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“GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.”

PAINTED A S J > PUBLISHED AT THE ORPHANS’ PRINTING PRES8, 12, BROAD STREET, LEOMIN8TER.

FRIENDS’ FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION, 1880.

Treasurer: JAMES HACK TUKE, H itc h in .

Secretary:

HENEY STANLEY NEWMAN, Leom inster.

Assistant Secretary:— CHARLES LINNEY, H i t c h i n . Executive Committee:

RICHARD ALLEN THEODORE HARRIS G. SATTERTHWAITE STAFFORD ALLEN THOMAS HARYEY FREDERIC SEEBOHM W ILLIAM C. ALLEN HENRY HIPSLEY J. S. SEWELL J. GURNET BARCLAY JONATHAN B. HODGKIN ISAAC SHARP WILLIAM BECK JOSEPH HUNTLEY SAMUEL SOUTHALL J. B. BRAITHWAITE CALEB R. KEMP J. FYFE STEWART C. L. BRAITHWAITE RICHARD LITTLEBOY GEORGE STURGE WILLIAM BREWIN JOSIAH NEWMAN JOHN TAYLOR ISAAC BROWN HENRY NEWMAN JOHN B. TYLOR THOS. W. FISHER GEORGE PALMER, M.P. JAMES THOMPSON ALFRED L. FOX THOS. B. PEACOCK, M.D. MARRIAGE WALLIS JOSEPH S. FRY ARTHUR PEASE, M.P. CALEB S. WILSON THEODORE FRY, M.P. STANLEY PUMPHREY JOHN E. WILSON GEORGE S. GIBSON ALFRED RANSOM ROBERT WILSON GEORGE GILLETT WILLIAM RANSOM WILLIAM WHITE JOHN T. GRACE ISAAC ROBSON JOHN WHITING WALTER ROBSON Madagascar Sub-Committee : ALFRED RANSOM FREDERIC SEEBOHM WILLIAM RANSOM JAMES HACK TUKE J. S. SEWELL Indian Sub-Committee: STAFFORD ALLEN HENRY HIPSLEY WILLIAM BECK HENRY S. NEWMAN WILLIAM BREWIN JOHN B. TYLOR RULES

o r TH E 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 Secretary.

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. THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT,

MADAGASCAR.

R eport of th e S ub-C o m m ittee.

In again reviewing the condition of our Mission in Imerina during the past year, we have cause to rejoice that the Lord has abundantly cared for the missionaries and the work. Probably at no time since the year 1872 has the strength of the Mission been so severely taxed as was the case last autumn; yet, with slight exceptions, the various departments have been carried on through the year, and as Samuel Clemes says in his report, “ the prevailing feeling is wonder and deep gratitude to our Heavenly Father that so little work had to be temporarily abandoned.” When our friends A. and E. Kingdon, and Lucy Johnson, with their families, left the Island in the summer of last year, W . Johnson accompanied them as far as Zanzibar. At the same time H. E. Clark and his family, with A. Pumphrey set out from England, the two parties meeting on the way. This for a little time left the work in the hands of the remaining few members, and the strain upon both body and mind was indeed very great. The return of H. E. Clark, however, in September, with his devoted wife and Annie Pumphrey, lent new life to the Mission, and we are thankful we can now say that the work in the Schools and in the country is again being prosecuted with vigour and energy. The character of the year’s labour amongst 6 the Malagasy in our district presents but few of those striking points of interest which are frequently looked for in connection with missionary efforts. But year by year the ennobling effect of sound Grospel teaching is becoming more apparent, and although we cannot record any large increase in numbers, yet there is real steady progress made both in mental and spiritual life, and vital Chris­ tianity is spreading. The Ambohitantely Church comes more directly under the care of the European missionaries than those in the country, and has an efficient native pastor, and we thankfully believe that some of its members are growing in Christian knowledge and experience. The Schools and congregation in the country, where light and knowledge are less bright, shew a greater fluctuation, and are more liable to disturbance from political causes than those in the town; but as by degrees the amount of labour bestowed upon these becomes larger, we trust that the clouds of superstition and ignorance may be dispelled from them. The district of Mandridrano, long laid upon the heart of our friend Joseph S. Sewell, exhibits perhaps more progress than any other of our country districts. It is now under W . Wilson’s care. The Antoby district, on the other hand, seems at present very unpromising. The enlargement of the School at Ambohijatovo has interfered somewhat with the regular teaching of the boys ; and the serious illness of W . Johnson on his return from Zanzibar was a great drawback to the work of the School. Still, but little ground has been lost: the School continues full, with a weekly attendance of 200 ; and the teachers are diligent and regular. Our friends speak most gratefully of the comfort and increased 7 power given by the new rooms at the School, which are now finished sufficiently for use. Those friends who so generously contributed for this special fund will be glad to know that the alterations are nearly completed. The total cost has not yet reached us. The men’s classes under W. Wilson’s care con­ tinue to flourish. Seventeen prizes were gained last year for unbroken attendance. The students from the country, who live in the little row of cottages built by the F.F.M.A. have also been under his superintendence, ably supplemented by Frank. When we consider the temptations to which these young men would otherwise be subject in the midst of a large city, we may well feel that the cottages are an immense boon to them. The report of the GirW School shews that the work there is making satisfactory progress. We regret that Helen Grilpin has again been laid aside for a time by illness; but when the last letters arrived she had nearly regained her usual strength. She is most efficiently seconded and assisted by E. H. Brockway, of whose earnest systematic work amongst the girls and with the native helpers, our friends speak in high terms. Annie Pumphrey is also doing good service as far as her knowledge of the language permits. The arrangements for the Printing Office and its branches have undergone considerable changes, rendered necessary by the return to England of Abraham Kingdon, whose vigorous management of it in the earlier days undoubtedly gave a strong impulse to literary work in the Island. Since his return home, he has been actively engaged in delivering lectures on behalf of the Mission, and many Friends will have heard from his own lips of the work done at our Press. W e regret that the 8 same causes which combined to lessen the demand for printed works a year ago, are still in operation; —trade is dull, money is scarce, and the market for books rather overstocked, so that the past year shews a falling off under this head. W e still regard the Printing Office as a most valuable adjunct of the Mission, and trust that at no distant day the growth of knowledge may cause an increased demand. Samuel Clemes, who now undertakes the oversight of the Office, has had unusual pressure upon him during the year. Sickness has twice visited his home, the last time Susan Clemes being attacked with typhoid fever, from which she has now happily recovered. In looking at the general work of the Mission, and remembering its reduced numbers last summer and autumn, we feel very thankful for the well- timed visit of our friends Isaac Sharp and Langley Kitching, whose kindly counsel and sympathy have been exceedingly cheering and helpful not only to our own members, but also to those of other Societies. The L. M. S. report bears witness to the value of the visit, speaking of it as “ an event which we trust will be attended with lasting good to the Churches in Madagascar,” and again, “ The many addresses which the two friends, but especially Mr. Isaac Sharp, have delivered, cannot but have pro­ duced a deep and salutary impression on the minds of those who have been privileged to hear them; ”— expressions which are corroborated by individual missionaries,— as “ iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend,” and so it has proved in this, the first visit of a minister of the Society under certificate from the Yearly Meeting to Madagascar. There remains one subject to be touched upon, 9 and this is an extremely important one. Again and again in the last year or two Madagascar has been visited by severe epidemics of Fever, Smallpox, &c., and again and again has the appeal come for Medicines and more Medical help. Those Mission­ aries who possess a little Medical knowledge have constantly ministered to the suffering and afflicted of all descriptions, and have found such work helpful in preparing the way for other service. Amongst these, Samuel Clemes has laboured abundantly in the healing of the sick both in country and in town, and at times this part of his daily routine has been almost overwhelming. The effect of these terrible outbreaks of disease upon some of the Malagasy in the country is discouraging, and many appear to lose all faith in Grod, and in the power of prayer, some of the older people going back to the heathen superstitions of their childhood, not being disposed to pray to a Grod who does not save them from such distress. C. F. Moss, of the L.M.S. Mission, says that in one village, 10 miles from the Capital, the poor people were dying at the rate of 10 or 12 per day. In another village, out of about 800 or 900 people, more than 300 died; whilst in another, of about 300 houses, he found 100 empty, save for the corpses of the dead. He says:— “ it has been a serious disadvantage to the poor people in my district that the L.M.S. Hospital was closed, and that we had no medical man to render help to us in the emergency.” In another district some villages have been almost depopulated, and the missionary says :— “ I sold £11 worth of quinine during four months and I could have disposed of £20 worth if I had had quinine all the time.” He and his family had been attacked with fever several times. 10 Another missionary says:— “ A few boxes of Cockle’s Pills may do very well to help a bold traveller to make momentary friendship with men of wild races, whilst dashing through unknown lands; but when one finds himself living amongst those who are dependent upon him for all their medical relief, and sees them suffering and dying, he comes rapidly to feel how idle it is for good people, accustomed to the skilled attention of the family doctor, to speak of the sufficiency of “ a few simple remedies.” These and other circumstances have during the past year or two led both our own Friends and those of the L.M.S. to send home urgent requests that steps should be taken to re-open the Hospital at Antananarivo, which has been closed for some years, and to provide further skilled medical advice for both Europeans and natives. About a year ago an offer was received by the Committee from J. Tregelles Fox, who believes it to be his duty to work as a Medical Missionary in the foreign field. The question was felt to be a most serious one, involving as it did the co-operation of the L.M.S. under whose charge the Hospital formerly was. On consultation with their Directors they heartily united in the matter, and after weighty consideration it has been concluded, jointly with them, to re-establish the Medical branch of the Mission, and re-open the Hospital under the care of J. T. Fox and his wife, who has been engaged in Hos­ pital work in England. They sail early next month, and we trust will have a long career of usefulness be­ fore them. A large pecuniary outlay is thus incurred, and we must gratefully acknowledge the generous manner in which our friends have come forward and given us their help towards this object. 11 In conclusion, we look forward with fresh hope to the prospects for the coining year, and once more commend the Madagascar Mission to the loving sympathy and earnest prayers of our members. Thankfully as we look at the past, we see that ignorance and evil still stretch their dark wings over large portions of the Island, so that the field is still wide for labour. Yet as righteousness and truth spread over the land, and the magic power of knowledge lays hold of the native mind, it becomes even more apparent that there is still need for earnest Christian Englishmen and women, whose hearts the Lord has touched, and whose minds and sympathies are large and catholic, to uphold the standard of the truth of God, and direct the future of the Malagasy people into paths of uprightness, holiness, and true nobility. On behalf of the Committee, CHARLES LINNEY, Secretary.

INDIA.

R eport of th e S ub-C o m m ittee. W e are thankful to report that the health of our Missionaries in India has been good during the past year, with the exception of one or two slight attacks of fever. Our friend Rachel Metcalfe, who has now been 14 years in India, and who was the first to go out, is now better in health than for some time past. W e have received regular accounts of the en- 12 couraging progress of the work, and have every reason to feel full confidence in the energy and faith­ fulness of those engaged in it. The present missionary staff consists of Samuel Baker, John H. Williams, Effie Williams, Rachel Metcalfe, Bal Mukand (Catechist), Devy Dyal (Schoolmaster), David (Colporteur), Ali Bakhsh (Scripture Reader). The superintendence of the erection of the New Meeting House in the Jumerati Bazaar has lately occupied much of the attention of John H. Williams. Samuel Baker has paid a number of interesting visits to the Gronds, and to the district of Sohagpur, Raipur and Itarsi. Other itinerant journeys have been undertaken by John H. Williams. The Schools and Meetings in Hoshangabad have been kept up with regularity, and the important work of Bazaar preaching has been followed up with great per­ sistence. This is the first year Samuel Baker and J. H. Williams have been in India. Already Samuel Baker has acquired facility in speaking and in preaching the native language. Grood progress has been made, and we would refer to the following detailed account of each branch of the work as representing the present position of the Mission.

Annual Report from Hoshangabad, Oentral Provinces, India, for the year 1879-80. The Lord has indeed been very gracious to us, and has not left us ■without evidences that His promise still stands true, “ My word shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that which I please, and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” We are more and more convinced that the preaching of Christ and Him crucified, must be the theme of all our addresses, whether amongst the heathen or in our own meetings. We have seen companies of idolaters and Mahommedans listening with all the eagerness of little children when the story of the cross has been 13 told, and the lore of God to sinners has been put before them. Many, especially the grey-headed, almost involuntarily nod their heads and confess, “ It is all true.” One harsh word about their own religion, and the spell is broken, and all the solemn thoughts and happy feelings are scattered to the winds. Controversy is just as injurious here as at home, and having seen some of its evil fruits, we endeavour, both by example and precept, to impress upon our native brethren the necessity of preaching Jesus Christ only.

B a z a a r P keachhtg H a b been kept u p twice-a-week (on Tuesday and Friday) with six exceptions, viz., twice during the rainy season, owing to the inclemency of the weather ; three times in October, owing to one of the Hindu festivals; and once in November, in consequence of the district work. We have always found on these occasions that in proportion to the amount of prominence given to our great theme, “ Salvation through Christ,” has been the solemnity and apparent real seed-sowing ; and when prominence has been given to the errors of the other faiths with which we come in contact, the result has often been most bitter discussions, which we have generally to put a stop to summarily. We feel that in this matter some excuse must be made for our brethren so lately come out of heathenism. But we also feel that it is our duty to impress on them the necessity of having all our addresses full of God’s love in Christ.

I tin e ran t W o r e . W e have gone about amongst the towns and villages in the district during the last cold season. We find the ignorance of the people a great drawback. It is in the villages one sees the degrading and stultifying effects of idolatry. It may seem a strange thing to say, but very many seem to have no higher aspirations than the beasts of the field ; and their dogged belief in fate, and that both good and evil proceed from God, make it very difficult to get them to see that being sinners in God’s sight they require a Saviour. We are often met with answers such as this: “ What is to be, will be.” “ Every one has his own religion.” “ These things have come down to us from our forefathers,” and there is no desire for a change. But we are persuaded that by the help of the Holy Spirit the preaching of Christ amongst such men as these cannot fail to bear fruit. The I tarsi Bazaar, which is. held every Thursday, has been frequently visited during the year. This is one of the most important Bazaars near us. It is in a central position, and held 14 on a large plain near the railway station. We nearly always manage to get a good company about us, but the callousness of the people is very discouraging. The village of Sonasawari, about which so much interest existed at home some time ago, lying about three-quarters of a mile to the west of the Itarsi road, some nine miles from here, has also had frequent visits ; but we fear that the Patel and some of the people are hardened. The former is an opium eater, he is brother of the late Patel Annaji, who died professing his faith in Christ. There is a Bazaar held in an important village named Raipur, about five miles from this, every Sunday afternoon, to which two, and sometimes three of us have frequently gone. The ground here seems much more encouraging, and we generally succeed in distributing a good many tracts and scripture portions. A re­ nowned Brahmin lives there, who is on very good terms with us, and to whose house we have several times gone. Besides these, the Grospel has been preached in eighty-eight villages, many of them having been visited two or three times. We may mention particularly the journey taken by Samuel Baker, in January, accompanied by Devy Dyal, Jugal Kishore, and the Colporteur David, amongst the Satpura Hills, and into the Betul district, of which copious notes have already been submitted to the Committee. In the town of Shahpore, about forty-eight miles south of Hoshangabad, we found a great willingness to hear of Christ, and many anxious to get tracts and portions -of scripture. The old Patel, requesting a New Testament, we gave him one, and trust that it may prove a blessing to him and his household. We preached several afternoons in the town, and on the Sunday after­ noon, in addition to our regular preaching, and had a very happy time with a number of the poor despised leather-workers and boot makers. Both J. H. Williams and S. Baker have been to Sohagpur, and found great willingness to hear the gospel message. S. Baker, accompanied by Devy Dyal and Jugal Kishore, went three after­ noons in succession into the Bazaar ; each time they had a large and eager audience, and found very many anxious for books. The last afternoon Jugal Kishore was fairly mobbed, in the anxiety of the people, both men and boys, to get tracts. In one of J. H. Williams’ tours at a village named Anshalkhera he arranged to show the magic lantern, and was as much surprised as pleased to see a large company of women as well as men gathered together to see the pictures—a most unusual thing in this part of the country. It afforded a splendid opportunity for sowing some of the good seed of the kingdom in their dark hearts, 15 and let us hope that Grod will cause it to grow and bear fruit to His glory.

S tate op th e C h u r c h . We have a membership of 7 males and 8 females ; non-mem­ bers, 4 males and 2 females. Increase during the year, 4. Lakshman Prasad reported last year as having come amongst us, having remained steadfast, was received into full membership on the 28th of September. He seems to be seeking to serve the Lord from hie heart. Our meetings for worship have been held throughout the year without any intermission, twice on Sundays and once during the week on Wednesday evenings. They are very well attended by our members and non-members, when at home. We often have one or two outsiders who come in and sometimes stay to the end, sometimes only for a few minutes. Our native brethren who frequently take part, are Bal Mukand, catechist; Devy Dyal, schoolmaster; David, colporteur; Ali Bakhsh, reader. These meetings are often times very refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and especially latterly the spiritual tone seems to be deepening. Almost all our members appear to be taking deeper root in Christ, and seem greatly to enjoy the opportunities afforded them for public confession of their Lord. We believe that there has been a real growth in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, during the year.

B ib l e C lass for M e n . This is held every Sunday morning, an hour before the meeting for worship, and conducted by S. Baker. The average attendance has been about 6.

S ervan ts’ B ib l e C lass, Conducted by S. Baker, meets every Sunday, after meeting, at the Bungalow. We do not make it compulsory for the servants to attend, but as a rule they all do. They seem to enjoy the time we spend together. Some of them have very much improved in their reading, and some others have learned to read in order to take their part in the class.

S chools.

T he Boy s’ . Sunday School, under the superintendence of J. H. Williams, is held an hour before the Sunday morning meeting. The interest has kept up very well throughout the year. The 16 average for the twelve months, from April 6th, 1879, to April 4th, 1880, has been 23. Latterly it has been divided into two classes, J. H. Williams taking the older boys himself, and Bal Mukand the younger, this arrangement has been found very satisfactory.

T h e G ir l s ’ S u n da y S chool,

U n d e r the superintendence of Effie Williams, held at the same time, is also very fairly attended. The average for the twelve months, is 11. Nearly all the native Christian women come and sit in the Bchool, and one or two generally help in the teaching. The lessons have been chiefly from the parables of our Lord. Both boys and girls are, as a rule, the children of poor parents, and beside the frequent occurrence of Hindu and Mahommedan festivals, the attendance frequently fluctuates on account of some of the children having to go away to work, as, for instance, at harvest time.

T h e B oys’ D a y S chool a t B axagttnj Is also in an encouraging condition. Devy Dyal, assisted by William the Colporteur’s son, seems very anxious to do his best. W e held an examination before Christmas, and were very well satisfied with the progress made. The average for the year has been 22. R. Metcalfe's School for Girls,

H eld in the Meeting House, has had, on the whole, a successful year. The average attendance for the twelve months, ending March 31st, has been 12. The three months of this year compare favourably with the first three months of 1878 and 1879. On December 23rd, J. H. Williams and S. Baker held an examination, and were very well pleased with the attainments of the girls. Almost all the girls received prizes of clothing, including, an Orhni, or thin bright coloured muslin, worn over the head, with the right corner thrown over the left shoulder; These were provided out of money kindly sent by Isaac Brown for prizes.

A G ood D e a l of M e d ic in e

H as been given away during the year, and the people seem to be gaining more and more confidence, some coming over twenty miles, saying, “ We have heard your name.” Many have told S. Bakpr, “ We have taken medicine from the hospital for a long time, and found no relief, but have got well by talcing yours.” Several acquaintances have thus been formed, and our prayer is that the Lord will bless even this means to the salvation of souls. 17

COLPORTAGE.

S criptures or portions, and Christian tracts, and books have had a good circulation throughout parts of the district. The Colporteur has gone East, as far as Sohagpore and Sobahpore; South, as far as Badmoor, the civil station of the Betul district; and North, as far as Sehore, the residency town of the Bhopal State. The Bhopal State is, perhaps, the most profitable journey as regards sales. The following amounts have been either sold or distributed gratuitously:— Rs. A. Pie. Bibles and Portions ...... 46 3 9 Tracts and Books (including a few Scriptures and Portions) ...... 80 6 12

R126 10 9

B u il d in g . On the 17th of September, 1879, we began clearing the ground for the new Meeting House, on the plot purchased by C. Gayford, in the Jumerati Bazaar. The building operations, under the care of J. H. Williams, have been making good progress, and we hope that in about two months the Meeting House will be ready for use.

SAMUEL BAKER, J. H. WILLIAMS, EFFIE WILLIAMS, RACHEL METCALFE.

SYRIAN MISSION. P.S.— The Report of the Syrian Mission is published separately. Copies may be had from W. C.-ALLEN, 72, Albion Road, Stoke Newington, Lmdon.

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MISSIONARIES AND OTHERS NOW ABROAD

IN CONNECTION WITH THE j^RIENDS* J^OREIGN JAISSION ^LSSOCIATION.

MADAGASCAR.

Henjry E. Clark and Rachel M. C lark, and two Children. Helen Gilpin. W illiam Johnson (whose wife and children are in Eng­ land). Samuel Clemes, and his wife and children.

W illiam W ilson. E liz a b e th H. B rockw ay.

A n n ie P um ph r ey.

IN a d d itio n to th e a bo ve, Joseph Tregelles F ox and his wife S. E. Fox, sail shortly to take the Medical Branch of the Mission.

INDIA.

Sa m u e l B a k e r

R ach el M etcalfe. John H. and Effie Williams and children. 19

CONTINGENT FUND.

Amounts directed by Donors or Committee to be invested, and interest applied for Retired Members of 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’u 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. Sturge’s Gift) 181 4 8

¿4209 0 10

School Enlargement Fund : Ambohijatovo. %

1880. £ s. d. 1879. £ s. d. 5th Mo. 15. 5 Mo. 21, Balance in hand 473 16 0 Expended in Madagascar 1880. during the past year ... 284 3 8 5 mo. 15, 2/5 Interest on Balance in hand ...... 238 11 6 G. Sturge's Gift 48 19 2

£522 15 2 ¿522 15 2 20 21 FRIENDS’ FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION, IN ACCOUNT WITH J. H. TUKE, TREASURER. From 5th Mo. 20th, 1879, To 5 th Mo. 18th, 1880. l i j - ______%

MADAGASCAR. £ s. d. By Balance in hand...... 4.i9 2 1 To payments as under:— £ s. d. £ s. d. £ 8. d. Drawn in Madagascar, including tra­ £ s. d. velling expenses to England 3043 19 4 Half Collection at Annual Meeting, 1879, shared Paid in England on account of House with the Syrian Mission...... 25 2 6 and Personal expenses at home and Collections, &c., at A. Kingdon’s lectures ...... 48 16 2 abroad, including education of Annual Subscriptions...... 4152 8 11 children ...... 220 19 6 Donations...... 425 3 0 Paid for Medicines (Quinine) ...... 10 0 0 Friends’ Christian Fellowship Union ...... 12 12 0 Paid on account of Schools ...... 86 2 1 Young Women Friends’ Christian Union for Annie 3361 0 11 Pumphrey's expenses...... 45 0 0 Printing Office and Book Stores for paper, type, ------4709 2 7 copybooks, &c...... 55 18 18 4 Special Donations in response to G. Sturge’s appeal 570 0 0 Freight, Insurance &c., on Goods sent out and sent Legacy from the late Robert A lsop...... 90 0 0 home ...... 66 17 8 Dividends on Investments...... 156 15 1 Paid on account of passage money, travelling ex­ Do. on George Sturge’s Gift, to be applied penses and part outfit of H. E. Clark and family, as follows:— and A. Pumphrey...... 379 379 1 9 One-fifth for Contingent Fund ...... 24 9 7 Paid on account of Missionaries during residence Two-fifchs for General Expenses...... 48 19 2 in England...... 323 323 2 1 Two-fifths for Educational and Building Paid on Private Account in England...... 26 6 6 Purposes (See separate account) ------4212 7 3 ------73 8 9 (For Medical and Hospital expenses see separate account.) Received on Private Accounts ...... 74 16 4 Cash transferred from School Enlargement Fund, being amounts already expended in Madagascar... 284 3 8 INDIA. Malagasy work sold, and English contributions per Drawn in India on account of S. Baker, R. Met­ P. A. F ry ...... 32 0 0 calfe, J. H. and E. Williams and family, includ­ Less fresh materials bought ...... 14 7 0 ing Schools, Native teachers, &c. &c...... 1396 1 1 ------17 13 0 Ninety per cent, of Insurance on goods lost in the “ Xenia” ...... 72 0 0 HOME EXPENSES. Sale of Map, and discount ...... 0 8 0 (For Subscriptions, cire., received fo r Medical Mission Printing, Carriage, &c., of 3412 Reports and Hospital, see separate account.) (£82 2s. 8d.); Advertising Subscriptions, &c. (£34 7s. 8d.); Assistant Secretary’s Salary (£50); Stationery, Postage, and Sundries (£43 6s. 6d.); 2000 Reprint from the Friend (£9 15s.) ...... 219 11 10 Examined and found correct, Life Insurance Premiums ...... 63 13 6 C. STANSFIELD WILSON. Deputation expenses, including A. Kingdon’s lectures ...... 35 8 9 22nd of 5th Mo., 1880. ------318 14 1 Interest on Investments, transferred to Contingent Fund, in­ cluding one-fifth interest on G. Sturge’s bequest ...... 181 4 8 Balance in hand ...... 379 2 5

£6487 9 6 £6487 9 6 Medical Mission and Hospital Fund, fit. dfr.

1880. 1880. 5th Mo. 15. £ s. d. 5th Mo. 15. £ s. d. „ Outfit, furniture, and „ Balance from Old Hos­ other expenses of pital account ...... 57 5 0 J. T. and S. E. Fox 196 19 6 „ Algernon Peckover, „ Drugs, Surgical Ap­ Wisbech...... 500 0 0 pliances and Hos­ „ W. E. Hutchinson, Lei­ pital Outfit ...... 138 17 6 cester ...... 100 0 0 „ Balance in hand...... 352 18 0 „ J. Tindall Harris, Staines ...... 20 0 0 „ C.RCharleton, Bristol 10 0 0 „ Hudson Scott, Carlisle 1 0 0 „ George Tvlor, Brigh- ton ...... 0 10 0

£688 15 0 £688 15 0

George Sturge’s Gift. ¿65,000, MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE FIVE PER CENT. PREFERENCE SHARES.

T rustees :— J. H. T u k e , G . S. G ibson, J. S. F r y . (Er.

1880. 1880. 5th Mo. 15. £ 8. d. 2nd Mo, 11. £ s. d. „ Interest applied as „ Half Year’s Interest 122 7 11 per Deed: „ 2/5 to General Ex­ penses ...... 48 19 2 „ 2/5 to School En­ largement Fund... t8 19 2 „ 1/5 to Contingent Fund ...... 24 9 7

£122 7 11 £122 7 11 23

pEOI^GE jBTURGE’s Jj IFT

To the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association, of 500 Five Per Cent Convertible Preference Shares of ^10 each, in the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company.

NAMES OF TRUSTEES: J. H. T U K E . G. S. GIBSON. J. S. FR Y .

The Indenture dated 23rd o f October, 1879, directs:— “ As to one-fifth part thereof, to apply the dividends for the benefit of the disabled Missionaries of the said Association in such way as they, the said Trustees, shall think most expedient. “ And as to two other equal fifth parts thereof, to apply the principal and also the dividends in furtherance of the educational purposes and objects of the said Mission, in such way as they shall think most expedient, using, where necessary and proper, the capital of such two-fifth parts in the building or repairing of Schools or Mission Houses, so that the whole capital of the said two-fifths shall be ex­ pended within 10 years of the date hereof, but that no larger portion than one-fourth of the capital of the said two-fifths shall be expended in any one year in the build­ ing or repairing of Schools or Mission Houses. “ And as to the remaining two-fifths, to apply the divi­ dends thereof for the benefit of the Madagascar and Indian Mission o f the said Association, as they, the said Trustees, shall deem most expedient.” ANNUAL MEETING.

T h is meeting was held in the large Meeting-house, Devonshire House, London, on Monday, May 24th, 1880, at six p.m., and was unusually well attended. Joseph Storrs Fry presided. Part of 1 Thess. ii. was read, followed by prayer. The C h airm an said: I must endeavour, in a few sentences, to express my deep interest in the present occasion. I think from what we have seen during the Yearly Meeting sittings, that the Yearly Meeting is becoming quite a meeting of missionary work. We may rejoice in it, and believe it is a sign for good. Perhaps our widest field of foreign labour is in Madagascar, although the work is carried on by but a few labourers. There are in the district occupied by Friends, about 100 congregations, and perhaps from eighty to ninety schools. In these schools from 2,000 to 2,500 children receive instruction. These figures serve, at least, to give some idea of the work carried on by such slender means. Then we have the work in India, and although not so closely connected with this Association the work at Brumana is so kindred to the rest that it naturally forms part of the one subject to-night. When we consider the claims that all these make upon us, we want „to stir up the missionary spirit— not a spirit of excitement, but a true missionary spirit of faith in the Lord and devotion to His will and cause. And this work requires funds. We do not press any. We look upon it as a high privilege to give; and it is only reasonable that we should devote a portion of the incomes which we enjoy to the direct service of the Lord. It would be well if there were a greater number of small subscriptions, so that we should not be too depend­ ent on the large donations of wealthy friends, but have a large constituency to depend upon for means. We ask also for the far more valuable service of those who are willing to oifer themselves to go forth as labourers in the noblest of all causes, the cause of Christ. I hope that this evening some young Friends may hear in their hearts the call to this service, and that what may be said to-night may bear rich fruit in years to come. Surely there are none who have made sacrifices in obedience to this call who have ever regretted it. There never has been a faithful missionary who ever had to regret that he was called to the service of his Lord in distant lands. James Hack Ttjke read a summary of the treasurer’s account 25 for the year 1879. The expenditure in connection with Mada­ gascar was £4,212 7s. 3d.; for India, £1,396 Is. 2d. The total expenditure, including £181 4s. 8d. transferred to the con­ tingent fund, was £6,108 7s. Id., against £5,392 in 1878. The income.from all sources amounted to £6,487 9s. 6d., leaving a balance of £379 2s. 5d. in the hands of the treasurer. The Contingent Fund now amounts to £4,209, and the balance of the School Enlargement Fund is £238, which will be spent in the coming year. To these funds is now added a Medical Mission and Hospital Fund. J. Tregelles Fox, who, with his wife, is shortly going out as medical missionary to Madagascar, hopes to be able to attend to the hospital in the capital as well as to render professional aid to our own missionaries, and those of the London Missionary Society. The island has lately been visited by severe sickness ; the hospital is closed, and one report states that in a village of 300 houses the writer found 100 houses empty, all the inhabitants either dead or fled ; yet not all empty, for corpses lay unburied in some of them. Those on the spot have done all they could in attending to the sick, &c. The medical mission and hospital fund is partly composed of a pre­ vious fund, and has been generously increased by £500 from Algernon Peckover, of Wisbeach, and also by sums from other friends. Nor must the noble gift from our Friend George Sturge of £5,000 Five Per Cent. Preference Shares in the M. S. and L. Railway Company, be allowed to pass unnoticed. Until prevented by the state of his health, G. S. had always taken an active and much-valued part in the affairs of the Mission ; and the thought­ ful terms of the deed of gift (see page 23,) will show how true an interest our Friend still has in the work. Although feeling how much fresh contributions are required to keep up the funds in a state of efficiency, yet in looking down the subscription list I am impressed with the widespread interest the work has excited amongst Friends. We cannot be too thankful to God for the help we have received ; but the fact remains, that, however much we have wanted in the past, we shall want more in the future. F r e d e r ic k S e e b o h m : One of the great interests which we have in this important work is that which is going on in Mada­ gascar, where the question is being decided as to whether a half- civilised country can be civilised and Christianised without' the extension of empire over it. In our own and European history civilisation has almost always been effected through conquest; but here in Madagascar we have an instance of a country and a people being gradually civilised and Christianised without any attempt at conquest by those who are devoting themselves to the work. If it succeed we shall have a most important fact of vital 26 consequence as regards the whole question of the treatment of uncivilised nations. In India the case is very different. In India, as persons of both parties generally admit, we have an immediate and political interest as rulers, which we cannot shirk. The fact that we possess India as part of our dominions casts upon us a great responsibility for its civilisation and Christianisation. But if we looked only at that which is our own territory we should become selfish. We must not regard the rest of the world in an indifferent way, whilst we, except as regards our own interests, exercise a policy of non-intervention. Our sphere is not narrowed like that, and it is a good thing that there is one place especially in our mission field where the work goes on without any attempt at empire or conquest. I hope it will always proceed on the same lines. We are sometimes asked the question why the Society takes up such work, and are told that there are many things at home that require righting, and work that might claim all our energies and sympathy lying around us. Why, then, should we go so far afield, into this country and that, to labour ? But the answer is here. If such a country as Madagascar is to be civilised, and the cause of religion to be spread amongst the people, it can only be effected in one of two ways. Either the country must come under the empire of civilised and Christian nations, or under the influence of those who have no temporal influence or empire to seek, but who are devoting themselves, by the exercise of their Christian influence, to the work of civilising and Christianising the country. And we have really, at the bottom of our Christianity and our Quakerism, a principle that fully justifies such a course as this. On this is built a distinguishing feature of our religion. In the real Quaker heart there has existed more, perhaps, of that tenderness for humanity than anywhere else. I may mention John Woolman as one in whom this characteristic was typically developed. John Woolman says that when he first accepted the religion of Christ he felt an increased tenderness toward all the human race, and even to the brute creation. It is the marvel of history that in Christ Himself we find One in whom this tenderness for the human soul was developed to its furthest limit, and spread out over the whole animated nature, and expressed in consideration even for the flowers. And it is this spirit that is reflected in the advance of true civilisation. I do not know where else, eighteen hundred years ago, you could find so great a tenderness of sym­ pathy with others as in Christ. It is not exceeded by the highest refinements of modem advancement, or the most exquisite feeling that the nineteenth century can produce. A portion of this spirit of Christ has descended to our Society. There never has been suffering anywhere that did not come home to the heart of our Society 27 whenever that Society has been appealed to, and without that heart feeling itself in duty bound to do all within its power to alleviate it. It was so with slavery, with the distress in Ireland, and with the distress which has followed European wars. This is' the real feeling of the true old-fashioned Quaker heart. These thoughts he at the bottom of all the work, and they furnish a good reason for us to continue it. We have around us the sad example of Christians who are lacking in this broad sympathy with others, and who have gone out of their way to justify the wrong means they employ to Christianise and civilise the people, and now, on the other hand, we are thankful to have in Madagascar an example and an instance of how we may go into the same work without these wrong adjuncts. Henry Stanley Newman : The figures already quoted by the Chairman show that the few Friends in Madagascar are doing an immense work. I have just received a letter from Isaac Sharp, in which he says : “ As regards the labour of your people, 1 bear testimony to the exemplary diligence with which they are doing the work of the Lord.” “ The Committee,” says Isaac Sharp, may be well assured that the fields are white unto harvest, and that the word is f crowd on the canvass,’ rather than ‘ slacken sail.’ ” William Johnson says in the report he has just sent home, that he has 200 boys in his school in unbroken attendance. Samuel Clemes speaks of the Bible revision, undertaken in conjunction with the Norwegian and London Missionary Society’s missionaries. He also refers to the printing press which Abraham Kingdon worked at. Another part of Samuel Clemes’ busy life is taken up in medical practice. I am thankful that we have J. T. Fox and his wife going out to give themselves to that work. There is great need for medical mission work in Madagascar. The great epidemic has proved conclusively that there is a need for good doctors. Many thousands have died from it, but it has not invaded the capital, where, with its 100,000 inhabitants, there have been but few deaths from this cause. Henry E. Clark speaks in his letters of two or three of the edicts, or “ Kabarys,” which the Queen and Prime Minister have issued in Madagascar. One of these related to military service. It seems that the Malagasy Government have been looking at the example of European nations, and setting up a system somewhat similar to the German method of conscription. In consequence of this Kabary 20,000 young soldiers were conscripted last year, and 20,000 more will be re­ quired this year. A great many young men are thus yearly taken away from their occupation and business. With reference to thé celebrated Kabary freeing the Mozambique slaves, Henry Clark 28 speaks with great satisfaction of the thorough way in which that important edict has been carried out, although domestic slavery still exists. Another Kabary refers to compulsory education. Parents are to be fined three dollars if their children keep away from school. It is an encouraging fact that four native mission­ aries have been sent out in connection with the Isan-enim-bolana to work amongst the still heathen tribes. There is thus a native Missionary Society carried on, in a great measure, by the Mala­ gasy themselves ; and we may believe that Christianity there is now on so firm a footing that even if in the future, from any cause, the European workers should be obliged to leave the country, the religion of Christ would still stand in the island. William Wilson, it will be remembered, went out two or three years sin*;e as a teacher. He now speaks cheeringly and brightly of his toil, and of his students who are settled in the little row of cottages belonging to Friends. From Helen Gilpin we hear that she was delighted to receive Annie Pumphrey; it seemed as if she had dropped into her right place and work, just at the time when Helen Gilpin was laid up from ill health, showing how our heavenly Father is pro­ viding for our needs and wants there. But we want more to go out, for some will be returning, and others must take their places. Abraham Kingdon gave a few particulars of the Malagasy mission. He went out in 1872 to establish the printing press. On arrival he found William Johnson at work on the building, but the press was not complete, and the sheds had not received a roof; but we went to work putting type into cases, and setting the boys to learn. A few boys were thus trained in setting up type. Afterwards a lithographic press, bought by the liberality of three friends, was put up, and a lad was taught to work it. The press has circulated 550,000 books, tracts, &c. A great many of these were lesson books. We have received from the Religious Tract Society illustrations for the Children’s Friend. This pub­ lication has been highly prized. We are much indebted to the Queen and Prime Minister of Madagascar in many ways. Thus, the law calling away people from their work for Government service, which swallowed up so much time, has been annulled in the case of printers, and some other occupations. Before this, it was almost futile to attempt training printers. We once were the means of capturing seventeen Mozambique slaves, and giving information at the palace. The Mozambiques are now set free, and the means of increasing slavery are cut off, because prisoners of war are not now enslaved. 29 Edward Pearson said:—The work has now, in Syria and Palestine, a threefold aspect; first, the work in Brumana and the surrounding villages; secondly, the work in itamallah, which corresponds, probably, with Ramathaim-Zophim, the home of Elkanah, the father of Samuel, the prophet. This work is car­ ried on by Jacob Hishmeh, who was interpreter ten years ago to Eli and Sybil Jones, when in Palestine. Here he has laboured from that day to this. Lastly, there is the work that began with the visit of E. and S. Jones—the support for various schools. Christian women went forth to see what they could do to raise the women of Palestine, and ¿£140 is annually remitted for their schools. Here teachers have been trained. Let us look at this village of Brumana, on a spur of Mount Lebanon, a few miles from Beyrout, and overlooking the sea. Here we have a village school, supported by friends of Theophilus Waldmeier in Sweden and in Switzerland, by Friends in New England, and various parts of this country. I will not enter into the history of Theophilus Waldmeier, deeply interesting as it is. He was the trusted friend of King Theodore, and a missionary in Abyssinia. After the Abyssinian war he left that country, and became superintendent of the British Syrian schools at Beyrout. Often he turned his gaze towards the villages on the mountain, and after a while he went upon the spur of Lebanon to serve the Lord, as he believed the Lord led him. I know not in the history of missions a more deeply touching episode than this. He went up in faith, not knowing whence the means would come, but when we heard, a few subscriptions were sent out from this country and elsewhere; steadily the work grew and enlarged, and now the latest thing is the establishment of a medical mission, of which Dr. Beshara (who sits beside me) is the doctor. There is at present no limit to the extension of the mission ; it is growing like a little child, whom you cannot fit with clothes to last for more than a year. Theophilus Waldmeier told us last year of the things he wanted to be done. All these, including the building of the new meet­ ing-house, are now finished, but there are more claims now pressing on us. There are 360 scholars being taught in the schools ; there are 24 boys being taught in the training Home at Brumana. Then there is Jacob Hishmeh’s remarkable work near Bethel. Here there are eighty families being taught; they have come out from the Greek Church, and now they go no more to the priests, and are even hurt, I believe, if they are not considered as Friends. These families comprise 250 persons. Then the mothers’ meeting is doing a wonderful work. Again, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites, they are begging us to send them a resident teacher there. Claims 30 for help are being continually made from all quarters of the field, which we are sorry to have to refuse. The income is, indeed, now ¿£300 less than our needs require, and we shall end the year in debt, unless more money is raised. Jacob Hishmeh is in great want of a Friend and his wife to come and help him in the work, and many petitions have arisen from the Committee on this behalf. And then, for the funds, we want the plan of ' Systematic Benevolence ’ adopted. If we look at other sects, for instance, the Primitive Methodists,—how much they give in proportion to their much smaller means ! Why, in some denominations indi­ vidual members give from ¿£30 to ¿£100 per annum for the sup­ port of their ministers. It is needful that we do our part, and not let the work in India, or Madagascar, or Syria, suffer if we can help it. Dr. B e s h a r a , from Mount Lebanon, said : If a man who knew our country thirty or forty years ago, saw it now, he would see a greater change than you would generally see after the work of centuries ; and this change has been made since the feet of the missionaries were seen in our country. The Bible was unknown to us before that time, for the priests and the monks kept the Holy Scriptures from us ; they put themselves between us and God. Another cause of our degradation is the Government—we are kept like the grain between two mill-stones. We are ground between the Government and the Clergy. So we suffered greatly from all these things, until our Heavenly Father moved the hearts of Friends to come to our help, and you have helped us to get out from between these two mill-stones. Now Jesus Christ is glorified in all our work. There are two hundred persons that come to our Friday morning meeting—amongst these are Druses, Maronites, and Greeks, some of whom were once very hostile to our mission, but now are glad to have the word of God preached. Then we have an evening meeting, and also a monthly meeting, with twenty nine members—nineteen men and ten women. These people do feel that Jesus Christ is dwelling in their hearts, and they are bound to you by the chain of love; that same chain which binds them to the Lord. We have twenty six youths in the Training Home—Druses, Greeks and Maronites. These at one time used to cross themselves openly, after a while they made the sign with their tongues only, keeping their mouths shut, that we might not see, but now they have given it up altogether. I should now like to call your attention to the people inhabiting the ancient countries of Egypt and Syria. They are very ignorant indeed, and are deceived by quack doctors, who bleed them for all kinds of diseases; indeed, they formerly bled every one once in 31 every three months, to keep them in health. They also cauterise very much—for a pain in the head they cauterise the head; for a pain in the stomach they cauterise a person there !—I have seen a man who had been cauterised four hundred times. Out of the sixty-six villages which surround Brumana, thirty- one already come to our Mission Station for medical treatment, and we had 4,000 patients in the last year. Our dispensary consists of four rooms : in the first of these the patients wait, and here we have an opportunity of administering medicine for the soul; in the second room we give our medicines for the diseases of the body; in the others we perform operations. But the ignorance of these people is so great that our prescriptions are often of no service to them. Thus, one man had a packet of medicine given him with directions to take it at three times, but he divided the paper into three, and swallowed that. Medicine is not all these poor people need, they also often need food as well as drugs, for they are very poor, and some come long distances, and lay outside the dispensary all night, waiting to be attended to. So my dear Friends, we greatly need a Cottage Hospital, for many patients never get well, because there is no place where they can be looked after and properly cared for, many of them, as I have said, coming from far, and many people never get well, because they have no place where they can be looked after. Again, when they are operated on, they need more care and nursing than they can get in their own miserable homes, and one poor boy bled to death as they took him back, whose life might have been spared could we have nursed him in a Cottage Hospital. My Friends, we need this Hospital very much, so now we ask you for sympathy for making a Cottage Hospital. Now, I come to another thing. The priests used not to allow the people to come to our schools, but since the opening of the Medical Mission they come themselves for treatment and hear the Gospel in the waiting room. At our meetings for worship the Druse women formerly covered their faces, but they have left off this custom, and one day a woman got up and said, “ We are very glad that the Lord Jesus is ready to give us His hand. We generally hear that we cannot come to God unless the priest gives us his hand ; but now we are glad to hear the Gospel preached without money, and we are glad you give us this holy teaching without asking for money.” Now, my dear Friends, you see how the work is going on well under our Lord Jesus Christ; and I want to express our hearty thanks to you. We can never repay you for the good you have done us ; but we pray to our Heavenly Father for blessings on you, spiritually and temporally, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. 82

Henry Hipsley said : We have been hearing Dr. Beshara in English. I presume that Arabic is the language with which he is most familiar. Now, I would just ask how many of our young people are learning Arabic, and who is learning Hindustani, a language which, in India, holds much the same place as French on the continent of Europe ? We have heard of the want of money and of men for this mission-work; there is also another want, that of language. The report of our missionaries at Hoshangabad shows that they give the first place to the preach­ ing of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Bazaar preach­ ing has gone on weekly, with only six exceptions, during the year. We understand the word preaching, as it is used in the New Testament, the simple proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the heathen. Samuel Baker, who now speaks Hindi fluently, and preaches in that tongue, has been taking a journey amongst the Gonds, and finds a great willingness to listen to the “ old, old story.” The various schools in Hoshangabad have been well kept up, including that of Rachel Metcalfe, whose state of health is now somewhat improved. Charles Gayford, when there, had the care of the erection of the bungalow, and now our friends are busy with the building of a Meeting-house, which will shortly be completed. We cannot speak of India as an uncivilised land. India had her ancient civilisation before the Saxon, or even the Roman, set foot on our shores—before the time of Ahasuerus, of whom we read in the book of Esther, as reigning from *■' India even unto Ethiopia.” She had her literature, her poetry, and her laws ; her classic tongue, the Sanscrit (now a dead language) ; even then the “ gorgeous East showered on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.” It is this ancient civilisation which we have to encounter in attempting to evangelise India. Far different is the case of Madagascar. The one case may be compared to a Canadian pine-forest, in which every tree must be felled and dragged away; the other, Madagascar, to a fertile prairie, waving with grass and flowers, all but ready for the plough, and the seed of the sower. But the evangelisation of India, whenever it may be, will not have been our work. It belongs to the Careys and the Judsons, the Henry Martyns, the Duffs and the Wilsons, the Caldwells and the Sergeants, and many others that have gone before us, men of different denominations, all labouring side by side in the name of Christ. By the name of Christ, if ever, India must be won. And I would rather that we should work on this prin­ ciple. I would rather that we should sow the seed, and never ourselves see a blade spring, than that we should talk of a great deal of apparent results winch is not real fruit. John Woolman has been mentioned, and’Jiis name is fraught- ■with touching recollections. That book of his, which exoited the sympathy of Charles Lamb, links, as it were, the past with the present. In his mind there seemed to be first implanted those deep sympathies which, carried out in action, finally resulted in the abolition of slavery. Strange and enthusiastic as some of his views may seem to us, and more strangely simple as his person and attire might be, possibly exciting pity, but not, I trust, our scorn; let us ask, “ Where is the man who has been effectively good and great without enthusiasm ?” There is no man who really fulfills the higher purposes of existence, who does not sometimes deviate from the dull routine of daily life. But what was the root and basis of the character of John Woolman ? The answer is, “ Love to Christ as a personal Saviour.” When at a Friend’s table, drink was brought to him in a silver vessel, he could not take i t ; and why ? He had had a vision of the suffering slaves in the mines of South America, and heard them blaspheme the name of C h ris t, because it was those who called themselves Christians who so abused them ; and he touchingly adds, “ His name to me was precious.” I trust there are young hearts here who have a bond of communion with a spirit like this,—a bond which tends to strengthen their union with Christ. To quote the words of our Christian poet :— “ Hearts may be found that harbour at this hour That love of Christ in all its quickening power, And lips, unstained by folly or by strife, Whose wisdom, drawn from the deep well of life, Tastes of its healthful origin, and flows A Jordan for th’ ablution of our woes.” Stanley Pumphrey read over the names of the Committee and Sub-committees for the ensuing year. He said : I will take you now to a new field that has never, I think, been alluded to in these meetings. It is well that we should know what American Friends are doing, and it is well that they should know that we are interested in all their work, for we have all one common interest. American Friends have a useful and flourishing mission in Mexico,—a country six times the size of England, Scotland, and Ireland combined, with a population of ten millions. But their religious condition is very low and debased, partly from the influ­ ence of Roman Catholicism. What do they say of themselves ? “ We are dying in Mexico for the bread of heaven. Do not let us go down into darkness.” This was the language of a man pleading for his own fellow-Mexicans and for the fifty millions of people in South America who want the light. Some such appeal reached the ear of Samuel Purdie. It was a work of faith to send Samuel Purdie to Mexico, but his heart was 34 filled with the love of Christ, and he has proved very useful. Now there is a little congregation at Matamoras, a Monthly Meeting of Friends, consisting of 100 members. Let me describe to you one of their Church Meetings. Their Monthly Meeting assembles on Seventh-day evenings after the day’s work ; they have established Deacons, as in the early Apostolic days, and in these meetings they receive the reports of the Deacons, and hear who are sick and suffering, what distress there is, so that their sympathies may be called forth, and help distributed by the congregation. Then they receive applications for admis­ sion into membership, and when they have concluded that the right time has come for the reception of a member, he is told that on the next Sabbath-day he will be expected to stand up in the congregation and make a simple public confession of his faith ; and after that every member comes forward and shakes him by the hand. Then at their business meeting the appointment of officers is made; the names are called over and agreed to, and after­ wards one of the ministers comes forward, takes the volume of Scripture, and, opening at Timothy, reads what a true bishop ought to be. They have a new meeting-house, which cost £500. Samuel Purdie gives direct Christian teaching in the meetings. In addition to the work at Matamoras, they have travelling workers, and colporteurs, who sell Bibles, &c., to the people. They have also a printing press, and the people so take to the publications from that press that the supply has not kept up with the demands received, some of them from distant provinces. But it is not easy work. During the past few years twenty-five lives have been lost in Mexico through confession of the Christian faith. Samuel Purdie has had his life threatened more than once. Once a loaded pistol was presented to his breast, and once a ball was fired into a room where he was sitting. I should like to read you this Friend’s description of a model missionary. “ He should be a man,” he says, “ of the very best mettle bodily and mentally, with a wife as well fitted for this special work as himself. He should be a person of sound and hardy constitution, deeply convinced of his call to this work, willing to live anyhow or die anywhere, but never dreaming of leaving his post until the Lord, who called him into the mission vineyard, shall as clearly shew him the way out of it. He should not be a mere student, but a practical man, with plenty of patience, good temper, common sense, and tact; one in whom self is crucified, and who undertakes the work solely at the bidding of Christ, and for His glory and the salvation of souls. Hear also what Dr. Garner says : “ A good physique is important since much hardship and fatigue has to be endured, but this is the least of 35 thequalifications. The missionary must have an abundance of patience, forbearance, and tact. He must be able to keep in good humour under all provocations, and in good heart under all dis­ couragements ; he must have plenty of nerve, a strong back-bone, and a hang-on spirit that will not let go. He must have such faith and forgetfulness of self as to be able to give the last cent to a starving child, and trust God for the next meal; and first and foremost, an utter devotion to Christ and to the work.” These are high standards, but it is well that the true ideal should be kept before us, and I desire that missionaries like these may be found going forth from our Society. We do not so much want brilliant qualifications as patience, and a determination to die rather than leave the work before the Lord calls us to return. It may seem much to plead for such consecration and devotion, but is it too much to ask of the redeemed of Christ,—too much of self-denial for the followers of Him who endured such suffering and shame for us ? I was reading the other day in Fox's Book of Martyrs the narrative of Wm. Hunter, who at the age of nineteen went to the stake, his mother standing by to encourage him, and I knew not which to admire the most, the mother or the boy. " I think thee as well bestowed as any child that ever I bore,” said that noble woman, as she urged her son to be faithful to his Saviour even unto death. I trust there are Christian mothers here, who in giving up some son or daughter for Christ’s work among the heathen, may have grace to say, “ I think thee well bestowed.” The cause calls for sacrifice. If our Society is to be revived, it can only be through devotion and self-denial. Let us emulate the self-sacrifice that abounded among our people two hundred years ago. The noblest enthusiasm is that in which soul and body and all our energies are given completely to the Lord Jesus Christ. The beautiful testimony of our dear brother from Syria exactly expresses that which should characterise our service at home and abroad. “ In all the work Jesus Christ is glorified.” The meeting concluded with prayer. MADAGASCAR REPORTS.

No. 1.

LETTER FROM ISAAC SHARP, To the Committee o f Friends Foreign Mission Association.

Antananarivo, Madagascar, 3rd mo. 2, 1880. Dear Friends,— Having spent nearly nine months in Madagascar, a few lines on the Mission work in this land may not be, perhaps, out of place. While sensible of a strong attraction to the important Mission of Friends in this land, I never felt that my religious sympathies were exclusively confined to them. Nearly all the stations of the London Missionary Society, and most of the Norwegian Stations, have been visited, as well as the Churches, gathered and settled, in the large district more especially under the care of the F.F.M.A. The Mission work in Madagascar within the last twelve or fourteen years is of a very noteworthy character ; striking is the change wrought out in the above-named period. As regards the labours of “ our own people ” in Mada­ gascar, I bear my willing testimony to the exemplary diligence with which, in their respective spheres, they are endeavouring without exception (according to that which they deem fitting for this land and people), to work the work of the Lord, nor are they without manifest tokens of blessing ; though at times, under some phase of discouragement, almost ready to query whether their strength is not spent for nought; neither are they alone in this respect ; other labourers share it with them, while not unmindful that there is much for which to thank God and take courage. 37 In a most beneficent work, the education of the young, the Friends had their pioneering share, and have still their share. With 92 places of worship and nearly 2,000 scholars taught in the district, hope is in the ascendant, springing up alike for the present generation and the generation following. One of the Missionaries of tbe L.M.S. remarked to me, u If it il had not been for the efforts made by Friends, the education (t of the young would not have progressed as it has done; the “ example they set was taken up by others ; ” and only within the last two days the like sentiment has been confirmed by another of the Missionaries of the L.M.S. There is also reason to believe that among the Missionaries and the Natives too, the modifying influence of the F.F.M.A. has been felt, and in some measure responded to in Madagascar. Religious life and experience are I believe growing among the people ; from dark heathendom to the condition already attained, is a wonderful advance, but to the young, as the hope of another and succeeding generation we must look, and look longingly, for a deeper sense of the teaching and indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and for an appreciation of words and definitions concerning spiritual things, to which their language, and mode of thought, till recently, have been so largely alien. Some of the 92 churches under the care of Friends are remotely situated: far from the capital, and with the present staff, can only be occasionally visited. None of u our own people ” baptize, or administer, or partake of the bread and wine. The native pastors do so universally ; they follow the practice of other churches on the first First day in each month. I have not been present on these occasions, but was informed that the congregations would not think it strange that I did not remain during the celebration of this rite. Our friend Henry E. Clark, recently visited Arivonimamo, distant about seven hours west of the capital; it was my privilege to be there with him. When our friend Joseph 38 S. Sewell visited this place, a few years ago, the people were very shy and unpromising; bull-baiting, as a heathen custom, was openly practised, and the mental condition of the people of this place was low : in the midst of the darkness, light sprung up, a great change came over the people, and the work, while leaving much to be desired, still goes on. And so it came to pass that on the 28th of 2nd month, 1880, the u four months meeting ” of nearly four hours duration was held in devotional exercise and for the discipline of the churches; about 200 representatives and others being present from 25 congregations: eminently in contrast with the days of the bye-gone was this first meeting of the kind ever held at Arivonimamo. The Committee at home and those they represent may be well-assured “ that the fields are white,” and that the note- call may still be heard, u crowd on the canvass ” rather than “ slacken sail.y) Alike in the capital and elsewhere there is yet room for more labourers, notwithstanding the encouraging response on the part of our young friends already here and others to follow. The young, the strong, and the earnest minded, called by the Holy Spirit are needed for the work; deeply imbued with a love of souls, and willing to labour in devoted self- denial as servants of the Lord Jesus; accepting the teaching of the New Testament in its fulness and simplicity, and with loyalty to the Society of which they are members, the very language of their hearts being: “ To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ, for ever.” — Lovingly, your friend, ISAAC SHARP.

No. 2. WILLIAM JOHNSON’S REPORT. To look back over a year’s work, at any time, and sum up 39 the results, putting them down in black and white, that so their value may be the more truly realized, brings with it a sense of humiliation at the thought of the little accomplished in proportion to the labour expended, the small amount of the grain, and the abundance of the chaff and the straw. Much more is this feeling present with me in reviewing the past twelve months— during three of which I was taken away from my work to accompany my wife and family as far as Zanzibar, on their journey to England, and in subsequent illness on my return. In looking back to that time, I feel a quiet assurance that in our goings we were directed and cared for by our gracious Master, and that in the time of weakness, which was permitted to overtake me, He was still near, giving strength for each day’s need, until by His blessing on the kind efforts of friends, both at Mojanga and here, I was restored to my usual state of health, and was again able, with renewed interest, to engage in His service. A great part of my time at Ambohijatovo, has been spent in superintending the workmen engaged in putting up the new buildings. The older boys have thus lost much, through irregular and interrupted teaching ; but the native teachers have been able to keep well to their work throughout the year. Wm. Wilson kindly contrived to devote a morning a week to teaching the boys during my absence, so as to keep up their connection with the School. Through all the irregu­ larity of the past two years the Scriptural instruction has, with little exception, been maintained as usual throughout the School. Now, however, the more difficult work in the buildings is done, and the new rooms at the east end being sufficiently finished for use, the men from the country and the older boys have been moved there from the west end of the house, which will shortly be taken down for enlarge­ ment. The foundations there are already in, and I hope, by the end of the year, we may be able to finish the permanent rooms for the men, so as to allow of the east end being finished and occupied by some classes of boys. Friends at 40 home can hardly realize the pleasure of teaching in a spacious, airy room, after the confinement and heat of our old quarters. The School continues full, with nearly two hundred un­ broken attendances every week. The teachers give satisfac­ tion by their regularity and diligence, and some are taking a place of usefulness in the congregations to which they belong. Of the scholars who have left during the year: six have become teachers in the country ; three have gone to study at the L.M.S. College; one has entered the Printing Office; one is studying Medicine; and one has become a writer for the rural magistracy. So much for the School, there is not much to be said, year by year, about a work so regular and with so little variety as a School. One day is as that which went before it, and that which follows is no other, just a steady grind at the educa­ tional mill from year’s end to year’s end. It is only by looking over a long course of time that any features of interest or note can be traced. And as I now look back over the eight years, during which I have been connected with Ambohijatovo, I can see a growth in the character of the School, keeping pace with the development of Christian life outside— a deepening in religious understanding among the teachers as well as the taught, according to their several capacities, as well as a growing soundness in the style and character of the teaching in matters of lesser moment. Not that we have already attained, either are altogether perfect; such work may be the sounder for being gradual. My country work has also been somewhat irregular, though less so than it might have been, thanks to the kindness of friends here, in not allowing it to stand still during my absence. Some of the Churches are quietly prospering, as is evinced by the success of the schools, notably that at Ambohimandry. The times for public worship are regularly observed, and I am hopeful that it has been to more purpose than formerly, as so many are willing to go from place to place each week, to minister in the congregations. This is a hopeful 41 sign, and as time goes on, and these itinerant preachers attain to a true knowledge of divine things, the character of their communications will improve. Although in this country the whole nation has, as it were, taken the kingdom of heaven by violence, it is noticeable in every place, that it is an earnest man or woman— one or two, often more— who are the life of the congregation, and they, by their influence over a few others, keep up the appearance of vitality in their neighbourhood. It is often hard work for them ; with but little light themselves, and surrounded by a grosser darkness, their position calls for our sympathy and prayers. In visiting some of the more advanced congregations in the latter part of the year, I was greatly interested to hear of a little movement going on among them, which has arisen out of a weekly Bible class. They had been reading and discussing among themselves the account in Matt. xvii. of our Lord healing the lunatic, and the puzzled question of the disciples, u Why could not we cast him out ?” led them into conversation, and they went on to contrast the present state of the Church, with what it was in “ the good old times,” when every one who attended a meeting for worship did so at the cost of persecution by his friends. Malagasy like, they must gather their companion congregations to discuss the question ; was it not a matter affecting the well-being of the whole fraternity of Churches ? So they met once or twice, and earnestly set themselves to consider what could be done to remedy the present want of zeal, of brotherly love, of diligence in attendance at meetings for worship, and so forth. So at our six-months meeting for the district, we asked them to give us an account of all this, which they did, and others were encouraged to bestir themselves in like manner, and to meet together for the purpose of reading the Bible and for prayer. Perhaps not much may come of it ; but it is en­ couraging to see that there are some earnest spirits among our native friends, to whom, at a distant day, when their 42 light has grown, and their experience deepened, the Church in Madagascar may, humanly speaking, be entrusted. In view of this time it is always encouraging to remember, that in all the arrangements of Church government, which we, in common with our friends of the L.M.S. have introduced, it has always been a principle with us to stand by as helpers and instructors only, so that when European help shall from any cause be withdrawn, the Church will not be in any sense disorganized. Our friends, Isaac Sharp and Langley Kitching, arrived among us in the middle of the year, much to our joy and encouragement. Of their work in the other parts of the F.F.M.A. vineyard others will speak, but I would mention their journey into my district once during my absence, and Isaac Sharp was also present at the six months’ meeting in December, and at the examination of the Schools. The people were delighted with their visit, and one of them describing to me Isaac Sharp’s address on the first occasion, told how it took hold of them, went home to their hearts, and was not easily forgotten ; that one of his years should come so far, in the love of Christ, to see and help them, touches a chord in their hearts, and obtains a response to the message he brings. WM. JOHNSON.

FRIENDS’ FOEEIG-N MISSION ASSOCIATION.

Statement of the Results of School Examinations in the district under the care of F.F.M.A., Oct.-Dec., 1879. Number of Schools Examined ...... 97 Number of Scholars on Register ...... 5,132 Number present at Examination ...... 1,963 Number bringing Slates...... 1,300 Number bringing Bibles or Testaments... 789 43

Examination Results.

READING. WRITING. CIPHERING.

Standards. IY. Y.VI total II. in . IV.V. total II. III.IV. Y. VI. total

No. of passes 467 321 24 812 309 229 52 5 605 275 166 106 76 6 629

Total School Examined in Exrnd. Fair Very Good Poor Good

SCRIPTURE. 9 41 28 ; 11 89

GRAMMAR. o 15 8 1 38 63

GEOGRAPHY. 3 9 18 26 I 56 i

REMARKS ON EXAMINATION. With reference to the number of Scholars reported, as on the Register in these 97 Schools, it should be explained that these are the numbers as they were written in 1876, at the time the Government commenced that series of actions affecting both the schools and the army which are not yet complete. And as these numbers have been given in to the Government, as the numbers on the various School Registers, they are held to very tenaciously by the people, and at present it is difficult to alter them, although not an inconsiderable number of these children have never been seen in the School from that time to this. The numbers present at the Examina­ tions will present a much fairer test of the numerical state of the various Schools. But as the Schools are usually ex­ 44 amined in groups of from four to six, at some central village, many of the younger Scholars will be unable owing to the distance, etc., to attend. If we put the number of those in fairly regular attendance, as 2,500, it will not be very far from the mark. We regard the number of slates, and Bibles or Testaments brought to the examinations as not an unfair test of the educational condition of the School.

READING. Standard IV- implies ability to read fairly well a verse selected by the examiner from the Gospels; Standards V. and VI. imply fair and good reading, respectively, from Teny Soa, a Malagasy monthly periodical. It may be well to remark that there are 425 Scholars who passed with varied degree of correctness in Standard III.; these are able to read out of the Gospels, but not sufficiently well to warrant their being placed in Standard IV.

WRITING. Standard II. and III., short words and a simple sentence from dictation correctly and neatly written. Those who pass in IV. and V. must write correctly from dictation, passages from Teny Soa; Standard VI. is an exercise for memory.

ARITHMETIC. Standards II. and III., Simple Addition and Subtraction ; IV. simple rules to Long Division ; V., the Compound Rules (money); VI., any simple sum, requiring thought, the Examiner likes to put.

No. 3. SAMUEL CLEMES’ REPORT.

S i n c e we came out here, in 1873, it has never been so difficult to write a report; not because of any want of subjects 45 to touch upon, but chiefly because so much work has been, through unforeseen circumstances thrown on so few shoulders. At the beginning of the year, we were still suffering from the epidemic fever that has been so fatal for more than two years, and even now shows signs of again appearing. The number of people who came to us for medicine in that trying time completely used up every scrap of time that was left from other Mission work, and was felt as an increasing, and in the end an intolerable burden, until in June we went to Andrangaloaka for a holiday. When we came back it was to bid farewell to our friends, the Kingdons, and Mrs. Johnson and her children, who were setting off for England, and W. Johnson, who was to accom­ pany them to Zanzibar. It was with much apprehension and many fears that we prepared to take up the increased burden that their absence involved ; and looking back on it now, the prevailing feeling, is wonder and deep gratitude to our Heavenly Father that so little work had to be temporarily abandoned. As our day so was our strength, and always underneath were the Everlasting Arms. Soon after their departure our three children were together dangerously ill of bronchitis, and many sleepless nights and weary days passed by before we could consider them out of danger. Then we had to change houses to Analakely, as Faravohitra was considered too cold. While there we had to push on quickly with a new house, as we were expecting our dear friends, H. E. and R. M. Clark, to return to the house we were living in. I remember the pressure was so great, that just as we were hoping our friends would come, and yet fearing lest something should prevent them and wondering if W. Johnson would return or not, as we had heard he was ill, I had quite made up my mind, in case they did not come very soon, to stop all the country teachers, and keep 46 on as well as I could with the town work until more helpers should arrive. “ Man’s extremity,” is said to be “ God’s opportunity,’’ and so just before daybreak came the darkest hour. We soon had the pleasure of welcoming them all, and it was like life from the dead, to have so many to share the work once more. The visit of our dear friends, Isaac Sharp and Langley Kitching, was most opportune, coming as they did when things were at their worst with us. We were cheered and helped forward by the fresh assurance that we were not alone, but that brethren and sisters in the Lord, were doing all they could to help us, even though so far away. The work of Isaac Sharp and L. Kitching in this country, and their visits to the native churches, and to the Europeans, will be better spoken of by others. It is enough for me to say that they have been appreciated, and will not soon be forgotten. Soon after H. E. Clark’s arrival, and even before they fairly settled into their house, he and I, and our two friends from England, went on a complete tour through the district in charge of the F.F.M.A. We found almost everywhere the signs of blessing and enlargement; in a few places things were at a standstill, and in very few they were going back­ ward. But in all there was a wondrous improvement since the time when J. S. S. first undertook the work, and we could only feel thankful at what God had wrought. After my return from this journey, it was again my portion to spend a month and a-half in nursing my wife, and since then I have had more than enough to do, trying to make up arrears. That is pretty much how the year looks to me on review­ ing it now. In the midst of much private trouble, the endless matters of routine have been pushed on as well as was practicable, and very few things were allowed to flag. But I should be sorry to think that the number of workers should 47 ever again become so few so as to throw so much responsibility on any one else. I trust we shall soon hear of more labourers sent out by the Lord of the harvest. Ambohitantely church is, I think, progressing favourably. There are still many things to be desired, but the hearty response they made, when it was proposed to put a new roof on their chapel, is most encouraging. The weekly Bible Class there, is appreciated and well attended. We have been, and still are engaged in the study of the book of Job. We went through Ephesians in the early part of the year. The Printing Office, which has fallen to my share since Abraham Kingdon left, keeps me very busy at times ; often I have to be author, proof-reader, press superintendent, and general manager all at once. I think now, the boys have got used to their new head, and will work steadily, but at first it was not quite smooth sailing. We have several books in course of printing that will appear in next year’s report. Partly for this reason, there are fewer books finished this year than usual. But I am sorry to add that the demand for books here seems to have been outrun by the supply, and so we hardly expect to have very brilliant reports to give of our Printing Office for some time to come. I have managed thus far to keep up my connection with the Sunday School established by A. Kingdon. There has been a little falling off in numbers since he left us, but I think the school is doing, and will yet do, a good work. My little book of lessons from the Old Testament has come to an end, and I am now preparing one on the Acts of the Apostles for them. We find that the teachers require some help in this way, to save them from desultory and ineffective teach­ ing. I may add, by the way, that we are now enjoying the effects of W. Johnson’s capital alteration and enlargement of Ambohijatovo school premises. The room I have my Sunday class in is a most luxurious class-room, on an upper floor. I wish those who subscribed the money could see how comfortable their money has made us. 48 The Bible revision work is now going on much more briskly than formerly. This year we have got through Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Mark; and we are now engaged upon Luke. This too takes up a great deal of time, but the compensatory thought is that the Malagasy will all the sooner get a really good version of the Scriptures. All the Protestant Missions here, are represented on that committee; so the result will be one we can all accept. Of course the usual objections to revisions are made here, as they were at home; but I think the portions issued are breaking down all this and winning their own way to favour. Since H. E. Clark’s return, we have re-arranged all our work; and it has been a great relief to me, to hand over to his charge, two of the districts he had formerly. He has taken on the Yakinankaratra and Antoby district, while William Wilson has taken Mandridrano. From all these places many people used to come to me for medicine, and now H. E. Clark does all this; one consequence is that I have much less to do with medicine in town than I had formerly. The fourteen churches nearest the town have been allotted to me, because of their nearer connection with Ambohitantely; and there are two central places to which I go on alternate Tuesdays to teach a class of picked scholars from the neighbouring schools; and attend to any sick folks that may come to me. This is nearly all the medical work I now have. These fourteen churches unite for all purposes of church discipline; and their preachers change about by plan, so they are very united, and are working well together. For­ merly a small sum of money was paid to preachers visiting other churches in this way; but for the last two years we have succeeded in stopping this payment (which was sub­ scribed for by the natives themselves), and all the preaching now is free and for the love of it. Some member of the congregation visited undertakes to entertain the preacher, and this often leads to much more social intercourse than the old plan. 49 For the first half-year, the women’s classes at our house were kept up as usual, and very sorry they were when we were reluctantly obliged to abandon them, on account of illness in the family. On R. M. Clark’s return, those whom she formerly taught, were glad to resume regular work once more; and we are hoping, as soon as strength permits, to do what we can for the remainder. SAMUEL CLEMES.

No. 4.

H. E. CLARK’S REPORT.

It will hardly be expected that I should have much of a report this year, seeing that it is only about four months since we arrived in Antananarivo, from our visit to England. What I incline therefore to do, is to give in a few words my general impression of things as they strike me on my return, whether they refer especially to our own particular work, or to the more general mission work carried on jointly by ourselves and the London Missionary Society. As we were entering the English Channel on our homeward voyage, November 2, 1877, our friends I. Sharp and L. Kitching, sailed from Dartmouth on the same day for Africa, and we had therefore no expectation of meeting them in this country, as we anticipated that they would have been here and left again before we returned. But it has not been so, and we have had the great pleasure of meeting them here; of joining with them in many of their engagements, social and religious; and have been eye-witnesses to the more than cordial way in which they have, everywhere, been received, both by the Missionaries and the native Christians. Very soon after our arrival it was my privilege, in conjunction with S. Clemes, to accompany them in a visit they paid to the district under our care. A report of this visit, and our D 50 general impression of the state of the churches and schools, has been sent home by more than one of us, and there is therefore no need to repeat it here. I will just remark, how­ ever, how glad I was of this opportunity, so soon after my return, of going through our district, and of seeing so many of my old friends in the various localities visited. It forcibly reminded me of my journey through the same in the early part of 1872, very soon after my first arrival in the land; and in thus comparing the state of things as I saw them then, and as they appeared to us on this recent visit, I was able to understand a little how great has been the change, brought about by God’s blessing, upon pretty constant work for Him during the past seven years. And so we are encouraged to look hopefully towards the future, even though there may be still much to depress and discourage in the present condition of things. My own share of the country district work remains much as it did, with this exception: the first sub-district of 16 churches (within two-and-a-half hours ride from town), taken charge of by S. Clemes during my stay in England, remains under his care; while I have undertaken the over­ sight of the far-off district of Yakin, Ankaratra, running down to the extreme S.W. corner of our territory, some three days journey from the capital, including Antoby, where S. Clemes formerly resided. I shall have between 50 and 60 churches under my care. The more distant ones I can only visit once every three months ; concerning those nearer the capital, which can be reached in a day’s journey, I hope to continue the regular attendance of the monthly Meetings held in their district; while in the nearest one of all (some four hours ride from town), I have made arrangement for visiting them once a fortnight. I have now the assistance of Rakotobao, a member of Ambohitantely church, who has lately finished his course at the College, and who has been sent out by the Queen and Prime Minister, in the name of the Church within the Palace. He takes the place of Ralambotsirofo, of whom 51 I have often previously written, who, with nine companions, was sent out in the same way in 1874, to reside at important centres in different parts of Imerina, each having care of some fifteen churches and schools. A great blessing has rested upon the work of these ten men, and they have now been recalled to take responsible posts in the government of the country. Officers approaching in some degree to what in England would be termed Ministers of Education, Justice, &c., have been recently appointed, and these ten men have been, or are to be, appointed to one or other of these posts. If we could believe that they would be allowed free action in their new spheres of duty, there would be hope of public affairs being more systematically and justly conducted; but the fear is that they will be associated with others (older men of higher rank) whose behests they must obey, so that there will be little or no reform in the administration of the affairs of the country. Two days each week will be occupied by me with classes at the Training School for students from the country, though W. Wilson will continue to have the special oversight of this branch of our work— a work which has been richly blessed in the past, and will, we hope, be yet more so in the future. The alterations and enlargement of our town school, for which many friends subscribed so liberally, are progressing most satisfactorily under W. Johnson’s care, and the building will, when complete, be second to none in the town for convenience and suitability for the work to be carried on within its walls. Another afternoon a week is occupied in teaching the first class of women, to the number of about 60, who are under my wife’s care. Saturday m ornings are now pretty much occupied by the attendance of the Young Men’s Christian Association, of which society I have accepted the office of president. A t present it numbers about 25 members, who, for the most part, may be described as earnest Christian young men, sincerely desirous of making progress themselves in those things that are true, 52 honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report; seeking to gain others to join them. The association was com­ menced some four years ago by Rasoa and Frank, and was for a time quite a success; of late, from various causes, it has not been so prosperous, but now we hope for brighter days, and I am very desirous of doing what may be in my power to aid them in this work. Temptation to evil abounds on every side in this great city, and any influence for good on the other side is worthy of all the help we may be able to give it. Of late (though on this question I speak more from what I hear than from what I have seen), the illegal sale of rum has again much increased in this place; and one of the questions we have recently discussed is the for­ mation of a Temperance Society in connection with our Association. When I was in England there was no subject on which I was more frequently questioned than that of slavery. Friends will be glad to know how thoroughly the procla­ mation freeing the African slaves has been carried out. While rejoicing at this, I am sorry to see, what I think I do notice, the increased tenacity with which many of the more advanced Christians hold to the system of domestic slavery. It seems to me as though they were feeling that while there was no help for what was past— the freedom of the Africans—they would still hold to their domestic slaves, and that they yet are trying to do that which they will ultimately find it impossible to do— to allow slavery and Christianity permanently to co-exist in this country. I know that Friends at home, while admitting the difficulties of our position, are anxious that we should let our sentiments on this question be known ; I think I can assure them that we will, though it may require great care and circumspection on our part. Another subject that makes us anxious for the future of Madagascar is the very great attention now given to military affairs. In the early part of last year, some 20,000 recruits were taken into the army ; and it is said that a like number 53 will be taken in about three months time, in fact the proclamation provides for a certain number to be taken every year; and so the army system will become something like the German one. Owing to various modifications in the regulations pertaining to the army, this conscription will press much more equally upon all classes than ever it has done before. In the hands of the present Prime Minister I have not much fear of what may come— but in the hands of a successor, without either his sound judg­ ment or desire to do right, we may well fear as to what use may be made of such an army. This military questionis also intimately connected with that of the schools. In the early days of the mission in Mada­ gascar, it was quite a common thing for the scholars in the schools to be taken in a body for the army ; and this has been one of our great difficulties in getting scholars of late years, the fear that when they were mah&y (clever) they would be taken off for soldiers. How this recent proclamation affects our schools cannot be better told than in the words of the L.M.S. report for this year. They say: “ With regard to the schools, which is that part of the scheme which touches our work most, it is enacted, (1) that they shall not be disturbed in the first instance, but that afterwards the Queen will take measures to find out who are worthy of being scholars; (2) that after the business of the conscription is over, all children from seven years of age and upwards shall be compelled to learn, and that parents keeping back their children shall be fined three dollars for each child so kept back; and (3) that in the mean time no new scholar shall be received, and those who have left shall not be re­ admitted, under a penalty of fifty dollars. The im­ mediate effect of these regulations on our schools was to clear out some of the most lazy scholars who saw no hope of gain by further attendance, and thus the number of scholars was reduced, and no new ones could be received to fill the 54 place of those who le ft; but at the same time there was an increase of diligence on the part of many of the scholars who were evidently hoping that the time of their reward was at hand. This, however, only lasted for a time. Eight months have passed since the great Kabary was made, and no further action has been taken by the government with regard to the schools. The diligent are getting tired of waiting for their expected reward, and seeing that those who have left the schools are treated with a similar indifference, are beginning to think, or to act as if they thought, that it is useless to be diligent, inasmuch as the lazy are at liberty to do as they please, while the diligent have to work without remuneration. The day of reckoning may come before long, but it is not seen as y et; and though our schools have made considerable progress in other respects during the year, we have not for a long time had fewer children in attendance than we have at present.” What is thus reported as to the condition of the schools under the care of the L. M. S. is also true of those under my own care. At my recent examination decidedly fewer scholars presented themselves for examinations than previous to my departure for England in 1877. I hope to be. able to enclose along with this a statement of the number of schools and scholars under our care, tabulated to show how many have passed in the different standards. Much has been written of the very severe epidemic that has prevailed in this land for the past two seasons, when, to use the words of a recent report, “ several villages have been depopulated, and many of the schools and congregations have been dispersed.” Again this illustrates a certain phase of Malagasy Christianity; for many seem not to be able to understand how it is that “ the praying ” does not protect them from all this sickness. And, as has been remarked, “ It is not easy to make them believe that their dirty habits and unhealthy dwellings have had a great deal to do in intensifying, if not producing, the disease 55 which has taken away so many of their friends, and they are indisposed to pray to a God who does not save them from such distress.” Our district has however suffered very much less than many others, and if we look at the attendance at the places of worship only, we have nothing to complain of. Since my return I have visited a large number of our churches on the Sunday; in every case they had no notice of my coming, and yet in every case there were more people assembled than I expected to see, and in many cases there were quite large congregations. Those who have read my previous reports, and who heard me speak in England, will know well what I think of these large congregations. Count them all, or even the majority of them as Christians I do not— but believing them to be of the number of those whom Christ came to save, and brought under the influence and within the hearing of our voices, to be taught of the things pertaining to the kingdom of Heaven, of their lost state by nature, of the love of God to them in Christ Jesus, who came to seek and to save that which was lost, of the new life they may have to live even upon earth, as they become new men and new women, through faith in Him ; of the far more glorious life they may live hereafter in heaven—I desire to tell them once and again, and as often as they will listen, that sweet story of old, “ That God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him, should not perish, but should have everlasting life.” Amid the constantly recurring causes of disturbance in the country, whether connected with school or church, it is a satisfaction to look to the churches in this city and suburbs, with its more than 100,000 inhabitants; these may be said to be unmoved by the rumours which so often disturb those in the country. Here at any rate it is well known that “ the praying” is not to be stopped; here intelli­ gence and knowledge of all kinds are making progress, and amid much of a contrary character, I believe that vital 56

Christianity is spreading among the Christians of this city. A city set on a hill cannot be hid, and assuredly it is so of Antananarivo; and if the Christians here would only do their duty, it would not be long before some bright rays of the light shining here would penetrate every dark corner of this land. To some extent this is being done, and at the present time the Isan-enim-bolana, or half-yearly Meeting of the churches of Imerina, have four evangelists stationed in as many different places, in distant parts of the island, and recently, very satisfactory reports have been given of their work. Thus much of our work. Any doubt I ever may have had as to the interest of friends in England in our work has been effectually dispelled by my visit to England, and by all I witnessed there. May that interest, great as it is, be yet increased year by year; may it be shewn, not only by subscriptions, which have never failed and will never fail for the work to be done, but also by a succession of labourers who shall year by year be made willing to offer themselves for actual service in this very interesting land— where there is such an open door for work, and where they may be so thoroughly happy in that work. HENRY E. CLARK.

No. 5. R. M. CLARK’S REPORT.

It is but little more than six months since we left England to return to Madagascar, and rather more than four since we reached Antananarivo. The first few weeks after our arrival were occupied with getting our house ready, during which time kind friends here— Helen Gilpin,and S.and S.Clemes— tookus into 57 theirs. Very soon after re-commencing housekeeping, teach­ ing also was resumed, though mine was even more limited than I wished it to be, from the fact that very many valuable things we expected to use amongst our scholars are lost, some having been stolen by those who ought to have carried them up to this city from Tamatave, and many other things being lost by shipwreck. This has been a great dis­ appointment to us, but the readiness of my old friends to resume work as soon as the holidays, consequent on the occurrence of the great feast, were over, was very pleasant to see. During our absence from Madagascar these scholars — mostly you ng and middle-aged women— have been taught by Mrs. Clemes and Mrs. Kingdon; the former has scholars of her own, and the latter has gone to England, so my old friends have returned to me, some of them having commenced with us more than eight years ago; indeed there are only four or five out of the original number who do not come now ; two I hope are gone to the better land, one, I fear, is unwilling to rejoin her companions on account of wrong doing, and of one or two I now do not know anything. Teaching from the Bible, and of reading, writing, and kindred subjects, was first resumed by my husband and myself in these women’s classes, but the sewing department it was for some weeks impossible to take up, for the reason previously given, that print, calico, cottons, wools, and needles, given us by friends of this Mission in England, have gone to the thieves, as well as very many of our own possessions; after the lapse of some weeks, having bought sewing materials from another missionary who had them for disposal, and having received some of my own goods, my class was opened again to the no small delight of the women, who are extremely fond of all kinds of sewing. I am truly sorry to have to speak of the loss of so many valuable things instead of, as I had hoped, letting the kind givers in England know how very useful their presents had been. Of our more recent scholars—those who first came 58 perhaps five or six years ago— two are now occupying very useful posts in the country, as the wives of evangelists stationed there*; to one who has but few household cares I have spared what was possible of patches, prints, needles, cotton, &c., that she may start a sewing class amongst the women and girls under her husband’s care; being herself clever with her hands, as well as pretty well up in reading, writing, &c., she will be very useful at Arivonimamo where her husband is stationed. Some of our friends may remember that when in Madagascar before we had a few native girls living with us of whom Rake taka was one; she became the wife of Frank on the very day of our departure from Antananarivo, after a struggle of two years to overcome obstacles which others placed in her way ; she has a truly happy and well-ordered home not far from ours, so that we often see her here, and our youngest little girl is very fond of going on her nurse’s back to stay for an hour or so at Frank’s and Raketaka’s house. Now we have five native girls living with us, two of whom did so before, and are almost grown up, whilst three are fresh comers and very young; one of the three was a slave until a few years ago, when she was freed by her brothers, several other members of her large family having also freed themselves and their mother; an elder sister has been a valued servant in our household for many years and was freed by the kindness of friends in England. Thus I would commend this work to the kind thought and prayers of many at home; it may appear but a small work when compared with that of others, but nevertheless I believe it has been richly blessed to some—to the taught and also to the teachers,—and it is often our desire not only that a blessing may accrue to these women and girls from their association with us, but that it might extend much further, to their husbands, brothers, children, and servants (slaves). Will not the readers of this report join in our prayers ? R. M. CLARK. 59

No. 6.

HELEN GILPIN’S REPORT.

B efore entering on the report of our school work during the past year, we have to record two events which are subjects to us of thankfulness and deep gratitude. The first was the arrival of our dear friends I. Sharp and L. Kitching, this was a great cheer to us, arriving as they did at a time when we were feeling somewhat “ discouraged because of the way ; ” and the second, the return of our dear friends the Clarks, bringing with them our bright co-worker A. Pumphrey, who we hope will long labour amongst us, and be a blessing to those around her. Our school has gone on much as usual during the past twelve months. The average attendance is on the increase, being I73f during that time. L. H. Brockway is working well and earnestly, and the systematic attention she be­ stows throughout the school, is raising the standard of attainments. In time past, the attention given to the second class was not adequate to its requirements and it was always rather empty, the girls leaving that class more often than the others. The past year, however, L. H. Brockway has given these girls lessons in English and other personal superintendence, and the result has been highly satisfactory, for both our first and second classes have kept very fairly full. Although for the last six weeks I suffered severely, I did not miss many classes; being now quite forbidden to work for a time is a great trial; but A Pumphrey is able to assist in the sewing department as well as in a Bible lesson with our class women. Ramatoa is a very efficient teacher of Bible history, and the important lessons to be drawn therefrom; A. Pumphrey’s visits to the class at present con­ sist more in questioning the women on lessons previously given than anything else. A. Pumphrey also takes at present our share of the Ambo- 60 hitantely school and gives the Bible lessons as well as sewing and geography. We have changed the time of our examinations, from summer to winter, as being less fatiguing to both scholars and teachers, and we hope to send home next year an account of how our girls passed in the different branches of study. Our native helpers are working very w ell; this is greatly owing to the pains L.H.B. is taking with them, thus enabling them to fulfil their important duties more efficiently. As far as the deeper work in the hearts of our girls is con­ cerned, we are still called upon to work in faith; for although, in looking back over the lapse of years, we can point to many of our scholars whose truly Christian life and work prove plainly whose they are, and whom they desire to serve, it is difficult and sometimes impossible to point out such, as year by year comes round, and our daily routine of school teaching differsvery little from what it is in England. S. Clemes has most kindly undertaken to teach my large Bible class on Sixth-day mornings, until I am able to resume my duties; this, I hope will not be long, as I am getting on very nicely now. Some time ago, our girls were given the fifty-third chap­ ter of Isaiah, to find out the fulfilment of its prophecies from passages in the New Testament, and they did this very well, i.e., the teachers and the girls of the first and second classes. During the holidays I gave them the twenty-second Psalm, to find the fulfilment of its prophecies in the same way, and from the papers now in my hands, I see they have taken much pains to find out appropriate passages. Our girls also continue to learn a text daily, and this is committed to memory by all those who can read throughout the school. They have finished several parables in this way, on com­ pleting a parable they repeat it from the beginning; during the holidays they learnt the parable of the “ Sheep and the 61 goats,” and I believe many of them take an interest in so doing, while we encourage them in it, remembering the words of the Psalmist, “ The entrance of Thy word giveth light.” HELEN GILPIN.

No. 7. WILLIAM WILSON’S REPORT FOR 1879. The Report of my work for the past year will be little different in substance from that of the year before, although it may so in the wording, for nothing is to me so perplexing. The number of Scholars in the Men’s School, at the beginning of 1879, was greater than it has been since I have had the School; but at the end of the year I found that a larger proportion, than was previously the case, had left on one pretext or another. Thirteen students left because it was thought that further progress on their part was rather doubtful, five stopped coming altogether; four were sent away on account of the unsatisfactoriness of their marriage relations, one was removed from our number by death, and seven others are now placed out in various parts of the district teaching in our schools, and, I trust, endeavouring by their lives, to set a good example before those with whom they have to do, and even if only little by little helping to scatter the darkness which surrounds them. Taking, then, these numbers into account, it will be seen that although com­ paratively few are made use of by us as teachers, a certain number regularly pass out at the end of each half year, whose places are soon filled up by new students, at the beginning of the next session. I think if the true state of the people who form our country congregations could be estimated by friends in England, they would be glad, as we are, to encourage young 62 couples to come up to the capital, with the hope that at some future time they maybe instrumental in doing a little towards spreading the Kingdom of Christ in their own villages. Knowing, as we do, what kind of training these young men and women get in their own homes, and with what kind of companions they are constantly associating, we have every cause for thankfulness to our heavenly Father, who has so far enabled us to teach them that which is right and to lead them to seek after Him, who is able to keep them from falling, and who will assuredly sustain them in their every need. The regularity of attendance continues good— and no less than 17 students received prizes last November for unbroken attendance during last session. A marked improvement has taken place throughout the School with regard to cleanliness. The Students’ cottages still continue to find plenty of occupants, and, judging from the number of applications, are highly appreciated. I am greatly indebted to Frank, for the hearty manner in which he has so often helped to carry out my arrangements in connection with the cottages. The students all look up to him ; they go and ask his advice upon almost everything they do ; they run to him in any little difficulty, and they find in him one who is ready to help them to the best of his ability. Their wives, too, go to Raketaka in a similar manner. Nearly all last year those who lived there met at Frank’s house every even­ ing for reading and prayer, which I am sure did a great deal towards binding them altogether, and making them feel that they had one common object in view. Frank and his wife are doing a quiet work for the Master, which although at times it brings them face to face with many things which must discourage and dis­ hearten them, will, I believe, be a blessing to their own souls, and may they be strengthened and helped to persevere in that which they have begun, feeling confident that He who 63 has hitherto guided them will never leave nor forsake them. During the past year the district of Mandridrano, and a few congregations to the east of it, have been placed under my charge, which will form a very important addition to my work. I am looking forward with no little amount of pleasure to being able to visit various portions of the district every two months, and hope by that means to help on the good work so well begun by Joseph S. Sewell, and so ably carried on by Samuel Clemes. WILLIAM WILSON. Faravohitra, Jan. 22nd, 1880.

No. 8. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. During the last six months I have had the privilege of being able to take a share in this good work. I had not attended many times before I clearly saw that the School had received a heavy blow in the loss of our friends, Mrs. Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. Kingdon ; but notwithstanding their loss, we are not left destitute of lady teachers. Miss Brockway has kindly come forward to take Mrs. Johnson’s place, whilst Miss Graham, of the L.M.S., has, during her stay in town, rendered us very valuable assistance. The number of Scholars for a time was very low, owing partly to the loss of Mr. Kingdon, whose inexhaustible energy did a great deal to sustain the interest of the parents of the children in the school, and partly also to the stoppage of all prizes and rewards for attendance, which, of course, at once discouraged those who came simply for the loaves and fishes. Although the number of Scholars on the register is still far below what we might wish, yet we have noticed with pleasure of late, that under the able superintendence of our friend Mr. Thorne (of the 64

L.M.S.), there is a quiet but steady increase, which we cannot but regard as healthy and likely to be lasting. We were very pleased some time ago to receive a message, brought by Miss Pumphrey, of Christian sympathy and en­ couragement from Birmingham, which was heartily responded to, both on the part of teachers and Scholars. Jan. 22nd, 1880. W. WILSON.

No. 9.

FRANK’S REPORT.

W it h regard to my work, in connection with Ambohija- tovo school, I still take the second division of the first class, for two hours and a half every morning, except on Fridays. The subjects which are taught, are ciphering as far as com­ pound interest, exercises in translating English into Mala­ gasy, and vice versa; also reading and translating from a reading book adapted by two of the L.M.S. missionaries, in which there are short, but interesting descriptions of light­ houses, elephants, ostriches, tigers ; and several short stories. In addition to these, I take the simplest rudiments of geometry. I find that the boys are very much interested in learning English, as we can talk about many things which they have never seen, and they ask any amount of questions, but they are not quite so interested either in ciphering or geometry, and so they make more progress in English than in either of the other two subjects. The year before last, I used to examine several classes in turns, twice a week, in ciphering, English grammar, geography, but last year and this I could only examine them once a week, as time would not allow. Mr. Johnson sees by this weekly examination how each of the scholars is getting on. In scripture I take the two junior classes in which there are about forty or fifty little boys from thirteen years old 65 downwards. Last half, my subject was the life of the Apostle Paul, but this year I am taking the life of our Lord. They also commit to memory certain portions of scripture which I pick out, such as verses from the sermon on the Mount, etc. At the Sunday school, my share in the work was to act as substitute for any absent teachers, but now, as Mr. Wilson has kindly taken my place, I am not sorry to have a class of my own. My class is composed of the youngest children in the school from six to eleven years old. I enjoy talking to these young children, as most of them are very attentive, and very much interested in hearing Bible stories, and when there is anything which pleases them I can see the smile upon their faces. When our good friends Mr. and Mrs. Kingdon and Mrs. Johnson left us, some of us were a little afraid that the Sunday school would go down, but we are all rejoiced to see that under the superintendence of our friend Mr. Thorne, and with the help of a few diligent teachers, the number continues about the same, or even increases. The boys and girls, as they grow older, prefer to go to chapels with their parents, consequently, the older children leave and the younger ones come to take their place. The lessons taught last year were from lives of the Patriarchs, with many other lessons from the Old Testament; but now we are going to have some lessons from the Acts of the Apostles. Miss Graham, one of the L.M.S. ladies, rendered us valuable assistance for many months, and Miss Brockway kindly took Mrs. Kingdon’s class. Our Young Men’s Christian Association was almost completely broken up about five months ago, as it was very irregularly attended, but we tried to make a last effort to carry it on, so a few of us joined to request one of either the L.M.S. or F.F.M.A. missionaries to be our President. We had nearly come to despair, for all those whom we requested declined, as all said they had no time to give to it. At last, E 66 however, we were successful, and our warm hearted friend Mr. Clark accepted our request. Now, under his presidency, and with the assistance of three of the members for secre­ taries, the Association is likely to prosper. We have a meeting about once a week at the Ambohijatovo school. There are about twenty members who attend regularly, and about ten honorary members. Essays are read by each of the members in turns, and the Bible Class is conducted by the president, and two of the L.M.S. missionaries ; and we have a lesson on natural history, by a Norwegian missionary. In addition to these, about once a month, we ask some of the L.M.S. and F.F.M.A. missionaries to give us a lecture on any subject they choose. Mr. Sharp has kindly accepted an invitation from us, to give a lecture about the end of February, to all the young men and women of Antananarivo, on his travels in northern lands. My portion of the work at the Printing Office is helping Mr. Clemes as assistant editor of, and contributor to, the Children’s Friend. While Mr. Kingdon was the editor of this magazine, I had to write nearly the whole of the articles for each monthly issue, and one may imagine it was not very easy work to write a great deal of matter worth reading every month. Fortunately my little knowledge of English was a valuable assistance to me, as I could translate a great many nice pieces from the English Children’s Friend. Friends will be pleased to hear that the Malagasy Children’s Friend is one of the most popular magazines issued in Madagascar, and the pictures are very much appreciated. But may I suggest here, that when Friends kindly send the pictures, they will send along with them some good articles worth translating, and then we should not be so badly off for matter. Now Mr. Clemes and I have a few more contributors to help us, so we are better off than before. I have said before that my country work had to be given up altogether, as I had no end of troubles with the teachers, who used to send only the children to me, and themselves 67 either stop at home or go somewhere else. We tried all sorts of rules to press them to come, but none suc­ ceeded, so I decided to stop altogether, though it was very much against my will and that of the children to have to stop. But I am glad to say that Mr. Clemes and Andrianony, the pastor, go there once a week to help them. My teaching at Anosizato also was given up at the same time, as I think the people there have had enough instruc­ tion to help them in the work. And then as Andrianony goes to teach them once a week, I think they are very well off. The pastor and some of the members there were very desirous of having a better sort of singing in their chapel than they used to have, so they requested me to go and instruct them eveiy alternate Sunday before the morning service. As I had been very desirous for a long time to have the wretched singing in the country put down, and some good hymns sung, I accepted their request, and am now going to them every alternate Sunday, and occasionally preach to them. The kind of singing they used to have before, and which some still wish to retain, is a kind of grating and drumming voice (not singing) which is very disagreeable to an intelligent ear, and sometimes very deafening. The hymns that are taught them are translations of some well-known English hymns, such as “ Rock of Ages,” and others which go to well-known tunes such as “ Missionary,” “ Wells,” and some of Sankey’s tunes. I hope, through an effort of this kind, the wretched singing in the country may be dispensed with in the chapel services. But I am afraid it will not be a very easy work to put it down, and it will take some time before it is accomplished. FRANK. t f

SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE F. F. M. A. PRINTING OFFICE, FARAVOHITRA, ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, 1879.

For whom Description Price at No. of No. No. No. in English Name of Work. Malagasy Name of Work. Executed. Size. of which Binding. issued. Printed. Sold. Stock. £ s. d. F. F. M. A ... Lesson Sheets ...... Fianarana I...... Dem. folio.... I 0 0 og 2000 i Do...... 514 486 Alphabet Sheets...... Fianarana Abidy.. Do...... I O O Of; 2000 1310 690 Hymn ...... Ry Miaramila ..... Sunday School... Dem. 8vo..... i — 300 300 — Hymns...... Fihirana ...... Do...... Dem. i6m o.. 8 — 1000 1000 — Hymns and Tunes ...... Tiona sy Fihirana Do...... Dem. 8vo..... 4 — 200 — Do...... 200 Hymns...... Fihirana ...... Dem. i6m o.. 12 — 400 400 — Catalogue of Books in Library...... F. F. M. A ... Dem. i2m o.. 12 Col. wrap. — 100 100 — Advice to Youths...... Anatra ho any ny Tovolahy ...... Do...... Do...... 48 Do. ... 0 0 2 1000 Do...... 105 895 The Little Geography...... Geografy Kely...... Do...... 40 Do. ... 0 0 3 3000 — 3000 Scripture Catechism ...... Valin-teny ...... C. F. Moss .. Fcp. 8vo...... 30 Do. ... — 1000 1000 — The Contents of Scripture...... Zavatra lazain’ ny Boky amy ny Baiboly F. F. M. A ... Dem. i2m o.. 24 Do. ... 0 0 1 500 500 — The Children’s Friend (monthly nos.).... Ny Sakaizan’ ny Ankizy Madinika ...... Do...... Fcp. 4to...... l6 0 0 o§ 20580 12884 7696 Preface to Maclear...... Sasin-teny ...... Do. Dem. i2m o.. 12 Col. wrap. 0 0 1 200 55 *45 Small Hymn B ook...... Fihirana K e ly ...... Do. Dem. 241110.. 48 Do. ... 0 0 o§ 6000 4600 1400 Penny Geography ...... Geografy Ilavoamena...... Do. Dem. i m o.. 2 12 Do. ... OOI 3000 494 2506 Diary...... Diary ...... Do. Fcp. l 2mo. . 76 Cloth, limp 0 0 3 500 A Lamp and a Light ...... Fanilo sy Fahazavana...... Do. 329 171 Dem. i2m o.. 24 — 2000 2000 — Miscellaneous publications printed in pre­ vious years, sold in 1879, about . — — 11000 —

Totals ...... 369 43.780 36,791 17,989 R EC EIP T S -A.HSTD E32LPE2STIDXTTJK/E . Dr. £ s. d. Cr. By Stock in hand last year...... 1525 4 ‘ 3 New Furniture...... £ ,, New Furniture ...... 24 3 9 Books in Stock, at half selling prices 24 „ Wages...... 210 I 10 Paper and School Materials in Stock J 1338 4 o ,, Materials...... 10 18 5 Books and School Materials sold amount to. ,, Depreciations of Furniture on s. id ., less per cent. ... Loss ...... 439 7 8 ^174 12 5 8 14 7 i Paper and School Materials from England ...... 125 19 2 155 10 By Bibles, Testaments, and Miscellaneous Books purchased from the L.M.S...... 51 15 3

¿1956 17 3 ¿1956 17 3 a MADAGASCAR CASH ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 187g.

£ s. d. £ s. d. Balance last year...... 460 12 4 Personal Expenses...... 667 11 11 Drafts on B. & Co...... 3216 19 4 E. H. Brockway...... 45 0 0 Printing Office Receipts, including sale of books, school ma­ Frank ...... 22 8 0 terials, stationery, See...... 745 16 6 Schools—Antananarivo...... 195 3 4 Cash received on Private Account...... 25 0 0 Country Schools, Teachers, &c...... 517 18 0 Sale of Medicines...... 34 7 10 Travelling Expenses...... 145 4 2 Sale of W ork...... 19 12 4 Ditto between Antananarivo and England,—A. Kingdon and family, L. Johnson and family to Enéland ; H. E. Clark and family, and A. Pumphrey to Madagascar ...... 590 15 3 Buildings...... 478 13 1 Purchase of site of Ambohijatovo School...... 52 0 0 Rent...... 90 12 0 Carriage of Goods from the coast to the capital...... 171 3 2 Postage ...... 6 16 10 Discount...... 120 1 11 Assistance to country Chapel building...... 18 7 9 Assistance given to youths from the country to enable them to learn at our town schools...... 112 2 7 Books, Stationery, See...... 101 16 4 Medical charges, &c...... 30 14 3 Subscription to Malagasy Home Mission Society...... 20 0 0 Sundries ...... 44 1 6 PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. Mr. Kingdon ...... 156 6 0 Wages ...... 210 1 10 Materials, &c...... 10 18 5 Furniture and repairs...... 24 3 9 Bibles and other books bought from the L. M.S. ... 49 13 0 ------451 3 0 Total Expenses ...... 3781 13 1 Paid on Private Account...... 50 0 0 Bnlance in hand...... 679 15 3 £4511 8 4 £4511 8 4 LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS.

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FRIENDS’ FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION.

The following Friends are appointed A u t h o r is e d C o r r e s p o n ­ d e n t s for the Collection of Subscriptions in their own Meetings, for the transmission of Missionary Intelligence, and for increasing among Friends an interest in Missionary work.

A c k w o r t h ,nr Ponte-William Kitching, jun. fract, A l t o n , (Hants), Frederick Crowley B a t h , Joseph Theobald B olt o n (Lancashire), C. J. Abbatt, Beech Villa, Chorley Old Road B a n b u r y (Oxon), Chas. Gillett B a r n s l e y (Yorks), Chas. Brady B ir k e n h e a d , Dykes Alexander Fox, Molyneux Place, Water Street, Liverpool B ir m in g h a m John E. Wilson, West Hill, Augustus Road B r a d f o r d (Yorks), John Priestman B r id g e w a t e r , Francis J. Thompson B r ig h o u s e , Francis Smith B r ig h t o n , Marriage Wallis, Springfield, Preston B r is t o l Henry Grace, Royal Insurance Buildings B r o u g h t o n (Cumb.), Robert Wilson C a r l is l e , Hudson Scott, Brunswick Street C h a r l b u r y , John M. Albright C h e l m s f o r d , Wm. Bott, Broomfield C h e l t e n h a m , Alfred Trusted, Prestbury C ir e n c e s t e r , William Alexander C o l c h e s t e r , Frederick Richardson, Lexden C r o y d o n , C. C. Morland, Rastrick Lodge D a r l in g t o n , Jonathan B. Hodgkin D e r b y , R. Binns, Market Place D o n c a st e r , J. F. Clark, Regent Square D u n m o w , Walter Robson, Saffron Walden 72

D u b l in , Thomas White Fisher, 12, Cope Street „ John Webb, 20, Temple Lane D o r k in g , William Allen E d in b u r g h , Eliza Wigham, 5, South Gray Street E a r i t h , nr St. Ives, Richard Brown E v e s h a m , W. W. Brown, High Street EATiNGTON,Stratford-Thomson Sharp on-Avon F a l m o u t h , A. Lloyd F o x , Penmere G ainsborough , Louisa Thompson, Richard Thompson G a r s t a n g , Charles Wilson G l a s g o w , J. C. White, Oakfield Cottage, Hill Head G l o u c e s t e r , Frederick Sessions H a l i f a x , J. W. Collinson, Southfield H a r r o g a t e , Benjamin Walker, Haya Park H e r e f o r d , Joseph Jones, Broad Street H e r t f o r d , Isaac Robinson, The Wash H it c h in , William Ransom H o d d e sd o n , Francis Warner, The Cottage H uddersfield , Isaac Robson, Dalton H u l l , Sami. Priestman „ J. Thorp, Rutland Terrace I p s w ic h , Samuel Alexander K e n d a l , C. L. Braithwaite K e t t e r in g , J. F. Thursfield K in g s t o n - o n - t h a m e sJ. Hingston Fox, 7, South Ter., Surbiton, s.w. L e w e s , Caleb R. Kemp L is c a r d , S. M. Smith, Church Street, Egremont, near Birkenhead L u t o n , Henry Brown, jun. L o n d on :— 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 73

L a n c a s t e r , Thomas Barrow, Baldrand L ee d s, Samuel Southall, Central Market L e ic e s t e r , Wilfrid H. Ellis, 8, Market Street L e ig h t o n B u z z a r d , E. Glaisyer L e o m in s t e r , H. S. Newman L iv e r p o o l , D. A. Fox „ Thomas Leicester, 126, Canning Street „ Samuel Leicester „ John D. Crosfield, 5, Edge Lane M il n t h o r p e (West-Richard Batt moreland), M a l t o n (Yorks.) Henry Taylor M a n c h e s t e r , Josiah Merrick, Whalley Range S. Benson Woodhead, 28, Victoria Street M e l k s h a m , Henry Simpson M id d l e s b o r o ’, William Taylor M a l v e r n , William Sparkes N e a t h , Frederic J. Gibbins, The Craig NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNEGeorge W. Clark, 5, Summerhill Grove N o r t h a m p t o n , Samuel Wells N o r w ic h , Henry Brown N o t t in g h a m , John Armitage N a n t w i c h , Samuel Harlock N e w p o r t P a g n e l l Richard Littleboy N e e d h a m M a r k e t , S. A. Maw NoRTHOVER(Glaston-John Morland bury, Somerset), O l d h a m , Thomas Emmott » Henry L. Hargraves P l y m o u t h A P. Balkwill, Old Town Street F. E. Fox P r e s t o n , Joseph Jesper R a w d o n , nr Leeds Sarah Fowler Barnard R e ig a t e , T. Sydney Marriage R e a d in g , Joseph Huntley, Earlham Villa R o c h d a l e J. Albert Bright S a f f r o n W a l d e n , Walter Robson S c a r b o r o u g h , Joshua Rowntree S e t t l e (Yorks.), Ellwood Brockbank S h e f f ie l d , D. Doncaster, jun., Victoria Road, Broom- hall Park S h ie l d s , North, John R. Proctor SiBFORD,nr Banbury, John Wells S o u t h a m p t o n , William C. Westlake S o u t h p o r t (Lancsh.),Henry G-. Coventry S t a in e s , Thomas Ashby S t a n s t e a d (Essex), Joshua Green S t . A u s t e l l , William Clemes, jun. Stockton-on-Tees, W. Benington Sudbury (Suffolk) E. Grubb Sunderland, C. S. Wilson, 10, Tavistock Place Thirsk (Yorks.), Bartholomew Smith Torquay, Anna F. Fox, Oakhill Taunton, Samuel Lawrence Thetford, John Everett, East Harling Ulverstone, Anthony W. Wilson U x b r id g e , E. P. Bastin, West Drayton „ Caroline Bailey W akefield Isaac G. Wallis W ellingon (Somst.),J. H. Fox, The Clere Whitby, Edward F. Sewell W hitehaven, J. K. Glasse, 14, Lowther Street „ Jane Baxter W isbech, Alexander Peckover W orcester, Stanley Pumphrey, 41, Britannia Square Yatton (Somerset), Rachel Eddington Y ork, John S. Rowntree, Pavement „ William Sessions, Low Ousegate TOTALS.

OF SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS

FROM VARIOUS TOWNS, &c.

£ s. d. £ s. d. Ackworth ...... 710 6 Earith...... 2 5 0 Allonby ...... 16 7 6 Edinburgh...... 3 18 0 Alton ...... 18 0 0 Epping ...... 2 15 0 Ashbourne ...... 5 15 8 Evesham ...... 9 14 0 Banbury...... 19 8 6 Exeter...... 3 0 0 Bardfield...... 3 3 0 Falmouth ...... 26 19 0 Barnsley...... 12 17 6 Fordingbridge ...... 4 3 0 Bentham...... 10 0 0 Garstang...... 1 7 0 Berkhampstead ...... 7 0 0 Glasgow ...... 19 15 0 Bewdley ...... 12 0 Glastonbury ...... 2 10 0 Birkenhead ...... 6 17 0 Gloucester ...... 8 0 0 Birmingham ...... 338 6 10 Halifax ...... 11 9 0 Bolton...... 4 18 0 Harling ...... 1 0 0 Bournemouth...... 1 0 0 Hartshill ...... 5 0 Bradford...... 52 7 0 Haverfordwest ...... 5 0 Bridgwater...... 12 3 0 Hereford...... 10 0 Brighouse ...... 3 10 11 Hitehin ...... 107 19 0 Brighton...... 53 0 10 Hoddesdon...... 15 17 6 Bristol ...... 191 9 6 Holloway ...... 26 4 2 Broughton ...... 13 5 0 Huddersfield ...... 13 0 2 Burnley ...... 1 0 0 Hull...... 13 10 0 Cambs. and Hunts. Ipswich ...... 13 2 0 Monthly Meeting ...... 20 0 0 Ireland ...... 346 12 6 Cardiff...... 100 Kendal ...... 57 8 9 Carlisle ...... 9 2 6 Kent ...... 34 19 6 Charlbury ...... 5 5 0 Kettering ...... 3 5 0 Chatteris ...... 15 0 Kew ...... 1 0 0 Chelmsford...... 28 16 0 Kingston...... 2 10 0 Chipping Norton ...... 1 15 0 Lancaster ...... 52 14 3 Cirencester...... 20 1 0 Leeds ...... 67 0 6 Coalbrookdale ...... 4 5 0 Leicester...... 42 15 0 Colchester ...... 13 10 0 Leighton Buzzard 16 13 6 Colthouse ...... 7 7 6 Leominster...... 30 15 5 Coventry...... 1 1 0 Lewes...... 5 18 0 Croydon...... 45 13 0 Lincolnshire ...... 4 16 6 Darlington...... 781 12 6 Liscard ...... 1 10 0 D erby...... 1 16 0 Liskeard...... 4 10 0 Doncaster ...... 3 10 0 Liverpool ...... 25 16 0 Dorking ...... 2 0 0 London ...... 429 5 8 D unmow...... 5 0 Luton ...... 10 0 0 76 £ s. d. £ s. d. Luton & Leighton Monthly Southampton ...... 2 2 0 Meeting ...... 20 0 0 Southport ...... 13 7 6 Maldon ...... 5 0 Southwark Monthly Mtg. 26 14 0 Malton...... 12 9 7 Stanstead...... :...... 5 17 6 Malvern ...... 3 12 0 Stockport ...... 1 10 0 Mansfield ...... 1 10 0 Stockton...... 32 19 0 Matlock ...... 2 0 0 Stoke Newington ...... 83 9 2 Melksham ...... 5 0 0 Stourbridge...... 3 0 0 Middlesbro’ ...... 11 10 0 Street ...... 6 1 8 Newcastle-on-Tyne ...... 51 3 0 Sudbury ...... 3 6 0 Newport Pagnell ...... 10 10 0 Sunderland & Benfieldside 203 6 5 Newton Abbott ...... 2 2 0 Sydenham ...... 100 0 0 Northampton (2 years) ... 7 7 6 Taunton ...... 6 10 0 North Shields...... 10 13 0 Thirsk...... 3 14 0 Norwich ...... 6 0 6 Torquay ...... 8 3 0 Nottingham ...... 14 2 6 Tottenham ...... 1 1 0 Pakefield...... 1 19 0 Walthamstow...... 15 12 6 P eel...... 1 10 5 Wandsworth ...... 8 7 0 Penrith ...... 5 3 0 Wakefield ...... 3 5 0 Plymouth ...... 29 15 0 Wellington...... 7 0 0 Pontefract ...... 1 10 0 Westminster ...... 18 1 0 Preston (Lancashire)...... 23 17 6 Weston-super-Mare ...... 6 18 6 Preston Patrick...... 1 12 6 Whitehaven ...... 1 12 0 Beading ...... 136 1 0 Wilmslow ...... 10 1 0 Redhill ...... 2 0 0 Winchmore Hill...... 11 0 0 Redruth ...... 1 1 0 Wisbeach ...... 275 0 0 Reigate (1878-9)...... 39 8 0 Woodford ...... 5 0 0 Do. (1879-80) ...... 43 19 0 Worcester ...... 13 4 6 Ross...... 3 1 0 Wymondham ...... 1 5 0 Saffron Walden ...... 64 12 5 Yatton ...... 10 6 6 St. Austell ...... 5 12 6 York ...... 57 14 0 Sedbergh...... 12 6 Young Women Friends’ Sheffield ...... 41 7 4 Christian Union 45 0 0 Sibford ...... 2 6 11 Special Donations 570 0 0 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS

RECEIVED FROM 5t h MO. 20, 1879, TO 5i h MO. 18, 1880.

Please inform the Secretary of any Errors in the following List.

For Total Amounts from each Town see previous page.

£ s. d. £ s. d. AcKWORTH.perW. Kitching, A sh b o u r n e , per F. Simpson— jun.— Joseph Simpson...... 5 0 0 William Brown...... 2 0 0 Frederick Simpson ...... 10 0 W. S. Lean...... 1 10 0 Boys’ Sunday Class ...... 5 8 George Satterth waite ... 1 0 0 Thomas Puplett...... 10 0 Banbury, per Charles Gillett— Mary Whitaker...... 10 0 Jonathan Gillett ...... 5 0 0 Frederic Andrews 10 0 Catharine Gillett ...... 5 0 0 John Senior ...... 5 0 Charles Gillett ...... 5 0 0 Rachel Stone ...... 5 0 Martha Gillett ...... 1 0 0 R. W. Wells,...... 2 6 John Padbury ...... 1 0 0 Sarah Walker...... 2 6 J. Ashby...... 1 0 0 John Simpson ...... 2 6 M. and A ...... 5 0 Albert Linney ...... 2 6 Henry Stone ...... 5 tt Miss Murray ...... 2 6 Deborah Beesley ...... 5 0 W. Kitching, jun...... 2 6 Robert Stevens ...... 5 0 A Friend...... 2 6 M. and E. Grimshaw ... 3 (> James Airey ...... 2 0 M. A. Stevens ...... 2 fi C. Ransome ...... 1 0 Francis Taylor ...... 2 6 Bardfield, per W. Robson— Allonby, per J. Walker— Friends of Bardfield 3 3 0 Friends of Allonby and Beckfoot...... 13 2 6 Barnsley, per C. Brady— Elizabeth Ostle (Birkby) 2 2 0 Charles Brady ...... 3 0 0 A. Kingdon’s Lecture ... 1 3 0 Charles Harvey...... 2 10 0 Henry Harvey ...... 2 10 0 Alton, per F. Crowley— Edward Brady ...... 1 0 0 Charlotte Crowley...... 5 0 0 Edward Brady, jun 1 0 0 Frederick Crowley ...... 5 0 0 Walter Brady ...... 1 0 0 S. S. and E. Bell ...... 2 2 0 Maria Craik ...... 1 0 0 Eliza Bell ...... 1 1 0 James G. Gregory 10 0 C. E. Crowley ...... 1 1 0 A Friend...... 5 0 Marianne Crowley ...... 1 1 0 Thomas Allen...... 2 6 Shepherd Bell ...... 1 0 0 William Curtis...... 1 0 0 Bentiiaii, per Isaac Brown— Mary and Jane Curtis ... 10 0 Sarah G. Rice...... 5 0 0 Joseph H. Fardon 5 0 Ditto ...... 5 0 0 78 £ 8. d. £ s. d. B erkiiampstead , per John E. Birmingham, Continued— L ittleboy— Charles Sturge ...... 1 0 0 D. and S. A. Squire ... 5 0 0 Wilson Sturge ...... 1 0 0 John E. Littleboy 2 0 0 S. E. Scott ...... 1 0 0 John Gibbins ...... 1 0 0 Bewdley. W .H. Lloyd ...... 1 0 0 Collected by E. Tregelles 12 0 Gawen Kenway...... 1 0 0 Frederic Patching 1 0 0 Birkenhead, per D. A. Fox— George Ashford...... 1 0 0 Friends of Birkenhead ... 6 17 0 Maria Cadbury, jun 1 0 0 Hannah Nutter...... 1 0 0 Birmingham, per John E. W ilson— Joseph Sturge ...... 15 0 Arthur Albright ...... 100 0 0 Sarah Ann Reeves ...... 10 0 John E. Wilson...... 100 0 0 Benjamin Scott...... 10 0 J. Hort Player ...... 10 0 0 H. B. Bottomley ...... 10 0 Joel Cadbury...... 10 0 0 Isabel Southall ...... 10 0 Cephas Butler ...... 5 0 0 Charles Pumphrey 10 0 R. C. Barrow...... 5 0 0 Frederic Im pey...... 10 0 F. C. Clayton...... 5 0 0 Samuel K in g ...... 10 0 J. W. Shorthouse ...... 5 0 0 William R. King ...... 10 0 William Southall ...... 5 0 0 Edward G. Davis ...... 10 0 Samuel P rice...... 5 0 0 Joseph Fairfax ...... 5 0 John W. Wilson (don.)... 5 0 0 Gilbert Gilkes ...... 5 0 T. S. Wilson (don.) ...... 4 0 0 Charles Willmott ...... 5 0 George Cadbury...... 3 3 0 W. Arnold Thompson ... 5 0 W. D. Jeffrey (donation) 3 0 0 Per George Ashford— Alfred Southall...... 3 0 0 Priory First-day School, Anonymous (donation) ... 3 0 0 for Native Teacher ... 4 15 10 George Barrow ...... 2 0 0 Ditto (donation) 3 0 0 Bolton, per C. J. Abbatt— Tangye Brothers ...... 2 2 0 James S. Holdsworth ... 1 0 0 John Cadbury ...... 2 0 0 William Abbatt...... 10 0 Ditto (donation) 2 0 0 Thomas Abbatt...... 10 0 Thomas Scott ...... 2 0 0 Charles J. Abbatt...... 10 0 J. H. Barclay...... 2 0 0 Isaac W right...... 5 0 Joseph Shorthouse ...... 2 0 0 Friends’ First-day School 5 0 Ann Snowdon ...... 2 0 0 Alice Ann Abbatt...... 5 0 G. Smithson (for educa­ Elizabeth Abbatt ...... 5 0 tion) ...... 2 0 0 Alice Abbatt ...... 2 6 Richard Cadbury ...... 2 0 0 Frederick Tilzey ...... 2 6 William White ...... 2 0 0 George W. Abbatt ...... 2 6 William Gibbins ...... 2 0 0 Godfrey Woodhead, jun. 2 6 Thomas Gibbins ...... 2 0 0 Frederick W. Jackson ... 2 6 R. C. Gibbins...... 2 0 0 Alfred E. Wright ...... 2 6 Emma J. Gibbins 2 0 0 Frederic Wright ...... 2 6 Alfred E. Wenham ...... 2 0 0 James Dutton ...... 2 6 Sarah Southall ...... 2 0 0 Jane C. Wright...... 2 0 W. A. Albright...... 2 0 0 Edward Abbatt...... 2 0 H. Cadbury and Sisters 1 10 0 David W. Payne ...... 2 0 William Doubleday ...... 1 10 0 Ellen S. Jackson ...... 1 0 Rebecca Hutchinson ... 1 1 0 Benjamin H. Abbatt ... 1 0 R. J. Lowe (Eatington) 1 0 0 F. King ...... 1 0 0 Bournemouth. B. H. Cadbury (tide late) 1 0 0 L. Thompson ...... 1 0 0 79 £ 8. d. £ s. d. B r a d fo r d , p e r John Priestman- B r ig h to n , Continued— Alfred Priestman 5 0 0 E. B. & F. A Prideaux 1 0 0 Edward Priestman 5 0 0 Martin Robinson ...... 1 0 0 Frederick Priestman 5 0 0 W. J. Smith ...... 1 0 0 John Priestman... 3 0 0 J. H. Glaisyer ...... 10 0 H. B. Sewell 3 0 0 Thomas Glaisyer ...... 10 0 Elizabeth Harris 2 0 0 Priscilla Hack ...... 10 0 Samuel Gill 2 0 0 Fanny Hack ...... 10 0 Alfred Jesper ... 2 0 0 M P. Hack...... 10 0 Walter Priestman 2 0 0 Mary Kemp ...... 10 0 Robert Parkinson ... 2 0 0 Ellen Rutter ...... 10 0 Grace Wilson 2 0 0 W. C. Wallis...... 10 0 Edward West ... 1 0 0 M. A Whit«head 10 0 H. W. Crossley ...... 1 0 0 William Deane ...... 5 0 James Dixon 1 0 0 S. & E. Glaisyer...... 5 0 Joseph J. Dymond 1 0 0 Robert Glaisyer...... 5 0 John Stansfield ... 1 0 0 S. R. Rake, per H. S. Edward Tuke 1 0 0 Newman...... 5 0 Lydia Turner ...... 1 0 0 M. A. Neave ...... 5 0 John Wilson 1 0 0 Mary Patching ...... 5 0 Frederick Stansfield 10 0 E: A. Wallis ...... 5 0 James Wilson ... 10 0 Gulielma Wallis ...... 2 6 Hannah Dale 10 0 Fanny Coar...... 2 0 William Rowntree ... 10 0 Collection at A.Kingdon’s Henry Rowntree ... 5 0 Lecture ...... 3 11 4 William Sun ter ...... 5 0 William Guy 5 ... 0 B r is t o l , per Henry Grace— A. iungdons Lecture Joseph Storrs F r y ...... 25 0 0 (nett proceeds) ... 2 12 0 Hester Rich ...... 10 10 0 Friends 1 irst-day School Ditto (donation) ... 10 0 0 (ior native teacner) ... 6 0 0 Elizabeth G. Thomas ... 10 0 0 Maria T. Binns ...... 10 0 0 B r id g w a t e r , per F. J. Thompson— Lewis Frv. M.P...... 10 0 0 Caroline E. Ash (the late) Friends of Bridgwater ... 12 3 0 7 0 0 Walter Sturge...... 5 5 0 B r ig h o u s e , per E. Smith- John Thimbeck and Han­ Elizabeth Eddison..... 1 0 0 nah M. Grace...... 5 5 0 Edward Smith ...... 1 0 0 RachelFowler (Melksham) 5 0 0 Men’s Adult School for Martha A Naish ...... 3 3 0 Native Teacher ...... 17 4 Margaret Marriott...... 3 3 0 Women’s ditto ditto .. 13 7 Matilda Sturge ...... 3 0 0 Frederick Wall ...... 3 0 0 B rig h to n , per Daniel Hack— Francis F. Tuckett...... 2 2 0 R. H. Penney...... 10 0 0 Mary A Fry ...... 2 2 0 F. Brown...... 5 0 0 Margaret R. Fry ...... 2 2 0 Daniel Hack ...... 5 0 0 Thomas Pease...... 2 2 0 D. P. Hack (don.) 3 0 0 Alfred Shipley ...... 2 2 0 Ditto ditto ...... 2 0 0 John Tanner ...... 2 2 0 C. J. & S. Heald 5 0 0 Samuel Tanner ...... 2 2 0 Marriage Wallis .... 5 0 0 Thomas Wedmore...... 2 2 0 B . Lucas...... 2 0 0 Eliza L u ry...... 2 0 0 S. Kem p...... 1 0 0 Francis Fry...... 2 0 0 David Lade...... 1 0 0 Alexander Grace...... 1 1 0 J. E. Lucas ...... 1 0 0 Mary Grace...... 1 1 0 80 £ s. d. £ s. d. B ristol Continued— Broughton, Continued— Ann Hunt ...... 1 1 0 Joseph W. Harris ...... 10 0 Arthur J. H un t...... 1 1 0 Mrs. Jonathan Harris ... 10 0 Sarah Atkinson (the late) 1 1 0 Thomas M. Harris 10 0 Henry Camps...... 1 1 0 Robert Wilson, jun 10 0 Francis J. Fry ...... 1 1 0 George S. Wilson ...... 10 0 Sarah A. Fiy ...... 1 1 0 William H. Wilson ...... 10 0 Henry G-race ...... 1 1 0 Mrs. Pearson ...... 5 0 Mary R. Follett...... 1 0 0 Ellen C. Grace ...... 1 0 0 Burnley, per H. S. Newman— Lucy Harris (Caine) 1 0 0 Hannah Leather...... 10 0 Bichard Kidd...... 1 0 0 Ditto, for education ...... 10 0 A. M. Trusted (Filton) ... 1 0 0 Theodore Grace...... 10 6 Cambridge and H untingdon Mercy Tanner...... 10 6 Monthly M eeting, per Edmund T. Wedmore ... 10 6 Richard Brown ...... 20 0 0 Frederick F. Cotterell ... 10 0 Priscilla A. F ry...... 10 0 Cardiff, per H. S. Newman— Samuel H. Lury, jun. Collected by E. Akers ... 10 0 (Southampton) ...... 10 0 Hannah Marriott ...... 10 0 Carlisle, per Hudson Scott— Ellen Marriott ...... 10 0 Mary M. Sutton (Scotby) 2 0 0 Kachel Moxham...... 10 0 Robert Doeg ...... 1 0 0 T. D. Nicholson, M.D. ... 10 0 Hudson Scott...... 1 0 0 Isaac Dell ...... 5 0 Elizabeth Brockbank 10 0 John Howlands ...... 5 0 Thomas Blair ...... 10 0 Rebecca Williams ...... 5 0 Jane Little...... 10 0 Aaron Diamond...... 5 0 Jacob Wigham ...... 10 0 Heniy Sidney...... 5 0 George Carr (Silloth) ... 10 0 Robert Brison...... 5 0 James Ecroyd...... 5 0 Anonymous...... 4 6 Thompson Wigham ...... 5 0 Thomas Gregory ...... 4 0 E. and J. Irw in...... 5 0 Matilda W a ll...... 3 0 Stodaart Peile ...... 5 0 Mary A. Brison...... 2 6 Joseph Haughton ...... 5 0 Boys’ First Day School John Sutton ...... 5 0 for native teacher ...... 4 10 6 Robert J. Baillie ...... 5 0 Girls’ ditto ditto 3 5 6 John Drinkall...... 5 0 Collection at AKingdon’s Eliza Barlow ...... 5 0 lecture, less part ex­ Isaac Robinson ...... 5 0 penses ...... 3 11 0 John E. Barlow...... 2 6 Share of joint collection at meeting houses ...... 9 13 0 Charlbury, per J. M. Albright— Per Priscilla A. Fry— Oxoniensis ...... 3 4 0 Sale of Mala­ Friends of Charlbury ... 1 16 0 gasy -work... 5 12 0 A Friend (Faringdon) ... 2 6 English contri­ Ditto (Witney) ...... 2 6 butions ...... 26 8 0 Chatteris, per R. Brown— 32 0 0 William Clarke...... 10 0 Less fresh ma­ Thomas Triplow...... 5 0 terials bought 14 7 0 ------17 13 0 Chelmsford, per J. Bott— B roug h ton, per Robert Wilson— Juvenile Working Society 10 0 0 Robert Wilson ...... 10 0 0 John Marriage ...... 2 2 0 81 £ s. d. £ s. d. Chelmsford, Continued— Colchester, Continued— Sophia Marriage ...... 2 0 0 Maria S. Gripper ...... 2 0 0 Henry Marriage...... 2 0 0 Marianne Gripper 2 0 0 Caroline (Henry) Marriage 1 0 0 Edward Marriage ...... 10 0 Charlotte Marriage ...... 1 0 0 Frederick Richardson ... 10 0 Charlotte & Ellen Clayton 1 0 0 Walter Barritt ...... 10 0 Joseph Gripper ...... 1 0 0 Henry Barritt...... 5 0 Sampson Marriage 1 0 0 W. Marriage ...... 5 0 Henry S. Corder...... 1 0 0 Joseph J. Cross...... 5 0 Edward Corder ...... 1 0 0 Christopher Stopes 5 0 David Christy ...... 1 0 0 William B ott...... 10 0 Colthouse, per Isaac Brown— William Impey ...... 10 0 Colthouse Meeting 7 7 6 Joseph A. Smith ...... 10 0 James C. Sm ith...... 10 0 Coventry, per J. E. Wilson— Hannah F. Atkins 1 1 0 Lawrence Marriage ...... 10 0 Philip Marriage...... 10 0 Edward Eosling...... 10 0 Ceoydon, per C. C. Morland— John Horniman...... 10 0 0 Robert Christy ...... 10 0 Hannah Morland ...... 5 5 0 Mary Bott ...... 5 0 Thomas Hanbury ...... 5 0 0 Herbert Marriage ...... 5 0 Lucy Morland ...... 5 0 0 S. A. Bott ...... 2 6 Charles W ise...... 5 0 0 E. R...... 2 0 Henry T. Mennell 3 3 0 Chipping Norton Friends, Charles C. Morland ...... 3 0 0 per J. M. Albright ...... 1 15 0 M. C. Crowley ...... 2 0 0 Henry Tylor ...... 2 0 0 Cirencester, per W. Alexander— E. S., C., and E. Crowley 1 10 0 William Brewin...... 10 0 0 Edith Crafton...... 1 0 0 Martha Brewin ...... 2 0 0 W .C. Reed...... 1 0 0 Joshua Brown...... 2 0 0 Francis Thompson 1 0 0 M. H. & L. T. Brown ...110 George Manner?...... 10 0 George Gillett ...... 1 0 0 Rachel Reed ...... 5 0 Christopher Bowly 1 0 0 Philip Thompson ...... 15 0 Darlington, per J. B. Eliza Brewin ...... 10 0 Hodgkin— Elizabeth Brown ...... 10 0 Caroline Armistead ...... 10 0 W. Alexander...... 10 0 Alfred Backhouse 100 0 0 E. Alexander ...... 5 0 Edmund Backhouse, M.P. 5 0 0 H. Alexander...... 5 0 James E. Backhouse.... 10 0 0 J. A. Gillett ...... 5 0 Katharine Backhouse ... 2 0 0 Ditto (per H. S. Newman) 1 0 0 COALBROOKDALE, per H. S. Eliza Barclay...... 20 0 0 Newman— William P. Barnard...... 5 0 Philip Weston ...... 1 0 0 Henry Billam...... 3 0 Edward L. Squire ...... 1 0 0 Lucy Billam ...... 3 0 William Sankey...... 1 0 0 Alfred K. Brown (2 years) 1 0 0 Priscilla M. Morgan 10 0 William Cudworth ...... 5 0 0 James Edge (Coalport)... 10 0 William J. Cudworth ... 5 0 Weldon Langford ...... 5 0 Ann Eliza D a le...... 15 0 David Dale ...... 3 0 0 Charles Dickinson ...... 2 C o l c h e s t e r , per Frederick 6 Richardson— Thomas Eden ...... 2 0 James Huraard ...... 5 0 0 Thomas Elwin ...... 3 0 Mary Gripper...... 2 0 0 ) Alexander Fothergill...... 10 0 F 82

£ s. d. £ t. d. Darlington, Continued— D a r lin g to n , Continued— William Fothergill ...... 5 0 Walter W. Wilmott ...... 2 6 John A. Fothergill ...... 5 0 Samuel W. Wright ...... 1 0 0 Elizabeth L. Fowler...... 5 0 0 Louisa Wright ...... 2 6 John W. Fowler ...... 5 0 Francis W right...... 2 6 Collected by L. and L. E. Thomas W right...... 2 0 Fowler (for native Per Samuel Hare— teacher) ...... 5 0 0 Darlington Friends’ child­ Theodore Fry, M.P...... 10 0 0 ren (for native teacher) 4 13 0 John Pease F ry...... 2 6 Per H. Penney— Sophia M. Fry ...... 2 6 A. Kingdon’s lecture (nett A. Gertrude Fry ...... 2 6 proceeds)...... 15 0 T. Wilfrid Fry ...... 2 6 Anna Maria Gilkes ...... 1 0 0 Derby, per John Armitage— William Harding ...... 10 0 Frederick Longdon ...... 1 1 0 Samuel Hare ...... 10 0 Catherine Giles...... 6 0 Jonathan B. Hodgkin ... 50 0 0 Richard Binns ...... 5 3 Ann lanson ...... 10 0 R, E. Giles...... 2 0 Charles lanson ...... 1 0 0 C. E. Giles...... 2 0 Alfred Kitching...... 10 0 0 Edward B. Mounsey...... 5 0 0 Doncaster, per J. F. Clark— William Pape ...... 2 0 Joseph F. Clark...... 2 0 0 Jane Gurney Pease ...... 5 0 0 Richard E. Clark ...... 100 Emma Gurney Pease...... 5 0 0 Thomas Harrison ...... 100 Joseph W. Pease, M.P....100 0 0 J. Staniland ...... 5 0 Edward Pease ...... ,...100 0 0 Mrs. Smith (Edinburgh) 5 0 Arthur Pease, M.P...... 100 0 0 Dorking— Katherine Pease ...... 100 0 0 L. Squire ...... 2 0 0 Sara Elizabeth Pease...... 100 0 0 Annie E. Pease...... 3 0 0 D unmow, per W. Robson— Henry Fell Pease ...... 5 0 0 William Clayton ...... 5 0 Edwin Lucas Pease ...... 5 0 0 Harrison Penney ...... 100 Earith, per R. Brown— Norman Penney...... 5 0 Richard Brown ...... 1 0 0 Gulielma M. Prideaux ... 2 6 John Brown ...... 10 0 Jane & Elizabeth Procter 10 0 Lawrence Candler 10 0 William Richardson 1 0 0 Eliza Brown ...... 5 0 John Robinson ...... 2 0 James H. Robinson ...... 10 0 E dinburgh, per H. S. Newman— Arthur Sanders...... 5 0 Collected by E. Wigham 3 18 0 George Shaw ...... 2 6 E pping— Joseph T. Shewell...... 5 0 0 A. and C. Bastin ...... 1 0 0 Sarah Shewell ...... 2 6 In memory of Catherine Elizabeth Shewell 2 6 Edward Bastin ...... 1 0 0 Samuel C. Shewell 2 6 In memory of Winifred 10 0 Joseph Shewell...... 2 6 Millicent...... 2 6 John W. Steel ...... 5 0 Leonard ...... 1 6 Major Shout (for schools) 5 0 Ruth ...... 1 0 William Shout...... 10 0 Arthur Thistlethwaite ... 10 0 Evesham, per W.W. Brown— James Wadham...... 5 0 H. Burlingham...... - 5 5 0 Theodore West ...... 5 0 W. W Brown ...... 2 2 0 George Whitfield ...... 2 6 L. & E. Burlingham ...... 2 2 0 Edward R. Whitwell... .. 1 0 0 John Pumphrey...... 5 0 83 £ s. d. £ s. d. Exeter— Glastonbury JuvenileAfiso- Arthur Clarke ...... 3 0 0 ciation, per H. S. Newman 2 10 0

Gloucester— Falmouth— S. and M. Clark...... 4 0 0 “ /« meinoriam, Robert W. J esse Sessions...... 2 0 0 Fox” ...... 20 0 0 Charles Brown ...... 2 0 0 A. Lloyd F o x ...... 2 2 0 A. M. Fox ...... 2 2 0 Halifax, per John W. Collinson— John Stephens ...... 1 0 0 Joseph Collinson ...... 2 2 0 S. A. Fox...... 1 0 0 Thomas Collinson 1 1 0 Robert F ox ...... 10 0 Edward Collinson 1 1 0 Lydia Tregelles ...... 5 0 Joshua Smithson ...... 1 0 0 Hall Stansfield ...... 1 0 0 Fordingbbipge— John W. Collinson 10 0 Thomas Westlake 2 2 0 Joseph Edmondson ...... 10 0 Beaven Rake ...... 1 1 0 Jeremiah Ingham ...... 10 0 L. Thompson...... 1 0 0 Agnes Smithson...... 10 0 Elizabeth Smithson ...... 10 0 Garstang, per Charles Wilson— Agnes Smithson, jun 10 0 Charles Wilson ...... 1 0 0 Charles Webster ...... 10 0 Ann Wilcock ...... 5 0 Thomas Collinson, jun.... 5 0 Eliza Holmes...... 2 0 Annie Collinson...... 5 0 Ellen Collinson...... 5 0 Glasgow, per J. Charles White— John Naughton...... 5 0 William Gray...... 5 0 0 E. Spencer ...... 5 0 J. Charles White ...... 5 0 0 A Friend...... 4 6 J. Henry Gray ...... 5 0 0 John H. Tutty ...... 2 6 Alexander Lamont (Kil­ James Mallinson ...... 2 0 marnock) ...... 1 0 0 James Hirst ...... 1 0 James Glenny (Hawick) 1 0 0 John Thompson...... 10 0 Hauling— J. & E. Cruickshank 10 0 J. Everett ...... 1 0 0 Archibald Crosbie 10 0 Charles W. W hite 10 0 Hartshill, per John E. Wilson— James Hamilton (Greenock) 10 0 John Dixon...... 5 0 Edwin Cruickshank ...... 5 0 Haverfordwest— Arthur Cruickshank 5 0 George Phillips...... 5 0 Peter Salmon...... 5 0 Thomas Hannah (Kilmar­ Hereford, per H. S. Newman— nock) ...... 5 0 Ann Jones ...... 10 0 “A Widow’s Mite” 5 0 Mary Smeal ...... 2 6 Hitchin— James Gray Smeal 2 6 James H. Tuke ...... 25 0 0 William Smeal ...... 2 6 Frederick Seebohm ...... 25 0 0 A Friend...... 2 0 M. F...... 15 0 0 Anonymous...... 0 6 William Ransom ...... 10 0 0 Per E. J. Hodge— Esther Tuke ...... 5 0 0 Mary White ...... 1 0 0 William P. Read ...... 5 0 0 A. A. Bryson...... 10 0 Alfred Ransom ...... 5 0 0 Helen Cuthbertson 5 0 A. W. Friend (2 years) ... 4 0 0 Catherine Hodge ...... 5 0 ‘*N. and H.” (donation)... 4 0 0 Margaret Gray ...... 5 0 Joshua Whiting...... 1 1 0 Emma Thompson ...... 2 6 Eliza Lucas f. 1 1 0 Mary Smeal ...... 2 6 Theodore Lucas...... 1 1 0 84 £ s. d. £ s. d. Hitciiin, Continued— H uddersfield , per Isaac Robson— E. S. Lucas...... 1 0 0 Henry Fryer (2 years) ... 4 0 0 Jane Ransom...... 1 0 0 Isaac Robson...... 3 0 0 M. Sewell ...... 1 0 0 Ann Eddison...... 2 0 0 Ellen Robinson ...... 10 0 Edward B. Woodhead ...2 0 0 Half Collection at A. Henry Lees...... 5 0 Kingdon’s Lecture 3 0 0 William Hoskin...... 5 0 ■Women’s First-day School 6 0 James Brook ...... 5 0 Joseph Cooper ...... 5 0 H oddesdon, per F. Warner— A Kingdon’s Lecture R. Barclay ...... 10 0 0 (nett proceeds) ...... 1 0 2 H. M. and C. Warner ...110

E. M. Warner ...... 1 0 0 H u l l , per James Thorp— S. Warner ...... 10 0 James Reckitt ...... 5 0 0 Elizabeth W arner 10 0 Francis Reckitt...... 3 0 0 F. Warner ...... 10 0 M. A. Priestman ..... 1 0 0 Alice Warner...... 5 0 Dr. Kitching ...... 1 0 0 J. T. Warner ...... 2 6 David Haughton ...... 1 0 0 H. L. Warner...... 2 6 Alfred West ...... 10 0 E. A. Warner...... 2 0 Thomas Priestman...... 10 0 M. Warner ...... 2 0 Mrs. Petchell...... 5 0 Collected at A Kingdon’s E. Thompson...... 5 0 Lecture ...... 1 12 6 James Thorp ...... 5 0 Holloway, per Henry Hipsley— B. Rayner ...... 5 0 George Gillett ...... 5 0 0 J. K. Hodgson ...... 5 0 William Catchpool 2 2 0 Hannah Thorp ...... 2 6 Charlotte Smith...... 2 0 0 George Marsh...... 2 6 Henry Hipsley ...... 2 0 0 J. B. Braithwaite ...... 1 1 0 I p s w ic h , per S. Alexander— J. and E. Marriage ...... 1 1 0 William D. Sims ...... 2 2 0 John Betts ...... I 0 0 Frederick Alexander 1 0 0 G. Maria Smith...... 1 0 0 Jane Binyon ...... 1 0 0 W. Catchpool’s family ... 18 6 Mary S. Brightwen ...... 1 0 0 M. Cracklen ...... 10 6 David Burley ...... 1 0 0 M. Horsnaill ...... 10 0 Robert Harding...... 1 0 0 Ditto (donation) 10 0 Samuel A. M aw...... 1 0 0 Elizabeth Smith...... 10 0 Thomas M aw ...... 1 0 0 Ditto (donation) 10 0 Samuel Alexander 10 0 Hannah Casson...... 10 0 Brightwen Binyon 10 0 Henry D ell...... 10 0 M. Le Gay-Brewerton ... 10 0 John B. Kemp ...... 10 0 Edward W. Bishop ...... 5 0 A. M. Smith ...... 10 0 Catharine Burlingham ... 5 0 S. J. Smith...... 10 0 Frederick Corder, jun. ... 5 0 John D. Swinbome ...... 5 0 Charles Kitching ...... 5 0 John H. Hipsley ...... 5 0 Edward Fry ...... 5 0 Robert Kem p...... 5 0 W. W. and H. W ard 5 0 Rachel Miles ...... 5 0 Young Friends of Meeting 1 0 0 Elizabeth Marten ...... 3 0 Emily Marten...... 3 0 K endal, per Isaac Brown— Collected at A Kingdon’s James Thompson ...... 10 0 0 Lecture ...... 3 10 8 Isaac Brown ...... *...... - 5 0 0 Per M. Braithwaite— Charles LI. Braithwaite... 5 0 0 Collected at A. Kingdon’s John Farrer ...... 4 0 0 Lecture (Bunhill Fields) 4 6 Isaac Braithwaite ...... 2 0 0 85 £ s. d. £ fi. d. Kendal, Continued— K e n t , per C. Reynolds— Mary Harris ...... 2 0 0 John M. Knight...... 25 0 0 C. LI.Braithwaite, jun.... 1 0 0 Frederick Wheeler 3 0 0 William Harrison ...... 1 0 0 M. Greenwood...... 10 0 James Harrison...... 1 0 0 L. Horsnaill ...... 10 0 William Whitwell 1 0 0 W. H. Eeynolds...... 10 0 William H. Longmaid ... 1 0 0 W. Smithe ...... 10 0 Thomas Bradley...... 1 0 0 Robert Dale ...... 5 0 Ditto ditto ...... 1 0 0 Mrs. Prowse ...... 5 0 E. S. and E. Frankland... 1 0 0 E. Reynolds ...... 5 0 A., J., and E. Farrer 15 0 H. Busby...... 2 6 The Ladies’ College ...... 15 0 Per E. E. Headly— Henry Thompson ...... 100 Henry Headley ...... 1 0 0 Henry Wilson...... 10 0 M. Poulter...... 1 0 0 Isaac Farrer ...... 10 0 H. Poulter ...... 10 0 John Kendal ...... 100 A Hall ...... 6 0 Mary Ecroyd ...... 10 0 M. Headley...... 5 0 S. A. Jeffreys...... 10 0 H. Horsnaill ...... 5 0 Thomas Baron ...... 10 0 R. Horsnaill ...... 5 0 Thomas Sharpe ...... 7 6 Thomas JSTickalls ...... 5 0 George Greenall...... 5 0 W. R. Jeffrey...... 2 6 Thomas Thwaites ...... 5 0 M. Sholl ...... 2 6 John Hartley...... 5 0 C. Hollands...... 1 0 John Yaulkhard...... 50 Elizabeth G. Duncan 5 0 K e t t e r in g , per John F. Daniel Handley...... 5 0 Thursfield— Edward Sfcilwell...... 5 0 James Wells ...... 1 0 0 Sarah A. M oore...... 50 Anonymous...... 1 0 0 Arthur Eddington 5 0 Frederick Wallis ...... 10 -0 Elizabeth Simpson 4 0 Charles Blunsom ...... 10 0 Elizabeth W ood...... 4 0 William Wells ...... 5 0 Margaret Thompson ...... 3 0 Thomas Harrison ...... 3 0 K in g sto n , per J. H. Fox— John Farrer, jun...... 3 0 Rebecca Smith ...... 2 0 0 John W. Graham ...... 3 0 J. Hingston Fox...... 100 Mary Ann Hartley 2 6 K ew— Joseph Milligan...... 26 J. Wall ...... 1 0 0 Christopher Thompson ... 2 6 Anna Martin ...... 2 6 L ancaster, per T. Barrow— Bertha Harris...... 26 Lancaster Monthly Meet­ Thomas Huck...... 2 6 ing ...... 10 0 0 Leonard Sill ...... 2 6 William Pickard...... 10 0 0 Agnes Middleton ...... 2 0 Thomas Barrow...... 10 0 0 Joseph Farrer...... 10 Richard Walker...... 5 0 0 Mary Bradley...... 1 0 Ann Brunton...... 3 0 0 Small sums...... 1 9 William Barrow...... 3 0 0 Per James Harrison— Eliza Barrow...... 2 0 0 Adult School (for native Elizabeth S. Ford ...... 1 0 0 teacher) ...... 5 0 0 Richard Hall ...... 15 0 Proceeds of A. Kingdon’s Rachel Binns ...... 5 0 Lecture ...... 1 13 0 Thomas K. Braithwaite... 5 0 Per C. L. Braithwaite, jun.— Edward Pickard...... 5 0 Friends’ First-day School Samuel Pickard...... 5 0 (boys)for native teacher 5 0 0 S. E. and G. W. Barrow 5 0 86 £ s. d. £ s. d. Lancaster, Continued— Leicester, Continued— Charles Albright ...... 4 6 H. and M. A. Burgess ... 5 0 0 Anna Walker...... 3 6 Joseph S. Sewell ...... 5 0 0 Edith M. Shattleworth ... 3 0 Susanna Burgess ...... 3 0 0 Mary Edmundson 3 0 Eliza Ellis and Sister ... 3 0 0 Margaret Baker...... 2 6 E. S. Ellis ...... 2 0 0 George Worsdell...... 2 6 W .H . Ellis...... 2 0 0 Esther Albright...... 2 6 James Ellis ...... 2 0 0 John Turner ...... 1 0 G .H . E llis...... 2 0 0 Meeting Box ...... 6 3 Sarah Brewin ...... 1 10 0 A. Kingdon’s Lecture H. M. Burgess ...... 1 0 0 (gross proceeds) 5 5 0 Gulielma Burgess ...... 1 0 0 Alfred Burgess ...... 1 0 0 Leeds, per Sami. Southall— Mary Ellis and Sisters ... 1 0 0 Lydia Walker...... 5 0 0 Sarah Binns ...... 1 0 0 M. A. and H. Hewitson Anna Lowe...... 1 0 0 (for Scriptures & Tracts) 5 0 0 Richard Lawrence 1 0 0 Thomas Harvey...... 5 0 0 W. G. Hutchinson 1 0 0 A Friend...... 5 0 0 Sarah L. Ellis...... 15 0 Edward Birchall...... 5 0 0 John S. Ellis ...... 10 0 John Whiting...... 5 0 0 Maria Ransom ...... 10 0 Henry Broadhead ...... 2 0 0 Mrs. Jeffrey ...... 10 0 John H. Thorp ...... 2 0 0 John Ellis ...... 10 0 Hannah F ord...... 1 0 0 William Smith (two years) 10 0 J. Bawlinson Ford 1 0 0 A. F. Atkins ...... 5 0 H. E. Watson....’...... 1 0 0 Wilfrid H. Ellis ...... 5 0 H. M. Thorne...... 1 0 0 Susan Burgess ...... 2 6 William Harvey...... 1 0 0 A. H. Burgess ...... 2 6 George Tatham ...... 1 0 0 William Clipstone 2 6 Freshfield Reynolds ...... 1 0 0 William Mallabond ...... 2 6 Samuel Southall...... 1 0 0 Joseph J. Armistead 1 0 0 L e ig h t o n B u z z a r d , per E. William Shackleton ...... 10 6 Glaisyer— Mary Ann Broadhead ... 10 0 Theodore Harris (2 years) 10 0 0 John Edmundson ...... 10 0 Francis Bassett (3 years) 6 6 0 Maria Binns ...... 5 0 Edward Glaisyer ...... 5 0 Joseph Latchmore 5 0 A Friend...... 2 6 Thomas Barrett...... 5 0 Arthur Armistead 2 6 L e o m in s t e r , per Henry S. Sarah Broadhead, Jun— 2 6 Newman— Josiah Newman...... 5 0 0 Additional received since the accounts Henry S. Newman...... 5 0 0 were made up. Henry Newman...... 4 0 0 Anne Southall ...... 3 0 0 Thos. Wilson (Thornton} 1 0 0 E. and H. Southall 3 0 0 S. W. T...... 5 0 M. A. Southall ...... 2 0 0 A. C. T...... 5 0 Henry Stephens...... 10 0 Friends Adult First-day A. Kingdon’s lecture) nett School (Great Wilson proceeds)...... 1 5 5 St.,) for native teacher 10 0 0 First-day School for na­ Ditto (Carlton Hill) ditto 5 0 0 tive teacher...... 7 0 0 Ditto (York Road) ditto 5 0 0 L e ic e s t e r , per Wilfrid H. e w e s , per C. R. Kemp— Ellis— Caleb R. K em p...... 3 3 0 W. E. Hutchinson 5 0 0 Rachel & S. H. Hickman 2 0 0 87 £ s, d. £ 8. d. Lewes, Continued. Liverpool, Continued. A Friend...... 10 0 M. C ...... 5 0 Caroline Speciall ...... 5 0 Per T. C. Ryley— Friends’ First Day School Lincolnshire, per Louisa Thompson— for Native Teachers ... 0 0 B rig g ; 6 Edward Burtt (Welbourn) 1 0 0 London— Joseph Hopkins...... 10 0 David Hopkins ...... J. G. Barclay...... 300 0 O 7 6 Bedford Institute, per A. Susan D. Hopkins 5 0 T. Alexander (for Native Hy. Burtt (Fulbeek Grange) 5 0 Teacher)...... 31 12 Gainsborough: 8 George W. Alexander E. Thompson...... 10 0 F. Mawer ...... 5 0 1878-9 ...... 26 5 O Alfred Pali an...... 5 0 Ditto for 1879-80 ...... 26 5 O John Fisher ...... 2 Smith Harrison...... 20 0 0 6 Friends’ Christian Fellow­ A. A. Thompson...... 2 6 ship Union, per E. Albert Daw...... 2 0 W. Benson ...... Alexander (don.) ...... 11 12 O 1 6 Ditto (for India) ...... 0 0 S palding: 1 James Gingell ...... 5 5 0 Sophia B. Massey ...... 5 0 Sir Edward F r y ...... 5 0 0 George H irst...... 5 0 Samuel Gurney ...... 1 1 0 P. Hutchinson ...... 5 0 Abraham Kingdon...... 1 0 0 F. B. Massey...... 2 6 Henry Hendra (Hammer­ Frederick Massey ...... 2 6 smith) ...... A Friend...... 1 0 5 0 Luton— Liscard, per Sarah M. Smith— R. and A. Brown ...... 10 0 0 Friends of Liscard Meet­ ing ...... 1 10 0 Luton & L eighton Monthly Liskeard, per M. Allen— Meeting, per R. Littleboy 20 0 0 Mary Eliott, per H. S. Newman ...... 1 0 0 Maldon— M. andL. Allen...... 1 0 0 W. S. Knight...... 5 0 N. Tregelles ...... 10 0 Collection at A. Kingdon’s Malton, per Henry Taylor— Lecture (less 38s. expenses) 2 0 0 J. Priestman (Thornton) 5 0 0 Mary Jackson...... 1 0 0 Liverpool, per John D. Crosfield— Ann Hall...... 1 0 0 Henry Crosfield...... 5 0 0 Henry Hurtley ...... 1 0 0 Sarah Crosfield & sisters 2 0 0 Henry Taylor...... 1 0 0 Chas.E. Darby (Wrexham) 2 0 0 A Friend...... 1 0 0 Joseph Brown...... 1 1 0 Henry Pickering ...... 10 0 Edward W. Crosfield 1 1 0 Thomas Hopkins ...... 10 0 John D. Crosfield ...... 1 1 0 Thomas Burt ...... 10 0 William P. Thompson ... 1 1 0 Eliza Hutchinson ...... 5 0 Benjamin Townson ...... 1 1 0 Joseph Coning...... 5 O William Edward Turner 1 1 0 W. Weatherill (Leavening) 4 4 Samuel B. Leicester ...... 1 0 0 Lucv R. Taylor & brothers 5 3 Thomas Leicester ...... 1 0 0 Thomas C. Ryley ...... 1 0 0 Malvern, per C. W. Pumphrey— Richard Davis ...... 10 0 William Sparkes ...... 2 2 0 Francis Thompson 10 0 Alfred Sparkes ...... 1 0 0 Edward Clibborn ...... 5 0 Ann Pumphrey ...... 0 10 0 £ s. cl. £ s. d. M a n s f ie l d , per John Armitage— N e w c a s t l e - on-T y n e . Continued— Robert Barringer ...... 10 0 Anna S. Procter ...... 8 0 Thomas Hartas ...... 10 0 R. B. Rutter ...... 5 0 George Pickard ...... 10 0 George Brown...... 5 0 M. A. McLean ...... 5 0 Matlock, per John Armitage— Thomas Waddington 5 0 M. A. Bottomley...... 2 0 0 Edward Watson...... 5 0 W. Joshua Watson 5 0 Melksham, per W. Brewin— William John Watson ... 5 0 Rachel Fowler ...... 5 0 0 George W. Clark ...... 5 0 Theodore Holmes ...... 2 6 M iddlesbro’, per William Taylor— J. W. Glaister...... 1 6 Joseph Lingford (Bishop Auckland) ...... 5 0 0 Newport Pagnell, per R. Joseph Fryer (Smelt House) 2 2 0 Littleboy— Isaac Sharp...... 2 2 0 Richard Littleboy 10 0 0 John Dunning ...... 1 1 0 Francis Littleboy ...... 100 William Taylor...... 10 0 Thomas Hallam...... 10 0 Newton-Abbot— Thomas Smith ...... 2 6 T. B. Hawkesworth ...... 2 2 0 Peter Mackinnon ...... 2 6 Northampton, per Samuel Newcastle-on-Tyne, per G. Wells, 1878-9- W. Clark— Mary Collins ...... 1 0 0 Thomas Hodgkin ...... 10 0 0 Priscilla Payne ...... 1 0 0 Thomas Pumphrey 3 0 0 Samuel Wells...... 1 0 0 William H. Holmes ...... 3 0 0 William Blunsom ...... 10 0 John W. Pease ...... 3 0 0 Eli Johnson ...... 5 0 Robert Foster...... 2 0 0 Mary W. Payne...... 5 0 Robert Ormston...... 2 0 0 Ditto for 1879-80— Caroline Richardson 2 0 0 Priscilla Payne ...... 1 0 0 Henry Richardson 2 0 0 Samuel Wells ...... 1 0 0 Thomas C. Watson ...... 2 0 0 Mary Collins...... 10 0 Henry Clapham...... 2 0 0 William Blunsom ...... 10 0 A Friend (donation) 2 0 0 Eli Johnson ...... 5 0 S. A. Richardson ...... 1 10 0 Anne Johnson...... 2 6 Henry Whitten ...... 1 1 0 Henry Brady ...... 1 0 0 James Hindmarsh (dona­ North Shields, per J. R. tion)...... 1 0 0 Procter— Lewis Fry ...... 1 0 0 Robert Spence...... 2 2 0 Alice Mertz...... 1 0 0 Joseph Spence...... 2 2 0 Margaret Morton ...... 1 0 0 J. R. Procter...... 2 2 0 Elizabeth Procter ...... 1 0 0 S. P. Richardson ...... 1 1 0 Ellen Richardson ...... 1 0 0 C. J. Spence ...... 1 1 0 James Richardson 1 0 0 John Corner ...... 1 0 0 R. and W. Watson 1 0 0 Sarah Baynes...... 10 0 W. H. Robinson...... 1 0 0 Frederick Brown ...... 10 0 Frederick Clark...... 10 0 L. M. Procter'...... 5 0 G. E. McArthy ...... 10 0 Henry Procter ...... 10 0 N o r w ic h , per Henry Brown— David Richardson 10 0 H. B .N ...... 3 0 0 A Friend...... 10 0 Thomas Everett...... 10 0 R. Spence Watson 10 0 A. Eddington...... 10 0 89 £ s. d. £ s. d. Norwich, Continued— Plymouth, Continued. Richard Marston ...... 10 0 Susan Bragg (the late)... 2 0 0 M. A, Griffiths ...... 5 0 Charles Prideaux (for Lucy Candler...... 5 0 Madagascar) ...... 2 0 0 Maria Blake ...... 5 0 George Fox (donation; ... 2 0 0 Samuel Pooley ...... 2 6 Charlotte James...... 1 0 0 M. A. P ooley...... 2 0 Samuel Elliott ...... 1 0 0 Charles Waficer...... 2 0 Mrs. Clarke ...... 10 0 Walter Corder ...... 2 0 W. C. James ...... 10 0 Frederick Taylor ...... 2 0 E. H. James ...... 10 0 Fuller Pooley...... 2 0 George E. Fox (donation) 10 0 Small sums...... 3 0 J. Phillips do. 10 0 S. A. Bragg do. 10 0 Nottingham, per John Armitage— M. Bragg do. 10 0 H. M. and R. Hopkins ... 5 0 0 Samuel Elliott, jun ...... 5 0 James Cloak ...... 2 0 0 Francis Balkwill ...... 5 0 Edward Gripper...... 2 0 0 A. E. Pridham (donation) 5 0 S. F. Armitage ...... 1 0 0 C. A. Fox do. 5 0 Lucy M. Woods...... 1 0 0 W. Bray do. 5 0 John Edward Ellis ...... 1 0 0 C. M. James ...... 2 6 John Armitage ...... 10 0 T. Gill (donation) 2 0 Elizabeth Hutchinson ... 10 0 A. Kingdon’s Lecture (less Mary Hutchinson ...... 10 0 expenses 22/6) ...... 3 13 6 R. P. Hutchinson ...... 10 0 William Taylor ...... 2 0 William Poole ...... 2 6 Pontefract, per Joseph Taylor— PakefieIìD, per Henry Brown— Joseph Taylor...... 1 0 0 Hannah Norton...... 10 6 Maria Taylor...... 10 0 John Watson ...... 10 6 P reston, per Joseph Jesper— Margaret Davey...... 10 0 Joseph Jesper...... 10 0 0 Emily Shewell ...... 5 0 Ditto) donation) 5 0 0 Emanuel W elham 3 0 Richard Shackleton ...... 5 0 0 Peel, per John D. Appleton— Robert Benson ...... 1 0 0 Peel Friend’s First-day John Satterthwaite ...... 1 0 0 School...... 1 0 5 Stephen Cumberland 1 0 0 John D. Appleton 5 0 Jonathan Abbatt ...... 10 0 William Reason...... 5 0 Thomas Jesper ...... 5 0 Frank Jesper...... 2 6 P e n r it h , per Isaac Brown Preston Patrick, per Isaac Brown— Thomas Altham...... 1 0 0 T. and J. Mason...... 10 0 Elizabeth Rimington... 1 0 0 T. and M. A. Moses 5 0 Mary Milner ...... 1 0 0 W. and A. Nelson 2 0 Sarah Graham ...... 10 0 G. and A. Robinson 2 0 Thomas Lester ...... 10 0 J. and M. Dobson 2 0 Samuel Lester...... 10 0 Mary Mason ...... 2 0 William Altham...... 5 0 Mary Nelson ...... 1 0 E. Lester’s Children ... 3 0 Isaac Thompson...... 1 0 Mary Altham...... 2 6 Joseph Muschamp 1 0 Edward Lester ...... 2 6 Jane E. Hitchin...... 1 0 P lym o u th , 'per F. E. Fox— John K id d ...... 1 0 R. R. Fox ...... 5 0 0 Mary K idd ...... 1 0 Francis E. Fox ...... 5 0 0 Abigail Mason ...... 1 0 Mary Fox (donation) 3 0 0 Alice Middleton...... 6 90 £ s. d. £ s. d. P r e st o n P a t r ic k , Continued. Reigate. Continued. Robert Garnett...... 6 William Hughes ...... 1 0 0 Bsnjamin Hitchin...... 6 J. G. Marriage ...... 1 0 0 Joseph Hitchin ...... 6 James B. Crosfield 1 0 0 Thomas Tomlinson...... 6 T. T, Dann ...... 1 0 0 Francis Frith ...... 1 0 0 R e a d in g , per Joseph Huntley— William A. Marsh (Dork­ George Palmer, M.P...... 50 0 0 ing) ...... 1 0 0 William J. Palmer...... 20 0 0 T. S Marriage ...... 10 0 Joseph Huntley...... 20 0 0 A Friend...... 10 0 George W. Palmer...... 10 0 0 Mary G. Beale ...... 5 0 Alfred Palmer...... 10 0 0 For 1879-80— Mary Waterhouse...... 5 5 0 S. M. (R.) Barclay 10 0 0 Samuel Rosling...... 3 0 0 W. L. Barclay...... 7 0 0 James Boorne...... 8 0 0 R. (J.) P ryor...... 5 0 0 Thomas Gregory ...... 2 2 0 A. Rosling ...... 3 0 0 Richard D. Catchpool ... 2 2 0 Joseph Robinson, Craw­ Maria Waterhouse (don.) 1 1 0 ley (2 years)...... 2 0 0 Henry Wallis...... 1 1 0 S. M. (R.) Barclay’s chil­ Mary Sutton ...... 1 0 0 dren...... 1 0 0 Edwin Awmack...... 1 0 0 A Rosling, jun...... 1 0 0 Samuel B. Stevens...... 1 0 0 Rachel Rosling ...... ] 0 0 Sarah & Catharine Fardon 1 0 0 William Hughes...... 1 0 0 William Neild ...... 10 0 J. G-. Marriage ...... 1 0 0 Alfred W. Pollard...... 10 0 A J. Crosfield ...... 1 0 0 Joseph Messer ...... 10 0 William Norton...... 1 U 0 John Messer ...... 10 0 William A Marsh, Dork­ Mary Womersley ...... 10 0 ing ...... 1 0 0 Elizabeth Marshall ...... 5 0 Rachel Marriage ...... 10 0 Samuel Barter ...... 5 0 Henry Gurney ...... 10 0 Samuel Whiting...... 5 0 T. S. Marriage ...... 10 0 Oswald Messer ...... 5 0 Sydney Jennings ...... 3 6 Collection at A. Kingdon’s Per M. Alice Frith— Lecture (less expenses) 1 0 0 Friends’ Sewing Meeting ... 7 5 6

R e d h il l , per H. S. Newman- M. A. Burgess ...... 2 0 0 Ross, per H. S. Newman— Ann Morgan ...... 2 0 0 R e d r u t h , per H. S. Newman — J. T. Southall ...... 1 1 0 Pearce Jenkin ...... 10 6 Edwin Cock ...... 10 6 Saffron W alden, per Walter R e ig a t e , per T. S. Marriage- Robson— For 1878-9— George S. Gibson ...... 50 0 0 S. M. (R.) Barclay ...... 10 0 0 Edmund B. Gibson ...... 2 2 0 R . (J.) Pryor ...... 0 0 0 William M. Tuke ...... 2 2 0 W. W. Barclay ...... 5 0 0 Mary Wyatt Gibson 2 0 0 Alfred Rosling, jun...... 3 0 0 John S. Robson...... 2 0 0 Ditto ...... 1 0 0 Walter Robson ...... 15 0 M. B. Alexander & sisters 2 2 0 R. P. Robson...... 10 0 James Ashby...... 2 0 0 Joseph J. Robson ...... 10 0 Thomas Dann...... 2 0 0 A. M. & E. E. Blenkinsop 10 0 William Norton...... 1 1 0 George F. Linney ...... 10 0 S. M. (R.) Barclay’s chil­ Arthur Midgley...... 5 0 dren ...... 1 0 0 Arthur Williams ...... 5 0 91

£ s. d. £ s. d. S a ffr o n W a l d e n . Continued. Sheffield, Continued— Robert Rule ...... 5 0 A Friend, per E. Milner 5 0 Matilda R u le...... 5 0 Collection at A. Kingdon’s Louisa Rule...... 5 0 Lecture ...... 2 4 10 Alice Green...... 5 0 Ada Robson's B ox 2 10 | Sibford, per Charles Gillett— Eleanor R u le...... 2 6 A. M. Enock ...... 5 0 Mabel, Arthur, Ethel, John Wells...... 5 0 Sydney and Ida Robson 5 0 E. N. Capper...... 5 0 A. Kingdon’s lecture Richard Routh ...... 2 6 (nett proceeds...... 1 13 1 Richard H. Lam b 2 6 William Minchin ...... 2 6 St. Austell, per W. Clemes, jun.— E. and E. A. Lamb ... 2 6 James Veale ...... 2 0 0 D. Wrench...... 2 6 William Clemes, jun. ...200 M A. Clarke...... 2 6 Andrew H. Veale ...... 1 0 0 John Enock ...... 2 0 Henry Hammer...... 10 0 H. Perkins...... 2 0 Robert H. Kirton ...... 2 6 R. L. Routh ...... 2 0 E. Wycherley...... 0 6 Sedbergii, per Isaac Brown— Sibford School Girls and Thomas Harrison ...... 5 0 Teachers...... 6 0 Thomas W. Guy...... 5 0 Sibford School Boys ...... 4 5 Thomas Handley ...... 26 Southampton, per H. S. Newman— Sheffield, per D. Doncaster, jun— Richard Westlake 2 2 0 Friends’ First-day School (for native teacher):— Southport, per Henry G 1st Adult Class, Men’s ... 5 0 0 Coventry— 2nd ditto ditto ... 3 0 0 Henry C. Rheam ...... 2 2 0 1st ditto Women’s 2 0 0 Richard Nicholson...... 2 0 0 D. and M. Doncaster. 5 0 0 John Barrow...... 2 0 0 James H. Barber ...... 3 0 0 Sarah Simpson ...... 1 0 0 Henry Seebohm...... 2 0 0 Hannah Wallis ...... \ 1 0 0 William Casson, (Thorne) 2 0 0 Henry G. Coventry ... 1 0 0 John Yeomans ...... 2 0 0 Maria Whitten ...... 10 0 Charles Doncaster...... 2 0 0 John Hargrave ...... 10 0 Margaret Smith...... 2 0 0 A. M ...... 10 0 D. Doncaster, Jun...... 1 10 0 Hannah Grimshaw ... 10 0 Isaac Milner ...... 1 10 0 Bakewell Bower...... 5 0 Wilson Waterfall ...... 1 0 0 Ann Thompson ...... 5 0 Ann Watson ...... 1 0 0 Emily Tatham ...... 5 0 Jarvis W. Barber ...... 10 0 Ditto for 1878...... 5 0 Christopher Barber ...... 10 0 Mary Ann Wallis ...... 5 0 Jane E. Doncaster 10 0 Margaret H. Wallis ... 5 0 Phebe Doncaster ...... 10 0 John Hodgkinson ...... 5 0 Samuel Doncaster 10 0 W. J. Lawrence...... 2 6 Elizabeth Milner ...... 10 0 Alice Thompson...... 2 6 Charles Yeomans ...... 10 0 Benjamin Goouch, B.A 2 6 Richard Hoskins ...... 10 0 Children’s Pence ...... 2 0 William Watts ...... 10 0 AH ...... 1 0 Walter T. Carr ...... 10 0 Thomas Gillespie ...... 7 6 Southwark Monthly Meet­ Thomas S. Yeomans 5 0 ing, per John Taylor— S. A. & E. M. Doncaster 5 0 Friends’ First-day School 8 1 0 92 £ s. d. £ dt Southwark, Continued— S t o k e N e w in g t o n , per W. C.Allen— John Taylor ...... 1 1 0 Stafford Allen ...... 20 0 0 Ditto (donation)...... 5 5 0 J. & C. Oxley...... 10 0 0 John Sterry ...... 3 3 0 Philip J. Butler...... 5 0 0 Edward Pauli...... 2 0 0 William C. Allen ...... 5 0 0 Thomas Whitehead ...... 2 0 0 John D. Fry ...... 3 3 0 Richard Barrett...... 1 1 0 John Dixon ...... 3 3 0 Thomas Cash...... 1 1 0 Edmund Pace...... 3 3 0 Thomas S. Norton 1 1 0 Israel Timpson ...... 2 2 0 Eleanor Robinson 12 0 W. F. & M. A. Wells 2 2 0 Anonymous...... 6 0 John B. Tylor...... 2 0 0 T. P. Newman ...... 5 0 S. A&E. Tylor ...... 2 0 0 Elizabeth Knight ...... 5 0 William Beck...... 2 0 0 George Armitage ...... 5 0 J. Fyfe Stewart...... 2 0 0 R. and M. A. Noakes 5 0 Edward R. Allen ...... 2 0 0 Rebekah Burne...... 3 0 Harris Hills ...... 2 0 0 Metford Warner...... 2 0 0 Stanstead, per Walter Robson— William Sheldon ...... 1 10 0 Joshua Green...... 2 0 0 Frederick Bax ...... 1 10 0 Charles Hicks...... 1 0 0 William A Smee ...... 1 1 0 Charles Hicks, Jun 10 0 Alfred T. Alexander 1 1 0 Thomas Smith Hicks... 10 0 Eliza S. Dawes ...... 1 0 0 James Marsh...... 10 0 Robert Meatyard ...... 1 0 0 Hannah Burgess...... 5 0 George Binyon ...... 1 0 0 Elizabeth R. Green ...... 5 0 Joseph J. Fox...... 10 6 Henrietta Green...... 5 0 Lydia Irving ...... 10 0 Katherine Marsh ...... 5 0 George Catchpool 10 0 Joseph J. Green...... 5 0 John Sharp...... 10 0 Small Sums...... 2 6 Foden Lawrence...... 10 0 John Casson ...... 10 0 Stockport, per S. Dymond— Samuel Hubbert...... 10 0 Thomas Wheeler ...... 10 0 Henry J. Tylor ...... 10 0 Hannah Machin...... 5 0 William Tallack...... 10 0 Anne Swindells (Hyde)... 5 0 William Lucraft...... 5 0 Francis Moore (Hyde) ... 5 0 Frederick Hicks...... 5 0 William Redfern ...... 5 0 H. Courtenay F o x 5 0 Stockton, per T. James Thompson— Thomas Thorp ...... 5 0 William Dodshon ...... 5 0 0 John Darton ...... 4 0 William Benington ...... 4 0 0 Thomas Jackson...... 3 0 Lewis Dodshon ...... 3 0 0 Thomas Cooper...... 2 6 Ditto (donation) 5 0 0 Collected at A. Kingdon’s John Dodshon’s Trustees 3 0 0 Lecture ...... 1 14 2 T. James Thomson ...... 3 0 0 Elizabeth Dodshon 2 0 0 Stourbride, per John E. Wilson— William Robson 2 0 0 Charles Beavington ...... 2 0 0 George Benington 1 0 0 H. B. Smith ...... 10 0 Alfred B rady...... 1 0 0 Mary Whiting ...... 10 0 Alexander Holmes 1 0 0 William Dodgson ...... 5 0 Street, per H. S. Newman— William Clarke ...... 5 0 James Clark ...... 2 0 0 John Coning ...... 3 6 W. S. Clark ...... 1 0 0 Thomas M. Taylor 2 6 Juvenile Missionary Asso­ Thomas Woolman 2 6 ciation ...... 16 8 Collected at Meeting 2 0 6 M. A Ansell ...... 10 0 93 £ s. d. £ s. d. Street, Contiimed. S u n d er l a n d a n d B enfieldside , John Morland ...... 10 0 Continued. Alfred Gillett...... 5 0 Frederick Taylor ...... 5 0 W. Biddlecombe ...... 5 ,0 Hannah M. Pumphrey ... 5 0 A Kingdon’s Lecture Joshua D. Robson...... 3 0 (nett proceeds) ...... 15 0 John Newby ...... 3 0 John T. Coates ...... 2 6 Sudbury, per E. Grubb— Thomas Henry (Hetton) 2 6 Jonathan Grubb ...... 1 0 0 Charles Galleway ...... 2 6 William Jackson ...... 10 0 William Baynes ...... 2 6 Joseph W. Beamish ...... 10 0 Edward Standing ...... 2 6 M. E. W righ t...... 5 0 William Pickard ...... 2 6 E .L. Grubb ...... 5 0 William Atkinson...... 2 6 Mary Crane ...... 4 0 James Gatt...... 2 0 Esther Hills ...... 4 0 Charles Cummings ...... 1 0 Rebecca Wright...... 4 0 Douglas Houlsby ...... 1 0 Anne M. Wright ...... 4 0 Girl’s First-day School... 7 5 Social Meeting ...... 7 0 Sunderland and B enfieldside, Boys’ School (Class M.) 3 8 per C. S. Wilson— Collection at A Kingdons Katherine Backhouse ... 50 0 0 Lecture (less expenses Caleb Stansfield Wilson 40 0 0 16s. 6d .) ...... 5 10 6 Charles Wilson (Benfield­ side) ...... 40 0 0 Sydenham— Thomas W . Backhouse ... 20 0 0 George Sturge ...... 50 0 0 Arthur Backhouse...... 10 0 0 Ditto (donation) ...... 50 0 0 Thomas Blain...... 5 0 0 Mary A. Backhouse ...... 5 0 0 Taunton, per F. Thompson— Anua P. Mounsey...... 3 0 0 Eliza Palmer...... 5 0 0 John Mounsey ...... 3 0 0 S. Lawrence .;...... 10 0 Edwin O. Tregelles ...... 2 10 0 F. Thompson...... 10 0 Katherine Wilson...... 2 0 0 A Friend...... 10 0 Lucy E. Mounsey ...... 2 0 0 Thirsk, per J. S. Rowntree— Mary Emma Mounsey ... 2 0 0 Bartholomew Smith ...... 1 0 0 George W . Pearman.... 2 0 0 John W. Hall...... 1 0 0 Women’s Class R, per G. R. Baker ...... 10 0 Mary Clark ...... 1 0 4 Arthur Smith...... 5 0 John B. Sibbald...... 1 0 0 J. H. Davies ...... 2 Joshua S. Wilson ...... 1 0 0 6 Children’s Box ...... 3 0 Thomas E. Pumphrey ... 1 0 0 Collected at A. Kingdon’s Thomas Ogden ...... 10 0 Lecture, less expenses.. 13 6 William J. Tatham ...... 10 0 F. Gertrude Freeman ... 10 0 Torquay— J. Wilfrid Mounsey ...... 10 0 Joshua Fisher...... 5 0 0 William Topliffe ...... 5 0 F. H. and A. F. F o x 3 3 0 Wilson Tyson (Newcastle) 5 0 CuthbertHodgson (Leeds) 5 0 T ottenham— George Watson (Ryhope) 5 0 William Whiting ...... 1 1 0 John C. Toshack ...... 5 0 Joseph Taylor ...... 5 0 W althamstow— Mary S. Clark ...... 5 0 J. M. B. (donation) ...... 10 0 0 Andrew P.McClelland... 5 0 The Misses Janson...... 5 0 0 Henry Watson ...... 5 0 British School Children Joseph J. Binns ...... 5 0 per J. M. B...... 12 6 94 £ s. d. £ 8. d. W andsworth, per E. E. W e s t o n - s u p e r -M a r e , Continued— Ransome— Rachel M. Brown...... 5 0 J. J. Pim ...... 3 0 0 Irwin Sharp ...... 5 0 Daniel B. Hanbury ...... 2 2 0 Charles Pooley ...... 5 0 Emma Coleman...... 1 0 0 Henry Knight ...... 5 0 Millis Coventry...... 1 0 0 H. B. Boone ...... 2 6 E. E. Ransome ...... 1 0 0 M. A. Smith ...... 2 6 E. H. Stevens...... 5 0 Samuel Metford...... 2 6 J. S. Robinson ...... 2 0 "Wakefield, per Edwin Brown— M. S. and H. M, Boone... 2 0 Joseph Eirth ...... 1 0 0 Marion Miller ...... 1 0 William Etching 1 0 0 Four little Children .., 1 0 Sarah K itching...... 10 0 Edwin Brown...... 10 0 W h it e h a v e n , per Jane Baxter— J. G. Wallis ...... 5 0 H. A. Fletcher...... 10 0 T. Bowman ...... 5 0 W ellington, per Joseph H. Fox— Joseph Hughes...... 5 0 Joseph H. Fox ...... 5 0 0 J . K. G. & E. J. M...... 5 0 Elizabeth Hanbury ...... 10 0 M. A. Baxter ...... 3 0 Elizabeth Martin ...... 10 0 M. J. Walker ...... 2 0 William Martin...... 10 0 F. Taggart...... 2 0 EichardJago...... 10 0 W il m s l o w , per S. Dymond— W estminster, per Bichard Dell— Hannah Thistlewaite...... 2 0 0 P. D. Tuckett...... 3 3 0 Elizabeth Emmott(Disley) 1 1 0 Richard Dell ...... 2 0 0 Samuel Harlock (Nant- John Rawlings ...... 1 10 0 wich) ...... 1 0 0 Henry Neighbour ...... 1 1 0 Mary H. King ...... 1 0 0 Alfred Neighbour 1 1 0 Charlotte Pearson...... 1 0 0 John Gilbert Baker ...... 1 1 0 Sarah Ord ...... 1 0 0 Professor Oliver...... 1 1 0 E. and E. C. Pearson...... 1 0 0 James Marshall...... 1 1 0 Arthur T. Palmer ...... 1 0 0 A. M. W ...... 1 1 0 Charles J. Holdsworth ... 10 0 Thomas W right...... 1 0 0 A E. Fi^er...... 5 0 B. D. Smeal ...... 1 0 0 S. Dymond ...... 5 0 Hannah N eighbour ...... 10 6 in c h m o r e i l l per G. R. A. D...... 10 0 W H , H. Farrington— H. W ...... 5 0 John D. Taylor...... 5 5 Samuel Sholl ...... 5 0 0 Westminster Teachers J. H. Dell ...... 5 5 0 G. H. Farrington ...... and Scholars ...... 1 11 6 10 0 W is b e c h , per A Peckover— W eston- super-M are, per Priscilla H. Peckover ...100 0 0 Charles Brown— Ditto (donation) ...... 20 0 0 Charles Brown ...... 2 0 0 Alexander Peckover ...... 100 0 0 Mrs. White ...... 1 0 0 Ditto (donation) ...... 20 0 0 Edgar M. Brown ...... 10 0 Algernon Peckover (do­ Maria Ferris ...... 5 0 nation ...... 20 0 0 H. B. Smith ...... 5 0 Wilhelmina Peckover (do­ E. Ravis and C. Smith... 5 0 nation ...... -15 0 0 Charles Burcham ...... 5 0 C. W . Dymond ...... 5 0 W o o d fo r d — Thomas Lidbetter 5 0 Ann F. Fowler(for native Stephen Brown ...... 5 0 teacher) ...... 5 0 0 95 £ s. d. £ s. d. W o r c e s t e r , per C. W. Pumphrey— York, Continued— L. E. & C. W. Pumphrey 3 0 0 Sarah Mason ...... 5 0 0 M. A. Binyon...... 2 0 0 Jonathan Burtt...... 5 0 0 C. Pumphrey...... 2 0 0 Sarah Rowntree...... 3 0 0 S. Pumphrey...... 2 0 0 Isabel Pumphrey ...... 2 2 0 M. & G. Binyon...... 1 0 0 William W. Morrell ___ 2 2 0 T. Westcombe ...... 10 0 John S. Rowntree 2 0 0 G. B. WetheraU...... 10 0 Joseph Rowntree ...... 2 0 0 William Joseland, per Hannah Brady ...... 2 0 0 H. S. Newman ...... 10 0 Mary A llis...... 2 0 0 C. & E. T. Miles ...... 5 0 Fielden Thorp ...... 2 0 0 M. Pumphrey..... 5 0 Dorothy Brown...... 1 1 0 C. Thomasson...... 5 0 W. Hutchinson (Bubwith) 1 0 0 L. Westcombe ...... 5 0 Elizabeth Hipsley 1 0 0 E. Westcombe ...... 5 0 Deborah M. Hutchinson 1 0 0 M. Craigg ...... 2 6 George Woods ...... 1 0 0 J. J. Thomasson...... 2 6 Mary Williams ...... 1 0 0 Arthur Kingsley ...... 2 6 Sylvanus Thompson ...... 1 0 0 John Prophet...... 2 0 Anonymous...... 1 0 0 James Backhonse ...... 0 0 W ymondham, per Henry Brown— 1 A. & M. West ...... 10 0 Henry King ...... 1 0 0 William Bale...... 5 0 Elizabeth G. Dimsdale ... 1 0 0 Margaret W e s t...... 5 0 John W. Procter ...... 1 0 0 Sarah Harvey...... 2 6 Henry Tennant...... 1 0 0 Jane Cann ...... 2 6 Richard Thompson ...... 15 0 Mary Inchbald ...... 10 6 Y atton, per Rachel Eddington— Thomas H ills...... 10 6 Eliza Evans ...... 2 0 0 John F. Fryer ...... 10 6 Charles Evans ...... 1 0 0 Thomas Clayton...... 10 6 Francis Gregory ...... 1 0 0 Robert J. Greer...... 10 0 John Frank ...... 1 0 0 Mary A. Williams 10 0 Jane Frank...... 10 0 Joseph S. Gray ...... 10 0 Martha Palm er...... 10 0 William Pumphrey ...... 10 0 William Gregory ...... 10 0 Mary J. King...... 10 O Edward Sturge ...... 10 0 Edith Head ...... 10 0 William Eddington ...... 10 0 Mary C. Pumphrey ...... 10 0 Sarah E. Sturge...... 5 0 Henrietta K in g ...... 10 0 Nathaniel Sholl...... 5 0 Anna Baker ...... 5 0 James Sholl ...... 5 0 William Sessions ...... 5 0 Mrs. Smart...... 5 0 George Baker...... 5 0 Sophia Gregory...... 5 0 James E. Clark ...... 5 0 Joseph Petvin ...... 5 0 Richard Potter ...... 5 0 Mary Ricketts ...... 5 0 G. S. R...... 5 0 Lucy Cole ...... 5 0 S. E. R...... 5 0 Robert K. W illm ott 2 6 T. J. E. and E. M. R. ... 3 0 Mrs. Avery...... 2 6 Petchell Burtt ...... 2 6 Sarah Gregory ...... 2 6 Josiah Pontefract ...... 2 6 Amy J. Sturge ...... 2 6 John Dale ...... 2 6 Edith S. Sturge...... 2 6 T. Nash ...... 2 6 Elizabeth Miller ...... 2 0 Isabella Smith ...... 2 6 Ada M. Sturge ...... 1 0 John Horsley .'...... 2 6 Willie and Frank Sturge 1 0 Charles Beharrel ...... 2 6 Y ork, per John S. Rowntree— H. Doughty...... 2 0 Henry Richardson 7 10 0 W. E. Coatman...... 2 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. Y o r k , Continued— Y oung W om en F r ie n d s ’ C h r is t ia n J. Brown...... 1 6 U n io n , per M. A. Southall 45 0 0 Samuel Jones.... 1 0

SPECIAL DONATIONS

IN RESPONSE TO GEORGE S t URGE’S APPEAL. £ s. d. John E. Wilson (Birmingham) ...... 200 0 0 George S. Gibson (Saffron Walden) ...... 100 0 0 W . E. Hutchinson (Leicester)...... 100 0 0 George Palmer, M.P. (Beading)...... 50 0 0 M. A. & H. Hewitson (Leeds)...... 50 0 0 William J. Palmer (Beading)...... 30 0 0 Joseph Huntley (Beading) ...... 30 0 0 Jonathan Pim (Dublin) ...... 5 0 0 “ J. W .” ...... 5 0 0

£570 0 0

SUBSCRIPTIONS

RECEIVED SINCE THE ACCOUNTS WERE MADE UP.

£ s. d. £ s. d. "Ba t h , per Joseph Theobald— H. Hart ...... 5 0 E. Capper ...... 1 0 0 S. Giles ...... 5 0 M. Butter ...... 1 0 0 M. Isaac...... 5 0 E. Coleby ...... 10 0 T. James...... 5 0 H. Hart ...... 10 0 E. Withy ...... 5 0 M. Isaac...... 5 0 L. Crouch & S. Baker ... 4 0 L. Hallett ...... 5 0 E.H., J..& A .E . Theobald 3 0 E. & E. Bichards ...... 3 0 T. Motley ...... 2 6 E. Simpson...... 2 0 H. S. Sams...... 2 6 S. E. Sams...... 2 6 E. & E. Bichards ...... 2 0 M. S. Sams ...... 2 6 Ditto, (for native teacher)— L. Hallett ...... 15 0 H it c h in — Anna Brown ...... 5 0 E. Capper ...... 10 0 E. Coleby ...... 10 0 M. Butter ...... 10 0 L ondon— J. Theobald...... 10 0 Collected at Annual Meet­ S. E. Sam s...... 10 0 ing, Devonshire House, E. Simpson...... 8 0 5mo 24th, 1880 ...... 61 10 4 Balance Sheet of the Hoshangabad Mission for the year ending 12th IVIo., 31, 1879. 1 (Exchange at Is. 8d. sterling per Rupe«.)

RECEIVED. EXPENDED. Rupees Annas Pies. Ru. Ans. Pies. Balance in hand from last year, as per last year’s Housekeeping, including servants, horse, aud cattle statement...... 836 8 0 keep ...... 7264 14 9 Balance from former Building Account 34 8 6 Schools, &c...... 560 2 7 Drafts on L on don ...... 8500 0 0 Travelling...... 218 2 4 Draft for building Meeting House and Well 6000 0 0 Catechist ...... 50 0 0 Sale of Calves and Grass ...... 15 8 0 Teachers ...... 973 2 1 „ F i l l y ...... 17 0 7 Postages ...... 137 5 fi „ Gari ...... 50 0 0 Insurance ...... 106 0 0 „ Iron ...... 17 3 6 Colporteur...... 159 7 5 „ Buffalo ...... 15 0 0 Bibles and Tracts ...... 149 14 1 Received from Bible Society, and for sales of Bibles, Repairs ...... 1098 13 1 tracts, and books ...... 235 10 8 Building ...... 1638 4 8 Balance in Hand ...... 3369 4 9

R 15,721 7 R15.721 7 3 98

CONTRIBUTORS

TOWARDS THE

SUPPORT OF NATIVE TEACHERS

INCLUDED IN THE FOREGOING LISTS.

B e d f o r d Institute First Day School, for four Teachers

B i r m i n g h a m Priory First Day School

B r a d f o r d First Day School

B r i g h o u s e First Day School

B r i s t o l Boys’ First Day School Do. Girls’ , do.

D a r l i n g t o n Friends’ Children

K e n d a l First Day School Adult Class Do. do. Boys’ Department

A n n F. F o w l e r , Woodford

L . and L . E. F o w l e r , Darlington

L e e d s Great Wilson Street First Day School Do. Carlton Hill do. Do. York Road do.

L e o m i n s t e r First Day School

L i v e r p o o l First Day School

S h e f f i e l d First Day School Men’s 1st and 2nd Classes Do. do. Women’s 1st Class

B a t h Friends, received since making up accounts. Two other subscriptions have not yet come in. 99

FRIENDS’ FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION,

IRISH AUXILIARY.

DUBLIN CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

JONATHAN PIM JOHN B. BEALE RICHARD ALLEN WILLIAM F. BEWLEY JOHN WEBB JOSHUA WHITE

HENRY W1GHAM THOMAS PIM, J itn. RICHARD GOODBODY THOMAS W. FISHER WILLIAM BAKER MORDECAI JOHNSON ARTHUR WEBB JOSHUA W. EDMUNDSON EDWARD SPARROW 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

TR EA 8U R ER : JOHN WEBB, 20, Temple Lane.

SECRETARY : THOMAS W. FISHER 12, Cope Street. 100

NAMES OF CORRESPONDENTS IRISH AUXILIARY.

Dublin John Webb, 20, Temple Lane,

95 Thomas W. Fisher, 12, Cope Street,

35 Mary Edmundson, Fox Rock, Co. Dublin,

C o r k Henry Beale, Adelaide Place

B e l f a s t Joshua Pirn, White Abbey

W a t e r f o r d Albert Lean, Newtown School

B es sb r o o k S. Douglas Lamb, near Newry

H illsborough a n d Arthur Pim, Culcavey, Hillsborough L is b u r n

R i c h h i l l Jane Murray, Taul Bridge, Loughgall, County Armagh

G r a n g e Sarah Barcroft, Stangmore Lodge, Dun­ gannon, County Tyrone

B r o o k f ie l d William Davidson, near Moira

M o a t e Sarah S. Clibbom, Moate View

C l o n m e l Edward Beale

C a r l o w Edward Morris

M ountmellick R. D. Milner

E d e n d e r r t Susan Williams

M o u n t r a t h Richard Neale

K n o c k Arabella Walpole, Ballyduff House, Queen’s County

C l a r a Richard Goodbody

C o u n t y W e x f o r d Francis Davis, jun., Enniscorthy

9> Mary Davis, do Joseph John Haughton, Rockspring Ferns 101 IRISH AUmiABY.

1879—80. £ s. d. £ s. d. B r a y , per Susanna Pim— D u b lin , Continued— Baker, Thomas...... 5 0 Beale, John B ...... 1 0 0 Bewley, M. L ...... 10 0 Edmundson, Mary 5 0 0 B . A ...... 2 6 Edmundson, Josnua W. 1 0 0 Donum, - ...... 8 0 Edmundson, Maria B. ... 1 0 0 Evans, Mary H ...... 2 6 Edmundson, Charlotte... 1 0 0 F . T...... 10 0 Edmundson, Eliza 10 0 Pattison, Henry ...... 10 0 0 Edmundson, John W. ... 1 0 0 Pim, James, jun ...... 2 0 0 Ellerby, Marianne 5 0 Pim. Huldah ...... 5 0 Harvey, Joshua, M.D... 1 0 0 Wigham, Henry ...... 5 0 0 Morris, H. and E 1 0 0 Sybil ...... 6 Peet, Samuel V ...... 1 0 0 Penrose, F. G...... 5 0 £19 3 6 Shaw, John ...... 5 - 0 SliacKleton, Joseph F. ... 10 0 C htjrohtown, per Louisa Heather— Shackleton, Jane W. ... 10 0 Allen, Catherine...... 10 0 Shackleton, William E.... 2 6 Edmondson, John...... 5 0 Shackleton, Mary E. ... 2 6 Edmondson, T. and A ... 10 0 Shackleton, Abram ...... 10 0 GatchelL Robert ...... 5 0 Shackleton, Richard 5 0 Green, John McD 10 0 Webb, John ...... 3 0 0 Heather, William 2 6 White Joshua ...... 5 0 0 Lynch, Anne ...... 5 0 Wigham, John R 5 0 0 Malone, William ...... 10 0 Roberts, Thomas ...... 5 0 £30 0 0 Taylor, Lucy ...... 10 0 Woods, Adam ...... 10 0 Per Henrietta Neale— Abbott, Mary Y ...... 20 14 2 6 Bowles, R o b e rt...... 50 Downs, Alexander 5 0 D u b lin , per Charlotte Allen— Douglas, John ...... 10 0 Allen, Ellen ...... 10 0 Douglas, William ...... 2 0 Allen, Charlotte...... 10 0 Douglas, Jacob ...... 2 0 Sparrow, Edward ...... 10 0 Douglas, Mary J ...... 2 0 Sparrow, Frederick ...... 5 0 Douglas, Sarah ...... 2 0 Douglas, Maggie ...... 1 0 £1 15 0 Douglas, Annie ...... 1 0 Per Maria Bewley— Douglas, Susie ...... 6 Bewley, Maria ...... 2 0 0 Douglas, John, jun 1 0 Bewley, Samuel, jun 2 0 0 Douglas, Sinton...... 10 Bewley, Wm. Frederic... 2 0 0 Glynn, Mortimer ...... 2 6 Bewley, Frank ...... 10 0 Glynn, Lizzie J ...... 2 6 Eustace, John M.D 2 0 0 Glynn, Susan...... 1 0 H aslam Jo h n ...... 5 0 Halliday, John ...... 5 0 Watson, William ...... 2 0 0 Halliday, Emily...... 2 6 Halliday, Anna ...... 3 0 £10 15 0 Halliday, Mary ...... 2 0 Johnston, Mordecai 1 0 0 Per Mary Edmundson— Millner, Eliza ...... 5 0 Baker, Samuel ...... 5 0 Neale, Lucia ...... 26 102

£ s. d. £ s. d. D u b lin , Continued— Monkstown, Continued— Neale, Charles H 1 0 Hogg, Anna ...... 1 0 0 Neale, S. S. & daughters 5 0 Hogg, Susanna P ...... 10 0 Neale, Francis ...... 2 0 Hogg, Thomas P ...... 1 0 0 Pedlow, Sinton ...... 2 0 Hogg, Sarah M ...... 5 0 Pillar, William ...... 2 6 Hogg, Emily ...... 2 6 Nesbitt, Alicia ...... 1 0 Hogg, William ...... 5 0 Wardell, Lucy ...... 4 0 Hogg, Rebecca ...... o 6 Wardell, Lizzie ...... 1 0 Hogg, Jane ...... 10 0 Watson, Samuel...... 2 0 0 Pim, Jonathan ...... 10 0 0 Watson Samuel H 10 0 Pim, Thomas...... 5 0 O Webb, Thomas 5 0 Pim, Thomas, jun. .. 3 0 O Webb, Thomas H 5 0 Pim, Joseph T ...... 3 0 O Webb, Arthur ...... 5 0 Pim, Frederic W ...... 1 0 O Wheeler, Walter ...... 1 0 Pim, J. Lister ...... 10 O Pim, Hannah J ...... 10 0 £ 8 5 0 Pim, Priscilla ...... 8 0 Per Rebecca Roberts- Pim , Jane ...... 2 6 Roberts, Rebecca...... 5 0 Pim , Emma ...... 2 6 Thomson, Margaret 5 0 Pim, Mary G...... 10 O Pim, Greenwood ...... 10 O £ 0 10 0 Pim, Mary Agnes...... 5 0 Pim, Margaret J ...... 2 6 Per H. and C. Williams— Pim, Gertrude ...... 2 6 Fayle, Elizabeth ...... 5 0 Pim Constance...... 2 6 H ifi, A n n a ...... 5 0 Pease, S. E ...... 10 0 0 Newsom, Alfred ...... 10 0 Scott, Letitia ...... 5 0 Newsome, H y ...... 10 0 Todhunter, J. E ...... 1 0 0 Williams, H. and L 5 0 Walpole, George ...... 1 0 0 Williams, Henrietta 2 6 Walpole, Edward ...... 1 0 • 0 Wilson, Mrs...... 1 0 O £ 1 17 6 W in d so r...... 7 O

M o n k s t o w n . per Anna Hogg— £84 18 & Allen, Ricliard ...... 25 0 0 Allen, Henry John ...... 2 0 0 Cl a r a — Allen, Margaret...... 10 0 Goodbody, Marcus 10 0 o Alexander Anna ...... 5 0 Goodbody, Jonathan , 10 0 0 Alexander, Elizabeth ... 5 0 Goodbody, Lewis F ...... 10 0 0 Albany ...... 3 0 Goodbody, Richard , 5 0 0 Anonymous ...... 5 0 Goodbody, J. Perry ...... 5 0 0 Barker, Julia ...... :... 5 0 Goodbodv, F . R. .'...... 2 10 0 Barrington, Sir John ... 1 0 0 Goodbody, J . B . C...... 2 10 0 Bewley, Sophia...... 1 0 0 Goodbody, R. C...... 1 0 0 Calvert, Eliza ...... 1 0 0 Goodbody, Joshua C. ... 1 0 0 Davis, Thomas and Mar­ Goodbodv, Hannah P . ... 1 0 0 garet ...... 3 0 0 Goodbodv, Marcus, jun. 1 0 0 Pennell, Joshua G 1 0 0 Perry, Elizabeth ...... 5 0 0 Goodbody Margaret 1 0 0 Goodbody, Henry P. ... 10 0 £ 5i 0 0 Goodbody, Jonathan, jun. 1 0 0 Haydock, W. H ...... 3 0 B a l l in t o r e — Hogg, Mary ...... 2 0 0 Jeffares, Anna ...... 2 6 Hogg, Jonathan ...... 1 0 0 Haughton, Jonathan . 5 0 io: £ s. d. £ s. d. Ballintore, Continued— Mountmelltok, Continued— Haughton, Joseph J. ... 5 0 Odium, Isabella...... 5 0 Haughton, M. J ...... 5 0 Pim, Susan...... 1 0 0 Morrison, M. J ...... 2 6 Pim, William G...... 5 0 Morrison, Joseph ...... 5 0 Morrison, Elizabeth 5 0 £ 2 10 0 Poole, H . C...... 5 0 Poole, Joseph ...... 2 6 M o u n tr a th — Sixsmith, Dorcas ...... 1 0 Dickinson, Susanna ...... 10 0 Three Friends ...... 2 6 Neale, Richard ...... 2 0 0 Thompson, Jane ...... 2 6 Waring Anna...... 2 6 £ 2 10 0 Waring, Sophia...... 2 6 « Waring, Joseph...... 1 0 0 B e lfa s t — Waring, William ...... 5 0 Bell, Joseph ...... 1 0 0 Other sums...... 2 0 B ell E. H ...... 1 0 0 Bell, Ellinor ...... 10 0 £3 15 6 Bell, Lucy, jun ...... 10 0 Bulla, H ...... 1 0 E nn iscorth y— Boucher, W. J ...... 5 0 Chapman, Thomas 10 0 Boucher, Eliza ...... 2 6 Copeland, Robert ..... !... 1 0 0 Boucher, Joseph ...... 5 0 Davis, Samuel ...... 1 10 0 Clibborn, William 1 0 0 Davis, Elizabeth P 1 0 0 Cullimore, E ...... 1 0 O Davis, Francis ...... 3 0 0 Cunningham, S...... 2 6 Davis, Francis, j un 5 0 0 Graham, Thomas ...... 2 0 Davis, Ann ...... 2 0 0 Graham, Robert ...... 5 0 Davis, William ...... 10 0 Greer, Thomas ...... 10 O Davis, Albert S...... 2 6 Gilmore, William ...... 10 0 Davis, Francis H 2 6 Hanna Thomas A 2 6 Davis, Anna B ...... 2 6 Harvey, William T 5 0 Davis, E. Emma ...... 2 G Jackson, Thomas ...... 1 0 0 Davis, Eva M ...... 6 Knight, H. C...... 10 0 Other sums...... 12 6 Lockwood, F. W...... 2 6 Marsh, J. C...... 12 6 £15 13 6 Malcomson, James ...... 2 6 W EXFORD— Malcomson, G reer 2 6 Macquillan, Joseph ...... 1 0 0 O’Brien, L. F ...... 2 6 Wood, Frederick ...... 10 0 Pim, Joshua ...... 1 0 0 Pim , J o h n ...... ] 10 0 £ 1 10 0 Pim, Robert B ...... 2 6 Pim , Sarah...... 1 0 0 Knock— Pim , E . W ...... 5 0 Neale, James T...... 5 0 Thompson E. H ...... 1 0 0 Rhodes, Rebecca V 5 0 Ramsay, Thomas ...... 5 0 Walpole, Arabella 1 0 0 Shaw, John ...... 1 0 Walpole, Joseph W 2 6 Wright, Joseph ...... 5 0 Walpole, Thomas and Sarah J ...... 100 £15 11 6 Walpole, Henry...... 100 B e s s b r o o k — £2 12 6 Barcroft, Henry..:...... 2 0 0 M ountmelliok — Bowes, James ...... 2 6 Milner, James ...... 1 0 0 Clibborn, Sidney A 3 0 104

JL Sa d. £ s. d. Bessbrook, Continued— C lo n m el— Dale, James ...... 3 0 Beale, Edward ...... 26 Pennell, Jam es...... 10 0 Fayle, Benjamin ...... 1 0 0 Green, Thomas...... 2 0 Grubb, Anna ...... 1 0 0 Harris, Elizabeth 3 0 Grubb, Susanna...... 12 0 Lamb, S. D...... 15 0 Grubb, Joseph H 2 6 Richardson, John G 10 0 0 Richardson, Jas. N. jun. 1 0 0 £2 17 0

£14 18 6 Cork— Addey, George ...... 2 t> Grange— Baker, Sarah ...... 10 0 Barcroft, M ary ...... 10 0 Beale, Alfred ...... 10 0 Barcroft, W ...... 1 0 0 Beale, Henry H ...... 10 0 Barcroft, S ...... 5 0 Beale, George C...... 10 0 Greeves, J. and S 5 0 Beale, J . WT ...... 5 0 Hobson, S ...... 5 0 Beale, M. A ...... 5 0 Malcomson, Susan 10 0 Beale, Sarah S...... 5 0 Pike, Richard...... 1 0 0 Beale, Arabella ...... 2 6 Richardson, S...... 2 6 Beale, Frederick A 1 0 Banks, John ...... 10 0 £3 17 6 Baker, George ...... 5 0 Baker, Samuel ...... 2 6 H illsborough — 5 Friend, A ...... 10 0 Green, John On- ...... 0 Harty, John ...... 1 0 0 Green, Samuel ...... 2 6 Haughton, Benjamin ... 2 0 0 Davidson, Samuel 1 0 Jacob, A. W ...... 2 0 0 Pim, Arthur ...... 1 0 0 Jackson, Anna ...... 5 0 J . H ...... 1 0 £ 1 8 6 C. Martin, Maiy J...... 5 0 L is b u r n — Newsom, J . C...... 2 0 0 Gregg, Anna B ...... 10 0 Newsom, S. H ...... 3 0 0 Pim, Anna R...... 1 0 0 Pike, Ebenezer ...... 10 0 0 Radley, Joseph ...... 2 6 Russell, Elizabeth 5 0 Richardson, Joseph ...... 5 0 0 Strangman, J. W 1 0 0 Richardson, James N. ... 5 0 0 Taylor, W ...... 26 Richardson, J. Theodore 1 0 0 Jacob, William F 5 0 Silcock, James ...... 2 6 Wright, Thomas ...... 10 0 Wright, William ...... 10 0 £12 15 0 Wright, Samuel...... 5 0 Wright, M. M ...... 1 0 R io h h il l — H . T...... 10 0 Allen, A . D ...... 3 0 Friend, A ...... 50 Allen, J. G...... 5 0 AlleU, Annie ...... 2 6 £28 13 0 Allen, Annie E ...... 2 6 Chapman, Thomas ...... 3 0 W a terfo rd — Chapman, Elizabeth 2 6 Bames, Rachel...... 4 0 Johnson, M. J ...... 2 0 Ditto, donation...... 1 0 0 Mackie, Jane ...... 3 0 Beale, Richard ...... 5 0 Nicholson, H...... 5 0 Braithwaite, W. D...... 2 6 Murray, J. G...... 5 0 Chandler, Samuel...... 5 0 Chapman, W. and G. ... 5 0 £1 13 6 Clark, H. R...... 2 6 105 £ s. d. £ s. d W aterford, Continued— W aterford, Continued— Garnett, Edward ...... 10 0 White, Thomas R. 2 10 0 Harvey, Thomas S 10 0 White, Henry ...... 2 10 0 Jacob, Thomas W 1 0 0 W hite, Samuel ...... 1 10 0 Jacob, Francis ...... 10 0 White, John N...... 1 10 0 Jacob, Edward ...... 10 0 White, George ...... 1 0 0 Jacob, Anna L ...... 26 White, W illiam ...... 10 0 Jacob, A nn...... 20 W hite, G. EdAvin ...... 10 0 Lean, C. Albert...... 2 6 White, Henry, Summer­ Malcomsom, Jo h n 2 0 0 ville ...... 14 0 Neale, Joseph ...... 10 0 White, Gertrude ...... 2 6 Peet, A. D. and L 15 0 White, Eliza ...... 5 0 Peet, E. G...... 2 6 White, Hannah F 7 6 Penrose, Mary Anne ... 5 0 Pirn, Anna J...... 26 Roberts, Rebecca 5 0 £21 0 0 IRISH AUXILIARY. Friends' Foreign Mission Association, in Account with John Webb,

1879. £ s. d. 1880. £ s. d. £ s. d. I I m o. 15th.—To Cash ...... 100 o o 5 mo.— By Monkstown ...... 84 18 6 1880. Bray ...... 19 3 6 Dublin ...... 57 5 0 3 mo. 6th.— ,, Cash ...... 100 o o 161 7 ,, Cash, Postage, etc...... o 12 o Grange ...... 3 17 5 mo. 1st. — ,, Cash ...... 146 o 6 Cork ...... 28 13 Lisburn ...... 12 15 Hillsborough...... 1 8 Bessbrook ...... 14 18 Belfast ...... 15 1* M ountrath...... 2 10 W aterford...... 21 o Clara ...... Mountmellick ...... Knock ...... R ich h ill ...... Clonm el...... Enniscorthy ...... 15 Ballintore ...... 3 W exford...... 1 ¿34<5 12 6 ¿346 12 6

We have examined the above account and find it correct. WILLIAM J. PILE . FR AN C IS BEWLEY. 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 sterling, 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 laid 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.