Miscellaneous publications printed in _ previous years, sold in 1880, about... — 12800 —
Totals...... 955 59.600 39,183 33,217
These have been printed quite recently. + Mostly in bound volumes. This list does not include a number of small jobs. MADAGASCAR CASH ACCOUNT.
FOR THE YEAR 1880.
£ s. d. £ S. d. Balance from last year ...... ^7 9 *5 3Personal expenses ...... 848 3 o Drafts on Barclay & Co...... 3229 ° E. H. Brockway...... 45 o o Cash received on private account, and sundry payments ...... ••••• 7 ° 10 Frank ...... 24 5 o Printing Office receipts, including sale of books, school materials, Schools, Antananarivo ...... 225 13 2 stationary, etc...... ^ ^ ° Schools, country ...... 502 13 1 Paid by Miss Gilpin, proceeds of sale of work done at the Girls School Travelling expenses ...... 171 5 6 in payment of cost of material in England ...... 9 *4 10 Ditto—between Antananarivo and England : W. Wilson to England ; Dr. and Mrs. Fox from Tamatave to the Capital ...... 168 14 7 Buildings...... 420 i l o Rent...... 51 16 4 Carriage of Goods from Coast to Capital ...... 269 10 3 Postage ...... 21 9 8 Discount...... jjij 5 g Assistance to country Chapel building ...... 28 15 10 Assistance given to youths from the country, to enable them to learn at our town schools ...... 85 10 4 Books, stationery, etc...... £ g i 12 4 Less by books sold ...... 30 10 6 ------61 I 10 Medical attendance and medicine...... 41 11 2 Less by received for medicine...... 17 o 4 ------24 10 10 Subscription to Home Missionary Society...... 10 o o Medical Mission...... 168 2 1 Sundries ...... 107 3 o
Printing E stablishment : , ...... ¿209 3 ° Materials ...... 20 4 o Furniture ...... 3 2 6 Stolen...... 7 12 o Bibles, and other books bought from L.M .S...... 40 19 10 ------281 1 4 Total expenses...... 3630 12 7 Paid on private account ...... 185 13 10 Balance on hand, December 31st, 1880...... 550 4 6 ¿4366 10 11 £4366 10 11 LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS
OF TH E
FRIENDS’ FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION.
The following Friends are appointed A uthorized Correspond ents for the Collection o f Subscriptions in their own Meetings, fo r the transmission o f Missionary Intelligence, and for increasing among Friends an interest in Missionary work.
A ckworth,nr. Ponte- Mrs. Lean, Flounder’s Cottage fract, A lton (Hants), Frederick Crowley Bath, Joseph Theobald B0LT0N(Lancashire), C. J. Abbatt, Beech Villa, Chorley Old Road Banbury (Oxon), Chas. Gillett Barnsley (Yorks), Chas. Brady Birkenhead, Dykes Alexander Fox, Molyneux Place, Water Street, Liverpool Birmingham, John E. Wilson, West Hill, Augustus Road B radford (Yorks), John Priestman B ridgwater, Francis J. Thompson B righouse, Francis Smith B righton, Marriage Wallis, Springfield, Preston Bristol, Henry Grace, Royal Insurance Buildings B roughton (Chimb.), Robert Wilson Carlisle, Hudson Scott, Brunswick Street Charlbury, John M. Albright Chelmsford, Wm. Bott, Broomfield Cheltenham, Alfred Trusted, Prestbury Cirencester, William Alexander Colchester, Frederick Richardson, Lexden Croydon, C. C. Morland, Rastrick Lodge D arlington, Jonathan B. Hodgkin D erby, R. Binns, Market Place D oncaster, J. F. Clark, Regent Square D unmow, Walter Robson, Saffron Walden i /
D ublin, Thomas White Fisher, 12, Cope Street John Webb, 20, Temple Lane D orking, William Allen Edinburgh, Eliza Wigham, 5, South Gray Street Earith, nr. St. Ives, Richard Brown Evesham, W. W. Brown, High Street EATiNGTON,Stratford-Thomson Sharp on-Avon, F almouth, A. Lloyd Fox, Penmere Gainsborough, Louisa Thompson, Richard Thompson Garstang, Charles Wilson G lasgow, J. C. White, Oakfield Cottage, Hill Head G loucester, Frederick Sessions H alifax, J. W. Collinson, Southfield H arrogate, Benjamin Walker, Haya Park H ereford, Joseph Jones, Broad Street H ertford, Isaac Robinson, The Wash H itchin, William Random H oddesdon, Francis Warner, The Cottage H uddersfield, Isaac Robson, Dalton H ull, Sami. Priestman J. Thorp, Rutland Terrace I pswich, Samuel Alexander K endal, C. L. Braithwaite K ettering, J. F. Thursfield K ingston-on-thames J. Hingston Fox, 7 ,South Ter.,Surbiton,S.W. L ewes, Caleb R. Kemp L iscard, S. M. Smith, Church Street, Egremont, near Birkenhead L uton, Henry Brown, jun. L ondon, Devonshire House, William Dyne, 43, Bishopsgate Without, E.C. Holloway, Henry Hipsley, 21, Woodstock Road, Fins bury Park, N. Islington, J. D. Appleton, 7, St. John’s Terrace, St. John Street Road, Clerkenwell, E.C. Peckham, John Taylor, Sunbury, Peckham Rye Deptford, Ditto Ditto Stoke Newington, W. C. Allen, 72, Albion Road Wandsworth, E. R. Ransome, Rushmere Cottage Westminster, Richard Dell, The Lodge, Upper Tooting Park, S.W. Winchmore Hill, George Kitching, Enfield, Middlesex Tottenham, J. Allen Tregelles, 13, Pembury Road 78
L ancaster, Thomas Barrow, Baldrand L eeds, Samuel Southall, Central Market L eicester, Wilfrid H. Ellis, 8, Market Street L eighton B uzzard, E. Griaisyer L eominster, H. S. Newman L iverpool, Thomas Leicester, 126, Canning Street Samuel Leicester John D. Crosfield, 5, Edge Lane M ilnthorpe, Richard Batt (Westmoreland), M alton (Yorks.) Henry Taylor M anchester, Josiah Merrick, Whalley Range J3 S. Benson Woodhead, 28, Victoria Street M elksham, Henry Simpson, M iddlesboro’, William Taylor M alvern, William Sparkes N eath, Frederick J. Gibbins, The Craig N ewcastle- on-T yne George W. Clarke, 5, Summerhill Grove N orthampton, Samuel Wells N orwich, Henry Brown N ottingham, John Armitage N antwich, Samuel Harlock N ewport Pagnell, Richard Littleboy N eedham M arket, S. A. Maw Oldham, Thomas Emmott Henry L. Hargraves P lymouth, A. P. Balkwill, Old Town Street >) F. E. Fox Preston, Joseph Jesper R awdon (nr Leeds), Sarah Fowler Barnard R eigate, T. Sydney Marriage R eading, Joseph Huntley, Earlham Villa R ochdale, J. Albert Bright Saffron W alden, Walter Robson Scarborough, Joshua Rowntree Settle (Yorks.), Ellwood Brockbank Sheffield, D. Doncaster, jun., Victoria Road, Broom- hall Park Shields, North, John R. Proctor SiBFORD(nr Banbury), John Wells Southampton, William C. Westlake S0UTHP0RT(Lancsh.), Henry G. Coventry Staines, Thomas Ashby Stanstead (Essex), Joshua Green 79
St. A ustell, William Clemes, jun. Stockton-on-T ees, W. Benington Street, Mary J. Morland, Northover, nr. Glastonburv Sudbury (Suffolk) E. Grubb Sunderland, C. S. Wilson, 10, Tavistock Place T hirsk (Yorks.), Bartholomew Smith T orquay, Anna F. Fox, Oakhill T aunton, Samuel Lawrence T hetford, John Everett, East Harling U lyerstone, Anthony W. Wilson U xbridge, E. P. Bastin, West Drayton }> Caroline Bailey W akefield, Isaac G. Wallis W ELLINGTON(Smst.) J. H. Fox, The Clere W hitby, Edward F. Sewell W hitehaven, J. K. Glasse, 14, Lowther Street Jane Baxter W isbech, Alexander Peckover W orcester, C. W. Pumphrey, 41, Britannia Square Y atton (Somerset), Rachel Eddington Y ork, Mary C. Pumphrey, Priory Street William Sessions, Low Ousegate TOTALS OP SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS
FROM VARIOUS TOWNS, &c.
£ s. d. £ s. d. Ackworth ...... 8 10 0 Brought forward ... 1790 5 9 Allonby ...... 15 12 0 Fordingbridge ...... 3 7 0 Alton ...... 17 5 0 Garstang ...... 6 2 0 Banbury...... 19 8 6 Glasgow...... 29 8 6 Bardfield...... 2 12 6 Gloucester ...... 4 0 0 Barnsley...... 13 15 0 Halifax ...... 11 11 9 Bath ...... 9 12 0 Harrogate ...... 4 5 0 Berkhampstead ...... 9 0 0 Haverfordwest ...... 5 0 Birkenhead...... 6 14 0 Hereford...... 5 0 Birmingham ...... 334 4 6 Hertford...... 3 0 0 Bolton...... 4 14 6 Hitchin ...... 100 6 0 Bradford...... 48 10 0 Hoddesdon...... 4 5 0 Bridgwater...... 11 18 0 Holloway ...... 26 17 0 Brighouse ...... 2 2 6 Huddersfield ...... 9 14 6 Brighton...... 45 10 0 Hull...... 13 15 0 Bristol, less expenses 11/ 11 258 2 3 Ipswich ...... 11 5 6 Broughton ...... 12 5 0 Ireland, less expenses ... 368 16 9 Cambridge and Hunts. An Irish Friend...... 5 0 0 Monthly Meeting ...... 40 0 0 Ivy bridge ...... 10 0 Carlisle ...... 7 18 6 Kendal ...... 52 11 0 Charlbury ...... 5 0 0 Kent ...... 9 15 6 Chelmsford...... 17 17 6 Kettering ...... 4 5 0 Cheltenham ...... 2 0 0 Kingston ...... 5 2 0 Chipping Norton ...... 2 0 0 Lancaster ...... 45 7 0 Cirencester...... 19 8 6 Leeds ...... 97 1 3 Coalbrookdale ...... 3 15 0 Leicester...... 48 0 0 Coalport...... 10 0 Leighton Buzzard...... 3 0 0 Colchester ...... 13 7 6 Leominster...... 29 10 0 Colthouse ...... 4 7 6 Lewes ...... 7 3 0 Coventry...... 1 1 0 Lincolnshire ...... 4 14 0 Croydon ...... 48 18 0 Liskeard ...... 2 0 0 Darlington...... 776 3 0 Liverpool ...... 3 1 1 0 D erby...... 2 1 0 London ...... 420 0 6 Doncaster ...... 2 1 0 Luton...... 25 0 0 Dorking ...... 2 0 0 Luton & Leighton Monthly Dundee ...... 7 6 Meeting ...... 20 0 0 Earith...... 2 7 6 Malton ...... 11 19 4 Edinburgh...... 2 10 6 Manchester ...... 35 1 1 0 Evesham...... 9 14 0 Mansfield ...... 1 10 0 Falmouth ...... 7 2 0 Matlock ...... 2 0 0
Carried forward... 1790 5 9 Carrried forward ... 3248 10 4 81
£ s. d. £ s. d' Brought forward ... 3248 10 4 Brought forward ... 3848 9 2 Melksham ...... 5 0 0 Sudbury ...... 3 1 1 0 Middlesbro’...... 11 12 6 Sunderland...... 265 3 0 Newcastle-on-Tyne ...... 50 12 6 Taunton ...... 6 0 0 Newport Pagnell ...... 10 10 0 Thetford...... 1 0 0 Newton Abbott ...... 2 2 0 Thirsk ...... 3 3 0 North Shields...... 10 18 0 Thornton ...... 1 0 0 Norwich ...... 5 14 0 Tottenham...... 1 1 0 Nottingham ...... 14 14 6 Torquay ...... 11 5 6 Pakefield ...... 1 9 0 Ulverstone...... 2 6 Peel ...... 1 10 0 Uxbridge...... 4 0 0 Penrith ...... 4 10 0 Walthamstow ...... 50 0 0 Plymouth ...... 26 9 6 Wandsworth ...... 9 0 0 Pontefract ...... 1 10 0 Wakefield ...... 6 0 0 Preston (Lancashire)...... 20 3 6 Wellington...... 8 0 0 Preston Patrick...... 1 6 6 West Dray ton...... 2 10 0 Bawdon ...... 2 10 0 Westminster ...... 19 5 6 Reading ...... 134 5 0 Weston-super-Mare ...... 7 4 0 Redruth ...... 1 0 0 Whitehaven ...... 1 8 0 Reigate ...... 4 6 0 Wilmslow ...... 1 1 1 0 Ross ...... 7 3 0 Winchmore Hill...... 1 1 0 0 Saffron Walden...... 62 17 6 Wisbech...... 310 0 0 St. Austell (1879-80) .. 9 0 Woodford ...... 5 0 0 Scarborough ...... vW 15 0 Worcester ...... 20 2 0 Settle ...... 7 11 0 Wymondham...... 1 5 0 Sheffield...... 35 5 0 Yatton...... 10 0 0 Sibford ...... 2 1 0 York ...... 50 10 6 Southampton ...... 2 2 0 Young Women Friends’ Southport ...... 12 18 0 Christian Union 50 0 0 Southwark Mo. Meeting 25 4 0 Legacy of J. M. Knight . 450 0 0 Stansted ...... 5 15 0 Stockton...... •?8 9 9 £5167 1 2 Stoke Newington ...... 68 1 0 To school enlargement Stourbridge...... 3 0 0 fund...... 6 0 0 Street ...... 6 4 7 ¿£5161 1 2 Carried forward .. 3848 9 o
F SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS
RECEIVED FROM 5th MO. 19, 1880, TO Sth MO. 17, 1881.
Please inform the Secretary of any Errors in the following List.
For Total Amounts from each Town see previous page. £ s. d. £ s. d. A c k w o r t h , per F. J. Webb— B a n b u r y , per Charles Gillett— William Brown .. 2 0 0 Jonathan Gillett ...... 5 0 0 W. S. Leah...... 1 10 0 Charles Gillett ...... 5 0 0 George Satterthwaite ... 1 0 0 Catharine Gillett ...... 5 0 0 F. Andrews...... 10 0 Martha Gillett ...... 1 0 0 Thomas Puplett...... 10 0 John P. Gillett ...... 1 0 0 M. Whitaker ...... 10 0 J. Ashley Gillett ...... 1 0 0 Some Flounders Students, M. and A. Gillett ...... 5 0 &c...... 8 6 C. E. Gillett ...... 5 0 John Senior ...... 5 0 Deborah Beesley ...... 5 0 Proctor Hutchinson ...... 5 0 M. and E. Grimshaw 3 6 J. E. Walker...... 3 0 M. A. Stevens...... 2 6 M. K in g ...... 2 6 Francis Taylor ...... 2 6 E. W. Wells ...... 2 6 W. Lamb (Adderbury) ... 2 6 Elizabeth W alker 2 6 J. Treadwell (do.)...... 2 6 Albert Linney ...... 2 6 John Simpson...... 2 0 B ath, per J . Theobald, 1879-80— John Lawrence ...... 2 0 E. Capper ...... 1 0 0 James Airey ...... 2 0 M. Rutter ...... 1 0 0 J . A. Barringer...... 2 0 E. Coleby ...... 10 0 C. Ransome ...... 1 0 H. Hart ...... 10 0 Other Subscriptions ...... 9 6 M. Isaac...... 5 0 L. Hallett ...... 5 0 A llonby, per John Walker— E. and E. Bichards ...... 3 0 Friends of Allonby and S. E. Sams ...... 2 6 Beckfoot Meeting ...... 13 10 0 M. S. Sams...... 2 6 Elizabeth Ostle (Birkby) 2 2 0 E. Simpson...... 2 0 Bath for native teacher. A lton, per F. Crowley— L. Hailet...... 15 0 Charlotte Crowley 5 0 0 E. Capper ...... 10 0 Frederick Crowley 5 0 0 E. Coleby ...... 10 0 S. S. and E. Bell ...... 2 2 0 M. Butter ...... 10 0 E. Emma Crowley 1 1 0 J. Theobald ...... 10 0 Marianne Crowley 1 1 0 S. E. Sam s...... 10 0 Eliza Bell ...... 1 1 0 E. Simpson...... 8 0 Sheppard Bell...... 1 0 0 H. Hart ...... 5 0 William Curtis ...... 10 0 S. Giles ...... 5 0 Mary & Jane Curtis 10 0 M. Isaac...... 5 0 83 £ s. d. £ s d. B a t h , Continued— Birmingham Continued— J . James...... 5 0 Thomas Scott...... 2 0 0 E. Withy ...... 5 0 J . H. Barclay...... 2 0 0 L. Crouch, and S. Baker 4 0 Ann Snowdon...... 2 0 0 E . H., J. & A. E. Theobald 3 0 George Smithson (for T. Motley ...... 2 6 education) ...... 2 0 0 H. S. Sams...... 2 6 Richard Cadbury ...... 2 0 0 E. and E. Richards ... 2 0 William White ...... 2 0 0 William Gibbins ...... 2 0 0 Bardfield, per W. Robson— Thomas Gibbins...... 2 0 0 Bardfield Friends ...... 2 12 6 R. C. Gibbins...... 2 0 0 B a r n s l e y , per C. Brady Emma J. Gibbins ...... 2 0 0 Charles H arvey...... 3 0 0 Alfred E. Wenham ...... 2 0 0 Charles Brady ...... 3 0 0 Sarah Southall ...... 2 0 0 Henry Harvey (late). 2 10 0 William Doubleday ...... 1 10 0 Edward Brady ...... 1 0 0 H. Cadbury and Sisters... 1 5 0 Edward Brady, jun. . 1 0 0 Rebecca Hutchinson 1 1 0 Walter Brady ...... 1 0 0 R. J . Lowe (Eatington)... 1 0 0 Maria Craik ...... 1 0 0 F. King ...... 1 0 0 James G. Gregory.... 10 0 B. C. Cadbury ...... 1 0 0 John F. T. Hallowes. 5 0 Charles Sturge ...... 1 0 0 Ellen Ballans...... 5 0 Wilson Sturge ...... 1 0 0 A. Friend ...... 5 0 S. E. Scott ...... 1 0 0 John Gibbins...... 1 0 0 Berkhampstead, per John E. W. H Lloyd ...... 1 0 0 Littleboy— Gawen Kenway...... 1 0 0 D. & S. A. Squire ...... 5 0 0 Frederic Patching 1 0 0 John E. Littleboy...... 2 0 0 George Ashford...... 1 0 0 William Squire ...... 2 0 0 Maria Cadbury, jun 1 0 0 Hannah Nutter ...... 1 0 0 ihkenhead, per D. A Fox_ Joseph Sturge ...... 15 0 Friends of Birkenhead .... 6 14 0 Sarah Ann Reeves 10 0 H. B. Bottomley ...... 10 0 irmingham, per J. E. Wilson— Isabel Southall ...... 10 0 Arthur Albright...... 100 0 0 Charles Pumphrey 10 0 John E. Wilson...... 100 0 0 Frederic Impey ...... 10 0 J. Hort Player .'...... 10 0 0 Samuel King ...... 10 0 Joel Cadbury...... 10 0 0 William R. King ...... 10 0 Cephas Butler ...... 5 0 0 Edward G. Davis ...... 10 0 R. C. Barrow ...... 5 0 0 Kezia Docura...... 7 6 F. C. Clayton...... 5 0 0 Joseph Fairfax ...... 5 0 J . W. Shorthouse ...... 5 0 0 Gilbert Gilkes ...... 5 0 Samuel Price...... 5 0 0 Charles Willmott ...... 5 0 John W. Wilson ...... 5 0 0 W. Arnold Thompson ... 5 0 William A. Albright...... 5 0 0 J. Dixon...... 5 0 William Southall ...... 4 0 0 W. Willmott ...... 2 6 George Cadbury...... 3 3 0 Priory First-day School, W. D. Jeffrey...... 3 0 0 for native teacher ...... 4 13 6 Alfred Southall...... , 3 0 0 Anonymous (donation) ... 3 0 0 B olton, per C. J . Abbatt— George Barrow ...... , 2 0 0 James S. Holdsworth ... 1 0 0 George Barrow (don.) ..,. 3 0 0 William Abbatt...... 10 0 Tanyge Brothers ...... 2 2 0 Thomas Abbatt...... 10 0 John Cadbury ...... 2 0 0 Charles James Abbatt ... 10 0 John Cadbury (don.)...... 2 0 0 Alice Ann Abbatt 5 0 84
£ s. d. £ s. d. o l t o n , Continued— Brighton Continued— Elizabeth Abbatt ...... 5 0 Daniel Hack ...... 5 0 0 Robert Partington...... 5 0 D. P. Hack (donation) ... 3 0 0 Christiana Wright...... 2 6 Ditto ...... 2 0 0 Alfred E. Wright ...... 2 Ö C. J. Heald...... 2 2 0 Frederick Wright ...... 2 6 Benjamina Lucas ...... 2 0 0 Frederick Tilzey ...... 2 6 J. E. Lucas...... 1 0 0 George W. Abbatt...... 2 6 Susannah Kemp...... 1 0 0 Godfrey Woodhead ...... 2 tí Martin Robinson ...... 1 0 0 Frederick W. Jackson ... 2 6 David Lade ...... 1 0 0 James Dutton...... 2 6 W. J . Smith ...... 1 0 0 John Henry Holdsworth 2 6 Thomas Glaisyer ...... 10 0 Jane C. W right...... 2 0 John Horne Glaisyer 10 0 Edward Abbatt...... 2 0 Priscilla Hack ...... 10 0 David W. Payne ...... 2 0 Fanny Hack ...... 10 0 Benjamin H. Abbatt...... 1 0 Mary P. Hack ...... 10 0 r a d f o r d , per J. Priestman- Mary Kemp ...... 10 0 Alfred Priestman ...... 5 0 0 M. A. Whitehead ...... 10 0 Edward Priestman...... 5 0 0 Ellen Rutter ...... 10 0 Frederick Priestman...... D 0 0 W .C. Wallis ...... 10 0 John Priestman...... 3 0 0 E. A. Wallis ...... 5 0 H. B. Sewell ...... 3 0 0 M. A. Neave ...... 5 0 Walter Priestman...... 2 0 0 William Deane ...... 5 0 Robert Parkinson ...... 2 0 0 Elizabeth Glaisyer ...... 5 0 Elizabeth Harris ...... 2 0 0 Robert Glaisyer ...... 5 0 Samuel Gill ...... 2 0 0 Mary Patching ...... 5 0 Edward West...... 1 0 0 Gulielma Tylor ...... 5 0 H. W. Crossley ...... 1 0 0 Fanny S. Coar ...... 3 0 James Dixon ...... 1 0 0 B ristol, per Henry Grace— Joseph J. Dymond...... 1 0 0 Joseph Storrs Fry ...... 25 0 0 John Stansfield ...... 1 0 0 Ditto, donation ...... 25 0 0 Edward Tuke...... 1 0 0 Hester Rich ...... 10 10 0 Lydia Turner...... 1 0 0 Ditto, donation ...... 10 0 0 John Wilson ...... 1 0 0 Maria T. Bihns...... 10 0 0 James Wilson...... 10 0 Lewis Fry, M.P...... 10 0 0 Frederick Stansfield ...... 10 0 Elizabeth G. Thomas 10 0 0 Hannah D ale...... 10 0 J. Thirnbeck, & Hannah William Rowntree...... 10 0 M. Grace...... 5 5 0 William Sunter...... o 0 Walter Sturge ...... 5 5 0 William G u y ...... 5 0 Rachel Fowler, Melksham 5 0 0 Friends’ Junior First-day Margaret Marriott 3 3 0 School (for native teacher) 6 0 0 Martha A. Naish ...... 3 3 0 First-day Schools: Fur- Matilda Sturge ...... 3 0 0 ther contributions to Frederick Wall ...... 3 0 0 wards Native Teachers Margaret R. Fry ...... 2 2 0 in Madagascar, per John Maiy A. Fry ...... 2 2 0 Priestman ...... 3 0 0 Samuel Pim Jackson, 1880 2 2 0
B r i d g w a t e r Friends, per Dittto, 1881 ...... 2 2 0 F. J. Thompson 11 18 0 Thomas Pease ...... 2 2 0 Alfred Shipley ...... 2 2 0 B r i g h t o n , per Daniel Hack— John Tanner ...... 2 2 0 Robert H. Penney 10 0 0 Samuel Tanner ...... 2 2 0 Francis Brown ...... 5 0 0 Francis F. Tuckett 2 2 0 Marriage Wallis...... 5 0 0 Thomas Wedmore 2 2 0 85 £ s. d. £ s. d. Bristol, Continued— Bristol, Continued. Francis Fry ...... 2 0 0 Hannah Davis, 1880 ...... 3 0 John Gayner ...... 2 0 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 2 6 Eliza Lury ...... 2 0 0 Ann Mullett, 1880 ...... 3 0 Anna P. D. Tuckett ...... 2 0 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 2 6 Samuel Cappor ...... 1 10 0 Matilda Wall ...... 3 0 Anonymous (donation)... 1 1 0 Sarah Bowden, 1880 ...... 2 6 Hen^ Camps ...... 1 1 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 2 6 William S. Capper, 1S80 1 1 0 Mary A. Brison ...... 2 6 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 1 1 0 Mary Carwardine, 1880... 2 6 Francis J. Fry ...... 1 1 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 2 6 Sarah A. Fry ...... 1 1 0 Jane Dommitt, 1880 ...... 2 6 Abraham R. Grace, 1880 1 1 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 2 6 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 1 1 0 Thomas Gregory ...... 2 6 Alexander Grace ...... 1 1 0 R. M. Wright, 1880 ...... 2 6 Henry Grace ...... 1 1 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 2 6 Mary Grace ...... 1 1 0 Mary Pince (the late), 1880 2 6 Ann Hunt ...... 1 1 0 Boys’ First Day School, Arthur J. Hunt...... 1 1 0 for native teacher ...... 3 11 6 Mary R. Follett...... 1 0 0 Girls’ ditto ditto 2 11 6 Ellen C. Grace ...... 1 0 0 Share of joint collection Lucy Harris ( Calne) 1 0 0 at Meeting Houses 9 8 2 Richard Kidd...... 1 0 0 Per S. H. Lury— L. Edmund Naish, 1880 1 0 0 Eliza Lury (donation) ... 3 0 0 Ditto, 1881...... 1 0 0 John Gayner (Clifton)... 2 0 0 Ann Selfe, 1880...... 1 0 0 Per Priscilia A. Fry— Ditto, 18 8 1...... 1 0 0 Madagascar Em William Sturge 1880...... 1 0 0 broidery and Ditto, 18 8 1...... 1 0 0 Curiosities ... £ 6 5 17 Martha Gayner (Filton), English contri 1880 10 6 butions ...... 5 3 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 10 6 Theodore Grace...... 10 6 71 0 Mercy Tanner...... 10 6 Less expended : Edmund T. Wedmore ... 10 6 Material 19 6 2 Frederick F. Cotterell ... 10 0 Sundry Priscilla A. F r y ...... 10 0 expenses 2 13 10 James Grace, 1880...... 10 0 22 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 10 0 49 0 0 Samuel H. Lury, jun. Broughton. per Robert Wilson— (Southampton) ...... 10 0 Robert Wilson ...... 10 0 0 Ellen Marriott ...... 10 0 Joseph W. Harris ...... 10 0 Hannah Marriott ...... 10 0 Mrs. Jonathan Harris ... 10 0 John F. Mullett, 1880 ... 10 0 Thomas M. Harris...... 10 0 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 10 0 George S. Wilson ...... 10 0 Thomas D. Nicholson M.D. 10 0 Rebecca Pearson ...... 5 0
Robert Brison ...... 5 0 B r ig h o u s e — Isaac Dell ...... 5 0 Elizabeth Eddison 1 0 0 Aaron Diamond...... 5 0 Friends’ Adult School ... 13 0 Henry Fardon, 1880 ...... 5 0 A. Kingdon’s Lecture ... 9 6 Ditto, 18 8 1...... 5 0 Joseph Hewlett ...... 5 0 Cambridge and Huntingdon John Rowlands ...... 5 0 M onthly Meeting, per Rebecca Williams ...... 5 0 Richard Brown ...... 40 0 0 86
£ s. d. £ s. d. Carlisle, per Hudson Scott— Chipping Norton Friends, Mary W. Sutton (Scotby) 1 1 0 per J. M. Albright ... 2 0 0 Robert Doeg ...... 1 0 0 Hudson Scott ...... 1 0 0 Cirencester, per W. Alexander— Elizabeth Brockbank ... 10 0 William Brewin...... 10 0 0 Thomas Blair ...... 10 0 Joshua Brown ...... 2 0 0 Jane Little ...... 10 0 M. H. and L. Brown , 1 1 0 Jacob Wigham ...... 10 0 Martha Brewin ...... 1 0 0 George Carr (Silloth) ... 10 0 Christopher Bowly ...... 1 0 0 James Ecroyd ...... 5 0 George Gillett ...... 1 0 0 Thompson Wigham ...... 5 0 Eliza Brewin...... 12 6 E. and L Irw in ...... 5 0 Elizabeth Brown ...... 10 0 Stoddart Peile ...... w 0 William Bowly ...... 10 0 Joseph Haughton...... 5 0 Philip Thompson ...... 10 0 John Sutton ...... 5 0 William Alexander , 10 0 Robert J. Baillie ...... 5 0 John A. Gillett ...... 5 0 John Drinkall ...... 5 0 H. Alexander...... 5 0 Eliza Barlow...... 5 0 Elizabeth Alexander ... 5 0 John H. Barlow...... 2 6 COALBROOKDALE— Philip Weston ...... 1 0 0 Edward L. Squire...... Charlburv, per J. M. Albright— 1 0 0 Oxoniensis...... 3 0 William Sankey ...... 1 0 0 Charlbury Friends 1 15 0 P. M. Morgan...... 10 0 Weldon Langford...... 5 0
Chelmsford, per Bessie C o a l p o r t — Marriage— James Edge ...... 10 0 Henry Marriage ...... 2 0 0 Caroline Marriage ...... 2 0 0 Colchester, per Frederick Sophia Marriage ...:...... 2 0 0 Richardson— Caroline (H.) Marriage... 1 0 0 James Hurnard (Execu Charlotte Marriage ...... 1 0 0 tors of) ...... 5 0 0 C. & E. Clayton...... 1 0 0 Mary Gripper...... 2 0 0 Edward Corder...... 1 0 0 Maria S. Gripper ...... 2 0 0 Henry S. Corder...... 1 0 0 Marrianne Gripper ...... 2 0 0 J. Gripper ...... 1 0 0 Edward Marriage ...... 10 0 Sampson Marriage 1 0 0 Walter Barritt ...... 10 0 J. A. Smith...... 10 0 Frederick Richardson ... 10 0 R. Christy ...... 10 0 Wilson Marriage ...... 5 0 D. Christy ...... 10 0 Joseph J. Cross...... 5 0 Philip Marriage...... 10 0 F. E. Grône ...... 5 0 Lawrence Marriage ...... 10 0 Henry Barritt...... 2 6 James C. Smith...... 10 0 Edward Rosling...... 10 0 Frederic Marriage 10 0 Colthouse, per Isaac Brown— Mary Bott ...... 5 0 Colthouse Meeting 4 7 6 William Impey ...... 5 0 Herbert Marriage 5 0 C o v e n t r y , per John E . Wilson— S. A. Bott ...... 2 6 Hannah F. Atkins 1 1 0
C r o y d o n , per C. C. Morland— Cheltenham, per A. Trusted— John Horniman...... 10 10 0 M. A. & H. Souse (don.). 2 0 0 Hannah Morland ...... 5 0 0 87 £ s. d. £ s. d. Croydon, Continued— Darlington, Continued— Lucy Morland ...... 5 0 0 Alfred Kitching...... 10 0 0 Thomas Hanbury ...... 5 0 0 John M. Lancaster ...... 2 0 Charles W ise...... 5 0 0 Edward B. Mounsey...... 5 0 0 Heniy Tuke Mennell (for William Pape...... 2 0 Madagascar only) ...... 3 3 0 William Coor Parker ... 5 0 Charles C. Morland ...... 3 0 0 Jane Gurney Pease ...... 5 0 0 M. C. Crowley ...... 2 0 0 Emma Gurney Pease...... 5 0 0 Henry Tylor ...... 2 0 0 Joseph W. Pease, M.P.... 100 0 0 M AT Burgess (Norwood) 2 0 0 Edward Pease (Exors. of )100 0 0 E. S., C.,& Ellen Crowley 1 10 0 Arthur Pease, M.P...... 100 0 0 Edith Crafton ...... 1 0 0 Katherine Pease ...... 100 0 0 W. C. R*ed...... 1 0 0 Sara Elizabeth Pease...... 100 0 0 Francis Thompson 1 0 0 Annie E. Pease ...... 3 0 0 G. Theodore Crossfield ... 1 0 0 Henry Pease (for printing George Manners...... 10 0 press) ...... 3 0 0 Rachel Reed ...... 5 0 Henry Fell Pease ...... 5 0 0 Darlington, per J.B . Hodgkin— Edwin Lucas Pease ...... 5 0 0 Eleanor Allison...... 2 6 Harrison Penney ...... 10 0 James Allison...... 2 6 Gulielma M. Prideaux ... 2 6 Caroline Armistead ...... 10 0 Jane & Elizabeth Procter 10 0 Alfred Backhouse ...... 100 0 0 William Richardson...... 1 0 0 Edmund Backhouse ...... 5 0 0 John Robinson ...... 2 0 James E. Backhouse 10 0 0 James H. Robson ...... 10 0 Katharine Backhouse ... 2 0 0 Arthur Sanders ...... 5 0 Eliza Barclay...... 20 0 0 George Shaw ...... 2 6 William P. Barnard 5 0 Joseph T. Shewell...... 5 0 0 Henry Billam...... 3 0 Sarah Shewell...... 2 6 Lucy Billam ...... 3 0 Elizabeth Shewell 2 6 Alfred K. Brown ...... 10 0 Samuel C. Shewell 2 6 William Cud worth 5 0 0 Joseph Shewell ...... 2 6 William J. Cud worth ... 5 0 Major Shout (for schools) 5 0 David Dale...... 3 0 0 William Shout ...... 10 0 Charles Dickinson 2 6 Arthur Thistlethwaite ... 10 0 Thomas Eden...... 2 0 James Wadham 1...... 5 0 Thomas Elwin ...... 3 0 Theodore West ...... 5 0 Alexander Fothergill ... 10 0 George Whitfield ...... 2 6 William Fothergill ...... 5 0 Edward R. Whitwell...... 1 0 0 John A. Fothergill ...... 5 0 Walter W. Willmott 2 6 Elizabeth L. Fowler 5 0 0 Francis W right...... 2 6 John W. Fowler...... 5 0 Thomas Wright...... 2 0 Theodore Fry, M.P 10 0 0 Collected by L. and L. E. John Pease F r y ...... 2 6 Fowler (Darlington) for Sophia M. Fry ...... 2 6 native teacher...... 5 0 0 A. Gertrude Fry ...... 2 6 Derby, per R. Binns— T. Wilfrid Fry ...... 2 6 F. Longdon...... 1 1 0 John B. Gibbs ...... 2 0 C. Giles ...... 10 0 Anna Maria Gilkes ...... 1 0 0 R. Binns...... 10 0 Stephen Gravely ...... 2 0 William Harding ...... 10 0 Doncaster, per J . F. Clark— Samuel Hare ...... 10 0 Joseph F. Clark...... 1 0 0 Jonathan B. Hodgkin ... 50 0 0 Richard E. Clark ...... 10 0 Ann Ianson ...... 10 0 Thomas Harrison ...... 10 0 Charles Ianson ...... 1 0 0 William Trickett ...... 1 0 88 £ s. d. £ s. d. Dorking— Glasgow, per J. C. White— Louisa Squire...... 2 0 0 J. Charles White ...... 5 0 0 William Gray (late) ...... 5 0 0 Dundee— I. and M. Steel ...... 2 6 J . Henry Gray ...... 5 0 0 E . W...... 26 A Friend...... 4 0 0 R. Lawson...... 2 0 Alexander Lamont (Kil Children of R. A ...... 6 marnock)...... 1 0 0 James Glenny (Hawick) 1 0 0 E arith, per Richard Brown— Richard Brown ...... 1 0 0 James Hamilton (Green William Clarke ...... 10 0 ock) ...... 10 0 Lawrence Candler 10 0 John Thompson...... 10 0 Thomas Triplow...... 5 0 Charles W. White 10 0 William Gray...... 10 0 Eliza Brown ...... 2 6 Archibald Crosbie 10 0 E dinburgh— J. and E. Cruickshank ... 10 0 William Miller ...... 1 0 0 James Hanston ...... 5 0 E. P. Nichol ...... 1 0 0 Edwin Cruickshank ...... 5 0 Dr. F. H. Watson 5 0 James Hodge...... 5 0 E. Ormston...... 3 6 Arthur Cruickshank 5 0 Thomas W ilson...... 2 0 Peter Salmon...... 5 0 E vesham, per Wm. W. Brown— Thomas Hannah (Kil Henry Burlingham ...... 5 5 0 marnock) ...... 5 0 W. W. Brown...... 2 2 0 A Friend (Greenock) 5 0 L. and E. Burlingham ... 2 2 0 Mary Smeal ...... 2 6 John Pumphrey...... 5 0 James Gray Smeal 2 6 William Smeal ...... 2 6 F a l m o u t h , per A. L. Fox— John C. Smeal ...... 2 6 A. L. Fox ...... 2 2 0 William Hodge ...... 2 6 Sarah A. F o x ...... 1 0 0 William Begg...... 2 0 John Stephens ...... 1 0 0 James Johnstone ...... 2 0 George Henry Fox ...... 1 0 0 A Friend...... 2 0 Robert Fox...... 10 0 Per Eliza J. Hodge— Lydia Tregelles...... 5 0 Margaret Gray ...... 1 0 0 Lovell Squire...... 5 0 Mary White ...... 10 0 A. Kingaon’s lecture, nett Agnes A Bryson ...... 10 0 proceeds...... 1 0 0 Catherine Hodge ...... 5 0 F obdingbridge— Helen Cuthbertson ...... 5 0 T. Westlake ...... 2 2 0 Mary Smeal ...... 2 6 Beaven Rake ...... 1 0 0 Emma Thompson ...... 2 6 Stansfield R. Rake 5 0 Garstang and Calder Gloucester— B ridge, per Chas. Wilson— Richard G Brown 2 0 0 Charles Wilson...... 1 1 0 Charles Brown ...... 2 0 0 Jas. Jackson (Overclough) 1 1 0 Jonathan Jackson 10 0 Halifax, per J . W. Collinson— Samuel King ...... 10 0 Joseph Collinson ...... 2 2 0 Joseph Jackson...... 10 0 Thomas Collinson 1 1 0 James Jackson ...... 10 0 Edward Collinson 1 1 0 Richard Jackson ...... 10 0 Joshua Smithson ...... 1 0 0 Ann Wilcock...... 5 0 Hall Stansfield ...... 1 0 0 John Mason ...... 5 0 Agnes Smithson...... 10 0 Sarah J . Smith ...... 5 0 Elizabeth Smithson ...... 10 0 Anna Jesper ...... 2 6 Agnes Smithson, jun. ... 10 0 Eliza Holmes...... 2 6 J. W. Collinson...... 10 0 89 £ s. d. £ s. d. H a l i f a x , Continued— Hoddesdon, per F. Warner— Joseph Edmondson ...... 10 0 H. M. and C. Warner ...110 Charles Webster ...... 10 0 E. M. Warner...... 1 0 0 Jeremiah Ingham ...... 10 0 L. Warner ...... 10 0 J. H ...... 10 0 E. L. Warner...... 10 0 Thomas Collinson, jun.... 5 0 F. Warner ...... 10 0 Annie Collinson...... 5 0 Alice Warner...... 5 0 Ellen Collinson...... 5 0 J . T. W arner...... 2 6 JohnNaughton ...... 5 0 H. L. Warner...... 2 ß A Friend...... 4 6 E. A. Warner...... 2 0 James Mallinson ...... 2 0 Margaret Warner ...... 2 0 James Hirst ...... 1 0 A Scholar ...... 3 Holloway, per Henry Hipsley— George Gillett ...... 5 0 0 H arrogate, per B. Walker, John Dixon, M.D...... 3 3 0 for 1879-80— William Catchpool ...... 2 2 0 Hannah Jowitt ...... 1 0 0 Henry Hipsley ...... 2 0 0 Susette Cash ...... 1 0 0 Charlotte Smith...... 2 0 0 Margaret Ellis ...... 10 0 J. B. Braithwaite ...... 1 1 0 Hannah Lucas ...... 10 0 J. and E. Marriage ...... 1 1 0 Thompson Walker (Birst- G. Maria Smith...... 1 0 o with) ...... 10 0 Anonymous...... 1 0 0 Phoebe Ann Cash ...... 5 0 John Betts ...... 1 0 0 Walter J. K a y e ...... 5 0 Henry Betts ...... 1 0 0 John Wood...... 5 0 Mary Horsnaill...... 1 0 0 H averfordwest — W. Catchpool’s family ... 18 6 George Phillips ...... 5 0 M. Cracklen ...... 10 6 A. M. Smith ...... 10 0 H e r e f o r d — Elizabeth Smith...... 10 0 Anne Jones ...... 5 0 S. J. Smith...... 10 0 Hannah Casson...... 10 0 H e r t f o r d , per Isaac Robinson— Henrj' Dell...... 10 0 Isaac Robinson ...... 2 0 0 John D. Swinbome ...... 5 0 Daniel Pierson (2 years) J. 0 0 Robert Kemp...... 5 0
H i t c h i n — Rachel Miles ...... 5 0 James Hack Tuke 25 0 0 John B. Kemp ...... 5 0 Frederic Seebohm 25 0 0 John H. Hipsley ...... 5 0 Maria Feltham, £ Elizabeth Marten ...... 3 0 For Madagascar 10 Emily Marten ...... 3 0 For India 5 — 15 0 0 Huddersfield, per Isaac Robson— William Ransom ...... 10 0 0 Isaac Robson...... 3 0 0 Esther Tuke ...... 5 0 0 Henrv Fryer ...... 2 0 0 Alfred Ransom ...... 5 0 0 E. B/Woodhead...... 2 0 0 N. and H...... 4 8 0 Ann Eddison...... 2 0 0 Caroline Read ...... 4 0 0 Henry Lees...... 5 0 Joshua Whiting ...... 1 1 0 William Hoskin...... 5 0 Eliza Lucas...... 1 1 0 M. B ...... 2 6 Theodore Lucas...... 1 1 0 M. B ...... 2 0 Jane Ransome ...... 1 0 0 E. S. Lucas...... 1 0 0 Hull, per James Thorp— M. and C. Sewell ...... 1 0 0 James Reckitt ...... 5 0 0 Ellen Robinson ...... 10 0 Francis Reckitt...... 3 0 0 Anna Brown (1879-80)... 5 0 M. A. Priestman ...... 1 0 0 90 £ s. d. £ s. d. H ull, Continued— Kendal, Continued— Dr. Hitching ...... 1 0 0 John Kendal ...... 10 0 David Haughton ...... 1 0 0 Margaret Marriage ...... 10 0 Alfred West ...... 10 0 Henry Thompson ...... 10 0 Thomas Priestman 10 0 Henry Wilson ...... 10 0 Edward Harker...... 10 0 Thomas Sharpe...... 7 6 Mrs. Petchell...... 5 0 Joseph P. Drewett 5 0 E. Thompson...... 5 0 Elizabeth G. Duncan 5 0 James Thorp...... 5 0 Arthur Eddington 5 0 J . K . Hodgson ...... 5 0 George Greenall...... 50 Hannah Thorp ...... 2 6 Daniel Handley...... 5 0 George Marsh ...... 2 6 John Hartley ...... 5 0 Saran Ann Moore ...... 50 I pswich, per S. Alexander— Thomas Thwaites ...... 5 0 William D. Sims ...... 2 2 0 John Vaulkard ...... 5 0 Frederick Alexander 1 0 0 Elizabeth Wood...... 5 0 Jane Binyon ...... 1 0 0 Elizabeth Simpson ...... 4 0 David Burley...... 1 0 0 Annie B. Farrer...... 3 0 Robert Harding...... 1 0 0 Thomas Harrison ...... 3 0 Samuel A Maw...... 1 0 0 Joseph Farrer ...... 2 6 Thomas Maw...... 1 0 0 Mary Ann Hartley ...... 2 6 Samuel Alexander 10 0 Bertha Harris ...... 2 6 Brightwen Binyon 10 0 Thomas Huck...... 2 6 M. le Gay Brewerton 10 0 Anna M artin...... 2 6 Edward W. Bishop ...... 5 0 Joseph Milligan...... 2 6 Frederic Oorder, jun. ... 5 0 Leonard Sill ...... 26 Edward Fry ...... 5 0 Margaret Thompson ...... 2 6 W. W. Ward ...... 5 0 Christopher Thompson ... 2 6 Young Friends of the Agnes Middleton ...... 2 0 Meeting ...... 13 6 Per C. L. Braithwaite, jun.— An I rish F riend (Don.) ... 5 0 0 Kendal First-Day School (boys)for native teacher 5 0 0 IvYB RIDGE-- IsaacBrown for W. Johnson 2 0 0 E. B. Prideaux ...... 10 0 K e n t , per C. Reynolds— K endal, per Isaac Brown— F. Wheeler . 3 0 0 James Thompson ...... 10 0 0 M. Greenwood ...... 10 0 Isaac Brown ...... 5 0 0 L. Horsnaill ...... 10 0 Charles L. Braithwaite... 5 0 0 W. H. Reynolds...... 10 0 John Farrer ...... 4 0 0 W. Smithe ...... 10 0 Isaac Braithwaite 2 0 0 Robert Dale ...... 5 0 Mary Harris ...... 2 0 0 Mrs. Prowse ...... 5 0 John Shipley...... 1 1 0 E. Reynolds ...... 5 0 Thomas Bradley ...... 1 0 0 H. Busby ...... 3 6 Chas. L. Braithwaite, jun. 1 0 0 Per E. E. Headley— Mary Ecroyd...... 1 0 0 M. Poulter...... 1 0 0 E . S. & E. Frankland ... 1 0 0 H. Headley...... 10 0 James Harrison...... 1 0 0 H. Poulter...... 10 0 William Harrison 1 0 0 M. Headley...... 5 0 Wm. Whitwell ...... 1 0 0 H. Horsnaill ...... 5 0 A. J. & E. Farrer 15 0 R. Horsnaill ...... 5 0 Ladies’ College ...... 13 0 Clara C. Horsnaill 5 0 Thomas Baron ...... 10 0 A. Hall ...... 3 0 Mary Farrer ...... 10 0 R.Sholl ...... 3 0 S.A. Jefferys...... 10 0 W. Hobson...... 2 6 91
£ s. d. £ s. d. Kent, Continued— L e e d s , Continued— W. Jeffrey ...... 2 6 William Harvey...... 5 0 0 T. Nickalls ...... 2 6 Henry Broadhead (don.) 5 0 0 M. Sholl...... 2 6 Ditto ...... 2 0 0 C. Hollands ...... 1 0 John H. Thorp ...... 2 2 0 George Tatham...... 1 0 0 K ettering, per John F. H. E. Watson...... 1 0 0 Thursfield— H. M. Thorne...... 1 0 0 Anonymous (donation)... 2 0 0 Freshfield Reynolds ...... 0 0 James Wells (donation)... 1 0 0 1 Samuel Southall...... 1 0 0 Charles Blunsom ...... 10 0 Jane Moorhouse (for edu Frederick Wallis ...... 10 0 cational purposes)...... 1 0 0 William Wells, senr 5 0 J. Rawlinson Ford...... 1 0 0 Hannah Ford...... 1 0 0 K ingston, per J. H. Fox— Thos. Wilson (Thornton) 0 0 Elizabeth Hodgkin ...... 2 2 0 1 William Shackleton ...... 10 6 Rebecca Smith ...... 2 0 0 M. A. Broadhead ...... 10 0 J . H. Fox...... 10 0 Joseph Latchmore...... 5 0 A Christian Brother 10 0 Maria Binns ...... 5 0 Joseph H. Knight...... 5 0 Lancaster, per T. Barrow— John Edmondson ...... 5 0 Lancaster Monthly Meet T. & E. Barrett...... 0 ing ...... 10 0 0 7 S. Broadhead, jun...... 2 6 William Pickard ...... 10 0 0 Thomas Barrow...... 10 0 0 Friends’Adult School, Gt. Wilson Street (for Na Ann Brunton...... 3 0 0 tive Teacher)...... 10 0 William Barrow...... 3 0 0 0 Eliza Barrow...... 2 0 0 Friends’ Adult School, Carlton Hill (for ditto) 5 0 0 Elizabeth Hadwen ...... 1 0 0 Friends’ Adult School C. D. Ford for R. Metcalf 1 0 0 York Road (for ditto) 5 0 0 H. R. Ford (in memory of) 1 0 0 Per Sale of Friends’ Mis Richard Walker...... 1 0 0 sion Almanacs ...... 19 3 Richard H a ll...... 15 0 Leeds Subs, for 1879-80, Rachael Binns ...... o 0 in last year’s Report, Edward Pickard...... 5 0 but not received till Samuel Pickard...... 5 0 1880-1...... 21 10 0 George Worsdell ...... 5 0 S. E. & G. W. Barrow 5 0 Charles Albright ...... 4 6 Leicester, per Wilfred H. Anna Walker...... 3 6 Ellis— Mary Edmundson 3 0 W. E. Hutchinson...... 5 0 0 Joseph Hallow ...... 2 6 M. A Burgess ...... 5 0 0 Esther Albright...... 2 6 Joseph S. Sewell ...... 5 0 0 John Cragg...... 2 0 Joseph S. Sewell (don.)... 5 0 0 Joseph Proctor ...... 2 0 Susanna Burgess ...... 3 0 0 William Ward ...... 1 0 Jane Ellis and Sisters ... 3 0 0 Box at Meeting-house ... 6 0 Emma Ellis ...... 2 0 0 W. H. Ellis ...... 2 0 0 L e e d s , per Samuel Southall— James Ellis ...... 2 0 0 Thomas Harvey...... 10 0 0 G. H. E llis ...... 2 0 0 M. A. & .H. Hewitson (for Sarah Brewin...... 1 10 0 Scriptures and Tracts) 5 0 0 H. M. Burgess ...... 1 0 0 Lydia Walker...... 5 0 0 Gulielma Burgess...... 1 0 0 John Whiting...... 5 0 0 Alfred Burgess ...... 1 0 0 Edward Birchall ...... 5 0 0 Mary Ellis and Sisters ... 1 0 0 92
£ s. d. £ s. d. Leicester, Continued— Lincolnshire, Continued— Sarah Binns ...... 1 0 0 Gainsborottgk : Anna Lowe...... 1 0 0 R. Thompson...... 10 6 Bichard Lawrence 1 0 0 Alfred Palian...... 5 0 W. G. Hutchinson 1 0 0 F. Mawer ...... 5 0 Sarah L. Ellis...... 15 0 John Fisher ...... 2 6 John S. Ellis...... 10 0 Charles Prince ...... 2 6 Maria Ransom ...... 10 0 A. A Thompson...... 2 6 Mrs. Jeffrey ...... 10 0 William Benson...... 1 0 John Ellis ...... 10 0 Louth: Hannah Ellis (for Medi Joseph Smith...... 5 0 cal Mission) ...... 10 0 Spalding : William Smith ...... 5 0 No list...... 12 6 A F. Atkins ...... 5 0 Wilfred H. Ellis ...... 5 0 Susan Burgess ...... 2 6 L i s k e a r d — A H. Burgess...... 2 6 Mary Elliott ...... I 0 0 William Clipstone 2 6 M. and L . Allen 1 0 0 William Mallabond ...... 2 6 Liverpool, per J . D. Crosfield L eighton B uzzard— Henry Crosfield...... 5 0 0 Lucy How (Aspley Guise) 3 0 0 David Malcomson (2 yrs.) 4 4 0 Sarah Crosfield & Sisters 2 0 0 C. E. Darby (Wrexham) 2 0 0 L eominster, per Henry S. Joseph Brown ...... 1 0 Newman— Edward W. Crosfield...... 0 Josiah Newman...... 5 0 0 1 Ellen E. Crosfield...... 1 0 Henry S. Newman 5 0 0 John D. Crosfield...... 1 0 Henry Newman...... 4 0 0 William P. Thompson ... 1 0 Anne Southall ...... 3 0 0 Benjamin Townson ...... 1 0 E. and H. Southall ...... 3 0 0 William E. Turner...... M. A Southall ...... 2 0 0 1 0 Sami. B. Leicester...... 0 0 Henry Stephens...... 10 0 Thos. Leicester ...... 0 0 First-day School, for sup Thos. C. Ryley ...... 0 port of Native Teacher 7 0 0 0 Richard D avies...... 10 0 Francis Thompson...... 10 0 L ewes, per C. R. Kemp— Edward Clibborn ...... 5 0 Cabel R. K em p...... 3 3 0 M. C...... 5 0 Rachel & Sarah Rickman 2 0 0 Per T. C. Ryley, from Mary H. Rickman 1 0 0 First-day School for A Friend...... 10 0 support of Native Caroline Speciall ...... 5 0 Teacher ...... 6 0 0 Mary Ann Speciall 5 0
L o n d o n — Lincolnshire, per Louisa Thompson— Joseph Gurney Barclay 300 0 0 B rig g : The Bedford Institute, Joseph Hopkins.. 10 0 per A T. Alexander ... 38 3 3 David Hopkins ...... 5 0 Smith Harrison...... 20 0 0 Susan Day Hopkins ...... 5 0 Sir Edward Fry...... 5 0 0 Anne Hopkins ...... 2 6 Thomas B. Peacock, M.D. 5 0 0 .Broughton: Charles Thompson 5 0 0 Edward Burtt(Welboum) 1 0 0 J . B. Braithwaite, jun. '... 2 0 0 Henry Burtt (Fulbeck)... 5 0 Samuel Gurnev ...... 1 1 0 93
£ s. d. d, London, Continued— M iddlesboro’ per Wm. Taylor— Abraham Kingdon ...... 1 0 0 1 Joseph Lingford (Bishop Per Edward Alexander :— j Auckland) ...... 5 0 Edward Alexander 1 1 0 ! Joseph Fryer (Smelt James Brown (Ampthill) 5 0 I H o u b b )...... 2 2 A Branch of the Friends’ Isaac Sharp...... 2 2 Christian Fellowship John Dunning ...... 1 1 Union...... 10 0 j Thomas Hallum...... 10 Collected at Annual Meet- William Taylor...... 10 ing at Devonshire j Margaret Beale (Smelt House, 5 mo. House)...... 5 24,1880 ...... 61 10 4 ! Thomas Smith ...... 2 Less one-third to Syrian Fund 20 10 1 ------41 0 3 | Newcastle, per G. N. Clark— Luton— j Thomas Hodgkin ...... 10 0 0 R. & A Brown ...... 1 5 0 0 | Henry Brown...... 10 0 0 j Thomas Pumphrey 3 0 0 William H. Holmes ...... 3 0 0 John W. Pease ...... 3 0 0 L uton & L eighton Monthly ' Meeting per Richard j Robert Foster...... 2 0 0 Littleboy...... 20 0 0 ! Robert Ormston...... 2 0 0 Caroline Richardson 2 0 0 Henry Richardson ...... 2 0 0 Malton, per H. Taylor— J. Priestman (Thornton) 5 0 0 Thomas C. Watson ...... 2 0 0 Henry Pickering ...... 1 0 0 ; Henry Clapham...... 2 0 0 Mar v Jackson...... 1 0 0 A Friend (donation) 2 0 0 A. Hall ...... 1 0 0 | S. A. Richardson ...... 1 10 0 Henry Hurtley ...... 1 0 0 Henry B rady...... 1 0 0 Lewis Fry ...... 1 0 0 Heniy Taylor...... 1 0 0 j Thomas Burtt...... 10 0 j James Hindmarsh (don.) 1 0 0 Thomas Hopkins ...... 10 Oj Alice Mertz...... 1 0 0 E. Hutchinson ...... 5 0 ! Margaret Morton ...... 1 0 0 Joseph Coning ...... 5 0 ! Elizabeth Procter ...... 1 0 0 W. Weatherill (Leaven Henry Procter ...... I 0 0 Ellen Richardson ...... 1 0 0 ing) ...... 4 4 | Lucy R. Taylor and Bro- i James Richardson 10 0 ther’s Missionary Box . 5 0 | W. H. Robinson ...... 1 0 0 R. and W. Watson ...... 1 0 0 Manchester— j Frederick Clark...... 10 0 Josiah Merrick ...... 3 0 0 j G. E. Macarthy...... 10 0 Alfred Simpson ...... 2 0 Oj M. A. McLean ...... 10 0 Joseph Carrick ...... 1 1 0 j David Richardson 10 0 George Rooke...... 1 0 0 R. Spence Watson 10 0 Theodore Neild ...... 10 0 | Anonymous...... 10 0 Lucy Neild...... 10 0 j R. B. Rutter ...... 5 0 Alfred Brayshaw ...... 10 0 : George Brown ...... 5 0 Edward Sutton ...... 10 0 Edward Fothergill 5 0 James Whitehead 10 0 Thomas Waddington 5 0 S. Benson Woodhead 10 0 Edward Watson...... 5 0 Rachel S. Tylor...... 5 0 W. Joshua Watson ...... 5 0 Charles Tylor...... 5 0 William John Watson ... 5 0 Manchester Monthly Meeting— George W. Clark ...... 5 0 For Rachel Metcalfe’s use 25 0 0 Theodore Holmes ...... 2 (5 94
£ s. d. £ s. d. N e w p o r t P a g n e l l — Rachel Hutchinson ...... 10 0 Bichard Littleboy 10 0 0 Lucy M. Woods...... 10 0 F. L ...... 10 0 G. Robinson ...... 26
Pakefield, per H. Brown— N e w t o n A b b o t t — T. B. Hawkesworth ...... 2 2 0 Margaret Davey...... 10 6 Hannah Norton...... 10 6 Emily Shewell ...... 5 0 North Shields, per J . R. E. Welham...... S O Procter— J. R. Procter...... 2 2 0 P e e l , per J . D. Appleton— Robert Spence ...... 2 2 0 Peel First-day School ... 1 0 0 Joseph Spence ...... 2 2 0 John D. Appleton 5 0 S. P. Richardson ...... 1 1 0 William Reason...... 5 0 Charles J . Spence 1 1 0 John ComeifSouth Shields) 1 0 0 P e n r i t h , per Isaac Brown Sarah Baynes...... 0 10 0 Thomas Altham . 1 0 0 Frederick Brown ...... 0 10 0 Elizabeth Rimington... 1 0 0 L. Mildred Procter ...... 0 10 0 Mary Milner ...... 1 0 0 Thomas Lester ...... 10 0 Norwich, per H. Brown— Samuel Jesper ...... 10 0 H. B ...... 3 0 0 William Altham ...... 5 0 Thomas Everett...... 10 0 Maiy Altham...... 2 6 R. Marston...... 10 0 Edward Lester ...... 2 6 A. Eddington...... 10 0 Maria Blake ...... 5 0 P lymouth, per F. E. Fox— M. A Griffiths ...... 5 0 R. R. Fox ...... 5 0 0 Samuel Pooley ...... 2 6 Francis E. Fox ...... 5 0 0 Frederick Taylor ...... 2 6 Mary Fox (donation) 3 0 0 Fuller Pooley...... 2 0 George Fox (donation)... 2 0 0 M. A. Pooley...... 2 0 C. Prideaux (for Mada Walter Conder ...... 2 0 gascar) ...... 2 0 0 Smaller sums...... 3 0 S. A. Bragg ...... 1 10 0 M. Bragg ...... 1 10 0 Nottingham, per John Charlotte James ...... 1 0 0 Armitage— Samuel Eliott...... 1 0 0 J . S., H. M., and R. Hop George E. Fox (donation) 10 0 kins ...... 5 0 0 A. P. Balkwill (donation) 10 0 James Cloak ...... 2 2 0 Mrs. Clarke ...... 10 0 Edward Gripper...... 2 0 0 W. C. James ...... 10 0 M. A. Bottomley (Mat E. H. James ...... 10 0 lock) ...... 2 0 0 John Phillips, Jun. (don.) 10 0 S. F. Armitage ...... 1 0 0 C. A Fox (donation) ... 5 0 John E. Ellis...... 1 0 0 F. H. Balkwill ...... 5 0 Thomas Hartas (Mans A. E. Pridham (donation) 5 0 field ...... 10 0 William Bray (donation) 5 0 R. Barringer (Mansfield) 10 0 Samuel Eliott, Jun 5 0 G. Pickard (Mansfield)... 10 0 C. M. James ...... 2 6 John Armitage ...... 10 0 T. Gill (donation) 2 0 M. A. Burtt ...... 10 0 Sarah Blore...... 10 0 Pontefract, per Joseph Taylor— Elizabeth Hutchinson ... 10 0 Joseph Taylor ...... 1 0 0 Mary Hutchinson ...... 10 0 Maria Taylor...... 10 0 95
£ s. d. £ s. d. P r e s t o n , per Joseph Jesper- R e i g a t e , per T. S. Marriage— Joseph Jesper ...... 10 0 0 James Ashby...... 2 0 0 Richard Shackleton ...... 5 0 0 Francis Frith...... 1 1 0 Robert Benson ...... 2 2 0 John Clapham ...... 10 0 John Satterthwaite ...... 1 0 0 E. and C. Sharp ...... 10 0 Stephen Cumberland...... 1 0 0 Joseph Cheal (Ifield) ... 5 0 Jonathan Abbatt ...... 10 0 Thomas Jesper ...... 5 0 Ross— Francis Jesper ...... 3 0 Ann Morgan ...... 3 0 0 John Nelson ...... 2 B Ann Morgan ...... 2 2 0 Robert Redmayne...... 1 0 J . T. Southall ...... 1 1 0 A. M. Trusted ...... 1 0 0
Saffron Walden, per Wal Preston Patrick, per Isaac ter Robson— Brown...... 1 6 6 George S. Gibson ...... 50 0 0 William M. Tuke 2 2 0 R a w d o n , per C. Barnard— Edmund B. Gibson ...... 2 2 0 Rachel Sowden ...... 1 0 0 Mary Wyatt Gibson 2 0 0 Charles Barnard ...... 15 0 John S. Robson...... 2 0 0 Hannah Grimshaw ... 5 0 Walter Robson ...... 15 0 James G. Key ...... 5 0 Joseph J. Robson 10 0 John Thompson...... 4 0 Rachel P. Robson 10 0 George Kersley...... 1 0 George F. Linney 10 0 A. M. & E . E. Blenkinsop 10 0 Robert Rule ...... 5 0 R e a d i n g , per Joseph Huntlej Matilda R ule...... 5 0 George Palmer, M.P. ... 50 0 0 Louisa Rule ...... 5 0 William J . Palmer ...... 20 0 0 Arthur Midgley...... 5 0 Joseph Huntley...... 20 0 0 E. Arthur Williams, B.A. 5 0 George William Palmer . 10 0 0 Alice Green ...... 5 0 Alfred Palmer ...... 10 0 0 Mabel, Arthur, Ethel, Mary Waterhouse...... 5 5 0 Sydney, Ida, and Sybil Samuel Rosling...... 3 0 0 Robson ...... 6 0 James Boorne ...... 3 0 0 Ada Robson’s Box 2 (> Thomas Gregory ...... 2 2 0 Richard D. Catchpool ... 2 2 0 St. Adstell, per W. Clemes, Maria Waterhouse (don.) 1 1 0 Jun.— Mary Sutton ...... 1 0 0 H. Hammer, additional S. and C. Fardon ...... 1 0 0 for 1879-80...... 9 0 Edwin Awmack...... 1 0 0 S carborough, per J . H. Alfred W. Pollard...... 1 0 0 Rowntree— Samuel B. Stevens...... 1 0 0 William Rowntree... 4 4 0 Joseph Messer ...... 10 0 John Rowntree ...... 4 0 0 John Messer ...... 10 0 Jane Rowntree (1879) ... 2 2 0 William Neild ...... 10 0 Joshua Rowntree ...... 2 2 0 Mary Womerslev ...... 10 0 Margaret Rowntree ...... 1 0 0 Elizabeth Marshall ...... 5 0 William S. Rowntree 1 0 0 Samuel Whiting...... 5 0 Henry Hopkins...... 1 0 0 Oswald Messer ...... 5 0 William Robinson 1 0 0 Hen. Tennant (Scarboro’) 1 0 0 R e d r u t h , per A Lloyd Fox- Thomas Walton...... 15 0 Pearse Jenkins ...... 10 0 Mary G. Hopkins ...... 10 0 Charlotte Cook ...... 10 0 Henry Foster...... 10 0 96
£ s. d. £ s. d. Scarborough, Continued— Sheffield, Continued— Charles Fryer...... 10 0 Miss Whitehead (the late) 2 6 Francis H. Brown 10 0 Friends’ First-day School, John W. Rowntree ...... 10 0 1st Adult Class (Men’s) James H. Rowntree 10 0 for Native Teacher 5 0 0 Allen Rowntree...... 10 0 George Rowntree ...... 5 0 Edward Wallis ...... 5 0 Sibford, per Charles Gillett— Annie B. Woodhead 5 0 A. M. Enock...... 5 0 John H. Wells ...... 2 6 E . N. Capper...... 5 0 A Friend...... 2 6 John Wells...... 5 0 E. R...... 2 0 Wm. Minchin ...... 2 6 E. & E. A. Lamb 2 6 Settle, per E . Brockbank— D. Wrench...... 2 6 Susanna Tatham ...... 3 0 0 John Enock ...... 2 0 Ditto Donation 2 0 0 R. L. Routh ...... 2 0 E. Brockbank ...... 1 1 0 Sibford School B o ys 7 10 H. M. Tatham ...... 1 0 0 Ditto G irls 6 2 James Jackson ...... 3 0 E. Wycherley...... f> J . Delaney...... 2 6 Alice Procter...... 2 0 John Hunt...... 1 6 S o u t h a m p t o n — James Hunt ...... 1 0 Richard Westlake 2 2 0
S heffield, per Daniel Don caster, Jun.— South fort, per H. G. Coventry— Daniel & Maria Doncaster 5 0 0 Henry C. Rheam ...... 2 2 0 James Henry Barber ... 3 0 0 Richard Nicholson 2 0 0 Henry Seebohm...... 2 0 0 John Barrow ...... 1 10 0 William Casson (Thorne) 2 0 0 ; Sarah Simpson ...... 1 0 0 John Yeomans ...... 2 0 0 Hannah Wallis ...... 1 0 0 Charles Doncaster 2 0 0 Henry G. Coventry ...... 1 0 0 Margaret Smith...... 2 0 0 Robert Woodhead 10 0 David Kenway Doncaster 1 10 0 Maria Whitten ...... 10 0 Ditto (omittedin last year’s John Hargrave ...... 10 Ü list ...... 1 10 0 Anne Moore ...... 10 0 Isaac Milner ...... 1 10 0 Hannah Grimshaw ...... 10 0 Daniel Doncaster, Jun 1 10 0 John Hodgkinson 5 0 Wilson Waterfall ...... 1 0 0 Benjamin Gooch, B.A. . 5 0 Ann Watson ...... 1 0 0 Ann Thompson ...... 5 0 Jarvis W. Barber 10 0 Emily Tatham ...... 5 0 Christopher Barber ...... 10 0 Mary Anne Wallis ...... 5 0 Jane E. Doncaster 10 0 Margaret H. W allis 5 0 Phebe Doncaster ...... 10 0 Alice Thompson...... 2 6 Elizabeth France ...... 10 0 A. H...... 1 0 Richard Hoskins ...... 10 0 Philip H. Coventry ...... 1 0 Charles Yeomans ...... 10 0 Children’s Pence ...... 1 0 Walter T. Carr ...... 10 0 Samuel Doncaster 10 0 Thomas Gillespie ...... 7 6 Southwark M onthly M eet Thomas S. Yeomans 5 0 in g , per John Taylor— S. A. & E. M. Doncaster 5 0 John Taylor ...... 5 0 0 From a Friend, per E. John Sterry ...... 3 3 0 France...... 5 0 Thomas Whitehead ...... 2 0 0 97 £ t. d. £ t. d. Southwark, Continued— Stoke Newington, Continued— Richard Barrett...... 1 1 0 Frederick Bax ...... 2 0 0 Thomas Cash...... 1 1 0 Edward R. Allen ...... 2 0 0 Sterry Norton...... 1 1 0 J. Fyfe Stewart...... 2 0 0 Eleanor Eobinson 12 0 William Beck ...... 2 0 0 Elizabeth P. Cash 10 0 Metford Warner ...... 2 0 0 Thomas P. Newman 10 0 William Sheldon ...... 1 10 0 Frederic Wright ...... 10 0 Alfred T. Alexander 1 1 0 Elizabeth K n igh t 5 0 Robert Meatyard ...... 1 0 0 Howard Knight...... 5 0 George Binyon ...... 1 0 0 Eichard Noakes...... 5 0 Israel Timpson ...... 1 0 0 George Armitage ...... 5 0 P. J . Butler ...... 1 0 0 Eebecca Burne ...... 3 0 Eliza S. Dawes ...... 1 0 0 J. T...... 3 0 Josh. J. Fox ...... 10 6 Friends’ First-day School 8 10 0 Foden Lawrence...... 10 0 William Tallack ...... 10 0 Stanbted, per Walter Robson— George Catchpool ...... 10 0 Joshua Green...... 2 0 0 John Casson ...... 10 0 Charles Hicks...... 1 0 0 Lydia Irving ...... 10 0 Charles Hicks, Jun 10 0 John Sharp...... 10 0 Thomas S. Hicks ...... 10 0 H. J . Tylor...... 10 0 James Marsh...... 10 0 F. A. Budge ...... 10 0 Hannah Burgess ...... 5 0 Ditto ...... 5 0 Joseph J. Green...... 5 0 Thomas Thorp ...... 5 0 Elizabeth E. Green ...... 5 0 Frederick Hicks...... 5 0 Henrietta Green ...... 5 0 William Lucraft ...... 5 0 Katherine Marsh ...... 5 0 H. Courtenay F o x 5 0 John Darton ...... 40 S t o c k t o n , per T. James Thomas Jackson ...... 3 0 Thomson— Thomas Cooper...... 2 6 Lewis Dodshon ...... 5 0 0 William Dodshon ...... 5 0 0 Stourbridge, per John E. William Benington ...... 4 0 0 Wilson— John Dodshon’s Trustees 3 0 0 Charles Beavington ...... 2 0 0 T. James Thomson ...... 3 0 0 H. B. Smith ...... 10 0 Elizabeth Dodshon ...... 2 0 0 Mary Whiting ...... 10 0 Alfred Brady...... 1 0 0 Alexander Holmes...... 1 0 0 Street— William Eobson...... 1 0 0 James Clark ...... 2 0 0 William Clark ...... 5 0 W. S. Clark ...... 1 0 0 John Coning ...... 3 6 M. A. Ansell ...... 0 10 0 Thomas M. Taylor...... 2 6 John Morland ...... 0 10 0 Thomas Woolman...... 2 6 Alfred Gillett...... 0 5 0 Collection at Meeting ... 2 16 3 W. Biddlecombe...... 0 5 0 Juvenile Missionary Col Stoke Newington, per W. lection, per Mary Jane C. Allen— Morland...... 1 14 7 Stafford Allen...... 20 0 0 Jane and Caroline Oxley 10 0 0 Sudbury, per E. Grubb— William C. Allen ...... 5 0 0 Jonathan Grubb ...... 1 0 0 John D. Fry ...... 3 3 0 William Jackson ...... 10 0 W. F. and M. A, Wells... 2 2 0 Joseph W. Beamish 10 0 S. A. and E. Tylor 2 0 0 Edward Wright...... 5 0 John B. Tylor ...... 2 0 0 M. E. Wright...... 5 0 G 98
£ s. d. £ s. d. Sudbury Continued— Sunderland, Continued— £ L. Grubb ...... 5 0 William Allison...... 2 6 Mary Crane ...1...... 4 0 Charles Galleway ...... 2 6 Bother Hills ...... 4 0 Margaret Douglas...... 1 0 Rebecca Wright...... 4 0 Douglas Houlsby ...... 1 0 Anne M. Wright ...... 4 0 Women’s First-day School (Class R), per M. S. Clark ...... 14 Sunderland, per C. S. Wilson— 6 Katherine Backhouse ... 50 0 0 F. G. Freeman’s Class ... 11 5 Caleb Stansfield Wilson 40 0 0 Girls’ AfternoonFirst-day Charles Wilson ...... 40 0 0 School, per F. G. Free man ...... T. W. Backhouse ...... 20 0 0 11 0 Arthur Backhouse...... 10 0 0 Morning First-day School (Class M) ...... Thomas Blain...... 5 0 0 2 1 Mary A. Backhouse ...... 5 0 0 Special donations towards the extra Indian ex Anna P. Mounsey...... 3 0 0 John Mounsey ...... 3 0 0 penses, per Caleb Stans field Wilson: Edwin 0. Tregelles ...... 2 10 0 Katherine Wilson...... 2 0 0 Katherine Backhouse ... 20 0 0 Thomas W. Backhouse... Lucy E. Mounsey ...... 2 0 0 10 0 0 Mary A. Backhouse Mary E. Mounsey 2 0 0 10 0 0 George W. Pearman.... 2 0 0 Arthur Backhouse...... 10 0 0 John G. Richardson...... 1 1 0 Caleb Stansfield Wilson 10 0 0 Lucy E. Mounsey and William H. Richardson 1 1 0 sisters...... Ralph H. Pomfret 1 0 0 5 0 0 Joshua S. Wilson ...... 1 0 0 Thomas E. Pumphrey ... 1 0 0 Taunton, per F. Thompson— Thomas Ogden ...... 10 0 Eliza Palmer...... 5 0 0 F. Gertrude Freeman 10 0 S. Lawrence ...... 10 0 William J. Tatham ...... 10 0 F. Thompson...... 10 0 John Firth, jun. (2 years) 5 0 William Topliff...... 5 0 Thetford :— John C. Toshack ...... 5 0 J. Everett (donation) ... 1 0 0 Cuthbert Hodgson (Otley) 5 0 Wilson Tyson (Newcastle) 5 0 Thirsk, per J. S. Rowntree:— George Watson ...... 5 0 Bartholomew Smith ...... 1 0 0 Hannah M. Pumphrey ... 5 0 John W. Hall...... 1 0 0 Mary S. Clark ...... 5 0 George R. Baker ...... 10 0 Andrew P. McClelland ... 5 0 Arthur Smith...... 5 0 Joseph Taylor ...... 5 0 Children’s Box ...... 5 0 J. Wilfrid Mounsey ...... 5 0 A Friend...... 3 0 Frederick Taylor ...... 5 0 Joseph J. Binns...... 5 0 Torquay, per F. H. F ox:— William Atkinson 4 0 Joshua Fisher ...... 5 0 0 Thomas Henry ...... 3 0 F. H. and A. F. F o x 3 3 0 John Newby ...... 3 0 Arthur Clark...... 3 0 0 James Gatt...... 26 Sarah Jane F r y ...... 26 William Pickard ...... 2 6 Joshua D. Robson 2 6 Tottenham :— Robinson Johnson 2 6 William Whiting ...... 1 1 0 Thomas B. Embleton ... 2 6 John T. Coates ...... 2 6 Edward Standing ...... 26 Ulverton— William Baynes...... 2 6 M. A. Chapman...... 2 6 99
£ s. d. £ s. d. Uxbridge, per E. P. Bastin — Westminster, Continued— E. P. Bastin ...... 1 10 0 H. W...... 10 0 C. Bailey ...... 1 5 0 Samuel Sholl ...... 5 0 Samuel Hull (late) ...... 1 5 0 M. J . K ...... 5 0 First-day School Teachers 1 0 0 W akefield, per J . G. Wallis— Joseph Firth (2 years) ... 2 0 0 William Kitching...... 1 0 0 Weston-super-Mare, per Charles Brown— Sarah Kitching ...... 1 0 0 Charles Brown ...... 2 0 0 John Binks...... 1 0 0 M. White ...... 1 0 0 J . Gr. Wallis ...... 10 0 Samuel Wedmore ...... 10 0 Henry Benington ...... 5 0 Edgar M. Brown ...... 10 0 James Airay ...... 5 0 Charles Burcham ...... 5 0 E. Davis and C. Smith... 5 0 W a l t h a m s t o w — C. W. Dymond ...... 5 0 J . M. Barclay (donation) 25 0 0 Thomas Lidbetter 5 0 J. M. Barclay (donation) 25 0 0 Maria Ferris ...... 5 0 Henry Knight ...... 5 0 W andsworth, per E . B. Charles Pooley ...... 5 0 Bansome— Rachel M. Brown ...... 5 0 Josephine J . Pirn ...... 3 0 0 H. B. Boone ...... 2 6 Edwin R. Ransome ...... 2 0 0 M. A. Smith ...... 2 6 Daniel B. Hanbury ...... 2 0 0 M. S. and H. M. Boone . 2 0 Emma Coleman...... 1 0 0 Alfred Knight ...... 2 0 Millis Coventry...... 1 0 0 M. Parfait...... 2 0 May, Wilfrid Arthur, Wellington, per J . H. Fox— Nellie, and Ethel ...... 2 0 Joseph H. F o x ...... 5 0 0 A. Kingdon’s Lecture S A. Fox ...... 1 0 0 (less expenses) ...... 11 0 Elizabeth Hanbury ...... 10 0 Richard Jago ...... 10 0 Whitehaven, per Janie Baxter— William P. Martin ...... 10 0 Lucy M. Fletcher 10 0 Henry Martin ...... 10 0 Joseph Hughes ...... 5 0 E. J . Matches ...... 3 0 West Drayton, per E.P.Bastin— J. K. Glass...... 3 0 E. P. Bastin ...... 1 5 0 M. A. Baxter ...... 3 0 C. Bailey...... 1 5 0 F. Taggart...... 2 0 M. J . Walker...... 2 0 Westminster Monthly Meet ing, per Richard Dell— Wilmslow, per Sophia Dy Philip D. Tuckett 3 3 0 mond— Richard D e ll...... 2 0 0 Hannah Thistlethwaite... 2 0 0 John Rawlings ...... 1 10 0 Elizabeth Emmott.Disley 1 1 0 Henry Neighbour ...... 1 1 0 Arthur Thomas Palmer . 1 0 0 Alfred Neighbour 1 1 0 Charlotte Pearson 1 0 0 John Gilbert Baker ...... 1 1 0 E. and E. C. Pearson ... 1 0 0 Professor Oliver ...... 1 1 0 Mary H. King ...... 1 0 0 James Marshall...... 1 1 0 Samuel Harlock (Nant- James Wall ...... 1 1 0 wich) ...... 1 0 0 A M. W...... 1 1 0 Charles Holdsworth 10 0 Thomas Wright...... 1 0 0 Sarah and Maria Ord ... 10 0 D. B. Smeal ...... 1 0 0 Thos. Wheeler (the late), R. A. D...... 15 0 Stockport ...... 10 0 Hannah Neighbour ...... 10 6 Ann Eliza Fryer ...... 5 0 100
£ s. d. £ s. d. W i l m s l o w , Continued— Wymonham, per H. Brown:— Sophia Dymond...... 5 0 A and M. West...... 10 0 Wm. Redfern (Stockport) 5 0 Margaret West ...... 5 0 Hannah Machin (Stock William Bale...... 5 0 port ...... 5 0 Sarah Harvey...... 2 6 Anne Swindells (Hyde)... 5 0 Jane Cann...... 2 6 Frances Moores (Hyde)... 5 0 Y atton, per Rachel Eddington:— Winchmore H ill, per G. H. Farringdon— Eliza Evans ...... 2 0 0 J . D. Taylor ...... 5 5 0 Charles Evans ...... 1 0 0 J . H. Dell ...... 5 5 0 Francis Gregory...... 1 0 0 G. H. Farringdon 10 0 John Frank ...... 1 0 0 Jane Frank ...... 10 0 W i s b e c h , per A. Peckover— Martha Palm er...... 10 0 Alexander Peckover (don)100 0 0 William Gregory ...... 10 0 Priscilla Hannah Peek- Edward Sturge ...... 10 0 over (don) ...... 100 0 0 William Eddington ...... 10 0 Wilhemina Peckover (don ) 50 0 0 Sarah E. Sturge...... 6 0 Pri scilla H. Peckover ( don ) 20 0 0 Nathaniel Sholl...... 5 0 Algernon Peckover (don) 20 0 0 James Sholl ...... 5 0 Alexander Peckover {don) 20 0 0 Sophia Gregory...... 5 0 Joseph Petvin ...... 5 0 Woodford, per Mrs. A. F. Lucy Cole ...... 5 0 Fowler— Mary Ricketts ...... 2 6 For support of Native Amy Sturge ...... 2 6 Teacher ...... 5 0 0 Edith S. Sturge...... 2 6 Worcester and Malvern, per Edward S. Sturge 2 6 C. W. Pumphrey:— Sarah Gregory ...... 2 6 William Sparkes ...... 2 2 0 Mrs. Avery...... 2 6 M. A. Binyon...... 2 0 0 Elizabeth Millar ...... 1 6 S. Pumphrey...... 2 0 0 Willie and Frank Sturge 1 6 C. W. Pumphrey ...... 2 0 0 Ada M. Sturge ...... 1 0 C. F. Hinton (Malvern) 2 0 0 G. B. Wetherall...... 1 5 0 Y ork, per J . S. Rowntree— Alfred Sparkes ...... 1 0 0 Jonathan B urtt...... 5 U 0 M. and G. Binyon 1 0 0 Sarah Mason ...... 5 0 0 L. E. Pumphrey...... 1 0 0 Henry Richardson 5 0 0 Candia Pumphrey 1 0 0 Sarah Rowntree...... 3 o 0 Ditto (donation) 1 0 0 William W. Morrell 2 2 0 T. W. Binyon...... 10 6 Isabel Pumphrey (late)... 2 2 0 Ann Pumphrey...... 10 0 Hannah Brady ...... 2 0 0 T. Westcombe ...... 10 0 John S. Rowntree 2 0 0 J. D. Clark...... 5 0 Joseph Rowntree ...... 2 0 0 L. Westcombe ...... 5 0 Fielden Thorp ...... 2 0 0 E. Westcombe ...... 5 0 Dorothy Brown...... 1 1 0 A. L. Westcombe ...... 5 0 Richard Thompson 1 1 0 C. Thomasson ...... 5 0 Anonymous...... 1 0 0 J. J. Thomasson ...... 2 6 James Backhouse ...... 1 0 0 E . T. Miles ...... 2 6 Elizabeth G. Dimsdale... 1 0 0 Candia M iles...... 2 6 Elizabeth Hipsley 1 0 0 A Kingsley ...... 2 6 Henry King ...... 1 0 0 M. Pumphrey...... 5 0 J . W. Proctor...... 1 0 0 M. Fletcher...... 2 6 Sylvanus Thompson 1 0 0 J . Prophet...... 2 0 Mary Williams...... 1 0 0 101
£ B. d. £ ». d. Y o r k , Continued— Y o r k , Continued— W. Hutchinson (Gunby) 1 0 0 Richard Potter ...... 5 0 Thomas Clayton...... 10 6 J . E. & L. H. K. Clark... 5 0 J. F. Fryer...... 10 6 S. E. Rowntree ...... 5 0 Thomas Hills...... 10 6 G. S. Rowntree...... 5 0 Mary Inchbald ...... 10 6 William Sessions ...... 5 0 Robert J . Greer...... 10 0 Petchell, Burtt ...... 2 6 Joseph H. Gray...... 10 0 Charles Beharrel ...... 2 6 Mary J. King...... 10 0 John Dale ...... 2 6 Henrietta K in g ...... 10 0 John Horsley...... 2 6 William Pumphrey ...... 10 0 Josiah Pontefract...... 2 6 Mary C. Pumphrey ...... 10 0 Henry Doughty...... 2 0 Mary A. Williams...... 10 0 T. Rowntree ...... 1 B E . Pim...... 10 0 John Brown ...... 1 6 Edith Head ...... 7 6 Samuel Jones...... 1 0 Anna Baker ...... 5 0 Edith M. Rowntree ...... 1 0 George Baker...... 5 0 Edward Rowntree...... 6 Young Women’s Christian Union ...... £50 0 0 Legacy (J. M. Knight)...... £450 0 0
SUBSCRIPTIONS
RECEIVED SINCE THE ACCOUNTS WERE MADE UP.
£ 8. d. £ s. d. Doncaster, per Josh. H. Clark— Northampton, Continued. John Staniland ...... 5 0 Mary Collins ...... 10 0 Wm. Blunsom ...... 10 0 L e e d s , per S. Southall— Eli Johnson ...... 5 0 Elizabeth Naylor 4 0 Arthur Shemeld...... 5 0 Ann Johnson ...... 2 6 L o n d o n — Alfred Stimpson...... 2 0 Two-thirds of collection Haide Wells ...... 1 0 at Annual Meeting, Devonshire House, St. A ustell, per W . Clemes, jun.— 5mo. 23, 1881 53 10 10 Jas. Veale ...... 2 0 0 Andrew H. Yeale ...... 1 0 0 N orthampton, per SamL Wells— Robert H. Kirton ...... 5 0 Priscilla Payne ...... 1 0 0 H y. H a m m e r...... 4 0 Samuel Wells...... 1 0 0 W . Clemes, jun ...... 2 0 0 Balance Sheet of the Hoshangabad Mission for the year ending December 31st, 1880. (Exchange at Is. 8d. sterling per Rupee.)
RECEIVED. EXPENDED. Rupees. Annas.Piea. Rupees.Annas.Pies. Balance in hand from last year as per statement in Housekeeping, including Servants, Horse and Cattle printed R eport...... 3369 4 9 keep, and Medicines ...... 7376 9 5 Drafts on London ...... 11094 6 9 Schools ...... 175 6 10 For J. and E. Williams' visit to Bombay ...... 400 0 0 T r a v e llin g ...... 548 10 7 Travelling Expenses Refunded ...... 60 15 0 Catechist ...... 302 2 0 Bible and Tract Sales ...... 93 9 10 Teachers ...... 824 2 5 Grants from Bible Society ...... 251 8 6 Postages ...... 153 14 6 Sale of Conveyance...... 53 0 0 C olp orteu r...... 200 13 2 Sale of Cows ...... 22 0 0 Building and Repairs ...... 4542 7 7 Sale of Tilly ...... 8 10 9 I n c id e n t a l...... 548 8 2 Donation from two grateful friends ...... 20 0 0 Bibles and Tracts ...... 155 13 5 J. and E. Williams’ Visit to Bombay ...... 400 0 0 Insurance ...... 106 0 0
Balance in hand at end of 1880 38 15 6
Rupees 15,373 7 7 Rupees 15,373 7 7 103
CONTRIBUTORS
TOWARDS THE
SUPPORT OF NATIVE TEACHERS
INCLUDED IN THE FOREGOING LISTS.
B a t h
B e d fo r d Institute First-day School, for Seven Teachers
Birmingham First-day School
B r a d fo r d First-day School „ Junior First-day School
B r is t o l Boys’ First-day School „ Girls’ First-day School
Darlington, collected by L. and L. E. Fowler
A n n F. F o w le r, Woodford
K e n d a l First-day School, Boys’ department
L eed s Great Wilson Street First-day School „ Carlton Hill First-day School „ York Road First-day School
Leominster First-day School
L iv e rp o o l First-day School
S h e ffie ld Adult First-day School 104
FRIENDS' FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION. IRISH AUXILIARY.
DUBLIN CENTRAL COMMITTEE: JONATHAN PIM JOHN B. BEALE RICHARD ALLEN WILLIAM F. BEWLEY JOHN WEBB JOSHUA WHITE HENRY WIGHAM THOMAS PIM, Jun. RICHARD GOODBODY THOMAS W. FISHER ARTHUR WEBB MORDECAI JOHNSON EDWARD SPARROW JOSHUA W. EDMCJNDSON WILLIAM WATSON
MARY EDMUNDSON HENRIETTA NEALE MARIA BEWLEY REBECCA ROBERTS JANE HOGG CHARLOTTE EDMUNDSON MARIA B. EDMUNDSON SUSANNA PIM CHARLOTTE ALLEN ELIZABETH H. WALPOLE LUCY BOWLES ANNA HOGG ELIZABETH D. ROBERTS MARY WATSON HANNAH NEALE SUSAN GLYNN S. HELENA BEWLEY L. M. FISHER ALICE DAVIS
TREASURER : JOHN WEBB, 20, Temple Lane
SECRETARY : THOMAS W. FISHER, 12, Cope Street 105
NAMES OF CORRESPONDENTS. IRISH AUXILIARY.
D ublin John Webb, 20, Temple Lane
Thomas W . Fisher, 12, Cope Street
Mary Edmundson, Fox Rock, Co. Dublin
Cork Henry Beale, Adelaide Place
Belfast Joshua Pirn, White Abbey
W a terfo rd Albert Lean, Newtown School
Bessbrook S. Douglas Lamb, near Newry
H illsborough and L isburn Arthur Pim, Culcavey, Hillsborough
R ic h h ill Jane Murray, Taul Bridge, Loughgall, Co. Armagh
Grange Sarah Barcroft, Stangmore Lodge, Dun gannon, Co. Tyrone
Brookfield William Davidson, near Moira
M oate Sarah S. Clibborn, Moate View
Clonmel Edward Beale
Carlow Isabella Morris
M ountmellick R. D. Milner
Edenderry Susan Williams
M ountrath Richard Neale
K nock Margaret J. Walpole, Ashbrook, Queen s Co.
Clara Richard Groodbody
County W exford Francis Davis, jun., Enniscorthy Mary Davis, Enniscorthy Joseph John Haughton, Rockspring Ferns 106
IRISH AUXILIARY. 1880— 1. £ s. d. £ e. A. B a l l i n t o r e — B e l f a s t , Continued— Jeffares, Anna ...... 3 0 Shaw, John...... 1 0 Haughton, Jonathan 5 0 Smith, Edward ...... 1 0 0 Haughton, W...... 2 0 Wright, Joseph...... 5 0 Haughton, Joseph J . ... 5 0 Morrison, M. J ...... 2 0 £ 16 8 0 Morrison, Joseph ...... 5 0 Moirison, Elisabeth 5 0 B e s s b r o o k — Morrison, Ja n e ...... 3 0 Barcroft, Hemy...... 2 0 0 Morrison, Joh n...... 2 6 Bowes, James...... 10 0 Poole, H. C...... 2 6 Clibbom, Sidney A 5 0 Poole, Joseph...... 2 6 Fennell, James ...... 1 0 0 Sinton, R. J ...... 2 6 Green, Thomas ...... 2 0 Waring, Joseph...... 1 0 0 Harris, E. S...... j..... 4 0 Lamb, S. D...... 15 0 £ 3 0 0 Richardson, John G 10 0 0 Richardson, J . H...... 1 0 0 Thorpe, John W...... 2 0 B blkast— Wilson, John...... 2 6 BelJ, Joseph ...... 1 0 0 Bell, E. H...... 1 0 0 £16 0 6 Bell, Elliûor ...... 10 0 Bell, Lucyjun...... 10 0 B ray, per Susanna Pim— Boucher, W. J ...... 5 0 Baker, Thomas ...... 5 0 Boücher, Eliza ...... 2 6 Bewley, M. H...... 3 0 Boucher, Joseph ...... 5 0 Bewley, M. Louisa ...... 10 0 Cübborn, William 1 0 0 Bewley, Eveleen...... 3 0 Cullimore, E ...... 1 0 0 Bewley, Ernest ...... 2 6 Cunningham, S...... 2 6 Bewley, Amy Kathleen... 1 0 Edmund Dodshon 2 6 Evans, M. H ...... 2 6 Graham, Thomas ...... 2 0 Pattison, Henry...... 10 0 0 Graham, Robert...... 5 0 Pim, Huldah ...... 5 0 Greer, Thomas ...... 10 0 Pim, J . Howard...... 5 0 Gilmore, William ...... 5 0 Pim, James, jun...... 2 0 0 Hanna, Thomas A 2 6 M. A. P ...... 1 0 Harvey, William T 5 0 E. L. P ...... 6 Jackson, Thomas ...... 1 0 0 F. T...... 10 0 Knight, H. C...... 1Ô 0 Wigham Henry...... 3 0 0 Lockwood, F. W...... 2 6 Marsh, J . C...... 15 0 £ 1 7 8 6 Malcomson, James ...... 2 6 Maleomson, Greer 2 6 Brookfield, 1879-80— O’Brien, L. F ...... 2 6 Atkinson, Moses ...... 1 0 Pim, Joshua ...... 1 0 0 Bell. Alexander...... 2 6 Pim, John ...... 1 10 0 Davidson, William W .... 10 0 Pim, Robert B . 2 6 Meg^ahy, Margaret E. ... 1 0 Pim, Sarah...... 1 0 0 Swain, Jam es...... 2 6 Pim, E. W...... 5 0 Williamson, M ary...... 1 0 Thompson, John ...... 2 6 Thompson, Eliza C 1 0 0 JB0 18 0 107 £ s. d. £ s. d. B rookfield, 1880-1— C l a r a , Continued— Archer, —...... 1 0 Goodbody, F. R ...... 2 10 0 Atkinson, Moses ...... 1 0 Goodbody, J. B. C 2 10 0 Bell, Alexander...... 2 0 Goodbody, Hannah P. ... 1 0 0 Ball, Bichard...... 1 0 Goodbody, Marcus, jun. . 1 0 0 Calvert, Mary Ja n e 1 0 Perry, Elizabeth ...... 5 0 0 Davidson, William ...... 2 6 Frazer, —...... 1 0 £52 0 0 Femon, Elizabeth 6 Grey, William ...... 2 0 C l o n m e l — Green, Jacob ...... 2 0 Beale, Edward ...... 26 Hall, Mrs...... 1 0 Fayle, Benjamin ...... 1 0 0 Hull, Elizabeth...... 2 0 Grubb, Anna...... 10 0 McCord, Conway ...... 1 0 Grubb, Susanna...... 12 0 McCord, George...... 1 0 Grubb, Joseph H 2 6 Quinn, Mrs...... 6 Swann, Thomas...... 2 6 £2 7 0 Stewart, Ja s...... 1 0 Swain, Ja s...... 2 0 Cork— Williamson, Maiy 1 0 Addey, George ...... 2 6 Walker, John...... 2 0 Baker, Sarah...... 10 0 Watson, Jan e...... 1 0 Beale, Alfred...... 10 0 Watson, William ...... 6 Beale, Henry H...... 10 0 Young, Thomas...... 1 0 Beale, George C...... 10 0 Beale, J . W...... 5 0 £1 10 6 Beale, M. A...... 5 0 Beale, Sarah S...... 5 0 C a r l o w — Beale, Arabella...... 2 6 Chandler, Thos...... 5 0 Beale, Frederick A 1 0 Cole, Ellen...... 1 0 Banks, John ...... 10 0 Davis, A. and S. M 1 0 0 Baker, George ...... 5 0 Morris, J ...... 5 0 Baker, Samuel ...... 2 6 Morris, E. P...... 2 6 Friend, A ...... 10 0 Webb, Thos. (2 yrs.) 10 0 Harty, John ...... 1 0 0 Haughton, Benjamin 2 0 0 £2 3 6 Jacob, A W ...... 2 0 0 J . C. H...... 1 0 Chukchtown, per Louisa Heather— Martin, Mary J ...... 5 0 Allen, Catherine ...... 10 0 Newsom, J . C...... 2 0 0 Edmondson, Jo h n 5 0 Newsom, S. H...... 3 0 0 Edmondson, T. and A.... 10 0 Pike, Ebenezer ...... 10 0 0 Gren, John McD...... 10 0 Russell, Elizabeth 5 0 Heather, William ...... 5 0 Strangman, J . W...... 1 0 0 Lynch, Anne ...... 5 0 Taylor, W...... 2 6 Roberts, Thomas ...... 5 0 Wright, Thomas ...... 10 0 Taylor, Lucy ...... 10 0 Wright, William ...... 10 0 Woods, Adam...... 10 0 Wright, Samuel...... 5 0 £ 3 10 0
C l a r a — Goodbody, Marcus 10 0 0 27 18 0 Goodbody, Jonathan 10 0 0 Goodbody, Lewis F 10 0 0 D u b l i n , per Charlotte Allen— Goodbody, Richard ...... 5 0 0 Allen, Ellen ...... 1 0 0 Goodbody, J . Perry ...... 5 0 0 Allen, Charlotte...... 1 0 0 108 £ a. d. £ «. d. Dublin, Continued— Dublin, Continued— Sparrow, Edward ...... 10 0 Douglas, Sinton...... 1 0 Sparrow, Frederick ...... 5 0 Two Friends ...... 2 6 Halliday, John ...... 5 0 £ 2 15 0 Halliday, Emily...... 2 6 Per Maria Bewley— Halliday, Anna ...... 2 6 Bewley, Maria ...... 2 0 0 Halliday, M ary...... 2 6 Bewley, Samuel, ju n 2 0 0 Johnston, Mordecai ...... 1 0 0 Bewley, Wm. Frederick .200 Millner, Eliza ...... 5 0 Bewley, Frank ...... 10 0 Neale, S. S. & daughters 7 0 Eustace, John, M.D 2 0 0 Neale, Francis ...... 2 6 Haslam, John...... 5 0 Nesbitt, Alicia ...... 2 0 Watson, William ...... 2 0 0 Pedlow, Sinton ...... 2 0 Pillar, William ...... 2 6 £10 15 0 Wardell, Lucy ...... 4 0 Per Mary Edmundson— Wardell, Lizzie...... 1 0 Baker, Samuel ...... 5 0 Watson, Samuel...... 2 0 0 Beale, John B ...... 1 0 0 Watson, Samuel H 10 0 Edmundson, Mary 3 0 0 Webb, Thomas H...... 5 0 Edmundson, Joshua W. . 1 0 0 Webb, Arthur ...... 5 0 Edmundson, Charlotte... 1 0 0 Wheeler, Walter ...... 1 0 Edmundson, Eliza 1 0 0 Edmundson, John W. ... 10 0 £7 16 6 Ellerby, Marrianne ...... 10 0 Per Rebecca Roberts- Harvey, Joshua, M.D. ... 1 0 0 Roberts, Rebecca ...... 5 0 Morris, H. and E 1 0 0 Thomson, Margaret ...... 5 0 Peet, Samuel Vallis ...... 1 0 0 Penrose, F. G...... 5 0 £ 0 10 0 Shaw, John...... 5 0 Per H. and C. Williams— Shackleton, Joseph F. ... 10 0 Hill, A nna...... 5 0 Shackleton, Jane W...... 10 0 Newsom, Alfred ...... 10 0 Shackleton, William E . . 2 6 Newsom, Henry ...... 10 0 Shackleton, Mary E ...... 2 6 Williams, Henry ...... 5 0 Shackleton, Abram ...... 10 0 Williams, Henrietta 2 6 Shackleton, Richard...... 5 0 Webb, John ...... 3 0 0 £ 1 12 6 White, Joshua ...... 5 0 0 E nniscobthy— Wigham, John R ...... 1 0 0 Chapman, Thomas 10 0 In Memoriam J . F ...... 10 0 Copeland, Robert ...... 1 0 0 Davis, Samuel ...... 1 10 0 £23 5 0 DaviB, Elizabeth P 1 0 0 Per Henrietta Neale— Davis, Francis ...... 2 0 0 Abbott, Mary Y ...... 2 0 Davis, Francis, jun 5 0 0 Bowles, Robert...... 5 0 Davis, Ann...... 2 0 0 Downs, Alexander 5 0 Davis, Albert S...... 5 0 Douglas, John ...... 10 0 Davis, Francis H...... 5 0 Douglas, William ...... 2 0 Davis, Anna B ...... 2 6 Douglas, Jacob ...... 2 0 Davis, E. Emma...... 2 6 Douglas, Mary J ...... 2 0 Davis, Margaret G 5 0 Douglas, Sarah ...... 2 0 Davis, Mary W...... 5 0 Douglas, Maggie ...... 1 0 Douglas, Annie ...... 1 0 £ 14 5 0 Douglas, Susie ...... 6 G r a n g e — Douglas, John, jun 1 0 Barcroft, J . H...... 2 6 109
£ s. d. £ e. d. Grange, Continued— M o a t e , Continued— Barcroft, Mary ...... 10 0 Wakefield, Sophia. 10 0 Barcroft, F ...... 5 0 Woolley, Thomas . 10 0 Barcroft, W...... 1 0 0 Barcroft, S...... 5 0 £ 2 3 0 Greeves, J. and S...... 5 0 Haydock, J ...... 2 0 Malcomson, Susan...... 10 0 Monkstown, per Anna! Pike, Richard...... 1 0 0 Allen, Richard ...... 25 0 0 Richardson, S...... 2 6 Allen, Henry John ...... 2 0 0 Richardson, J . G...... 10 0 Allen, Margaret...... 10 0 Alexander, Anna ...... 5 0 £4 12 0 Alexander, Elizabeth 5 0 Hillsborough— Albany ...... 3 0 Davidson, Samuel...... 1 0 Anonymous...... 5 0 Green, John Orr ...... 5 0 Barker, Ju lia ...... 5 0 Pim, Arthur ...... 1 0 0 Barrington, Sir John 1 0 0 Wardell, Henry S...... 2 6 Bewley, Sophia ...... 1 0 0 Davis, Thomas and Mar £ 1 8 6 garet ...... 3 0 0 K n o c k — Fennell, Joshua G 1 0 0 Neale, James T...... 5 0 Goodbody, Henry P 1 0 0 Rhodes, Rebecca J ...... 5 0 Goodbody, Jonathan, jun. 1 0 0 Walpole, Arabella...... 1 10 0 Haydock, W. H...... 3 0 Walpole, Joseph W...... 2 6 Hogg, Mary ...... 2 0 0 Walpole, Thomas and Hogg, Jonathan...... 1 0 0 Sarah J ...... 10 0 Hogg, Anna ...... 1 0 0 Walpole, Deborah S...... 5 0 Hogg, Susanna P...... 10 0 Hogg, Sarah M...... 5 0 £2 17 6 Hogg, Emily ...... 10 0 L i s b u r n — Hogg, William ...... 5 0 Gilchrist, Ann ...... 5 0 Hogg, Jane...... 10 0 Gregg, A. B ...... 10 0 Pease, S. E ...... 10 0 0 Pim, Jonathan J ...... 10 0 Pim, Jonathan ...... 10 0 0 Pim, Anna R ...... 1 0 0 Pim, Thomas...... 3 0 0 Radley, Joseph ...... 2 6 Pim, Thomas, jun...... 3 0 0 Richardson, Joseph ...... 5 0 0 Pim, Joseph T...... 3 0 0 Richardson, James N. .. 5 0 0 Pim, Frederic W...... 1 0 0 Richardson, J . Theodore 1 0 0 Pim, Hannah J ...... 10 0 Silcock, James ...... 2 6 Pim, Priscilla...... 8 0 Pim, Jane ...... 2 6 £ 13 10 0 Pim, Emma ...... 5 0 Pim, Mary G...... 10 0 Moate, 1879-80— Pim, J . E ...... 7 0 Clibborn, Isabella...... 10 0 Pim, Mary Agnes ...... 5 0 Clibborn, Sarah...... 1 2 6 Pim, Margaret J ...... 2 6 Perry, H enry...... 10 0 Pim, Gertrude ...... 2 6 Wakefield, Sophia...... 10 0 Pim, Constance...... 2 6 Woolley, Thomas ...... 10 0 Scott, Letitia...... 5 0 Walpole, George ...... 1 0 0 £3 2 6 Walpole, Edward ...... 1 0 0 Moate, 1880-1— Wilson, Mrs...... 1 0 0 Clibborn, Isabella...... 10 6 Clibborn, Sarah...... 12 6 £78 16 0 110
£ s. d. £ s. d. M ountmellick — Waterford, Continued— Odium, Isabella...... 5 0 Neale, Joseph ...... 10 0 Pim, Susan...... 1 0 0 Peet, A. D. & L ...... 15 0 Peet, E . Gr...... 2 6 £15 0 Pim, Anna J ...... 2 6 M o u n t b a t h — Roberts, Rebecca ...... 5 0 Dickinson, Susanna ...... 10 0 Radley, J . T ...... 2 6 Neale, Richard ...... 2 0 0 Walpole, Sarah Maria ... 5 0 White, Thomas R 2 10 0 £2 10 0 White, Henry...... 2 10 0 R i c h h i l l — White, Samuel ...... 1 10 0 Richhill Friends ...... 2 0 6 White, John N...... 1 10 0 White, George ...... 1 0 0 £2 0 6 White, William...... 10 0 W a t e r f o r d — White, G. Edwin ...... 10 0 Baker, John C...... 2 6 White, Henry Summer Barnes, Rachel ...... 5 0 ville...... 14 0 Beale, Richard ...... 5 0 White, Gertrude ...... 2 6 Chandler, Samuel ...... 5 0 White, Eliza ...... 5 0 Chapman, W. & G 5 0 White, Hannah F . 5 0 Clark, H. R ...... 5 0 Whitehead, James 10 0 Cherry, H. E ...... 2 6 Grarnett, Edward ...... 10 0 £20 13 6 Harvey, Thomas S 10 0 W e x f o r d — Jacob, Thomas W 1 0 0 Macquillan, Joseph ...... 10 0 Jacob, Francis ...... 10 0 Thompson, Joseph 5 0 Jacob, Edward ...... 10 0 Thompson, Wm...... 5 0 Jacob, Anna L ...... 2 6 Wood, Frederic...... 5 0 Jacob, Ann...... 2 0 Malcomson, John ...... 2 0 0 £15 0
Collected at Annual Meeting, £26 6 0 Watson, Wm. (Donation) .... £ 3 0 0 IRISH AUXILIARY.— Friends’ Foreign Mission Association ir> Acct. with John Webb.
D r . 1881. £ s. d. C r . 1881. £ s. d. £ «. d. 1 mo. 29th.—To Cash...... 150 0 0 6 mo. By Monkstown 78 16 0 3 mo. 17th.— „ Cash 100 0 0 Bray 17 8 6 „ Postage, &c. 0 17 6 „ Dublin 50 7 0 „ Cosh 89 10 9 „ Collecting Box 1 18 9 148 10 S „ Brookfield, 1880 0 18 0 „ Ditto, 1881 1 10 6 „ Moate, 1880 3 2 6 „ Ditto, 1881 2 3 0 „ Cork ... 27 18 0 ,, Hillsborough 18 0 ,, Lisburn 13 10 0 „ Carlow 2 3 6 ,, Bessbrook 16 0 6 ,, Belfast 16 8 0 „ Clara ... 52 0 0 ,, Grange ... 4 12 0 „ Mountmellick 15 0 ,, Knock 2 17 C „ Co. Wexford— ,, Ballintore... 3 0 0 „ Enniscorthy 14 6 0 „ Wexford ... 15 0 18 10 „ Richhill ... 2 0 ,, Waterford ... 20 18 „ Clonmel ... 2 7 ,, Mountrath ... 2 10 340 8 3 340 8 3 Collection after Annual Meeting 26 6 0 Donation from Wm. Watson 3 0 0 e 1110 . 7th.—To cheque remitted J. II. Tuke 29 C 0 29 6 0 £369 14 3 869 14 3
We have examined the above Account, and find it coirect, FRANCIS BEWLEY. H EN RY W. MOSS. FORM OF BEQUEST.
“ I give and bequeath unto the Treasurer for the time being of the Friends* Foreign Mission Association, established in the year 1867, the sum of pounds sterlings, to be applied towards the general purposes of the said Association. And I direct the said last-mentioned Legacy to be paid exclusively out of such part of my personal estate as may be legally applied in payment of Charitable Legacies, and the receipt of the Treasurer for the time being of the said Association shall be a sufficient discharge for the said Legacy.”
If a Testator wishes the Legacy to be free from duty, the following words must be added to the above form :—“ And I direct the said last-mentioned Legacy to be paid free from Legacy Duty, which I direct to be paid by my Executors out of the same Fund.”
% * Devises of land, or money charged on land, or secured on mortgage of lands or tenements, or to be la id out in lands or tenements, or to arise from the sale of land or tenements, are void, if designed for charitable purposes ; but money or stock may be given by Will, if not directed to be laid out in land.