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V/omans Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church

BEING THE SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SOCIETY

Organized 1869 Incorporated 1884

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

The entrance of Thy Words giveth Tight

Psalm 119 : 130

HYMN "The Word of God Must Go."—Tune, Diademata, Methodist Hymnal, No. 179.

The Word of God must go To waiting lands afar. Till every distant shore shall know The beauty of the star. The flag of God unfurled, Above all storms shall toss Until it signals down the world The meaning of the cross.

Go, ye who bear the Word! We'll pray, and strive, and give Till hearts that love had never stirred Shall see the Light, and live. The Word of God must go To waiting lands afar. Till every distant shore shall know The beauty of the star. —Nancy Byrd Turner

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PRAYER

O God, our Father, we beseech thee for peace. . . . Bring to an end the present agony of conflict. Cause us to renounce the error of depending on brute force and militarism for ultimate solutions. That peace through love is the only way to ultimate victory, make this clear to our souls. . . . To Thee who answereth prayer miraculously, we give thanks already for the answer to this petition. Finding an inexpressible blessing in so doing, we affirm the faith that this prayer will eventually be carried to realization. . . . Give us new energy, and enable each one of us to go forward, filled with heavenly power from on high. Through the Lord Jesus we ask it. Amen. —Toyohiko Kagaiva WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

OFFICERS

President Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, 812 Summit Avenue, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

Vice-Presidents

Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, 45 Prospect St., Madison, N. J. Mrs. Charles L. Mead, 3939 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

V ice-Presidents-at-Large Mrs. Frederick F. Lindsay, 25 Seymour Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Francis J. McConnell, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Recording Secretary Mrs. H. E. Woolever, 3511 Rodman Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

Treasurer Miss Florence Hooper, 30 Maryland Life Building, Baltimore, Md.

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

Chairman Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf

Secretary

Mrs. Franklin Reed, 619 Carlton Road, Westfield, N. J.

Member ex-ofificio Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, President

Corresponding Secretaries

Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell, 100 Washington St., Maiden, Mass. Mrs. Charles H. Hardie, 883 East Nineteenth St., I3rooklyn, N. Y. Miss Elizabeth M. Lee, 400 Shady Ave., E. E., Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Juliet H. Knox, Associate, 7320 Brighton Road, Ben Avon, Pa. Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, American University Campus, Washington, D. C. Mrs. C. C. Peale, 869'Bryden Road, Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Frank E. Baker, 719 Emerson St., Evanston, 111. Mrs. Otis Moore, Tipton, Iowa, R.F.D. No. 1. Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, 607 Wesley Temple Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Miss Ella M. Watson, 1701 S. Seventeenth St., Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. J. K. Cecil, 530 Kellogg Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, 4857 N. E. 8th Ave., Portland, Oregon.

Miss Florence Hooper, Treasurer.

1 93475 4 Officers and Committees HOME DEPARTMENT Chairman Mrs. Charles L. Mead Secretary

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

Member ex-officio Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, President

Secretaries of the Home Base Mrs. Adolphus Linfield, 29 Everett St., Watertown, Mass. Mrs. Berryman H. McCoy, 19 Prospect St., Trenton, N. J. Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, 7730 Union Ave., Elkins Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Lulie P. Hooper, 100 W. University Parkway, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. E. E. Gayer, 94 Wilson Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. C. N. Timmons, 406 Fourth Ave., Sterling, 111. Mrs. J. D. Bragg, 3666A Montana St., St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. F. L. Parso, 1441 Fourth Ave., VVindom, Minn. Mrs. E. Guy Cutshall, 4926 Madison Ave., Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. Jerome Seymour, 952 No. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. C. D. Fletcher, 156 So. University St., Blackfoot, Idaho.

SPECIAL SECRETARIES Young People's Department—Mrs. Albert E. Beebe, 54 Elmwood PI., Bridgeport, Conn. Junior Department—Mrs. Carl F. New, 518 Old Orchard Road, Ten Hills, Baltimore, Md. Student Worls—Mrs. H. M. LeSourd, 206 Waverly Ave., Newton, Mass. Wesleyan Service Guild—Mrs. Merle N. English, 729 Emerson St., Evanston, 111.

THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—1935 The President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, Corre- sponding Secretaries, Secretaries of the Home Base, Secretary of the Foreign Department, Secretary of the Home Department, Delegates, Secretaries of the Young People's, Junior and Student Work and of the Wesleyan Service Guild. Delegates were excused from attendance in order to save expenses.

EDITORS Woman's Missionary Friend Miss Effie A. Merrill, 103 Broad St., Lynn, Mass. Der Frauen Missions Freund Miss Amalie M. Achard, 1119 La Boice Drive, Glendale, Calif. Junior Missionary Friend Mrs. James H. Lewis, 1930 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 111. General Literature Miss Annie G. Bailey, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Officers and Committees

Executive Daily Mrs. F. T. Enderis, 1555 Ruth Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio PUBLISHER Miss Annie G. Bailey, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. DIRECTOR OF LIBRARY SERVICE

Miss Alice I. Hazeltine, 39 Claremont Ave., New York, N. Y. SECRETARY OF GENERAL OFFICE Miss Ruth Ransom, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

General Counselor—Mr. Roszel C. Thomsen. Auditor of Accounts of the General Treasurer and of the Treasurer of Retirement Fund—Mr. Wilmer Black, Baltimore, Md.

STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1935-19361 By-Laws Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Mrs. W. S. Mitchell, Miss Annie G. Bailey, Mrs. L. R. Peel, Mrs. Franklin Reed, Mrs. C. D. Fletcher. Consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. C. L. Mead, Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, Miss Ella M. Watson, Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, Mrs. C. C. Peale. General Office Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Mrs. Charles L. Mead, Mrs. Fred A. Victor. International Department Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, Mrs. C. L. Mead, Mrs. H. E. W'oolever, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Juliet H. Knox, Miss Amalie M. Achard, Mrs. George H. Tomlinson, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe. Investments The General Officers and General Counselor. Nominations Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Mrs. W. S. Mitchell, Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, Mrs. Otis Moore. Three delegates to be added at the session of the General Executive Committee in 1936. State of the Society Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Frank E. Baker, Mrs. F. L. Parso, Mrs. C. N. Timmons.

SPECIAL COMMITTEES* Library Service Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs. B. H. McCoy, Mrs. S. J. Herben, Miss Florence Hooper, Miss Ruth Ransom. Museum in Tremont Street Church Mrs. A. Linfield, Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Miss A. G. Bailey. Curator of the Museum—Miss Clementina Butler.

tNominated with exception of Committee on Nominations by Nominating Committee. •Nominated by Home Department. One member of Leadership Training Committee nominated by Foreign Department. 6 Officers and Committees

World Citizenship Mrs. Geo. H. Tomlinson, 2600 Orrington Ave., Evanston, 111., Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Mrs. Herman Fabry, Mrs. O. R. Aspegren, Mrs. H. G. Tufty, Mrs. R. A. Page, Mrs. W. C. Hanson. Branch presidents as corresponding members. Leadership Training Mrs. Harry Earl Woolever, Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs. A. E. Beebe, Mrs. C. F. New.

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS Editor Share Plan Letters Mrs. Harry R. Ferguson, 206 Wollaston Ave., Emsworth, Pittsburgh, Pa. Transportation Aides Miss Ruth Ransom, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, Mrs. E. L. Anderson, 96 Carl St., San Francisco, Calif., Mrs. Clyde Collison, 1420 Spruce St., Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Samuel D. McKinstry, 3220 Lakewood Ave., Seattle, Wash.

REPRESENTATIVES ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEES

Advisory Member of the World Service Commission f Mrs. Thomas Nicholson. Central Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild* Mrs. Merle N. English, Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Mrs. J. M. Avann, Mrs. F. E. Baker. Commission on Curriculum* Mrs. James H. Lewis. Joint Committee on Religious Education** Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf. Methodist Joint Committee on Korea, Mexico and Japan** Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. J. M. Avann, Miss Juliet Knox, Mrs. W. S. Mitchell. Joint Commission with Woman's Home Missionary Societyf Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. C. L. Mead, Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Mrs. Otis Moore, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe. Missionary Education Movement* Mrs. A. E. Beebe, Mrs. C. F. New. Committee on Christian Higher Education in India** Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. Franklin Reed, Miss Ruth Ransom. Committee on United Study of Foreign Missions* Mrs. John C. Shover. Committee on Christian Literature for Women and Children in Mission Lands**—Miss Clementina Butler. tNominated by Nominating Committee. Nominated by Home Department. Nominated by Foreign Department. Officers and Committees 7

Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China** Representatives on Boards of Ginling College, West China Union Uni- versity, Shantung Christian University, Yenching College. Union College Committees**

Ewha College—Mrs. J. M. Avann, Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Miss Florence Hooper. Alternate, Mrs. W. S. Mitchell.

Ginling College—Miss Elizabeth R. Bender, Mrs. F. J. McConnell. Alternate, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe. Isabella Thoburn College—Miss Ella M. Watson, Mrs. Wm. Boyd, Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Miss Florence Hooper, Dr. George Briggs, Mr. Thomas S. Donohugh. Alternate, Mrs. F.A.Victor. Advisory members—Mrs. Ellis Phillips, Mr. Wm. Boyd. West China Union University—Mrs. Frank E. Baker. Alternate, Mrs. W. E. Scarrit. Woman's Christian College of Japan—Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs.Wm. S. Mitchell, Miss Margaret Forsythe. Alternate, Mrs. F. A. Victor. Women's Christian College of Madras—Miss Clementina Butler, Mrs. Walter A. Jessup. Alternate, Mrs. B. H. McCoy. St. Christopher' s Training College, Madras—Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Clementina Butler. Alternate, Mrs. B. H. McCoy.

Shantung Christian University—Mrs. J. K. Cecil, Mrs. Franklin Reed. Alternate, Mrs. Eric North. Vellore Medical College—Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Clementina Butler. Alternate, Mrs. B. H. McCoy.

Yenching College for Women—Mrs. J. K. Cecil, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf. Alternate, Miss Ruth Ransom. Board of Trustees—Mrs. J. M. Avann.

Foochow Christian Union Hospital**—Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, Mrs. Frank E. Baker. Alternate, Mrs. FrankHorne. Trustee at Large—Dr. Lillian Martin Quimby. Permanent Committee of Mission Boards Working in the Philippine Islands**—Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. Frank E. Baker. Alternate, Mrs. F. A. Victor.

Committee on Co-operation in Latin America**— Miss Elizabeth M. Lee, Miss Juliet Knox, Mrs. F. J. McConnell. Alternate, Miss Ruth Ransom.

Rural Missions Co-operating Committee** — Mrs. Franklin Reed. Alternate, Mrs. F". A. Victor.

Delegates to Foreign Missions Conference of North America*— With expenses from their budget^Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf. With expenses from general treasury—Mrs. J. K. Cecil and Mrs. \y. H. Dievler. Alternate, Mrs. C. L. Mead. Without expenses paid—Mrs. B. H. McCoy, Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, Mrs. J. C. Shover, Miss Ella M. Watson, Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Mrs. Carl F. New, Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Frank E. Baker, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe, Miss Edith Fredericks.

Delegates to Conference on Cause and Cure of War* To be appointed by the World Citizenship Committee.

tNominated by Nominating Committee. 'Nominated by Home Department. **Nominated by Foreign Department. 8 Officers and Committees

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES Country Committees India, Burma, Africa Miss Watson, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Van Meter, Mrs. Hardie Secretary. China Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Cecil, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Peel, Secretary. Multi- Country Mrs. Peale, Miss Lee, Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Knox, Secretary. College Committees Isabella Thoburn—Miss Watson, Miss Hooper, Mrs. Hardie, Mrs. Cecil, Mrs. Woolever, Secretary. Hwa Nan— Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs. Diefendorf. Ewha—Mrs. Baker, Mrs. McConnell, Mrs. Peale. Kwassui—Mrs. Van Meter, Mrs. Reed, Miss Knox. Policy Committees Educational—Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Nicholson, Miss Hooper, Miss Lee. Medical—Miss Watson, Mrs. Peale, Mrs. Diefendorf, Mrs. Cecil, Mrs. Baker. Miscellaneous—Miss Knox, Mrs. Hardie, Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Van Meter, Mrs. Baker. Personnel Committees Candidate—Mrs. Diefendorf, Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. LeSourd. Nominations— (Deparment) Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Peale, Mrs. Van Meter. Scholarships and Fellowships—Mrs. Hardie, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Nicholson, Miss Lee, Miss Knox, Miss Watson, Mrs. Moore.

HOME DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES Forward Movement The Home Department and Mrs. Townsend and Mrs. Lindsay. Group L Student Work Mrs. Cutshall, Mrs. LeSourd, Mrs. McCoy, Miss L. Hooper, Mrs. Gaver. Wesleyan Service Guild Mrs. Dievler, Mrs. English, Mrs. Seymour, Miss Bailey, Mrs. Tomlinson. Young People's Work Mrs. Timmons, Mrs. Beebe, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Bragg, Miss Merrill. Junior Work Mrs. Parso, Mrs. New, Mrs. Linfield, Mrs. Lewis.

Group H. Literature Mrs. Bragg, Mrs. Dievler, Miss L. Hooper, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Beebe, Mrs. New, Miss Bailey, Miss Merrill, Mrs. Lewis. Stewardship Mrs. Gaver, Mrs. Linfield, Mrs. Timmons, Mrs. English, Mrs. Cutshall. Extension Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. LeSourd, Mrs. McCoy, Mrs. Parso, Mrs. Sheets, Secretary. Field Correspondents and Treasurers 9

Group III. Negro Work Miss L. Hooper, Mrs. Bragg, Mrs. Gaver, Mrs. Cutshall. Budget Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Sheets, Mrs. Parso, Mrs. Timmons, Mrs. English, Mrs. Lewis. Bi-lingual Work Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. Seymour, Miss Merrill. World Citizenship Mrs. Bragg, Mrs. Tomlinson, Miss L. Hooper, Mrs. Gaver, Mrs. Cutshall. Interdenominational Interests Mrs. Linfield, Mrs. McCoy, Mrs. LeSourd, Mrs. Dievler, Mrs. Beebe, Miss Bailey, Mrs. New. Circle of Remembrance Miss Merrill, Mrs. Seymour.

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENTS, FIELD CORRESPONDENTS AND TREASURERS IN FOREIGN FIELDS AFRICA Official Correspondent—Mrs. Charles H. Hardie. Angola Field Correspondent— Ingle Johnson, Quessua Girls School, Malange, Angola, Africa. Field Treasurer— Ingle Johnson, Quessua Girls School, Malange, Angola, Africa. Rhodesia Field Correspondent—Frances Quinton, Fairfield Girls School, Old Umtali, South Rhodesia, Africa. Field Treasurer—Mildred Benson, Fairfield Girls School, Old Umtali, South Rhodesia, Africa. Southeast Africa Field Correspondent—Bess L. Phillips, Inhambane, P. E., East Africa. Field Treasurer—Bess L. Phillips, Inhambane, P. E., East Africa. BURMA Official Correspondent— Mrs. Otis Moore. Field Correspondent —Grace Stockwell, Thongwa, Burma. Field Treasurer—Hazel Winslow, Rangoon, Burma. CHINA Field Treasurer for all Conferences—Ruth Danner, 23 Yuen Ming Yuen, Shanghai. Central China Official Correspondent—Mrs. Leon Roy Peel. Field Correspondent—Cora L. Rahe, Wuhu, Anhwei. West China Official Correspondent—Mrs. F. E. Baker. Field Correspondent—Gladys B. Harger, Chungking, Szechwan, West China Foochow Official Correspondent—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray. Field Correspondent—Carrie M. Bartlett, Haitang Island, via Foochow. Hinghwa Official Correspondent—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray. Field Correspondent—Sylvia E. Aldrich, Hinghwa, via Foochow. 10 Field Correspondents and Treasurers

Kiangsi Official Correspondent —Mrs. Leon Roy Peel. Field Correspondent—Annie M. Pittman, Kiukiang. North China Official Correspondent—Mrs. J. K. Cecil. Field Correspondent—Myra A. Jaquet, Tientsin. Shantung Official Correspondent— Mrs. J. K. Cecil. Field Correspondent— Mollie Townsend, Tsinanfu. Yenping Official Correspondent—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray. Field Correspondent^—Gusta A. Robinett, Yenping, Fukien. Hwa Nan College Official Correspondent-— Mrs. Leon Roy Peel. Secretary of the Board of Directors—E. Pearce Hayes.

INDIA Field Treasurer for all Conferences and for Isabella Thoburn College— Miss Ethel Whiting, 151 Dharamtala St., Calcutta, India. Bengal Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. H. Hardie. Field Correspondent^—Ruth Field, Darjeeling. Bombay Official Correspondent —Mrs. Otis Moore. Field Correspondent—May Sutherland, Nagpur. Central Provinces Official Correspondent—Mrs. Otis Moore. Field Correspondent—Ethel Ruggles, Raipur. Gujarat Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter. Field Correspondent—To be elected at conference in November, Hyderabad Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter. Field Correspondent^—Margaret Morgan, Hyderabad, Deccan. Indus River Official Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson. Field Correspondent—Caroline C. Nelson, Ajmer. Lucknow Official Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson. Field Correspondent-—Maren Tirsgaard, Arrah. North India Official Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson. Field Correspondent—Ruth Hoath, Budaun. Northwest India Official Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson. Field Correspondent—Gertrude E. Richards, Bulandshahr. South India Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter. Field Correspondent—Urdell Montgomery, Bangalore. Field Correspondents and Treasurers 11

JAPAN Official Correspondent—Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell. Field Treasurer—N. Margaret Daniel, Tokyo. Field Correspondent—Anna Laura White, Nagasaki. KOREA Official Correspondent—Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell. Field Correspondent—Mrs. Anna B. Chaffin, Seoul. Field Treasurer—Mr. G. C. Speidel, Seoul. MALAYA Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. C. Peale. Field Correspondent —Mabel C. Marsh, Penang, Malaya. Field Treasurer—Thirza Bunce, Ipoh, Malaya. SUMATRA Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. C. Peale. Field Correspondent^— Mrs. Lydia Oelschlager Aim, Medan, Sumatra. Field Treasurer—June Redinger, Medan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. C. Peale. Field Correspondent—Marguerite M. Decker, Manila. Field Treasurer—Mary Deam, Mary J. Johnston Hospital, Manila, P. I. EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA Official Correspondent-—Miss Juliet Knox. Bulgaria Field Correspondent—Mellony Turner, Lovetch. Field Treasurer—Etta M. Gilford, Lovetch. Italy Field Correspondent and Treasurer—Artele B. Ruese, Via Savoia 15, Rome(34), North Africa Field Correspondent—Martha Robinson, I! Maten, Kabylia, Africa. Field Treasurer—Glora M. Wysner, Les Aiglons, El Biar, Algiers. LATIN AMERICA Official Correspondent, Mexico—Miss Juliet H. Knox. Official Correspondent, South America—Miss Carrie J. Carnahan. Mexico Field Correspondent—Mary N. Pearson, 3a Serapio Rendon 76, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Field Treasurer—Elsie Shepherd, Pachuca, Hidalgo. Eastern South America Field Correspondent for Argentine—Olive L Given, 1352 Avenida Pellegrini, Rosario, Argentina. Field Treasurer for Argentine—Olive L Given, 1352 Avenida Pellegrini, Rosario, Argentina. Field Correspondent for Uruguay—Ruth C. Wilson, 2709, 8 de Octubre, Montevideo, Uruguay. Field Treasurer for Uruguay—Jennie Reid, Instituto Crandon, 2709, 8 de Octubre, Montevideo, Uruguay. North Andes Field Correspondent—Treva B. Overholt, Apartado 2144, Lima, Peru. Field Treasurer—C. Frances Vandegrift, Apartado 2144, Lima, Peru. Pp Beati) to ILitt immortal

Josephine Stahl, India 1892-1934

Amy G. Lewis, Japan and general office 1898-1934

Alice Means, India 1897-1935

Katherine a. Blair, India 1888-1935

Bessie E. Rigg, India 1925-1935

Mrs. Frank M. KcKibben, general secretary of junior work. . . . 1932-1935 PROCEEDINGS General Executive Committee Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Methodist Episcopal Church

Sixty-sixth Annual Session October 23 and October 25, 1935

Wednesday, October 23 The General Executive Committee was called to order by Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, president, at 11 a.m. The purpose of the meeting was stated. It was necessary to secure immediate action by the General Executive Committee on two matters which aflfected the work of the Board of Foreign Missions and concerning which the decision of the General Executive Committee needed to be transmitted to the Policy Committee of the Board, which was adjourning its meeting at noon this day. These two matters concerned the future policy of the Board and Society in Sumatra and Malaya and the medical work in China Both matters had been considered in both Departments. The Foreign Depart- ment had taken action and this action was now brought to the General Execu- tive Committee for confirmation. It was voted that the telegram concerning the work in Sumatra and Malaya, as presented by the Foreign Department, be approved.* It was voted that the telegram concerning medical work in China, as presented by the Foreign Department, be approved.* It was voted that the Foreign Department be empowered to act to con- clude necessary details involved in putting into effect the programs as outlined in the telegrams. It was voted that the Home Department minutes of the mid-year meeting be accepted and actions confirmed without reading. (All members of the unit meeting had a copy of these minutes.) Mrs. Sheets presented the minutes of the ad interim actions of the Home Department. They were accepted and the actions confirmed. It was voted that Mrs. Nicholson be requested to present the report of the Society at the meeting of the Board of Foreign Missions in November. The minutes of the consulting committee were read and accepted with necessary changes. Mrs. Mead asked for the privilege of the floor and brought greetings from Bishop Mead in whose area the General Executive Committee was meeting. Mrs. Nicholson expressed the appreciation of the General Executive Committee. The secretary read the ad interim actions of the general officers and these were confirmed. It was voted that the Society hold an anniversary program at the coming General Conference;

* See actions of the Foreign Department. 13 14 Pj'oceedings

That we request an afternoon in the first week, preferably Thursday, for the anniversary; That the program be left in the hands of the General Officers with privilege of co-opting other members. The ad interim minutes of the Foreign Department were read by Mrs. Reed. They were approved and the actions confirmed. The minutes of the investment committee were read, approved, and actions confirmed. Adjournment. Friday, October 25

The General Executive Committee was called to order at 10 a.m., Mrs. Nicholson presiding. Mr. Fahs led the worship service. The minutes of the previous meeting of the General Executive Committee were read and approved. Minutes of the Foreign Department were read and actions were confirmed* The minutes of the Hwa Nan Board of Trustees were read and actions were confirmed.* The minutes of the Home Department were read and actions were confirmed with one exception. The amount to be contributed for the joint exhibit with the Board of Foreign Missions at the General Conference was changed from .$200. to $300.** The minutes of the unit meeting at mid-year were approved and actions confirmed. The minutes of the unit meetings held during the present session of the General Executive Committee meeting, with the exception of the actions taken, were referred to a committee consisting of Mrs. Diefendorf and Mrs. Mead for approval. The actions adopted by the unit meeting were confirmed.*** It was voted that the Society employ Mr. Charles H. Fahs for seven months, in addition to the original contract, as research adviser, his salary to be $200.00 per month. Mrs. Tomlinson reported the world citizenship committee. It was voted that the report be accepted and that a statement prepared by the committee, to be included in a letter sent to the auxiliaries, be approved. The statement recorded the attitude of the Society toward measures for peace, temperance, and better movies. The committee on memorials consisting of Mrs. Seymour and Mrs. Hardie, reported a memorial sent to the General Executive Committee by New England Branch. It was referred to the committee on memorials, with Mrs. Tomlinson co-opted, for a slight rewording and as brought in by the committee was adopted as follows: Whereas: We realize that the General Conference of the Methodist Episco- pal Church has from time to time given utterance to its convictions concerning matters of national and international import; and

*See actions of the Foreign Department. '*See actions of the Home Department. ***See actions of the Unit Meeting. Proceedings 15

Whereas: The resolution adopted by the General Conference of 1932, paragraph 562, has been disregarded and young men of the Methodist Church have had to forego securing their education at the university of their choice because of the compulsory military training required and to which, having conscientious scruples, they could not accede; and Whereas: We are impressed with the widespread desire manifest at this time to discover a plan for national conduct which shall eliminate the menace of war; and Whereas: We are impressed especially with the desire of the youth of the land to outlaw war, as evidenced by their peace meetings and educational programs in high schools, colleges, and churches; and Whereas: We note that in some of the non-Christian lands there are organizations for the bringing about of "peace" among the nations; and that

"they co-operate" with the Christian peace groups "when a definite task is to

be accomplished for the common cause ;"t and Whereas: We look with joy at the progress which has been made through the centuries and we believe that never before have there been so many people who are obeying the commands, "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;" and Whereas: The patriotism of the Methodist Episcopal Church has never been challenged, and we—wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, wish at this time to re-affirm our love of country and our loyalty to her; yet we belive we should crystallize our wish for peace into a determined will to secure peace; and Whereas: We believe that the Methodist Episcopal Church has now a magnificent opportunity to serve not only the youth of today, but to an even greater degree the generations to come;

Therefore be it resolved: That the General Conference of 1936 of the Methodist Episcopal Church be memorialized to take such action as shall place on record the fact that the Methodist Episcopal Church as an organization and many of its members as individuals conscientiously object to war and to compulsory military training in schools and colleges; and wish to be so known and acknowledged by the government and by the world, as is the Society of Friends.

Be it further resolved: That a copy of this action be sent to the President of the United States of America and to every member of his Cabinet; to the United States Senate and to the House of Representatives; and to each United States Senator and Repre- sentative, individually; that as soon as possible the influence of this action of the Methodist Episcopal Church may spread and begin to bear fruit, and others join, until the day shall come when to be a Christian shall mean in deed and in truth one who bears not arms against his brother. It was voted that the reports of the recording secretary, treasurer, 3'oung people's secretary, secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, student secretary, editors, publisher, and chairman of the committee on Christian Literature for fFrom "Japanese Women Speak"—Michi Kawai, Page 175. 16 Proceedings

Women and Children in Mission Lands, as previously given in the public session or before the unit meeting, be approved. The report of the auditor was presented and accepted. Adjournment. 1.30 p.m. Further minutes of the Home Department were read and actions confirmed.** A telegram from Miss Lulie P. Hooper, who was detained from attendance by illness, was read. Miss Ransom read a communication from Mr. Moss concerning the number of representatives allowed the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in the Foreign Missions Conference which is to meet January 8-10 in Asbury Park. The number was increased to thirteen. It was voted that the interdenominational committee be excused to bring in further nominations to complete the

number of delegates. Upon their return they nominated Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Mrs. Carl F. New, Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Frank E. Baker, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe, Miss Edith Fredericks in addition to the names nominated by the Home Department. It was voted that these nominees be elected. Further minutes of the Home Department were read by Mrs. Sheets. It was voted that the matter of bringing special guests to the General Executive Committee be referred again to the Home Department and reported upon at the mid-year meeting. With this change the minutes were approved and actions confirmed.**

The beautiful Chinese banner (one of the gifts sent to the Society at its sixtieth anniversary) to be presented to Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer because of her generous gifts to the Society, was displayed. The report of the by-law committee was given. With a slight modification which was left to the committee to word, the report was accepted.* It was voted that a letter be written by the secretary to Mrs. George A. Wilson thanking her for her efficient work in helping to define the duties of committees and in suggesting needed changes in the by-laws. Voted that the recommendation of the leadership training committee as follows be adopted: That missionaries on furlough be furnished Mrs. Mean's article "Writing for Missionary Publicity", in the June and July, 1934, issues of the Friend and with New York Branch "Manual for Speakers." Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Woolever brought the report of the committee on International Department. The recommendations of the committee were

adopted :tt The committee on defining the duties of committees recommended that the report be left until the mid-year meeting, that in the meantime copies of the report be sent to each member of the Foreign and Home Departments. This was voted. Mrs. Timmons, for Northwestern Branch, invited the General Executive

*.See report of committee on by-laws. **See report of Home Department. ttSee report of International Department. Proceedings 17

Committee to meet at Muncie, Indiana, in 1936. Voted that the invitation be accepted with thanks. Mr. Fahs was called upon to review the history of the efforts to work out with the Board of Foreign Missions a joint policy in regard to Sumatra and Malaya and the telegram received from Dr. Diffendorfer in replj' to the one sent on October 23 was read.* It was voted that a committee on General Conference legislation as affecting the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society be appointed consisting of the treasurer and one member from each Department. Mrs. Timmons from the Home Department and Mrs. Cecil from the Foreign Department were named. It was voted that looking toward Unification there be a committee on woman's work to consider with committees from the other Branches of Metho- dism a future policy, Mrs. Nicholson to be chairman of the committee and to name the other members. She nominated Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. McConnell, Mrs. Bragg, and Miss Lee. These names were approved. It was voted that $500.00 be appropriated as the share of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for the work of the Joint Committee on Religious Education. The date of the opening of the mid-year meeting was announced as April 29, at Columbus, Ohio. It was voted that following the appropriation service and the election of officers, Mrs. Peel and Miss Knox report their trips to their official fields. The secretary called the roll of the Branches and the appropriations for 1936, with additional items by the treasurer, were made and approved as follows: New England $ 55,000.00 New York 185,000.00 Philadelphia 155,000.00 Baltimore 40,000.00 Cincinnati 180,000.00 Northwestern 275,000.00 DesMoines 85,000.00 Minneapolis 47,500.00 Topeka 130,000.00 Pacific 90,000.00 Columbia River 33,000.00

Appropriation by Branches $1,275,500.00 Retirement Allowances 46,000.00 Zenana Papers 1,100.00 Student Aid 850.00

Isabella Thoburn College Endowment Income, . 670.00

Total Appropriation $1,324,120.00

Mrs. Nicholson read a few verses concerning the "River of the Water of Life" and brief prayers were offered.

*See actions of the Foreign Department. 18 Proceedings

Election of ofificers followed. Mrs. Dievler and Miss Knox were appointed as tellers and the ballots were distributed. The general officers were all re- elected as follows: Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, president; Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf and Mrs. Charles L. Mead, vice-presidents; Mrs. F. F. Lindsay and Mrs,

Francis J. McConnell, vice-presidents-at-large; Mrs. H. E. Woolever, recording secretary; Miss Florence Hooper, treasurer. Mrs. Cecil read the report of the nominating committee. It was accepted and those named were duly elected.

(See page 5.) Mrs. Peel and Miss Knox then told of their visits to their official fields. Voted that Mrs. Diefendorf and Mrs. Mead approve minutes of the General Executive Committee meeting of October 25. Adjournment. Eloise Andrews Woolever, Recording Secretary. — —

IN LANDS AFAR AFRICA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see '^Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. Angola Conference

QuESSUA Boarding School—Cilicia L. Cross, Violet B. Crandall*, Zella M . Glidden, Ingle A. Johnson, Alpha J. Miller, Marie Nelson.* Rhodesia Conference Old Umtali—Boarding School—Mildred O. Benson, Jessie A. PfaflF*, Frances Quinton, Ila M. Scovill. Medical— Irene P. Gugin, R.N. MuTAMBARA Boarding School—Bertha E. Ramsay, Lulu L. Tubbs. Medical —Ona M. Parmenter, R.N., Oril A. Penney, R.N. Nyadiri—Boarding School—Grace Clark, Wilhelmina T. Shields. Medical —Alice E. Whitney, R.N. Umtali— Hostel—Sarah N. King, Beulah H. Reitz.* Southeast Africa Conference GlKUKi (Inhambane)—Boarding School—Mabel P. Michel, Ruth E. North- cott, Bess L. Phillips. Medical—Victoria Lang, R.N. Evangelistic Work— Ruth F. Thomas. AFRICA

Viewing our work in Negro Africa as a whole, the outstanding items of

the last four years may be said to be : increased self-support through improved and extended agricultural and industrial work done by the girls themselves and through the increasing interest of the parents; the valuable services rendered through the British and American Interdenominational Committee for Christian Literature in Africa, which has promoted the magazine "Listen" edited by Miss Margaret Wrong; and a growing desire for closer interdenominational co-operation. The visit of Dr. John R. Mott to Africa in 1934 did much to promote this feeling. Several of our missionaries were privileged to attend his conferences. The objectives of Dr. Mott's visit may be briefly summarized as follows: L To take counsel with the leaders of the churches, Government, and other constructive forces of the country as to the most important and pressing problems, and as to how the Christian agencies can best help in meeting the present urgent and dangerous situation near and far. 2. To renew contacts with the Students Christian Association of South Africa. 3. To share knowledge and contacts. 4. To collaborate in a fresh study of how best to foster united thinking, planning, and action in furthering the world mission of Christianity.

Our work has gone forward without drastic change in the three conferences where the Society has its stations. In Angola, Portuguese territory, the Girls Boarding School at Quessua has reached an attendance of two hundred fifty girls. Miss Cross testifies that in her twenty years there, she has never known the girls to be better behaved, more obedient, do their work so well and be more *On furlough. 19 20 hi Lands Jfar anxious to be true Christians, than now. The Government Inspector of Schools commended the high quality of work being done. Two of the girls are assisting at the hospital, three are in training at the Bible school, and ten are pupil teachers. Revival meetings with wholesome and lasting effects were held last year. In June, 1934, the Conference of Angola Protestant Missions was held at Quessua, with English, Canadian and American Missions represented. The most important features were the movement to form a Protestant Alliance in the colony, and the visits of Senior Moreira, a minister from Portugal, and Mr. Hopkins of the World Sunday School Association. The question of sending negro missionaries to Angola has again been raised, and recommendation made by our Committee on Consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions, that we look favorably upon such procedure, should the way open. A much-needed new recruit. Miss Zella M. Glidden, sailed for Angola in the summer of 1935. In Rhodesia (British territory) our school work is coeducational. Mutambara had an electric lighting system installed about a year ago, another instance of the close co-operation in our African field between the Board and our Society, since the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society missionaries furnished the money from their savings on the field, while the Board of Foreign Missions missionaries installed the plant. The Ford car is useful on the district, though donkeys are still needed in places where roads are as yet unimproved. This kraal work is advancing, with schools in their little pole and mud buildings opening daily at 7 :30 a.m., and Sunday services in the native churches, erected largely by the people themselves. The Government is anxious to have religious work stressed in the schools. The Bible has first place on the school program. With the exception of three special training schools, the Government does all of its educational work in connection with the Missions. The death of old Chief Mutambara in November, 1933, marked the transition, in a sense, from dark "heathen" Africa in Rhodesia, and showed the amazing contrast of conditions under a Christian regime. At Nyadiri the "cut" has made it necessary to reduce the number of girls in the school, but to a marked degree, co-operation and self-help have been practiced to make resources stretch as far as possible. Sixty-five girls remained at the school last year during vacation, and sewed, threshed hemp, and rebuilt the wagon house and practice house with grass and poles. At Old Umtali, our largest station in Rhodesia, Fairfield Girls School recently graduated a class of eleven fine young girls, prepared for teaching. A village Teachers Institute, with sixty in attendance, proved helpful last year. School and church services had to be omitted for several weeks in the fall of 1934, when an outbreak of diphtheria put them in quarantine. The baby fold passed through sad days earlier in the year with a scourge of influenza. The hostel at Umtali has been kept open through the re-allocation of some of the upkeep funds. Providing a shelter for negro girls and women in a city full of difficulties and temptations, the hostel offers a diversified social service program. In Portuguese Southeast Africa, Hartzell Girls School at Gikuki is our only Woman's Foreign Missionary Society station. With more than one hundred boarding and about seventy-five day pupils filling the school to overflowing, and a severe famine in the land, all phases of work have nevertheless gone forward. The girls readily sacrified a meal a day, rather than have the school year cut short. Day pupils now pay tuition, and boarders furnish their own blankets (their only bedding). A small three-room house of native material has been built, and eight groups of girls take turns living there to get practice in home-making. More extensive work through a district has been made possible by the new Burma 21 motor-car, and evangelistic meetings and an institute have been held in co- operation with the Board of Foreign Missions missionaries. The Nurses Training Class continues to send forth groups of consecrated young women, and textbooks for their use, a crying need, have been translated for this spring's class. Health talks have been given to a group of Indians, Mohammedans, who have settled in this region. Mrs. Chas. H. HARJiiE, Official Correspondent.

BURMA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October — Kalaw Kings-wood School—Lela L. Kintner,— Roxanna Mellinger. Rangoon—English Girls High School -Mabel J. Reid. Burmese Girls High School—Elsie M. Power, M. Gladys Moore*. Chinese School and Evan- gelistic Work—Hazel Winslow, Julia Christenson. Burmese Evangelistic Work, Rangoon and Twante—Stella Ebersole. Thongwa—Evangelistic Work—Grace L. Stockwell. Anglo-Vernacular School —Maurine E. Cavett. Pegu—Evangelistic Work—Amanda Mitzner.

Burma Conference Our work in Burma is divided on national lines—English, the first histor- ically, Chinese and Burmese. We have two large English schools, one in Rangoon and one in Kalaw, nearly 300 miles north, in the hills. The English Girls High School has an enrollment of 425, of whom forty-two are in the hostel. The school is entirely self-supporting, having this year even turned over its one missionary's salary to the reserve fund. In the high school final class, five girls sat for the government examinations, and all passed, with grades high enough to admit them to the university, where standards are constantly being raised. With the co-operation of the Burma Book Club and the Baptist Mission Press, the school put on Book Week, with books for sale and for inspection. Two girls earned prizes in the health essay competition sponsored by the Red Cross. Prizes, in fact, are quite a common occurrence in this school. Throughout the school the Charterhouse Course of religious education is used, and there is a stable religious life in teaching staff and students. A new course in home economics is planned for the immediate future, and if a teacher can be secured from America her salary could be paid on the field. A great opportunity for some fine American girl! At Kalaw is Kingswood School, formerly at Thandaung, the successor to the first orphanage established only ten years after Methodist work had begun in Burma. When the school was moved to Kingswood, only one building was erected, though it was seen that it would not be long before a place would be needed for an assembly hall and day school rooms. That time has arrived. The cornerstone of the new building was laid in March, and it is in use this school year. It is a brick building, measuring 200 by 50 feet, and contains, in the lower story, an office, one class room, and an assembly hall and stage and on the upper floor three class rooms, and a science room. The whole

'On furlough. 22 In Lands Ajar has been paid for on the field. The addition to the plant will be a substantial help in carrying out the aims of the school, to offer young people an education along sound lines, with physical development, a religion which consists of a simple faith in Christ, and a conviction that all work is honorable. The Chinese work—there are 65,000 Chinese in Rangoon—has been greatly stimulated by the visit to China of both missionaries. Each was able to arrange her furlough so as to make it possible for her to visit for three months in the Amoy region, from which most of the Rangoon Chinese have come. The months of study of the Chinese language and ways of life have given these leaders a new understanding of their people, and their people a new love for them. Last year, the Chinese commimity voluntarily took over the support of the scholarships in the day school which had been receiving support from America, not a large sum, but a step in the right direction. The great event of this year has been the building of an upper story over part of the school building. The school rooms had become so crowded that good work was impossible, and much time was wasted in moving children from one room to another. The addition, for which funds were on hand on the field, supplies two light airy classrooms, a wide veranda, and a hall large enough to hold a small library. There are many Indians in Burma, but the Methodist work among them has been limited. It was found possible to turn over our day schools to their Christian teachers, so they were sold to these masters, who carry them on as Christian institutions, but not under mission auspices. The arrangement has proved successful. We have Burmese work in four centers, Pegu, Thongwa, Twante, Rangoon. The only large institution is the Girls School in Rangoon, but in each of these places there is a significant religious movement, getting close to the everyday lives of the people. On the Pegu Circuit the evangelistic party camped in ten villages, giving every night pictures of three kinds,— first, pictures of general interest; then health pictures; then pictures representing Christ and his message. Interest, says the missionary, was even more keen than in former times, and always they asked, "When will you be coming again?" In Thongwa, the Neil Dexter Reid School puts much emphasis on training for village life, and gardening, rice cultivation, poultry raising and weaving are all a part of the school program. The new church, built in Burmese style with Burmese money, had a room which with the expenditure of $50 from the conference funds was made available for the use of the poorer mothers of the vicinity as a day nursery. The Thongwa Infant Welfare Society supplies milk for the babies, and sponsors a weekly clinic in charge of the hospital physician and the municipal midwife. "Some of us are always there," says the missionary, "getting acquainted with the mothers and babies, and having the doctor's help in deciding which of them needs us most." The Burmese Girls High School in Rangoon has a student body of almost four hundred, of whom seventy-three are hostel residents. In the hostel there is opportunity for definite rehgious cultivation, and throughout the school there is an emphasis on religion, though many of the pupils are not outwardly Christian. Various outside activities, such as health week, W. C. T. U. essay competitions, musical competitions, and Girl Guides, contribute their share to the development of the girls. The school has unlimited possibilities, some of which are well on the way to realization. Those who know Burma feel that she is astir, that the old conservatism is breaking down, that Buddhism is discontented and seeking something better. It is our day of opportunity.

Mrs. Otis Moore, Official Correspondent. . ———

China 23 CHINA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. Central China Conference Chinkiang—Olivet Memorial Girls High School—Eulalia E. Fox*, Mary G. Kesler, Etha M. Nagler*, Faye H. Robinson, Bernice A. Wheeler.* Evangelistic and Day School Work—Clara Bell Smith. Nanking—Methodist Girls High School—Katherine B. Boeye, Anna Lulu Golisch*, Jessie L. Wolcott. Hitt Bible Training School—To be supplied. Bible Teacher Training School—Joy L. Smith. Ginling College—Cora D. Reeves, Hariet M. Whitmer. Evangelistic and Day School Work—S. Marie Brethorst, Helen M. Galleher. WuHU Evangelistic and Day School Work—Cora Leona Rahe*, Edith R. Youtsey, Iva M. Williamson.* Wuhu General Hospital—Frances E. Culley, R.N., Florence A. Sayles, R.N. Shanghai— Field Treasurer—Bessie A. Hollows. Literature—-Mary Liu. West China Conference Chengtu—Womans College, West China Union University—Ovidia Hansing, Pearl B. Fosnot.* Chengtu Senior and Junior Jligh School—Grace E. Manley, Mrs. Ola H. Dudley. City Evangelistic Work—Mabel E. Allen. School of Midwifery— Dr. Marion E. Manley. District Educational and Evangelistic Work—Ruth Gabosch. Chungking— Dsen Jia Ngai Center—Luella G. Koether, Gladys B. Harger. City Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—Dorothy Jones. District Educa- tional Work—Dorothy Jones. District Evangelistic Work—Annie M. Wells. Gamble Memorial Hospital and Dispensary—Lillian L. Holmes, R.N. Nurse's Training School, Gamble Memorial Hospital—Viola L. Miller, R.N. Suining—Stevens Memorial Girls Schools—Helen Desjardens. Higher and Lower Primary Schools and City Evangelistic Work—Charlotte Trotter*, L. Maud Parsons. District Work—Helen Desjardens. TzECHOw— Tzechow Girls Senior and Junior High School—Rhoda Burdeshaw*, Celia Cowan. Fidelia Dewitt Bible Training School—Lena Nelson. City and District Educational and Evangelistic Work— Orvia Proctor.

Foochow Conference FoocHOW Hwa Nan Missionary Faculty—Elizabeth H. Richey, Edith McBee*, Elsie H. Reik, M. Grace Davis, L. Ethel Wallace, Marion R. Cole, May Louise Lowe*, Eugenia Savage, Roxy Lefforge, Jane Carlson, Frances S. Fulton. Hwa Nan Middle School—Edith McBee. Girls Junior High and Primary—Florence J. Plumb, Myrtle A. Smith.* Tai Afaiu Hostess and Business Agent—Florence J. Plumb. Mary E. Crook Childrens Home and Kindergarten—Rose A. Mace. Biblical Institute— Rose A. Mace, J. Ellen Nevitt. Evangelistic Work—Phoebe C. Wells. Foochow Christian Union Hospital {McGraiv Hospital) —Margaret Tucker, M.D., Alice A. Wilcox, Frieda Staubli, R.N. Union Kindergar- ten Training School—Miss Eunice E. Smith. FuTSiNG Marguerite Stewart Junior High School—Jennie D. Jones. Primary Day School and Higher Primary—Jennie D. Jones. Evangelistic Work and Station Class—Edith F. Abel. Lucie F. Harrison Hospital—Li Bi Cu, M.D. Woolston Memorial Dispensary (Lungtien)—Li Bi Cu, M.D. •On furlough. ————

24 In Lands Afar — H AITANG - Kings Heralds Junior High and Primary School—Carrie M . Bartlett ^ Martha L. McCutcheon. Evangelistic Work and Station Class—Carrie M. Bartlett, Harriet J. Halverstadt*, Martha L. McCutcheon. KUTIEN Girls High School—Martha A. Graf, Maybel Marion Holmes, Eva F. Sprunger.* MiNTSiNG Girls Junior High atid Primary School—Mary M. Mann. Womans Training and Day Schools—^Edna Jones. Evangelistic Work—Lydia Trimble.* Nathan Sites Memorial Hospital—Ruth V. Hemenway, M.D.* Hostess in Shanghai—-Ursula Tyler*, Julia A. Bonafield. Special Appointment— Nurses Association of China—-Cora E. Simpson, R.N. General Secretary Religious Work for China—-Miss Roxy Lefforge.

Hinghwa Conference HiNGHWA Hamilton Girls High School—Ellen H. Suffern, Sylvia E. Aldrich. City Primary—Ellen H. Suffern. Day Schools—Sylvia E. Aldrich. Juliet Turner Womans School and Evangelistic Work—Pauline E. Wescott.* Hinghwa City and District Bible Women—Althea M. Todd, E. Blanche Apple, Mary A. Johnson*, Sigrid C. Bjorklund.* Hanking AND HoehBing Districts—HankongGirls School—Sylvia E. Aldrich. Lillian Gamble Leper Home—Althea M. Todd. City Evangelistic Work— Jessie A. Marriott. Station Classes—Jessie A. Marriott. Hankong District Bible Women—Althea M. Todd, Jessie A. Marriott. SiENYU Frances Nasi Gamble Memorial School—Edna F. Merritt. Lsabel Hart Boarding School—F. Pearl Mason. Freida Knoechel Bible Womans Training School—A. Beta Scheirich.* West District Day School—F. Pearl Mason. West District Bible Women—A. Beta Scheirich.* Margaret Eliza Nasi Memorial Hospital—Emma J. Betow, M.D. Margaret Eliza Nasi School of Nursing—Emma M. Palm, R.N.

Kiangsi Conference KiUKiANG Ridison Girls High School—Helen Ferris, Clara M. French, Laura M. Schleman, c.t., Leona Thomasson, Rose E. Waldron.* Knowles Bible Training School—Edith Fredericks*. Jenny Lind, Ellen E. Smith, May Bel Thompson. Danforth Memorial Hospital—Geneva Miller, R.N. Evangelistic and Day School Work—Mabel A. Woodruff, Annie M. Pittman. Nanchang— Baldwin School—Gertrude M. Cone*, Ruth N. Daniels, Elsie May Danskin, Myra L. McDade, Margaret Seeck (leave of absence). Ida Kahn Women's and Children's Hospital— Blanche T. Search. Evan- gelistic and Day School Work—Blanche T. Search, Frances E. VVoodruflf, Bessie L. Meeker. North China Conference Changli—Alderman School—Pansy Pearl Griffin*, Ellen M. Studley, Marguerite Twinem, E. Fern McCaig. District Day Schools and Evangel- istic Work—Clara Pearl Dyer*, Irma Highbaugh, Mabel Nowlin, (part time). Director of Medical and Health Edtication—Viola Lantz, M,D.* Thompson Woman's School—Ellen M. Studley, Treasurer. Peiping— Mary Porter Gamewell School— Henrietta Rossiter, Vena I. Radley, Dora C. Fearon*, Mary Watrous (part time), Marie Adams. City and District Evangelistic Work and District Educational Work—L. Maude Wheeler, Ortha Lane. Sleeper Davis Hospital—Alice M. Powell, R.N., Elizabeth Carlyle. Union Bible Training School—Maude Wheeler. Yenching College for Women—Ruth L. Stahl, Monona L. Cheney.* Woman's Training School, Emma M. Knox. *On furlough. China 25

Tientsin— Keen School— Ida Frantz, Myra Jaquet, Mary Bedell, Minta Stahl, Myra Snow, Emma Wilson. Primary Schools—Elizabeth Hobart.* City Evangelistic Work—Birdice Lawrence. Isabella Fisher Hospital— Lora O. Battin.* Isabella Fisher Hospital School of Nursing—Maggie May Prentice. Special Appointments— Shanghai— China Christian Educational Association—Mabel R. Nowlin (part time). Tientsin—Secretary of Religious Work for Women and Children of North China Woman's Conference—Ortha Lane. Peiping— Director of Public Health, North China Woman's Conference— Ruth Danner. Shantung Conference Taianfu—Marie Brown Davis School—Elsie L. Knapp.* Edna Terry Train- ing School and Evangelistic Work—Nora M. Dillenbeck. Tsinanfu— Union Work—Shantung Christian University Medical School— E. Florence Evans, R.N.*, Mollie E. Townsend, R.N., Julia E. Morgan, M.D., Frances R. Wilson, R.N., Mary Katherine Russell.* Yenping Conference 'Yenping—Emma Fuller Memorial School—Mary L. Eide. Womans Bible Training School—Fern M. Sinkey*, Trudy Schlaefli. Francesca Nast Gamble Memorial School, Day School and Kindergarten—Frieda Reiman, Gusta A. Robinett. Evangelistic Work—Mamie F. Glassburner.

CENTRAL CHINA

Chinkiang—Olivet Memorial Girls High School. It was the privilege of the official correspondent to visit the official field during the summer. School was in session at Chinkiang. The enrollment was better this past year than the year previous. The type of work which is being done seems to be very high grade. Miss Robinson was home during the summer due to the illness of her father. Miss Nagler left on furlough, thus leaving Miss Kesler alone. Miss Smith is carrying on the Evangelistic and Day School Work and is doing very splendidly in that capacity. Nanking—Methodist Girls High School. It was my privilege to see five hundred eighty girls assembled for chapel period. The school has trebled in attendance during the past few years. One thing which impressed me very greatly was the need of some co-ordination between the parents of the homes represented in our schools and the students themselves. If we as a group are going to claim any of these outstanding leaders of Nanking, we must secure ways and means of linking them up more definitely with the Christian Church and Christian activity. We have the parents,, merchants, party leaders, professional type such as doctors and dentists, in fact, a great many of them are the leaders of Nanking, and yet we will have only two missionaries in this large school. We should decide the policy of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society as to the type of work we are to do in our schools as well as the number with whom we can deal efficiently. Ginling College is a splendid institution and we can count ourselves very fortunate to have two representatives, Miss Cora D. Reeves and Miss Harriet M. Whitmer. The Evangelistic Work both in the city of Nanking and in the outlying district is most challenging. It was my privilege to visit the day schools with Miss Brethorst and Miss Mei-lien Chung, and also to go out into the country

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with Miss Galleher. Our church needs much in the Hne of greater strength to meet the growing needs of the increasing population. WuHU—The secretary saw our Rvangelisiic and Day School Work. There is a great challenge for work at Wuhu, in the midst of the drought and flood district. Wuhu is progressing rapidly. Government schools are meeting some of the vital needs along educational lines but somehow the Church does not have the type of a challenging program which we wish it might have in this city. Our work in the General Hospital, with Miss Culley and Miss Sayles, is most helpful and most needy, especially if one can see with her own eyes the type who need hospitalization through that territory of Anwhei. Surely this is not time for the Christian Church to withdraw from our fields of labor but it is time for us to study the type of program we wish to see instituted in these needy fields. Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Official Correspondent.

WEST CHINA Chengtu and Chungking Conferences

West China no longer need be termed remote if we are to determine distance by expeditious travel. Six days out of every seven, amphibian planes make flights over three sections of the Yangtse River and the trip from Shanghai to Chengtu, the capital of Szechuan Province, can be made in laps of a few hours out of each of three days. A recent visitor said that in his flying trip to Chengtu, he witnessed three wonders of the world: one a natural monument, the Yangtse Gorges; the second, flying in the interior of China, from Hankow to Chengtu, in nine hours; the third wonder, a great university, thriving eight hundred miles from any railroad. Travel within the Province of Szechuan has been greatly facilitated in recent years. It is a thrilling experience to fly in two hours over the moun- tainous ranges between Chengtu and Chungking, a journey which, if made by sedan chair, would take nine or ten days, or, if made by auto, two or three days. "Big" roads in West China are beginning to be a realization and native driven, so-called buses, make the routes between several of the large cities. Militarism, tax robbery of the masses and opium have made this area ripe for communistic encroachment and it has been a dangerous menace. It is said that the commuinst army neither uses opium nor exacts "squeeze," but the opium-sodden, poorly-paid, under-fed armies of Szechuan have not been able to cope with them. Provincial to the last degree as the Szechuanese are yet, the military leader and governor of the province felt called upon to ask aid of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and the 3'ear 1935 will go down in the history of West China as the year General Chiang, his wife and his well disciplined troops made their first sojourn in this unique and promising land. The influence of this Christian general and his well trained army in West China has been extraordinary. The people have faith in his sincerity and leadership. With General Chiang in control of military forces, the war clouds have been dispelled. He has declared that opium must be eradicated, opium dens closed and the use of it forbidden. The practise of unfair taxes has been abolished. He in no uncertain terms has told the leaders in all walks of life that the condition in which the country finds itself today is the result of their own sin and selfishness. He has led them in sacrificial giving for their country and preached that the only way out for them is the way of truth, justice and honesty. Sherwood Eddy said after his visit in West China in the fall of 1934, "China is today the greatest evangelistic field in the world and Szechuan Province the greatest opportunity in all China." The wide-spread, influence of General Chiang has put greater emphasis on this assertion. China 27

While we count fewer missionaries we are happy to report an increasing number of well-trained Nationals. There are today six women graduates of the univ^ersity and eight who have had special training in institutions in other parts of China who are filling places of leadership. No new stations have been opened in recent years but as certain types of work have become more self-supporting, advancement has been made in developing other lines of work. The Gamble Memorial Hospital in Chungking has within recent months become largely self-supporting and they have extended their efforts into rural areas in promoting public health and hygiene. There is decided evidence within the last few years of an increased interest in the part of native trained workers in the rural needs of their own people. This is demonstrated by the fact that one of our specially trained young women, a college graduate, has taken over the responsibilities of a district missionary in carrying the educational work, and another, specially trained in religious education, has assumed the evangelistic work on this same district. In one of our educational institutions, a school pin was adopted as required by local authorities. The missionaries chose a simple bowl-shaped design in red and white, thinking that Christ's cup of cold water certainly wouJd be a bowl of tea in China. This badge was a true symbol of service in Christ's name, a service from one who is clean and pure and willing to give of self. Out of this grew organized bands through which were given opportunities to join in some type of Christian service. Under the leadership of one of the fine teachers about fifty volunteered, each of whom gave regular attendance to some form of Christian activity, in the city or rural communities round about. Other similar activities could be recorded in other schools. Students in different centers have entered into the responsibility of adult education through station classes, institutes, industrial classes, night schools, demonstrations in public health and hygiene. More and more within the last year or two the kindergarten and primary schools in the four large centers have assumed self-support. Slowly they have been reducing the amount of loans to the girls in all our schools, the help for board has decreased a very large per cent and the amount received on tuition fees has more than doubled. On the other hand, with the lack of American staff whose salaries are paid in America, additional funds have been needed for the hiring of Chinese teachers. The continued cuts, reduction in exchange grants and failure of banks where funds were deposited, have made the task one of difficulty. Very little building has been done in West China in recent years though there are needs waiting to be met. The Lewis Memorial Institutional Church, a project long proposed and planned for, has been built in Chungking. Within this center of Methodist work, the Society was literally forced to build a primary school building. The government had condemned the building in use and after part of the roof had fallen in, luckily out of school hours, $2500 was taken from the building funds held for West China and a three-story school building was erected. Within this building is placed a memorial plate in memory of Miss Emma Louise Sinclair, seventeen years corresponding secretary of Northwestern Branch and official correspondent for West China all these years. Mrs. Frank E. Baker, Official Correspondent. FOOCHOW CONFERENCE Educational Work FoocHOW—For several years the request has been made for a teacher for the Union Kindergarten Training School. We are happy to have just sent Miss Eunice Smith for this work. Our Girls Boarding School, Tai Maiu, under the direction of Miss Mary —

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Carleton is co-operating in the "New Movement" with added Christian ideals.. Passion week was especially observed, the girls giving one of the Y.W.C.A. Easter pageants. FuTsiNG The Marguerite Stewart Girls School has celebrated its fortieth, anniversary, Janet Ho and a committee of the alumnae in charge. Gifts for endowment and laboratory equipment were received. Political conditions have been more quiet. Auto service now takes only three hours from Futsingto Foochow. Miss Jennie Jones writes: "People who are awakening to the world around them can not long remain blind to the needs and benefits of education for themselves and their children." Haitang—The Kings Heralds Girls School has had a most successful year. Never did the message of peace and good will mean more to Haitang than this year. KuTiEN—-"This has been a splendid year in every respect, the 'New Life Movement' promoted by General and Mrs. Chiang Kai Shek has been felt in the most out-of-the-way places especially where cleanliness is concerned. The bandits have been banished, communists driven back for the present, at least." T\\e Girls High School, city primary day schools and kindergarten have all had a fine enrollment. The Women's Industrial School with its thirty-two students, has been not only studying the Bible but home-training and other studies. In the afternoon they sit at their looms and spinning wheels, learning a trade. MlNTSlNG— "It is just seventy years since Dr. Sites came to Mintsing. Now, we are watching our junior high school girls at work with the children in village schools and church. Out over the district there are nine of these little groups learning what Jesus and his message means. There are many things, the singing hours, social times, children's meetings and other activities. There is still much to be done but we are glad for the doors we have been permitted to enter."

Evangelistic Work Foochow— Miss Roxy Lefforge, general secretary of our religious work in China for the Methodist Church writes that she is greatly encouraged over the work in Foochow Conference. She adds, "It is great to be alive and at work in China to-day." The Woman's Biblical Institute is graduating fine young Chinese Bible women who are very much sought after by the Chinese churches. They are also going out to establish centers not only to teach the women to read but Christianity, home improvements, sewing and other useful things. One of the graduates of this institution, writes Miss Rose Mace, has been selected to take charge of a center financed by a representative of the Electric Light Company of Foochow. He selected a village with poor land and poorly located. He helped the farmers drain the land and so improve their crops. He is a graduate of an agricultural school, not a Christian, but interested in social improvement. Another evangelistic center under the direction of Miss Phoebe Wells is located in the old Woolston Memorial building doing an equally fine work among another class. Haitang—-This station has the largest number of probationers. It con- ducts a large station class where Bible women and other national workers are preparing to carry the message. The story of these consecrated workers reads like the Acts of the Apostles. Located so far from unfavorable civic conditions, the missionaries have an opportunity for service much more than in some other stations. FuTsiNG—"Although there have been poor crops and practically a famine in parts of the district, progress has been made in nearly every phase of our work," writes Miss Abel. Political conditions have been more quiet and it has ——

China 29" been possible to travel without fear of bandits. The new auto roads have brought the villages nearer to the large centers. Wonderful meetings have been held on Lungtien District. The Better Homes Campaign brought large crowds to the church. Fellowship Group and Training Conferences have been held. A recent meeting had as its subject, "Japan." The women were greatly surprised to know that in a country which they had come to feel was their enemy, there are thousands of Christians,, especially among the women, who oppose the policy of their government and who daily pray for their sisters in China. MiNTSiNG—"The students of our Bible Training School," writes Edna Jones, "have been carrying on the village work during their vacation. A candle lighting service was held, the company marching out of the church carrying their tiny lights and singing, "Jesus bids us shine." How the liv^es of these simple farmer folks are lighting this remote mountain village.

Medical Work FooCHOW Foochoiu Christian Union i/o5/)t7a/, formerly Magaw Hospital, is now greatly enlarged by its union with the American Board and the Board of Foreign Missions. During the erection of the fine new buildings the work is being carried on at Magaw. The last report tells the story of the fine work being done: 16,000 treatments, 1,500 cared for in the hospital, 150 major operations performed, 900 X-ray examinations and 100 babies safely brought into the world. Frieda Staubli, superintendent of the Nurses Training School writes that Christmas was a season of peace in Foochow, a contrast to last year. The School of Nursing has an enrollment of sixty-two. and graduates are in demand. The Nanking Government has created a department of nursing with the head of the National Nurses Association as its president. A bit of Christmas cheer was taken to the leper village—where there are over ninety church members and probationers. FuTSiNG—The Lucie F. Harrison Hospital reports a busy year— 1235 in-patients, 13,008 patient days, 7 major operations, 332 baby cases. Dr. Li Bi Cu is in charge of the work and she also directs the Woolstmt Memorial Dispensary where nearly 4000 treatments are reported. A large class of nurses has graduated from the hospital. Haitang Dispensary is carrying on a greatly needed work on that island so far from other medical help. It reports twenty beds, 3024 patient days, ten major operations under the care of a fine Chinese doctor. MiNTSiNG The Nathan Sites Memorial Hospital has a staff of eight nurses, one Bible woman and a Chinese doctor. Dr. Hemenway being now on furlough. The record of cases ministered to is remarkable—5575 treatments, 331 operations, 435 preventive inocculations. Mrs. E. L. Harvey, Official Correspondent.

HINGHWA CONFERENCE Educational Work Miss Sylvia Aldrich,the field correspondent reports that notwithstanding earthquakes and typhoons, the work of the Hinghwa Conference has gone steadily forward. "The recent typhoons played havoc with Sienyu, a large part of the primary building was blown down," writes Miss Mason, "part of the woman's school, part of the newest and highest building at the Margaret Nast Memorial Hospital and the east end of Dr. Betow's cottage had all the brick facing^ ripped off." 30 In Lands Afar

A cable received just before General Executive Committee Meeting asks that two new missionaries be sent to replace those on furlough who are not able to return. The missionaries write of the happy Christmas days. The people had just held their winter festival so they crowded in to see what a Christian festival was like. On this day the church people bring thank-ofiferings of cakes, oranges, firecrackers or money. All the schools have a part on the program. At the children's meeting over 200 were present. The Hamilton Girls School in Hinghwa, the City Primary, the Elizabeth Lewis Girls School in Hankong, the Juliet Turner Bible Training School, the Fannie Nast Gamble and the Isabel Hart Girls Boarding School, despite lack of workers, report a fine year's work.

Evangelistic Work A fine picture of the Honkong Missio7i has been received, the work Miss Todd and Miss Marriott are doing. The church has the largest congregation of any in the conference. There are 100 members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and ninety women and children are being taught in their homes. Miss Merritt writes that her girls in Sienyu keep up their interest in the Standard Bearers. At a recent meeting mite boxes were brought in. Fifteen dollars in gold was contributed by the King's Heralds and Little Light Bearers. The money came in coppers and it was a happy group of ofificers who counted it and made the report. It was sent to a leper mission in Shanghai. The money received from the dues will be sent to their little sisters in Africa.

Medical Work For several years an S. O. S. call has come from Sienyu for a doctor for the Margaret Elizabeth Nast Hospital. Dr. Betow who has done such line work must soon come home to retire. Five thousand five hundred fifty-three patients were ministered to this last year. The nurses at this hospital have also cared for the lepers in the Gamble Lepers Home. At Christmas they had a happy time. They were so pleased with a piece of cloth and a hot water bottle which each received. Mrs. E. L. Harvey, Official Correspondent.

KIANGSI CONFERENCE

KiUKiANG—The first visit made by the official correspondent was at Kiukiang. It was a thrill that I shall never forget, for there were one hundred children of our day schools, high schools, Knowles Bible Training School, national faculty leaders and missionaries, together with the evangelistic workers of the city, who met me at the Bund. I was welcomed in real Chinese fashion by firecrackers which were fired along the entire route from the Bund to the mission compound. Rtilison High School seemed to be in very good condition and our missionaries and faculty were carrying on a very high-type school. Knowles Bible Training School has been studying the needs of the community and the requirements of the Government, and is attempting to put in new work which we trust will better meet the present requirements. At Danforth Memorial Hospital, Miss Miller together with Dr. Chen, Dr. Peh, and the nurses are doing a splendid piece of work. They have been attempting to have their Training School for Nurses carried on co-operatively with the nurses at the Water of Life Hospital, but as for close co-operation the hospitals are just far enough apart to make it inconvenient. The little children at Kiukiang together with the leaders, raised a memorial fund for Nora Kellogg —

China 31 and now have established a children's ward with new beds. The hospital has had considerable renovating under the leadership of Miss Ruth Danner and continued by Miss Miller. We wish to express our appreciation to North China for loaning us Miss Danner, but the great need is for a doctor. This point is conceded by all missionaries on the field and by the field reference committee as one of the chief needs. N.\NCHANG Baldwin School was in session when I visited there. The school is being used greatly by the New Life Movement groups who were holding early sessions on various occasions for the representative members of each family in Nanchang. Nanchang has changed very noticeably in the past few years. They now have wide boulevards, a chain of lakes in the downtown section, a city park, many new homes which have been erected on the old execution ground just outside the old Baldwin Compound, and a new hotel as modern as we have in our own city. The new church of the Board of Foreign Missions was just being completed; mone\' had been given for the erection of the edifice. They, however, lacked a small amount for the completion and did not have money enough to warrant the furnishings. The ofilicial correspondent understands that Miss Margaret Seeck has been released by Topeka Branch and granted a year's leave of absence to serve as secretary to Madame Chiang Kai Shek. The work at Ida Kahn Women's and Children's Hospital was being carried on by Dr. Alice Wang. The hospital is in very good condition but it is a question of just how it can do its most effective work. It is separated by about one-half hour's distance from the General Board Hospital. Miss Search carries on the Evangelistic and Day School Work as well as being business manager for the Ida Kahn Women's and Children's Hospital,, and Miss Frances Woodruff has taken care of the country evangelistic work. It is not easy to carry on in this section of Kiangsi Province because of the continued inconvenience of travel. Miss Meeker worked throughout the entire year at Lichuan, the new rural reconstruction work. Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Official Correspondent.

NORTH CHINA CONFERENCE

The united and zealous purpose of our work in North China is "to serve the present age." Like other fields, the beginnings of the work were in the city centers. But the last few years have brought the call of the country, where eighty-five per cent of the people live in small villages. Since life in the villages centers in the home, the most direct approach to both the community and the individual is through the home. Hence, the Christianizing the Home Movement, which was the fore-runner of the Better Homes Campaign. The Better Homes Campaign was carefully planned to meet the entire need of the community, the home and the individual through spiritual, educational, physical and economic channels. The campaigns are intensive, lasting sometimes a week, sometimes over the week-end. To convince families that the entire home can be changed, is one problem, to get them to try it is another. (a) Spiritual and Educational—While the teaching of the thousand characters is the basis of the educational side of the Better Homes Campaign, a spiritual dynamic is absolutely essential to its success. Our pastor says that "no teacher who was not a Christian has ever stayed by the class through the four months necessary to learn the first one thousand characters." "Every village where the movement has lasted has had a Christian fam.ily sponsoring it." —

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Mass education has been most valuable in work with adults since it is there most of the lay leaders of a district are discovered. As they take responsibility for others, they feel the need for more training and a deeper spiritual life for themselves. There have been some happy surprises in local leadership training. One pastor and wife, through the fall and winter, gathered a group of young men and young women into the parsonage regularly. Through a mutual interest in Chinese musical instruments, they led them on to other interests, and from there to activities in Christian service. Evangelistic and educational work is so closely related that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Conference of 1932, combined the two committees into one large committee, which they named the Committee on Religious Education. This large committee they divided into two sections- 1. To deal with the problems and interests of religious education and evangeUsm for the home and adults. 2. To deal with the same problems for young people and children. (b) Physical—The campaign for better bodies is much appreciated. Through health demonstrations leaders tell of possible help for and prevention of trachoma and tuberculosis; the evils of narcotics; of a God who designed our bodies, and intends that women shall walk on their feet as He made them. There are meetings for the training of mothers in child care and child feeding; training classes in mid-wifery. Two books have been prepared by one of our doctors. One is on pre-natal care; care at birth and care after birth. The other book is on home hygiene. Mr. T. H. Sun, editor of the "Christian Farmer," has translated these into the thousand characters and published them. This same doctor prepared in one year, four hundred reading lessons on health, and illustrated them by making posters from pictures in old magazines. Ten thousand people saw her health demonstration on Temple Fair Day. (c) Economic-—The village family is being better fed by learning how properly to prepare the soil of their small farm for the vegetables and fruits they raise; by learning to choose better quality seeds; by learning to choose the best fruits for their location; to choose the best strain of chickens, how to feed them to get the best and most eggs; to raise better rabbits. They are also taught to budget the family income. At first certain villages were chosen as laboratories for the Better Homes experiment. But the work was so successful that it could not be confined to place, group or routine. Through the North China Christian Rural Service Union, which is composed of seven Boards and six co-operating educational units, there is an exchange of ideas, and excellent co-operation as they all make their best contribution to Better Homes. Advance Among Women—Women have made a remarkable advance in North China during the past few years. Once they thought they could not have prayers at home unless the men were there to do the praying. Now, evangelistic bands are often made up entirely of women. Some well-to-do women fill their own carts with women and take them to neighboring villages to do evangelistic work. The fact that every woman must learn to read the Bible and to pray, before she is received into the church, has been a hastening factor in women's advance. Workers' Institutes are available for all women workers. For instance, last year, just after conference, women workers from one city, and those from an adjoining district, met for a week in a Workers' Institute. Their daily program was, morning watch, general devotions, classes on women's work in the churches, methods, home problems, lectures, reading and recreation. At the close of the week they held a three-day conference with the men workers. Throughout the entire Institute there were joint evening revival meetings. Music—The Chinese love and are making r7pid advance in music. Our schools are turning out excellent teachers and artists. Our glee clubs are taking first place among government and municipal competitive groups; our soloists China ZZ

are winning first honors, also. Our choral societies are making the Messiah their own as they sing it year after year. Oratory—That oratory is at the fore in our girls schools, is a stimulating surprise. In one city where there was an inter-school science oratorical contest, twenty-two schools competing, our junior high girls took first place; the senior high girls, fourteen schools competing, took fourth place. The school again won first place in the regional contest. Athletics—Athletics is one of the few activities which touches every girl in a school. As the girls on their own fields, or in regional competition, practice honesty, justice and fair play, athletics has outstanding value as a Christian character builder. The Chinese "house divided against itself" is bringing its youth together through various forms of athletic training, scoutcraft, first aid, and other related activities. The Student Church is decidedly a present age activity. Some student groups have their own church, for every detail of which they are responsible, and through which they are developing initiative and magnificent organizational sense. Rural Institute—The W.F.M.S. has just granted funds for the development of home economics under the Rural Institute operated by Cheeloo University. One of our own girls is heading up this fascinating work. Of her work, the President of China says that she is lifting at a lower level of human life than any one who has approached China's need in that field. He asks that she be allowed to assist with Government Rural Reconstruction. By thus ardently serving the "present age" in China, our girls who represent us there are laying foundations for the future age where sturdy Christian character will be most needful. Mrs, J. K. Cecil, Official Correspondent. YENPING CONFERENCE The new conference report "Candle Lighting in Yenping," strikes an optimistic note. Since the previous conference report was published the thirty Bible women and the thirty primary school teachers have carried on their work through three years of unprecedented anxiety and danger, but at the last conference session they greeted Bishop Gowdy with happy faces and glorious reports of the victories God had given them. "This now promises to be a peaceful and uninterrupted year" writes the field correspondent. Miss Robinett. "We have already enjoyed a quiet half year. No matter what the future may hold that cannot be taken away from us. School schedules have been crowded because of making up last year's lost time. We have a larger enrolment this year and the spiritual life of our pupils has been deepened. We hope to be out on the district in February and March if peaceful conditions continue. With present financial conditions, we are more than grateful if we can carry on without serious cuts." "We have made no changes in our estimates except to cancel our request for a new missionary to teach music. We are badly in need of some one but are hoping that a good Chinese music teacher can be found." The Bible women have bee/i working in unison with the missionary forces at home, building their "Altar of Sacrifice," walling in their "Well of Salvation," and lighting their candles on their "Altar of Lights." Closely interlocked with the work of the Bible women is that of the eight primary day schools. The Emma Fuller School is now coeducational. Esther Ling is the Dean. She has a real concern for the spiritual life of the girls. Besides regular morning and evening prayers she meets with them for a short devotional period after supper. On the tenth anniversary of the Fukien Missionary Society every auxiliary sent gifts to the Mother Society. During the recent Communistic occupation of Yungan, our Girls School was not only unmolested but a special guard was appointed by the Com- — —

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mander who said "A girls school is a good thing; this is one creditable thing which the Church has done." A graduate of the Woman's Bible Institute in Foochow, Miss Amy Wu, has joined the staff of the Yevping Bible Training School. It is the first time that a teacher has been secured w ith special Bible training. A letter has this interesting statement, "Recently our fine Cieneral Wei was moved from Yenping to a point further inland where he has been commissioned to rid the place of communists. We are hoping that his nearness to us will still serve to keep our part of the province as quiet and peaceful as it has been during the past year but we shall greatly miss our fellowship with him and his wife as well as certain members of his staff. Mrs. Wei is an earnest Christian and has taken an active interest in our school and church work in Yenping, teaching, leading chapel and making various addresses. She is the product of our Woman's Foreign Missionary schools in North China and has studied four years in America." Mrs. E. L. Harvey, Official Correspondent. INDIA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. Bengal Conference AsANSOL— Ushagram Girls School—Hazel O. Wood. District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools— Rachel Carr. Calcutta—Girls High School—Irma D. Collins. Evangelistic Work and Day Schools, Bengali: Katharine M. Kinzly; Hindustani: Doris I. Welles. All India Treasurer {Lucknmv Conference) Ethel L. Whiting. Darjeeling—Mt. Hermon School—Mrs. Lila K. Engberg*, Ruth Field, Pearl Hughes, Miriam R. Scholberg. Pakur— Bengali Work {Evangelistic, Boarding School, Day Schools)—Eugenia Norberg. San tali l]'ork (Evangelistic, Boarding School, Day Schools) — Mildred L. Pierce*, Beulah M. Swan. Special Appointments—Ava Hunt, Lulu A. Boles, Isabella Thoburn College^ Lucknow; Mary F. Carpenter*, Educational Secretary, Pakur; Emma J. Barber, Bangalore. To Be Appointed—Martha Gayle Dawson, Hilda Swan. Bombay Conference Basim—Girls School and Hostel—Ada Nelson (until July). Evangelistic Work— Edna Holder*, Clara E. Kleiner (until July). Bombay—Gujarati Schools and Evangelistic \]'ork, General Work and Hostel— Florence F. Masters. Marathi Day Schools and Evangelistic Work— S. Marie Corner. Nagpur—Girls School, Normal School and Hostel—Mildred Wright, Jennie Blasdell*, Ada Nelson (after July). Evangelistic Work—May E. Suther- land*, Mildred G. Drescher. PooNA Taylor High School—Agnes C. W. Dove. Evangelistic Work—Anna A. Abbott. PuNTAMBA Evangelistic Work and Hostel—Bernice E. Elliott, Flora Quirin. Medical Work—Local Supply. Talegaon—Girls School and Hostel—Leola M. Greene, Emma Stewart, Clara E. Kleiner (after July). Special Appointments—Isabella Thoburn College—Ruth C. Manchester*. Marathi Literary Work—Anna A. Abbott. *0n furlough. —— . ——

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Central Provinces Conference Baihar—School and Hostel—Katherine Keyhoe, Marian Warner*, Lola M. Green Jagdalpur—Alderman School—Local Supply. Evangelistic Work and District Schools—Mrs. Alma H. Holland*, Helen E. Fehr. JuBBULPORE Johnson Girls School—E. Lahuna Clinton, Faithe Richardson, Eleanor Campbell, Gertrude A. Becker*. Hwa Bagh Training College— Luci,le Colony. City Evangelistic Work—Letha L Daubendiek*, Local Supply. Khandw.a.—School and City Evangelistic Work—Lydia S. Pool. Normal School— Dorcas Hall*, Josephine Liers. Evangelistic Work—Josephine Liers, Hazel Rogers.* Raipur—School and Hostel—Margaret Crouse. Evangelistic Work—Ethel E. Ruggles. Special Appointments—Isabella Thorbum College—Margaret Wallace. Educational Secretary—Mary F. Carpenter.

Gujarat Conference Ahmedabad—Kathiawar District— Village Educational and Evangelistic Work—Elizabeth J. Turner*, Bessie E. Rigg (deceased), Elsie M. Ross.* Baroda— Webb Memorial Girls School—Grace M. Challis*, Dora L. Nelson. Educational and Evangelistic Work—Florence K. Palmer. Afrs. Williayn Butler Memorial Hospital—Loal E. Huffman, ALD., Myrtle L. Precise, R.N. City Evangelistic Work and Editor " Balvadi"—Laura F. Austin.* GoDHRA Normal Training and Practising School—Elma M. Chilson, Pearl Precise. District Evangelistic Work—Laura A. Heist*, Minnie Newton.* Nadiad— City Ediicational and Evangelistic Work—Fern Carter. To BE Appointed—Mary L. Hannah, R.N.

Hyderabad Conference BiDAR Girls Boarding School—Mrs. Margaret C. Ernsberger. District Evangelistic work—Minnie H. Huibregtse, Anna M. Harrod.* Hyderabad—Stanley Girls High School—Margaret Morgan. Girls Vocational School—Elizabeth J. Wells, Dorothea Anderson.* Hindistani Work— Gladys IVL Webb. Tandur—Evangelistic and Educational Work—Mabel Morgan, Mildred Simonds.* Sironcha—Sironcha Coeducational School—Nell F. Naylor, Ada J. Lauck. Clason Memorial Hospital —Stella M. Dodd, M.D. (loaned to Tablet Industry at Bowringpet for one year). Frances C. Davis Girls School— A. Gail Patterson.* ViK.\RABAD Afary A. Knotts Girls School—Nellie AL Low. Evangelistic and Educational Work—IVL Katherine Metsker.

Indus River Conference AjMER Boarding School—Caroline C. Nelson, E. Lavinia Nelson. Hissar— Boarding School—Ethel Palmer, Martha Coy, District Work—Agnes H. Nilsen. Lahore— Lucie Harrison Girls School—-Theodora Thomson. District Evange- list—Grace Pepper Smith. Tilaunia-—Mary Wilson Sanitarium—Cora L Kipp, M.D.*, Freda Haffner, M.D., Laura Bell, R.N.*, Beulah V. Bishop, R.N., Agnes D. Dunn, Helma J. Fernstrom. *On furlough. —— ————

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Lucknow Conference Arrah— Boarding School—Maren M. Tirsgaard, Irene C. Baer. District Evangelist—Ruth E. Hyneman. BuxAR District Evangelist—Edna M. Abbott.* Ballia—Primary Education—Nettie A. Bacon*, Mabel Sheldon. Cawnpore—Girls High School—Jessie A. Bragg*, Adis A. Robbins, Edna M. Hutchens. Hudson Memorial Girls School—Mary A. Richmond. GONDA^—^Ruth Eveland. Lucknow— Lai Bagh School—Grace C. Davis, Mabel C. Lawrence, Kathleen Clancy. Isabella Thoburn College—Mary E. Shannon, Pm;,«'/?a/. Dorothy Spear*, Laura V. Williams, Margaret Landrum, Florence Salzer, Emma C. Tucker*, RoxanaH. Oldroyd, Isabella Thoburn, Marjorie A. Dimmitt*, Ava Hunt, Lula A. Boles, Margaret Wallace, Ruth C. Manchester.* MuzAFFARPUR Indiana Girls School—Jennie M. Smith.* Special Appointment—All India Treasurer—Ethel L. Whiting.

North India Conference Almora—Girls High School—Mathilde R. Moses, Mildred L. Albertson. Bareilly—Girls School—Grace Honnell. Babyfold—^Edna G. Bacon. Clara A. Swain Hospital—Bertha A. Chase, M.D., Miriam A. Albertson, M.D. Mildred E. Burton, M.D., Theresa Lorenz, R.N., Charlotte Westrup,R.N., Alta M. Tucker, R.N.*, A. Janette Crawford. District Evangelist— Evelyn Hadden.* Bi]NOR—Girls School—Mrs. Bertha Shaw. District Evangelist—Jessie Peters. BuDAUN Girls School— Nellie M. West*, Edna I. Bradley. Training School— Ruth Hoath. District Evangelist—^Phoebe E. Emery. Chandag Heights— Leper Work-—^Mary Reed. Chandusi District—Evangelist—^Eleanor B. Stallard. DwARAHAT Girls School—Charlotte Oram. MoRADABAD Girls School—Anna Blackstock; Primary Boys School—Allie M. Bass; District Evangelist—Ruth A. Warrington. Naini Tal— Wellesley Girls High School—Ada Marie Kennard, Nora B. Waugh. Pauri^—Girls School—Gladys Doyle. PiTHORAGARH Girls School—Ruth M. Cox, Lucy W. Beach. District Evange- list—Blanche M. McCartney, Louise M. Perrill.* Shahjahanpur— Bidivell Memorial Girls School—^Yasmin Peters, District Evangelist—Ethel M. Calkins, Olive Dunn. SiTAPUR Girls School—Grace M. Bates; Boys School—Vera Parks.*

Northwest India Conference Agra-— District and Village Work-—Sarah C. Holman, Charlotte T. Holman. Aligarh— Louisa Soule Girls School—Emma E. Warner*, Ella Perry. District Evangelist— Ida A. Farmer. Brindaban— Creighton- Freeman Christian Hospital— Rita B. Tower, M.D.*, Mary A. Burchard, M.D., Eunice Porter, R.N., Elda M. Barry, R.N.*, Hannah C. Gallagher, R.N. Bulandshahr—District Evangelist—^Gertrude E. Richards. Delhi—Girls School—Catherine L. Justin. District Evangelist— Ida M. Klingeberger. City Evangelist—Margaret Hermiston, Letah Doyle.* Ghaziabad— Boys School— Melva A. Livermore, Dr. Lily D. Greene. Meerut—Girls High School—Laura Bobenhouse, Jean Bothwell.* Boys Primary School—Helen Buss. District Evangelist—Estelle M. Forsyth*, Annie S. Winslow.

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MuzAFFARNAGAR District Evangelist—To be supplied. MussooRiE—Anne E. Lawson. MuTTRA Blackstone Missionary Institute and Girls School—Garnet Everly, S. Edith Randall*, Caroline Schaefer, Pearl E. Palmer. RooRKEE Girls School—Carlotta E. Hoffman*, Faith Clark.

South India Conference Bangalore— Balditmi Girls High School—Urdell Montgomery. '^Treasure Chest"—Ruth Robinson*, Cora Fales. Belgaum—Sherman Girls School and District Evangelistic Work—Elizabeth M. Beale. Vanita Vidyalaya and Marathi School— Retta I. Wilson. GoKAK District Evangelistic Work and Girls Boarding School—Emma K. Rexroth GuLBARGA Shanti Sadan Girls School—OUie R. Leavitt. District Evangelistic Work and Coeducational School—Julia E. Morrow. Coeducational School —Kezia E. Munson*, Ethel C. Wheelock. KoLAR Ellen Thohurn Coiven Memorial Hospital— Esther Shoemaker, M.D., Nurses Training School—Anna P. Buyers, R.N.*, Alta Griffin, R.N.* Girls High School—Thekla Hoffman, R.N. Madras— City Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—Frances E. Johnson. Girls Middle School—Joy E. Comstock. Raichur—Anna Angel Knight Boarding School—Judith Ericson. To Be Appointed—M. Marguerite Rugby.

BENGAL CONFERENCE AsANSOL (Ushagram)—In this "Village for the New Day" six hundred boys and girls (including day pupils) "work with their hands as well as with their minds, and like it." Some are Hindus, some Mohammedans, some Christians, but all have the Indian background that labor is not dignified. The cottage system is in use throughout. Several schools in neighboring villages are conducted by Ushagram pupils after their own school hours, and during vacation, thirty-five schools were conducted by volunteers. A normal training course in domestic science, recently organized, is the first of its kind in the Province. The newest building is the church, simple in style, and a type of architecture appreciated by the Indian people. The printing-press, operated by the boys themselves, has improved in the quality of its work until now the magazine "Ushagram," a highly creditable piece of work, is printed on this press. Pakur—The Santali school building has contributed greatly towards helping the Jidato school fulfil the expectations of its name,—"The village of persistent advance." The new chapel, built partly by the gifts of the Swedish women of American A-Iethodism, has been named in honor of Miss Pauline Grandstrand. In the Bengali boarding school, coeducation has been approved of by the Government to the extent that the boys have been allowed to sit for the Government examinations from a girls school, a concession never heard of before. Of the one hundred twenty-six enrolled, fifty-three are boys. A hostel for boys, built by local funds, has been erected on the land owned by the Board of Foreign Missions. The marked interest of the Hindu women in the community, in the meetings of the women's institute, is encouraging. The Govern- ment sub-inspector has been so much impressed with the new methods of teaching in use here that he has asked help in arranging for a teachers' institute on the mission compound, to which all the men teachers of the small village day schools in the district are to be invited. *0n furlough. 38 In Lands Ajar

Educational Work (English) Calcutta Girls High School—The enrollment this last year was the largest in the history of the school. The inspector of European schools in Bengal speaks in his recent report of "the excellent work being done by principal and staff, and the careful thought in arranging courses and looking after the interests of the pupils." All three candidates for the senior Cambridge examinations, passed. The lovely spirit and harmony which prevails with so many races under one roof, is noteworthy. Of the fourteen children of the fifth standard who recently conducted chapel one morning, seven were Jews or Parsees. While about one-third of the total enrollment are non-Christians, the spirit of the school is such that they cannot go through and not come out Christian in outlook. Darjeeling—The earthquake of January, 1934, did extensive damage to the beautiful building of Mt. Herman School (formerly Queen's Hill). For- tunately this took place during the vacation period, when class-rooms were unoccupied, so there was no personal injury or loss of life. Through the heroic endeavor of the principal. Mrs. Engberg, and her staff, school opened for the spring term only ten days late. The Government made a grant of 45,000 Rupees, gifts were received on the field, and the 1935 New York Branch Thank- Offering was designated to complete the restoration of the building which has now been re-dedicated, and stands "stronger and better than before, and some think, even more beautiful." Despite this experience and serious illness in the faculty group, the school has had a happy year, and the enrollment, one hundred eighty-six, is larger than in years preceding. Evangelistic Work

Evangelistic work on Asansol District is now carried on from the town, for greater convenience and efficiency. The district motor car covered 4215 miles this past year, distributing literature, which is eagerly received, and sharing the message with Christians and non-Christians. Another field of work is the visiting in the Hindu and Mohammedan homes from which the day school children come. In the Calcutta Bengali District, the day schools have steadily improved in quality. One more school may have to be closed, due to high taxes and lack of funds, but it is hoped that these sixty children will not have to be thus deprived. In the Calcutta Hindustani District, work is carried on among the leather workers in the city, about two thousand of whom are working in one section. In the Central Hindustani Church there is the small beginning of a missionary society which is studying Africa, and is linking up with the Inter- national Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Official Correspondcvt. BOMBAY CONFERENCE In response to suggestion from the Society, Bombay Conference has made a careful study of its resources and opportunities, and is this year reporting some readjustments. Most important of these is at Basim. We had there a school with 100 pupils besides a day school, and evangelistic work in a large district. But the Nazarene Mission desired to concentrate their efforts in the same region, where they had already extensive holdings, and offered to buy our property and continue our work. The arrangement was duly confirmed by the Society, and the transfer was completed by July 1, 1935. A few of the girls are moved to other schools, but the majority remain in Basim under the new dispensation. Both the missionaries were gieatly needed at other places; one has gone to Nagpur, one to Talegaon. The funds that had been going to Basim will be used at other places of great opportunity. India 39

In Bombay, tlie gateway to India, one missionary devotes much of her time to receiving missionary guests and making their travel arrangements, and to making purchases for missionaries up country. The estabUshment this year of an inter-mission office in Bombay will relieve her of some of this work and give her more time for the supervision of the Gujarati day schools and Bible women, her other task. These schools are for Sweeper children, legally entitled to a place in the municipal day schools, but kept out by caste pressure. Many boys continue through the four grades, but girls are taken out early to work and to marry. This year the first little girl, after much persuasion of the parents by the missionary, was allowed to stay and graduate. The schools are housed in the simplest of buildings, but they have gardens, "beauty for ashes." And the teachers and Bible women are living and giving real Christianity. The two Marathi schools are of the same type. One of them, Mazagaon, draws from eighteen blocks of "chawls" (tenements) housing 6 000 people. In connection with this school there was opened last year a dispensary and welfare center, where with very limited equipment fifty patients receive treatment daily. In Nagpur, capital of Central Provinces, we maintain a primary and middle school of 112 students and a normal school of twenty-three students, besides extensive evangelistic work. Last year's graduating class in the Normal School all passed the government examinations and are teaching. An interesting addition to the curriculum is a class in rural education, empha- sizing preparation for work in the villages. The students have opportunity for practice teaching in a village day school, and for co-operating with the evangelistic missionary in Sunday schools and gospel teams. Last year, five of the teachers gave instruction to fifty teachers of the Scottish Mission in the use of the Charterhouse course in religious education. In Poona, Taylor High School and Anglo-Indian Home continue to minister to the neglected Anglo-Indian community. Through government grants and pupil fees, these institutions are almost entirely self-supporting. The scholastic standard is high, and there is a real religious atmosphere. From Poona, too, goes out the Marathi "Woman's Friend," and other Marathi literature, original and translated, the work of Miss Abbott. Religious workers in many missions are making use of her book list, naming and describ- ing books in Marathi available for use with various groups. Our Talegaon school has 119 pupils, ninety- two of them boarders. In the final examination last year all the candidates passed and one received a prize; a splendid record, since a total of 699 candidates sat for this examination and only 199 passed. The girls in the final vernacular class are now given a course in home economics stressing food values, a balanced diet, and cooking. The family system is used, each family having one large room. The Bible teacher is a young woman of very fine character and of great influence over the girls, and they are showing a steady growth in Christian attainments. Puntamba District is rural India in its deepest need. There are 2.000 village Christians, pathetically eager to learn, and a friendly Hindu community, ready to be won if there were the workers. We have a hostel for girls, who attend the boys school, a growing medical work, and the beginning of a thoroughgoing rural reconstruction program. The aim is, while giving them the knowledge of the Christ they long for, to teach them a mode of life that will alleviate their grinding poverty without lessening their capacity to live simply. Such practical helps are being demonstrated as a chicken coop that will protect their baby chicks from crows and cats, and a loom the frame of which is made of two sticks, not too large for their tiny houses. Heretofore such a population has hardly dreamed of improving itself, but Christ has given them hope, and they will rise. Mrs. Otis Moore, Official Correspondent. 40 In Lands Ajar CENTRAL PROVINCES CONFERENCE

Of great interest is the conference-wide development of the Mahila Samiti, the church Woman's Society. The Bishop's wife, Mrs. Chitamber, is the conference president, and local auxiliaries are encouraged in each station. Meetings are held weekly, with a study including temperance and health as well as the afTairs of the church. Here follows the conference report for last year: This year the Jagdalpur District Mahila Samiti has done the best work. It has an enrollment of 125 members and has had fifty meetings. Raipur has done second best, having raised 115 rupees. The total enrollment is 226. Number of presidents, nine. Departments, four. Baby Shows, eight. Temper- ance meetings, forty-four. Total dues and receipts, Rs241 (About $80). Baihar School is a good experiment station. The family system had been installed, but when it was found that the number of small children was pro- portionately large and that some of the older girls had gone as far as they could in regular school work, a new division was made. There are now two families of big and middle-sized girls, and two sections of little ones in charge of older girls who are out of school, and who do the cooking, washing, mending and sewing. A constant effort is made to prepare the pupils for oidinary living in homes. Another new project is the outdoor chapel, set off by hedges from the rest of the compound and beautified with flowering vines and shrubs. It is to be formally dedicated at district conference time, and will be used for morning and evening prayers. Jagdalpur, too, furnishes a good background for experimentation, for we have things all our own way, being the only mission allowed in the native state of Bastar. There is continuous effort to help the people to help themselves. That there is at least some degree of success, these items will show: There are three new churches in the district, all built almost entirely through the efforts of the people themselves. The percentage of Christian children in schools is double that of two years ago. There were 180 children in daily vacation Bible schools, and of the twenty workers, seventeen were volunteers. There are five Mahila Samitis in the village churches in the district; most of the membership is illiterate, but the teachers and wives of the workers are helping them to feel that they are a vital part of the church. A pageant, "The Spirit of Indian Womanhood" was given by the teachers and girls of Alderman School in the State High School assembly hall, their first attempt at such a public performance. It was given three times, and raised seventy-five rupees for the W. C. T. U. The principal of the school is an Indian woman. The little hospital, under an Indian doctor, reports nearly 16,000 treatments, mostly outside the hospital. Under its auspices the annual baby show, held during district conference, examined the health of seventy-eight babies. Johnson Girls High School in Jubbulpore has had to divide five of its classes into two sections each, in order to accommodate the increased number of students. A Mohammedan gentleman, upon being told that his daughter could not be admitted on account of lack of space in the class room, begged permission to make a chair and a desk for her, if only she might be permitted to come. She came into a real Christian atmosphere. Last year, after the visit of the Gospel Team from the Theological College, the Fellowship Groups helped to repair, clean and color-wash an old pigeon house, built many years ago by the rajah who owned the place, and transformed it into a prayer-room. In the domestic science department, courses have been added in child welfare and in caring for the sick. A course in Indian music has been put into the curriculum, giving this school its place in the growing movement to emphasize native arts. One especially interesting event was the inter-school sports meet for Indian girls held in our compound and attended by eleven schools. Girls in purdah and Christian girls in gym suits all joined in the fun, and a real .

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feeling of unity was achieved. Speaking of finance, the principal says, "We have just been able to weather the year, and we have denied the school all but the most urgent needs"—which denying cannot of course be continued indefinitely without detriment to plant and equipment. The Jubbidpore Mahila Samiti has forty members and is of definite help to the evangelistic workers, keeping them in touch with outside women and doing volunteer evangelistic work. The Training College has an unbroken record of passes in Government examinations among its graduates. There is a constant demand for the teachers trained here. Shortage of missionaries has produced a difificult situation in Khandwa. Miss Liers went back from furlough to do evangelistic work on the district, but when the Normal School was left without a head, she was obliged to leave her villages to care for the school. At the same time there is a large increase of interest among non-Christians in the region, a general turning toward Christ, which has led a conference of workers from all missions in the area to call for a concentration of efTort on the villages. How we do need those new missionaries! The school in Khandwa is doing steady, efficient work, pointed directly toward the development of Christian character. The Normal School has twenty- seven students from seven ditTerent missions, training teachers in the vernacular. There is an increase in enrollment in the village schools, with a steady improvement in the quality of work done. In Narsinghpur District, Miss Hulasi Rae, an Indian woman, with a band of faithful Bible women, is doing self-efTacing service in visiting homes, helping the sick and preaching the Gospel With the closing of the Boys Primary School in Raipur, Stevens Girls School opened its two lowest classes to boys, and it was not long until boys were found in all the classes. The spirit of change is here too. An encouraging word from the report of Raipur evangelistic work: "The leaven is working. The results now visible are not so much in open baptisms and acknowledgment of Christ, but in changed ideals which are demanding a revolution in social customs that will shake the foundations of the old religious orthodoxy." Mrs. Otis Moore, Official Correspondent.

GUJARAT CONFERENCE

Letters from Gujarat Conference in these years say that the difficult task of making financial adjustments has brought the members of the conference together in a close and unselfish co-operation which has made them "partners in the task" as they have never been before.

Educational Work B.A.RODA—Miss Dora Nelson has charge of Wehh Memorial Girls School since Miss Challis has gone on furlough. There are about 300 pupils and teachers under her supervision. Girls from the school at Godhra come here to study English and from several different missions. There are in school four Jewish girls, a Parsee, Hindu and even a Mohammedan girl, so the Christian influence of this school is far-reaching. Godhra— The Normal Training and Practise Schools in Godhra are well organized and have an excellent stafT of teachers. The government examinations are held here with about one hundred girls in attendance from adjoining villages. It requires one week to complete the examinations. There are fifty normal and 215 practice school girls enrolled in the school. 42 In Lands JJar

Evangelistic Work Baroda—The work in Gujarati language is carried on by three Bible women who visit in the homes and teach three classes in Bible to about 325 children. Work has opened up among the Marathi people and a Sunday school has been opened for them. The work in the city is growing faster than there are workers to meet the need. Nadiad—The Bible women work among many different kinds of people. They meet in a group for prayer and then go out by twos and three to visit in different sections of the city. Ahmedabad and Kathiawar Districts were under the supervision of our beloved Bessie Rigg who went to her reward August 2, 1935. She has made a great impression on the people for Christianity because of her victorious Christian life among them. Medical Work The work of the Mrs. William Butler Memorial Hospital in Baroda has been developing and has become an essential part of the church in Gujarat Conference and now has eighty beds with fees and donations from the field equalling the receipts from the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The Butler Hospital has missed none of its opportunitities in health work, diseases of all sorts are much fewer due to the preventive work done as the result of the regular examinations of the pupils in our girls schools in Baroda and Godhra. Boys are admitted as day pupils and are included in these physical examinations. Added to these are the wives and the children of the theological students and the small boys from the boys primary school in Godhra. Dr. Huffman's work among the wives and children of soldiers in the nearby cantonment has opened the way for religious services. It is the only hospital between Ajmer and Bombay, a distance of 611 miles, which provides care for foreigners. The staff is inadequate, with only one missionary doctor and nurse. A competent surgeon is an outstanding need. Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, Official Correspondent.

HYDERABAD CONFERENCE

In the 1934 report of Hyderabad Conference, we find this significant statement : "It is very interesting to watch the progress of the work since 1930. In January, 1933, for the first time, the cut of 15 per cent was made in Woman's Foreign Missionary Society appropriations. The result of this was the dismissal of inefficient Bible women and a reduction in the staff of teachers, doubling the work of each teacher so that the work did not suffer much. Later, another 15 per cent cut was made, niakinga total of 30 per cent. At that time salaries of all workers including servants were reduced 15 per cent and more workers dismissed; consequently, the w^ork did begin to suffer. The boarding schools could not admit more students and many congregations in the villages were left without instruction. As never before, the matter of self-support began to be stressed." Educational Work BiDAR—The girls school here introduced home economics in its higher grades in 1931. In 1932 they received their first government grant. The present enrollment is 100 boarders and thirty-five day pupils. There were seven girls in the graduating class, four of whom have gone on for higher training and three have been married. Hyderabad— The Stanley Girls High School has an enrollment of 425, of whom 150 are in the boarding department. One of the girls stood first in scholarship in the state and was given the Gokhale Scholarship which gives her thirty rupees a month for four years of college work and 100 rupees for books. The school has been shown great honor because of this scholarship girl. —

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ViKARABAD The Mary A. Knotts School began coeducation in 1932 in the kindergarten and first and second grades with great success so that in 1934 it was carried on into the primary and middle grades with Urdu taught as a second language. The work of their graduates has shown such marked success that the district superintendent recently sent three young men there for training. This school has a rural environment and raises much of its own food. SiRONCHA— The Frances C. Davis School has eighty-one boarders and twenty day pupils. It gets a substantial grant from the British toward its expenses. It has been working toward a staff of trained teachers and this goal will soon be attained.; Evangelistic Work BiDAR—Evangelistic work in this district expresses itself in many activities; the missionary in charge says: "We made our way to the villages far and near, giving Christ's message in the village streets and in the homes of Christians and non-Christians. We have shown pictures with our old magic lantern illustrating the 'Life of Christ' to crowds ranging from fifty to five hundred. We treated 391 cases and derived one tenth of our medical cost in fees. We had the fun of directing kitten ball games on Petromax floodlighted fields. We taught untrained teachers arithmetic and teaching methods while visiting in their villages. We supervised and inspected the schools. In all, we have had happy fellowship with our Christians." Hyderabad—The Hindustani evangelistic work continues in about forty zenanas and a number of schools. One missionary writes "All Moslem work is slow in producing outward results. We do find, however, many evidences of an increasing tolerance of and interest in Christianity." SiRONCHA—Villages are scattered here and there through the jungle in this area and where formerly people came only for medicine they now come to hear the gospe}s; frequently there have been fifteen hundred assembled to hear the messages. T.A^NDUR— Regarding this work, a missionary writes: "From our stand- point, as we look at the fields, they are ripe unto the harvest. Every village we visit gives promise, not only from the low caste people, but from others as well." Medical Work Dr. Stella Dodd, who was transferred to Bowringpet to take charge of the tablet industry during Dr. Linn's furlough, had returned to Clason Memorial Hospital at intervals to supervise the work. She writes: "I have just recently returned from a trip to Sironcha. I go down occasionally to bring up the accounts and make the reports and order the medicines and check up on things in general. The work has, of course, fallen off a great deal since I left it but I again have an Indian doctor on the job and I think it will pick up under her direction." Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, Official Correspondent.

INDUS RIVER CONFERENCE Educational Work AjMER—-The Misses Nelson at Avery Girls School, sa.y succinctly: "Most of the high points this year have been level, no depressions such as death or evil." This school does splendid Girl Guides work. The open-air chapel, where vespers are sung, is a new possession at Lahore Girls School. They have chosen a new na.me.—Anand Bagh—garden of happi- ness. Girls themselves saved Rs. 25 toward the brick flooring of the chapel. It is encouraging to note Miss Thomson's training in this direction. There is urgent need for more equipment, and opportunity would be doubled if the —

44 In Lands Afar school bus could operate to bring in day pupils. Folks of all communities already patronize the school and more would come if conveyance were available. A high school department has been opened this year. HissAR—This is a school without walls where coeducation is carried into the hostel life and the wee boys in their cunning pagarees play with the little girls freely. Miss Coy joins the children for Morning Watch at day-break, when they gather on a large terrace in the hostel. Evangelistic Work AjMER District—Miss McLeavey was transferred from Northwest India Conference to serve in this district where no woman missionary has been for some time. She reports vital interest everywhere among the people and progress in the day schools. Medical Work TiLAUNiA^—After a season of intermittent medical help, Mary Wilson Sanatorium has welcomed Dr. Freda Haffner, though disappointed that she must stay at the Sanatorium until a doctor for the institution itself be made available, as a full time doctor for itinerant school supervision is much needed. Dr. Huffman and Dr. Albertson have been doing valiant substitute duty. Miss Bishop has been in charge since Dr. Kipp's early furlough on account of ill health. Miss Ella M. Watson, Official Correspondent.

LUC KNOW CONFERENCE Educational Work Arrah—Saivtelle Memorial Girls School is now a full-fledged coeducational institution. "Though yet in the experimental stage, we feel assured of its success" Miss Tirsgaard writes. The girls hostel is managed on the cottage system. Miss Irene Bear is just finishing a first term of six years. Cawnpore— Hudson Memorial Girls School reports a class of eighteen girls joining the church at Easter, following a revival that grew out of the evening prayer circles in the hostel. Miss Richmond is now in charge and Miss Tara David has the hostel. Miss Edna Hutchens and Miss Adis Robbins are at Girls High School, Cawnpore. As usual in India, "high" merely indicates the limit of the classes. The children are Anglo-Indian and English with the full percentage of Indian students fixed by the educational authorities for European schools. The problems of this school and its activities are like no other in North India. A fine contribution to the social welfare of a great city is being made by this center. Recently upper class girls asked for a prayer room, which was given. A few began having bed-time prayers there. Now it is crowded every night. GoNDA- Chambers School, where Miss Eveland and Miss E. Lall are serving, reports: "One of.the most interesting and unusual events of the year was the marriage in April of a senior teacher to a young Brahman convert, a domiciled resident of Fiji where they went as missionaries following the wedding. Many Indians live there and most are non-Christian. May 6th we celebrated the King's Jubilee. The sports for the four girls schools in the city were held at our place. We believe there has never been such a gathering in Gonda,|three non-Christian girls schools with us, almost four hundred children present." MuzAFFARPUR—The earthquake of January 15, 1935, so completely wrecked the school at Muzaffarpur that it was decided not to rebuild and the girls have been sent to our schools in Arrah and Gonda. Miss Jennie Smith, for bravery and leadership in that trying time, was awarded the Kaiser- i-Hind Medal in the following New Year's honors. India 45

Lai Bagh Girls High School, inter-conference institution, staffed by North India and Lucknow conferences, is the only school in Lucknow for Indian Christian girls except a small parish school of primary grades, the only girls high school of our church teaching Urdu as the vernacular in the four conferences of northern India. It has had to refuse Christian girls of the city who could not get in elsewhere and to refuse girls from our own mission because of lack of space and scholarships. Only by an increase of fees in the past five years has the school been able to carry on work in face of the cuts in mission funds and Government grants. Scholarships are the greatest need now, because that cut has meant reduced numbers.

Evangelistic Work — Arrah District, Buxar Circuit -Miss Sheldon : "The village schools were running so splendidly when I returned from furlough that it was felt we should and could give more time to the Mass Movement Christians in the villages where schools were already established. Sixty days were spent camping among the villagers; still so very Hindu in some of their practices because we have not had enough workers to teach them anything else and they know nothing yet but their old customs. After staying in each village we called the leaders into Buxar for a two-day meeting. They gave their promises to give up all Hindu practices, and organized a Brotherhood. It is really the Christian Church. It meant also an individual knowledge of sin forgiven, and launching out on faith." "Efforts are being made here (Muzaffarpur Church and Mohalla) to get the church people together again. The earthquake destroyed their building and the transfer of the school was very discouraging. Prayers are asked for these lonely folk." Arrah Circuit—-Miss Hyneman: "Rural reconstruction in the villages where we have baptized Christians, which means nominal Christians, has been my aim since 1932. So I moved to a village and am living in a house to which I feel any of our Christians could aspire. to have. To see the village Christian reconstructed we feel he must find God through Christ as his Saviour, learn to read, be clean in appearance and in his home and do his best to have good health." Ballia District— Miss Edna M. Abbott: "New day schools where they were thought impossible are now begun. Could open more night schools if teachers with day-time work for them, were available. Opposition by land- owners and Aryas are still hindrances." Miss Ella M. Watson, Official Correspondent.

NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE Educational Work Almora— Adams Girls High School. Miss Moses and Miss Albertson hold a unique position in their community. Unlike most Christian schools more than half of its constituency is non-Christian day scholars. Through them the influence of the school spreads far. For the King's Jubilee celebrations the teachers of Adams were asked to help the staff of non-Christian schools prepare their girls. B ARIELLY— Aiiss Honnell and Miss Percis Stevens, one of our own mission- trained nationals, are at the girls school in Barielh'. Warne Baby Fold is unique in that it contributes to all three of our main forms of service. Miss Bacon writes that forty-eight girls have taken the mothercraft course since July, 1931, which gives practical training to older girls. BijN'OR — Mrs. Bertha Shaw, another national, is able to take the place of a missionary at Lois Lee Parker School, Bijnor. She writes: "Twenty girls were —

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taken into church at Easter. The collection on Children's Day was good, the children had earned some of it themselves raising chickens." BuDAUN—Miss Crawford is being two people this >ear and is finding life strenuous as supply Miss Sahib at Budaiui Girls School during Miss West's furlough, while also trying to keep her hand in the office at Clara Swain hospital. Budaun School has a large acreage for fields of wheat, mustard and grain, which the girls themselves harvest. Miss West has made a paying proposition out of the garden. 1 he expenses for food per girl is less in this school than in any other of the conferences. Miss Hoath is not only in charge of the primary' boys but this year has undertaken to be part time District Superintendent and to supervise the boys on the upper hostel, pending the arrival of more help. Dw.\R.\H.\T—Miss Oram writes of the baptism of a little high caste Hindu girl, brought by her father. Two sisters were baptized five years ago and the father has always stood by, answering the required questions. Six girls sent up for middle examinations all passed, one securing a scholarship and several obtaining distinction in one or more subjects. MoRADABAD—Miss Anna Blackstock will remain for a seventh year at

the girls school until some one can take her place . Miss Esther Blackstock has the hostel. The fine school building has added immesurably to the moral and spiritual life of the girls, to say nothing of the addition to the appearance of the compound. Miss Bass has returned to take charge of the little boys at Parker Branch School, releasing Miss Warrington for district work. Miss Warrington wrote before leaving: "I have been with the little boys for four years. We have striven to lead the children into a real friendship with Christ and in many instances have had gratifying success. Two former boys of ours passed their Government High School examinations this year, making us proud of them." Pauri—Miss Gladys Doyle writes a moving tale of a little girl brought to the mission by a humble grass-cutter mother, years ago and of the child's unspoiled pride in returning to that home for her holidays, coming up from the plains where she is taking training. Notable because this is a severe test in a land where change of place brings out weak spots, just as it does in the West. Pithoragarh—Where there used to be at least three missionaries to look after the school, woman's home, hospital, babies and evangelistic work at our farthest up station. Miss Beach and Miss McCartney, evangelist, now do it all with the help of a splendid Indian stalT. The school joined in the Easter procession through the town. The women of the Home have set aside their best field for the Lord and at the summer festival brought all its growth as an offering. vShahjahanpur—The activities of girls in this large school, now high school for the conference, under the direction of Miss Yasmin Peters, are varied sports, gardens, and social interchange with the boys school. There is a very definite evangelistic spirit in the school and the girls are learning to reallj' testify to their Christian faith. Sitapur— Miss Bates has been at the girls school the past four years. Mission Boys School continued to serve a variety of classes, —orphans, children of mission workers, and poor Christian families, children from neighboring villages where there are no schools, and Hindus and Mohammedans.

Evangelistic Work

BijNOR—-"After eleven years of district work it has been an interesting experience to return to it again. Work has been reached by train as the Ford has at last become obsolete, parts for this model no longer obtainable. Great interest on part of Government and other responsible folk in rural uplift," writes J.I. Peters. —

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BuDAUN—Phoebe Emery is a communion steward exemplar—the quaintly simple communion sets made from old tobacco tins, now used so widely in India's rural communities, her idea. She says she has appointed herself chief steward for the district. Nine out of the twelve circuits have monthly communion. Miss Emery is being the other half of the district superintendent of Buduan District with Miss Hoath—two versatile ladies, verily. MoRADABAD—Miss Stallard took over from Miss Hardie. Homes are open to the Bible women and Miss Stallard believes hundreds of secret believers do not yet dare to make open confession. Bible Institutes held two times a year in all places where Christians are a pamphlet, "The Steps That Lead to God," written by village women organized temperance work in one hundred village schools. Blanche McCartney is diligent in two hill districts to bring about above high spots in a year's tale.

Medical Work Barielly—The days are too short for Dr. Chase and Dr. Albertson at Clara Swain Hospital. Miss Westrup returned from furlough and Miss Lorenz is busy with her task. Chandag—Miss Mary Reed in the far Himalayas, still continues her loving mission to the lepers of the hills. Miss Ella M. Watson, Official Correspondent.

NORTHWEST INDIA CONFERENCE Educational Work

Aligarh— Louisa Soule Girls School. A record enrollment in A class this year made Miss Perry send a telegram flying to hire an extra teacher. The Vocational School was closed last year. These girls are being looked after in their own middle or other vocational schools. Several have married. Delhi—Miss Justin's school bus has greatly interested the whole conference. She writes: "If making expenses means it pays, it doesn't, but in benefits gained, it does. The bus makes three trips daily accommodating forty children living two to six miles away. Saturday evenings an evangelistic group goes to a village. Wedding parties, women's meetings and even funerals have used it. Yes, it pays." Meerut—Miss Bobenhouse at —Howard Plested Memorial Girls School has written of their crowded conditions "We could have two seventh classes if there were dormitory space. A helpful, five-day series of meetings was held in July with Miss Klingeberger as leader." Muttra—This year, to relieve crowded conditions at Meerut and to give girls in the Normal Classes training in teaching the Bible, the Normal Depart- ment was transferred to Muttra as an experiment. Miss Pearl Palmer was appointed there on her return from furlough. Miss Randall went on regular leave. Roorkee—Miss Faith Clarke returned from furlough early in the year, and was appointed to Roorkee. Miss Hoffman went on early furlough because of ill health. Happy to be back in familiar work, Miss Clark reports a good year. Ghaziabad—Dr. Lily D. Greene is fortunate to have a Moga-trained headmaster for Burgess Day School. This was the first school in Ghaziabad to open its doors to all creeds and classes; children from Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and Christian homes study together, learning Christian hymns and Bible 48 In Lands Ajar lessons. There is a flourishing junior church. The boys take part of the services themselves. At the close each child is given a Bible picture card which is afterward found carefully adorning the wall of a mud hut. Some much needed new class rooms are being completed. Miss Livermore was lent to the Parent Board and has been taking the Paces' place at Ingraham Institute, Ghaziabad. She reports a large enrollment this year and more non-Christian boys than ever before. The Institute is a dividend-earning objective for our loan. Meerut—The primary boys schools in the conference were centered at Meerut three years ago and Miss Buss is completing her second \ear as manager. Under her experienced leadership the school is making visible progress. A flourishing Red Cross Society, Temperance Band, and more recently, Scouts, are outstanding e.\tra-curricular activities. The little boys join the small girls of Howard Plested for junior Sunday school and church, conducting part of each service themselves. Agra—-Holman Institute, a day school for sweeper children, with an industrial department. Miss Sarah Holman comments: "The influence of the school on the homes is far reaching."

Evangelistic Work

Aligarh District—"Each year shows an improvement in story telling and in understanding of Bible teaching. Three months in camp bring me nearer the people. Distributed five thousand tracts given by W. C. T. U. Met hearty response." — Ida M. Farmer, evangelist. BuLANDSHAHR DISTRICT—-Miss G. E. Richards was appointed to this district on return from furlough. "We had the largest number of passes in all districts, this year. Seven school masters and nineteen Bible readers help me. Several village boys have gone to higher shcools on completing the si.\ years of village school work; our future leaders." Delhi .\nd Rohtak Districts—"In our village work numbers have taken a definite stand for the Lord. Others are still afraid to let their belief be known. Our scattered groups of Christians have grown in grace."—-Ida M. Klingeberger. Ghazi.\bad District—"Sometimes my medicine bo.x does yeoman service —selling gospels is a 'weight of joy,' one a day is a modest ambition."—Dr. Lily D. Greene. Meerut District— Miss Forsyth will come on delayed furlough soon. She has many interesting stories to tell of individual lads influenced by village street preaching, in higher schools now, preparing to be the leaders of tomorrow. MuTTRA District—-Miss C. T. Holman has charge of the city evangelistic work in Agra. Miss A. Richards, a national, is our only other worker, with Bible readers, in all of Muttra District.

Medical Work Brind.\b.\n—Dr. Tower's early furlough left Creighton- Freeman hospital temporarily crippled, but now Dr. Burchard has arrived. The new buildings are a great satisfaction. Miss Porter will come on furlough when Miss Barry returns. Miss Ella M. Watson, Official Correspondent. India 49

SOUTH INDIA CONFERENCE

This conference sustained a great loss when Dr. Margaret Lewis was called to her reward July 22, 1934. It was said of her in the 1934 annual report of South India Conference, "Dr. Lewis was not only a skilled physician, but she was an excellent Bible student. She was a real missionary in every sense of the word, 'One sent' to win souls for Christ. Her spiritual life was deep, earnest and sincere."

Educational Work Bangalore—The missionary in charge writes: "Happy, mischievous, bubbling over spirit of girlhood! It cannot be confined in any report of a school's activities. Life in a girls school is full of surprises and so we go on from year to year. Studies, games, singing classes, Girl Guides, concerts, camps exhibits,—not always 100 per cent success but always 100 per cent will-to-win. Glorious glowing girlhood; heavy responsibility, but God carrying always the heavy end." Belgaum— Vanita Vidalaya has an enrollment of 200 girls and has received permanent government recognition with a small increase in grant; more than two-thirds of the students are Hindu and the prayer of the Christians is that Christ may bring them into His kingdom. The Marathi Primary School has 170 littke folks in it and are having to turn girls away for lack of room. Gulbarga—The Shanti Sudan School is much in need of class rooms, for during the rainy season, it is necessary for them to hold classes in four difTerent languages. Imagine Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati and Telugu,—all within distinct hearing distance of one another. KoLAR—The Girls High School which was originally a boarding school now has more day pupils than boarders with an enrollment of 225 in all departments. Madras—The teacher in charge of the Girls Boarding School writes: "Many things go on year after year without change in a boarding school, but we have had some new experiences during the past year. V\'e reduced the number of girls admitted and gave some of our scholarships to places more in need so that we should be doing our part in the general effort to reduce expenses and conserve funds and we were compensated to our surprise by a remarkable increase in day pupils. We now have about three times the number we used to consider an ordinary enrollment."

Evangelistic Work

KoLAR— It is worthy of note that the students of our Girls High School are interested in bringing the gospel to the villages and twice a week go to adjoining villages for evangelistic services where they are welcomed gladly. In the district work, where the women didn't care to listen to the gospel, they now receive it gladly. Belg.\um—The Bible women have been faithfully carrying on their work during the year as far as can be done with the shortage of workers. A Lingayat woman owns a frock factory where many women are working. She gladly welcomes the evangelistic workers and invites them to come again. GoKj\k—A newly baptized group find much joy in their new experience. Gulb.\rga—There has been less touring than usual done in this district this year, but there have been many more baptisms—-three whole villages besides individuals. ——

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Madras—Multitudes of people in Madras are really interested in the Christian message. A young man who stopped at a street meeting asked to speak. He said "I am a Hindu, but niy heart tells me that Christ is the only Saviour and he is my God now."

Medical Work The Ellen Thoburn Cowen Memorial Hospital has had a most encouraging year with all wards full to overflowing. It needs a doctor who can do eye, ear, nose and throat work. The preventiv^e medical work carried on through the annual medical inspection of the schools since 1929 has been most encouraging. The Nurses Training School has a fine staff and good group of students. Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, Official Correspondent.

JAPAN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. FuKUOKA Jo Gakko—Yoshi Tokunaga (Principal), Harriet M. Howey, Eloise G. Smith, Ella M. Gerrish.* Evangelistic Work—Carolyn M.Teague. Hakodate—lai Jo Gakko—Alice Cheney, Gertrude M. Byler, Dora Wagner.* HiROSAKi Jo Gakko—Lois K. Curtice. Evangelistic Work—Erma M. Taylor. Kagoshima—Evangelistic Work—L. Alice Finlay. Southern Islands (Loo Choo) Evangelistic Work—L. Alice Finlay. KuMAMOTO Evangelistic Work—Mabel Lee, Azalia E. Peet.* Nagasaki—Evangelistic and Social Work—Pauline A. Place. Kindergarten and Evangelistic Work—Mrs. Toshi Sasamori. Kwassui Jo Gakko— Anna Laura White (President), Caroline S. Peckham*, Adelia M. Ashbaugh, Helen Couch, Vera J. Fehr, Olive Curry, Olive L Hagen. Sapporo—Evangelistic Work—V. Elizabeth Alexander. Sendai—Evangelistic and Social Service Work—Elizabeth H. Kilburn- Mothers Meetings—Mrs. S. R. Luthy. Tokyo—Aoyama Jo Gakuin—Alberta B. Sprowles (Dean), Laura Chase*, Barbara M. Bailey, Mary D. Collins. Aoyama Theological School— Mary Belle Oldridge.* Woman's Christian College—Myrtle Z. Pider. Evangelistic and Social Service Work—Mildred A. Paine, Marian G. Simons.* Christian Literature Society—N. Margaret Daniel. Mothers Meetings—Mrs. F. W. Heckelman. Yokohama—Evangelistic Work—Winifred F. Draper. Literary Work with Kagawa Co-operators—Marion R. Draper. Chosen District—Evangelistic Work—Bertha F. Starkey, Tsuya Kitajima

Educational Work FuKUOKA—The past year has been unusual in our educational work in Japan because of the celebration of three notable anniversaries. One of these took place May 18-20, 1935, when Fukuoka Jo Gakko {Happy Hill School) -observed the fiftieth anniversary of its founding. Many months of planning, of "work, worry, washings, wishings", made this a great event. Fifty years ago,

*On furlough. 1

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a small group of timid little girls were gathered in the home of an American missionary. Now there is a capacity attendance of 400 fine girls who have passed the competitive examination for entrance, a faculty of twenty-one members, with Miss Tokunaga, a dignified Japanese woman, as principal, and a group of buildings worthy of our Society. The teachings of Jesus are permeating the lives of these girls. "They think in world terms and look one straight in the face as they swing along in their uniforms." The school now has the confidence, trust and respect of the city and state. Hakodate—lai Jo Gakko {Memorial Love Girls School) is set in the midst of the busy, materially-minded port city of Hakodave on Hokkaido, the big north island of Japan. We shall not soon forget the great fire of March 1934, which swept over the city. A missionary, returning in June, 1935, writes: "I am still wondering how so much of the city could burn, how the little that was left could include the Methodist Church, the Girls School and the two kindergartens. But it did. We have a day nursery in the barracks district and around it have grown Christian activities for school boys and girls and for the adults of the barracks who lost everything in the fire." Our school has been a social centre of relief and service since the night of the lire. Dora Wagner so splendidly directed the work that she was presented a gold medal by government officials when she left recently on furlough. With the Skeer bequest a new chapel building seating six hundred fifty has been built. The former chapel has been converted into two good class rooms and a fine science room. Miss Alice Cheney, who for ten years was principal, is happy in the choice of her successor, Mr. Xobuyoshi Obata, the new principal. He is a graduate of the Tokyo Imperial University, was for seven years national student secretary of the Y.M.C.A., and has for the past ten years been on the faculty of Aoyama Gakuin. HiROSAKi— In addition to the three anniversaries mentioned abov^e, plans are being made for a fourth. It will be fifty years next June since Hirosaki Jo Gakko was founded, not in an educational and cultural centre, but in a very conservative farming centre, in a province known as about the poorest in the country. An international committee composed of twenty girls is an interesting feature in connection with the school, and local newspapers have given them prominence. They have had some correspondence with India and an exchange of interesting things. A class in home economics is making Japanese cook books in English, to be illustrated, and after exhibiting them at the fiftieth anniversary next year, they will send them to other countries asking for an exchange of recipes. Nagasaki— Kwassui Jo Gakko {High School). Our fiftieth anniversary celebration five years ago seemed to waken the city of Nagasaki to what we have been, and are, doing. We have been growing increasingly popular in spite of the strong nationalistic spirit which makes many suspicious of Christianity. The school is full to overflowing. Tokyo—Aoyama Jo Gakuin, founded November 16, 1874, after sixty, years of significant service numbers her graduate body at 3621. The mind is lost in a maze as one attempts to consider the Christian influences which flow through these channels from this one institution. The anniversary of its founding was fittingly observed. In the past four years, the number of new applicants has increased from 781 to 1102, while only 200 can be accepted. The registration is limited by the Government to 1000 for high school and 200 for home economics.

The development of the home economics department is one of the outstanding achievements of the recent years. Its beginning dates back to the industrial school founded by Miss Ella Blackstock in 1889, and united with —

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Aoyama Jo Gakuin in 1914. In 1932, the ultimate aim of the founder to make a normal course in home economics was realized, and since then teachers' licenses are granted by the Education Department of the Government.

Social and Evangelistic Work

FuKUOKA—-In this city and outlying districts, Carolyn Teague and five national workers conduct classes for the factory girls, for nurses, business girls and girls of the leisure or upper middle class, as well as work with the pre-.school age children (forty of them) and their mothers and fathers, and weekly Bible schools for the primary group. During the last four years more than one hundred business girls have enrolled for Bible study, and more than ninety have accepted C-hrist. The rural work goes out among the folk in eighteen small villages. In the Spring, health clinics were conducted in Itoshima County. Two doctors from the children's department of the Imperial University Hospital gave their services free. These are not just health clinics for the body, but the mothers are reached with the message of love and goodwill. Money is needed for a fine Christian nurse. Last year, the farmers of Itoshima County lost 84 per cent of their rice crops, and rice is both a source of income and the food for the farming population of 55,000 people. The girls of Happy Hill School, Fukuoka, through their social service department helped the local pastor, Mr. Utsimi, to give his people a wonderful White Christmas. Many of them learned to know a Father who loves them when the rice fails. Day nurseries for the farmers' children are held during the rice transplanting season, funds for this purpose being furnished by the Y. W. C. A. of Kwassui College and Fukuoka Girls School. HiROSAKi Hirosaki Girls School helps to carry on a day nursery in the village of Dake, where farming is difficult and where there has been famine for two or three years. A teacher from their own day nursery takes charge of more than twenty nursery children in a building which should be used for grain. It is a pretty poor place and very dark on a cloudy day, but they have managed to make it do. Erma Taylpr has returned after a prolonged furlough to superintend the evangelistic work. Kagoshima—Among the many duties which belong to Alice Finlay one is that of superintending the kindergarten of seventy children. Through the efforts of the fathers and mothers, together with help from friends in America, a much needed addition to the playground has been secured. Three years ago Miss Peet with the help of Japanese teachers began a nursery school for farmers' children, which has continued each year with growing success. This is held during the rainy season in June when the farmers plant their rice. The little ones are taken care of While fathers and mothers work early and late in the paddy fields. This year there were eighty of these children KuMAMOTO^Miss Peet writes: "The Kumamoto station is again open For three years while no missionary was resident, the ceilings fell, the paint cracked, the curtains hung in shreds, but worse; the work also was at a stand- still. In the l,ast eighteen months the Oe Kwan, as we call the mission home, has become a beehive of activities for men, women and children. The kindergarten building has been in constant use not only for kindergarten purposes but also for other social and religious activities. Regular work has been re- sumed in three large towns on the district and a most promising work has been begun in a fourth." The missionary has her home with eight Japanese co- workers and the family life has be^ one of the happiest parts of the work of the Kumamoto station. Nagasaki—The Melton-Young Memorial Home is an evangelistic-social .centre by the sea of a port city of 200,000 people. It was bought in July, 1933, Japan 53 largely through the gifts of friends, in memory of Miss Mary Melton and Miss Mariana Young, two dear friends who worked together in Kwassui College for years. Miss Young passed on in 1932, one month before the present home was purchased. Nagasaki has had Methodist churches and schools for fifty years, and this home gives an opportunity for service to a class that has been neglected. The large rooms and playground are in constant use in the name of Christ, for classes of mothers, working girls, working boys, government school students and children of all ages. Among the needy groups are the 1000 Koreans, for whom this is the only meeting place. Our children's classes are many, varying in ages from three to eighteen. We give much attention to religious work, international good will, temperance and health. Our library is most popular though we have but 160 books. It is open on all days when we hold classes. Children's libraries are most unusual here, and we feel a great need for them. The clinic and kindergarten are ten years old, but in the past four years the work has grown in numbers and in activities. A visiting nurse has been added and another kindgergarten purchased in another section of the city. For the latter property the mothers gave 7000 yen, which they had collected and worked for, for ten years. The Joen, or girls home, a work which has been carried on for forty years was discontinued, and a social centre which is almost entirely self supporting, namely, the clinic, was begun. Money is collected from all classes of people, both Christian and non-Christian, because it makes a big appeal. Miss Pauline Place returns home this year after a very busy six-year period of service. Sapporo—Of this piece of evangelistic work Miss V. Elizabeth .Alexander writes: "To cover the work of four years in a few words is not easy, but perhaps the one thing that impresses me most is the way that the Japanese pastors in the little country churches have carried on, without any financial help from the Board of Foreign Missions. How they manage to live on their salary is a mystery. "My work is in the woman's meetings in the various churches on the district. These women make our engagements for the meeting, lead the service and attend to the business. My part is to give the Bible lesson. With the help of my co-worker, we carry on seven children's meetings, and a club for the bigger girls meets twice a month." Send.aj—When Miss Kilburn and Miss Lee were appointed to Sendai, eight years ago, they felt it wise to build up the work in such a way that it could eventually be handed over to the supervision of the Japanese leaders. The kindergarten and dormitory work, the women's organizations and social work were all organized under the church with that in view. We have a small but well organized and financially independent church. Even the Bible class for Government College girk is a part of the church school. In 1933 the W. F. M S. took action to turn over to the Japan Methodist Church, for the use of the Sendai Church, the entire present property. How- ever, it seemed more practical to accept an offer of the Imperial Railway Com- pany to buy the W. F. M. S. property and keep the present church lot, procuring some adjoining land. The kindergarten and dormitory buildings have been moved to the new lot. The parsonage will be rebuilt and the church repaired. Our old missionary home is being usedbythe railway hospital as a separate ward. Miss Kilburn is living in a new Japanese house near the kindergarten. Because of lack of funds, only one worker has been available for the district work in four provinces. Officials have asked the pastor to open nurseries in ten villages. He said, "We cannot refuse, though I may have to sell everything I have in the world. An opportunity like this will never come again." Earlier Dr. Kagawa had urged just such a move to help stem the tide of the religion, "Hito no Michi," which deifies the Emperor and makes bigoted nationalists ———— -

54 In Lands Afar of the people. Funds were available for six villages and mighty prayers are ascending for further aid. Tokyo—-Ai Kei Gakuin is one of the five units of social work in Tokyo related to the Japan Methodist Church. The other four units have Canadian backing. The W. F. M. S. has approved the organization of an Ai Kei Zaidan Hojin, as a legal property holding organization, which frees our representatives to work together with the other members of the Social Service Federation. A new kindergarten plant has been erected with equipment for living quarters on the second floor and other rooms for children's purposes. Under the splendid leadership of Mildred A. Paine and Marian G. Simons it is a busy place from the beginning to the end of the week, with classes for all from the tiny tots to the policemen, who "want to learn more about this religion which makes people not afraid at any time to meet whatever happens to them." A bi-monthly Well-Baby Clinic is conducted by Dr. Saito of St. Luke's Hospital, who is a Harvard graduate. Mrs. W. S. Mitchell, Official Correspondent. KOREA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. Chemulpo— Citv and District Day Schools—Maude V. Trissell, Jeanette Oldfather.* Public Health and Welfare Work^'Q. Alfreda Kostrup, R.N. Evangelistic Work—Margaret I. Hess. Haiju—Evangelistic Work—Jane Barlow, Pearl Lund. City Day School— Pearl Lund. Chinan— District Evangelistic and Day Schools—Blanche R. Bair. HoNGSUNG Evangelistic and Educational Work—-Hanna Scharpff. Kangneung—Evangelistic and Educational Work—-Mrs. Louise O. Morris. KoNGju City Schools— Mrs. Lillian M. Swearer. Evangelistic and District Day Schools— Mrs. Alice H. Sharp. Public Hygiene and Infant Welfare Work—Maxftn P. Bording, R.N. Pyengyang— Chung Eui Higher Common School—Ada. McQuie, Esther L. Hulbert, Helen E. Boyles, Grace L. Dillingham.* City and District Day Schools—Helen E. Boyles. Blind School and New Jersey Conference Bible Training School—Henrietta P. Robbins. Union Christian Hospital— N. Bernita Block, M.D., A. Evelyn Leadbeater, M.D.*, Naomi Anderson, R.N., Ethel H. Butts, R.N., Zola L. Payne, R.N. Traveling Dispensary- Mary M. Cutler, M.D. (Retired on the field.) Evangelistic Work, East and West Districts—Emily Irene Haynes.* Seoul—Ewha College—Alice R. Appenzeller (President), L. Catherine Baker, Marion L. Conrow, Ada B. Hall, Jeannette C. Hulbert, Harriet P. Morris, Blanche H. Loucks, Grace H. Wood*, Moneta Tro.xel, Myrta O. Shaver, Mary E. Young. Ewha High School—Marie E. Church.* City and District Day Schools—Maude V. Trissell. District Evangelistic Work—Jessie B. Marker. Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital—Elizabeth R. Roberts, R.N. Medical Education—Rosetta S. Hall, M.D.* Social Evangelistic Ce?iter— Elma T. Rosenberger.* Methodist Theological Seminary—Anna B. Chafifin. SuwoN Evangelistic and Educational Work—Lulu A. Miller. WONGju Evangelistic and Kindergarten Work— Mrs. Louise O. Morris. Evangelistic and Social Service Work—Esther J. Laird. Yengby'en—Evangelistic Work—Ethel Miller. Educational Work—Elsie N. Banning, L. lielle Overman.* YiCHUN Evangelistic and Educational Work—Gertrude E. Snavely. *On furlough. —

Korea 55 KOREA Four really significant events fall within the scope of this report of the last four years. In 1933 a thorough-going scientific study and revaluation of all our work was carried on under the direction of a representative committee, and participated in by every preacher, Bible woman and missionary in the Korean Methodist Church, and also a large group of laymen. This resulted in the adjustment of support between types of work and between institutions of the same type, bringing the iotal to balance the appropriations as cut by 30 per cent. It also provided for the withdrawal of mission support from unregis- tered primary schools at the end of two years and the shifting of support by the Society to the local church, of kindergartens and Bible women at the rate of 10 per cent per year for ten years. The second General Conference of the Korean Methodist Church, held in the fall of 1934, is the second of the significant events of the years under review. After a trial period of four years of the plans effected w^hen the church was set up, it was found wise to make some changes. The plan for carrying on w'ork for women throughout the districts proposed by the Revaluation Com- mittee, and approved in principle by the missionaries and the Central Council was integrated with the church machinery as a "Woman's Work Section" and placed under the Department of Evangelism of the General Board of the Church. The organization goes down to Districts and is representative. There are five divisions of work including evangelism, religious education, kindergarten supervision, public health, and home economics and club \\:ork. This plan will not become really operative until April, 1936, though nine Korean women were placed on districts this year with funds already conserved probably a premature trial of a plan illy understood by anyone and involving workers entirely unprepared for the plan. One, in writing about it, says, "I think we can build up this year an appreciation of what it means to work for an organization which is a part of the church and which should be in itself a sisterhood comparable to the W. F. M. S. Dr. R. S. Ryang, who through the first four years of the new church proved to be a fine administrator and leader for all of its interests, was re-elected for a second term as General Superintendent. The third important event to be noted is the 50th anniversary of the coming of Christian missionaries to the Hermit Nation. The H. G. Appen- zellers, Methodists, and H. G. Underwood, Presbyterian, landed on Easter Sunday morning, 1884. What God hath wrought through them and those who have followed in their train is a story that no one can fully tell, but there aie certain tangible results in which we are personally deeply concerned. Much of credit and praise for what has been accomplished in permeating the country with the Christian message is due to the institutions where our Bible women and other workers are trained and those who go out from them to work in the churches. One of these is the Bible Training School, in Pyengyang, whose principal. Miss Henrietta Robbins, is now on furlough. The other is the Union Seminary in Seoul. Mrs. Chafifin, principal for many years, is also on furlough. The experiment of coeducational work there with one course of study for men and women has proven impracticable. Before the beginning of another year some other plan will be worked out for the training of women for full time service in the church. Ten other missionaries share in the labors of the Bible women in the supervision of their work on the districts. Theirs, very largely, will be the responsible task of making the new plan under the woman's work section a success. They, who have achieved so much under the old order, should be most effective in making the transition to one that should more nearly meet the needs of rapidly changing conditions. The Society is now maintaining two highly qualified young women who serve under the Board of Education of the Church—Pauline Kim, and MivSS Chang. Miss Kim's department is children's work. She is creating the Sunday school lessons for little 56 /w Lands Ajar

children. Miss Chang has charge of the Home's Departrnent. Both are doing editorial work, and both are giving large service to classes, institutes and the like throughout the church. Medical service was one of the first to be established by the pioneers. A later development was a womans hospital, the first in Korea for women. Lillian Flarris Memorial, or more familiarly known as East Gate Hospital, continues,, under Dr. Ahn and Nurse Elizabeth Roberts, to serve a large number of women. The number of babies born there this year will easily reach the 800 estimate. The Union Christian Hospital in Pyenyang reports the largest business in its history in number of patients and also in local income in spite of the fact that 22 per cent of all the work has been free work. There has been a constant waiting list for beds. The clinic work has been very heavy. A staff of eleven doctors has been kept busy with a total of 77,000 visits. Dr. Bernita Block and three nurses, the Misses Anderson, Butts and Payne have served most efficiently in their several capacities. Dr. Leadbeater has been on furlough. Public Health and Child Welfare work is carried on here and in three other centers where it has reached a high degree of development. Alfreda Kostrup with a stafT of Korean workers at Chemulpo in a neat new building is giving a beautiful and effective service to the community. Maren Bording's work at Kongju is so well-known and highly esteemed in the Empire, that it has been used by other denominations as a training center for their workers. At the insistence of Japanese official families who were appreciative and supporting patrons, a branch has been opened in Taiden, a growing thriving city to which the Provincial government offices have recently been moved from Kongju. The one and one-quarter million inhabitants of this Province consume less than one glass of milk each per year. Elma Rosenberger is our representative in the Social Evangelistic Center in Seoul. Her department is Public Health and Child Welfare. A group of Korean women are working hard to complete a fund for a child welfare "building. One, now enlightened, woman who lost two beautiful children through igno- rance, has written a book entitled "From a Mother to Mothers" and is going to give the proceeds of its sale toward the building. Fifty years ago there was not a school of any kind in Korea for girls. It was the blessed privilege and significant accomplishment of Mrs. Scranton, our first missionary to that land, to found the first one, which was Ewha. Through the years many others were started and developed. The Government school provision is not yet adequate. Furthermore the value of these Christian schools (from the many primary schools to college) is highly appreciated by Korean Christians— so much so that they decided that one of the best ways to celebrate the coming of missionaries to Korea was to make permanent the schools they planted. A degree of success has already been achieved. The wealthiest man in Yang Byen, a non-Christian, has given half of all that he possessed, and the local government physician, who is a Christian and a member of the school governing board has made a gift of 5,000 Yen. In this school the high school courses are carried for both girls and boys. Elsie Banning, teacher of English and music, is our representative. Two years ago our girls school at Kongju entered upon a new regime becoming affiliated with the boys school for more practical training There is a two year course which includes domestic science and arts, gardening, seri-culture, animal husbandry, etc. Since Mrs. Swearer's departure for retirement we have had no teacher in this school. Chung Eui, our high school in Pyengyang, under the administration of Ada McQuie with the Misses Hulbert and Boyles and a corps of Korean teachers, serves our Methodist territory in the north. Nearly 350 girls study there, one-third of whom come from the villages and live in the hostels. Ewha High School, in Seoul, has more than 300 students, four-fifths of whom live in Seoul. Miss Church, principal and the only foreign teacher, was on furlough last year. During her absence, Mr. Henry Appenzeller was good enough to —

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•add Ewha to his heavy responsibilities at Pai Chai, the big school for boys, founded by his father at the same time. We are much indebted to him for this service. The church has passed through many trying and testing experiences in these four years. On the other hand, the spirit of loyalty, devotion and sacrifice is everywhere demonstrated in many ways. Teachers assume larger responsibilities and give liberally toward endowment funds. When Bible women or district workers have to be dropped for lack of funds, "local women without any special training or equipmefit, but with a mighty faith, go out to the villages to preach what they know, aided by the tracts I have given them." The appeal for support of the mission work of the church in Manchuria resulted in great giving and greater blessing. With Dr. Ryang, we can truly say, "We believe not only in the good that has been, but t le greater good that is yet to be." Mrs. J. M. Avann, Official Correspondent.

MALAYA CONFERENCE MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. Ipoh—Anglo-Chinese Girls School—-Thirza E. Bunce, Gazelle Traeger.* Kuala LxJUWR^Methodist Girls ^cAoo/—Mabel Marsh. Holt Hall—Emma Olson. Malacca—Suydam Girls School—Marion D. Royce. Shellabear Hall—Eva Sadler. Pen.-vng— Lindsay Girls School—-C. Lois Rea. Winchell Home—Norma Craven, Lydia Urech.* SiNG.'VPORE Methodist Girls School—-Lila M. Corbett. Eveland Seminary— Ruth M. Harvey.* Nind Home—Minnie L. Rank. Fairfield Girls School —Carrie Kenyon, Mary E. Olson.* Woman's Work—C. Ethel Jackson, Martha Gertsch. Sitiawan—Methodist Girls School—Mechteld D. Dirksen. Ta,iping— Lady Treacher Girls School— Delia Olson. Crandon Home—Ada E. Pugh. MALAYA CONFERENCE The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society began its work in Malaya in 1887 under the leadership of Mrs. Nind of the Minneapolis Branch and her historic words "Frozen Minnesota will one day pl^nt a mission on the Equator" have had a glorious fulfillment. There are seven day schools in the peninsula and with boarding schools there is an enrollment of 3719 girls. The fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the mission was celebrated in 1934 with its beloved founder, Bishop Oldham. An honored guest was Miss Sophia Blackmore of Australia, the first missionary to Malaya under our Society. The Methodist Girls School in Singapore has grown from nine girls in 1887 to 763. Historic Nind Home, which crowns the summit of Mt. Sophia is the Mecca for visitors, and the school and hostel provide always a scene of great activity. A new building to house the school has long been a necessity, but owing to financial conditions could not be realized. Plans are made to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the work of the Society by the completion of this project. Fairfield School, with its over 500 girls is to be a part of the Methodist -.Girls School and under its supervision in its separate location. *On furlough. 58 In Lands Afar

Fairfield School under the wise care of Miss Mary Olson has had a tine year with an enroUnient of 530 and a staff of twenty teachers. Eveland Seminary on Mt. Sophia has had sixteen girls the past year. Girls from all the stations come here to be trained. They are assistant principals, teachers, conducting Sunday schools among the children of ricksha pullers, and helping to take care of the Nind Home girls. They have produced curriculum material to be used in daily vacation Bible schools and have carried on these schools with the help of local leaders. The Epworth Leagues find their officers among Eveland student girls. This combined with instruction given to make them homemakers develops a well rounded life in each girl. Malacca—As one enters the gates of Bickley Park compound it presents an orderly and beautiful scene. On the right hand are the buildings of the Board of Foreign Missions and on the left the attractive new Stiydam Girls School with its assembly hall and Shellabear Hall with its girls of different nationalities living and working together. Miss Delia Olson gave ten years to the development of this school and has had a most successful and fruitful tenure. The Sunday school has an average enrollment of 195 and has given $30. to missionary work. Kuala Lumpur—This is a forward looking and beautiful city with its modern buildings and healthful surroundings. The girls school throngs with young people of all nationalities. Mrs. Yap has given great help and inspiration through the ministry of music. An interesting organization is the Old Girls Association, which gives entertainments which wins the approval of the Sultan and incidentally of residents. One girl, Wong Chiew Wan, a Junior Cambridge girl, has a pilot's license and is the first Asiatic woman in Malaya to receive this distinction. The girls boarding school outgrew its quarters and has moved into a beautiful building which is owned by Mrs. Lo Kew who was a student in the school. It is large enough to admit Tamil and Chinese girls and under the wise leadership of Miss Emma Olson will prove a great blessing to the community Ipoh—The Anglo- Chinese Girls School was opened in 1897 and has had a steady growth until now. The enrollment is over 400. Their school buildings, which were largely financed by the community and the British Government, as well as by our Society, are beautiful and adequate. The missionary residence was erected in 1933 and is situated in a large compound. Space for athletics gives a fine opportunity for the development of Christian womanhood. All the teachers are baptized Christians and of the 425 students 32 per cent are Christian. SiTiAWAN—The enrollment is not large, but fifty of the children are from Christian homes. Miss Dirksen is happy to have a new clinic building where she ministers to throngs of people. Her visits to the little villages on the rubber plantations are eagerly anticipated, and the sound of her car the signal for the road to belinedwith people with upraised handsand medicinebottlestobe filled. Taiping— Crandon Home is now a self-supporting institution with a small enrollment, but there is promise of growth. All funds from home are withdrawn and the year was ended without a debt. The Lady Treacher Girls School has had a good year, although affected by financial conditions. Penang—The Anglo- Chinese Girls School has 600 girls enrolled. Because of lack of room only one chapel service a week is held. Special meetings during the week of prayer resulted in definite decisions of 130. Winchell Home must soon have a new building as it has been condemned by the Government. Training for leadership forms a large part of the life of the home. Girls from Sumatra have enrolled and are very helpful in school and church activities. —

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Evangelistic Work— In every station much attention is given to spititual instruction. The girls join in this work with the older missionaries and go out as parish visitors and as workers in the church and Sunday schools. Miss Jackson gives herself without reserve to the young people, both boys and ^irls, and seeks to win their confidence that she may lead them to Christ. Mrs. C. C. Peale, Official Correspondent.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS CONFERENCE MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. LiNGAYEN Mary Brown Townsend Memorial Bible Training School—Miss Mary Evans, Mildred Blakeley.* Manila— Harris Memorial Bible Training School—Marguerite M. Decker, Marguerite E. Hewson. Hugh Wilson Hall (To be supplied.) Mary J. Johnston Hospital—Mary L. Deam, Anna J. Carson, Bertha Odee, Henrietta Doltz.* San Fernando—Edna Thomas Memorial Hall—Marion Walker, Leila V. Dingle*, Hazel Davis.* Tuguegaro— District Evangelistic Work—Armenia Thompson, Virginia Hayes.* Bayombong— Nuera Viscaya—Wilhelmina Erbst. ViGAN—Ruth Atkins. The conditions surrounding our work and workers in the Philippine Islands in the past few years have placed a burden on the hearts of our missionaries which has made the work exceedingly hard. Out of it all has come a renewing of religious life, and a loyalty and devotion to Christ and his Church expressed in the gaining of over 6000 new members. The loss of four missionaries made readjustments necessary with a reduced staff. The work has gone forward and the return of Misses Odee, Thompson .and Atkins has helped greatly. Manila— Harris Memorial Training School—Twelve provinces are represented in the student family, including one bright Igorot girl from the mountain province. This year we have our first candidate for the deaconess course from faraway Sumatra. Enrollment 1934-1935, is fifty-eight. This does not include the self-supporting day-pupils nor the twenty-five children in the kindergarten department. Twenty Junior Leagues and sixteen Sunday schools serve as a laboratory or practice-field for students to apply the teachings received in the class room. This is carefully supervised by one of our graduates who has shown marked fitness for the work. A new feature is being tried which seems to be satisfactory. The middle year students are spending a year at the Mary J. Johnston Hospital to have some training in the care of the sick which they can use to advantage in the stations where they are assigned. Miss Williams, of the Ellinwood School is one of the Bible teachers. Mary J. Johnston Hospital and Nurses Training School—On a busy street overlooking Manila Bay this institution is a refuge for the sick, the birth place of hundreds of little brown babies, and a clearing house for troubled souls. In 1908, the corner stone was laid by Bishops Oldham and Robinson and the present building completed. In 1911, a disastrous fire occurred, and it had .to be rebuilt. It was enlarged by the addition of a nurses' dormitory. Later the *On furlough. 60 In Lands Afar

Masonic Lodge supported a ward for crippled children and this year built a sun porch where the children can be in the lovely tropical sunshine. In 1932, money from the Edith Gale bequest through the Harris family was given to build the new nurses home acioss the street called Eveland Hall, and presided over by Miss Carson. This year more money was available and the hospital was thoroughly repaired in time to meet the great typhoon which otherwise might have wrecked it completely. While it is a maternity hospital, the medical and surgical department has been growing and 378 women were cared for in this way. The increase in surgical cases was 164 over the previous year. The number of babies born this year was 459, making a grand total in twenty-eight years of 13,700. The total receipts from all sources was $68,966.50 which left a balance of $2315.68. In the Nurses Training School three years of intensive training is required and 284 have gone out into different walks of life. The requirements are higher here than in any other country because of American influence. F"ifty-four are now in training. Hugh Wilson Hall—This institution is making good progress despite the fact that it must compete with many dormitories. As it is so near the Central Methodist Church, it is used frequently for social affairs for the young people and is a place for the meeting together of young men and women under careful supervision. They now have forty-two girls and prospects for more. Twenty-five are freshman girls and Methodists and their parents feel that Hugh \Vilson Hall gives them the protection needed. Many of them are in the choir of Central Church. Mrs. Sylvia Barnes Thomas has been in charge and has given valuable service in music and teaching. Mary Brown Townseiid Memorial Bible Training School— In the absence of Miss Blakeley on furlough, Miss Silveria Lucas was appointed to take her place. She is a well-trained Filipina teacher and deeply consecrated. A disastrous flood did great damage to the beautiful grounds and buildings, but with courage they are facing the future. The graduates from this school are all at work and are especially valuable pastors in training the children. A splendid inter-district evangelistic institute was held at Lingayen with sixty-one students. It is a fine opportunity to train volunteer women workers. San Fernando—This station was also in the flood but Miss Walker used the need of living close together for a study course with the fifteen future Deaconesses. A meeting of the daily vacation Bible school institute teachers was held recently and representatives from three provinces were present. ViGAN Illocos Sur—A dormitory under the charge of Miss Lara is developing Christian leadership in this province. Miss Evans oversees the work and has a large field to travel as she lives in Lingayen. Bayombong— Miss Erbst is in charge and travels on horse back through flooded sections to visit her people. It is a large district and needs more than one missionary to care for all its interests. But a growing Church is evolving, and the young psople crowd the little chapel built near the home of the missionary and respond to the appeals made to follow Christ. The Cagayan valley is beautiful and one day will be the place for colonization when the Filipinos have worked out their plans for independence. TuGUEGARAO—This station is far removed not alone by miles, but by the forces of nature, —large rivers, landslides and typhoons. Miss Virginia Hayes has given her time and thought to the development of Epworth League institutes and has had remarkable success. As no worker of the Board is here it is a lonely place, but beautiful and well cared for with a comfortable house and a large constituency. She has now gone on furlough and Miss Armenia Thomp- son is her successor. Mrs. C. C. Peale, Official Correspondent. — —

Europe and North Africa 61 SUMATRA MISSION CONFERENCE MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend'^ for January, May or October. Medan— Methodist Girls School—June E. Redinger, Mrs. Vera Edborg Ostrom. Asahan District —Freda P. Chadwick. Kisaran—Mrs. Lydia Oelschlager Aim. SUMATRA

The lovely island is a challenging field, perhaps the greatest for its size in the world. Since the war, the Batak people who were formerly cannibals have come out of the jungle and are imbibing the spirit of nationalism. The stories told by our missionaries are worthy of a place in the annals of the whole foreign missionary movement as thrilling and vitalizing. Four women are on the field now, and Miss Schwab, the International Department worker whose salary is paid by the German Unit. The beautiful Medan School, which was dedicated in 1932, has an enrollment of over 200 girls^ and is a school of which our Society may be justly proud. Nine different racial groups are represented in the schools and a missionary must be a linguist to serve in this Island. Mrs. C. C. Peale, Official Corresp07ideut.

EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend'^ for January, May or October. Bulgaria LovETCH American Girls School—Mellony F. Turner, Etta Mary Gifford. Italy Rome— Crandon Institute—Mrs. Artele B. Ruese, Mrs. Florence G. Reeves. Closed in June,J^935. North Africa Algiers— Fan Kirk Home (Les Aiglons) —Ruth S. Wolfe. Evangelistic Work —Mary Anderson. French Student Work—L. Frances Van Dyne, Martha D. Whiteley. CoNSTANTiNE Gamble Memorial Home—Emilie R. Loveless, Frances E. Roberds. Bradley Memorial Social-Evangelistic Center—Nora Webb, E. Gwendoline Narbeth.* Il Maten—Glora M. Wysner, Martha Robinson. Language Study—Eva A. Ostrom. BULGARIA

Lovetch—The Lovetch School has continued to attract girls from all over Bulgaria because of the fine type of academic education it offers and especially because of the training in Christian character the girls receive. During the last few years the dormitories have been full to overflowing with from one hundred seventy-five to two hundred girls. The government schools are still having the *On furlough. 62 In Lands Ajar

old semi-classical courses for girls, but the officials have given Miss Turner permission to start some new home-making courses which will help the students to be better wives and mothers. The school Y. W. C. A. has been doing charity work helping five very poor families in the town, maintaining a dining-room for poor children, helping several needy girls in the schooK It also contributed towards the sports equipment for the school and sent its leader to Bucharest on a friendship tour.

ITALY Rome—For many years Crandon Institute has been training not only the young women of Italy but also girls from many other countries who happened to be in Rome for one reason or another. It has been the only Protestant school for girls in Rome and was for many years the only good boarding school for girls in the city. During the last few years the situation has somewhat changed as the government has established fine schools for girls, as have also some other nations. The number of students at Crandon has decreased very considerably while the expenses for taxes, repairs and general running expenses have greatly increased, so with great regret at the annual meeting in Washington, October, 1934, it was voted to close Crandon at the end of the school year in June, 1935. The Board of Foreign Missions is also withdrawing from Italy and turning over its work to the British Wesleyans. Mrs. Ruese has consented to remain in Italy for the present and we are hoping to sell our property as soon as possible.

FRANCE Grenoble—Our Foyer in this city which was opened just after the war to take care of war orphans was closed in July, 1934, as the need for such an institution no longer existed. The buildings have been rented to the F"rench Y. W. C. A. at a very nominal rental with the idea that they will purchase the property in a few years. The Y. W. C. A. has a hostel for young women and has had many groups of young people using the buildings so it is carrying out the purpose for which our Society bought the property, namely the training of. youth in Christian character for Christian service.

NORTH AFRICA Algiers—After many years of service in North Africa, the Misses Welch and Smith retired from service in 1933. To them is due the honor of founding the Van Kirk Home or Les Aiglons as it is familiarly called. Perched on the side of the high hill overlooking the bay of Algiers, it has during twenty years been the home for many needy children. Twenty-three of the girls who have gone from the home have married and Miss Welch and Miss Smith are now spending a good deal of their time visiting these married girls, giving them encouragement when needed and helping them live up to the Christian ideals they received in the home. These Christian families have had a marked influence in the communities where they are scattered so much so that fathers who havT seen them have come to our missionaries at Les Aiglons asking that their children may have the same training. The children in the home all go to the French schools in the city, except a very few tiny ones who are too small to go to school yet. The members of the commission representing the Board and the Society who visited North Africa this spring will not soon forget the baptismal service in the Algiers church on Sunday, May 5th, when five of the lovely girls from the home and two boys from the boys home received Christian baptism, thus taking their stand as followers of Christ. Europe and North Africa 63

The student hostel for French women students attending the university, has, in addition to housing from nine to fifteen girls, been the center for different groups of students and young people who have gone there to discuss many of the economic, social and religious questions that young people are thinking about today. Our missionaries have found many of them seeking for real spiritual reality and have been able to help them find the truth in Christ. The Villa Carnahan, the beautiful rest home just outside the city of Algiers on the Mediterranean, has been used frequently by groups of students, and as they have sat around the fire discussing spiritual things, Christ has become very real to them. Miss Mary Anderson in her work with the French women and children in a poor section of the city has, through her classes and her visiting in the homes, been able to bring spiritual help to many women, and she has had the great joy of seeing some of them accept Christ as their Savior. As soon as they accept Christ and his way of living, she has taught them to pass on what they have received, so they have been contributing of their little to the work at II Maten and to the Bible Society for the distribution of the Scriptures. CoNSTANTiNE—The Fraticesca Nast Gamble Memorial Home moved into its new building in 1931 and since that time has had from twenty to thirty Arab girls, all but the smallest of whom have attended the French schools of the city. If they had remained in their own homes, probably no one of them would even have learned to read or write. Some of the older girls from the home have been sent to France for training in nursing, sewing, etc., and have returned to become self-supporting women. It has been very difficult to find Christian Arab husbands for the older girls as the whole Arab community with only a few exceptions, has stood out like a stone wall against Christianity. The Hannah Bradley Memorial or Neighborhood House, is situated on the edge of the Arab section of the city where it can minister to the many women and children who come to it secretly by the back narrow alley way, in order not to be seen, or openly by the front door. Besides the classes for women and girls, the missionaries have done much visiting in the homes where they are usually welcomed because of the friendly services they have given to the families. Very frequently women have come to the home to be taken to the hospitals as they are afraid to go alone. They know they will receive from the missionaries whatever help they need, mental, physical or spiritual. Il Maten—This station high up in the mountains of Little Kabylia has ministered to the physical, mental and spiritual needs of its community. The school for girls is the only one in a very large section as the French have as yet only a few schools for girls outside of the large cities. The children are taught not only the three R's but especially how to keep clean. Weekly baths for the girls were so much appreciated in the little village near the mission station that the boys asked whether they could not have them also, so a number of boys each week are given bath tickets, probably none of them ever having had baths before. The dispensary held each week by one of the French teachers who is also a nurse, has attracted people not only from the nearby villages but some even further away as there are almost no doctors in the mountains. Burns are very common as all the cooking in the little homes is done in a small hole in the dirt floor so both the children and grown-ups frequently get into the fire. Milk is provided by the mission station for the mothers who cannot nurse their babies and every week the babies are brought to be weighed and the mothers are taught how to care for them. Miss Juliet H. Knox, Official Correspondent. ——— -

64 171 Lands Ajar LATIN AMERICA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS For present correct addresses of missionaries see ''Woman's Missionary Friend" for January, May or October. Mexico Mexico City—Sarah L. Keen Colegio—Under Mexican leadership. Industrial School—Ethel E. Thomas. Evangelistic Work—Laura Temple, Mary N- Pearson, Pearl Walrath, Gertrude Arbogast. Bible Training School— Ruth V. Warner, Elsie M. Shepherd. PuEBLA Instituto Normal Methodista—Grace A. Hollister, Addie C. Dyer, May B. Seal. Pachuca— Colegio Hijas de Allende—Under Mexican leadership. Guanajuato— Colegio Juarez—Blanche A. Betz, Martha Daniels. CoRTAZAR Evangelistic Work—Mary Baird. On Furlough—Jeanette HofYmann, Hazel McAllister. Eastern South America Buenos Aires—Instituto Modelo deObreras Cristianas—In 1935-1936 under a national Vice-Directora. Religious Education—No appointment. Montevideo—Instituto Crandon—Jennie Reid, Evelyn Corbett, BessHallagan, Florence Merryman. RosARio Colegio Norte Americano—Olive I. Givin. Instituto Gleason—Under a national Directora. On Furlough— Katherine M. Donahue, Rhoda C. Edmeston, Ruth M. Wilson. North Andes Lima— Lima High School—E. Gertrude Hanks, Frances C. Vandegrift, May Murphy, Treva B. Overholt, Ruth Greenwood, Beatrice Terry. Religious Education— Bernice M. Cornelison. MEXICO Our schools have labored under difficulties during the past few years. First came the law which made it impossible to send any new missionary teachers into the country and which sent home a few we already had there who had gone into the country just after the law was passed but before it was enforced. This law was aimed not only at schools but at all industries, stores, etc., and was to the effect that only a limited number of foreigners could have jobs in Mexico as the Mexicans needed them. Then for some years the government has forbidden religious instruction except in the boarding departments of our schools but in October, 1934, a very drastic law was passed stating that no religious organization of any kind could conduct primary, secondary or normal schools nor could any school carry on any kind of religious propaganda. Our missionaries realized that these laws were aimed especially at the Catholic schools who had not been keeping the already existing laws but nevertheless we had to obey them. Some of our missionaries felt that the time had come when the Society should decide as to whether our schools wert needed in Mexico now that there are good government schools, and second whether our schools were justifiable when no religious propaganda could be carried on. The matter has been studied this year and at the meeting of the General Executive Committee in St. Louis it was decided that the Society cannot longer use its funds for the support of primary, secondary or normal schools. This action was in line with one taken by the Mexican section of the Committee on Co-operation in Latin America in September, 1935, to the effect that in its opinion the day for secular education in Mexico on the part of mission boards Latin Aynerica 65 has probably passed and that the boards should adjust themselves accordingly by using their properties for other things or disposing of them. Our schools in Mexico have in the past contributed much toward the building of the Kingdom and it was with the very deepest regret that we voted to close them. We are not withdrawing from Mexico as a Society but are planning to use our appropriations for other forms of service such as hostels, social centers, literature, etc. Our few missionaries who have been in school work will be released for these new types of service. Three of our missionaries, the Misses Baird, Hoffmann and McAllister, started rural social centers a few years ago, the former in the state of Guana- juato and the latter two in a rural section just out of the city of Puebla. The mission boards have done very little rural work in Mexico and as Mexico is more than three-fourths rural, such social centers are greatly needed. Miss Baird found the people of Cortazar very unfriendly when she first went there but after she had helped some of the mothers through a measles epidemic, almost every home was open to her. She has been co-operating with the state officials in their health programs. At Libertad Miss Hoffmann and Miss McAllister w'ere given a little room by one of the women who belonged to the little church and here they had kindergarten, sewing and cooking classes, etc., all of which were much appreciated by the people of the village. The Misses Pearson and Walrath have been doing evangelistic work in some of the churches in Mexico City, and through their services in teaching classes, organizing groups of young people and children, they have contributed much toward the building up of the churches where they have worked. At the Aztecas St. Church in Mexico City two of our Mexican women have done valiant service. Miss Perez as church deaconess and Doctora Baez as physician for the many needy people of that very poor section of the city. Through the ministry of these two faithful women, the church has been built up and many have found Christ. The Bible Training School has as yet not been interfered with in any way by the government. The regular deaconess course, except for a very few students, has been discontinued as most of the Mexican churches have not been able to support deaconesses of their own. In place of the former prescribed courses, Miss Warner has decided to stress the training of lay workers, i. e., take the ordinary young woman church member and give her training in Bible and methods of church work for a year, more or less as the woman has the time. This religious training has been given in the mornings and in the afternoons the students have attended a vocational government school in the neighborhood in order to learn a trade by which they can make a living. For their extension work, the students have been doing practice teaching in one of the villages and in women's groups in the city. The six weeks short courses during the early winter have proven most valuable for mothers and others who can be away from home for only a short time. Two institutes for preachers' wives have also been held for a week each and have given the women a new vision of what they can do to help their husbands. Miss Juliet H. Knox, Official Correspondent. SOUTH AMERICA Educational Work Buenos Aires— In 1932 the Disciples, because of financial stringency, withdrew their co-operation from the Training School, known as Instituto Modelo de Obreras Cristianas. Realizing the importance of this institution in the training of evangelical women leaders for South America, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society voted to assume the entire support of the school and transferred it to a property already owned by the Society. The work of the Instituto is closely affiliated with that of the Union 66 hi Lands Ajar

Theological Seminary, both in curriculum and in the social and spiritual life of the students of both institutions, making it one of the few coeducational missionary projects in South America. While each institution maintains its identity, the following combined courses are now offered: (1) A three-year course for young men and women entering the ministry' or deaconess work. These students must hold a college degree. This course makes the requirements for full time women workers and pastors the same. (2) A course covering three terms of ten weeks each for those with less academic preparation who desire training as lay workers, local preachers and Sunday school teachers. (3) Peeling the need of making the courses more flexible for university students, nurses in training, social and other workers, the Seminary and Instituto take into their dormitories a few high-grade young people, chiefly from the evangelical churches, who, while pursuing studies in other institutions in Buenos Aires, wish to take supplemental courses in our mission schools, in order to become more intelligent Protestant workers. The Instituto has an alumnae college for graduates who return at commencement for one week of intensive study and fellowship. A summer course is held in Buenos Aires or elsewhere. In the 1935 summer school, held in Montevideo, twenty-live students were enrolled. Almost every denomination working in South America is represented in the enrollment of the Instituto and students come from Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Uruguay and other republics. The school supplies women leaders for the Protestant church in many parts of the continent. Among its graduates are a Peruvian young woman who is now an evangelical missionary in Peru; an Uruguayan who is the pastor of two mission churches in Montevideo; an Argentine who is Directora of our social-exangelistic center in Rosario; a social service worker in the Cerro, Montevideo; and a Waldensian who preaches in a church of that denomination. In 1935-1936 a graduate of the class of 1933, Senorita Ana Cepollina, is acting as directora. Montevideo— Crandon Institute is the only Protestant secondary school for girls on the east coast south of Brazil. For the past ten years the school has been self-supporting except for missionaries' salaries. Recently the Society has been financially unable to replace missionaries or contract teachers whose terms have expired and the burden falls upon the school of supplying substitutes who must be paid from the locally earned budget. This makes a heavy drain on the school treasury in these days of decreased enrollment and increased taxes. Ways and means of increasing funds are being developed. Two hundred women have eagerly grasped the opportunity of studying English in adult classes. A post-graduate course in home economics is attract- ing back to Crandon alumnae who majored in this popular department. Its present head, Miss Florence Merryman, was recently, during a vacation, com- mandeered by Swift & Co., in Montevideo, as advisor of the canning division of this great packing establishment. Through a radio service Crandon broad- casts modern home-making methods all over that part of South America. The commercial department has recently experimented by placing its students in actual business ofhces for practice work with the result that the demand is greater than the supply. Crandon graduates occupy places of large responsibility, being active in church work, in national temperance and social service organizations, and in child welfare. More than a dozen are serving as teachers in their Alma Mater. A Crandon graduate was selected by the Institute of International Education in 1932 as the first recipient of a Latin American fellowship. Because of her success in winning her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, two more Crandon girls have been granted similar fellowships in the University of Texas and Iowa State College for 1935-1936. Rosario—Through sixty years Colegio Norte Americano has upheld Protestant ideals in the Argentine. About 120 girls are enrolled in the regular Latin America 6 7

Spanish course which covers the first six grades and has government recognition. The required curriculum is supplemented by Bible and English. The two special departments, English and commercial, have been completely reorgan- ized with such good results that the standing of the school has been raised. The three-year commercial course is based upon the needs as brought forth in a questionnaire which was sent to the principal business firms and banks in Rosario. Extra-curricular activities include the Blue Triangle Club, affiliated with the Y. W. C. A. of Buenos Aires, through which the girls put into practice the moral and spiritual teaching given them in Bible classes, chapel and vesper services. Lima—Since the new building of Lima High School was occupied in 1932, the matriculation, which for years had averaged about 20CH has more than doubled and 430 students are now enrolled. In addition to the general courses in Spanish, which were recently granted government recognition, a student is now able to choose her major in one of three special departments—commercial, home economics and physical education—which are conducted by highly trained North American missionaries. Graduates of the commercial department have been filling significant places in the business world of Peru for more than a decade. The other two departments have been established during the quadrennium. The well-equipped building is made available for many outside groups. Classes for men and women are held in the gymnasium; the Union Church uses the building for its social activities; Peruvian women appreciate the classes in domestic science; alumnae frequent the tennis courts and hold business meetings around the cafeteria lunch tables. Courses in Bible for every class emphasize the simple truths of Christ's teachings. Here girls develop a yearning for a personal relationship with the Master and are helped to realize that He can become a vital force in their lives. They are also awakened to an interest in the great social problems of the day. Some of the Protestant girls are being fitted for specific tasks in their churches and some, who have been dissatisfied in the church in which they were brought up but in which they fail to find the Living Christ, have come to love and serve Him in our own church. Every young woman teaching in our Methodist Sunday school in Lima has been a student in Lima High School. Outstanding among the alumnae is one of the head nurses in the British-American Hospital who has recently been offered by the city of Lima a scholarship to cover three years of training in social service in Santiago, Chile, in order that she may return to further that cause in Peru. Another graduate is the first trained woman worker in Peru and is now in charge of a small mission church in Lima and active in the extension of Sunday schools and in the creation of Christian literature in Spanish.

Evangelistic Work Buenos Aires— In 1930 the work of religious education in the East South America Conference was strengthened by the appointment of Miss Isabel Latimer who co-operated with the Rev. Hugh C. Stuntz of the Board of Foreign Missions. Profitable work was done in the creation of Sunday school literature and in the organization of training classes, leagues and many young people's institutes. The work fell upon hard times when the Board transferred Mr. Stuntz to educational work in Bolivia and funds were decreased by every co-operating agency. Miss Latimer carried on alone until her term ended in November, 1935. The churches have developed an appreciation of this work and will to a limited degree be able to carry on several local projects, but its future will depend upon our supplying new works and increased funds. Rosario—Gleason Institute, our social-evangelistic center, is now in charge of a group of well-trained young Argentine women, headed by Senorita Sara Villalba, graduate of Instituto Modelo. In addition to her deaconess training, 68 In Lands Afar

this consecrated young woman has taken a university diploma in mid-wifery and has recently published a pamphlet, "Advice for Expectant Mothers," which is on sale in all the municipal maternity centers. Gleason's doors are wide open to minister in the name of Christ to men and women, young people and children. Montevideo— Practically all the Methodist evangelistic and Sunday school work in Montevideo is in the hands of two Crandon graduates, trained in the Instituto Modelo and now connected with the Central Methodist Church and several smaller mission churches. Crandon girjs are active in the group of young women known as the "Sara Hatfield Missionary Society" of Central Church, whose program is a model for any similar organization in North America, and also in the Federation of Evangelical Youth of Uruguay. Dr. John A. MacKay says, "The evangelical young people of Montevideo carry on the most varied program of activities to be found anywhere in Latin America. The Federation edits the best evangelical paper in Latin America, called La Idea, which has an increasingly wide circulation and influence throughout the continent. They follow with the closest concern the march of public affairs and never let an opportunity paSs to make their influence teU for righteousness." Lima—-The workers in educational evangelism find everywhere a seething eagerness for instruction in the spiritual life. Especially is this felt among the young people, who gather in Sunday schools, leagues and institutes. Peruvian women are developing splendid leadership in the Evangelical Women's League. Those who in former years would not dare to lift their voices in public are now leading their own groups and arranging worth while conventions. They pay a large part of the salary of the national deaconess. Evangelical groups in the Andes are eagerly requesting Christian help. Classes were held last summer for those wishing to be trained as teachers in daily vacation Bible schools, with the result that eleven churches in the Cordilleras now carry on such work. Among the interesting changes in the last few years is the increased responsibility taken by the Peruvians. Foreign leadership in these schools has practically disappeared except in the leadership training classes held for the many young people who are eager to help in this work. Miss Carrie J. Carnahan, Official Correspondent.

COLLEGES WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY Hwa Nan College, Foochow, China Missionary Faculty—-Lucy C. Wang, President. Elizabeth H. Richey, Edith McBee*, Elsie H. Reik, M. Grace Davis, L. Ethel Wallace, Marion R. Cole, Mary Louise Lowe*, Eugenia Savage, Roxy Lefforge, Jane Carlson, Frances S. Fulton.

The corresponding secretary was privileged to attend the Hwa Nan College commencement and also the Fukien Christian University commencement. Hwa Nan graduated seven. The alumnae group was the largest ever in attendance at commencement. I was privileged to meet the alumnae from the Philip- pine Islands, Amoy, Peiping, and Shanghai. In all of these places alumnae organizations have been started. Hwa Nan's enrollment for this fall promised to be the largest in years. They were anticipating close to one hundred pupils. Miss Doris Hsu was just returning from Ann Arbor where she received her Ph.D. and is to be the new Dean of Women. •On furlough. Colleges 69

The spirit of loyalty and co-operation is most satisfactory from the obser- vation of the secretary, for which we are truly grateful. The new Practice House which was built by funds on the field some time ago has just been furnished by JMr. Liu and is a most modern and up to date home. Hwa Xan has just receiv^edSSOOO Alex, as a grant from the Government. Our church work in Foochow is one of the most outstanding pieces of work that I witnessed on the field. Interest on the part of students and Christians in Foochow is very noticeable and commendable. The pastor is an outstanding man; his wife is a graduate of Hwa Nan. Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Official Correspondent.

Kwassui Woman's College, Nagasaki, Japan Missionary Faculty—Anna Laura White, President. Caroline S. Peckham*, Adella M. Ashbaugh, Helen Couch, Vera J. Fehr, Olive Curry, Olive L Hagen.

A little more than four years ago, Kwassui College teachers and the equally interested high school teachers, met in the president's office at the call of vice- president. Okabe, for a prayer service of thanksgiving. A cable had just come from Miss White, then on furlough, that the money had been granted for the long hoped for college building. It was not just that new class rooms were to take the place of the dark crowded ones; and that the command of the Imperial Bureau of Education that suitable accommodations be made for the historical old school was at last to be obeyed. Kwassui's very life had depended on the new building. It will always seem a wonder building to all of us who love Kwassui. The money was granted at the time when the greatest value could be had for the least money in years, so that the actual cost in dollars was little more than half the estimate made a year before. High above beautiful Nagasaki bay the college stands to greet all incoming ships. If imitation is the sincerest praise then Kwassui is well praised for all through Kyushiu when new government schools are to be built teachers are sent to study Kwassui's building. The last four years have been in Japan, as in all the world, years of storm and stress. Unemployment has not made itself so much felt in the working classes as in the "White collar class." Parents have been quick to say, especially of girls, that if there were to be no position at the end of the course why go to the expense of four years of study. All colleges have felt the depression. But as teaching positions became scarcer new fields of opportunity have been opening to Kwassui girls in business. Three young graduates have just taken positions as interpreters in "Foreign style" hotels, that is tourist hotels. Others have gone into offices as English typists and secretaries. All write of their determination to do their very best that the way may be opened for more Kwassui girls to follow. When the beautiful new building was completed it was not the missionary teachers but a Japanese teacher who said, "Now Kwassui is suitably housed more than ever we must pour ourselves into making her richer spiritually." The recurrent note in the letters of graduates is of gratitude to the college for helping them to find God and a new way of life. Statistics do not tell the whole story. The number of Christians for example is always given as the number of baptised Christians. One radiant girl who was graduated from the high school and then the college wrote, "I am not a baptised Christian for I know that to become baptised and thus separate myself openly from my family would be to disrupt the beautiful unity of my happy home and hurt my parents who are earnest Buddhists. But I know that as long as I live I can never be separated from the love of God." Anna Laura White President. *On furlough. 70 In Lands Ajar

UNION COLLEGES Woman's College, West China Union University, Chengtu, China President— Vy. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty—Pearl B. Fosnot*, Ovidia Hanging. In the year that has just passed the Woman's College, a unit of the West China Union University, noted its tenth birthday. The year opened with a registration of 108, an increase of exactly 100 over the first entrance class of eight, ten years ago. The popularity of the College is proving somewhat of an embarrassment to the three co-operating Women's Boards— the United Church of Canada, the Northern Baptists and the Methodist Epis- copal. While more than one-fourth of the students taking university courses are women, the Women's Boards have never appointed more than three members on the teaching staff, which is a very small percentage of the entire faculty. Often we are reminded of this disparity and in a meeting of the Board of Governors in October, 1935, this Board expressed, by resolution, the "strong hope that the Women's Boards of Missions provide at least six qualified women teachers." The old Dormitory used for lower class women is filled to capacity; the new building while yet not crowded will soon call for a new wing. Forty-nine of the 106 who finished the courses last year were Methodist girls. In the 1935 graduating clfiss of nine, three were Methodists. The distribution as to courses which these 106 young women chose last year are as follows: Medicine, thirty-three; Dentistry, fifteen; Science, nineteen; Arts, twenty-four; Education, nine; Pharmacy, six. The trend of China in recent years in swinging so far toward science is here illustrated. Ninety-five per cent of the total enrollment of the College are church members. The Student Christian Movement is very active both in building up the life of individuals and in social service. Twenty Bible study fellowship groups have met regularly throughout the year and have found a ready response. Six girls have decided for the Christian life this year and have united with the church of their choice. Two joined the Methodist, three, the Church of Christ in China and one, the Baptist church. They all came from Government schools and it does one's heart good to see how these girls who are having their first contact with Christianity here in the College think things through and decide what they really want to do." Although this University is registered with the Government and subject to the Government regulations with regard to Christian teaching, the first afternoon of the fall term was set aside for a spiritual retreat for faculty members, Chinese and Western. The President, a Methodist I am proud to say, thus publicly, with many of his staff, declared that in the strength of God they placed their faith. Reports come telling of the fourth Student Conference held in the Lungshen Hills under the auspices of the Student Christian Movement and directed by Wallace Wang, its secretary, who is a great spiritual force among young people. The morning was given to a program of inspirational talks and discussion groups. The afternoons were left free for practical work among the farmers. Classes in Mass Education and Rural Reconstruction were held. Student doctors and nurses dispensed medical aid as well as education in hygiene. These conferences do as much, if not more, for the students as for those to whom they minister. A new building has been erected on this University campus during the last summer. The Goucher Practise School of the Faculty of Education. The building is a memorial gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Goucher Chapman in memory of her father who was a former chairman of the Board of Governors, Dr. John F. Goucher. Mrs. Frank E. Baker. *On furlough. Union Colleges 71

Ginling College, Nanking, China

President—Yi-Fang \Vu. Methodist Members of Faculty—Cora D. Reeves, Harriet Whitmer. The last four years, which this report covers, have witnessed tragic and difficult days in China, but Ginling students have maintained their record of poise and restraint. Immediately following the Shanghai incident a few of the western faculty reluctantly evacuated but soon returned. During the summer of 1933 President Wu accepted an invitation to represent Chinese women and speak at the International Congress of Women at Chicago. She wa:s also one of the Chinese delegates to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Banff. Later she joined the United Foreign Missions Conferences heljd in twenty-nine cities. After her return to China she was elected chairman of the National Christian Council. Steady though slow increase in the student body has continued in spite of disturbed conditions and the pull toward the larger coeducational universities. For some years there has been limited co-operation between Ginling and the University of Nanking. At present new co-operative movements are under way. Ginling graduates have from the beginning related themselves to the life of the community surrounding the college. The Christian ideal of service has found expression in continually expanding social and religious activities. Two graduates have joined the staff of the Christian Rural Service Union in Le Chuan, Kiangsi, a project sponsored and supported by the government. Daughters of Gingling are found all over China and in Malaya in various forms of service. During the most tense time following the Shanghai incident three Christian students, representing the Christian students of China, visited Japan with a desire to reach, through conference with Japanese Christian students, a better understanding between the two countries. A Ginling student was chosen as one of the three. As a memorial to Madame Soong a new dormitory for the Practice School has been given by her daughters, Madame Sun Yat Sen, Madame Kunga Hsiang-hsi and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. From students and almunae have come gifts in the form of equipment for the new buildings. A generous contribution has been received from an alumna and her husband as the beginning of a fund for the retirement of Chinese members of the faculty. In this connection we may mention gifts made by western members of the faculty to current expenses. Two new buildings were erected in 1934, the Chapel-Music Hall and the Library-Administration Building. They were made possible by the balance of the 1921-1922 Union College Campaign Fund held for the completion of the original building program. An absolute charter was granted Ginling January 25, 1935. Prior to this the college functioned under the charter of the University of Nanking with independent powers of administration. What was previously known as the Ginling College Committee of the Board of Founders of the University of Nanking thus became the Board of Founders of Ginling College. This college of high achievement in the past and of great potential value to China and Christianity in the future is facing a serious crisis created by greatly reduced income. How to maintain her high standards is the problem.

Eliz.\beth R. Bender. 72 In Lands Ajar

School of Medicine, Cheeloo University, Tsinan, Shantung, China

President—Shuming T. Liu. Dean OF Women—Mme. L. H. L. Yui. Dean of Medical School—-Dr. P. C. Kiang. W. F. M. S. Representatives on Staffs—E. Florence Evans, R.N., Julia E. Morgan, M.D., Mary Katherine Russell, B.S.*, Mollie E. Townsend, R.N., Frances R. Wilson, R.N.

In the United States there is one physician for each 785 people. The proportion in China is one to 95,000. The evident need is being all too slowly met by a few medical schools. Cheeloo is one of them—one that is conspicuous for the service rendered by its graduates. A survey made last January reveals the fact that there are 359 living graduates. Of these, 130 are serving in eighty-one mission hospitals and fifty-nine in government hospitals and public health centers. Of the thirty graduates last June, nineteen are in mission hospitals. Ninety percent of the total number of graduates are Christians and they exert a fine influence in their communities. They are worthy of the tribute paid by an outstanding Chinese medical leader in saying, "The graduates you have produced, their achieveinents, and the careers some of them have carved for themselves are a credit to any institution. You have succeeded in turning out men and women with a spirit of duty and self-sacrifice." The enrollment of the medical school is one hundred. That of the school of nursing is fifty. The hospital at present is maintaining 1 10 beds, and has the splendid record for the year of caring for 2,000 in-patients and giving 80,000 out-patient treatments. Aside from the salaries of twenty-two doctors and nurses paid by missionary boards and societies, fifty percent of the budget of the school is covered by student fees and income of the hospital. The teaching is very largely in the Chinese language though there is an English requirement for entrance and most graduates go out able to use English medical literature. Cheeloo has taken the lead during all its career in making the science of medicine both modern and truly indiginous to China. The Translation Bureau is constantly at work on medical textbooks and is performing an excellent service to the profession throughout China in culling from foreign medical periodicals the most valuable things to be circulated in Chinese. Visitors to Cheeloo Medical School will heartily agree with one who recently said, "One gets a tremendous impression of much good work being done in a very small space and with very modest equipment." The enlargement so urgently needed for many years is at this writing being realized. Building funds were secured through the women's boards in part from the Union College Campaign of 1921 and 1922, and in part from appropriations by the co-operating boards in the adjustments made when the Peking Woman's Medical School was moved from Peking to Tsinan and amalgamated with the Cheeloo School for men. A continuous chain of circumstances adverse to putting up the buildings has obtained and not until 1935 has it been possible. One wing of the hospital, and the out-patient department building are nearing completion.. It is a matter of peculiar interest to our W. F. M. S. at the moment to realize the stress being laid on training for public health work. The government has recently released half the time of one of the important officials of the National Field Health Administration that he may serve as head of the Public Health Department of Cheeloo.

Mrs. J. M. Avann. *On furlough. Union Colleges 73

Yenching College for Women, Peiping, China

President—J. Leighton Stuart. Acting Dean of Women—-Margaret Speer. W. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty—Ruth Stahl, Monona L. Cheney.*

Yenching University, of which the Woman's College is an integral part, is the largest of the Christian Union Universities and one of the best equipped. It has been designated in the correlated program as the school to do the graduate work for the Christian colleges in China and a hundred or more students are annually there for such study. Young womanhood in China today has stepped out into a new and eflfective position of such importance as to require training that is second to none. More than a fourth of Yenching's students (275this fall) are women and they are offered equal opportunities with men. They attend the same classes, work in the same laboratories and do the same kind of field work. They engage in the same extra-curricular activities. The women are keen competitors for scholarship awards and take a prominent part in every phase of the college life. Women who have majored in education are filling teaching positions, others are engaged in social work, religious work, home economics, rural work, research in the applied sciences, journalism, medicine, and other phases of the new social order. It is Yenching's purpose to bring together the finest permanent values from our western culture with the best of the Oriental heritage, so interrelated as to give students the best preparation for a life of effective service to their fellowmen. There are very exceptional facilities for physical training, for games and sports, in the splendidly equipped Boyd Gymnasium, and great stress is put upon the building of sound bodies. The spiritual and religious side of student life and activities is not omitted from the plan and program. Quoting from a recent letter: "Outstanding personalities on the faculty are presenting Chris- tianity with a new enthusiasm in the class-room, in special study groups, in music and in personal contacts with the students. There is a strong religious atmosphere pervading the entire university." There has been cause for some anxiety concerning the University through the period of distrubance in the North China area. In the early summer of this year because of threatened military occupation, it was feared that students could not or would not come to Peiping. On the contrary a larger proportion both of old and accepted new students presented themselves with the result that there is a recoid-breaking enrollment of 885. More than a fifth, as usual, came from Canton; the same ratio, as usual, from more distant parts of China and other countries. In view of the economic depression, the lower cost in government institutions, and the 37}^ per cent increase in our tuition this year, a growing appreciation of Yenching by the general public is implied. There are also very gratifying indications of confidence and esteem on the part of high government officials in courtesies extended the president of the University in inaugurating the campaign for endowment funds in Nanking; on the part of newly organized foundations in gifts made by them; and on the part of the

Central Government in its emergency grant of $60,000 1. c, the largest, but one, to any of the private colleges and universities from the amount authorized for that purpose. Mrs. J. K. Cecil. *On furlough. 74 In Lands Afar

Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, India Principal—Mary E. Shannon. W. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty— Vice Principal, Ava F. Hunt, Ruth C. Manchester*, Roxanna H. Oldroyd, Dorothy Speer*, Margaret Wallace, Laura V. Williams, Margaret Landrum, Florence Salzer, Isabella Thoburn, Marjorie A. Dimmitt*, Lulu A. Boles, Emma Tucker.* In December, 1931, Miss Shannon was ordered home immediately on sick leave, just when the contract for two additions to the main building, Nichols Hall, was ready for signature. Miss Ava Hunt was asked to undertake the heavy work of principalship, which included much responsibility for the building program. Under her administration the two beautiful wings were added, one containing library, assembly room and class rooms, the other the B.Sc. lecture rooms and laboratories. The latter was named Goucher College Wing, in recognition of the sustained interest and gifts of the young women of Goucher College. Not only did these additions relieve the pressure which had been felt for some years, but they greatly improve the appearance of the building which had always looked unfinished. It still lacks the big public hall which was in the original plan, but that was not as urgent a need as the additional academic rooms. It was possible to build at the time the work was done because of the financial depression. The money had been in hand, but the Government had not been able to give their half, so the building had been delayed. Then when the depression struck India as well as the rest of the world, both materials and labour became so cheap that the amount which was expected to pay for only half the building paid for all of it by very slightly reducing the plans. In 1932, Mrs. Prem Nath Dass was elected Vice-Principal. Her high standards of Indian life and culture, and her unfailing readiness to stand by in every undertaking have been a great joy and satisfaction. Year by year the demands for admission to the two teacher training departments, one for under-graduates and one for graduates, have increased until at present the summer of every year is a time of agitation, of deputations from influential persons advocating the admission of one candidate or another, and of reams of correspondence. Restriction is necessary because of the limitations of staff and practice teaching opportunities. In 1935 there has been a very heavy demand also for admission to the pre-medical science course. Isabella Thoburn College is the only women's college in this Province with a science department, and the medical profession is becoming so popular with Indian women that the class is crowded. The staff changes slightly from year to year, the principal effect being that more Indian teachers are being taken on. As finances in America have made it impossible to send out teachers to replace those detained or leaving, it has been necessary to employ teachers on the field. That is desirable up to a certain point, but it is not always possible to find the Indian woman who has all the qualities desired—academic, personality and religious qualifications. It has been necessary to take a Hindu young woman for one subject to tide over some furloughs, but we do not wish to make this practice general. The enrollment has increased so that the college is now working at its greatest efficiency. It is one of the "pretty little ways of Providence" that in the years of greatest financial stress, classes (which means fees) should be at their fullest. Some mention should be made of the re-organization of the Bible teaching. Last year a new course bearing the rather cumbersome name Religious and Moral Instruction, was organized. This includes both Bible courses and courses bearing on the moral life. Every student in college must enroll in *On furlough. -

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one course. This prevents the non-Christian girls from making religion an excuse to avoid two periods a week which Christians have been required to do. The result thus far has been very happy indeed, and it is hoped that Bible study will be more popular and more appreciated if it loses the stigma of being extra work for Christians only. The first college class was opened by Miss Thoburn in 1886. The college is therefore now in its fiftieth year, and it is hoped that the celebration of the Golden Jubilee in 1936 will be a time of joyous reunion of those throughout the world who have known and loved the college through any part of this wonderful half century. Mary E. Shannon, Principal.

Woman's Christian College of Japan Tokyo Woman's Foreign Missionary Representative—Myrtle Z. Pider. "The Japanese educational system is based upon the French system, highly centralized and highly organized from kindergarten to the university. Primary schools are coeducational. Secondary schools are of two classes, — middle school for boys; high schools for girls; curricula differing for boys and girls. Following the boys middle schools, come boys high or preparatory schools, leading to the university. This three year preparatory course is not provided for girls in the government system. There were in all the universities, in 1930, 80,913 students of whom only 42 were women. Therefore, as to women securing higher education in Japan, it must be almost entirely from institutions outside the government system. There are two government higher normal schools for women and five private institutions none of which does work quite equal to the university. Of these seven, only four provide Christian teachers for all the private Christian schools, which had, in 1933, 16,759 kindergarten pupils; 692 primary; 14,188 girls in secondary schools and 457 women in Bible Training schools. In no other eastern country save Korea, are the women so badly off for higher education as in Japan. The strategic center of Christian education for women is the Woman's Christian College at Tokyo. "The greatest needs of the Woman's Christian College are: (1) a larger current income. In Japan it is the custom to secure part time services from the most distinguished professors of universities, a method whereby the institution gains in prestige, and wins public confidence. The gravest peril to the college lies in lack of yearly support to supply teachers of this type. If this College falls into second class, every Christian school in Japan will suffer. (2) A department of science, or household science. (3) A physical education training school, embodying a health program. (4) Extension of the present laboratory and the erection of a Chapel. "The invisible and intangible requirements must come first, for the standard of education in Japan is high, and no Christian institution dare become second class for want of financial support. The people of Japan are accustomed to simpler ways than we of the West and they place teaching before buildings." (Adapted from a report of Dr. Margaret Addison, Toronto, Canada.) Nevertheless buildings are needed. The outstanding present need is a Chapel, the approximate cost of which will be S60,000. Forty-five thousand dollars is in hand or in sight. Plans of unusual interest and beauty have been drawn, combining the best in modernistic architecture, with a charming adaptation of Japanese architectural forms. So good are the plans considered that they are published in full (February, 1935) with a highly commendatory article, in the Architectural Journal, one of the leading architectural periodicals in the United States. Fifteen thousand additional dollars will make this very beautiful building a reality as a center of educational and religious influence in Japan. The College had eighty-eight graduates in March, 1935. The enrollment for this year is 389. 76 In Lands Afar

Ewha College, Seoul, Korea President—Alice R. Appenzeller. Vice-President—Helen Kim. W. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty and Staff—L. Catherine Baker, Marian L. Conrow, Ada B. Hall, Jeannette C. Hulbert, Harriet P. Morris, Blanche H. Loucks, Grace H. Wood*, Moneta Troxel, Myrta O. Shaver, Mary E. Young. Kindergarten Training School, Charlotte Brownlee, Edna Marie Van Fleet.

We have to report an epoch-making period in the past four years of Ewha's history. The academic work has been carried on with consistent success from year to year in each of the departments with few unusual or outstanding events of importance or significance. One such, however, was the return of Helen Kim in 1932 with a Ph.D. degree from Columbia. She is Vice-President. W^e look expectantly to her for leadership in the years to come. She has been actively interested in procuring endowment for the college from Korean sources. Two interesting projects have been tried and proven: One is the Home Economics Practice House, and the other the English House, in both of which a group of students live with teachers for a given period. The beautiful experiences in fellowship and friendship which have known no national bounds have been greater even than the main objective which is the practical help and experience gained by the girls. Not the least of the significant events to note is the establishment of an "Ewha Sunday" when woman's education in general and Ewha College in particular are the subjects of prayer in every church in Korean Methodism, and when an offering is taken for Ewha. Pitifully small amounts come from the little churches but they are as the Widow's mite. In March, 1933, the first class was graduated from the Home Economics Department. One of the graduates, who was a former student, was from a once wealthy family. She had married in the interim of her study periods and had two children. In addition to caring for them and her house, in order to take this course she earned her way, and also found time to write a Korean cook-book. The great achievement of these years is the creation of the new Ewha plant. It will be remembered that a gift of $35,000 from Mrs. Phillips Howard Gray, some years ago, purchased the coveted site of fifty acres, three miles out from the city, adjacent to Chosen Christian College. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer's gifts of more than $100,000 to the building fund and small amounts from many individuals, enabled the Co-operating Committee to undertake the building project. Most fortunate circumstances have attended it; first, in the acquisition of a master-builder and expert business manager. Captain M. L. Swinehart; second, in high exchange on gold; and third, greatly reduced costs on materials and labor. Work was begun in the early spring of 1933 and on June 10th of that year the cornerstone of Pfeiffer Hall, the main and central building, and the first of the new Ewha was l^id. It was a great occasion. Later in that same year a like service was performed for Case Hall, the music building, a gift of the women of the Methodist Church South; Emmerson Hall, a wing of the same building; and the gymnasium, named for Mrs. R. L. Thomas. These buildings, in ceremonies befitting the signal occasion and in the presence of a great assembly of friends and officials from near and far, were formally dedicted. May 31, of this year. Prior to their completion and dedication, however, the college moved into them. In the early morning of March 7th, the birthday of the founder, Miss Lulu Frey, the group of students and teachers marched out in single file over the hills, each one carrying some precious or fragile possession of the college. The

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experience was indeed a moving one, for hearts were filled with emotion as they made the transition from the dear old home to the beautiful new one. A fitting service of prayer was held on the threshold of Pfeiffer Hall before they crossed it. Four buildings are still under construction. 1. The dormitory in three units under one roof and having a common kitchen. Two of the units are Mrs. Pfeiffer's gift; the third, that of the women of the United Church of Canada. It will accommodate 150 girls. They are moving in at this writing. 2. The Kindergarten: provided by the Children's Thank-Offering of last year, and so intimately associated in our thought with Mrs. McKibben. 3. The English House—Mrs. Pfeiffer's gift. 4. The Home Economic Practice House a model Korean home, provided by Dean Ava B. Milam and the Ewha Alumnae Association. We are further highly indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Pfeiffer for $50,000 for endowment, a substantial initial amount toward a permanent endowment for maintenance and up-keep. There are 225 students now in the college. Two hundred twenty-four have been graduated since its beginning twenty-five years ago. The Kinder- garten Training School, opened in 1914 and closely affiliated with the college, has 262 graduates and forty-eight students this year. Mrs. J. M. Avann. Woman's Christian College, Madras, India Principal—Eleanor McDougall. No W. F. M. S. Representative on the Faculty. There has come from Madras Christian College only good news during the past three years. The number of students is increasing annually and there is no great need for new buildings. Miss MacDougall who has been from the beginning the principal of the College will retire next year by age limit. Her success has been so marked and her influence so blessed on the lives of the young women of India that her retirement will occasion great sorrow. The Pundita Ramabai Memorial Scholarship has been given and a beautiful picture of this most distinguished Christian Indian woman has been provided by the kindness of Mrs. David C. Cook of Elgin, Illinois.

St. Christopher's Training College, Madras, India Principal—Nora Brockway. No W. F. M. S. Representative on the Faculty. The American Section of the Governing Board of Saint Christopher's Training College is able to report a steady increase during the past three years in the number of students and in the influence of the institution. The work done has been so excellent that there has been a definite appeal to the College to admit young men. This request has not been granted, however. Miss Brockway, the Principal, has sought to develop among students an ideal of self-help which is most promising. The college has received through the courtesy of the American Ramabai Association a gift of four thousand dollars toward the endowment of a pro- fessorship. Two other gifts of a thousand each have been received also. The students are attempting with the aid of the alumnae to raise another thousand which is a great endeavor for Indian young women.

Vellore Medical College for Women, Vellore, India Principal— Dr. Ida Scudder. No W. F. M. S. Representative on the Faculty. The presence in America of Dr. Ida Scudder, head of the Vellore Medical School (which is rated as A 1 among medical schools of India) has been an 78 In Lands Afar inspiration to the American Section of the Board of Governors. With Mrs. Henry W. Peabody she visited a large number of churches throughout the United States and presented the need of the Indian School. Due to an unfor- tunate combination of circumstances the amount of money received was small but it is hoped that there will still be a considerable sum given toward endowment for this most useful institution.

Relating to All Three of the College Boards The resignation of Dr. James L. Barton made vacant the chairmanship of each of the Governing Boards in America. In his place three presidents were elected: Madras—Mrs. Mason R. Wood, Arlington, Massachusetts (Baptist). St. Christopher— Miss Mary Markley, Washington, D. C. (Lutheran). Vellore—Mrs. DeWitt Knox, New York City (Reformed). It is further desired that larger representation on the three Boards shall be granted by the participating societies, two to be elected for each Board instead of two to serve on all three Boards.

Christian Literature Miss N. Margaret Daniel writes "The Tokiwasha Woman's Room in the Christian Literature Society Building on the Ginza, Tokyo, was dedicated in December, 1933. Miss Baucus and Miss Dickinson, our pioneers in publishing Christian Literature for Japanese women and children, chose the name Tokiwa for their magazine and hence Tokiwasha for the firm name. The pine sym- bolizes the meaning of the name in its unchangeableness. This room is a memorial to these two women. The Japanese call it lai Shitsu, Memorial Love Room. Above the bronze tablet hang their pictures and on the wall facing the street is a painting of a pine tree done by a Japanese artist. For twenty-five years Tokiwasha issued its publications from Yokohama. Now as a part of the Christian Literature Society it faces the new day and in new ways will find fulfillment of unchanging ideals. Yokohama—Here there is a fine corps of seven national women evangelists, four in the city and three in the district churches. These with Misses Winifred and Marion Draper serve the five churches in the city and the seven on the district. One fine worker has started a new line of work, a home for widows with little children where they can rent rooms at a nominal sum and have their children taken care of in the day nursery while they work. A neat little house with places for eight families has just been furnished and dedicated. Our school for the blind was the first in the country to be designed for children only. Recently a department for children of pre-school age has been developed. Miss Marion Draper's notable work in translation during the past four years is Kagawa's "A Grain of Wheat," though she has done much else, too. Chosen District—Seoul—Five cooking classes opened in 1931 and conducted since then by Eloise Smith have helped the girls and women in their home-making to give more wholesome food and add to the attractiveness of their home life. Miss Smith's appointment to Fukuoka leaves this splendid work uncared for. A well-built American house on Severance Hospital Compound has been leased for a missionary home, and occupied since May, 1934. Being centrally located it contributes much toward the efficiency of our evangelistic work. Within the last four years ten new Bible classes have been opened in the city, for young men, young men and women, and women. One church enrolls all the women of its membership into Bible study groups according to geo- graphical location. McDowell Fellows 79

The first Christian kindergarten has been opened for Japanese children in a Japanese population of 100,000 in Seoul. It is the fulfillment of Miss Kitajima's vision and prayer. The first money for it was given to her by an American journalist who said, "Please use this in some way for missionary work in honor of my missionary mother." A summer camp is conducted along the seashore modelled after Camp Wesleyan at Northfield. An Interdenominational Sunday School Institute Camp has also been inaugurated. The members of every woman's society in every church become members also of the Missionary Society of the Japan Methodist Church. They hold an annual district woman's conference on one day of the annual district conference of the Japan Methodist Churches in Chosen. It is made an inspiring and instructive day for the women delegates. Visits were made by Miss Starkey and Miss Kitajima to Manchuria in 1934 and again in 1935, where Japanese have poured in by the tens of thousands. Eleven important meetings were held in 1934 and thirteen the following year. "This is a most important time for evangelistic work among the Japanese in Manchuria and we must not fail our Lord there," writes Miss Starkey.

McDowell Fellows in Service (as of 1933) Name Appointment

Carleton, Mary (Sing Gieu).. . .Institutional Church, Foochow, China Chen, Carol, M.A Hwa Nan College, Foochow, China Chen, Lydia, M.D Gamble Memorial Hospital, Chungking, West China Chung, Mei Lien, M.A Day School Music Supervisor, Chinkiang, China D'Lima, Edith, M.A Stanley Girls High School, Hyderabad, India Ho, Janet, B.R.E Principal, Marguerite Stewart School, Futsing City, China Kim, Hamna, M.A Head of Home Economics Department, Ewha College, Seoul, Korea Kim, Helen, Ph.D Vice President, Ewha College, Seoul, Korea Kitajima, Tsuyu, B.R.E National Evangelistic worker among Japanese in Korea Lee, Beatrice M.A Knowles Training School, Kiukiang, China Li, Kwan Fang, M.R.E Literature Society, Shanghai, China Liu, Pearl Hinghwa Conference, China Peters, Jasmine Christian Girls School, Shahjahanpur, India Saw, Unsook Kindergarten Training School, Seoul, Korea Shih, Mary, R.N Sleeper Davis Hospital, Peiping, China Singh, Ethel Prem Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, India

Sung, Sioh Ging Huong, M.D. . .Hwa Nan College, Foochow, China Sung, Mildred Primary Supervisor, North Kiangsi and Hwangmei Districts Tang, Viola Rulison Girls School, Kiukiang, China Tseng, Hsiu Hsiang, M.A Head of Kindergarten Department, Yenching College for Women, Peiping, China Theodora Thomson Principal, Lucie Harrison Girls School, Lahore, India Tokunaga, Yoshi, M.A Happy Hill Girls School, Fukuoka, Japan Vincent, Shelomith, M.A Reform Work for Women Wei Sho Ying Hwa Nan College, Foochow, China 80 In Lands Afar

McDowell Fellows in Service (Continued) Name Appointment Wong, Pearl, B.A Hwa Nan College, Foochow, China Woo, Grace M.A Principal Rulison Girls School, Kiukiang, China Yen, Victoria Pon Nanking, China, President of the National Nurses Association of China Yuen, Yu Ying Conference Evangelist, Central China Youn, Mary (Sunk Duk), B.M. .Ewha College, Seoul, Korea Yu, Marie Wuhu City Work, Wuhu, China

McDowell Fellows in Preparation (as of 1934) Name School Osaki, Sachiye Fukuoka Imperial University, Fukuoka, Japan AT THE HOME BASE BRANCH OFFICERS

New England Branch President—Mrs. Charles S. Otto, 155 Robins Road, Watertown, Mass. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Wm.S. Mitchell, 100 Washington St., Maiden, Mass. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Adolphus Linfield, 29 Everett St., Watertown, Mass. Recording Secretary—Miss Elsie Searle, 5 Bryant Ave., Methuen, Mass. Treasurer—Miss Sophronia B. Rich, 20 Sargent St., Newton, Mass. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Elmer Leslie, 228 Mason Terrace, Brookline, Mass. Secretary pf Field Support—Mrs. Wm. T. Carver, 446 Highland Ave., Win- chester, Mass. Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. A. G. Boynton, 422 Summer St., Stamford, Conn.

New York Branch President—Mrs. Fred A. Victor, 488 Van Cortlandt Pk. Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Charles H. Hardie, 883 E. 19th St., Brook- lyn, N. Y. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Berryman H. McCoy, 19 Prospect St., Trenton, N. J. Associate Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Alexander S. McNear, 169 Roseville Ave., Newark, N. Y. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Lawrence J. Munson, 88 Winthrop Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Treasurer—Mrs. Clinton Morris, 9 Sunnyside Ave., Hempstead, N. Y. Receiving Treasurer—Mrs. Harry A. Crispin, 37 Chestnut St., Salem, N. J. Secretary of Field Support—Miss Mary Blake, 726 Rugby Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. James Lord, 530 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. William M. Young, 46 Magnolia St., Buffalo, N. Y. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss Florence M. Calkins, 306 West Ave., Elmira, N. Y.

Philadelphia Branch President—Mrs. Edward A. Bleckwell, 214 E. Sedgwick St., Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary—Miss Elizabeth M. Lee, 400 Shady Ave., E. E., Pittsburgh, Pa. Associate—Miss Juliet Knox, 7320 Brighton Road, Ben Avon, Pa. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, 7730 Union Ave., Elkins Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary—Mrs. W. T. Cooper, 230 Owen Ave., Lansdowne, Pa. Treasurer—Mrs. Curtis Sooy, Route 2, Box 64A, Willow Grove, Pa. Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. J. W. Masland, 1219 68th Ave., Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Secretary of Literature—Mrs. G. L. R. Thompson, 2308 Madison St., Wil- mington, Del. Secretary of Christian Stewardship, Miss Carrie M. Purdy. R. D. 2, North- umberland, Pa.

Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. Arthur P. Zuck, R. D. 1, Erie, Pa.

Baltimore Branch President—Mrs. Arthur C. Day, W. Pleasant Hill Rd., Owings Mills, Md. Corresponding Secretary Emeritus—Mrs. E. D. Huntley, Washington Grove, Md. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, American University Campus, Washington, D. C. Secretary of the Home Base—Miss Lulie P. Hooper, 100 University Parkway, \V.', Baltimore, Md. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Hamilton A. Hooper, St. Paul Court Apt., Baltimore, Md. Treasurer—Mrs. Daniel L. Ennis, 309 Sixth St., S. E., Washington, D. C. Home Administration Treasurer—Mrs. Jas. Andrew, 2824 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, Md. Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. W. S. Dewhirst, 3906 Morrison St., Chevy Chase, D. C. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. S. A. Hill, 106 W. University Pkwy., Baltimore, Md. Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. Edgar Beckett, 2054 Woodberry Ave., Baltimore, Md. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss Lenore V. Wagner, 5600 Old Pimlico Road, Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati Branch President—Mrs. Clarence D. L.a.ylin, 1972 Indianola Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. C. C. Pe.\le, 869 Bryden Road, Columbus, Ohio. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. E. E. Gayer, 94 Wilson Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Recording Secretary—Mrs. C. C. Long, 3434 Darwin Place, Cincinnati, Ohio. Receiving Treasurer—Mrs. Paul H. Seay, 1318 Duncan Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. Disbursing Treasurer—Miss Lillian Hoffman, Navarre Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. Secretary of Field Support— AIrs. E. S. Andree, 2946 Montclair Ave., Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Secretary of literature—Mrs. C. A. Raymond, 234 W. Tenth Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Secretary of Christian Steivardship— Mrs. J. H. SuDLOW, Thornville, Ohio. Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. J. H. Blackburn, 1242 Ethel Ave., Lake- wood, Ohio. Northwestern Branch

President—Mrs. R. L. Marquis, 3300 Oak Park Ave., Berwyn, 111. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Frank E. Baker, 719 Emerson St., Evanston, 111. -Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. C. N. Timmons, 406 Fourth Ave., Sterling, 111. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Ross Lake, 741 N. Lotus Ave., Chicago, 111. Treasurer-—Mrs. Edwin A. Starr, Crooks and Starr Rd., Royal Oak, Mich. .Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. H. E. Duttweiler, 14275 Saratoga Ave., Detroit, Mich. Branch Officers 83

Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Charles Billheimer, 520 So. Grove Ave., Oak Park, 111. Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. S. A. Waterm.^n, 784*5 Eggleston Ave., Chicago, 111. Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. Wilbur M. Ale, 4075 Columbus Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Des Moines Branch President—Mrs. Frank L. Wright, 707 N. Forest Ave., Webster Groves, Mo. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Otis Moore, Tipton, Iowa, R. F. D. Secretary of the Home Base— A-Irs. J. D. Bragg, 3666A Montana St., St. Louis, Mo. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Oilman Smith, 1238 29th St., Des Moines, Iowa. Treasurer—Mrs. F. R. Hubb.ard, 1422 29th St., Des Moines, Iowa. Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. D. Britton, Garden City, Mo. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Loren M. Edwards, 6166 Kingsbury Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. H. M. Humphrey, Indianola, Iowa. Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. J. A. Lory, 3809 Third Ave., Sioux City, Iowa.

Minneapolis Branch

President—Mrs. J. R.\lph Magee, Hotel Commodore, St. Paul, Minn. Corresponding Secretary Emeritus—Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, 25 Seymour Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, 607 Wesley Temple Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. F. L. Parso, Windom, Minn. Recording Secretary—Mrs. S. W. Pinkerton, 716 Goodrich Ave., St. Paul, Minn. Treasurer—Mrs. C. W. Hall, 3206 .Second Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minn. Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. B. L. Bummert, 2824 14th Ave., S., Minne- apolis Minn. Secretary of Literature-—Mrs. G. A. Geer, Wadena, Minn. Secretary of Christian Stewardship.—-Mrs. V. E. Mikkelson, 2643 Polk St., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Secretary of Extension Work —Mrs. Russell V. Blake, Blakewood, R.R. 2, Robbinsdale, Minn.

Topeka Branch President—Mrs. Ralph S. Cushman, 1S39 York St., Denver, Colorado. Corresponding Secretary—Miss Ell.\ M. W.\tson, 1701 S. Seventeenth St., Lincoln, Neb. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. E. Guy Cutshall, 4926 Madison Ave., Lincoln, Nebr. Recording Secretary— Mrs. Harry Stanley, 1115 Stanley Blvd, Wichita, Kan. Treasurer—Mrs. B. M. D.\vies, 314 Greenwood Ave., Topeka, Kan. Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. Lydia K. Andrew, 628 S. 27th St., Lincoln, Ne> r. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Claude M. Gray, 302 No. 9th St., Garden City, Kans. Secretary of Chrisian Steivardship—Mrs. Howard Ne.al, 1426 N. Topeka, Wichita, Kans. Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. Z. W. Gunckel, 221 S. First St., Blackwell, Okla. S4 At the Home Base

Pacific Branch

President—Mrs. B. Dudley Snudden, 3535 Sixth St., Riverside, Calif. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. J. K. Cecil, 530 Kellogg Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Jerome Seymour, 952 No. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Fletcher White, 445 Georgina Ave., Santa Monica, Calif. Treasurer—Mrs. Emory A. Warner, 2237 Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

.Secretary of Field Support—-Mrs. J. J. Bryant, 1234 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, Calif. Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. E. J. Clinton, 701 Taylor St., San Francisco, Calif. Secretary of Extension Work^M.'R.s. Frank P. Flegal, 287 Euclid Ave., Oak- land, Calif.

Columbia River Branch

President—Mks. M. B. Parounagian, 2545 N.E. 26 St., Portland, Ore. Corresponding Secretary Emeritus—Mrs. A. N. Fisher, 328 Tenth St., Port- land, Ore. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, 4857 N. E. 8th Ave., Portland, Ore. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. C. D. Fletcher, 156 S. University St., Blackfoot, Idaho. Recording Secretary—Mrs. F^ A. Hazeltine, 1331 S.W. 12 St., Portland, Ore. Treasurer—Mrs. Paul Edwards, 2605 S.E. Sherman, St., Portland, Ore. .Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. H. G. Bartow, 612 S. Pearl St., Tacoma, Wash. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Alva Strausz, 2214 Summitview Ave., Yakima, Wash. Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. E. C. Newhan, Colfax, Wash. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss Ruth Whipple, Box 279, Vancouver, Wash.

STUDENT WORK General Student Secretary Mrs. Howard M. LeSourd 206 Waverley Avenue, Newton, Mass.

Branch Student Secretaries

New England—Mrs. Donald Wright, 33 Pierce St., Maiden, Mass. New York— Mrs. R. C. Osborn, 303 N. Aurora St., Ithaca, N. Y. Philadelphia— Mrs. Homer Renton, Tarentum, Pa. Baltimore—Mrs. Walter Kerr, 2219 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati— Mrs. S. R. Dunham, 3909 Berkley Drive, Toledo, Ohio. Northwestern—Mrs. H. W. Bolinger, 2646 McDaniel Ave., Evanston, 111. Minne.\polis— Miss Gertrude Becker, Windom, Minn. Des Moines— Mrs. T. C. Stephens, 2024 So. Royce St., Sioux City, Iowa. ToPEKA—Mrs. J. J. Poundstone, 1705 Ames Street, Winficld, Kans. Pacific— Columbia River—Dean Ava Milam, Oregon State Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore. Branch Officers 85

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK Secretary of Young People's Work Mrs. Albert E. Beebe 54 Elmwood Place, Bridgeport, Conn. Branch Superintendents New England—Miss Mary C. Stewart, 204 Anthony Street, East Providence, Rhode Island. New York—Mrs. Ray L. Tucker, 228 Kingsbury Avenue, Elmira, N. Y. Philadelphia—Mrs. Pardee F. Day, 211 W. Berkeley St., Uniontown, Pa. Baltimore—Mrs. Foster B. Davis, 513 Walker Ave., Govens, Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati—Mrs. Cyrus C. Dash, 20S1 Mars Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio. Northwestern—Mrs. Clifford H. Newham, 106 So. Madison Avenue, La Grange, 111. Des Moines— Mrs. Emma Amburn Arnold, Chelsea, Iowa. Minneapolis—Mrs. E. E. Whiteside, Howard, So. Dak. TOPEKA— Mrs. John W. Gates, 1726 Laurel Ave., Topeka, Kans. Pacific—Mrs. David C. Shipley, 1848 Midvale Ave., West Los Angeles, Calif. Columbia River—Mrs. Paul H. Ashby, E. 634—23 St., Spokane, Wash.

JUNIOR WORK Secretary of Junior Work Mrs. Carl F. New 518 Old Orchard Road, Ten Hills, Baltimore, Md. Branch Superintendents New England—Mrs. Kenneth Reynolds, 9 Seneca Road, Winchester, Mass. New York—Miss Irma L. Baylis, Woodbury, Long Island, N. Y. Philadelphia—Mrs. S. V. Holmes, 201 Eleventh St., Franklin, Pa. Baltimore— Cincinnati—Mrs. J. R. Rowntree, 1264 Ashland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Northwestern—Mrs. J. B. Schaub, 1040 Isabella Street, Wilmette, 111. Des Moines—^Mrs. C. R. Cassell, 1208 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, Iowa. Minneapolis—Mrs. F. E. Malchow, Wilder, Minn. Topeka—Mrs. Lottie B. Spyker, 1241 Lincoln, Apt. 17, Denver, Colo. Pacific—Mrs. F. B. Sheldon, 45 Knowlesxvay, Stockton, Calif. Columbia River—Mrs. P. F. Pilcher, 935 Malaga St., Wenatchee, Wash.

LIBRARY SERVICE Director of Library Service Miss Alice I. Hazeltine 39 Claremont Avenue, New York, N. Y. Branch Directors New England—Mrs. Elmer Leslie, 228 Mason Terrace, Brookline, Mass. New York—Mrs. James Lord, 530 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Philadelphia—Mrs. C. L. R. Thompson, 2308 Madison St., Wilmington, Del. B.\LTiMORE—Mrs. Harry A. AUers, 3903 Dorchester Rd., Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati—Mrs. G. L. Wilson, 1503 Hillside Terrace, Akron, Ohio. Northwestern—Mrs. R. L. Marquis, 3300 Oak Park Ave., Berwyn, 111. Des Moines—Mrs. J. D. Bragg, 3666 Montana St., St. Louis, Mo. Minneapolis—Mrs. G. A. Geer, Wadena, Minn. Topeka— Mrs. Claude M. Gray, 302 North 9th St., Garden City, Kan. Pacific—Mrs. J. G. Early, 314 So. Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. Columbia River— Mrs. Alva Strausz,2214 SummitviewAve., Yakima, Wash 86 At the Home Base

BRANCH ASSIGNMENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONFERENCES German East German, New York Branch.

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

Norwegian-Da7iish Norwegian-Danish Conference, Minneapolis Branch. Western Norwegian-Danish, Columbia River Branch. Auxiliaries in Eastern United States to Branches in which they are located.

MISSIONARIES SUPPORTED BY EXTENSION YOUNG PEOPLE JUNIORS MEMBERS New England New England New England

Margaret I. Hermiston Lois Curtice Mildred Burton, M.D. Faye Robinson Clara Pearl Dyer

New York New York New York Li BiCu, M.D. Edna L Bradley Mrs. Alice H. Sharp A. Edith Fredericks Lillian L. Holmes Emily Irene Haynes Mrs. W. C. Swearer Maybel Holmes Lula A. Miller Azalia E. Peet Alice M. Powell Mabel A. Woodruff

Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Martha Daniels Mary F. Carpenter Helen Couch Jenny Lind Margaret Crouse Rhoda Edmeston Blanche Search Agnes Dove Ruth Greenwood Alberta Sprowles Olive Given Gwendoline Narbeth Martha Whiteley May Murphy Jennie Reid

Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Frances Roberds Ruth E. Robinson Leona Thomasson Laura V. Williams Missionaries Supported by Branch 87

Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati

Julia Bonafield Dora Fearon Elizabeth Alexander Charlotte Brown lee Jessie Marker Catherine Baker Grace Davis Gail Patterson Grace Hollister Alice Fin lay Pearl Walrath Ruth Hyneman Eva Hardie Glora Wysner Lela Kintner Trudy Schlaefli Grace Manley Fern Sin key Bess L. Phillips Bertha Starkey Carolyn Teague Margaret E. Tucker, M.D. Ethel Wheelock Retta Wilson

Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Anna Agnes Abbott Edna B. Bacon Bernita Block, M.D. Marie Adams Irene Bear Ruth Danner Sylvia E. Aldrich Maren P. Bording Victoria Lang Carol Chen Elizabeth Hobart Treva Overholt Dr. Lien Ching Bertha Alfrida Kostrup Marian Simons Mary L. Deam Mabel Morgan Ruth M. Wilson Bernice E. Elliott Caroline S. Peckman Cora Fales Rachel Peng Ruth Gabosch Pauline A. Place Ovidia Hansing Frances Quinton Ava F. Hunt Adis Robbins Myra A. Jaquet Ada M. Nelson Zola Payne Elsie I. Reik Wilhelmina Shields Bella Singh Beulah Swan Beatrice R. Terry Maren Tirsgaard Charlotte Trotter Lulu L. Tubbs Harriet M. Whitmer

Des Moines Des Moines Des Moines Lahuna Clinton Blanche Bair Jennie Bridenbaugh Jennie Jones Ola Dudley Stella Dodd, M.D. Katherine Keyhoe Anna Lulu Golisch Flora Quirin Ortha M. Lane Mary K. Metsker Ethel Ruggles Mildred Pierce Mildred Simonds

Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Gertrude Becker Cilicia Cross Ona Parmenter Ruth Harvey Wilhelmina Erbst Jessie Pfaff 88 At the Home Base

TOPEKA TOPEKA TOPEKA Irma Collins Blanche Apple Gertrude Byler Gladys Doyle Barbara N. Bailey Blanche McCartney E. Fern McCaig Lillian P. Greer Henrietta Doltz Harriet P. Morris Eva Ostrom Elsie May Power Mary Louise Perrill Ellen Smith Myrtle Precise Dora A. Wagner May E. Sutherland Hazel O. Wood

Pacific Pacific Pacific Agnes Dora Dunn Rose Waldron Marguerite Decker Grace Pepper Smith Eleanor Stallard Frances E. Johnson Alice Whitney Freda Haffner, M.D. Freda Haffner, M.D (part) (part)

Columbia River Columbia River Columbia River Laura F. Austin Lila Dingle Mary Bedell Marie E. Church Julia E. Morrow Edna Holder Bernice Cornelison Mrs. Alice Kim Jung

TERRITORY EMBRACED IN THE ELEVEN BRANCHES

New England Branch—New England States. New York Branch—New York and New Jersey. Philadelphia Branch—Pennsylvania and Delaware. Baltimore Branch—Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the Canal Zone. Cincinnati Branch—Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. Northwestern Branch— Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. Des Moines Branch—Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Minneapolis Branch—Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. Topeka Branch—Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Me.xico, Oklahoma, Texas. Pacific Branch—California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii. Columbia River Branch—Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. THE OUADRENNIUM AT THE HOME BASE

The past four years, without doubt, have been the most victorious as well as the most difficult in the histor}' of the Society. Calamities, catastrophies, financial ruin for many, criticisms of methods, scepticism as to the need for the work and even questionings of the very foundations of faith! But through all of these our auxiliary women, young people and children, led by district, conference, Branch and general officers following the banner of our Lord Jesus Christ, have come through triumphant. Within this terrifying period, there has been a loss in membership of a little less than twenty per cent and a loss in organizations of less than eight per cent. One division of the Society, the Wesleyan Service Guild, can report an increase in both units and members. How has this splendid record been made possible? First of all our women have held in their hearts the assurance that "With God all things are possible." They have had unwavering faith in his goodness and in their mission to carry his love through Jesus Christ to the women and children of the world. They have kept the Faith. Not easily! But joyously! In the first year of the quaiirennium they built their "Altars of Sacrifice," walking the streets in calico and wearing calico to their meetings that no woman might hesitate to attend because she could not dress in silk or wool. That year, 613 auxiliaries completed their "Altars" which meant meeting all the goals, including the desperately hard one of finance. That year, also, saw 26,000 Methodist women in the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies band- ing together as "Fellow Workers for the Truth" to hold steady in their own faith and deepen the spiritual life of the Church. "Onward" was our slogan. In the second year, we went "Forward Together" through the dangerous "S Curves" of the way, following the directions of the only true Guide Book and building by the way the "Well of Salvation." Four hundred eighty-eight auxiliaries built their "Wells." In that year, in order to save money for the field, no program meeting of the General Executive Committee was held, but the Branches glorified their Branch meetings. Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Topeka held their Jubilee celebrations. Northwestern took sectional Branch meetings to its whole territory, 15,000 women attending, representing 1309 auxiliaries. New York went without a printed Branch report and used the money saved to send out a new missionary. It was also the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the German Work in our Society. After which they combined with the English-speaking conferences. The third year we were "Adventurers in Faith." We lighted the beautiful candles on the "Altar of Lights." One thousand two hundred twelve auxiliaries lighted every candle and 578 lighted all but one. Since the lighting of each candle meant the meeting of a goal this was a great achievement. During this year, in part to make up for what had been lost in interest by not having a public meeting of the General Executive the previous year, the brilliant suggestion of one of the officers was followed, the carrying out of a Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Motorcade. This was made possible by the gifts of two women. One, Miss Ella May Carnahan, who had experienced so much of joy from her own membership in this Society that she longed for others to have that privilege, gave from her own personal income $1,100.00 that the Society might be able to finance this enterprise. The other, Mrs. J. D. Bragg, gave of her remarkable business ability as Director of the Motorcade. She took charge of all the multitudinous details of sending motor cars all over the country, each car carrying a general officer, a Branch officer, a conference or district officer and a missionary. To make arrangements for 275 meetings held from Florida to Minnesota, from the Atlantic to the Pacific was a tre- 90 Jt the Home Base mendous task. But nothing was forgotten and no serious accident marred the undertaking. Meetings were held in every Branch with an attendance ranging from twenty-five to eight hundred; meetings of all kinds, luncheons, break- fasts, banquets, mass meetings, at noon, at night, at any time when the women could come and 16,428 new adult members were enrolled. By the close of the year, this figure had grown to 23,455. Cars drove thousands of miles, the longest record for one driver being 9,000 miles. Some general officers did not see their homes for weeks. Hundreds helped to carry out the plans but all "counted it pure joy." The fourth year found the women joyfuU)' facing "The Open Door." It had seemed that many forces were trying to close this door through which we were trying—to take the Gospel to the world, but this year assurance came in a special way "I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it." So our women went through the Open Door "with singing." It was a joyous year! One thousand two hundred one auxiliaries met their goals in full and 507 more met all but one. It was also a year of prayer for 1,421 prayer circles were formed. Through these four years, prayer and the consecration of personality and of money have undergirded all our work. The study of stewardship has been made possible through stewardship reading courses, the publication of stewardship literature and the monthly presentation of stewardship in the auxiliaries The practice of Christian stewardship has followed the study. The textbooks published by the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions have been the basis of auxiliary programs for these four years. They show the range our special study has covered. They were, "Christ Comes to the Village" by Mary Schauffler Piatt; "Lady Fourth Daughter of China" by Mary Brewster Hollister; "Eastern Women Today and Tomorrow" by Ruth Frances Woodsmall, and "Japanese Women Speak" by Michi Kawai. Our own program material has been especially fine. We have stressed during this quadrennium variety in program building and a more earnest effort to make programs attractive and instructive. Leadership training has developed until last year 1,353 were reported as taking such a course. This has been one of the outstanding achievements of the four years. Library Service has still functioned, even on a reduced budget; college libraries on the field have been supplied with books and scientific and technical books have been sent to missionaries on request. There is not a complete list of all books sent to the field as they have been so many. Last year just from Pacific Branch alone over two tons of books were sent to Manila. One thousand thirty-two magazine subscriptions went to the missionaries as individual gifts from the auxiliaries. Our "Friends" have "never been better" according to the words of the readers themselves. The publication office in spite of the financial crisis and reduced subscription lists has still maintained its record of self-support. The present subscription lists number 91,983. There has been an awakening interest in world citizenship and the report comes that practically every Branch now includes this subject in one of its three phases—world peace, better movies, alcohol education—on its Branch program, and auxiliaries give one month a year to this study. The International Department which was created in the last year of the previous quadrennium has grown until now twenty-three countries are affiliated with us as they through their own societies organize their women to work for the coming of the Kingdom in the whole world. Korea helps India, Latin America hears Macedonia's cry, etc. It has been a great aid to us in sustaining our own morale to learn of the enthusiasm of these fellow workers in other lands. Another source of help and interest has been the summer schools. Twenty- one interdenominational schools were reported last year with an attendance oi ^uadrennium at the Home Base 91 about five thousand, and twenty-three Methodist summer schools with an attendance of about the same number. More than one thousand of these were our Methodist young people. To have days together amid surroundings of rare natural beauty and studying such topics as are presented cannot but mean wonderful things in the lives of the girls and women and in the work of the local societies they represent. As to our departments,—the extension department still supports thirty- five missionaries and five nationals. The sun does shine. That is proved by the money that has come in through the Sunshine Bags to keep the sunshine ambulances going and the missionaries' cars running and some national workers at their teaching and preaching. During the quadrennium, 2011 churches which before did not have a member of this Society have been reached by this department. The observance of Friendship Week helped much in gaining friends for our Society. The Wesleyan Service Guild still supports the work of Mildred Paine in the social settlement in Tokyo and the work of Mabel Nowlin in religious education in China. The Guild has recently been able to open a headquarters office in the plant of the First Methodist Church of Evanston, 111. In spite of the business conditions which have so affected business women, the Guild shows an increase in practically every line of its work. The student department has had 103 student centre committees functioning in college centres, making connection between the students and the Society. There have been very fine itineraries among some of the colleges by missionaries on furlough from colleges on the field. The student secretary has visited colleges in practically every Branch and summer institutes as far as was possible under the rules of the interdenominational organizations in charge of the institutes. There has been close co-operation with the national organization of Methodist college women. Kappa Phi. Attractive literature and program helps have been sent out to the colleges. The young people have had four busy and fruitful years. They have supported eighty missionaries. Their Thank-Offerings have amounted to $87,728.63 and have gone to help build the Methodist Girls School at Singapore, the Foochow Union Hospital and to aid in the support of nationals and the maintenance of the work during the crisis. Almost one thousand Mystery Missionar}- Mothers have each year helped to hold the interest of the young people in this work. Leadership training has been greatly stressed and attendance at summer schools has grown until it is difficult to secure complete reports. One year, 2500 of our j-oung people were in these summer school •groups. Affiliation with the Missionary Education Movement has been arranged during the last year so that more satisfactory textbooks for young people can be secured. Mrs. J. C. Shover has wonderfully guided our young people during this quadrennium. She now feels obliged to resign from this "work and her place is to be taken by Mrs. A. E. Beebe. The juniors have worked and played with other children of the world in a "Friendly Garden;" they have held a "Peace Parade" and built a "Friendship Village;" and they have made the "Map of Japan" more interesting by showing upon it how they met their goals. Their Thank-Offerings have gone to the building of the Gamble Home in Constantine, Algeria, to the kindergarten department of Ewha College, Seoul, Korea, to the building of a home for a missionary in Jagdalpur, India, and to the Melton-Young Me- inorial Centre in Nagasaki, Japan. The junior work has had changes during the quadrennium. Mrs. C. R. Havighurst who for thirteen years had gallantly led the juniors forward under the missionary banner felt obliged to resign. Her place was taken by Mrs. Frank M. McKibben, who for three years brought to this department the influence of a rare and beautiful personality. Just before the last meeting of the General Executive Committee Mrs. McKibben was suddenly "called heme." She had but just begun her work with our juniors. 92 At the Home Base

The loss to our work is very great. Her place will be taken by Mrs. Carl F. New. There have been other changes in our officiary during these four years. Death called also Miss Amy (j. Lewis who for eighteen years was the secretary of our general office in New York. She had previously been one of our missionaries in Japan. Her place has been taken by Miss Ruth Ransom, formerly a missionary in Peru. Mrs. J. N. Reed, the home base secretary of Northwestern Branch, was called by death at the time of our mid-year meeting at Atlantic City four years ago. Her place was taken by Mrs. C. N. Timmons. Among our general officers there have been but two changes, Mrs. Lindsay felt obliged to resign from the chairmanship of the Home Department after fifteen years in that position. Mrs. C. L. Mead then became a vice-president with the duty of acting as chairman of that Department and Mrs. Lindsay' took Mrs. Mead's place as a vice-president-at-large. Among our editors there was but one change. Mrs. G. W. Isham after twenty years as editor of the "Executive Daily" felt that she could not continue to serve in that capacity and Mrs. F. T. Enderis succeeded her. In the Foreign Department, Mrs. Franklin Reed succeeded Mrs. Lewis L. Townlev as secretary of the Department; Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell took the place of Mrs.'C. M. McConnell, of New England Branch; Mrs. J. K. Cecil that of Mrs. B. Dudley Snudden of Pacific Branch; and Mrs. C. H. Van Meter that of Mrs. C. VV. Henderson of Columbia River Branch. Miss Ella May Carnahan resigned as official correspondent for Europe and North Africa. The changes in the Home Department have included the following,—-Mrs. Adolphus Linfield took the place of Miss Clementina Butler who had been a member of the Department since its organization, representing New England Branch; Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler succeeded Miss Susan C. Lodge for Philadelphia Branch; Mrs. E. E. Gaver succeeded Mrs. F". T. Enderis for Cincinnati Branch; Mrs. E. Guy Cutshall became the successor of Mrs. H. E. Wolfe from Topeka Branch, and Mrs. Jerome Seymour took the place of Mrs. J. K. Cecil from Pacific Branch. Since the German Work had been merged with the English Conferences there was no longer the need for a secretary of German Work, so Miss Amalie M. Achard severed her connection with the Home Department after twenty years of remarkable service. Several other changes took place this year. In the Foreign Department Miss Carrie J. Carnaham who has been a member of this Department for thirty years, representing Philadelphia Branch, is succeeded by Miss Elizabeth Lee; Mrs. E. L. Harvey who served eighteen years representing Baltimore Branch is succeeded by Mrs. J. M. M. Gray. Mrs. J. M. Avann who has been an official correspondent in this Department for twenty years is unable to remain in this capacity but continues as correspondent for Ewha College. In the Home Department, Mrs. B. M. McCoy succeeds Mrs. Frank A. Home of New York Branch. Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Secretary of the Home Departments

FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE QUADRENNIUM

The 1932 report of the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society noted the following significant facts: — "All appropriations have been paid in full. There is no indebtedness to banks or individuals. The deficits of 1930-31 have been cleared. The net overdrafts made by Branches on the general treasurer amount to $116,250, only $36,000 more than the overdrafts twelve months ago. There has been a decline of 18.8 percent in the total ^luadrcnnium at the Home Base 93 collections but the fact that the foreign exchanges in which our bills must be paid have been greatly in our favor has made it possible to bridge the gap of $392,000 created by lessened receipts and to pay missionaries, national workers and current work appropriations in full at the agreed rate of exchange." The report presented October 1, 1933, says: "Collections represent a decrease of $435,408.74 (or 25.73 per cent) from the collections of the previous year. This is, nevertheless, a truly remarkable showing in view of the financial and economic conditions prevailing throughout the United States. The Society has no bank loans nor debts to individuals, nor have any of its Branches any indebtedness except overdrafts on the Society itself. Appropriations to the foreign field have been paid in full on a reduced basis except in the case of two Branches, one of which paid only 60 per cent of its second quarter's appropriations and another 80 per cent of those of the fourth quarter. At the beginning of the year a 10 per cent reduction in missionary salaries and a 15 per cent reduction in current work items was made. In Ala^', the financial trend indicated the need for still greater reduction if the budget were to be balanced. Hence the reduction on missionary salaries was increased to 15 per cent and that on current work to 30 per cent. These heavy cuts were accepted with amazing cheerfulness and a splendidly co-operative spirit. The wisdom of making them has been proved by the fact that the fiscal year has been closed without debt. Despite foreign exchange losses, where we confi- dently hoped for gains, despite economic turmoil and uncertainty, the Society has won through, free of debt, with its trust funds intact, its budget balanced." Nineteen hundred thirty-four marked the turn of the tide, with an increase of $69,000, over the collections of the previous year. Branch overdrafts increased, however, to $230,000. Appropriations to the foreign field were paid on the same reduced basis as in the latter half of 1933, salaries being 85 per cent of the 1932 figure and current work appropriations 70 per cent. The 1934 treasurer's report stressed four points: First— In a year when it seemed impossible to do it, the Society made an increase in collections. Second—After many j'ears in which it was necessary to concentrate much attention on the increase of material plant, attention was given increasingly to the spiritual phases and values of the Society's work as distinguished from buildings and equipment. Third—Retired missionaries were cared for as probably few organizations, business or benevolent, have been able to do, with a cut of only 5 per cent. Fourth—The investments of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society were unimpaired and trust funds fully protected. Nineteen hundred thirty-five emphasized again the upward trend with an increase of 6.1 per cent in total collections. The collections for the quadrennium are as follows: 1932 $1,692,327.37 1933 1,256,918.63 1934 1,326,275.00 1935 1,407,915.18 a total of $5,683,436.18 compared with $9,692,079.29 received in the previous, quadrennium. Many and violent have been the changes in financial conditions the world over. The period began with large exchange gain to the Society, was continued through the devaluation of the dollar resulting in exchange losses in most of the countries in which the Society operates. The present outlook is uncertain e.xchange-wise, but momentarily, at least, far less stormy than in recent years. Changing conditions in the world of investments have led to an interesting change in the Society's investment methods. The increasing volume of annuity or life income gifts have been protected by reinsurance of every life 94 At the Home Base income in a strong life insurance company. Five companies have been chosen for reinsurance purposes, so that risk is distributed and the maximum protection afforded. The pensions of all missionaries now receiving retirement allowances have been similarly reinsured and policies are being purchased through payment of annual premiums sufficient to cover pensions payable at the proper time to all missionaries now in active service. The investible funds remaining to the Society, after the insurance purchases above noted, are secured by AA or AAA bonds legal for investment of trust funds in New York, New Jersey or Massachusetts. Investment losses represent only a fraction of a per cent of investible funds. No missionary has been called home for lack of funds. Branch overdrafts on the general treasury (totalling $248,000, at the end of the quadrennium) are underwritten by funds in hand or shortly to be received. The Branches are thus free of debt, as is the Society at large. Approximately $8,000,000 worth of real estate abroad is free of any encumbrances and there is no field indebtedness. A thorough-going scientific revision of the Society's entire budget is in progress. Its purpose is to adapt expenditures in the most perfect way to changed and changing conditions abroad; to discover and inaugurate new types of work suited to the present day and to discard old types which have outlived their highest usefulness. This study, it is earnesth' hoped, will result in making the budget a more flexible tool, a more efficient medium for carrying the ideals of Christian women to the women of non-Christian lands. Florence Hooper, Treasurer. ; :

REPORTS COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS Adopted Changes in By-Laws

By-law I (a) Change the fifth paragraph to read: In case of a vacancy occurring ad interim in representation on an interdenominational board, the chairman of the Department that nominates the representative or representatives on the board concerned shall, after consultation with the chairman of the nominating committee of her Department, if such committee exists, appoint a representative for the remainder of the year. By-law V. After "for the purpose of" insert "nominating three delegates to serve on the committee of nominations and;" delete "they represent;" making the paragraph read as follows The recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall organize the delegates to the General Executive Committee into a conference, which shall hold at least three sessions for the purpose of nominating three delegates to serve on the committee of nominations and considering measures for the promotion of the interests of the work in the Branches. They shall attend the public meetings and such sessions of the Foreign and Home Depart- ments as may be open to them. When important changes or new by-laws are to come before the General Executive Committee, a copy of the same shall be presented to the delegates on the day previous. By-law VI (c). For "our own" substitute "the Methodist Episcopal;"^ making the paragraph read as follows: The purpose of its maintenance shall be to (a) serve as a bureau of general information regarding the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at home and abroad; (b) serve as a central agency for those interests common to all Branches which can be more effectively and economically conducted through such a center; (c) form the point of contact between the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and other organizations of related interest in the Methodist Episcopal Church and in other denominations; (d) render assistance to outgoing and returning missionaries; (e) serve in other lines as determined by the standing committee on general ofhce. By-law XVI, Section 3. Insert in second paragraph after first sentence, "No building, however financed, shall be erected on the property of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society without the approval of the field property committee and without consultation and mutual agreement with the Foreign Department."; making the paragraph read: It shall be the duty of the field property committee to (a) have in charge, under the direction of the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society, all matters relative to the purchase and sale of property, erection and insurance of buildings, and extensive repairs for which appropriations have been made. No building, however financed, shall be erected on the property of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society without the approval of the field property committee and without consultation and mutual agreement with the Foreign Department. After a building has been authorized by the Foreign Department, the property committee shall appoint a local building committee, which shall have authority to draw up plans, make contracts, subject to the approval of the property committee, audit bills, and direct the work By-Law XVI, Section 4. Insert after first sentence, "The Bishop of the area shall be a member ex-officio." Change the word "Those" in next sentence to "Others;" making the paragraph read: 95 96 Reports

4. Field Reference Committee—Each woman's conference shall have a field reference committee to be elected annually by ballot. The Bishop of the area shall be a member ex-ofificio. Others eligible to membership in the field reference committee shall be (a) active missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society; (b) such wives of missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions as are in charge of work for the Society, and (c) national women workers if declared eligible by the woman's conference. This committee shall consist of not less than six nor more than nine representative members, two- thirds of whom shall be missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The treasurer of the woman's annual conference, mission conference, or group of conferences shall be, ex-officio, an additional member of this committee without vote except in the conference of which she is a member. By-law XXIII. After "members from the Foreign and Home Depart- ments shall" insert "be nominated by their respective Departments and shall." After the second sentence insert "the three delegates shall be nominated by the delegates conference as soon as possible after the General Executive Committee convenes." After "and standing committees" delete "which shall consist of committees." Before "and such other committees" delete "nominations." Rearrange names of committees to follow alphabetical order thus: "and standing committees on by-laws, consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions, general office, investments, state of the Society." After "and such other" insert "standing;" making the paragraph read: 1. On Nominations—There shall be a committee on nominations composed of two members from the F"oreign Department and two members from the Home Department, these to constitute a standing committee and, when the General Executive Committee convenes, three delegates shall be added to serve during the session. Members from the Foreign and Home Departments shall be nominated by their respective Departments and shall serve two years each, one new member from each Department being chosen annually. The three delegates shall be nominated by the delegates' conference as soon as possible after the General Executive Committee convenes. It shall be the duty of this committee to present nominations for the officers for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the general counselor, auditor of the accounts of the general treasurer, and standing committees on by-laws, consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions, general office, investments, state of the Society, and such other standing committees as the General Executive Committee shall from time to time determine.

ACTIONS OF GENERAL OFFICERS Ad Interim, 1934-1935 Acting under authority conferred upon them by the by-laws of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the general officers of the said Society voted: That the schedule of annuity rates proposed by the Conference on Annuities be approved, the same to be put into effect when they have been adopted by all of the General Benevolent Boards of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including the Committee on Annuities of the World Service Commission, and whenever they have been approved by the American Bible Society and one other major denomination. To ask Mr. Roszel C. Thomsen of Baltimore, Maryland, to serve for the ensuing year as general counselor of the Society. To authorize and empower Florence Hooper, treasurer of the said Society, to sell and assign the following United States securities registered on the books —

General Officers 97 of the Treasury Department in the name of or assigned to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Federal F~arm Loan (The Federal Land Bank of St. Paul) 1937-57 issued May 1, 1927—4,1^—Serial Number M350430. Denomination $1,000. And to ratify and confirm any and all assignments of the above described United States securities, heretofore or hereafter made by the above-named officers. To approve the following names for the committee to define the duties of committees, Mesdames Peel, Bragg, Dievler, Hardie, Shover, and Cecil. To authorize and direct Evelyn Riley Nicholson, president, and Eloise A. Woolever, secretary of the said Society, to sign an agreement to sell and to convey in fee by special warranty deed and clear of all encumbrances, all the coal of the Pittsburgh or River Vein underlying certain tracts of land in Center and Jackson Townships, Greene County, Pennsylvania, which tracts of coal are known as the Hargus Creek Block, and the undivided interest in said block, hereby agreed to be sold aggregating forty-one and two-thirds (41%) acres more or less, and being the interest in said block of coal, devised to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the will of Asenath H. Pershing, late of the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., deceased. Together with the mining and other rights and privileges owned by the said Asenath H. Pershing which were inherited by the said Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church from the Estate of Asenath H. Pershing, deceased. To approve the meeting together of Miss Bailey of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and Miss Wheaton of the Woman's Home Missionary Society to prepare a joint program, the expense to be divided equally between the two Societies. That whereas, Mary Elizabeth Kerr, late of the County of Multnomah, State of Oregon, by her last will and testament, duly admitted to Probate in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Multnomah, among other legacies therein contained, did give and bequeath unto said Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the sum of One Thousand Dollars; said bequest so therein provided for to be paid from the sale of the real property unto the said estate belonging: And whereas, the only real property unto the said estate belonging consists of Lot Two (2), Block Five (5), Clifford Addition to Albina, appraised the sum of $2,400.00 andLot 10, Block 4, Central Albina, appraised at 1,000.00

Total appraised value of real property $3,400.00

And whereas, since the death of the said Mary Elizabeth Kerr, the value of said property so appraised has greatly depreciated, and it is unlikely that said properties so directed to be sold can be disposed of for a sum fully sufficient for the payment of said bequests; And whereas, C. C. Miller, the duly appointed, qualified and acting executor of the Last Will and Testament of the said Mary Elizabeth Kerr, deceased, has heretofore received an offer of the sum of $1,500.00 for the said property so described as Lot 2, in Block 5, ClilTord Addition to Albina, and has made acceptance of said offer, and the sale thereof has heretofore been fully approved and confirmed by order of the above mentioned Court; but the deed therefor is as yet undelivered; And whereas, in the opinion of the general officers, the said sum, so offered is not disproportionate to the present value of said property, and a sum greater thereof, by ten per cent, exclusive of the costs of a new sale cannot be procured therefor; The sale of said property for and at the agreed consideration of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500.) so offered be approved and confirmed. 98 Reports

To authorize and direct Florence Hooper of Baltimore, Maryland, treasurer of the said Society to sell and assign and transfer twenty-six (26) shares of the six per cent preferred stock of the Southern California Edison Company Limited, represented by certificate No. ND5940 and eight (8) shares of the seven per cent preferred stock of the Southern California Edison Company represented by Certificate No. ND 2603. To approve securing Mr. Charles Fahs, Curator of the Missionary Re- search Library, at an expense of not more than Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($L500) to make a thorough study of the problems and outlook of the Society and to submit suggestions looking to the further development of the work. To authorize Annie G. Bailey, publisher, to draw on the $5,000 reserve fund in order to carry the office expenses until September with the understanding that the amount be repaid if possible. To authorize and direct Evelyn Riley Nicholson, president, and Eloise A. Woolever, recording secretary of the said Society, to sign an agreement to extend to October \, 1935, the option given May 13, 1935 to Frank E. Merts of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on certain coal lands in Center and Jackson Townships, Greene County, Pennsylvania, inherited by the said Society from the estate of Asenath H. Pershing, deceased. To authorize and direct Florence Hooper; treasurer of said Society, to sell, assign and transfer 185 shares of the preferred stock of the United States Steel Corporation now standing in the name of said Woman's Foregin Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Eloise A. Woolever, Recording Secretary.

ACTIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TAKEN ON RECOMMENDATION OF THE UNIT MEETING Ad Interim It was voted: That a letter of appreciation be sent to Mrs. Henry PfeifTer for her generous gifts totaling $154,000 to Ewha College. That on March 28, which is Commencement Day at Ewha, a cable of congratulation be sent to the college. That a letter of greetings and congratulations be sent to Jo Gakko, Fukuoka, Japan, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary in 1935. That a letter and telegram be sent to President Roosevelt protesting the naval maneuvers in the Pacific. That as individuals we send our protests to Secretary Cordell Hull, Senator Key Pittman, and the President concerning the naval maneuvers and the huge naval and military appropriations. That in 1936 a regular public program be given at the General Executive Committee meeting which is to be held in the Northwestern Branch. That the Branches be requested to suggest to their delegates that they consent to postpone their services as delegates to the 1935 General Executive Committee meeting until the 1936 meeting of the Committee.. That the recommendation from the Home Department that Mrs. Shover and Mrs. McKibben, with Miss Ransom as alternate, be elected as Woman's Foreign Missionary Society representatives to the Missionary Education Movement, be approved. That the president appoint a member to serve on the interdenominational committee to consider how the request of the Hartford Group to be sent to China as a unit and to be supported interdenominationally might be answered. That the recommendations of the committee on International Depart- ment be adopted.*

* See Actions of the International Department. Committee on Investments 99

Annual Meeting, 1935 That greetings of the General Executive Committee be sent to Miss Anne E. Lawson of India who fifty years ago was presented as a missionary candidate. That a message of love and sympathy be sent to Miss Sinclair who is ill in the Springfield Hospital. That the Society contact the Day of Prayer Committee asking for united, earnest, and immediate prayer for the peace of the world. Eloise a. Woolever, Recording Secretary.

ACTIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TAKEN ON RECOMMENDATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON INVESTMENTS

It was voted: 1. To confirm the changes in the by-laws XX and XXI made by the committee on investments in accordance with the authorization of the General Executive Committee meeting of 1934 and incorporated in 1934 report as follows: "By-law XX, section 7: Gifts received on the life income plan shall be invested and reinvested during the life-time of the donor by the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the instruction of the committee on investments, except such portions of said life income gifts as shall be required to purchase from life insurance companies approved by the committee on investments, annuity policies to cover the life income payable to the donor. "By-law XXI, section 9: There shall be a Retirement Fund for care of retired missionaries, consisting of gifts solicited for this purpose throughout the Society. Such gifts as are definitely designated for endowment shall be invested and reinvested by the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the instruction of the committee on investments, the principal being preserved intact and the income only being used to pay retirement allowances or to purchase pensions from insurance companies, approved by the committee on investments. Such gifts as are not definitely designated for endowment may be used for purchases of pensions from insurance companies, approved by the committee on investments, or for such other purposes involved in the retirement care of missionaries as by action of the General Executive Committee shall be authorized from time to time." 2. That whereas it is our desire to have the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States make payments to us of the annuity instalments under our annuity contracts heretofore issued, and also under any annuity contracts issued in the future by the said Society, without our first furnishing proof to the said Assurance Society of the survival of the annuitants on the due dates of the annuity instalments, Florence Hooper, treasurer, is hereby authorized to execute in the name of and in behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an undertaking and agreement with the Society to refund to the said Society any annuity instalments that it has paid to us to which we are not entitled by reason of the death of any annuitant prior to the due date of any such annuity instalments. The said undertaking and agreement to cover any instalments heretofore paid to us under any annuity contract heretofore issued and also any instalments paid to us under any annuity contract hereafter issued to us by the said Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. 3. That the gifts margin of life income gifts made to the Society as such, after the purchase of insurance policies to cover the guaranteed life income, be set aside and invested and reinvested as reimbursement to the treasury for advances made prior to October 1, 1934 to Branches of the Society in order to enable them to maintain their current work appropriations. Eloise A. Woolever, Recording Secretary. 100 Reports

ACTIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TAKEN ON RECOMMENDATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT Ad Interim

It was voted: That greetings be sent to the missionary societies in the conferences of China and that we assure them that as soon as their constitution is developed and adopted, we shall be happy to have them affiliate as a national Unit. That Miss Gabrielson be informed that although she cannot include Germany in her itinerary, we ask her to use the $50.00 forwarded to her for emergency purposes as she sees best. That greetings be sent to the Mexican Unit; also to the Argentine Unit from whom $10.00 has been received for use by the International Department, and that appreciation and congratulations on their achievements be expressed.

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It was voted: That Miss Achard be subsidized to the amount of $200 from International Department funds, to carry on her promotional work with the Central Europe Unit and the German-speaking constituency in this country. That the committee be given permission to appropriate a sum not ex- ceeding $200 for promotional work and literature in Scandinavia if, upon further correspondence, it seems necessary. That $79.55, balance of the gifts received for German Emergency Relief, and any gifts which may be received later, be appropriated by the International Department as it deems best in aid of the work of German missions. Eloise a. Woolever, Recording Secretary.

ACTIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TAKEN ON RECOMMENDATION OF THE HOME DEPARTMENT Ad Interim

It was voted that the plans as presented in the "Annual Message" and the young people's and junior material for leaders be approved. Literature. That the pages in the "Friend" entitled "Among Ourselves" be continued another year. That the manuscript which Mrs. Nicholson has written at the request of the Society on the development of the International Department be printed and used as a basis for an auxiliary program in 1936, and included in the budget. That five or six short leaflets for "free" distribution be printed, these to be of general interest. That the literature committee be given authority to prepare a packet of literature to put into the hands of the wives of theological students and of the deans of these schools. That a packet of inexpensive picture cards for use in work with Little Light Bearers be printed and included in the Little Light Bearers leaders' material. That programs be prepared for union societies, Miss Bailey, Mrs. Shover and Mrs. McKibben to co-operate with those designated by the Woman's Home Missionary Society for this work. That we reaffirm our loyalty to the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions and pledge the use of its book for women's societies and the story book for children. That $300 be allowed from the Home Administration budget as an affiliation quota to the Missionary Education Movement and, as this will —

Home Departtnent 101 entitle our Society to two representatives, that our representatives be those who are especially qualified to assist and counsel on preparation of young people's and junior texts and materials. That we accept with deep gratitude the generous offer of Dr. Rollin H. Walker to give to our Society for two years the royalties on his new book, "Paul's Secret of Power," with the understanding that we shall include it in Branch reading courses and promote its use and sale as far as possible. Wesleyan Service Guild. That the apportionments to the Wesleyan Service Guild continue to go through the home base secretaries. That we approve including four types of membership on the Wesleyan Service Guild report blanks active (paying full dues), co-operating (interested, attending meetings, not paying full dues), associate (men), and permanent (payment of $50.00). That we approve the program and choice of text-book of the Wesleyan Service Guild for next year, Dr. Barclay's "World Mission of Christianity." Student Work. That a new booklet be prepared setting forth the work of the student department, to be financed from the student budget. That a leaflet be prepared for the auxiliary women stating what the women can do for the student work and what it can do for them. That the Kappa Phi tithe which is to be assigned to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society this year, be given to one of three projects to be suggested by the Foreign Department. That Miss Saito be our representative to the Kappa Phi i\nnual Council to be held in Bemidji, Minn., June 21-28, 1935. That our major emphasis next year through the student department be the promotion of Sister Colleges, as far as possible one college being assigned to each Branch. Young People's Department. That there be printed an International Department leaflet for the young people's department, consisting of stories of our work in foreign countries, to be used in connection with the one cent International Department tax and that this leaflet be placed in the young people's budget. That we call the attention of the home base secretary to the advisability of sending an outstanding Standard Bearer to the Branch meeting. That in 1936-37 the young people's department study Africa, supplemented by stories from the "History." Junior Department. That Branch junior superintendents co-operate with the Branch administrator of the Missionary Leaders Training Course in promoting the use of this study course among the junior leaders. That the Branch provide the recommended supplementary religious education reading, the following methods being suggested: 1. A circulating library. 2. As district awards. 3. By urging local auxiliaries to provide books. 4. By having missionary education books included in the Branch reading course. That the Thank-OfTering project this coming year be the steamship passage mone\' for missionaries. That the textbook for next year be "The Three Cornered Continent" by Margaret Applegarth and that the book for Little Light Bearers be "Around a Mexican Patio" by Ethel Smithers. Extension Department. That Friendship Week be continued and that it shall not have a financial appeal. That we reprint the leaflet by Mrs. Cronk, "Shut In but not Shut Out." That the Branch extention secretaries be guests of the General Executive in their turn. That the Comrade Plan be adopted by the extension department for 1935-36. '

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Stewardship. That a Stewardship Reading Course be included in the goals, consisting of the "Stewardship Spokesman" and the stewardship page in the "Friend." That the use of the stewardship candles be continued. That a stewardship demonstration be given at one program during the year, either in the auxiliary or at a church night meeting. That the leaflet "Christian Stewardship in the Life of the Church Today" which contains a list of resource material be sent to each auxiliary with the "Annual Message." That we express our sincere appreciation for the faithful and effective work which Mrs. Waterman has done during the years she has edited the stewardship page in the "Friend." That the Stewardship Reading Course be incorporated in the Branch Reading Course. Ifiterdenominational Interests. That Mrs. H. E. Woolever be appointed as alternate on the Central Committee for the remainder of the present vear. That Mrs. J. C. Shover and Mrs. F. M. McKibben with Miss Ruth Ransom as alternate be our representatives in the Missionary Education Movement. That the appointment of Mrs. H. M. LeSourd as delegate from New England Branch to the Northfield Summer School be approved and also the appointment of Mrs. B. H. McCoy by Xew York Branch to the same school. General Office. That when a missionary or national is brought to this country for an interdenominational itinerary, plans for the itinerary be made by the general ofifice. That a loan library be started at the general office for missionaries on furlough in memory of Miss Amy Lewis, each Branch to make an annual appropriation towards this library of at least one dollar. That Miss Ransom as secretary of the general office be authorized to sign checks. That a mimeograph be purchased for the general office at a cost of thirty dollars. That Miss Ransom be asked to gather the names and addresses of retired missionaries and keep them on file in the general office. • Miscellaneous. That we hold a regular public program meeting of the General Executive Committee in 1936 as the guests of Northwestern Branch. That the delegates be excused from attendance at the St. Louis Meeting of the General Executive Committee. That Miss Lulie Hooper and Mrs. F. F. Lindsay be the Home Department members of the Hwa Nan Committee. That where there are joint societies or where church da3's are held, we urge the local president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society as a representative of the world citizenship committee to co-operate with the local Christian citizenship secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society to present world citizenship adequately. That we purchase 6,000 copies of the book "Thinking It Through" for $100 from the Methodist Book Concern. That the travel and entertainment expenses of the chairman of the world citizenship committee to the meeting in St. Louis be paid from the general treasury. That a leaflet report be printed next year for Negro Conferences. That the "Ciuidance Sheets" for auxiliary programs based on the "Friend,' prepared by Miss Bailey, be sent to Negro auxiliaries as far as possible to guide them in their programs, home base secretaries of the Branches having Negro Conferences to be responsible for supplying Miss Bailey with the mailing list. That we recommend to auxiliaries where there are theological schools Home Department 103

nearby the auxiliary plan for friendly contact with the wives of theological students. That Miss Florence Hooper be asked to prepare a report blank for Branch treasurers to report overhead expenses in such a way as to distinguish between administrative expenses and expenses for education and promotion. That the Mid-Year Meeting be held at Columbus, Ohio, in 1936 at the time of the General Conference.

Actions Taken at the Annual Meeting, 1935 Literature. To nominate Miss Effie A. Merrill as editor of the "Woman's Missionary Friend" with a salary of $1800 and an office budget of $989; Miss A. M. Achard as editor of the "Frauen-Missions-Freund" with a salary of $475; Mrs. James H. Lewis, as editor of the "Junior Missionary Friend" with a salar}' of $600; and Miss A. G. Bailey, publisher and editor of "Litera- ture" with a salary of $2400. These to be paid from the funds of the publication office. That a grant of $225 be made to Mrs. G. \V. Isham from the funds of the publication office for work in connection with the "Friend" and for research. That the action taken at Washington be reconsidered—"That for one year we take as our textbook the history of our Society being prepared by Mrs. Isham and that this with supplementary leaflets on Africa be our study book for 1936-37." That our textbook for 1936-37 be the one on Africa and that there be included in the program a dramatization based on the history for Founders' Day. That the price of the history be $1.00 retail, and the binding blue and gold, the colors of the organization. That Mrs. Isham be brought to General Executive Meeting next October as a special guest. That the history be ready for sale at General Conference in Columbus, May, 1936, and the dramatization based on it be presented as a feature of our anniversary program if practicable. That the sum of $250 usually placed in the home administration budget for printing a quadrennial report be used for illustrations for the history as we believe this amount will be used for more lasting benefit in this way than by printing a booklet report on the organization's work for the quadrennium. That we call the attention of the Branches to the suggestion made some time ago on the subject of sending copies of all literature to the home base secretary as soon as possible after receipt of the same at the depots of supplies, also of supplying departmental literature to the secretaries of the respective departments, and that the expense be borne by the Branch treasury. That we call attention to the demonstration, "Friends Ahoy" based on the "Junior Friend" as a part of the June auxiliary program and also recommend its use as publicity for the "Junior Friend" at district conventions, etc., this to be free to the Branches from Miss Bailey's office. That we call attention to the successful use of the cover reduction of the "Friend" for program covers for Branch meetings, etc. and recommend its widespread .use during the coming months, Miss Bailey being willing to furnish it to the Branches as a part of "Friend" publicity. That we concentrate during the next six months on very definite promotion of Dr. Rollin Walker's splendid book "Paul's Secret of Power." That we reaffirm our action taken at mid-year regarding the bringing up to date by Mrs. Sheets and Mrs. Woolever of the reports on work during the years when printed reports were omitted from the Year Book and that this report be printed in the Year Book for 1935. That the annual reports given by Mrs. Woolever and Miss Hooper be omitted from the Year Book for 1935 inasmuch as the material will be included in the above report. That the usual leaflet report be published and that the cost (approximately $375.00) be included in the home administration budget. 104 Reports

That the expense of packets for the wives of theological students be paid from the home administration budget. ($25.00.) Student Department. That Mrs. H. M. LeSourd be nominated as general secretary of student work for 1935-36 with a budget of $1080. That we send a representative to the Student Volunteer Convention and that Mrs. LeSourd be this representative with expenses from the budget of the student department. Wesleya?! Service Guild. That Mrs. M. N. English be nominated as secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild with a budget of $1,000. That the home base secretaries make an effort to secure conference guild secretaries in the conferences that have three or more units. That the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society bear half of the expense of the conference guild secretaries—these expenses to include necessary stationery, postage and travel. That the three representatives of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society on the Central Committee, Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Mrs. J. M. Avann and Mrs. F. E. Baker be continued. Young People's Department. That the resignation of Mrs. J. C. Shover be accepted with deep regret and with sincere appreciation of the constructive program and of the consecrated service which she has embodied in her work. That the nomination be approved of Mrs. A. E. Beebe as secretary of young people's work. That the budget for the young people's department for 1935-36 be $500. That the Standard Bearers co-operate with the Methodist Youth Council in such a way as not to lose their identity and to safeguard our financial obligation. That the young people's superintendents attend Executive in 1936 at the expense of the general treasury. That Mrs. Beebe be one of our representatives in the Missionary Educa- tion Movement. Junior Department. That we express our appreciation of the great privilege that has been ours in working under the leadership of so rare and beautiful a spirit as Mrs. McKibben and that we are convinced that her influence will continue to be felt not only in our missionary circles but around the world. That we approve the nomination of Mrs. Carl F. New as secretary of junior work with a budget of $200. That very general use be made of the three leaflets recently written by Mrs. McKibben, "Little Hands Outstretched to Bless," "To Leaders of King's Heralds," and "To Leaders of Little Light Bearers." That the 1935-36 plans for Leadership Training be continued through 1936-37. That the mother auxiliaries organize and cultivate the junior work in their churches and that they have some form of joint program, party or meeting with them this year. That a budget of $25.00 be provided from the general treasury for the editor of the "Junior Friend" with which she may purchase books, magazines and such other material as shall be helpful in her work. That Mrs. Lewis be our representative on the curriculum committee. That Mrs. New be one of our representatives in the Missionary Education Movement. That with deep appreciation of the far-reaching influence of Mrs. McKibben in behalf of children everywhere our Society make some gift to the World Friendship Library for juniors that is being planned by First Church of Evanston as a memorial to Mrs. McKibben. That we participate in the Alma Palmer McKibben World Friendship Library and approve the appointment of a committee composed of General Executive members living in Evanston, they to choose their own chairman. — ;

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Interdeiiominational Interests. That, in view of present baffling world conditions threatening the peace of the world, we recommend that (1) we call our constituency at home and abroad to definite prayer for peace; that we inform Miss Florence G. Tyler of our action, expressing the hope that other denominations will join to make this a united action, channeling this desire through the World Day of Prayer agencies, that Christian women of the world may be united in their approach to our only source of help, the mighty Coun- selor and Prince of Peace. (2) That this be done at once on the home base, by setting apart a period for prayer at all district and auxiliary meetings and wherever women are gathered; and that where practicable special groups be called together for prayer. To approve the nomination of Mrs. J. C. Shover as our member of the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions. That we appoint as delegates to the Foreign Missions Conference With expenses from their budgets: Mrs. Thomas Nicholson and Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf With expenses from the general treasury: Mrs. J. K. Cecil and Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, alternate—Mrs. C. L. Mead. Without expenses: Mrs. McCoy, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Shover, Miss Watson. Note: By action of the General Executive Committee the following were added as delegates, without expenses: Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Mrs. Carl F. New, Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Frank E. Baker, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe, Miss Edith Fredericks. That in case any of these members cannot attend, Miss Ransom select substitutes from the committee members in or adjacent to New York. Bi-lingual Work. That we approve the intent of the ruling of the 1930 General Executive in regard to Swedish Work, that the conference or division secretary of Swedish Work in whose Branch the General Executive shall be held be recognized as a consulting member in the meetings of General Executive and that her expenses be provided from the general treasury. That the division secretary in Northwestern Branch as consulting member for 1936, be asked to prepare for publication such a report of Swedish Work in America as shall be deemed necessary on vote of the conference and division secretaries, the expenses for publishing the same to be provided by the Swedish constituency. That for the coming year Mrs. Edward Brechlin of Duluth, Minn., be requested to collect reports of all Norwegian-Danish Work in this country and prepare them for presentation at the General Executive Meeting of 1936. Stewardship. That Mrs. J. Homer Slutz be the editor of the stewardship page in the "Friend." That the stewardship department have one-half page each month in the "Friend." That this year the secretary of stewardship in each Branch be urged to promote the use of Dr. Rollin H. Walker's book, "Paul's Secret of Power" since we recognize that this Power of which Paul speaks is the foundation of stewardship. Miscellaneous. That we reaffirm the following action taken at the mid-year meeting 1934—"That as women vitally interested in the missionary program of the whole Church we recommend that the Society- express its approval of the 'cent-a-meal' project suggested by the Board of Foreign Missions and that the Society express its desire to co-operate in this educational effort." That Miss Ruth Ransom be nominated as secretary' of the general office. That the extra room adjoining Room 710 available at a cost of $100.00 a year be secured for the use of the general office. That the budget of the general office be $6,640 for 1935-36. That we secure a list of outstanding Negro speakers and speakers acquainted with Negro work available for Branch programs, this list to be kept in the general office. That we co-operate with the Board of Foreign Missions in the exhibit at 106 Reports

General Conference, and that we allow a maximum of $300 for our participa- tion in the exhibit. That Mrs. C. B. Smith be appointed as our member of the exhibit committee. That Mrs. Mead be requested to send these actions to Dr. Diffendorfer. That Cincinnati Branch be asked to have entire charge of the sale of literature at this exhibit for our Society. That Miss Alice Hazeltine be nominated as director of library service. That Mrs. Woolever be appointed as reporter to the Christian Advocate and Miss Merrill to Zion's Herald. That Mrs. Seymour serve on the committee on memorials to General Con- ference and Mrs. Timmons as the Home Department member on the committee on General Conference legislation. That Mrs. Dievler be the new Home Department member on the nominating committee for 1935-36. That the Circle of Remembrance be continued and Mrs. Barber be continued as secretary-treasurer. That the beautiful Chinese banner sent from the field as one of the Anniversary gifts to the Society be presented to Mrs. Pfeiffer in appreciation of her interest in the work of the Society. That the rules (appearing on page 215) for the expenses of the General Executive and Mid-Year Meetings be approved and printed in the Year Book. That the following Home Administration Budget be approved: For 1935-36. Expense of General Executive $3,000.00 Expense of Mid-Year 4,000.00

Expense of Interboard and Union College Meetings . . . 2,500.00 Expenses of General Officers 6,600.00 Medical Department and Shipping Bureau of Board of P oreign Missions 400.00 General Office. 6,640.00 Young People's Department 500.00 Junior Department 200.00 Editor of "Junior Friend" for helps 25.00 Student Department 1,080.00 Wesleyan Service Guild 1,000.00 Home Department miscellaneous 300.00 Foreign Department miscellaneous 1,000.00 Share Plan Letters 225.00 Auditor 200.00 Bond 62.50 World Citizenship Committee 150.00 Foreign Missions Conference 3,100.00 R.R. and S.S. Bureau 100.00 Missionary Education Movement 300.00 Library Service 50.00 Safety Boxes and Legal Expense 1,075.00 President's Emergency Fund 150.00 Year Book 700.00 Museum 50.00 General Conference 450.00 Leaflet Report 375.00 Leaflets for Theological Students 25.00 Cuts for History 250.00 Miscellaneous 200.00 Total $34,707.50 Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Secretary of the Home Department. —

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ACTIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TAKEN ON RECOMMENDATION OF THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT The following actions of the Foreign Department taken from the close of the annual meeting of the General Executive Committee, 1934, to the close of the annual meeting, 1935, were reported to the General Executive Com- mittee and confirmed by it :

General Actions It was voted that Mr. Fahs should continue his relations to the Society and that the general treasurer be authorized to pay him the sum of $200 a month for a period of seven months. That the India and China Committees may each have a meeting before May at such place as well be least expensive, such meetings to be financed from the general treasury. That an educational grant of $200 for study in the United States be given to Miss Pearl Chiang, a Chinese girl from Chengtu, West China Union Uni- versity, from the McDowell Fellowship Fund. That subject to the approval of the field reference committee, $300 be granted to Mary Carleton for study in the United States, this amount to be paid from the McDowell Fellowship Fund.

India It was voted that we approve the change of Miss Mary Boyde's appoint, ment from West China to India and her sailing this fall. That we pay our share of the budget of the campaign committee on Christian Colleges in India not to exceed $250. That the work of Raipur District, Central Provinces Conference, India, be discontinued. That the evangelistic work be closed as soon as practicable. That the school be closed not later than the end of the current school year. That the property be sold at the price which in the judgment of the field reference committee is the best obtainable. That the names of patrons honored in the school be transferred to other projects, so that the interests of the Branches involved may be conserved. That current work appropriations to Raipur be discontinued April 1, 1936, except as inescapable obligations may require their continuance. That since Nettie Bacon may need to return to this country at the end of a three year term for family reasons, the New York Branch treasurer be authorized to pay her only $125 per quarter for the next three years, and shall hold the rest of her salary in a fund to provide her passage in this emergency. To authorize a cable to Bishop Badley, telling him that we have voted the return to Gujarat before July 1, 1936, of Misses Heist, Newton, Rose and Austin. That we approve the general plan presented by the field reference committee of Bengal Conference namely: that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society give Mt. Hermon School with all its assets, liabilities and responsibilities to an Inter-Mission Board, whenever arrangements can be made satisfactory to all parties concerned. That upon receipt of a definite proposition which among other details shall include the composition of the Inter-Mission Board, we take further action. That Miss Hooper be authorized to issue powers of attorney necessary for the consummation of the sale of the Raipur property. That we gladly accept the plan presented by the field reference committee 108 Reports that Mt. Hermon School, from the beginning of the school year in 1936, take over the support of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society missionaries in the school. That the following cablegram to Bishop Robinson and Miss Ruth Field be authorized: "General Executive approve general plan Mt. Hermon transfer to Inter-Mission Board. Further action awaits definite proposal. Approve school paying three missionary salaries beginning April 1, 1936." That the salary of the doctor at Puntamba now included in "Tulsa 13," be set at $500. That, after conference with the general treasurer, a sum not to exceed Rs. 3700 be released from the reserve fund of Burma Conference for the purpose of starting a pension and annuity fund for the retirement of Bible women.

Isabella Thoburn College Committee

The treasurer reported a balance of $10,176.23 in the building fund. Voted that Miss Hooper be asked to write Mrs. Boyd assuring her of our appreciation of her offer to give one-tenth the total cost of the proposed new chapel if the remaining nine-tenths are secured,—the chapel to cost $25,000 to $50,000, also assuring her of our active effort to secure the sum needed. That Miss Hooper interview an architect to ascertain the type of a plan he could develop for $25,000 to $35,000.

China The candidate committee recommends that Miss Eunice Elizabeth Smith be accepted to meet the need in Foochow Conference. That Dr. A. Evelyn Leadbeater, who has had one term in medical work in Korea, be assigned temporarily (probably for one year) to Sleeper Davis Hospital, Peiping, China, subject to the agreement of the field reference committee. Resolved that the question of government registration of Sleeper Davis Hospital, of Peiping, China, be left to the judgment of Miss Ruth Danner, and the field reference committee, with the recommendation that, if possible, they defer registration until after General Executive Meeting in the Fall. Voted that we, the field reference committee of Kiangsi Woman's Con- ference, submit the following plan for Knowles Bible Training School, with our recommendation for adoption, to the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, through the secretary, Mrs. Franklin Reed, due to the absence of the ofiicial correspondent, making notation that in order to speed up action the matter be sent to all members of the Foreign Department immediately, and asking for cable report of the Foreign Department action. That for the present, Knowles shall keep two years of preparatory work gradually eliminating this section within the next five years, if possible. That the present Bible school 1, 2, 3, be registered with the Government as a vocational school (it being understood by us that Bible is required in each class and that this section is to be registered on J^ of the appropriation for Knowles Bible Training School plus students' fees in this department). That there be a strictly Bible school of three years with diploma un- registered, with entrance from our own vocational school, from junior high school, or the equivalent. That there be added to this Bible school, at least one year of post-graduate work in Bible and Religious Education, and that it be made an A grade Bible school as soon as possible, it being understood that as the preparatory work is eliminated its appropriation shall be added to the Bible school. Foreign Depart?nent 109

Resolved thaX the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church hereby authorizes the sale of the property located in Taianfu, China, known as the Davis School Teachers Residence, West suburb of Taian, Cheng Ch'uan Street north end of street, east side. Bounded on the east by the property of the Methodist Episcopal Church (General Board); on the west by the street; on the south by the property of Miss Hsu, purchaser, and on the north by the property of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. That the said Foreign Department hereby authorize Florence Hooper, treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to issue the necessary power or powers of attorney in the name of the said Society, to enable the completion of the sale above authorized. That Miss Edith Fredericks be appointed central treasurer for China of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, her term of service to begin when Miss Bessie A. Hollows, now central treasurer, leaves Shanghai. That on or after the assumption of her duties as central treasurer for China, Aliss Fredericks may open accounts in the name of the said Society with such banks throughout China as she may deem necessary and expedient. That in case of the death or disability of Miss Fredericks, Miss Julia Bonafield be authorized to act as central treasurer for China for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church until other or different action is taken by the Foreign Department of the said Society. That the special gift of $1300 now in the hands of the treasurer be released for repair of buildings in Hinghwa Conference. That because of present conditions we are forced to say we cannot allow the $5000 for a new day school building in Futsing. That the ofificial correspondent contact the field reference and property committee of Kiangsi Province concerning the sale of the Ida Kahn Memorial Hospital for women and children at Nanchang. In connection with the disposition of the building a part of the proceeds shall be used to establish a fitting memorial for Dr. Ida Kahn. That during the first six months of 1936 a special grant of $200 Mex. be made on the salary of each missionary in China. That for the first six months of 1936 a special emergency appropriation be made to each of the China Conferences from Branch exchange gain equivalent to one-sixth of the present current work appropriation in Mexican dollars, this appropriation to be used in no case for new projects but only temporarily to supplement salaries of nationals and work appropriations of institutions because of extra expense incident to the low price of silver. The distribution shall be made by the field reference committee of each conference to specific individuals and institutions in a proportion as nearly as shall seem wise, equivalent to the original appropriation. The funds for these emergency appropriations shall be obtained by the central treasurer for China by charging against the exchange gain of each Branch an amount in Mexican dollars equivalent to one-sixth of the current appropriation of the Branch reckoned in Mexican dollars at 2 to 1. Thus if the appropriation is $2,000 gold, $4,000 Mex., the amount charged shall be $666.66 Mex. That because of the extreme emergency in which we find ourselves, we regret our inability to grant the $1,000 for the purchase of the land at Dsen Jai Ngai to provide a safe and proper entrance for this compound. That the Chungking Memorial Hospital balances, now on the field, and those occurring during the ensuing year be used according to the discretion of the field reference committee of the West China Conference to cover deficits within the conference. That the Hitt Training School be closed as of date July 1, 1936; that all work appropriations other than staff salaries cease as of the same date; no RepoJ-ts that the nationals on the staff be re-assigned to other school work for one additional year (July 1, 1936 and June 30, 1937), their further relationship to the Society and its schools to depend upon the continuation of these schools, upon the approved work and adaptation of the nationals (transferred from the Hitt Trainir g School) in their rew situations. That the work of the Scciety at Taianfu be closed immediately. That the $1700 gold saved by North China for public health work but included in the $11,000 China balances which are called back for general budget adjustment, be replaced from the work appropriations for Taianfu. That of the remainir g Taianfu appropriations ($2618 gold) $1,318 be applied to the So- ciety's budget adjustment, and that $1,300 be used for program advance in North China. Money totalling $1,318 be taken as follows out of the following appropriations. Des Moines Branch $42.00 Topeka Branch 248.50 Columbia River Branch 84.00 Minneapolis Branch 75.00 Northwestern Branch 868.50

That the Society's properly at Taianfu be not disposed of pending the emergence of mere defiriie policies on the part of both Board and Society with reference to the future development of the work at Shantung. That in view of the fact that the two missionaries from West China will be coming home, summer of 1936, for retirement, we ask that these vacancies be cared for—one by transfer of a nurse from North China, —the other a replacement by a new candidate. That in response to a request from Mintsing for permission to erect a home economics practice house from funds on the field, we reply that we cannot grant permission for this or similar buildings elsewhere at this time, in view of the fact that a complete revision of our entire budget is now in process and that we wish to have the new program fully in mind before authorizing additions to present plants.

HwA Nan Board of Trustees

The regular Board of Trustees meeting was held in the Hotel Kingsway, St. Louis, Mifsoiri, en Ccicber 24. In view of the followirg preliminary statement the committee presented for approval several recommendations: "The growirg trend in Chinese educational circles is at this time clearly away from co-education. The Educational Commissioner in Foochow advises against both co-education in college work and against the move of the college to the proximity of Fukien Christian University. Negotiations entered upon for such a move have not progressed advantageously and a satisfactory site has not been found."

Recommended'

1. That in view of all the facts it is inexpedient to make further effort at this time to move Hwa Nan from its present site. 2. That whatever development of Hwa Nan can be achieved at its present site shall be vigorously sought. 3. That an approach be made to the American Board with reference to the possibility of the high school of that Board being regarded as the high school of both missions, the Society's high school being closed, to leave the field clear for the American Board School. Foreign Department 111

4. That if it be desirable in order to make it possible for the American Board to carry its larger load of high school work the Society lend to the American Board the services of one or two of its missionaries now teaching in our hi^h school. 5. That in return, we ijivite the American Board to lend to Hwa Nan one or two teachers for the college. 6. That we welcome the suggestions from the Church Missionary Society that one of the English lady missionaries might be available for teaching at Hwa Nan.

7. That Magaw Hospital building and our high school building, when vacated be made available to Hwa Nan. 8. That these proposals are all to be regarded not as mandatory but as suggestions commended to Bishop Gowdy and to the Hwa Nan Board of Directors.

9. That the interest on the Endowment Fund be sent to Hwa Nan semi- annually. This will amount to $824 a year. 10. That the 1937 young peoples' Thank-Offering apply on an endowment fund, the interest therefrom to apply on science equipment, especially strengthening the work in home economics. 11. That the current work budget for Hwa Nan be continued as last year.

Japan Voted that in view of the very great need of Kwassui College for additional land for necessary playing field and the fact that Chinzei Gakuin through its move to another site has vacated just such land as is needed by Kwassui, this land being just across the street from the Woman's College, and further, in view of the fact that the Society has offered to put the use of a number of its medical properties in China at the disposal of the Board of Foreign Missions for medical purposes, it was voted to ask the Board of Foreign Missions whether it may not be practicable for the Board to put the Chinzei land that has been vacated at the disposal of the Society for a series of years, say five, until the Society may find resources for its purchase. That the present appropriation of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for Sendai District of Yen 2450 be reduced on the following scale: for 1936-1937 Yen 1920 of the appropriation be used in Sendai after which it be decreased at the rate of Yen 240 per year for eight years. That $129 released bythe Sendai reduction in appropriations be transferred to the Joshi Shia Gakko (Women's Department Theological School), Tokyo. That out of the 17,000 Yen released from the sale of property at Sendai, 3500 Yen be l,eft in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society treasury in Japan, to be allocated in five or more annual payments to the appropriations of Sendai District, the remainder of the 17,000 Yen (13,500 Yen) be brought to the United States to apply on the general budget reduction.

Korea Voted to approve the recommendation of the field that Wonju be closed as a resident station and the property sold; that the appropriation $270 for the social evangelistic center be dropped from the appropriations as of Jan. 1, 1936. To co-operate with the Presbyterians and the Methodist Church South, to form a small committee in the United States to conserve the interests of the social evangelistic center in Seoul. That in view of the present critical situation in the Korean Methodist Church the East Gate Hospital be continued at least for another year. —

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EwHA College Recommended that a room in the new dormitory of Ewha College be named in honor of Mrs. Clifford Myers of Cincinnati in consideration of a legacy of $1,000. That we authorize the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society to make a loan of $8,000 at 4 per cent to the Co-operating Committee of Ewha College. This loan being secured by items already promised and to be repaid in the next four years.

Malaya In the process of working toward complete self support which we expect will be attained in the not distant future we propose that as a first step in

that direction and in addition to the present 30 per cent cut, we further curtai I current work appropriations by an added cut of 10 per cent of the 1935 appropriations bearing in mind that this action is predicated upon keeping faith with the British Government in their demand that a missionary teacher shall be supported by us in each of our seven schools. Foted that the field reference committee study their budget in the light of the need for reductions in appropriations and that they be requested to make a 10 per cent reduction.

Mexico Voted, That the $10,000 released by the closing of the Mexico schools be applied to the reduction of the general budget of the Society; that the remainder approximately $7,000 be left in Mexico for evangelistic work, literature, the Industrial School if it is able to open, etc. We request the field reference committee to send us a detailed report of their suggestions for the reallocation of funds, the use and possible sale of property; that Mrs. Diefendorf, Miss Hooper and Miss Knox be appointed with power to approve the allocation of funds for 1936.

That $3,460 of the Mexico appropriations be transferred to North Africa; That Miss Elsie Shepherd be made the treasurer of Mexico; That the present rate of exchange in Mexico be continued for another year; To reaffirm the action taken at the Mid-Vear meeting reading as follows: That under the present Mexican laws it is our judgment that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society cannot use any of its appropriations for the support of a primary, secondary or normal school, all of which have

to be recognized by the Government ; therefore we direct that schools of the above classes, now functioning, be closed as of the end of the present school year. Where this action closes schools which are using our property, we would approve the use of such property for hostels, social service work or such types of education as do not require government recognition.

Burma Resolved, That Miss Hazel Winslow be appointed treasurer for Burma of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, her term of service to begin at once. That on and after the assumption of her duties as treasurer for Burma, Miss Hazel Winslow may open accounts in the name of said Society with such banks in Burma as she may deem necessary and expedient and further that she may authorize any person or persons being missionaries of the said Society to operate such accounts. ; ;

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Philippine Islands

Voted, That the general treasurer be authorized to pay from the Edith I. Gale Memorial Mission Fund the cost (beginning October 1, 1935) of medical supervision at the Mary J. Johnston Hospital, Manila. In view of the conditions of poverty and rapidly growing Christian Church in the Philippine Islands, we think it unwise to propose any reduction in appropriations at this time.

Sumatra Considering the probability that we are to be released from the support of two missionaries who are to be taken over by the Swedish Church, we recommend that no further reduction be considered at this time.

North Africa Voted, That the Society shall continue its work in North Africa.

Italy Voted, That Baltimore Branch continue the salary of Mrs. Ruese for at least another year; that Mrs. Ruese be requested to pay 150 lira a month toward her living expenses, any additional expenses to be paid by the general treasurer.

South America Voted, That Katherine M. Donahue of the East South America Conference be assigned to Crandon Institute, Montevideo upon her return to the field. That Miss Ruth Wilson be retired with no salary allowance, her home salary to be paid by Northwestern Branch until July 1, 1936. That Gleason Institute and Colegio Norte Americano in Rosario be closed as of the end of this school year if possible; of the $9,301, released by this closing $3,000 be transferred to social work in Buenos Aires; that both properties be sold at the earliest possible date, the treasurer to issue the necessary powers of attorney to consummate the sale. Cable authorized.

Relating to Missionaries Voted, Upon unanimous recommendation of the candidate committee, that Miss Florence Stevenson, nurse, be accepted and that she be assigned to Kiangsi Conference; Upon unanimous recommendation of the candidate committee that Miss Marion Derby be accepted, and that she be assigned to Crandon Institute, S. A. Upon unanimous recommendation of the candidate committee, that Miss Mary Shearer be accepted as a candidate and assigned to China. It was further voted, that Miss Shearer be sent, for one year, to the Hartford School of Missions, her expense to be paid from the McDowell Fellowship Fund; That Miss Dorothy Stevenson be accepted as a contract teacher and sent to Malaya. Miss Stevenson will be the second one of the three voted sent to Malaya in Evanston, March, 1935; That Alma Elvira Erickson, nurse, be accepted and that she be assigned to West China as a replacement That the treasurer be authorized to send cable to Bishop Welch regarding the Misses Knox, Fredericks, Danner and Battin. Resolved (The candidate committee recommends) that Miss Martha —

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Gertsch be accepted as a candidate subject to an entirely satisfactory medical report, and that she be one of the three missionaries voted sent to Malaya by the Foreign Department at Evanston, April, 1935. Resignations Accepted: New York Branch—H. Isabel Latimer. Baltimore Branch—Lillie M. Rockwell, September, 1935. Cincinnati Branch—A. Beta Scheirich, Beredene Krill, Edna Van Fleet, -Mabel Frees, Florence Kleinhenn. Des Moines Branch—Dr. Clara B. VVhitmore. Minneapolis Branch—Mary A. Johnson, Margaret Burmeister. Topeka Branch—Lillian Greer. Retirement Relation Granted: Cincinnati Branch—Elizabeth Hoge. Northwestern Branch—Mabel Eddy, retires January 1, 1936, $296.40 allowance per year (special additional grant of $150 for one year). Mildred Foster (without allpwance). Eulalia Fox, retires January 1, 1936, $250 per year. Ruth Wilson, retires July 1, 1936, salary paid by Northwestern Branch until that date. Des Moines Branch—Lydia Trimble, retires October 1, 1935, allowed $600, less five per cent. Elizabeth Turner (without allowance). Special Cases: New York Branch— Dr. A. Evelyn Leadbeater, transferred to China from Korea.

Cincinnati Branch—Miss Laura Schleman, accepted as regular missionary instead of contract teacher. Pacific Branch—Mary Louise Lane, detained, salary allowed one year. Irma Schlater, detained, salary allowed one year.

Insurance Pension Policies Resolved:—(!) That Miss Florence Hooper, resident of Baltimore, Md., U. S. A., treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church be duly empowered by this resolution of the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to surrender the deferred annuity contracts or any of them, in the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, taken out by the said Society on the lives of the following employees of the said Society, for their cash surrender value, to assign said contracts and generally to exercise all otherrights under said contracts and to execute and deliver in the name of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and for and in its behalf, all forms of receipt, assignment and other instruments of writing which may be required by said Assurance Company for the purposes aforesaid : Mildred Foster, Margaret R. GoNGWER, Florence E. Kleinhenn, Beta Scheirich, Helen Gladys Moore, Mary A. Johnson. Resolved:— (2) That Miss Florence Hooper, resident of Baltimore, Md., U. S. A., treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church be duly empowered by this resolution of the Foreign De- partment of the W'oman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, to surrender the deferred annuity contracts or any of them in the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of Springfield, Mass., taken out by the said Society for their cash surrender value, to assign such contracts and generally to exercise all other rights under said contracts and to deliver ^nd execute in the name of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and for —

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and in its behalf all forms of receipt, assignment and other instruments of writing which may be required by said Insurance Company for the purposes aforesaid: Hannah Isabel Latimer, Thelma A. Rebstock, Anna Mabel Taylor, Edna Van Fleet. Resolved:— [3) That Miss Florence Hooper, resident of Baltimore, Md., U.S. A., treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, be duly empowered by this resolution of the Foreign Depart- ment of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to surrender the Retirement Life Income contracts or any of them in the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, Pa., taken out by the said Society, for their cash surrender value, assign said contracts and generally to exercise all other rights under said contracts and to execute and deliver in the name of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and for and in its behalf, all forms of receipt, assignment and other instruments of writing which may be required by the said insurance company for the purposes aforesaid: Olive E. Kennard.

Relating to Appropriations, 1936 Resolved:—That 1936 appropriations be authorized as follows to be made from funds in the hands of the general treasurer. a. Zenana Papers $1,100 from income of the Zenana Paper Fund.

b. Income of the Francesca N. Gamble Fund, Sadie B. Ferguson Fund and other funds for medical education, for medical scholarships to be paid candidates for medical missionary service under the Society, as voted by the Foreign Department.

c. Income of the Isabella Thoburn College Endowment for scholarships and professorships. d. $46,000 retirement allowances.

e. Foreign Administration Budget for 1936. Taxes—as required Interest and Exchange $3,250 Fukien Bureau of Building Construction 350 Committee on Co-operation in Latin America 700 Committee on Co-operation in Philippines 715 Joint Committee on Religious Education in Foreign Fields 500 Executive Board of M. E. Church in Southern Asia 250 China Christian Council 90 Foreign Treasurers' Expenses 2,500 Title Expenses and Powers of Attorney 500 Miscellaneous 1,000

Resolved:—a. That retirement allowances in 1936 be, as they were in 1935, cut 5 per cent (1932 allowances being 100 per cent).

b. That field and home salaries of missionaries in active service be in 1936 as they were in 1935, 85 per cent of such salaries in 1932.

c. That current work appropriations be in 1936 as they were in 1935, 70 per cent of such appropriations in 1932. The above resolutions, a, b, c, indicate that there will be no increase in the cut for 1936. Resolved:—That 500 copies of an appropriations booklet be printed, the cost to be paid by the general treasurer, and that the booklet contain a full list of missionaries' salaries and travel, a summary of conference totals by Branches and the usual miscellaneous general items. 116 Reports

A study of Branch obligations to the Field on our present basis as compared with actual appropriations authorized by Branches for 1936 shows an excess of obligations over authorized Branch appropriations of approximately $150,000. The foreign field treasurers and the treasurer at home report to us as available to help meet this excess for 1936 amounts from unused building balances and similar undesignated sources from closing work have accumulated approximately as follows:

China (on the field Mex 31,000) $12,000 Burma (on the field) 5,000 Malaya (10 per cent reduction in appropriations) 1,500 South America: (Building balances) $5,700 Current work reduction 6,300 12,000

India (Raipur, Basim and Sironcha current work reductions) 5,556 Balance from 1935 Assistance to Branches Fund 40,000 Fire Insurance F"und 31,938, Mexico (Closing of schools) 10,000 Korea (Wonju) 270 Japan (Sendai property balances Yen 13,500) 4,050 Miscellaneous reductions to be later decided on by Foreign Department in detail 27,686

$150,000

Resolved:-—That the general treasurer be directed to pay quarterly from the funds above listed to each of the Branches wherein there is the above mentioned excess of field obligations over authorized Branch appropriations, one-fourth of such excess if needed by the Branch to meet its appropriations. Voted, On motion of the treasurer that $31,938 now in the Fire Insurance Fund be transferred by the treasurer to the account on her books known as "Assistance to Branches 1936." Voted, On motion of Mrs. Hardie.that 1936 appropriations be printed in Branch reports giving conference totals only for current work, names and passage of missionaries on the present reduced basis, following the form of Appropriations Book as published by the general treasurer, and that explana- tory statement precede these printed appropriations where necessary. Voted, Upon motion of Mrs. Moore, that items known as "Tulsa 13" (see Tulsa Minutes) be put into appropriations. Above action later rescinded and following action Voted, That the general treasurer be authorized to pay from the "Assistance to Branches Fund" the "Tulsa 13" list as revised. Items placed in revised list to be put in Branch appropriations for 1937. Voted, That the general treasurer and the official correspondent make such adjustments in Sumatra exchange as shall seem wise and notify Branches. Voted, That in 1936 there be no appropriation to Clotilda Lyon McDowell Fellowship Fund. Voted, That in case of an emergency need at Rosario arising if that school cannot close, the general treasurer be authorized to advance necessary monies for running expenses until such time as school can be legally closed, this advance to be refunded from sale of property. Voted, That general treasurer be authorized to pay indemnities due to closing of Mexico schools from general treasury, this amount to come from sale of properties. Voted, That general treasurer be authorized to pay necessary indemnities Foreign Department 117 for the Rosario teachers from the general treasury, this amount to be refunded from the sale of property. Voted, That because of the increased cost of living resulting from the depre- ciation of currency in Argentina and Uruguay, a special appropriation be made from gain by exchange to supplement the salary of each of our missionaries and contract teachers in Eastern South America in proportion to the amount of her salary not being paid in the United States, of 210 pesos per quarter in Argentina and 240 pesos per quarter in Uruguay. Voted, To approve the following readjustments in appropriations for Mexico and North Africa:

Deducted from Mexico: To be added to North Africa: New England $1,000 New England $1,000 New York 800 New York 800 Philadelphia 3,800 Baltimore 100

Cincinnati 1,000 Northwestern . . . 1,260 Baltimore 100 Pacific 300

Northwestern . . . 2,000 Des Moines 500 $3,460 Topeka 500 Pacific 300

$10,000

Resolved, That the treasurer in consultation with the corresponding secretaries of Northwestern and Cincinnati Branches be authorized to adjust the special work appropriations which are in question because certain German auxiliaries have been transferred from Cincinnati to Northwestern Branches and to provide ij necessary from "assistance to Branches fund" the cash necessary to prevent these items lapsing on the field.

Report of Comtnittee on Nominations Foreign Department Member of Committee on Nominations for THE Society—Mrs. Otis Moore. Joint Committee on Religious Education—Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf. Methodist Joint Committee on Korea, Mexico and Japan—Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell, Miss Juliet Knox. Committee on Christian Higher Education in India—-Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. Franklin Reed, Miss Ruth Ransom. Committee on Christian Literature for Women and Children in Mission Lands—Miss Clementina Butler. Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China— Representa- tives on Board of Ginling College, West China Union University, Shantung Christian University, Yenching College. Union College Committees—Ginling College:—Miss Elizabeth Bender, Mrs. F. J. McConnell. Alternate, Mrs. Albert Beebe. Isabella Thoburn College:— Miss Ella Watson, Mrs. Wm. Boyd, Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Dr. Geo. Briggs, Mrs. Thomas Donohugh, Miss Florence Hooper. Alternate, Mrs. Fred Victor. Advisory members, Mrs. Ellis Phillips, Mrs. Wm. Boyd. West China Union University:—Mrs. Frank Baker. Alternate, Mrs. W. E. Scarrit. —

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Woman's Christian College of Japan:—Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. Wm. E. Mitchell, Miss Margaret Forsythe. Alternate, Mrs. Fred Foster.

Eivha College:—Mrs. J. M. Avann, Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Miss Florence Hooper. Alternate, Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell. Women's Christian College of Madras:—-Miss Clementina Butler, Mrs. Walter A. Jessup. Alternate, Mrs. B. H. McCoy.

Shantung Christian Utiiversity:— Mrs. J. K. Cecil, Mrs. Franklin Reed. Alternate, Mrs. Eric North. Vellore Medical College:—-Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Clementina Butler. Alternate, Mrs. B. F. McCoy.

Yenching College for Women:—-Mrs. J. K. Cecil, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf. Alternate, Miss Ruth Ransom. Board of Trustees, Mrs. J. M. Avann. Foochow Christian Union Hospital:— Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. J.M. M. Gray, Mrs. Frank Baker. Alternate, Mrs. Frank Home. Board of Trustees, Dr. Lillian Quimby. Permanent Committee of Mission Bo.\rd§ Working in the Philippine Islands:—Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. Frank Baker. Alternate, Mrs. Victor. Committee on Co-operation in Latin America:—Miss Elizabeth Lee, Miss Juliet Knox, Mrs. F. J. McConnell. Alternate, Miss Ruth Ransom. Rural Missions Co-operating Committee:— Mrs. Reed. Alternate Mrs. Victor.

Special Committees Committee on the Revision of the Budget for the Field:—-Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Diefendorf, Miss Hooper, Mrs. McConnell, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Peel, Miss Watson, Miss Knox. Committee on Rules:—Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Reed. Mrs. Franklin Reed, Secretary Foreign Department.

Report of Committee on the Revision of the Budget The committee on the revision of the budget for the foreign field, brought with its unanimous recommendation, the following Resolution which had come from one of its sub-committees, the medical committee. After thorough consideration by the Department, it was Voted, That a copy of the Resolution be sent to the Board of Foreign Missions, addressed to Dr. Edwards and Dr. DifTendorfer, with a covering letter explaining our action. Both Resolution and letter were sent to the policy committee of the Board, now meeting.

Resolution Voted, That in view of opportunities for developing new and greatly needed types of medical work in China, and in view also of present budget realities, the policy of the Society with reference to its hospitals in China, be changed as follows: I. Those stations where both the Board of Foreign Missions and the Society have hospitals, the Society to close its hospital, leaving the field to the Board, and the Society to offer to co-operate with the Board through the training of nurses and through the continued support of certain of the American or Chinese women doctors or nurses who can be taken over by the Board hospital, and also through lending the use of the Society's present hospital property and equipment to the Board hospitals if needed for medical purposes. Foreign Department 119

2. In each station (except Sien^'u and Futsing) where the Society has a hospital and the Board has none, to close the Society's hospital. 3. In the case of Sienyu, to discover, through conference with representatives of the Board of Foreign Missions, of the American Board and of the Church Missionary Society, whether the hospital is regarded as essential to a general medical program for North Fukien, and if so, to offer the use of the hospital and its equipment as the Society's share in such a general medical program. Futsing hospital would be continued as at present. 4. To enter upon a program of advance in health education and in preventive medicine according to plans now in the making, this program to be put into effect in areas where there is great present need and welcome for such work, and utilizing for this end certain of the doctors and nurses now on the staff of hospitals that may be designated for closing. 5. To co-operate in the training of nurses in union hospitals. 6. To utilize, in part at least, for underwriting this new program funds that may be realized through the sale of certain hospital properties to be released by this program of readjustment, and in part also through current work appropriations so released. This inclusive program of advance and of adjustment shall go into effect by October 1, 1936.

Covering Letter

Dr. John R. Edwards, St. Louis, Mo., October 19, 1935. Dr. R.\lph E. Diffendorfer, 150 Fifth Ave., New^ York, N. Y.

Dear Dr. Eduards and Dr. Diffendorfer: Herewith we are sending j'ou a copy of the action voted by the Foreign Department of our General Executive Committee and pertaining to a changed policj' for our medical work in China. You will understand, of course, that we are not proposing to cease medical work, which is a phase of mission endeavor having a large place in the minds and hearts of the women of our constituency, but to change the aspects of this work on which we shall hereafter place emphasis. Social service, rural reconstruction and health programs will all involve a medical ministry. Definite plans for these developments are being formulated and a program to this end will be ready by next autumn. Moreover, we are assured by Dr. Hume that the need for American women doctors is decreasing as Chinese women are becoming accustomed to the services of men physicians. This change of attitude synchronizes with a difficult}- on our part in enlisting American women medical candidates for service in China and with our need to make significant readjustments in our financial commitments. We have every purpose to pla^' fair with our present medical and nursing personnel in China and, of course, we wish to use their skill and experience where these will best serve China's needs and the general mission program. Further, as already indicated, we propose in due course to reach out into new types of medical ministry-. Our approach to the Board of Foreign Missions with reference to certain persons and properties releasable by the carrying out of the policy indicated, will be an evidence of our desire to co-operate just as far as practicable with the Board and also in enterprises involving wider union. The long time continuance of such co-operation through the provision by us of staff personnel and of their support in the Board or in union hospitals must depend, of course, on whether the administrative officers and the supporting constituency of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society become convinced that such co-operation 120 Reports

represents the most effective use of our resources, and also on whether this co-operation as it works out, proves to be true co-operation on both sides or to be only the support of secondary and auxiliary activities on our part. It is recognized by us, of course, that details growing out of this policy proposal will call for patient negotiation between the Society and the Board in the early stages of the adjustment involved. We shall be in session at the Kingsway Hotel, St. Louis, for two days after your committee on policy and program shall have finished its work. Whether this policy proposal set forth in the enclosed resolution, in so far as it pertains to the work and institutions of the Board, be or be not acceptable to your committee on policy and program we shall be grateful for a telegraphed night letter sent on Tuesday or Wednesday night which will enable our Foreign Depart- ment to confirm or to reconsider this policy resolution, and then to secure final action by our General Executive Committee before the adjournment of this annual meeting of the Committee. We trust that your committee on policy and program may be guided to the soundest conclusions not only on the matter of medical policy but also on all other issues which are to come before your committee.

Sincerely yours.

The following reply was received from Dr. DifTendorfer on October 23, 1935:—

Mrs. DoR|R Diefendorf: Your proposals concerning medical work in China were recommended by our policy committee to Board for approval in principle. In case Board approves committee recommends adjustments be referred to joint committee on consultation and that our executive committee be given power to take final action on details. Do you agree to this procedure? R. E. DiFFENDORFER.

After further consideration, it was unanimously voted to send second letter to the policy committee of the Board, stating in clearer terms and in more detail what it was felt should be the Society's position in the matter. Another letter was also voted sent to the policy committee of the Board. This was in regard to our work in Malaya and Sumatra, and came to the Depart- ment with the unanimous approval of the multi-country committee, in reply to the following paragraph from the minutes of the committee on consultation held in Columbus, September, 1935.

In reply to a letter from Dr. Diflfendorfer calling for action and reply by wire on the following paragraph from the minutes of the committee of consultation held in Columbus, September, 1935:

"That we favor an experiment in a unified administrative approach to Conferences and recommend to the Society and the Board that the field finance committees and the field reference committees in these conferences be reconstituted on a basis of equal members and then merged into a field committee of the Board and the Society. This committee under the leadership of the Bishop shall undertake the following:

a. Study the needs of the field as a whole keeping in mind the work of other Churches in the same territory. b. Review the existing program of both the Society and the Board with :

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the thought of work that might be strengthened, work that might be eliminated, possible new work. c. Make a unified program out of these studies. d. Indicate the responsibility of the Society and the Board in the total program. e. Send total program and estimates to both the Society and the Board for approval. f. When acted upon by the Society and the Board, the program will then be referred to this joint committee on the field for administration.

That if and when the above program is approved by the Society and the Board it be carried out in Malaya and Sumatra."

The following telegram was sent to the committee on policy of the Board of Foreign Missions, October 22, 1935, from the Foreign Department: "Voted that we favor an experiment in a unified administrative approach to the Malaya and Sumatra Conferences and request that the field finance committees and the field reference committees in these conferences be reconstituted on a basis of equal members and then merged into a field committee of the Board and the Society. This merging shall not involve the merging of the field treasuries of the Board and the Society. The committees under the leadership of the Bishop shall undertake the following:

a. Study the needs of the field as a whole keeping in mind the work of other Churches in the same territory. b. Review the existing program of both the Society and the Board with the thought of work that might be strengthened, work that might be eliminated, possible new work. c. Make a unified program out of these studies. d. Indicate the specific and detailed responsibility of the Society and that of the Board in the total program as the joint committee visions such responsibility. e. Send total program and detailed estimates to both the Society and the Board for consideration and then the acceptance by each of such share as it may be able to assume. f. When acted upon by the Society and the Board the program and the detailed estimates as accepted shall then be referred to this joint committee on the field for administration. The above plan was approved with the idea that the plan shall come up for thorough reconsideration in 1939."

Signed, Mrs. Thos. Nicholson, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf.

The following telegram was received by Mrs. Thomas Nicholson from Dr. Diflfendorfer "Policy comittee will recommend to Board next month approval unified administration proposal as follows: We accept your addition to first paragraph and add 'Unless at some time and place such united treasuries become mutually advantageous and are approved by the Society and the Board.' We accept your (d) and propose change in (e) to read 'lor joint consideration and then the acceptance, etc' We accept your (f) and your proposals for 1939. Did you formally approve trying this in Malaya and Sumatra? Can you consider above changes and wire Wednes- day rnorning so we can convey united resolution to Board and your committees?" Received St. Louis, October 23, a.m. 122 Reports

After the two matters had been presented to the General Executive Committee and been given careful consideration, it was Voted, That the following telegram be sent to Dr. Diffendorfer: "General Executive Committee unanimously votes: Your committee's proposal in regard united treasuries seems unnecessary at this time in view thorough reconsideration in 1939. Your proposal change in (e) is accepted. Our Society approves trying plan in Malaya and Sumatra. Also in reply your telegram China medical policy. Your proposal adjustments be referred to joint committee on consultation accepted. Society votes so far as Society is concerned final action on details be referred to our Foreign Department to be polled by mail if necessary." Mrs. Thomas Nicholson. Sent October 23, 1935.

Reply Received October 23, 1935. "Policy committee felt that our phrase concerning united treasury should remain in our resolution thereby hoping it can have further discussion in consultation committee. All other matters O.K. We have had two great days. We send our greetings and good wishes." R. E. Diffendorfer, Treasurer's Report 123

TREASURER'S REPORT Report of Florence Hooper, Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church Baltimore, Maryland

GENERAL FUND—EXHIBIT A Statement of Receipts for Home Administration, Foreign Administration and Disbursements on Home and Foreign Administration Accounts for the year ended October 3, 1935.

Home Administration Receipts New England Branch 82,000.00 New York Branch 5,115.00 Philadelphia Branch 7,000.00 Baltimore Branch 940.00 Minneapolis Branch 1,150.00 Columbia River Branch 500.00 $16,705.00 Wesleyan Service Guild subscriptions for International Journal Religious Education 146.00

$16,851.00 Deficit October 3, 1935 39,347.54

SS6. 198.54

Home Administration Disbursements Deficit, October 3, 1934 $19,967.51 Subscriptions to InternationolJoutnal Religious Education SI 46.00 Travel expenses to General Executive Meeting, October, 1934 .... 7,747.88 Travel expenses to mid-year meeting of Home and Foreign Depart- ments and general officers. May, 1935 2,202.85 Expenses general officers (clerical help, postage, stationery, office expenses, etc.) 6.682.98 E^xpenses general office, Kew York City, (rent, salaries of secretary and assistants, office expenses twelve months) 560.00 (1933-34) 6,5C0.C0 (1934-35) Studerit work 1,072.12

Uoire Departirent: Junior woik S175.C0 Young people's work 500.00 Secretary's expenses 5.29 Minutes 24.00 Wesleyan Service Guild 1,000.00 Extension department 12.47 Miscellaneous 21.85 1,738.61 Foreign Department: Cables, minutes, secretary's expenses S183.09 Printing and distribution of 1935 appropriations 134.19 317.28 Transportation Bureau of the Methodist Episcopal Church 100.00 Budget—Dr. Charles H. Fahs 1,250.00

Jnterdencminational and Inter-Board Meetings: Tra\el to Ccrrmitteeon Consultation and Foreign Missions Conference 745.64 Forei,en Missicns Conference acd Federation of Wcrcen's Beards. 1935 arpropriation 3,1C0.C0 Travel to union college and hospital meetings... 804.80 Travel to Inter-Board meetings, etc 388.13 Travel to country committees 262.98 Indian College Campaign 3C0.CO .

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Miscellaneous: Share Plan letters $150.00 Safe deposit box 308.00 World Citizenship 150.00 Auditing accounts of treasurer and preparing Federal Income Tax Reports 250.00 Fidelity bond of treasurer 62.50 Certified copies of wills and legal expenses re bequests, powers of attorney 516.68 Printing Year Book and Executive Daily 594.31 Advertising and registration of securities 50.00 President's grant 58.46 Miscellaneous 171.81 $2,311.76 $36,231.03-

$56,198.54-

Due and Unpaid Account 1935 Home Administration Philadelphia Branch $2,000.00 Pacific Branch 4,000.00

$6,000.00

Which reduces deficit to $33,347.54

Foreign Administration Receipts New England Branch $1,500.00 New York Branch 4,000.00 Philadelphia (1934) 2,500.00 Baltimore Branch 2,025.00 Minneapolis Branch 300.00 Pacific Branch (For India National Christian Council) 175.00 $10,500.00' Deficit, October 3, 1935 21,297.94

$31,797.94

Foreign Administration Disbursements Deficit. October 3, 1934 $6,878.54 Taxes on buildings on the foreign field 12,674.69 Interest and exchange 4,180.46 Fukien Bureau of Building Construction 350.00 Committee on Christian Colleges in India 250.00 Committee on Co-operation in Latin America 700.00 Committee on Co-operation in Philippine Islands 65.00 Joint Committee on Religious Education in Foreign Fields 500.00 Executive Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church— India 414.52 Administrative cost Korean Methodist Church 532.51 Property and title e.Kpenses 1,436.49 International Councils: India $565.53 Africa (Sr. Moeira) 100.00 China 88.01 753.54 Dr. Hume's visit to hospitals in Far East 75.00 Expenses of foreign treasurers 2,987.19 $31,797.94

Due and Unpaid Account 1935 Philadelphia Branch $4,000.00 Pacific Branch 1,175.00

$5,175.00

Which reduces deficit to $16,122.94 Treasurer s Report 12S

UNION COLLEGES—EXHIBIT B

For the year ended October 3, 1935 Receipts New England Branch S700.00 New York Branch 190.40 Philadelphia Branch (1934) 2,203.60 Cincinnati Branch 2,199.60 Des Moines Branch 4.90 Topeka Branch 1,886.95 Minneapolis Branch 35.00 Pacific Branch 602.70 S7 823 15' Deficit, October 3, 1935 7,481.45

$15,304.60

Disbursements Deficit, October 3, 1934 85,011.15 West China University §700.00 Madras College 850.00 St. Christophers College 425.00 Vellore Medical School 475.00 Ginhng College 1.750.00 Woman's Christian College of Japan 4,693.45 Yenching College 1,400.00 10,293.45

$15,304.60

Due and Unpaid Account 1935 New York Branch S31S.00 Philadelphia Branch 2,203.60 Northwestern Branch 2,685.90 Pacific Branch 602.70

S5,807.20

Reducing deficit to $1,674.25

INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT—EXHIBIT C

For the year ended October 3, 1935

Balance, October 4, 1934 S902.97'

Receipts Gifts through Miss Achard $178.00 Gifts through Mrs. Nicholson 10.00 Gift of Bulgaria members 11 .36 Baltimore Branch 45.00 New York Branch 100.00

$1,247.35 Disbursements Literature and supplies for Units $34.26 Partial support of teacher (Faith Laio) 60.00 Special for Korea Unit 5.00 Secretary of German Work 350.00 Scandinavia (work and literature) 200.00 649.26

Balance, October 2, 1935 $598.07

Note:—Received after books closed, N. W. Branch—$100.00 —

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ZENANA PAPER FUND INCOME—EXHIBIT D For the year ended October 3, 1935 Balance, October 3, 1934 $2,107.84 Receipts Net income from securities held by Florence Hooper, treasurer 999.22

$3,107.06 Disbursements Drafts from India for Zenana Papers (Rs. 5250) 1,905.40

Balance October 3, 1935 $1,201.66

RETIREMENT FUND PRINCIPAL AND INCOME—EXHIBIT E For the year ended October 3, 1935 Balance, (cash and securities) October 3, 1934 $944,065.83 RETIREMENT FUND PRINCIPAL Receipts Gift of Miss Betty Baker $25.00 Legacy of Mary Louise Miller 2,775.70 Gift of Miss Violet McCullis 4.00 Legacy of Alice Means 4,572.62 — 7,377.32

W5 1.443. 15 Disbursements — Purchase of Pension Policies for missionaries actually retired: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada $174,302.70 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co 145,824.31 Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S 129,409.43 Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia 4,545.00 454,081.44

Balance, (cash and securities) October 31, 1935 $497,361.71 RETIREMENT FUND INCOME Receipts Income from investments $41,711.64 Deficit, October 3, 1935 34,076.14 $75,787.78 Disbursements Allowances paid to retired missionaries $46,029.15 Deficit, October 3, 1934 29,758.63 • — $75,787.78

Note:—Due from Pension Policies October 15, 1935 $19,578.27 Which will reduce income deficit to $14,497.87

PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF LAND, BUILDINGS AND NON-RECURRING ITEMS—EXHIBIT F Statement of Payments on Account of Land, Buildings, and Non-Recurring Items received by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for the year ended October 3, 1935 CHINA Hwa Nan College Endowment— (Interest to July 1, 1935) $901.25 Special gift Mrs. H. B. Earhart 2,000.00 Young People's Thank-Offering, 1935 (Foochow Union Christian Hospital) New England $500.00 New York 1 ,058.04 Baltimore 1,000.00 Des Moines 1,400.00 Minneapolis 400.00 Topeka 1 ,500.00 Columbia River 100.00 5,958.04 Treasurer s Report 127

Interest on China Invested Funds to July 1, 1935 Gertie Brethorst Memorial Kindergarten S48.47 Jessie B. Joyre Legacy 28.50 Legacy Lucy Hoag 5.65 Bashford gift for Peking Training School for Preachers' Wives. 128.64 $211.26 INDIA Bengal Darjeeling school buildings New York—Auxiliarj^ T. O 7,972.31

Indus River Tilaunid Sanitarium Contribution from Golden Rule Foundation 25.00

Northwest India Brindaban Hospital Interest to February 1, 1934 1,567.81

JAPAN Junior Thank-OflFering, 1934-1935 New England §400.00 New York 388.57 Baltimore 500.00 Des Moines 500.00 Minneapolis 200.00 Topeka 1,000.00 Columbia River 50.00 3,038.57 KOREA Woman's Christian College of Korea Special Gifts 7 1,000.00'

Junior Thank-Offering Philadelphia S7S0.00 Cincinnati 660.25 1,410.25

Interest on balances to March 1 , 1935 837.37 East Gate Hospital—Freeman gift Interest to July 1, 1935 80.97

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Mary J. JTohnston Hospital. Manila Received from Emma Gale Harris Estate for repairs, etc. 3,370.50'

EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA France Le Foyer Retrouve Account of sale of small strip of land S658.00 Received through Miss Whiteley 1,452.00 12 months rent 6.45 2,116.45 Bulgaria American Girls School, Lovetch Account sale of Sophia property 3,400.00

Praise Offering—19J6 New York 30.40

Young People's Thank-Offering 1934—Indegenous teachers and motors Philadelphia $4,000.00 Cincinnati 2,182.74 6,182.74

$110,102.92 128 Reports

PENSION PURCHASES—EXHIBIT G

Statement of Receipts and Disbursements, to and including October 3, 1935

Net Receipts to October 3, 1935 (after expenses) $350,546.14

Receipts Through Miss Achard from Swiss members re Lydia Urech's pension 891.48 Gift of Miss LeHuray 5.00 New England $1,500.00 New York 7,120.10 Philadelphia 14,081.77 Baltimore 1,785.00 Cincinnati 2,751.41 Des Moines 750.00 Minneapolis 400.00 Topeka 2,000.00 Columbia River 400.00 30,788.28

$382,230.90 Deficit, October 3, 1935 *60,483.72

$442,714.62 Disbursements Premiums paid 1927 to October 3, 1935 $497,834.61 Less: Refunds, cash surrender values 1927 to October 1, 1932 $11,748.04 October 1, 1932 to October 5, 1933 9,706.82 October 5, 1933 to October 3, 1934 21,289.72 October 3, 1934 to October 3, 1935 12,375.41 55,119.99

$442,714.62

'To be reduced by payments due and paid after October 3, 1935, to $46,474.44. Auditor s Certificate 129

AUDITOR'S CERTIFICATE

Baltimore, Maryland, October Fifteenth, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-five

Miss Florence Hooper, Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland.

Dear Madam: We have audited your accounts, as Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the year ended October 3, 1935, and submit, herewith, the following exhibits:

Exhibit A—Statement of Receipts for Home Administration, Foreign Administration, and Disbursements on Home and Foreign Administration Accounts, for the year ended October 3, 1935.

Exhibit B—Statement of Receipts and Disbursements Union Colleges for the year ended October 3 1935.

Exhibit C—Statement of Receipts and Disbursements International Department for the year ended October 3, 1935.

Exhibit D—Statement of Receipts and Disbursements Zenana Paper Fund for the year ended October 3, 1935.

Exhibit E—Statement of Retirement Fund Principal and Income for the year ended October 3, 1935.

Exhibit F—Statement of Payments on Account of Land, Buildings and Non-Recurring Items Received by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for the year ended October 3, 1935.

Exhibit G—Statement of Receipts and Disbursements—Pension Pur- chases, to and including October 3, 1935.

Exhibit H—Securities as at October 3, 1935.*

We hereby certify that, in our opinion, the accompanying Exhibits are correct as of October 3, 1935.

Respectfully, BLACK AND COMPANY, Certified Public Accountants, By WiLMER Black, C.P.A.

*List of securities not printed in Year Book. 130 Reports

PUBLICATION OFFICE

Annie G. Bailey, Publisher, in Account with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, of the Metliodist Episcopal Church RECEIPTS

October 1, 1934 to October 1, 1935

Subscriptions to Woman's Missionary Friend $34,035.67 Subscriptions to Junior Missionary Friend 4,784.66 Subscriptions to Frauen Missions Freund 430.14 $39,250.47 Literature $13,552.96 K. H. Supplies 2,392.60 S. B. Supplies 1.554.91 L. L. B. Supplies 392.03 17,892.50 General Executive Report $ 1,098.00 W. F. M. S. Badges 36.55 Workers Training Course 397.92 Credits on Accounts Paid .82 For Collections on Checks 5.11 Advertising 93.00 Cuts and Electros 32.44 From invested funds account 2,212.63 General Officers letter heads 23.85 Editor Woman's Missionary Friend for Postage 99.00 Executive Daily 449.42 4,448.74

Total Receipts $61,591.71 Cash on Hand October 1, 1934 9,421.23

$71,012.94

DISBURSEMENTS

October 1, 1934 to October 1, 1935 Woman's Missionary Friend Printing $14,833.88 Mailing and Postage 4,916.85 Illustrations 91.35 Refund on Subscriptions 14.65 Manuscripts 40.00 Bound Volumes 8.25 Rent 890.00 Clerical Services* 3,778.70 Editor's Salary* 1,590.00 Editor's Budget* 898.04 Editor's Postage 99.00 Editor's Supplies 5.63 Editing "Study "in Friend^ 202.56 Subscription Cultivation 519.97 $27,888.88

Junior Missionary Friend Printing $3,329.42 Mailing and Postage 445.66 Illustrations 284.73 Refunds on Subscriptions 10.90 Subscription Blanks and Expiration cards 26.40 Clerical Services* 598.00 Rent 250.00 Bound Volumes 3.75 Editor's Salary* 540.00 Editor's Postage and Supplies 15.00 5,503.86

Less accepted reductions. Publication Office 131

Frauen Missions Freund Printing $843.08 Mailing and Postage 205.42 Manuscript 5.00 Clerical Services* 250.00 Rent 180.00 Editor's Salary* 428.40 Editor's Postage 6.23 $1,918.13

Literature

Printing Leaflets, Mite Boxes and Supplies $12,647.19 Books 381.16 Cuts and Seals 223.84 Refunds 1.32 Clerical Services* 2,395.00 Rent 780.00 Postage and Express 1,795.16 Wrapping Paper and Twine 33.54 Printing and Distributing General Executive Report 1,087.50 Multigraph Supplies and Repairs 389.41 Binding Reports 2.88 Workers Training Course (Preparing and Distributing) 561.12 $20,298.12

General Expense of ttie Publication Office Publisher's Salary* $2,070.00 Stationery and Supplies 391 .49 Telephone and Telegrams 138.87 Auditor 25.00 Insurance 101.14 Light and Power 1 19.07 Appropriation, Swedish Literature* 90.00 Addressograph Supplies and Repairs 291.15 Travelling Expense, Editors and Publisher to General Executive, and Mid-Year Meetings 671.31 General Officers Letterheads 23.85 Collection on Checks and Tax 21.23 Returned to Reserve Fund 2,000.00 Uncollectible Checks (1933 bank closings) 262.45 Executive Daily 475.76 6,681.32

Total Disbursements $62,290.31 Cash on Hand, October 1, 1935 8,722.63

$71,012.94

Assets and Liabilities

October 1, 1935 Assets Deposit State Street Trust $5,000.00 Cash on Hand, October 1, 1935 8,722.63 Due October 1, 1935 on Unpaid Accounts 5,072.06 Value of Stock (Estimated) 2,500.00 Value of Equipment (Estimated) 2,300.00

Total Assets $23,594.69

Liabilities Due on Unexpired Subscriptions (Estimated) $15,000.00 Royalty on "Hints from Squints" Gregg 500.00

Total Liabilities 15,500.00

Net Assets $8,094.69

*Less accepted reductions.

Certificate of audit filed with Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Secretary, after January 1, 1936. 132 Reports

BEQUESTS AND LAPSED LIFE INCOME GIFTS 1934-1935 New England Branch Mary L. Atwood New Haven, Conn $1,500.00 Ellen S. Drew Burlington, Vt 200.00 Lucius A. Merrill New Britain, Conn 1,012.43 Grace M. Miller Brookline, Mass 3,822.71 Susan J. Reed Concord, N. H 475.00 Emma D. Reynolds Brockton, Mass 200.00 7,210.14

New York Branch

James S. Barnard (add'I) Rochester, N. Y $237.61 Elizabeth T. Bekler Kinderhook, N. Y 100.00 Caroline F. Ekert Poughkeepsie, N. Y 500.00 Amy G. Lewis New York, N. Y 2,334.50 Homer J. Mitchell Binghamton, N. Y 816.99 Lucv E. Philo New York, N. Y 6,240.71 Harriet L. A. Plough Hammondsport, N. Y 50.00

*Mr . Jennie W. Cramer Cambridge, N. Y 212.67 *M. Amelia Currie Montreal, Can 847.24 *S. Eunice Tompkins Syracuse N. Y 1,744.83 *Alice Webster Buffalo, N. Y 37.21 13,121.76

Philadelphia Branch Samuel Charleston Pittsburgh, Pa $250.00 Hannah M. Cotteral Reading, Pa 100.00 Margaretta Curry Pittsburgh, Pa 2,517.50 Mrs. S. M. Meyers Lancaster, Pa 100.00 Flora Reel Philadelphia, Pa 50.00 Mrs. L. C. Sands Pittsburgh, Pa 571.83 Mary C. Trueman Philadelphia, Pa 550.00 *Sarah A. Herr Harrisburg, Pa 500.00 4,639.33

Baltimore Branch Miss Mary Numsen Baltimore, Md $500.00

Cincinnati Branch

Alice Means Northeast Ohio Conf $3,370.50 Lela Lybarger Other sources 1,395.00 Sarah Livingston Northeast Ohio Conf...... 25.00 *Mrs. Esther Blattenberg Smithville, Ohio 300.00 *Mrs. Chas. Paisley Wheeling, W. Va 200.00 5,290.50

Northwestern Branch Alice A. Ames Wisconsin Conf $19.86 Mrs. Hettie A. Hartman Wisconsin Conf 400.00 Wm. K. Kerkhoff Rock River Conf 125.00 Kissick Farm Illinois Conf 790.00 Mrs. Robert Larrabe Illinois Conf 1,000.00 J. N. Reed Estate Michigan Conf 206.58 Mrs. Frances C. Staples Michigan Conf 282.88 Lvdia Umpleby Illinois Conf 237.50 *Mrs. Ruth Paxon N.W. Indiana Conf 1,000.00 *Mrs. Angeline Bookout Illinois Conf 1 ,000.00 *Mrs. W. H. Luke Illinois Conf 500.00 5.561.82 Bequests 133

Des Moines Branch

Frances Brotherlin LeClaire, la S250.00 Addison P. Higgins Laclede, Mo 332. 6Q Martha J. Hill Minburn, la 1,800.00 John W e^lev Jenkins Kansas City, Mo 500.00 Martha Miller Davenport, la 208.88 Tessie Phil'ips Maquoketa, la 2,020.49 *belia B. Albrook Mt. \'ernon, la 500.00 85,612.06

Topeka Branch

Kate L. Coutant lola, Kans S2, 130.01 Orissa K. Stephen Central City, Nebr 500.00 George Irving Wright Lincoln, Xebr 200.00 *Mrs. Rebecca A. Bavless Girard, Kans 19,268.64 *Miss Rose Schaible Falls City. Nebr 198.23 $22,296.88

Pacific Branch

Mrs. Nancv J. Boston Pasadena, Calif S510.00 Mrs. Ada C. Jewell Pasadena, Calif 270.00 Laura S. Barr Tucson, Ariz 50.00 Homer J. Mitchell Long Beach, Calif 817.00 *C. H. Bagley Los Angeles, Calif 2,118.00 *Mrs. Josephine Dolman Pasadena, Calif 346.22 *Mrs. Elizabeth Eraper Pasadena, Calif 4,952.85 *Mrs. Anna M. Kiehl San Diego, Calif 499.50 John Lennox Van Nuvs, Calif 6,559.63 *Rev. John N. Marsh Glendale, Calif 523.00 *Mrs. Emma B. Spohr Long Beach, Calif 351.13 16,997.33

Columbia River Branch Sweet Estate $54.40

Total Bequests 839,625.07 Total Life Income Gifts 41,659.15

Lapsed Life Income Gifts. 134 Summary of Disbursements

SUMMARY OF DISBURSEMENTS FOR 1934-1935

For General Conferences Work Africa §36,355.38 Burma 18,536.66 China 276,228.90 India 505,431.38 Japan 68,444.23 Korea 70,975.40 Malaya 37 470.10 Philippine Islands 30 604.67 Sumatra Mission 7,837.20 Bulgaria 6,049.23 Central Europe 797.00 Italy 5,123.80 North Africa 18,766.34 Eastern South America 20,779.50 Mexico 37,376.67 North Andes 8,770.60 $149,547.06 Miscellaneous Disbursements direct to the field 47,961.36 Retirement Fund Endowment and Pension Purchases 28,002.83 Retirement Allowances 46,029.15 Student Aid and Aid to Missionaries on Furlough 3,444.55 Administrative Expense, Education and Promotion 72,215.19 Miscellaneous (not overhead) 22,902.30 International Department 245.00

$1,370,347.44

Note: Miscellaneous Disbursements direct to the field include Literary Work, Library Service, Union College Current Expense, Assistance to Branches, Young People's Thank-Offering and Junior Thank-OfTering. This statement of disbursements is based on figures submitted by Branch treasurers. The general treasurer has merely compiled them. For Appropriations Summarized by Conferences see Appropriations Booklet for 1935

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~~140 Statistics SUMMARY OF GENERAL STATISTICS OF FOREIGN CONFERENCES For the last complete conference year preceding October 1, 1935~~

~~Summary Evangelistic Work~~

~~Women in the Church~~

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:3 a] o a! o fcL, CONFERENCES c o ,t^ c m > M c .- Sw V a c o^ fa s o ^ u o § r o Africa Angola 2965 1247 Rhodesia 2807 1713 Southeast Africa 1061 1350 84 6833 Total for Africa 4310 Burma 109 613 119 China Central China 145 30 677 231 Foochow 400 123 7143 2419 Hinghwa 234 138 4810 2929 Kiangsi (1933) 53 49 1081 376 North China 266 41 2895 1333 Shantung 34 29 940 439 West China 125 20 611 279 Yenping 29 842 241

~~Total for China 1153 39 30 18999 8247~~

India Bengal 141 169 34 944 851 Bombay 80 106 48 1484 650 Central Provinces 145 171 73 948 2355 Gujarat 235 257 184 1956 7323 Hyderabad 203 234 166 3132 17055 Indus River 104 119 52 5960 10941 Lucknow 111 142 7 1678 7218 North India 361 408 250 10744 20000 Northwest India 319 355 154 15125 27222 South India 222 257 78 1064 7949

~~Total for India 146 1921 2218 43035 101564~~

~~Japan 29 228 313 3951 1898 Korea 27 1047 1084 5699 5085 Malaya 14 33 1294 495 Sumatra Mission 4 17 604 104~~

~~Philippine Islands (1934). 13 111 8021 323 Europe and North Africa Bulgaria (1934) 281 No. Africa 137~~

~~Total for Europe & N.Africa Latin America Mexico 2075 1555 North Andes 263 200 Eastern So. America (1930) 3177 1205~~

~~Total for Latin America 31 129~~

~~Others 13 30~~

Grand Total 411 61 38 89 4665 141 2195 94982 125203 7719 3722 Foreign Statistics 141 SUMMARY OF GENERAL STATISTICS OF FOREIGN CONFERENCES For the last complete conference year preceding October 1, 1935

~~Evangelistic Work Welfare Work Organizations on the Field~~

~~Training Classes Social Work Orphanages, Hostels, Homes 11 and Day Nurseries V 1) 3 o 3 c'J c •0 S rt W B B c c c c 3 < 1) 3 11 d O Z B B bt -• B 1-1 B g s 1 3 )-• 1- 3 II c a > 3 c c n 3 5 -~~

~~19 32 91 1737 7 220 210 1 40 19 19 628~~

~~19 19 32 110 2365 7 220 210 1 40~~

~~21 3 7 1 15 620~~

12 18 8 16 57 1155 4 60 53 19 517 2 18 2 47 17 8 8 18 28 2092 i 20 15 7 361 1 198 1 50 5 9 1 8 157 5869 4 173 1 23 2 225 2 47 2 149 43 17 60 2239 1 20 23 590 1 20 2 10 1 5 65 1022 6 7 130 301 2 170 13 357 S 1428 863 23 9 2046 1 45 7 216 2 60 1 30 30 575 1 50

~~107 75 18 73 1795 15861 10 8 210 369 2 65 6 343 1 23 72 2316 8 343 6 276~~

~~35 6 1444 11 230 1 49 1 65 38 1 1003 1 17 6 203 1 15 .... 9 155 9 243 "l4 14 1 5 4 218 5 5 156 151 2 161~~

~~"so 2 . . . 54 2922 1 1 16 157 14 2339 4 104 8 196 74 8 1290 21 296 88 1947~~

~~456 35 9 2 74 11272 6 126 1 151 59 1386 3 210 2 80~~

~~82 13 95 5 602 6 468 4 1807 33 829 23 353 1 18~~

~~' 148 229 39 387 14408 1 160 198 2445 10 889 14 495~~

~~6 6 98~~

~~301 44 2871 10 139 3 83 24 320 23 290~~

~~10 284 8 130 14 5 2 618 1 1 419 3 64 1 17 2 25~~

~~' 14 5 2 618 1 1 419 3 64 10 284 9 147 2 25~~

~~22 32 54 1694 60 76 1189 ' '4 ' '2 ' 11 2 9 28 819 66 53 13 173 3 28 3 90 21 6 27 478 8 92~~

~~' 32 24 41 10 109 2991 2 126 53 8 92 89 1362 3 28 3 90~~

~~ill80 396 116 175 2591 51104 23 11 975 1234 29 1062 11 2301 12 198 485 8942 79 2260 28 984 ..~~

~~142 Statistics~~

~~EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS~~

~~For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

~~Pupils a c Day and Boarding 1) ."2 '5. D (i! 0.~~

~~"v c~~

~~Name and Location of Schools o *^ ffi ^ BY Conferences a c U~~

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~~AFRICA Boarding School Quessiia,~~

~~Angola . . F 4 2 67 78 83 16 244 156 200~~

~~Nellie Dingley School . . Mutambara So. Rhodesia 1 M F 4 13 221 129 350 110 150 Girls Boarding School. Nyadiri So. Rhodesia 1 F 2 7 9C 55 145 118 125~~

~~Fairfield Girls School. . .Old Umtal ia 1 F 4 6 3C 44 38 112 128 90~~

~~Hartzell Girls School. . .Inhambam~~

~~. 4 *6 170 S. E. A. . M F 148 35 — 183 109 Total for Africa 5 18 34 556 341 121 16 1034 621 735 BURMA~~

Day Schools, District . .Pegu 4 M F 5 119 23 142 24 Indian District Schools Rangoon. 2 M F 5 119 46 165 37 ' '54 Girls High School Rangoon. 1 M F "i 19 126 64 86 104 380 73 EnglishGirlsHighSchoolRangoon 1 M F 1 21 206 105 84 30 425 42 240 Anglo-Chinese School. .Rangoon. 1 M F 11 128 28 17 173 27 2 M F 4 92 33 125 8 "62 1 M F 7 36 24 29 89 74 Neil Dexter Reid School. Thongwa 1 M F 2 25 8 13 46 27 27

Total for Burma Conference . . 13 2 74 851 331 229 134 1545 185 510 CHINA Central China Conference 2 M F 8 100 25 125 ^ 2 M F 4 110 110 Olivet Memorial 1 F 4 14 108 108 94 66 7 4 F 16 576 576 200 ? Methodist Girls 1 F 2 30 430 430 200 250 7 Women's Half-Day 1 F 1 20 20 10 5 M F 8 130 20 150 4

~~Second St. Day School Wuhu . . . 1 M F 6 99 21 120 5 ? — Total for Central China~~

~~. 17 6 87 459 642 538 1639 294 535 ?I~~

~~• 1 furnished by Board. .~~

~~Foreign Statistics 143~~

~~EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

~~Pupils Day and Boarding a •§ j3 a~~

~~a -S Name and Location of Schools 1 1 1 K •n BY Conferences JS .a •§ u n "S a •3 3 3 u a •a 01 1 o B a % to •a 1 3 K 1 a o 1 o a a 5 15 •z 6 m Z Z~~

FoocHOW Conference Hwa Nan High 1 F 9 102 102 67 79 * Tai Maiu Boarding 2 F 21 128 89 97 314 68 210 7 Mary E. Crook 1 M F 4 146 146 48 Union Kindergarten 1 F 2 90 12 102 12 12 Day Schools, 20 F 24 380 380 250 1 Institutional Church 1 F 14 35 70 20 125 20 Marguerite Stewart 1 F 6 55 55 31 41 ? 5 M F 21 75 250 SO 375 34 100 1 1 F 8 25 32 57 SO 57 1 Model Primary and 7 M F 6 30 85 115 2 ?

Day Schools, District. Haitang. . . . 7 M F 8 120 120 Boarding School Kutien 1 F 6 41 41 38 38 1 Model Primary and 1 M F 9 41 108 39 188 42 71 ^ 16 M F 17 537 10 547 5 200 1 1 F 6 19 28 47 42 43 1 Day Schools, City 11 F 14 43 224 11 278 60 ?

Total for Foochow. Conference. 72 9 175 460 1902 243 375 12 2992 391 1229 24 Hinghwa Conference Hamilton Girls 1 F 12 47 50 97 62 87 1 M F 11 65 87 32 184 38 98 Elizabeth Lewis 1 M F 7 50 70 120 10 50 7 3 M F 6 25 105 130 Fannie Nast Gamble 1 F 10 40 22 62 57 ^ Isabel Hart Girls 1 F 6 47 72 119 100 s 2 F 2 45 45

~~Total for Hinghwa. Conference. . 10 6 54 187 379 72 69 50 757 110 392 13~~

~~KiANGSi Conference Rulison Fish High~~

~~School Kiukiang . . . 1 F 4 23 31 83 77 81 26 298 144 96~~

~~Anderson Day School. Kiukiang. . . 1 M F 4 26 84 15 125 5 26 4 M F i 16 106 360 45 511 235 Hwangmei District 6 M F 15 290 30 320 23 48~~

~~North Kiangsi School. Kiukiang. . . 7 M F 9 287 287 24 "30 Day Schools, District. Nanchang. . 6 M F 10 185 215 42~~

~~Day Schools, District . F u River . . . 2 M F 2 79 79 10 2 M F 5 97 8 105 21 "4 "36 Baldwin Girls School. Nanchang. . 1 F 17 125 62 85 40 348 112 140 — 1:^~~

~~Total for Kiangsi Conference . . 30 9 101 229 1590 237 166 66 2288 284 642~~

* Using College Building. .

~~144 Statistics EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

Pupils Day and Boarding c u (U a 3 B H Pi (ii Z "v a Name and Location of Schools o o •3 '3 BY Conferences s: c m 11 E C! a E '0 3 u a "o M 3 BD u c V "a V 1) u •3 "o •0 B s "v J3 V a 6 X c XI 3 3 in z 3 1 z z Z

~~North China Conference Day Schools, District, Ching Cliao. 5 M F 5 141 141 6 120 Lang Fang Boarding~~

~~School Ching Chao. 1 F 1 36 36 1 36 ^~~

~~Holt Boarding School Lanhsien . . . 1 F 2 23 20 43 18 43 17 M F 1 19 405 405 20 232 s Gamewell School .... Peiping .... 1 F 5 18 38 146 135 319 145 115 6 Kindergartens,~~

~~District Peiping .... 2 M F 1 56 56 56 1~~

~~Day Schools, District. Peiping . . . . 3 M F 7 211 211 211~~

~~School of Nursing. . . . Peiping .... 1 F "l 7 30 30 2 F 2 12 96 49 100 245 135 102 10~~

~~Boarding School, If" District Shanhaikiian 1 M F 3 20 47 67 4 32 4 M F 5 108 108 6 34 7 "4 -} Keen School Tientsin . . . . 1 F 22 18 114 70 202 101 103~~

~~Day Schools, City . . .Tientsin. . . . 4 M F 4 15 70 3 88 30 s -> 5 M F "1 5 76 5 81 i 13 School of Nursing. . .Tientsin. . . . 1 F 11 27 27 27 22 1 Boarding School,~~

~~1 F 2 22 22 44 19 23 4 8 M F 8 176 176 2 63 ?~~

Total for North China 58 14 132 91 1411 155 360 205 57 2279 485 1235 46 Shantung Conference Davis Boarding School Taianf u .... 1 F 1 7 24 36 5 65 56 54 S Day School;'. City 5 M F 9 150 20 170 32 82 4 1 M F 1 20 20 8 1 ' "5 Day Schools, District. Tsinan .... 1 M F 1 30 30 3 M F 4 84 84 35 1 2 M F 2 55 55 19 ->

Total Shantung Conference. . . . 13 24 339 44 36 5 424 93 198 11 West China Conference •> Girls High School . . . Chengtu .... 1 F 2 *32 90 90 90 45 Harmony Crossett Day School Chengtu .... 1 M F 9 50 100 20 170 1 9 3! 480 45 50 575 85 4

Manchu Girls School .Chengtu. . . . 2 M F 6 90 20 110 ? Asbury Woman's 1 F 1 18 18 "98 Dewey School C hengt u . . . 1 M F 9 190 75 363 185 ^ 14 M F "2 43 73 1550 1623 1? Caldwell Girls School. Tzechow . . . 1 F 16 84 22 106 106 80 ^

~~Girls Piigh School. . .Chungking.. 1 F 2 9 100 100 100 27 ^ Kindergarten Chungking. I M F 2 36 36 Woman's Industrial~~

School Chungking. 1 F 1 5 50 50 4 1 Deh Gin Primary.. .DsenJaiNgai 1 M F 7 180 180 1 Night School for Servants Chungking. 1 M 1 6 40 40 7 Day Schools, City and District Chungking. 21 M F 3 63 120 1100 179 1399 19 Stevens Memorial School Suining .... 1 F 3 10 90 90 83 48

~~Day Schools, City. . .Suining. . . . 3 F 3 11 275 40 315 29 ^ ' '44 Day Schools, District. Suining. . . . 13 M F 36 1782 180 1962 248~~

~~Total for West China Conference 73 .... 17 296 857 3780 2108 212 270 7227 423 758 54~~

* 6 are full time teachers. ... .

~~Foreign Statistics 145 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS~~

~~For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

~~Pupils "o c Lh Day and Boarding J3 J3 rt fc « H 3 to 2 and Location Name of Schools 8 BY Conferences J3 >. r K 13 W s. c m o E u d. P-. d b £ a '•3 u Lh o > t3 E j: E c 1 to to o 1) O m 2 t5 i O~~

~~Yenping Conference Fuller Memorial~~

~~School Yenping. . Gamble Memorial~~

~~School Yenping. . F~~

~~City Day School. . . .Hsia-Tao. . M F Day School, District .Chanhusan M F Day Schools, City~~

~~and District Suichang . . Day Schools, City~~

~~and District Sashien . . . M F 146 182 60~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Yuki M F 72 116 47~~

~~Day Schools, City. . . Yankeo. . .~~

~~Total for Yenping Conference. 237 INDIA Bengal Conference Ushagram Boarding~~

~~School Asansol . . M F 99 48 216 139~~

~~Day Schools, District Asansol . . M F 351 351 82 Day Schools, District Birbhum M F 196 "is 214 22 English Girls High~~

~~School Calcutta . M F 123 130 362 225 Day Schools, Bengali Calcutta.. M F 245 245 55 '~~

Day Schools, Hindi. . Calcutta . M F 54 4 58 2 English Girls High School Darjeeling M F 23 Alma J. Keventer School Pakur. M F 70 28 112 61 83 Jidato, Santali Pakur. M F 163 30 208 150 163 Day Schools, District Santali Pakur. M F 411 3 414 44

~~Total for Bengal Conference 1804 284 2334 950 Bombay Conference Boarding School Basim .... M F 12 85 Nursery and Day Schools Basim .... M F 9 51 15 Day Schools, Marathi. Bombay. M F 224 26~~

~~Day Schools, Gujarati Bombay. . M F 131 4~~

~~Girls Normal School .Nagpur. . F 28 22 26~~

~~Mecosa Bagh Nagpur . . M F 38 160 63 61~~

~~Day Schools Nagpur . . M F 217 230 12 '96 Taylor High School. Poona. . . . F 12 147 118~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Poona. ... M F 160 172 7 Hillman Memorial~~

~~Boarding School. . .Telegaon. M F 119 85 107 Boarding School Hostel Puntamba F 60 60 60~~

~~Total for Bombay Conference 1407 384 521 146 Statistics EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS~~

~~For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

1 Pupils d "o and Boarding u u V Day .3 .3 V 0, s 1 s, 3 1 a Bt .2 C and Location of Schools "o •3 Naur o BY Conferences S •3 •0 1 Bt a PQ a rt a "o 3 3 u a. _c c 13 1 > •3 B fc B a S3 G B K 1 3 3 2 2 S Z I n z 2

~~Central Provinces Conference 1 M F 2 5 29 15 9 53 39 43 ? Alderman Girls~~

~~School Jagdalpur . . 1 M F 11 121 28 16 165 100 161 s~~

Day Schools. District. Jagdalpur . . 11 M F i 12 160 160 70 Johnson Girls High 1 M F 3 23 197 123 77 10 407 369 347 n 2 M F 6 175 175 10 ? Mission Compound 1 M F 1 30 30 12 1 " "88 1 F i 7 69 39 3 111 96 6 Christian Normal 1 F 1 2 20 20 20 20 6 M F 6 62 62 2 M F 2 30 30 1 F "i 7 42 45 11 98 90 98 7

~~Total for Central Provinces 28 9 82 915 250 77 69 1311 706 857 36 Gujarat Conference Day Schools, District. Ahmedabad. 42 M F 1 47 1244 12 1256 568~~

~~Day Schools, City . . .Nadiad 2 M F 5 75 75 11 26 M F 44 778 3 781 467 Webb Memorial Girls~~

~~School . Baroda 2 M F 22 91 113 47 251 217 250 4~~

~~Day Schools, District. Central. . . . 38 M F 38 1128 39 1167 953~~

~~. Day Schools, City . .Godhra. . . . 2 M F 3 79 79 7 21 M F 21 6 438 444 191 Normal and Practice 2 F 23 136 91 46 273 200 227 7 10 M F 13 351 351 144~~

Total for Gujarat Conference. . 145 216 3888 696 47 46 4677 417 2818 11 Hyderabad Conference 1 M F 10 96 15 10 121 82 117 5 Day Schools, District. Bidar 26 M F 30 260 260 230 Day Schools, District. Ekele 4 M F 4 59 59 54 ? Stanley Girls High 1 F 30 299 73 60 10 442 175 254 6

~~Day Schools, Hindi. .Hyderabad . 5 F 6 146 12 158 T~~

~~Day Schools, Telugu . Hyderabad . 27 M F 30 828 828 659 Frances C. Davis 1 F 7 44 28 2 15 89 83 87 Q 11 M F 11 121 121 31~~

~~Day Schools, District. Tandur. . . . 33 M F 28 376 8 384 343 ^~~

~~2 M F 16 135 30 27 192 72 179 \~~

~~Day Schools, District.Vikarabad. . 41 M F 65 1265 1265 1082~~

~~Total for Hyderabad Conference 152 9 237 3629 166 62 62 3919 412 3036 ?Q~~

Avery Girls Boarding School Ajmer 1 M F 2 7 37 35 11 *16 *13 112 t86 75 8 Day Schools, District. Ajmer 7 M F 10 157 37 194 57 Wilson Sanitorium 1 M F "3 1 16 5 21 1] 19 Girls BoardingSchool.Hissar 1 M F 5 43 10 11 64 55 59 8 Day Schools District. Hissar 14 M F 13 238 238 138 Lucie F. Harrison Boarding School. ..Lahore 1 M F 12 89 38 45 172 163 168 5 8 M F 10 194 21 215 197 5 5 M F 7 122 "49 171 76

~~Total for Indus River 38 5 65 896 174 88 16 13 1187 315 789 ?6~~

~~Attending other institutions. t Some attending other institutions......~~

~~Foreign Statistics 147 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

~~PUPI LS -*-> 01 m Day and Boarding T3 Q (G £ ? a & 3 a 01~~

~~Name and Location of Schools to BY Conferences 1-1 c CIS •a E m c U~~

~~cu 3 cm a, c~~

~~V Ih •a ^ T) JS B •E % rt B i4 -J X ^ a z o H pa Z~~

LucKNOw Conference Day Schools, District Arrah M F 60 60 55 Sawtelle Girls School Arrah M F 98 150 144 Day Schools, District Ballia M 82 82 82 Day Schools, District Buxar M F 129 129 Hudson Memorial School Cawnpore M F 99 184 127 174 Girls High Cawnpore. M F 52 115 54 106 District School, Boys. Cawnpore. M 75 107 36 53 Day Schools, District. Basti and

~~Gonda. . . Rep Chambers Memorial School Gonda M F 22 143 151 151~~

~~Lai Bagh Girls School .Lucknow. . . M F 123 127 390 154 324 Day Schools, District. Tirhoot .... M F 15 15 Indiana Girls School Muzaffarpur M F 50 75 75~~

~~Total for Lucknow Conference 1450~~

~~North India Conference~~

~~Girls School Bareilly. . M F 137 231 185 220~~

~~Warne Baby Fold. . .Bareilly. . M F 29 52 49~~

~~Day Schools, District Bareilly. . M F 249 249 183 Lois L. Parker Girls~~

~~School Bijnor. . . M F 71 124 120~~

~~Day Schools, District. Bijnor. . . M F 194 194 184~~

~~Sigier Girls School . . . Budaun . . F 34 100 94 Normal Training~~

~~School Budaun . . F 16 16~~

~~Primary Boys School . Budaun . . M 115 115 110~~

~~Day Schools, District. Budaun. . M F 591 591 591 Gill Girls School,~~

~~Pauri Garhwal . . M F 70 102 94~~

~~Day Schools, District . Garhwal . M F 237 237 187~~

~~Boarding School Hardoi. . M F 19 76 60 56~~

~~Girls BoardingSchool.Sitapur. . . F 61 140 108 110~~

~~Primary Boys School. Sitapur. . M 120 94 Day Schools, District. Hardoi- Sitapur M F 33 33 Girls BoardingSchool. Pithoragarh M F 95 85 85 Champawat Day~~

~~School, Eastern. . . Kumaun . M F 10 9~~

~~Dav Schools, Eastern Kumaun . M F 64 16 Wellesley Girls High School Naini Tal M F 89 78~~

~~Adams Girls School. . Almora. . M F 194 94 Normal Training~~

~~School Almora. . F 12~~

Girls Boarding School . Diwarahat M F 46 102 Day Schools, District .Naini Tal and Kumaon Districts M F 212 212 35 Girls BoardingSchool. Moradabad. M F 64 141 126 Normal Training School . Moradabad. F 16 15 Parker Branch School. Moradabad. M 127 141 106 Day Schools, District. Moradabad. M F 565 565 500 Christian Girls School Shahjahanpur M F 35 60 225 195 Day Schools. Dist.. .Shahjahanpur M F 146 146 146

~~Total for North India Conference 340 205 3280 . . .~~

~~148 Statistics EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

Pupils "o u Day and Boarding JO •a a 3 i s 3 2^ "oj Name and Location of Schools o o m BY Conferences g S3 o CO u 1) E o a a o 3 £ 3 u 0-, (5 L4 V a 1 01 _> 41 0) T3 T3 J3 o a J3 •3 B 'S a 1 M a 3 X o o Of O o 3 Z 2 5 is 2 o 2

Northwest India Conference Girls Vocational School Aligarh F 40 40 Louisa Soule School. .Aligarh M F 136 136 Day Schools, District. Aligarh M F 156 156 City and District Schools Anupsharh and Bulandsharh M F 167 Butler Memorial School Delhi M F 129

~~Day Schools, City . . . Delhi M F 71 Central Burgess~~

School Ghaziabad . M F 131 131 Night School Ghaziabad.. No Rep Day Scliools, District. Ghaziaoad. 10 M F 75 75 Plested Memorial School Meerut 1 38 187 Central and District Schools Meerut 16 M F 332 332

~~Blackstone School . . . Muttra 2 M F 137 137~~

~~Holman Institute. . . .Agra 2 M F 345~~

~~School of Nursing. . . Brindaban. . No Rep Day Schools, District. Muttra 15 M F 243 Day Schools, District Muzaffarnagar M F 100 100 Village Schools Roorkee. M F 105 105 Girls School Roorkee. M F 22 81~~

~~Day Schools, District.Rahtak. . M F 50~~

~~Total for Northwest India Conference 207 608 2485~~

South India Conference Baldwin Girls High School -Bangalore M F 34 117 Girls High School ... Belgaum. F 124 Watson Caste School. Belgaum. F il4 164 Sherman Boarding School Belgaum M F 15 44 187 Day Schools, City . . . Belgaum M F 229 Day Schools, District. Belgaum M F 134 134 Day Schools, District. Bowringpet M F 70 99

Day Schools, District. Gokak. . M F 142 142 20 71 Day Schools, City . . .Gulbarga M F Day Schools, District. Gulbarga M F 50 167 25 Girls High School. . . . Kolar. . . M F 40 220 231 Day Schools, City.. .Kolar. . . M F 231 School of

~~Compounding Kolar. . . F~~

~~School of Nursing. . . . Kolar. . . F 15~~

~~Graff Baby Fold. . . . Kolar. . . No Rep~~

~~Skidmoie Memorial. . Madras . F 71 146 227 Day Schools, City , . . Madras F 278 Girls Boarding School. Raichur. M F 48 97 Day Schools, District. Raichur. M F 138 138~~

~~Total for South India Conference 167 432 311 .. . .~~

~~Foreign Statistics 149~~

~~EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

Pupils O m 0) Day and Boarding •a ^•s s g ^ ^ 3 rn 2 Name and Location of Schools o O >> K BY Conferences >» X3 Cfl ^ cd m o, CL, 3 (ll a Oh C S 0) 4) 1-1 T3 .Hf > "o 13 J3 •o JS E "(3 3 x S 1 o o 2 di 1 a 5 iS 2 O

~~JAPAN Japan Conference Fukuoka Jo Gakko. .Fukuoka. F 335 YohanoKlindergarten.Fukuoka M F 40 lai Jo Gakko Hakodate F 353 Dickerson Memorial School Hakodate Pascoe Memorial School Hakodate M F 71~~

~~Hirosaki Jo Gakko . .Hirosaki. . F 339 Alexander Memorial~~

~~School Hirosaki . M F 54 54~~

~~Aiko Kindergarten . .Hirosaki. . M F 30 30 Kei Ai Kindergarten. Kagoshima M F 70 70 City Kindergarten.. .Kumamota M F 130 130~~

~~Kwassui Jo Gakko . .Nagasaki. F 468 35 Kindergartens Nagasaki. M F 80~~

~~Lee Memorial School. Sendai. . . M F 40 Yonezawa Kinder- garten Sendai .... M F 35~~

~~Aoyama Jo Gakuin. .Tokyo. . . . F 1024 102 1126 20 Kindergartens Yokohama M F 288~~

~~Total for Japan Conference. . 2461 160 118 KOREA KoRE.A. Conference~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Chemulpo. M F 112 559 671~~

~~Day Schools, District Chunan. . M F 56 80 136~~

~~Eiu Chung School . . . Haiju M F 42 318 360~~

~~Day Schools, City. . . Kongju. . . M F 118 216 354 Chung Eui High School Pyengyang F 359 Blind School Pyengi'ang F 21~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Pyengyang M F 304 60 1200 1564~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Chiunampo M F 242 95 911 1248~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Kang Saw. M F 1278 65 1343~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Sari Wan . M F 126 65 191~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Sin Chang M F 52 28 80~~

~~Day Schools, City . . . Seoul .... M F 1339 1339 Kindergartens Seoul .... M F "so 157~~

~~Ewha High School. . . Seoul .... F 327~~

~~Day Schools, District, Suwon . . M F 60 335~~

~~Day Schools, District, Wonju. . . M F 174 174 Day Schools, District, Yengbven M F 198 523 902~~

~~Day Scliools, District, Yi Chun . M F 80 83 163~~

~~Total for Korea Conference. 91 .. 290 2922 2366 3451 201 686 98 9724 222 5137 50 150 Statistics~~

~~EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

~~Pupils Day and Boarding~~

~~E ?~~

~~Name and Location of Schools o o BY Conferences j: w .2 a o 3 u cu XI F 51 2 C/} MALAYA Malaya Conference Methodist Girls~~

~~School Singapore . . 2 F 123 299 191 70 786~~

~~Fairfield Girls School Singapore . . 1 F 160 224 60 150 594~~

~~Ninde Home Singapore . . 1 F 59 59~~

~~Lindsay Girls School. Penang. . . . 1 F 130 260 50 645~~

~~VVinchell Home . . . .Penang 1 F 12 12 Alexandra Home .... Penang No Rep A. C. G. S Ipoh 1 F 117 38 421 Boarding School Ipoh 1 F 1 3 6 Lady Treacher Girls School Taiping .... 152 78~~

~~Crandon Home Taiping. . . . Methodist Girls~~

~~School Sitiawan* . . 60~~

~~Girls Hostel Sitiawan *. . 10~~

~~Siiydam Girls School .Malacca. . . . 130 326~~

~~Shellabear Hall Malacca. . . . 25 100 Methodist Girls School Kuala Lumpur 109 34 521 Holt Hall Kuala Lumpur 46~~

~~Total for Malaya Conference 699 1570 281~~

~~PHILIPPINE ISLANDS CONFERENCE~~

~~St. Paul's Kinder- garten Manila M F Harris Memorial Kindergarten Manila M F Central Church Kindergarten Manila M F Cabanatuon Kinder- garten Cabanatuon M F~~

~~School of Nursing. . . Manila F~~

~~Total for Philippine Islands Conference 147~~

~~SUMATRA MISSION CONFERENCE~~

~~Methodist Girls School . Medan. . . M F 156 Home Training School .Landjong Bale! F~~

~~Total for Sumatra Mission Conference~~

* 1933 figures. ...

~~Foreign Statistics 151 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS For the year ending October 1, 1934 Covering the last complete school year ending within this period~~

~~Pupils Day and Boarding~~

~~5 H Name and Location of Schools BY Conferences~~

~~EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA Bulgaria Conference American School for~~

~~Girls Lovetch. . 79 170 183~~

~~Italy Conference~~

~~Crandon Institute. . .Rome*. . . 226 226 17 North African Conference~~

~~II Maten Kabylia. . 43~~

~~Total for Europe and North Africa Conferences 439 200~~

~~LATIN AMERICA Mexico Conference~~

~~Colegio "Juarez". . . . Guanajuato M F 118 "Escuela Moderna" .Me.^coCityf M F 113~~

~~Industrial School. . . .Mexico City M F 151 Aztecas Night School. Mexico City M F 50 San Vincente School, District Mexico City M F 72 72 Ludlow Institute .... Pachuca. M F 160 110 380 50~~

~~Normal Institute. . . .Puebla. . M F 127 32 325 102~~

~~Day School, District .Apizaco. . M F 75 23 98~~

~~Total for Mexico Conference 504 1307~~

~~SOUTH AMERICA Eastern South America Conference~~

~~Crandon Institute. . . Montevideo* M F 160 Colegio Norte~~

~~Americano RosarioJ . M F 31 111~~

~~Gleason Institute. . . .Rosarioj . M F 72~~

~~Total for Eastern South America Conference 183 539~~

~~North Andes Conference~~

~~Lima High School. . .Lima, Peru M F 249 121 383~~

~~Total for North Andes Conference 249 121 383~~

* 1931 figures. t Sarah L. Keen School. t 1933 figures ......

~~152 Statistics EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS—BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOLS~~

~~Pupils Day and Boarding~~

~~E ?~~

~~o Name and Location of Schools o BY Conferences £1 w 03 a B 3 u Oh Di D t4-> 01 JH (U u > 73 F •o J3 rt W [i, k;; K s O BURMA Woman's Bible Training Scliool Pegu, Burmese District'~~

~~Total for Burma Conference. CHINA Centr.\l Chin.\ Hitt B. T. S .Nanking. 1 F 9 Bible Teachers' Training School (Union) Nanking 1 F 4 4 FOOCHOW Jewell-Huntley Bible Seminary. Foochow. 1 F 1 4~~

~~Bible Training School Kutien. . 1 F 3 Bible Training School Mintsing. 1 F } 1 Hinghwa Juliet Turner B. T. S Hinghwa. 1 F 1 4~~

~~Frieda Knoechel B. T. S Sienyu. . 1 F 1 S KlANGSI Knowles Bible Training School .Kiukiang. 1 F 3 11 North China~~

~~Thompson B. T. S Changli . . 1 F 4 39 1 Union Bible Training School. . .Peiping. . 1 F 13~~

~~Woman's B. T. S Peiping . . 1 F "l 5 50 Shantung 1 Terry Bible School Tai'an . . . 1 F 3 30 West Chin.\ DeWitt Training School Tzechow. 1 F 1 6 50 Yenping Bible Training School Yenping. 1 F 1 5 23~~

~~Total for China. 14 16 65 524 524 INDIA Central Provinces 1 1 Hawa Bagh Training College . .Jubbulpore. 1 F 2 18 Thoburn Biblical Institute Gadarwaraf 2 M F 1 116 116 Gujarat~~

~~Nicholson School of Theology. . Barodat . 1 F 1 4 North India Woman's School, Theological 1 Seminary Bareillyt • 1 M F 5~~

Total for India 5 5 15 193 JAPAN Woman's Department, Theological School Tokyo 1 F 2 9 KOREA 1 3 6 100 100 New Jersey Conference B. T. S. . . . Pyenyang F Union Theological Seminary Seoul 1 M F 5 6 57 57

~~Total for Korea 2 8 12 MALAYA~~

~~Eveland Seminary Singapore! . 1 F 1 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Harris Memorial B. T. S Manila 1 F 3 9 57 57 Mary Brown Townsend, Bible~~

~~. 1 1 47 47 Training School Lingayen . F 8~~

~~Total for Philippine Islands 2 4 17 104 104 LATIN AMERICA Mexico Bible Training School Mexico City 1 M F 2 3 45 45~~

~~Total for all fields 27 38 121 .... 1086 1086~~

* sciiool has not been in session during the time covered by this report but 4 of our Pupils have been cared for ml This ° the Baptist Training School by our paying only their tuition. in t 1933 figures. t 1 teacher is for women alone, 4 teachers both men's and women's schools. I .

~~Foreign Statistics 153 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS—COLLEGES~~

Pupils Day "o 3 and Boarding 11 a 3 E 3 3 3 s •3 ; Name and Location of Schools 1 BY Conferences K *n '3 3 •a S u 3 CQ o a a CJ "0 "0 3 3 M 1-1 bo u u 3 a M bn •3 J3 XI E H E E X a 3 3 1 O U"o 1 m Z Z

lWoman's Foreign Missionary Society Woman's College of South China, Hwa Nan Foochow, China. 1 F 8 15 70 70 53 70 5 2 Kwassui College Nagasaki, Japan . 1 F 2 14 73 73 34 50 ~7 Total for W. F. M. S 2 10 29 143 143 87 120 Union Colleges Ginling College Nanking, China*. 1 F 202 202 15

~~Yenching College Peiping, China. . . 1 F 22 22~~

~~West China University Chengtu, China. . 1 F i 46 46 45~~

~~Cheeloo University Shantung, China . 5 F 4 27 27 27 47 47 47~~

~~Isabella Thoburn College. . . Lucknow, India. . 1 F 11 15 174 174 143 118 7~~

~~St. Christopher's Training College Vepery, Madras, India* 1 F 3 2 91 91 75 85~~

~~Woman's Christian College. Tokyo, Japan. . . . 1 F 1 18 92 92 9 Ewha College Seoul, Korea 2 F 13 32 249 249 126 207 3~~

~~Total for Union Colleges 13 33 67 950 950 389 499 19~~

~~Grand Total for Colleges 15 43 96 1093 1093 476 619 ?6 •~~

* 1933 figures. t Partial report. SUMMARY BY FIELDS

~~Pupils Number of S (Dat and Boarding) 3 Teachers p. 3 PL,~~

~~3 Bi CS ** .52 a FIELDS 2 >. a 3 1" a PQ 0! fc4 bD a hi J a 1 1 3 J3 "2 hi a 1 a tlO j3 1 3 2: te 2; M 1-1 a S W •z. H m •z Z~~

\frica 34 556 121 1034 621 735 \SIA Burma 74 851 331 229 134 1545 185 510 - China 917 1952 10246 3544 1819 345 369 18277 2190 5226 184 India 1577 785 9768 10640 2479 563 1176 25557 6111 16148 388 Japan 206 936 2461 160 3557 118 796 41 Korea 290 2922 2366 3451 201 686 9724 222 5137 50 Malaya 119 699 1570 822 281 3875 249 1037 19 Sumatra 9 52 79 25 164 13 39 1 Philippine Islands 10 147 51 147 UROPE Bulgaria 15 170 183 167 Italy 30 226 226 17 -*JoRTH Africa 2 43 Latin America Mexico 504 341 220 1307 308 584 South America 432 165 121 13 922 83 92 SiBLE Training Schools 1086 1086 737 1027 20LLEGEst 143 143 87 120

~~Totals 1257 3578 4069 67777 31765 724~~

~~t Union Colleges not included. ...~~

~~154 Statistics~~

~~MEDICAL STATISTICS, 1933-1934~~

~~Staff Hospital~~

~~Foreign Indigenous~~

NAME AND LOCATION c a S 3 u 2 g OF HOSPITAL Q z V O OR DISPENSARY o V 2 1 u u u to a! t-l 3 o a Q a a 1 ! c Q O O 1-4 z o u o u c 11 1 u (3 O CI "S, x: c o 3 3 o 1 O Q O H 09 is 1 AFRICA Mutambara, Rhodesia Riley Dispensary 1 1 1 4 7 15 588 4387 31 Washburn Memorial (Union) .... 1 1 "l 3 6 950 8543 5 18 1& CHINA §18 Chungking Gamble Memorial 2 2 5 27 3 39 80 721 9273 52 134 Foochow Foochow Christian Union (Magaw Memorial) 2 4 10 41 5 62 87 1365 21577 99 184 129 Futsing Lucie F. Harrison 2 7 15 1 25 100 1139 12626 127 241

Woolston Memorial Dispensary . . 1 3 3 7 50 658 5388 78 209 Klukiang Elizabeth S. Danforth Memorial. 2 2 6 15 2 27 90 607 4249 17 336 100 Mintsing 1 1 6 11 3 22 50 318 6878 40 22 *Gaing 3 15 42 408 6 Nanchang Women's and Children's 1 7 9 3 20 60 713 4478 29 140 173 Peiping Sleeper-Davis Memorial 1 2 10 30 2 45 75 1375 16322 81 51 372 Sienyu

~~Margaret Eliza Nast Memorial. . 1 1 1 3 8 2 16 70 528 3963 20 54 173 Tientsin 2 2 6 27 4 41 SO 631 8913 41 64 184 Haitang Dispensary 1 1 20 140 520 4 23 1.23 Shanhatkuan Dispensary 1 2 2 5~~

~~' Chengtu School of Midwifery . . . 1 1 17 1 20 INDIA Bareilly 4 Clara A. Swain Memorial 1 2 1 3 24 3 34 70 803 5532 115 32 53 -* Baroda i~~

~~Mrs. William Butler Memorial. . . 1 1 3 12 1 18 80 290 3888 21 40 Brindaban~~

Sarah E. Creighton Memorial. . . . 2 3 6 19 6 36 50 747 12676 70 212 53 Kolar Ellen Thoburn Cowen Memorial. 1 2 2 4 16 8 33 70 815 13706 69 327 106 Sironcha 1 1 3 6 11 30 324 7631 8 5 15 Tilaunia Mary Wilson Sanatorium 1 2 2 2 4 11 80 113 21854 Dispensaries Champawat Phulbari 2 2 11 15 3 *Jagdalpur Ruth Cummins Hospital 2 2 146 1600 Pakur

Edith Jackson Fisher Memorial. . 1 2 3 3 9 15 728 2628 25 155 7 Pithoragarh 1 5 7 7 123 1835 3 5 Puntamba Bowen Bruere Memorial 1 1 1 KOREA 3 Pyengyang 2 3 3 9 21 37 38 113 75 1828 15939 290 755 62 Seoul 1 2 10 10 23 30 960 8764 8 68 452 1 1 2 1 5 Kongju and Taiden Infant Wel- fare Centers 1 3 2 4 10 12 3676 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Manila Mary Johnston Memorial 1 2 1 6 52 3 65 120 1895 29437 51 104 608: J. MEXICO

~~JOthers 2 2~~

~~Totals 14 32 6 38 140 375 125 730 1430 18547 23669 1' 1030 2794 3096~~

~~General Board property loaned to\N. F . ]\i. S~~

tin union institutions figures un denniss on ary loctors a id rrlissio nary nurses j;ive W. I'.M. S. personnel Other figures (except appropriations) are of IlOS pita as a whc)le. JTwo W. F. M. S. nurses are se rvin g in W ahu General I4os[)ital. Medical Statistics 155 MEDICAL STATISTICS, 1933-1934

~~Out-Patients Dispensary Receipts~~

~~I •a B c U .Si s o 2 o o U i c a a. c +.» 2 H "3 .Si c a .2 > 3 E "3 o 1-1 E 1 H O c a > a ClJ OS o c 3 rt e5 u v £i r,^ Ui~~

~~11 #27180 27190 £ 22 £ 78 £ 85 38 29 6 67 1800 28076 29876 5 15 34 17~~

~~$ Mex. 221 75 72 306 4050 10259 14309 30727 $Mex.~~

~~30 20 50 5933 11172 17105 51196 6579~~

~~24 24 2256 638 2894 13 204 8029 4463 12 1 13 1180 347 1527 291 3595 1800~~

~~143 654 797 3827 3710 7537 517 11341 67122~~

~~73 50 8 1135 1258 4002 2768 6770 278 1334 3317 5159~~

~~1 539 50 14 589 1158 2927 4085 155 220 1021 197~~

~~164 571 735 5023 7211 12234 248 1003 17114 68404~~

~~72 385 61 767 1224 6053 11406 17459 60 226 37914 5391~~

~~964 1468 2432 234 428 4480 3772~~

~~135 212 65 300 647 3501 7747 11248 142 106 26869 3933 52 51 10 160 263 986 60 1046 21 52 148 418 64 430 974 1404 559 344 2040 679 1900 187 2579 1564 2988 4552 200 6016 1~~

~~25 5 2 30 4079 6555 10634 99 254 Rs. 11855 Rs. 6993 ;~~

~~52 45 2075 2172 2115 6887 9002 193 101 116068 5243~~

~~60 77 5 1809 1949 2937 6895 9832 48 7 "54583 10816~~

~~1 39 7 19 11241 11306 4175 13176 17351 90 32 7017 600 11353~~

~~67 198 7 519 784 5697 22344 28041 77 3012 3874~~

~~3 43 746 1869 2615 66 77 8256 8858~~

~~1 1876 45 1921 15 2 13 300~~

~~15048 1269 722~~

~~21 18 3 39 3319 8630 11949 155 150 595 2615 200 100 300 1645 1459 3104 27 9 79 3221~~

~~52 33 16 87 172 3107 2060 5167 27 2436 892~~

~~255 2 257 16368 48397 64765 1244 627 Yen 99929 Yen 2970~~

~~( 29 18 30 47 1872 4224 6096 132 81 14607 7270~~

~~!• 44 52 16 96 2293 12553 14846 111 146 3927 1550~~

~~231 2064 52 163 2458 246 2292 2538 5559 100 1480~~

~~Pesos Pesos~~

~~- . . . . 6556 17505 24061 2140 500 44945 11036~~

~~7 805 432 2577 3009 23 231 582 t~~

~~§In addition 20 huts are urnished with m;its, accoinmodati ig from one to five patients in a hut ifFirst and return calls.~~

HThe financial statistics i nclude be th hospi tal and t raining s :hool bu t not the baby fok which is housed in one ward of the hospital buihiing. °In eludes h uildin I mone> 6Inclu des spec ial gifts 156 Directory of Missionaries MISSIONARIES OF THE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 1869-1934

a indicates appointed; S sailed; m marriage; s self-supporting; % detached service; R retired; r resigned; dis discontinued; del detained; d deceased; * daughter of missionaries; c. t. contract teacher; married name in italics; abbreviations indicate Branches. Aaronson, Hilma A Des M., India, a. 1905, R. 1917 Abbott, Anna Agnes N. W., India, a. 1901 Abbott, Edna M Cin., India, a. 1915 Abel, Edith F Top., China, a. 1915 Abrams, Minnie F Minn., India, a. 1887, R. 1899, d. 1912 Adams, Jean Phila., China, a. 1900, 5., d. 1929 Adams, Lois A Pac, India, S. 1925, m. 1929, Eade Adams, Marie N. W., China, a. 1915 Akers, L. Stella, M.D N. E., China, a. 1882, m. 1885, Perkins Albertson, Mildred L Top., India. 5. 1932 Albertson, Millie May Cin., Korea, a. 1907, d. 1918 Albertson, Miriam A., M.D Top., India, 5. 1930 Albrecht, Helen Ruth Cin., Japan, S. 1921, r. 1931 Aldrich, Sylvia E N. W., China, 5. 1922 Alexander, V. Elizabeth Cin., Japan, a. 1903 Allen, Belle J.. M.D Cin. and N. E., Japan and India, a. 1888, R. 1917 Allen, Mabel Des M., China, a. 1894, R. 1919 Allen, Mabel E N. W., China, S. 1920 Ailing. Harriet S N. W., Japan, a. 1894, R. 1912, d. 1916 Aim, Mrs. Lvdia O (See Oelschlager) Amburn, Emma E Des M., Burma, a. 1918, c. i., mm. 1921, m. \9ii,Arnoldl Anderson, Dorothea M Des M., India, 5. 1927,* det. Anderson, Edla V N. W., China, 5. 1924, d. 1926 Anderson, Luella R Cin., Malaysia, a. 1900, R. 1924 Anderson, Mary Phila., N. Africa, a. 1911 Anderson, Naomi A N. W., Korea, a. 1910, r. 1921, 5. 1928 Ankeny, Jessie V Des M., China, a. 1908, m. 1913, Lacy Appenzeller, Alice R Phila., Korea, a. 1914* Appenzeller, Ida H N. E., Japan, a. 1917*, ot. 1919, Crom Apple, E. Blanche Top., China, S. 1923

Arbogast, Gertrude N. W., Mexico, .S'. 1930, c. I., miss., 1935 Argus, Florence N. Y., India, S. 1930. det. Ashbaugh, Adella M Cin., Japan, a. 1908 Ashbrook, Anna Cin., India, a. 1914, det. Ashwill, Agnes Cin., Burma, a. 1908, R. 1926 Atkins, Ruth Joyce Minn., Philippine Islands, 5. 1921 Atkins, Ruth Marie N. W., So. America, 5. 1925, m. 1930, Suthers Atkinson, Anna P N. Y., Japan, a. 1882. R. 1927 Atkinson. Mary N. Y.. Japan, a. 1888, dis. 1893 Ault, Clara V Cin., Africa, a. 1918, m. 1921. Gibbs Austin, Laura F Col. R., India, a. 1905 Ayres. Harriet L Cin., Mexico, a. 1886, R. 1931 Bachman, Mary V Des M., China, S. 1923, m. 1930. Winter Bacon, Edna G N. W.. India, a. 1916 Bacon, Nettie A N. Y., India, a. 1913 Badley, Mary Esther Cin., India, S. 1927*, jn. 1931, Burgoyne Bahrenburg, Lyra H Top., China, S. 1919, m. 1926, Oakes Bailey, Barbara May Top., Japan, 5. 1919 Bair, Blanche R Des M., Korea, a. 1914 Baird, Mary N. W., Mexico, S. 1926, c. t., miss. 1928 Baker, L. Catherine Cin., China, a. 1907, Korea, 1926 Baldwin, Virginia E N. E., Burma, 5. 1927, m. 1931. Kinney Ball. Jennie L N. W., India, a. 1915, r. Bangs, Louise N. W., Japan, a. 1911, m. 1925, Truman Banning. Elsie N N. W., Korea, 5. 1929 Barber, Emma J N. W., India, a. 1909 Barnes. Sylvia M Phila.. Malaya. S. 1925. m. 1928. Thomas Barrow, Mrs. M. M.. M.D N. Y.. China, a. 1895. m. 1900, King Barry, Elda M Top., India, 5. 1928 Barstow, Clara G Pac. South America, a. 1912. R. 1929 Bartlett, Carrie M Des M., China, a. 1904 Bartlett, Mvrth Pac, China, S. 1923, R. 1932 Bass, Allie M Des M., India, 5. 1927 Bassett, Bernice C N. W., Japan. S. 1919, m. 1929. Wyman Bates. Grace M Des M.. India, 5. 1922 Directory of Missionaries 157

Bates, Ruth E Des M., India, a. 1918, d. 1921 Battey. C. Frances N. Y. China, a. 1915, r. 1921 Battin, Lora I N. W., China, 5. 1920 Baucus, Georgiana N. Y., Japan, a. 1890, s., d. 1926 Baugh, Evelyn B Pac, China, a. 1907* m. 1921, Krause Baumgardner, Lucy E Des M., Mexico, a. 1900, m. 1903, Morton Beach, Lucv W N. W., India, S. 1920 Beale, EUzabeth M Phila., India, a. 1911 Bear, Irene C N. W., India, S. 1929 Beard. Bertha M Des M., China, a. 1902, m. 1903, Gasson Beatty, Mabel A N. E., China, a. 1916, d. 1927 Beazell, Laura E N. W., Italy, a. 1900, m. 1903, Andreas Beck, Edna L., M.D Pac, India, a. 1902, ?«. 1907, Keisler Beck. Rosetta Cin., India, a. 1914, R. 1930 Becker, Gertrude A Minn., India, S. 1920 Bedell, Mary E Col. R., China, a. 1917 Beesemyer, Gertrude S Pac, India, 5. 1926, m. 1930, Reece Beggs, Nelle N. W., China, a. 1910, R. 1920, d. 1934 Beiler, Mary N. E., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1921, Biddle. d. 1935 Beissell, Ina Mae Phila., South America, 5. 1924, m. 1930, Cross Bell, Laura E N. W., India, 5. 1929 Benard, Helen M Cin., South America, 5. 1921, d. 1923 Bender, Elizabeth R Bait., Japan, a. 1889, R. 1897 Benedict, Ruth E N. Y., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1916, Moore Bengel, Margaret Cin., Korea, a. 1890, m. 1892, Jones Benn. Rachel R., M.D Phila., China, a. 1890, R. 1911, m. 1924, Dunkle, d. 1927 Bennett, Fannie A N. W., India, a. 1901, R. 1923 Bennett, Lorraine N. W., China, 5. 1926, Burma, S. 1927, det. Bennett, Lulah Grace Des M., Mexico, S. 1920, r. 1922 Benson, Mildred O Col. R., Africa, S. 1926 Benthien, Elizabeth M N. W., India and Mexico, a. 1895, R. 1927 Benton, J. Emma N. E., Japan, a. 1882, m. 1885, Elmer Betow, Emma J., M.D Cin., China, a. 1904 Betz, Blanche A N. W., Mexico, a. 1907, R. 1929, 5. 1930 Beven. Georgia H Pac, Africa, 5. 1922, m. 1928, Wilson Bigler. Mary A.. M.D Top., China, S. 1930, dis. 1931 Bills, Grace Ida N. W., India, a. 1906, m. 1909, SchiUz Bing, Anna V Cin., Japan, a. 1888. R. 1912, d. 1923 Bishop, Beulah Des M., India, 5. 1930 Bishop, Francene L Pac, India, a. 1916, m. 1918, Wood, d. 1921 Bjorklund, Sigrid C N. E., China, S. 1920, det. Black. Gladys H Pac, Philippine Islands, S. 1925, r. 1935 Black, Lillian A Phila., India, a. 1888, R. 1889 Blackburn, Kate B N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1892. R. 1926, d. 1933 Blackmar, Louisa Top., India, a. 1872, m. 1902, Gilder, d. 1928 Blackmore, Sophia Minn., Malaysia, a. 1887, R. 1923 Blackstock, Anna N. W., India, a. 1913* Blackstock, Constance E Phila., India, a. 1914*, r. Blackstock, Ella M Minn., Japan, a. 1889, R. 1913, d. 1916 Blackstock, Isabella T Phila., India, a. 1905, m. 1913, Beardsley Blair, Katherine A Cin., India, a. 1888, R. 1927, d. 1935 Blakely, Mildred M Top., Phihppine Islands, a. 1913 Blasdell, Jennie A Cin., India, a. 1917 Bliss, Lois E N. W., India, 5. 1929, r. 1932. m. 1933, Stephens Block, N. Bernita, M.D N. W.. Korea, 5. 1927 Bobb, Mildred H Top., India, S. 1927, m. 1933, Paulsen Bobenhouse, Laura G Des M., India, a. 1897 Boddy, Estie T Des M., China, a. 1907, m. 1921, Ware Boddy. Grace Top.. India, a., 1912, d. 1933 Bodley, Ellison W Pac, Japan, a. 1915, r. 1927, m. Roche Boeye, Katherine B Des M., China, S. 1925 Boggess. Edith E N. W., India, a. 1915, m. 1921 Boggs, Lucinda N. W.. China, a. 1910, R. 1913 Bohannon, Ida N. W., Mexico, a. 1900. R. 1908 Boles, Lulu A Top., India, 5. 1923 Bonafield, Julia Cin., China, a. 1888 Bording, Maren P N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1916, Korea, 5. 1922 Borg, Jennie Top., China, a. 1907, m. 1915. Lawrence Bortell, Pearl Phila., South America, 5. 192 5, c. t., miss. 1929. r. 1931 Boss. Harriet N. W., India, a. 1897, dis. 1898 Bothwell, Jean B Top., India, 5. 1922 Bowen, Alice Cin., China, 5. 1922, c. t., miss. 1925, r. 1932 Bowen, Mary E N. E., South America, a. 1888, m. 1898, Brown Bowne, Ida May N. Y., Italy, a. 1897, m. 1903, Manfre, m. Perry Boyde, Mary L N. Y., India, 5. 1935 Boyles, Helen E Cin., Korea, 5. 1926 158 Directory of Missionaries

Bradley. Edna I N. Y., India. 5. 1929 Bragg, Jessie A Top., India, a. 1914 Brayton, Margaret N. W.. China, 5. 1922. r. 1933 Brethorst. Alice B Minn.. China, a. 1906. del. Brethorst. Helen G Minn.. India, a. 1915. m. 1919, Omond Brethorst, S. Marie Minn., China, a. 1913. Brewer, Edna C N.VV., India, a. 1913. jR. 1920 Bricker. Mary E N. W.. India. 5. 1923 del. Bridenbaugh, Jennie B Des M., China, a. 1911, del. Bridgewater, Gertrude M Des M.. China, a. 1914. m. 1919, Robson Britt. Edythe M N. Y., India, a, 1914, m. 1918, Fellows Broadbrooks, Edith N. W., India, a. 1912, m. 1914, King Brooks, Jessie F Minn, and N. Y., Malaysia, a. 1907, R. 1928 Brouse, Louise T N. W., India, a. 1899, m. 1905. Cook Brown, Cora M Top., China, a. 1910, del. Brown, Edna B N. Y.. South America. 5. 1920. R. 1927 Brown. Maria N. E.. China, a. 1871. m. 1874, Davis Brown. Zula F Pac. China, a. 1911, R. 1933 Brownlee, Charlotte Cin.. Korea, a. 1913 Bryan, Mary E., M.D N. Y., India, a. 1891, R. 1897 Buck, Lois M Cin., India, a. 1904*, d. 1907 Budden, Annie M N. Y., India, a. 1880*, R. 1919, d. 1921 Buel, Lora E N. W., Malaya, S. 1927. m. 1930, Peel Bugby, Mary Marguerite Cin., India, 5. 1920 BuUis, Edith M N. W., Japan, a. 1905, r. 1915 Bulow, Agnes Minn., India, a. 1913, d. 1914 Bunce, Thirza E N. W., Malaysia, a. 1908 Bunger, Frances Col. R., India, 5. 1922, R. 1929 Burchard, Mary A., M.D N. Y., India, 5. 1934 Burdeshaw, Rhoda A Cin., China, S. 1922 Burman, Matilda C N. W., India, a. 1898, dis. 1903 Burmeister, Elsie K Des M., Burma, a. 1914, m. 1919, Clare Burmeister, Margaret J Minn., japan, 5. 1926, r. 1935 Burt, Edith N. W., Italy, a. 1906*. r. 1913. m. Burton. Mildred E., M.D N. E.. India, 5. 1934 Bushnell. Kate C. M.D N. W., India, a. 1879, R. 1882 Buss, Helen S N. W., India, 5. 1926 Butcher, Annie N. Y., India, a. 1894, m. 1896, Hewes Butterfield. Nellie M Pac, Mexico, 5. 1922, R. 1930 Butts, Ethel H Col. R., and N. Y., Korea, 5. 1920 Buyers, Anna P Phila., India, 5. 1928 Byler, Gertrude M Top., Japan, 5. 1927 Calkins, Ethel M Top.. India, a. 1915 Campbell, Eleanor Louise N. W., India, 5. 1931 Campbell, Letitia A N. E., China, a. 1875, d. 1878 Cans, Clara A Cin., China, a. 1914, S. 1926, del. Carleton, Mary E., M.D N. Y., China, a. 1887, d. 1927 Carlyle, Elizabeth M Col. R., China, S. 1920 Carncross, Flora M N. W., China, a. 1908, d. 1925 Carpenter, Mary F Phila, India 5. 1923, c. t., miss. 1926 Carr, Rachel C N. W., India, a. 1909, Carroll, Mary E N. W., India, o. 1888, d. 1897 Carson, Anna N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1913 Carter, Fern N. W., India, .S. 1928 Cartwright, Ida May Cin., India, a. 1903, d. 1904 Carver, Margaret B Cin., India, a. 1898, m. Ernsberger, Pac. 5. 1927 Cary, Mary F Phila., India, a. 1876, m. 1880, Davis, d. 1934 Castle, Belle N. W., China, a. 1915, R. 1928 Cavett, Maurine E Des M., Burma, .S. 1926 Chadwick, Freda P Phila., Netherlands Indies, S. 1920 Chaffin, Mrs. Anna B Des M., Korea, a. 1917 Challis, Grace M N. W., India, .S. 1930 Chalmers, Eleanor M N. E., India, a. 1916, r. Chapin, Jennie M N. E., South America, a. 1874, R. 1890. d. 1924 Chappell. Mary H Cin., Japan, o. 1912*, r. 1927 Charles, Bertha D Cin., Philippine Islands, a. 1912 Charter, Mabel Top., India, a. 1913, d. 1917 Chase, Bertha A., M.D N. E., India, S. 1928 Chase, Laura N. E., Japan, a. 1915, c. /., miss. 1920 Cheney, Alice Des M., Japan, a. 1914 Cheney. Monona L N. W.. China, a. 1918. del. Chilson, Elma M Top., India, a. 1911 Chisholm, Emma Mae Bait.. China, a. 1904, m. 1906, Brown Christensen, Christine N. Y., India, a. 1894, m. 1896, Ashe Christensen, Edith Julia N. W., Burma, 5. 1932 Christensen, Lydia D Des M.. India, a. 1913 ,

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Christiancy, Mary M., M.D N. E., India, a. 1884, R. 1891 Church, Marie E Col. R., Korea, a. 1915 Clancy, Kathleen N. W., India. S. 1932 Clancy, M. Adelaide Pac, India, a. 1909, R. 1934 Clark, Elsie G Bait., China, a. 1912, m. 1919. Krug Clark, Faith A N. W., India, 5. 1921 Clark, Grace Col. R., Africa, a. 1911, Pac. 1925 Clark, Jessie E N. W., India, a. 1918, m. 1925, Lasher Claussen, Minnie Top., South America, 5. 1925, Mexico, 5.1930, dis. 1931 m. 1934, Tinker Cleary, Mary Cin., Japan 5. 1921, m. 1923, Hunter Clemens, Mrs. E. J N. W., South America, a. 1879. R. 1884 Cliff. Minnie B N. W.. Malaysia, a. 1913, R. 1927 Cline. Marie Ida Des M., India. 5. 1921. r. 1927 Clinton, E. Lahuna Des M., India, a. 1910 Clippinger. Frances Top., India, a. 1904, r. 1905, d. 1918 Cochran, Ruth E N. W., India, a. 1912. r. 1925 Cody. Mary A Minn., P. I. and Malaya, a. 1900, Cin., Japan, a. 1905, R. 1919 Coffin, Sophia J N. Y., Africa, a. 1906. r. 1914 Cole, Marion R N. Y., China, 5. 1925 Collier, Clara J N. E., China, a. 1895, R. 1919 Collins, Irma D Top., India, 5. 1925 Collins, Mary D Phila.. Japan, S. 1928 Collins, Susan Pac, Africa, a. 1901. R. 1922 ColUns, Ruth H Des M.. India, a. 1894. m. 1899, Thoburn Colony. Lucile Des M.. India. S. 1922 Combs, Lucinda, M.D Phila., China, a. 1873, m. 1878, Strillmater Comstock, Joy E Phila, India, 5. 1923 Cone, Gertrude M Cin., China, 5. 1930 Cone. Maud E Col. R., Africa, 5. 1923. r. 1926 Conn, Cora Elbertha Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1920, m. 1926, Motz Connor, Lottie M N. W., China, a. 1912, m. 1916. Irwin Connor. Olive B Pac. India, a. 1911, d. 1912 Conrow, Marian L Top., Korea. 5. 1922 Cook. Celinda Phila.. Mexico, a. 1903, R. 1907 Cook, Rosalie Phila., Mexico, a. 1903, R. 1907 Copley, Ruth Elizabeth Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1918, Mexico5. 1925,r.l932 Corbett, Lila M N. W.. Malaysia, 5. 1920 Corey, Katherine, M.D N. W., China, a. 1884, m. 1888, Ford Cornelison, Bernice M Col. R., South America. S. 1922 Corner. Sula Marie Col. R.. India, S. 1924 Couch, Helen Phila., Japan, a. 1916 Covington, Lottie V Cin., India, 5. 1926, R. 1926 Cowan, Celia M Col. R., China. 5. 1920. Cox, Ruth M Top., India, 5. 1921 Coy. Martha M Top., India, S. 1929 Crabtree. Margarett M Cin., Philippine Islands, a. 1905, d. 1920 Craig. Frances N. W., India, a. 1892. m. 1902, Smith Crandall, Jessie Ruth Pac, Malaysia. S. 1920, R. 1927 Crandall, Violet B Pac, Africa, 5. 1929 Crane, Edith M N. W., China, a. 1904. R. 1932 Craven, Norma N. W.. Malaysia, a. 1917 Crawford, Janette H Top., India, S. 1925 Crawford, Mabel L Des M., Philippine Islands, o. 1907, m. 1909 Bowers Creek, Bertha M N. W.. India, a. 1905. China, 1916. R. 1929 Crook, Winnie M N. E., China, a. 1916. r. 1923 Crooks, Grace A N. W., China, a. 1904, m. 1912. Welzeon Cross, Cilicia L Minn.. Africa, a. 1913 Crosthwaite, Isabella N. Y.. China, a. 1892. dis. 1893 Croucher, Miranda N. E., China, a. 1895, m. 1903. Packard Crouse, Margaret D Phila.. India, a. 1906 Crouse, Sara E. D Phila., India, o. 1913, m. Lawrence Crowell. Bessie F N. E., India, a. 1905. dis. 1912 CuUey. Frances E N. Y.. China. 5. 1924 Currier, Grace M Des M., France, 5. 1919, r. 1928 Curry, Olive Phila., Japan. 5. 1925 Curtice, Lois K N. E., Japan, a. 1914 Curtis, Martha E Top., India. 5. 1925. r. 1932 Curts. Kate O N. Y., India, a. 1895, d. 1908 Cushman, Clara M N. E., China, a. 1878-1909, R. 1924. d. 1928 Cutler. Mary M.. M.D N. Y.. Korea, a. 1892, R. 1935 Daily. Rebecca N. W., India, a. 1890, R. 1897 Dalrymple, Marion E N. E., India, a. 1918, R. 1933 Danforth, Mary A N. E., Japan, a. 1888. R. 1893. d. 1911 Daniel. Nell Margaret Des M.. Japan, a. 1897t 160 Directory of Missionaries

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Danner. Ruth M : .N. W., China, a. 1917 Danskin, Elsie M Top., China, 5. 1932 Darby, Hawthorne, M.D N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1925, R. 1934 Dart, Jennie M., M.D N. W., India, a. 1895, m. 1898, Dease, d. 1925 Daubendiek, Letha I Des M., India, 5. 1923, del. Davis, Mrs. Anna L N. W., China, a. 1892. d. 1904 Davis, Dora N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1900, R. 1926 Davis, Grace C Cin., India, a. 1908 Davis, Hazel N. W., Philippine Islands, .5. 1919 Davis, Joan Des M., India, a. 1902, R. 1931 Davis, Lois L Col. R., Japan, S. 1923. m. 1933, Htiber Davis, Mary Grace Bait., China, 5. 1926 Davison, Mabel W N. Y., Japan, a. 1902*. m. 1907, Smart Dawson, M. Gayle N. Y., India. 5. 1935 Day, Georgia E Des M., China, a. 1910. m. 1914, Robertson Day, Martha E Des M., India, a. 1888, m. 1895, Abbott Deam, Marv L N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1919 Dean, Flora J Minn.. Malaysia, a. 1917. r. 1923. m. 1924, Bartlett Dean, Florence E N. Y., China. 5. 1920, m. 1922 Tebbutt Dearmont, Mrs. Ellen H N. W., Italy, S. 1928. r. 1929. Dease, Margaret E Bait., India, a. 1914*, J. 1923 Deaver, Ida C Phila., China, a. 1896, m. 1897 Deavitt. LaDona N. Y., China, a. 1903, m. 1907, Rosenberg Decker, Helen M N. VV., China, a. 1899, m. 1904, Beech Decker, Marguerite M Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1905. Pac. 1908 DeLine. Sarah M N. W.. India, a. 1884, R. 1895, d. 1928 DeMott, Mary Des M.. Japan, a. 1891. m. 1892. Uoerini; Denning. Lou B N. W.. South America, o. 1873, R. 1890, d. 1910 Dennis, Viola Bell« Cin., India, 5. 1919. m. 1934, Wintz Denny. Etta A Top.. China, 5. 1921, r. 1932 Desjardins, Helen N. W., China, a. 1918 DeVine. Esther J Cin., India, a. 1882. m. 1891, Williams Deyoe, Ella M Col. R., China, a. 1910. r. 1917 Dicken, Ethel Mae Cin., Korea, 5. 1919, m. 1926, Fills Dickerson, Augusta Phila., Japan, o. 1888. R. 1925 Dickinson. Emma E N. Y., Japan, a. 1897, s., d. 1926 Dickinson, Jane M N. E., Malaysia, 5. 1920, r. 1926 Diem, Lydia N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1893, m. 1911, WenzJ. d. 1911 Dillenbeck, Nora M N. Y., China, o. 1913

Dillingham, Grace L Pac, Korea, a. 1911 , del. Dimmitt, Marjorie A N. W., India, 5. 1920 Dingle, Leila \^ Col. R., Philippine Islands, 5. 1928 Dirksen. Mechteld D N. Y., Malava, S. 1927 Dodd, Stella, M.D Des M., India, 5. 1921, % Doddridge. Eathel V Cin., Burma, 5. 1922, R. 1927 Doltz, Henrietta Top., Philippine Islands, 5. 1931* Donahue, Julia M., M.D Cin., China, a. 1893. R. 1897 Donahue. Katherine Mamie Phila., South America, 5. 1926 Donohugh, Emma E Phila.. India. 5. 1919. r. 1929 Dosch. Laura B Cin., India, a. 1909, d. 1912 Dove, Agnes C. W Col. R., India, 5. 1920, Phila.. .S. 1925 Downev, Clara A N. Y. India, a. 1884, R. 1894. d. 1896 Doyle, Gladys B Top.. India, 5. 1925 Doyle. Letah M Top., India, 5. 1926 Draper, Frances L., M.D N. W., China, a. 1906, d. 1911 Draper, Helen Des M.. India. 5. 1926. r. 1932 Draper. Winifred F N. Y., Japan, a. 191 1* Dreibelbies, Caroline N. Y., China, a. 1899, R. 1906 Dreisbach, Gertrude I Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1906, m. 1912, Baldwin Drescher, Mildred G N. W.. India, 5. 1920 Drummer, Martha A Pac, Africa, a. 1906, R. 1926 Dudley, Hannah India, a. 1890, R. 1891 Dudley, Mrs. Ola Hawkins Des M., China, .S. 1928 Dudley, Rose E Col. R., Philippine Islands, a. 1907, d. 1929 Dunmore, Effa M Phila., Mexico, a. 1891, d. 1919 Dunn, .'\gnes Dora Pac, India, 5. 1927 Dunn. Olive N. W., India, 5. 1921 Dunton. Dorothy K Cin.. India, .V. 1923, r. 1933 Duryea, Grace Phila., Mexico. 5. 1921, c. t., miss. 1924. r. 1925 Dutton, Mrs. May L Cin., India, a. 1911, r. 1914 Dyer, Addie C Cin., Mexico, a. 1917, c. t.. miss. 1921 Dyer. Clara Pearl N. E., China, a. 1907 Easton, Celesta Pac, India, a. 1894-1906, R. 1922 Easton, Sarah A Cin.. India, a. 1878, s., d. 1915 Directory of Missionaries 161

Eaton. Mary Jane Cin.. Italy, a. 1917, m. 1930, Blake Ebersole, Stella Minn.. Burma, S. 1921, Cin. 5. 1926 Edborg, Vera M Minn., Netherlands Indies, 5. 1923, m., Ostrom S. 1933 Eddy, Mabel L N. W., India, 5. 1902 Eddy, Mrs. S. W Cin., India, a. 1902, R. 1926 Edmeston, Rhoda C Phila., South .America, 5. 1929 Edmonds. Agnes M., M.D Des M., China, a. 1901, R. 1921 Edmunds. Margaret J Cin., Korea, a. 1902, m. 1908, Harrison Ehly, Emma L N. W., China, a. 1912, R. 1927. 5. 1930, r. 1931 Eichenberger. Emma N. VV., China, o. 1910. r. 1919. d. 1933 Eide, Mary Louise Des M.. China. S. 1920 Ekey, Mary E Cin.. India, a. 1911. r. 1917 Elicker. Anna R Des M., India, a. 1894, m. 1912. Guse Elliott, Bernice E N. W., India, o. 1914 Elliott, Margaret Phila.. Mexico, a. 1879, m. 1883. Wilson Elliott. Martelle N. Y.. India, a. 1897. m. 1904. Datis Elliott. Mary E N. Y.. India, a. 1885. m. 1886. Stephens, d. 1893 Elliott. Mary J Cin.. Japan, a. 1886, m. 1890. Armstrong Ellis. Ida Minn.. Malaysia, a. 1900. N. W. 1904. R. 1908, d. 1914 Ellison, Grace F Top.. China, a. 1912. m. 1933. French Emery. Phoebe E Top.. India, a. 1916 Emmel, Aetna L Col. R.. India. 5. 1919. m. 1922, Olson Engberg. Mrs. Lila Kehm Minn., India, 5. 1926, c.l., miss., 1929 English. Fannie M N. Y., India, a. 1884. d. 1913 English. Marguerite G N. E.. Korea. 5. 1921. r. 1930 Eno. Enola Des M.. India, o. 1915. m. 1929. Forsgren Eno, Eula, M.D Des M., China. 5. 1922, r. 1929 Erbst. VVilhelmina Minn.. Philippine Islands, o. 1909 Ericson. Judith Top, India, a. 1906 Ernsberger. Emma. M.D Cin.. Korea, a. 1899, R. 1920 Ernsberger. I., M.D Cin.. India, a. 1888. R. 1900, d. 1930 Ernsberger. Mrs. Margaret C. (see Carver) Estey. Ethel M N. Y.. Korea, a. 1900. d. 1929 Evans. Alice A Des M.. India, a. 1895, R. 1925 Evans, E. Florence Pac. China, 5. 1929 Evans. Mary A N. E., Philippine Islands, a. 1913 Eveland. Ruth Des M.. India, 5. 1925 Everding, Emma J Bait.. Japan, a. 1883. d. 1892 Everley, Garnet M Top., India. 5. 1924 Ewers. Harriet C N. W.. India, a. 1899, m. 1900, Lyons Fales, Cora N. W., India, a. 1918 Falstad, Constance Minn., China. 5. 1921. m. 1923. Brewer Farmer. Ida A N. Y.. India, a. 1917 Fearon. Dora C Cin.. China, a. 1912 Fearon. Josephine L Cin.. China, a. 1911. m. 1914. Winans Fshr. Helen E Cin.. India. 5. 1927. N. W.. 5. 1934 Fehr. Vera J Cin.. Japan. 5. 1919 Fenderich, Norma H Phila. India, a. 1903. R. 1914. m. Martin Feline. Maud Amy Clarissa N. Y.. India. S. 1929, m. 1931, Vaney Fernstrom. Helma J N. W., India. 5. 1925 Ferris. Emma E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1892, Col. R., 1897, m. 1897, Shell. abear, d. 1923 Ferris. Helen Pac. China. 5. 1923 Ferris. Phoebe A.. M.D Col. R.. India, a. 1917, R. 1931 Field. Nellie H N. E.. Mexico, a. 1887. R. 1888 Field. Ruth Col. R., India, o. 1918 Files. Estelle M N. Y.. India, a. 1888, R. 1916 Filley. Georgia A., M.D N. W.. China, a. 1913, r. 1919 Finch, Harriet N. E., India, a. 1911, m. Randall Fincham, Ella E N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1887, R. 1893 Finlay, Annette Cin.. Philippine Islands. 5. 1920. d. 1929 Finlay. L. Alice Cin.. Japan, a. 1905 Fisher. Elizabeth Bait.. China, a. 1884, m. 1888, Brewster Fisher, Fannie F N. W., India, a. 1895, R. 1925, 5. 1925, R. 1927 Fisher, Mrs. Mabel G N. W., India, a. 1917, R. 1927 Flessel, Anna M N. Y., China. S. 1923, r. 1930 Fonda. Edith L N. W.. China, a. 1908. m. 1911. Cole Foote. Rhetta C N. W., Malaya, 5. 1925. m. 1932. Schmucker Forbes, Ella R N. VV.. Japan, a. 1890, m. 1894. Phillips Foreman, Elizabeth J Bait, China, a. 1917, m. 1921, Lewis Forster. Miriam N. W.. India, a. 1898. m. Forsyth. Estella M N. W.. India, a. 1907 Fosnot. Pearl Beatrice Top.. China, 5. 1921 Foster, Carrie Des M.. India, a. 1902, R., d. 1935 Foster. Ina Lee Phila, South America, 5. 1924, r. 1931 Foster. Mary Eva Col. R., India, a. 1893. R. 1895, m. Brown 1 1

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Foster, Mildred N. W., Italy, S. 1922, R. 1935 Fox, Eulalia E N. W., China, a. 1913 Frantz. Ida F Cin., China, a. 1914 Frazey, H. Laura Top., China, a. 1908, d. 1932 Fredericks, Anna Edith N. Y., China, a. 1915 Frees, Mabel A Cin., North Africa, S. 1930, m. 1935, Warstler French, Anna S N. E., Japan, a. 1889, m. 1895, Freyer. d. 1914 French, Clara M N. Y., China, 5. 193 Fretts, Millicent Phila., Japan, a. 1911, r. 1917 Frey, Cecelia M Cin., China, a. 1891, R. 1894, d. 1926 Frey, Lulu E Cin., Korea, a. 1893, d. 192 Frymoyer, Lucille Des M., Mexico. S. 1927, m. 1932, Davies Fuller, Edna H Pac. China, 5. 1924, R 1930 Fuller, Delia A Top., India, a. 1886, d. 1901 Fuller, Marjorie A N. W., Africa, S. 1920, det. Gable, Florence L N. W., China, 5. 1920, m. 1921, Alon Gabosch, Ruth N. W., China, 5. 1931 Gabrielson, Winnie M Top., India, a., 1908 iKinsferred to Swedish Unil, 1935 Galbreath, Elizabeth Cin., India, a. 1906, m. 1907 Gallagher, Hannah C Cin., India, 5. 1932 Galleher, Helen M Cin., China, .S. 1924 Gallimore, Anna Bait., India, a. 1887, R. 1903 Galloway, Helen R Des. M., China, a. 1894, i^. 1919,5. 1922, R. 1924, d. 1934 Gard, Blanche A Top., Japan, 5. 1920, r. 1934 Gardner, Minnie Top., Japan, a. 1908, m. Foster Gaylord, Edith F Des. M., China and Korea, a. 1913, R. 1934 Geiser, Helen M Minn., South America, a. 1910, m. 1913, Mallough Gerrish, Ella M N. E., Japan, a. 1928. det. Gertsch, Martha Cin., Malaya, .V. 1935 Gheer. Jean M N. Y., Japan, a. 1879, d. 1910 Gibson, Clara A Phila., Mexico, S. 1929, c. t., miss. 1932. r. 1933 Gibson. Eugenia N. Y., India, a. 1878. m. 1882. Mitchell Gifford, Etta Mary N. E.. Bulgaria, S. 1931, c. t., miss., 1933 Gilchrist, Ella, M.D N. W., China, a. 1881, d. 1881 Gill, Mrs. Mary W. (see Wilson) Gilliland. Helen C Pac, South America, a. 1918* det. Gilman, Gertrude N. E., China, a. 1896, R. 1929 Gilmore, Erastine B N. E., Mexico, 5. 1920, r. 1925 Gimson, Esther, M.D N. W., India.. a.l<)0S.m.l923, Bare, R. 1917. mAQlH, Rosier Givin, Olive I Phila., South America, S. 1931 Gladden, Dora B Minn., Mexico, a. 1910, m. 1923, Carharl Glassburner, Mamie F Des M., China, a. 1904

Glenk. Marguerite E.. N. Y , China, a. 1898, m. 1905, Burley, d. 1921 Glidden, Zella M N. Y., Africa, .s'. 1935 Gloss, Anna D., M.D N. W., China, a. 1885. R. 1924. -/. 1928 Glover, Ella E N. E., China, a. 1892, R. 1925, d. 1929 Godfrey. Annie Louise Col. R.. India, a. 1912, R. 1925 Goetz, Adeline Minn., China, a. 1900, m. 1901, Guthrie Golisch, Anna Lulu Des M., China, a. 1908 Gongwer, Margaret R Cin., Bulgaria, 5. 1926, c. t., miss. 1929, r. 1935 Gooch, Mary Esther N. W., India, 5. 1920, m. 1922, Padrnk Goodall. Annie Des M., India, a. 1911, R. 1926

Goodenough, Julia E N. E., South America, a. 1881 . m. 1886, Hudson Goodin, Elizabeth S Des M., South America a. 1895, R 1899, m. Hardy Gooding, Laura N. W., China, 5. 1923, m. 1930, Flood Goodman, Zora Phila., Japan, 5. 1924, m. 1927, Thompson Goodwin, Lora C N. W.. Japan, a. 1915, d. 1925 Goucher, Elizabeth Bait., China, a. 1913, s.. m. 1921, Chapman Gould, Olive Laura Des M., India, 5. 1921, r. 1934 Gourley, Ina, M.D Des M.. India. S. 1925, r. 1928 Graf. Hedwig Cin.. Africa, a. 1909, r., d. 1919 Graf, Martha A Cin., China, 5. 1922 Grandstrand, Pauline Minn., India, a. 1905, R. 1934 Gray, Frances N. ¥., China, a. 1912, m. 1923, Hayes, d. 1924 Green, Lola M Top., India 5. 1930 Greene, Leola Mae N. W., India, 5. 1920 Greene, Lilv Dexter N. W., India, a. 1894 Greene, Lucilla H., M.D N. E.. India, a. 1876. m. Cheney, d. 1878 Greene. Nellie R N. E., China, a. 1886. R. 1890 Greenwood. Ruth C Phila.. South America. .S". 1930, Greer, Lillian P Top., China, a. 1917, r. 1935 Gregg. Eva A N W.. China, a. 1912. R. 1934 Gregg, Marv E Des M., India, a. 1899, s., m. 1912, Wilson Grennan, Elizabeth N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1921, c. t., miss. 1925, r. 1932 Grey, Ruth Cin., India, 5. 1930*, m. 1934, Garland Directory of Missionaries 163

Griffin, Alta Irene N. W.. India, 5. 1921 Griffin, Helen F Col. R., China. S. 1929, m. 1930. Burn Griffin, Martha A N. W., India, a. 1912, d. 1925 Griffin, Pansy Pearl Phila., China, 5. 1920 Griffiths, Mary B Des M., Japan, a. 1888, R. 1916, 5. 1920. R. 1925 Grove. Mrs. H. L. R N. W.. India, a. 1905, s.. R. 1912 Grove, Nelda L Top., Korea, S. 1919, r. 1932 Gruenewald, Cornelia H. A Des M.. India, a. 1912, R. 1919 Guelfi, Cecilia N. W., South America, a. 1878, d. 1886 Gugin, Irene P N. Y., Africa, 5. 1931 Guthapfel, Minerva L Phila., Korea, a. 1903, R. 1912 Haberman, Margaret O N. W., Japan, 5. 1920, r. 1922, India. 5. 1926, r. 1934 Hadden. G. Evelyn Pac, India, a. 1913. Haenig, Hulda A N. W.. Korea, a. 1910, r. 1922, d. 1927

Haffner, Freda, M.D Pac, India, .S'. 1935 Hagar, Esther May N. Y., South America, S. 1925. r. 1930 Hagen, Olive Irene N. W.. Japan. 5. 1919 Hale. Lillian G N. E.. China, a. 1888, m. 1894. Scott, m. Welday Halfpenny. M. Lillian Pac, China, a. 1914, d. 1929 Hall, Ada Bearl Cin., Korea, 5. 1921 Hall, Dorcas Phila., India, 5. 1922 Hall, E. Baylie Pac, China, a. 1913, m. 1915. Sceats Hall. Emma M N. Y.. Italy, a. 1885, N. W.. 1886, R. 190o Hall. Mrs. Rosetta S., M.D. (See Sherwood) Hallagan. Bess N. W.. South America, S. 1933 Hallman, Sarah B Bait., Korea, a. 1907, m. 1912, Beck Halverstadt, Harriet J Top., China, a. 1918 Hamisfar. Florence N.. M.D N. W.. Japan, a. 1883. dis. 1886 Hammond. Alice J.| N. Y.. Korea a. 1900 m. 1903. Sharp. S. 1908 Hammond. Rebecca J Cin., South America, o. 1892, R. 1899 Hammons, Mabel, M.D Top., China, S. 1921, r. 1932 Hampton, Mary S N. Y.. Japan, a. 1881, R. 1917. d. 1930 Hancock, Mrs. Nellie D Bait., India, S. 1920, r. 1932 Haney, Ida C N. E.. India, a. 1912. r. 1919 Hanks, E. Gertrude Phila., South America, S. 1920 Hannah, Marv Louise N. E., India, 5. 1924 Hansing, Ovidia N. W., China. S. 1920 Harb. Mabel E N. W.. Malaysia. 5. 1924, m. 1932. Kuehn Hardie. Eva M Cin.. India, a. 1895 Hardsaw, Rosa A Top., India, 5. 1922, r. 1934 Harger, Gladys B N. W., China, 5. 1919 Harmon, Grace N. W.. Korea, a. 1911. m. 1914, McCary Harrington, Susan Col. R., China, a. 1892, m. 1893, Causland, d. 1920 Harrington, Sylvia Rhoda N. Y., Korea, a. 1918, r. 1921 Harris, Alice C N. E., India, 5. 1920, r. 1929 Harris, Lillian. M.D Cin., Korea, a. 1897. d. 1902 Harris, Mary W Cin., Korea, a. 1891, m. 1894, Folwell Harris. Nellie M Cin.. India, a. 1893. R. 1895 Harrod, Anna M N. W.. India. 5. 1919 Hart. Mary Ames Pac. India, a. 1904, m. 1907, Briggs Hartford, Mabel C N. E. China, a. 1887, R. 1929 Hartung, Lois Joy Pac, South America, a. 1911, Mex. 1924, R. 1934 Harvey, Emily L N. E., India, a. 1884, R. 1920, d. 1929 Harvey, Ruth M Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1923 Hasler, Abbie C N. W., India. 5. 1922. m. 1924. Thomas Hastings. Mary N. Y., Mexico, a. 1874, d. 1898 Hatch, Ella Des M., South America, a. 1915, r. 1919 Hatch, Hazel A Top., Korea, 5. 1920, r. 1932 Hatfield. Lena. M.D N. W., China, a. 1907, r. 1918, d. 1927 Hawkins, Sallie C Top., Philippine Islands, 5. 1921, r. 1934 Hayes, Virginia Cin., South America, S. 1923, Philippine Is., 5. 1930 Haynes. Emily Irene N. Y., Korea, a. 1906 Heafer. Louise Phila.. India, a. 1891. R. 1907 Heath. Frances J.. M.D N. Y.. China, a. 1913. jti. 1929, Htighson Heaton, Carrie A N. W., Japan, a. 1893, R. 1929 Hebinger, Josephine N. W., India, a. 1892, m. 1894, Snitggs Hedrick, M. C N. Y.. India, a. 1884, m. 1890. Miles Hefty. Lura M Col. R., China, a. 1909, r. 1922, m. 1923, Wire Heist, Laura A Col. R., India, 5. 1921 Helm, Mabel Cin., Mexico, 5. 1924, m. 1930, Singleton Hemenway, Ruth V., M.D N. Y., China, 5. 1923 Hemingway, Edith A N. E., India, a. 1898, r. 1909 Henderson. Lucile Cin.. Mexico. 5. 1919. m. 1920 Hendrick. Rhoda G., M.D N. W.. India. S. 1923, r. 1925 Henkle, W. Nianette Des M.. India, a. 1901, R. 1912, d. 1929 Henry, Mary Top., India, a. 1904, dis. 1906 164 Directory of Missionaries

Henschen, A. Lillian Pac, India, a. 1914, m. 1917, Hollister, d. 1933 Hepperly, Hattie H Top.. India, 5. 1921, m. 1923, Dewey Hermiston, Margaret I. W N. E. India, 5. 1919 Hess, Margaret I Cin., Korea, a. 1913 Hess, Stella A Cin., Africa, a. 1914. det. Hewett, Ella J Phila., Japan, a. 1884, R. 1919, d. 1927 Hewett, Lizzie N. VV., South America, a. 1886, R. 1914 Hewitt, Helen M N. W., Mexico, a. 1904, R. 1919. 5. 1926, R. 1934 Hewson, Marguerite E Col. R., Philippine Islands. 5. 1922 Higgins. Susan B N. E. Japan, a. 1878, d. 1879 Highbaugh, Irma Top., China, a. 1917 Hill, Clara M N. E., Mexico, 5. 1921. c. L, miss. 1923, r. Hill, Katherine Ledyard Phila.. India, a. 1905, R. 1915 Hillman. Amanda. M.D N. W., Korea, a. 1911, 5., r. 1914 Hillman, Mary R Cin., Korea, a. 1900, d. 1928 Hilts, Abigail M N. Y., South America, a. 1911, r. 1915 Hilts, Carrie A N. Y., South America, a. 191 1, r. 1919, d. 1927 Hitch, Alice E N. W., Japan, a. 1918, r. 1921, w. 1923, Armstrong Hitchcock, Frances H Des M., China, a. 1905, m. 1908, Richer, d. 1916 Hoag, Lucy, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1872. d. 1909 Heath, Ruth Top., India, a. 1916 Hobart. Elizabeth N. W., China, a. 1915* Hobart, Louise N. W., China, a. 1912*. d. 1934 Hoddinott, Lucerne Cin., China, 5. 1921, m. 1927, Knowlton Hodge, Emma, M.D Phila., India, a. 1895, m. 1899, Worrall Hoffman, Carlotta E N. W., India, a. 1906 Hoffman. Cora E Phila., China, 5. 1928, m. 1932, Johnson Hoffman, Thekla A Cin., India, 5. 1924

Hoffmann, Jeanette ; . . . N. Y., Mexico, S. 1929 Hoge, Elizabeth Cin., India, a. 1892. R. 1935 Holbrook, Ella M Pac, Japan, a. 1900, R. 1906 Holbrook, Mary J Cin., Japan, a. 1878, m. 1890, Chappell. d. 1912 Holder, Mary Edna Col. R.. India, 5. 1922 Holland, Mrs. Alma H Des M., India, a. 1904 Holland. Ary J Top.. Malaysia, a. 1905. R. 1919 Holland, Harriet A N. W., India, a. 1906, ?n. 1909. Milholland Hollister, Alice E N. W., India, a. 1909, m. 1913, Gabel Hollister. Grace A Cin., Mexico, a. 1905 Hollows, Bessie A N. E., China, S. 1922 Holman, Charlotte T Pac. India, a. 1900 Holman, Sarah C Minn.. India, a. 1914, s. Holmberg, Hilda Minn., Malaysia, a. 1913. m. 1922, Allsirom Holmes, Ada Col. R., India, a. 1905. R. 1924 Holmes, Lillian L N. Y., China, a. 1911 Holmes, Maybel Marion N. Y., China, 5. 1931 Holway, Ruth N. E., South America, 5. 1924, m. 1930, Bosworth Honnell, Grace L Top., India, 5. 1920 Honsinger, Welthy B N. Y., China, a. 1906, r. 1921, m. 1924, Fisher Hopkins, Rhoda Mae Col. R., Japan, a. 1917, R. 1918 Hosford. Ruby C Top., South America, a. 1918, r. 1934, Hostetter, Flossie M Cin., China, a. 1913, r. Householder, C. Ethel Top. China, a. 1913, r. 1934 Howard, Leonora, M.D N. W., China, a. 1877. m. 1884. King Howard, Meta. M.D N. W., Korea, a. 1887, R. 1890 Howe, Deha A Phila., China, a. 1879. R. 1882 Howe. Gertrude N. W.. China, o. 1872, R. 1917, d. 1929 Howey, Harriet M Cin., Japan, o. 1916 Hoy, Ellen I Cin., India, a. 1881, m. 1884, Lawson Hu, May L Des. M., China, a. 1904, nt. 1922. Ung Hu. King Eng. M.D Phila., China, a. 1895, R. 1929, d. 1929 Huelster, Luella Minn., China, a. 1908, m. 1912, Bishop Huff. Edyth A Des M.. India. 5. 1920. r. 1927, m. 1931, Beats Huffman, Loal E., M.D Cin., India, a. 1911 Hugoboom, Marion Phila., Mexico, a. 1883, m. 1884 Hughes, Jennie V N. Y.. China, a. 1905, r. 1920 Hughes, Mary A N. Y., India, a. 1887, R. 1890. m. Ernsberger, d. 1899 Hughes, M. Pearl N. W., India, 5. 1923 Huibregtse, Minnie Des M., India, 5. 1931 Hulbert, Esther L Cin.. Korea, S. 1923 Hulbert. Jeannette C Cin., Korea, a. 1914 Hunt. Ava F N. W.. India, a. 1910 Hunt, Faith A Minn., China, a. 1914, r. 1932 Hunt, Maud Edna N. W., India, a. 1918, m. 1921, Rogers Hunter, Alice Cin., Korea, 5. 1926. det. Hurlbut. Floy Top., China, a. 1913, r. 1931 Huser, Minnie E Cin., China, .S. 1923, m. 1927, Ledbeatler Directory of Missionaries 165

Hutchens, Edna May N. W.. India, S. 1921 Hyde, Flora A N. W., China, a. 1912. m. Dedrich Hyde. Laura, M.D N. Y.. India, a. 1883. m. 1886. Foole Hvde. Minnie Z N. W., South America, a. 1888, m. 1894, IFj7so« Hyde, Nettie M Des M., India, a. 1897, to. 1907, Fell Hyneman. Ruth E Cin.. India, a. 1915 Illingworth, Charlotte J Phila.. Burma, a. 1898. R. 1925 Imhof. Louisa Top.. Japan, a. 1889. R. 1924. d. 1925 Ingram. Helen Minn., India, a. 1898, s., r. 1913 Irwin, Alice A Cin., South America, 5. 1923. r. 1933 Isham, Ida G Pac. India, a. 1912, r. 1919 Jackson. C. Ethel N. W.. Malaysia, a. 1902 Jacobson, Evelyn R Minn., India. 5. 1922. m. 1931, Bream Jakobson. Alma Minn.. India, a. 1894, m. 1904, Kevenler, d. 1918 James, Phoebe Top., Burma, a. 1906. r. 1926 Jaquet, Myra A N. W.. China, a. 1909 Jayne, Ruth E Pac. China. 5. 1924. R. 1933 Jenkins. Mary E Top., India, .S. 1921, R. 1923 Jewell, Amy L N. Y.. Malaysia, S. 1924, m. 1928. Procter Jewell, Carrie I Cin., China, a. 1884, R. 1913, d. 1919 Jewell, Mrs. Charlotte M N. Y.. China, a. 1883, R. 1929 Johanson. Maria A. J Top.. India, a. 1915, r. Johnson, Anna N. W., a. 1894, R. Johnson, Eda Lydia. D.O Pac. China, a. 1918, R. 1934 Johnson, Ella Phila., China, a. 1888, m. 1893, Kinnear Johnson. Frances E Pac, India, 5. 1931 Johnson, Ingle A Top., Africa. 5. 1927 Johnson. Juliet M Des M.. China, 5. 1928, m. 1934. Gamble • Johnson. Katherine M Bait., Mexico, a. 1912, r. 1931 Johnson, Mary A Minn., China, S. 1925, r. 1935 Johnston, Ruth H Cin., Malaya, 5. 1926, r. 1933 Jones. Dorothy N. W.. China, a. 1903 Jones, Edna Bait., China, a. 1907 Jones, Joan Comber N. Y., India. 5. 1920, m. 1930, Collins Jones, Jennie D Des M., China, a. 1911 Jones. Laura E., M.D N. Y.. China, 5. 1919, r. 1931 Jonte, Louise M Top., India, 5. 1922, d. 1926 Jordan. Ella E N. W., China, a. 1911, R. 1925 Justin, Catherine L Top., India, S. 1923 Kahn, Ida, M.D N. W., China, a. 1896, d. 1931 Kaulbach. Anna L N. Y., Japan, a. 1886. m 1889, Wilson Keckman. Anna N. E., China, a. 1916, to. 1918, Weigel Keeler, Anna C Cin.. India, a. 1892. to. 1899, Mawson Keeney. Dorothea L N. Y., China, 5. 1920, r. 1935 Kehm, Alta Minn., India, S. 1924, m. 1928. Harris Keister, Ida M Minn., China, 5. 1922. m. 1927, Mader Kelley, Luella Bait.. India, a. 1880. dis. 1885 Kellogg. Nora Evelyn N. W.. China, 5. 1921, d. 1932 Kemper Harriet Des M., India, o. 1891, R. 1895 Kennard, Ada Marie Pac. India, S. 1924 Kennard, Olive E Pac, India, a. 1914, R. 1934 Kennedy. Mary E Des M.. India, o. 1891. to. 1894, Core Kenyon. Carrie C Phila., Malaysia, a. 1917 Kerr, Harriet Phila., India, a. 1881. i. 1886 Kesler, Mary G Top.. China, a. 1912 Kessing, Mae G N. VV.. So. .America. 5. 1928, del. Ketchum. Edith L Des M.. Japan, a. 1911. r. 1919 Ketring, Mary. M.D Cin.. China and Philippine Islands, a. 1888-1905 India .S 1922. R 1928 Keyhoe, Katherine Des M., India, 5. 1925 Kidwell, Lola M Cin., Japan, a. 1894, R. 1918 Kilburn, Elizabeth H Phila., Japan. S. 1919 King, Charlotte N. W., Burma. .S. 1919. to. 1925. Price King, F. Grace Cin., India, o. 1916*, m, 1920, Nelson King, Winifred E Pac, India. S. 1922. R. 1934 King. Sarah N Pac. Africa, S. 1923 Kintner. Lela L Cin., Burma, S. 1922, c. t., miss. 1923 Kinzly. Katherine M N. Y., India, 5. 1924 Kipp. Cora I., M.D N. W.. India, o. 1910 Kipp. Julia I N. W.. India, o. 1906 d. 1931 Kirkpatrick. Reba Agnes N. W.. India, a. 1918, d. 1919 Kissack. Sadie E Bait.. China, a. 1893, m. 1896, McCartney Kleiner, Clara E Des M., India, 5. 1927 Kleinhenn, Florence E Cin., Malava, 5. 1924. c.<.. miss.\92').m.l93S,Kesselring Kline, Blanche May Phila.. India, a. 1917, r. 1924, m. 1925. bakir Klinefelter, Mary A Pac. Philippine Islands. 5. 1922, d. 1926 166 Directory of Missionaries

Klinseberuer. Ida M Top., India, 5. 1924 Knapp, Elsie L N. VV., China, a. 1912, del. Kneeland. Bertha N.E., So. America, a. 1900. m. 1909, TaHon, 191,?, R. 1919 Knit;ht, Florence Pac, Mexico, .S. 192.S, r. 1928 Knowles, Emma L N. E., India, a. 1881, R. 1917, d. 1924 Knowles, Grace M Des M.. India. '^. 1920, d. 1925 Knox, Emma M N. W.. China, o. 1906 Koether, Liiella G Des M., China, 5. 1931 Koons, Sue L., M.D Phila., China, a. 1904, r. 1910 Kostrup. Bertha Alfrida N W., Philippine Islands, a. 1916, Korea, 5. 1922 Krill. Beredene Cin., Bulgaria, V. 1928, r. 1935 Krook, Mrs. Ruby L N. W., Korea, a. 1913, r. 1914 Kurtz, Alice W Phila.. Mexico, a. 1902, dis. 1903 Kyle, Theresa J Phila., India, a. 1885, R. 1913, d. 1928 Kyser, Kathrvn B N. Y., Mexico, a. 1911, r. 1924 Lacy, Alice M Cin., China, o. 1917*. d. 1921 Laird, Esther Cin.. Korea, S. 1926 Lake. Virginia S Phila., Malaya, 5. 1930 Lamb, Emma L N. W., India, a. 1896, dis. 1901 Landis, Rotha S N. Y.. China. 5. 1926, R. 1934 Landrum, Margaret N. W.. India, a. 1909 Lane, Ortha May Des M.. China, 5. 1919 Lang, Victoria C N. VV., .Africa. 5. 1927 Lantz, Viola. M.D Pac, China, 5. 1920 Larson, H. Ruth Top.. India, 5. 1928, m. 1935, Hollisler Larsson, Marie E Top., China, a. 1911. r. 1926 Latimer, H. Isabel N. Y., South .America, 5. 1930 Latimer, Laura M N. E., Me.xico, a. 1884, R. 1888. d. 1924 Lauck, Ada J Des M., India, a. 1892 Lauck, Sarah Phila., India, a. 1885, m. 1888, Parson Lauderdale. Grace Top., Mexico. ^., 1928 Lawrence, Birdice E N. W., China, a. 1917 Lawrence, Mabel C N. W.. India, a. 1914 Lawson. Anne E Des M., India, a. 1885, R. 1931 Lawson. Christina H N. Y.. India, a. 1892. R. 1925 Lawson, Ellen L Cin., India, a. 1917*, R. 1935 Laybourne, Ethel M.. M.D N. W., India, a. 1911, c. /., miss. 1920, det. Layton, M. E Bait.. India, a 1878. d. 1892 Leadbeater, A. Evelyn. M.D N. Y., Korea, S. 1928 Leavitt, Ollie R Top., India, 5. 1932 Lebeus, J. E Martha Cin., China, a. 1897, R. 1929 Lee, Edna M Top., Japan, a. 1913, r. 1927 Lee. Elizabeth M Phila.. Japan, a. 1914, R. Lee, Irene E N. E., Japan, a. 1894, m. 1901. Ver Meht Lee, Mabel Minn., Japan, a. 1903 Lee, Mary H N. W., India, a 1914, r. 1917 Leffonje, Roxy N. W.. China, a. 1918t LeHuray, Eleanor N. Y., South America, a. 1884, R. 1913 Lemin'J, Sarah F Cin., India, a. 1873. m.l875. Shepherd, m- Dunn Lenlz, Grace Z Pac. China, 5. 1920, m. 1934, Keller Leslie, Grace E N. Y.. China, S. 1923, r. 1931 Lewis. Amy G Bait.. Japan, o. 1898, /?. 1911, (i. 1934 Lewis, Ella A Bait., Korea, a. 1891, r. 1904 Lewis, Ida Belle Des M., China, a. 1910, m. 1932, Main Lewis, Margaret D., M.D N. W., India, a. 1901, R. 1930, .S. 1931. d. 1934 Li, Bi Cu, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1905 Liers, Josephine Des M.. India, a. 1907 Lilly. May B Col. R.. Malaysia, a. 1897, R. 1916 Limber .;er. Anna R Phila., Mexico, a. 1890, d. 1910 Linam, Alice N. Y.. China, a. 1895, R. 1929 Lind, Jennv Phila., China, S 1926, c. t., miss. 1928 Lindblad, Anna C N. E., China, a. 1908. R. 1929 Livermore, Melva A Top., India, a. 1897 Llewellyn, Alice A Phila., Italv, a. 1901, s., r. 1919,

~~Lovejoy, Bervl H Too., Soulh America, a. 1914, m. 1920. Hurd Loveless, Emilia R N. Y.. N. Africa, a. 1919 Low. Nellie Ciii.. ladia, (i. 1913~~

Lowe, Mary Louise Pac, China, S . 1929 Lov. Netella Tor>-, So. Amer. and Mexico, a. 1914. m. 1924. Hin-thaw Loyd. Mary De F Piiila.. Mexico, a. 1884, d. 1902 Luce. R. Isabel Pac, China, 5. 1925, R. 1933 Ludgate, Abbie M N. W., India, .S. 1919, r. 1928, .S. 1929. det. Lund, Pearl B Phila., Korea, S. 1929 Lunn. Mary V Cin., Mexico, S. 1922. m. 1924, Rodgers Lybarger, Lela Cin., China, a. 1909, d. 1934 Lyon. Ellen M.. M.D N. W.. China, a. 1890. d. 1919 Mabuce. Ethel L Des M., Burma, a. 1916. m. 1923. Solberg Mace. Rose Alice Bait.. China, a. 1911 Maclntire. Frances W N. E.. Japan, a. 1916. r. 1929 Madden, F. E. Pearl Phila., India, a. 1916, R. 1933 Maddock, Lois G N. Y.. China, 5. 1920, m. 1923, Luccock Maltby, Christine Top., Mexico, 5. 1923 Malvin, Elizabeth Cin., South America, a. 1914, m. 1918, Coales Manchester. Ruth C N. E., India, 5. 1919 Manderson, Mabel Melissa. M.D N. W., China, a. 1907, m. 1923, Durbin Manly, Grace E Cin., China, S. 1924* Manly, Marian E., M.D Cin., China, 5. 1925* Mann, Mary N. W., China, a. 1911 Manning, Ella Des M., China, a. 1899, R. 1930 Mansell. Hester V Cin., India, a. 1884*. m. 1889. Monroe Marble. Elizabeth Dana Pac, India, a. 1904, R. 1907 Marker, Jessie B Cin., Korea, a. 1905 Marks, Inez M Pac. China, a. 1916. m. 1922. Londermilk Marks. Lillian R Pac. India, a. 1894, m. 1903. Kelley, d. 1929 Marriott, Jessie A N. E., China, a. 1901 Marsh, Jessie L N. VV., South America, a. 1906, R. Marsh, Mabel C Top., Malaysia, a. 1910, Mexico S. 1925, Malaya, 5.1926 Marshall, Eva T N. E., N. Africa, 5. 1930, m. 1931. Douglas Martin. Clara Minn.. Malaysia, a. 1897, d. 1929 Martin, Elizabeth E N. W., China, a. 1900, R. 1908 Martin, Emma E.. M.D N. W., China, a. 1900, R. 1927 Marvin, Elizabeth Pac, China, a. 1915, R. 1919. d. 1925 Maskell. Florence W Des M.. India, a. 1898, R. 1925. 5. 1925. R. 1927 Mason. Florence Pearl Cin.. China, a. 1917 Mason, Hazel A Top., Mexico, 5. 1920, m. Croivle Mason, Inez D N. E., India, a. 1915, r. 1929 Mason, Letitia, M.D N. W., China, a. 1873, Cin. 1874, m. 1876, Qiiine, d. 1903 Masters, Florence F Des M., India, 5. 1924 Masters. Luella. M.D N. W.. China, o. 1892-1910, R. 1913 Matthew, Helen N. W., India, .S. 1924, del. Maull, Alice P Des M., Phihppine Islands, S. 1924, r. 1931 Maxey, Elizabeth N. Y., India, a. 1888, R. 1919, d. 1924 May, Pauline N. W., Japan, 5. 1922, m. 1925, West Mayer, Lucile C N. Y., India, a. 1912, r. 1931 McAllister, Hazel Top., Mexico, 5. 1929 McBee, Alice M Cin., China, S. 1921, r. 1926 McBee, Edith F Cin., China, S. 1926 McBurnie, Susan Phila., India, a. 1888, m. 1894, Bond McCaig, E. Fern Top., China, 5. 1929 McCann, S. Elizabeth Bait., India, 5. 1924, m. 1927. Mueller McCartney. Blanche L Top.. India, n. 1916 McClellan. Alice M Phila.. Burma, a. 1915, r. 1922 McClintock, Ethel L Pac, Mexico, a. 1918, r. 1925 McClurg, Grace K Cin., China, a. 1912, r. 1926 McCutchen, Martha L Top.. China, 5. 1919 McDade, Mvra L Bait., China, 5. 1919, c. t., miss. 1924 McDonnell, Clella E Minn., China, a. 1912, m. 1915, Brown McDowell, Jessie N. W., Japan, a. 1912, m. 1912, Gillham McDowell, .Kate, M.D Phila., India, a. 1886, R. 1891 McGregor, Katherine. M.D N. W.. India, a. 1893. m. 1895. Boomer McHose, Lottie Cin., China, a. 1904, R. McKesson, Mary N. W., India, a. 1883, m. 1886, Conkling McKibben, Martha L Des M., Mexico, a. 1900, d. 1900 McKinley, Mary B N. W., India, a. 1899, m. 1906, Younqlove McKinney, Alice N. Y. and Phila., So. America, a. 1907, m. 1912, Slebbini Mc Knight, Isabel Top., India, a. 1901, R. 1933 McMann, Marv Ethel Cin., Africa, 5. 1922, m. 1931, Henrv McMillan, Carrie N. Y., India, a. 1871, m. 1872, Buck, d. 1932 McMillan, Helen K Top., India, 5. 1920, m. 1927, Middlebrook McMurray, Sarah Top.. Mexico, 5. 1922, m. 1923. Jimenez 168 Directory of Missionaries

McQuie. Ada N. W., Korea, S. 1922 Meader, Frances S N. W., China, 5. 1924, m. 1933, Way Means, Alice Cin., India, a. 1897 Means, Mary Cin., India, a. 1896, d. 1926 Meek, Grace Anna Minn., China, a. 1911, dis. 1915 Meek, Mrs. Mary C N. Y., Malaysia, a. 1899, R. 1906 Meeker, Bessie L Top., China, S. 1919 Mekkelson, Josephine Des M., Africa, a. 1900, d. 1902 Mellinger, Roxanna Cin., Burma, o. 1913 Melton, Mary E N. W., Japan, a. 1897, d. 1916 Merrill, Clara E N. W., China, a. 1896. R. 1932 Merritt, Edna F N. Y., China, 5. 1924 Merrow. Luella, M.D N. W.. China, a. 1917. r. 1918 Messersmith, Marie N. Y., Malaya, 5. 1930, m. 1932, Gurr Metsker, Mary Kathryn Des M., India. S. 1923 Meyer. Fannie E Des M., China, a. 1894, dis. 1899 Michel. Mabel P N. W., Africa. 5. 1929 Michener, Emma Phila.. Africa, a. 1880, d. 1881 Miller, Alpha J Cin., Africa, S. 1924 Miller, Anna E Des M., India, a. 1915. m. 1919. Cook Miller, Ethel Phila., Korea, a. 1917 Miller, Etta Phila., Japan, a. 1917. m. 1922, Weavers Miller, Geneva E Des M.. China. S. 1932 Miller, Iva M., M.D Col. R., China, a. 1909, del. Miller, Lula A N. Y., Korea, a. 1901 Miller, Marie Cin., Korea, S. 1922, m. 1923, Kipp Miller, Martha J Des M., India, a. 1900, m. 1904, Jones Miller, Oriel Cin., India, a. 1886, dis. 1889 Miller. Sara H N. E., Korea, a. 1901, R. 1903 Miller. Viola Lue N. W., China, 5. 1920 Milligau, Grace H Phila., France, 5. 1919, m. 1921. Carnahan Mills, Camilla Col. R., China. 5. 1922*. m. 1931, Biiigersiaff Mills, Harriet M N. W., India, a. 1911. w. 1918 Minear, Ruth Des M., South America, S. 1927, r. 1934 Mitchell, Emma L N. Y., China, a. 1888, R. 1906 Mitzner, Amanda Pac, Burma ,5. 1932 MonelU', Nancy, M.D N. Y., India, a. 1873, m. 1874, Mansell Montgomery, Urdell Top., India, a. 1902 Moore, Agnes Stephens N. Y.. Africa, 6". 1922, m. 1927, Tull Moore. Alice M N. E., Mexico, a. 1900, r. 1903 Moore, Blanche Cin., India, a. 1914, d. 1917 Moore, Marv Gladys De3 M., Burma, 5. 1920 Moots, Mrs. Cornelia N. W.. Philippine Islands, a. 1900, R. 1902. d. 1929 Morehouse, Edith T., M.D N. Y., India, 5. 192 1. r. 1931 Morgan, Cora L Top., India, a. 1904. m. 1930, Oldham Morgan, Julia E., M.D Phila., China, .S. 1922 Morgan, Mabel N. W., India, 5. 1918, c. t., miss. 1924 Morgan, Margaret N. W., India, a. 1910 Morris, Harriett Plummer Top., Korea, 5. 1921 Morris. Mrs. Louise Ogilvy N. Y., Korea, 5. 1927 Morrow, Julia E Col. R., India, a. 1913 Moses, Mathilde R Top., India, a. 1916 Moss, Loma R Cin., India, 5. 1923, m. 1929, Loose Moyer, Jennie E N. Y., India, a. 1899, R. 1927 Mudge, Ada N. E., India, a. 1904*, R. 1909 Muir, Winifred N. W., China, a. 1909, r. Mulliner, Clara N. Y., Mexico, a. 1878, R. 1883, d. 1918 Munson, Kezia E N. W., India, a. 1918, c. I., miss., 1925 Murphy, May Col. R. and Phila., South America, S. 1922 Murray, Helen Grace Phila.. Mexico. 5. 1919, So. America, 1924, Mexico. 1926, R. 1935 Myers, Ruth L N. W., China, 5. 1922, m. 1929, Allen Nagler, Etha M N. W.. China, 5. 1920 Narbeth, E. Gwendoline Phila., N. Africa. 5. 1922 Navlor, Nell F Top., India, a. 1912 Neiger, Lillian N. W.. Me.fico. a. 1892. R. 1895 Nelson, Ada M N. W., India, 5. 1925 Nelson, Caroline C Top.. India, a. 1906 Nelson, Dora L N. W., India, a. 1910 Nelson, Eva I Minn., Malaysia, a. 1916, del. Nelson, E. Lavinia Top., India, a. 1906 Nelson, Lena Phila.. China, a. 1911 Nelson. Marie N. E.. Africa. S. 1923 Newman, Emma E N. W., India. 5. 1925, m. 1930, Taylor Nevitt, Jane Ellen Bait., China, a. 1912 Newby, Alta Des M., China, a. 1905, m. 1912, Webster 1 1

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Newton, Marion N. W., India, a. 1898. m. 1902 Newton. Minnie E N. Y., India, a. 1912 Nichols. Florence L N. E., India, a. 1894. R. 1909, 5. 1921, R. 1927 Nicholls, Elizabeth W N. Y., India, a. 1896, iR. 1924 Nickerson, Florence Cin.. India, a. 1880, d. 1887 Nicolaisen. Martha C. W Minn., China, a. 1900, R. 1927 Norberg, Eugenia N. W., India, a. 1907 Nordyke. Lela E N. VV.. China, 5. 1920, d. 1927 Northcott, Ruth E N. W., Africa, 5. 1924 Northrup, Alice M N. W., India, a. 1903*, m. 1910. Brooks Norton. Anna J.. M.D Cin.. India, a. 1900, R. 1905, d. 1926 Nourse, Emma D N. W., Africa, a. 1909, m. 1921, Theron Nowlin, Mabel Ruth Des M., China, a. 1915 Nunan, Nellie F., M.D N. E., India, a. 1913. dis. 1916 Nuzum. Ruth P N. E.. China. 5. 1921, m. 1928, McConnell Odee. Bertha Top.. Philippine Islands. S. 192 Odgers.Evaline A N. W.. Italy, a. 1900, R. 1908 Oelschlager. Lydia N. W.. Netherlands Indies. S. 1924, m. 1933, Alm,S. 1933 Ogborn, Kate L Des M., China, a. 1891. d. 1932 Ogden. Henrietta C Cin., Mexico, a. 1876. R. 1889. d. 1899 Okey, Mary C N. W.. India. S. 1924. del. Older. Mildred Des M., India. 5. 1925, d. 1932 Oldfather, Jeannette Des M., Korea, 5. 1923, det. Oldridge, Mary B Cin., Japan, 5. 1919, del. Oldroyd, Roxanna H Top., India, a. 1909 Olson, Delia N. W., Malaysia, a. 1917 Olson, Elizabeth Minn., Malaysia, a. 1915, R. 1922 Olson, Emma N. W., Malaya, 5. 1932 Olson. Mary E Minn.. Malaysia, a. 1903 Orcutt. Hazel A Cin.. Burma, a. 1912. m. 1921, Hayden Organ. Clara M N. E.. India, a. 1900. R. 1916 Osburn. Carolyn B Pac, India, 5. 1928, m. 1930, Mondol Ostrom, Eva Top., N. Africa, 5. 1927 Ostrom, Mrs. Vera E. (See Edborg) Otto. Alice M Des M.. Japan, a. 1894, m. 1900, Selby Otto, Violet L Top., India, 5. 1923. m. 1932, Wilson Ovenshire, Laura B N. Y., India, 5. 1922, d. 1925 Overholt. Treva B N. W., South America, 5. 1929 Overman, L. Belle N. W., Korea, a. 1917 Packer, Josephine R Des M., South America, 5. 1922, r. 1928 Paige, Ina N. E.. Mexico. 5. 1922, r. 1929 Paine, Josephine O Phila., Korea, a. 1892, d. 1909 Paine, Mildred A Cin., Japan, S. 1920, N. Y., 5. 1923 Pak, Mrs. Esther K., M.D Phila., Korea, a. 1900. d. 1910 Palm. Emma Cin., China, 5. 1922 Palmer. Ethel M Pac, India, 5. 1921 Palmer, Florence K N. W., India, S. 1930 Palmer. Pearl E N. Y., India, 5. 1927 Pardee, Mary E Phila., Japan, a. 1888, d. 1893 Parish, Sarah Rebecca, M.D N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1906, R. 1935 Parker, Theda A N. Y., Mexico, a. 1889, R. 1894 Parkes. Elizabeth Pac, Philippine Islands, a. 1903, d. 1928 Parkinson, Phoebe A Col. R., China, a. 1899, m. 1909, Upper Parks. Vera E N. VV.. India, 5. 1922 Parmenter, Ona M Minn., Africa, S. 1920 Parsons. L. Maud Phila., China, .S. 1930 Patterson, Anna Gail Cin., India, S. 1920 Patterson, June B N. W.. China, 5. 1921, m. 1922. Kerr Payne, Ella E Phila.. Mexico, a. 1904. R. 1910 Payne. Zola L N. W., Korea, 5. 1929 Payton, Lela E Pac, India, a. 1916. m. 1921, Tucker Pearson. Mary N N. E.. Mexico. S. 1920 Peckham. Caroline S N. W.. Japan, a. 1915 Peet. Azalia E N. Y., Japan, a. 1916 Peirce. Ruth Cin., China, 5. 1921. m. 1924, Sleininger Penner, Eva N Minn., India, 5. 1928, r. 1933 Penney, Oril A Pac, Africa, 5. 1926 Penney, Winnogene C Top.. China, a. 1916. South America. 5. 1927, r. 1934 Perkins, Fannie A Des M., Burma, o. 1890, R. 1924, d. 1933 Perrill, M. Louise Top.. India, a. 1910 Perrine. Florence N. W.. India, a. 1888. m. 1894, Mansell Perry, Edith Top., Bulgaria, 5. 1923, m. Morgan Perry, Ella L N. Y., India, S. 1931 Perry, Fern E Top., Bulgaria, 5. 1923, d. 1926 Perry, Harriet Louise N. E., Japan. S. 1922, ad. Persson. Bertha Top.. China. 5. 1920, r. 1929 1

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~~Peters, AUce N. W., China, a. 1906, d. 1911~~

~~Peters, Jessie I N. VV., India, a. 1903 Peters, Mary N. W., China, a. 1894, R. 1926~~

~~Peters, Sarah N. W , China, a. 1888, R. 1926 Pfaff, Jessie A Minn., Africa, 5. 1929~~

Phelps. Frances E Des M , lapan, a. 1889, m. 1915, Tackaberry. rf.l923 Phillips, Bess L Cin., Africa, 5. 1924 Pider, Mvrtle Z Top., Japan a. 191 Pierce, Mildred L Des M., India, 5. 1922 Pierce, Nellie Phila., Korea, a. 1897, m. 1905, Miller Pierce, Thirza M N. W.. China, a. 1902, R. 1908 Pittman. Annie M N. Y., China, 5. 1919 Place, Pauline .A N. W., Japan, a. 1916 Pletcher. Mina L Cin., Philippine Islands, S. 1923, m. 1929, Rodenizer Plumb Florence J N. Y.. China, a. 1900* Poinier, Louise N. W., Korea, S. 1928, m. 1932, Faus Pond, Mrs. Eleanor J., M.D Bait., Philippine Islands, a. 1911, China 1919, d 1925 Pool, Lvdia S Des M., India, a. 1903 Pool, Miriam, M.D Top.. China, S. 1924 m. 1927, Huff Poole, Carrie M N. E., Japan, a. 1914, m. 1918, Keedy Porter, Anna D Top., Italy, a. 1913, m. 1919, Giambarresi Porter, Charlotte J N. W., India, a. 1896, m. 1901 Porter, Clara A Top., India, o. 1912, r. 1927 Porter, Eunice Top., India, a. 1913 Porter, Mary Q Des M., China, a. 1871. m. 1882, Gamewill d. 1907 Powell, Alice M N. Y., China, a. 1906 Power, E. Marie Top., India, .S. 1926, m. 1929, Spear Power, Elsie May Top.. Burma, ."?. 1919 Pray, Susan, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1886, R. 1887, d. 1903 Precise, Myrtle Top., India. S. 1922 Precise, Pearl E Top., India, 5. 1922 Prentice, Margaret May Top., China, 5. 1924 Preston, C Grace N. Y., Japan, a. 1912, r. 1918 Priest, Marv A N. Y., Japan, a. 1878. R. 1880 Proctor, Orvia A Des M., China, .S. 1919 Proud, Vivian L Cin., China, 5. 1926, m. 1933, Cameron Pugh, Ada E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1906 Pultz, Elizabeth M N. Y., India, a. 1872. R. 1877, d. 1889 Purdv. Carrie M Phila., Mexico, a. 1895, So.America. 5. 1923. Mexico.5. 1926. R 19.30 Pye, Olive F N. Y., Korea, a. 1911, r. 1931 Pyke. Edith N. W., China, a. 1916*, m. Thompson Pyke, Mildred N. W., China, a. 1912*, m. Mooney Pyne, Rosa M Des M., India, a. 1902, m. 1906, Berry, m. 1918. Hawthorne Quinton, Frances N. W., Africa, a. 1916 Quirin, Flora Des M., India, 5. 1929 Raabe, Rosa M Des M., Korea, a. 1915, r. 1919 Radley, Vena I N. Y., China, 5. 1925 Rahe, Cora L N. W., China, a. 1912 Ramsev, Bertha E Phila., Africa, 5. 1924 Randall. S. Edith Top., India, a. 1911 Rank, Minnie L Minn., Malaysia, a. 1906 Ransom, Ruth Phila., South America, 5. 1919. r. 1934 Rasmussen, Mrs. Helen E N. Y., Africa, a. 1900, m. 1905. Springer Rea, Caroline Lois Cin., Malaysia. .S. 1922 Rebstock, Thelma A N. Y., India, 5. 1929, r. 1935 Reddick, Olive Irene Phila., India, .S. 1921, r. 1933 Redinger, June E Phila., Netherlands Indies, 5. 1928 Reed, Mary Cin., India, a. 1884 Reeves, Cora D N. W., China, a. 1917t Reeves, Mrs. Florence G N. Y., Bulgaria, 5. 1923, Italy, S. 1931, Bulgaria, 1935 Reid, Jennie Phila., South America, a. 1913 Reid, Mabel J Des M., Burma, 5. 1924 Reik, Elsie H N. W., China. 5. 1922 Reilly, Marnie B N. W.. India, a. 1913, m. 1916, Hill Reiman, Frieda N. W., China, a. 1918 Reitz, Beulah H Top., Africa, 5. 1922 Rexrode, Sadie M Cin., Africa, a. 1917, d. 1921 Rexroth, Elizabeth Cin., India, a. 1912, r. 1919 Rexroth, Emma K Col. R., India, a. 1916 Reynolds, Elsie M Des M., India, a. 1906. r. 1931 Richards, Emily Cin., India, 5. 1925, m. 1929, Notley Richards, Gertrude E Phila., India, a. 1917 Richardson, Faithe Top.. India, 5. 1925 Richardson. Fanny E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1918, r. 1925 Directory of Missionaries 171

Richey, Elizabeth H Cin.. China, 5. 1919 Richmond, Mary A Top., India, a. 1909 Riechers, Bertha L Pac, China, a. 1915, r. 1934 Rigbv, Luella G Des M., Burma, o. 1900, m. 1909, Jone!^ Rigg. Bessie E Des M., India, S. 1925, d. 1935 Riste, Rose A.. M.D Col. R., India, 5. 1922, R. 1929 Robbins, Adis N. W.. India, S. 1930 Robbins, Emma E., M.D Top., China, a. 1911, r. 1927 Robbins, Henrietta P N. Y., Korea, a. 1902 Roberds, Frances E Bait., North Africa. S. 1931 Roberts, Elizabeth S Minn., Korea, a. 1917, transferred to Swedish Unit, 1931 Robinett. Gusta N. W., China, S. 1930 Robinson, Alvina Des M.. Burma, a. 1907, r. 1928 Robinson, Faye H N. E.. China, a. 1917 Robinson, Flora L Minn., India, a. 1909*, m. 1921, Howells, d. 1926 Robinson, Helen E N. Y.. India, a. 1902*. d. 1917 Robinson, Martha E Phila., N. Africa, .S. 1922 Robinson, Mary C N. W., China, a. 1884, d. 1906 Robinson, Muriel E Cin., India, a. 1914*, r. 1931 Robinson, Ruth E Bait., India, a. 1900* Rockey, Lois Cin., India, a. 1912*, m. 1921, Atkins Rockwell, Lillie M Bait., India. S. 1919, r. 1935 Rodgers, Anna M Phila., Mexico, a. 1889, m. 1890, Furness Rogers, Hazel T Des M., India, 5. 1919 Rogers, Mayme Marie Cin., Korea, S. 1921 Rohde, Eleanora C N. W., Netherlands Indies. 5. 1921, R. 1934 Rosenberger, Elma T Cin., Korea, 5. 1921 Ross, Elsie M Phila., India, a. 1909 Rossiter, Henrietta B Des M., China, a. 1917 Rost, Carrie H Top.. India, 5. 1926 Rothweiler, Louisa C Cin., Korea, a. 1887, R. 1899, d. 1921 Rouse, Willma H Minn., China, a. 1893, m. 1905, Keene, d. 1929 Roush. Hannah Elsie N. W., Africa, a. 1911. m. 1924. Bush Rowe, Phoebe N. W., India, a. 1881, d. 1898 Rowley, Marv L N. W., China, a. 1899. m. 1904, Wilson Royce, Edith M Des M.. Korea. S. 1920. det. Rovce, Marian D Cin., Malaysia, S. 1924, N. Y., 5. 1931 Royer, Mary Ann N. W., China, a. 1913, r. 1922, tn. Rubright, Caroline B Phila., South America, a. 1913. R. 1928 Ruddick, EHzabeth May N. E., India, a. 1901. d. 1915 Ruese, Mrs. Artele B Bait., Italy, a. 1918 Ruggles, Ethel E Des M.. India, a. 1916 Rulofson, Gazelle M N. E., Japan, a. 1886, m. 1888, Thomson Ruppel, Leona E Des M., India, 5. 1919. det. Russell, Elizabeth Cin., Japan, a. 1879, R. 1919, d. 1928 Russell, Esther A Top., Mexico, S. 1922. d. 1923 Russell, Marv K N.W., China, 5. 1930 Russell, M. Helen Pac, Japan, a. 1895-1907, R. 1931 Ruth. E. Naomi Phila. and N. W., Netherlands Indies, a. 1911, m. 1924. Shellabear Sadler. Eva Phila, Malaya, 5. 1928 c. t., miss. 1929 Salmans, Edith Pac, Mexico, a. 1910, r. Salmon, Bessie C N. W., Korea, a. 1915, R. 1923 Salmon. Lena L N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1910, m. 1915, Carrothen Salzer, Florence Minn., India. 5. 1920, c. /., miss. 1923 Samson, Carrie J Des M., India, o. 1899, m. 1903, Sunder, d. 1921 Santee, Helen C Phila., Japan, a. 1908, R. 1914 Sauer, Clara N. W., China, a. 1915, r. 1919 Savage, Eugenia M Col. R., China, 5. 1931 Saxe, Agnes E N. Y., India, a. 1904. R. 1913, d. 1915 Sayles, Florence A Col. R., China, a. 1914 Schaefer, Carolyn E Minn., India, 5. 1925 Scharpff, Hanna N.W., Korea, a. 1910, transferred to Central Europe Uni. Schaum, Lvdia L., M.D Top., China, .S. 1920, det. Scheldt, Ellen A Top., Philippine Islands, 5. 1920, r. Scheirich, A. Beta Cin., China, S. 1922, r. 1935 Schenck, Linna N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1884, R. 1892, d. 1898 Scherich, Rilla Top., China, 5. 1923, r. 1932 Schlaefli, Trudy M Cin., China, 5. 1930 Schlater, Irma Pac. India. 5. 1931 6'. . Schleman, Laura M Cin., China, 1930, c. I., miss. 1935 Schlemmer. Hildegarde M N. W.. India, S. 1924, det. Scholberg, Miriam R N. Y., India, S. 1931* Schoonmaker, Dora E N. W., Japan, a. 1874, m. 1878, Soper, d. 1935 Schreckengast, Joy R Top., South America, a. 1917, m. 1922, Jones Schroeppel, Marguerite E Des M.. India, a. 1913, m. 1923. Jones 172 Directory of Missionaries

Scott, Emma, M.D Cin., India, a. 1896, R. 1922 Scott, Frances A Cin., India, a. 1889, R. 1921 Scovill, Ila M Cin., Africa. 5. 1925 Scranton, Mrs. M. F N. Y., Korea, a. 1885, d. 1909 Seal, May Belle Cin., Mexico, 5. 1922 Search, Blanche T Phila.. China, a. 1914 Sears. Anna B Cin.. China, a. 1880, d. 1895 Secor, Valeria Des M., India, a. 1909, m. Crandall Seeck. Margaret Top., China, a. 1917 Seeds, Leonora H Cin.. Japan, a. 1890. R. 1934 Seeds. Mabel K N. W.. Japan, a. 1902, R. 1914. d. 1924 Seidlmann. Paula Cin., China, a. 1908. in. 1924, Spoerri Sellers, Rue A Cin., India, a. 1889. R. 1929. d. 1930 Sheafer. Olga P Cin., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1914, Lomprey Shannon. Mary E Top., Burma, a. 1909. India, 5. 1925 Sharp, Mrs. Alice H. (see Hammond) Sharpe, Mary Western, Africa, a. 1879. dis. 1883 Shaw. AHce Fawcett N. Y., India, a. 1910, d. 1911 Shaw. Ella C N. W.. China, a. 1887. d. 1933 Shawhan, Grace B Top.. China, 5. 1923 Sheldon. Mabel Marie Top.. India. 5. 1927 Sheldon. Martha A., M.D N. E., India, a. 1888. d. 1912 Shepherd. Elsie N. W., Mexico, 5. 1928, c. t., miss. 1933 Sherwood, Rosetta, M.D N. Y., Korea, a. 1890. m. 1892, Hall, S. 1897, R 1935 Shields, Wilhelmina N. W., Africa, S. 1930* Shiveley, Mirtha E Cin., Malaya, 5. 1926. del. Shockley. Marv E Cin., China, a. 1895. m. 1904, Drake Shoemaker, Esther, M.D Phila.. India, 5. 1927 Shoub. Hazel M N. W.. China, a. 1917, m. 1922, Brown, d. 1925 Shufelt, Edith E Minn., China. 5. 1921, r. 1928 Shute, Vivian L Minn., India, a. 1915, m. 1920, Thompson Sia, Mabel Des M., China, a. 1902, d. 1903 Sia, Ruby Des M., China, a. 1904 Siberts, Sara Miriam N. W., South America, 5. 1920. m. 1920, Morley, d. 1921 Siddall. Adelaide N. E., India, a. 1903. r. 1904 Simester, Mary N. E.. China, a. 1905, d. 1913 Simonds, Mildred Des M., India, a. 1906 Simons, Marian G N. W.. Japan, S. 1930 Simons. Maude E Bait.. Japan, a. 1889, d. 1898 Simpson, Cora E N. W., China, a. 19071 Simpson. Mabel E Top., India. 5. 1920. r. 1934 Singer. Florence E Phila., Japan, a. 1893. R. 1914 Singh, Lilavati N. W.. India, a. 1900, d. 1909 Sinkey. Fern M Cin., China, 5. 1921, del. Sites. Ruth M Bait., China, a. 1890*, m. 1895. Brown Slate, Anna Blanche Phila., Japan, a. 1901, r. Smith. Ada Cin.. Korea. 5. 1921. r. Smith, Adeline N. W.. China, a. 1907, i?. 1910 Smith, Alice N. Y., China, S. 1921. m. 1924, Duff Smith, Alice L N. Y., China, S. 1924. R. 1934 Smith. Clara B Phila., China, a. 1914 Smith, Ellen E Top., China, S. 1922 Smith. Eloise G Top., Korea, S. 1930* Smith. Emily Cin.. N. Africa, a. 1910, R. 1935 Smith. Eunice E N. Y.. China. 5. 1935 Smith. Grace Pepper Pac, India, S. 1919 Smith, Jennie Mabel Col. R., India, a. 1915 Smith. Joy L Des M., China, o. 1918 Smith. Lida B N. Y., Japan, a. 1885, R. 1912, d. 1926 Smith, Madorah E Minn.. China, a 1911, r. 1920 Smith, Mvrtle A N. W., China, S. 1921 Smith, Pauline H Top.. Japan, 5. 1930*. m. 1934, Mc.Alpine Smith, Ruth B Minn.. China, a. 1910. m. 1912. Foster Smith. Sadie May Pac, Burma, 5. 1921, R. 1935 Snapp, Reba N. Y., Japan, a. 1913, m. 1914 .Ryder Snavely. Gertrude E Phila., Korea, a. 1906 Snider, Myrtle M Pac. India, a. 1921. r. 1926 Snow. Myra N. W.. China. .S\ 1928, c. t., miss.. Col. R., 5. 1935 Snvder. Chestora, M.D Cin., China, a. 1912. m. 1915. Hoffman Soderstrom, Anna N. Y., India, a. 1891, r. 1901 Soper, E. Maud Phila., Japan, a. 1903*, R. 1911 Soner. Laura DeWitt Top., India, a. 1917. r. 1932. m. 1934. James Southard. Ada J Des M.. Japan, a. 1900, r.l905 Sparkes, Fannie J N. Y.. India, a. 1870, R. 1891, d. 1919 Sparr, Julia, M.D N. W., China, a. 1878. m. 1883, Coffin Spathelf. Rena F N. W., China, S. 1925, d. 1931 Directory of Missionaries 173

Spaulding, Winifred Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1903-1910, Mexico 1917, R. 1923 Spear, Katherine A Phila., India, a. 1896, m. 1900, Collier Speer, Dorothy Bait., India, S. 1929 Spence, Mattie B N. W., India, a. 1880, m. 1883, Perrie Spencer, Clarissa H Phila., Japan, a. 1896, r. 1901, d. 1927 Spencer, Matilda A Phila., Japan, a. 1878, R. 1920, d. 1933 Sprowles, Alberta B Phila., Japan, a. 1906 Sprunger, Eva F Pac, China, 5. 1919, del. Stahl, C. Josephine N. W., India, a. 1892, R. 1932, d. 1934 Stahl, Minta M Cin., China, 5. 1919, c. t., miss. 1923 Stahl, Ruth L Cin., China, a. 1917t Stahl, Tirzah M Cin., China, S. 1921, del. Stallard, Eleanor B Pac, India, 5. 1924 Stanton, Alice M N. Y., China, a. 1892, m. 1899, Woodruff Starkey, Bertha F Cin., Japan, a. 1910, Korea, -S. 1925 Staubli, Frieda Cin., China, 5. 1922 Stearns, Mary P N. E., India, a. 1899, m. 1903, Badley Steere, Anna E N. \V., China, a. 1889, R., d. 1914 Stefanski, Pauline Top., Netherlands Indies, a. 1912, m. 1917, Worlhington Stephens, Grace Bait., India, a. 1892, R. 1919 Stephens, Vida W Pac, India, a. 1910*, m. 1913, Bateman Sterling, Florence Minn., India, a. 1895, m. 1897, Lenth, i. 1900 Stevenson, Ida M., M.D Top., China, a. 1890, R. Stewart, Emma N. W., India, 5. 1927 Stewart, Mrs. Mary S., M.D Phila., Korea, a. 1910, r. Stixrud, Louise Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1906, r. 1919, d. 1927 Stockwell, Emma Top., India, a. 1901, m. 1904, Price Stockwell, Grace L Des M., Burma, a. 1901 Stone, Anna Minn.. China, a. 1904, ./. 1906 Stone, Mabel C N. W., China, a. 1913, r. 1917, m. Farley Stone, Mary, M.D Des M., China, a. 1896, r. 1920 Stone, Myrtle M N. Y.. China, 5. 1922. r. 1931 Stouffer. Edith J Phila., Burma, S. 1922, m. 1930, While Stout, Winifred N. W., China, a. 1906, m. 1913, Patterson Stover, Myrta O Cin., Korea, 5. 1925 Stowe, Genevieve G Col. R., Malaya, 5. 1927, m. 1930, Jenkins Stov, Ellen Louise N. W., Italy, 5. 1919, r. 1923 Strawick, Gertrude N. W., China, a. 1906, R. 1930 Strever, Frances Top., South America. 5. 1922, d. 1931 Strow, Elizabeth M N. Y., China, a. 1904, R. 1925 Stryker, Minnie, M.D Phila., China, a. 1908, R. 1931 Studlev, Ellen M N. W., China, 5. 1924 Stump'f, Susanna M Des M., India, a. 1902, d. 1907 Sturtevant, Abby L Minn., Japan, 5. 1921, r. 1932 Suffern, Ellen H N. W., China, a. 1917, Pac, .S. 1924 Suhr, Laura J Top., India, 5. 1921, d. 1929 Sullivan, Lucy W Cin., India, a. 1888. R. 1923 Sutherland. May E Top., India, a. 1915 Sutton, Daisy B Cin., Japan, a. 1908, m. 1910, Miller Sutton, Marianne Minn., Malaysia, a. 1907, R. 1913 Swain, Clara A., M.D N. E., India, a. 1869, R. 1896, d. 1910 Swan, Beulah M N. W.. India, 5. 1923 Swan, Hilda Top., India, a. 1904, R. 1928 Swaney, Mary F Bait., Mexico, a. 1878, Top., South America, a, 1890, R. 1912, d. 1924 Swank, Lottie Agnes N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1920, m. 1921, Gotlschal Swearer, Mrs. Lillian M N. Y., Korea, a. 1917 Sweet, Mary B Top., Italy, a. 1912, r. 1919 Sweet, Mary Edith Des M., India, a. 1917, det. Swift. Edith T N. E., Italy, a. 1902, R. 1914 Swormstedt, Virginia R Cin., Africa, a. 1903, m. 1907, Coffin Taft, Gertrude, M.D Pac, China, a. 1895, 5., R. 1924 Tang, Ilien Minn., China, a. l90o, d. 1920 Taylor, Anna Mabel N. Y., Mexico, a. 191 », r. 1935 Taylor, Erma M Phila., Japan, a. 1913, Des M., 5. 1926 Taylor, Mabel Col. R., China, S. 1922, m. 1929, Triol Teague, Carolyn M Cin., Japan, a. 1912 Temple, Laura N. Y., Mexico, a. 1903 Terrell, Linnie Cin., India, a. 1908, r. Terry, Edna G., M.D N. E., China, a. 1887, d. 1913 Thoburn, Isabella Cin., India, a. 1869, d. 1901 Thoburn, Isabella Phila., India, 5. 1927 Thoburn, Mrs. Ruth C. (see Collinsi Thomas, Ethel E Top., Mexico, 5. 1919 Thomas, Hettie A Cin., Japan, a. 1903, d. 1920 1 74 Directory of Missionaries

Thomas. J. Edna Cin., Philippine Islands, a. 1Q14, d. 1918 Thomas, Mary M Cin., China, a. 1904, R. 1929 Thomas, Ruth F N. W., Africa, a. 1917 Thomasson, Leona B Bait., China, 5. 1920, c t., miss. 1932 Thompson, Anna Phila., India, a. 1889, m. 189,S, Stephens, d. 1932 Thompson, Anna Armenia Top., Philippine Islands, S. 1920 Thompson, Ethel Truesdale N. Y., China, .V. 1921, R. 1932 Thompson, Flora Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1916, r. 1917 Thompson, May Bel Top., China, a. 1915 Thompson, Vera R Bait., India, a. 1913, R. 1923 Thurston, Esther V N. E., Japan, 5. 1920. to. 1927, Slosser Tinslev, Jennie M N. W., India, a. 1871, m. 1876, WaHs.h, d. 1928 Tippett, Mrs. Susan Bait., China, a. 1901, R. 1909, d. 1929 Tirsgaard, Maren M Minn., India, 5. 1924, N. W., 5. 1927 Todd, Althea M N. E., China, a. 1895 Todd, Grace L N. W., China, a. 1897, R. 1898, d. 1909 Toll, Kate Evalvn N. W., India, a. 1904, d. 1930 Tower, Rita B., M.D N. W., India, S. 1922 Townsend, Mollie E N. Y., China, 5. 1921, c. t., miss. 1928 Tracy, Alethea W N. Y., China, a. 1908, m. 1912, Gill Traeger. Gazelle Top., Malaysia, S. 1922 Trask, Sigourney, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1874, to. 1885. Cowles Travis, Grace B N. Y., China, a. 1903, m. 1910, Williams Tretheway, Lucile D Pac, China, a. 1916, m. 1920. Libby Trimble, Lydia A Des M., China, a. 1889, R. 1935 Trisscl, Maude V Des M., Korea, a. 1914 Trotter, Charlotte N. W., China, a. 1918 Troxel, Moneta I N. W., Korea, 5. 1925 Truckenmiller, M. Irene Des M., India, 5. 1925, r. 1932 Trvon, Elizabeth V Des M., India, a. 1895, r. 1900 Tschudv, Marianne H N. W., China, a. 1915, m. 1918, Paddock Tubbs, Lulu L N. W., Africa, a. 1917 Tucker, Alta M Top., India, 5. 1932 Tucker, M.trgaret Emeline, M.D Cin., China, .S\ 1935 Tucker, Grace N. Y., Japan, a. 1890, to. 1896, Tague Tunison, Bessie D N. W., India, a. 1914, to. 1918, Shipman Turner, Elizabeth J Des M., India, a. 1915, R. 1935 Turner, Mrs. Maud Top., India, a. 1905, m. 1909, Nies Turner, Mellony F N. Y., Bulgaria, 5. 1925 Turner, Sarah B Phila., India, a. 1903, to. 1904. Parker Turney, Mrs. L. M Western, South America, a. 1881, r. 1882 Turtle, Mary B., M.D Top., India, a. 1903, d. 1907 Tattle, Ora M Cin., Korea, a. 1907, d. 1924 Twinem, Marguerite Pac, China, S. 1931 Tyler, Gertrude \V Des M., China, a. 1909, r. 1930 Tyler, Ursula J Cin., China, a. 1915 Urech, Lydia N. W., Malaysia, a. 1916, transferred to Central Europe Unit Vail, Olive Top., Malaysia, a. 1913, r. 1927 Van Dorsten, Amelia N. W., Me.xico, a. 1889, m. 1894, Lawyer Van Dvne, Esther H Bait., North Africa, 5. 1924, del. Van Dyne, L. Frances Bait.. North Africa. 5. 1924 Vance, Marv A Des M., Japan, a. 1887, w. 1892, Belknah, d. 1892 Vandegrift, Frances C Phila., South America, 5. 1919 Vanderberg, Annie Minn., China, 5. 1925, det. Van Fleet, Edna Marie Cin., Korea, a. 1918, m. 1935. Hobbs Van Petten, Mrs. Caroline N. VV., Japan, a. 1881, d. 1916 Varney. Elizabeth VV Top., China, n. 1898. d. 1918 Vickery, Loraine L N. W., India, S. 1922. r. 1926 Vickery, M. Ellen N. W., Italv, a. 1891, R. 1920 Voight, Mary N. W., India, a. 1908, m. 1911, Perrill Voigtiander, Gertrude N. W., India, a. 1912, m. 1916, Tweedie Waidman, Isabel N. Y., South America, a. 1896. R. 1905 Wagner, Dora .\ Top., Japan, a. 1913

Wal Iron, Rose E Pac, China, .S'. 1922 Walker, Tennie C Top., China, a. 1918, r. 1932 Walker, Joyce E N. W., China, a. 1917* det. Walker, Marion N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1930 Walker, Susan N. W., South .America, a. 1903, R. Wallace, Lydia Ethel Bait., China, a. 1906 Wallace, Margaret Minn., India, -S. 1922 Walrath, Pearl C Cin., Mexico, 5. 1932 Wal.-h, Susan J N. W., India, 5. 1919, r. 1925 Walter, A. Jeannette Top., Korea, a. 191 1, r. 1933 Walton, Ida B Phila., Mexico, a. 1890, to. 1891, Mulle Wanzer. Menia H N. E., China, a. 1911, r. 1925 Directory of Missionaries 175

Ware, Lena N. Y., Italy, 5. 1922, r. 1931 Warner, Ellen Cin., India, a. 1880, m. 1885, Fox, d. 1927 Warner, Emma E Top., India, 5. 1919 Warner, Marian Des M., India, S. 1929 Warner, Ruth Virginia Col. R., South America, a. 1918, Mexico, 5. 1929 Warner, Susan M N. W., Mexico, a. 1873, m. 1892, Densmore, d. 1914 Warrington, Ruth A Top., India, a. 1915 Wasem. Grace Des M., Burma. .S". 1926, r. 1931 Washburn, Orilla F Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1912, m. 1924, Jones

Watrous, Mary N. Y., China, a. 1912 . Watson, Harriet L N. W.. China, 5. 1920, del. Watson, Rebecca J Top., Japan, a. 1883, R. 1922. d. 1930 Watts, Annabelle Cin., India, a. 1917, r. Waugh, Nora Belle Cin., India, a. 1904* Weaver, Georgiana N. Y., Japan, a. 1902, R. 1916 Webb, Gladys M N. W.. India, .S\ 1930 Webb, Nora Top., N. Africa, a. 1919 Webster, Alice S N. Y., South America, S. 1924, m. 1928, Goldschmidt Weiss, E. Ruth Des M., Japan, .S. 1920, r. 1927 Welch, A. Dora Cin., N. Africa, a. 1910, R. 1935 Welch, Mildred N. W., China, S. 1922, r. 1928, m. 1929. Cranston Welles, Doris I Pac, India, S. 1922 Wells, Annie May Des M., China, a. 1905 Wells, Elizabeth J Des M. India,, a. 1901 Wells, Margaret C Col R.. Mexico, 5. 1926. Phila. 5. 1931. r. 1934 Wells, Phebe C N. Y., China a. 1895 Wencke, Doris R N. W., China, S. 1920, det. Wescott, Ida G N. W.. Malaysia, a. 1915, R. 1928 West, Esther Irene Cin,. India, 5. 1927*. r. 1929 West, Nellie Maud Des M., India, 5. 1920 Westcott, Pauline E N. W., China, a. 1902 Westfall, Georgia Cin., India, 5. 1921, m. 1922

Westrup, Charlotte Top., India, S . 1927 Wheat, Lemira B Top., India, a. 1915, m. 1933, Amerman Wheeler, Bernice A ; N. E., China, 5. 1920, del. Wheeler, Gertrude V N. E., South America, S. 1920, r. 1925 Wheeler. Frances N. W., China, a. 1881*, m. 1892, Verity Wheeler. Hettie Ada N. W.. Malaysia, a. 1913, m. 1919, Hall Wheeler, L. Maude N. W., China, o. 1903* Wheelock, Ethel C Cin., India, S. 1921 Whitcomb, J. Caroline Minn., India, S. 1''23, det. White. Anna Laura Minn., Japan, a. 1911, Pac, ,S'. 1927 White, Laura M Phila., China, a. 1891, R. 1934 Whiteley, Martha D Phila., North Africa, S. 1925 Whiteley, Miriam F Phila., South America, 5. 1920, R, 1926 Whitfield, Mary W Phila., Malaya, 5. 1926, c. L, miss., 1929. m. 1933 Macky Whiting, Ethel L Top.. India, a. 1911 Whiting, Olive N. Y., Japan, a. 1876, m. 1882, Bishop, d. 1915 Whitmer, Harriet M N. W.. China, 5. 1924t Whitmore, Clara B.. M.D Des M.. China. 5. 1924, ;-. 1935 Whitney. Alice Pac, Africa. .S. 1931 Whittaker, M. Lotte Minn., Burma, a. 1904, R. 1912 Widdifield. Flora M Cin.. India, a. 1896. m. 1898. Chew Widney. Mary C Top.. India, a. 1906, m. 1912, Branch Wiegand, Marie N. W., India, a. 1914, m. 1918, Boyles Wilcox, Alice A Top., China. 5. 1919 Wildermuth, Pearl C N. Y., France, S. 1931, R. 1932 Wilk, Helen J N. W., Philippine Islands. S. 1925. R. 1934 Wilkinson. Lydia A Des M.,China,a.l892, m, 1905, lFt7fetwTOn,5.1921,R. 1929 Williams, Christiana Minn., China, a. 1901, m. 1902, Hall Wilhams, Laura V Bait., India, 5. 1928 WilUams, Marv E Phila., India, a 1900, d. 1910 Williamson, Iva M Cin., China. 5. 1921. del. Willis, Katharine H Bait., China, a. 1916, r. 1934 Wilson, Emma W Top., China, S. 1924 Wilson, Fannie G Cin., Tapan, a. 1896, m. 1900, Alexander Wilson, Frances O Des M., China, a. 1889, R. 1915 Wilson, Frances R Top., China, a. 1914 Wilson, Mary N. W.. India, a. 1894, m. 1910, Gill, S. 1917, R. 1935 Wilson, Mary E N. Y., Japan, a. 1889, m. 1896, Buchanan Wilson, Minnie E N. W., China, a. 1893, R. 1929 Wilson, Nellie A Des. M., India, a. 1913, m. Auner Wilson, Retta I Cin., India. S. 1924 Wilson, Ruth McK N. W., South America, 5 1929 Winslow, Annie S Top., India, a. 1901, R. 1913, S. 1930 176 Directory of Missionaries

Winslow, Hazel Des M., Burma, S. 1926 Wirz, Frieda Cin., India, 5. 1925, del. Wisegarver, Pauline N. W., China, 5. 1922. r. 1927 Wisner, Julia E Cin., India, a. 1885. d. 1917 Witham, Lois E Top., China, 5. 1920t Witt. Helena N. W., China, a. 1903 m. Wolcott, Jessie Louise Des M., China, 5. 1928 Wolcott, Ruth F.. M.D Des M., China, 5. 1927. r. 1932 Wolfe, Elsie I Phila., Mexico, 5. 1932 Wolfe, Ruth Phila.. N. Africa, .S. 1935 Wood, Mrs. Anna M., M D Pac, India. 5. 1928, R. 1934 Wood, Bertha L Phila., South America, a. 1903*, m. 1906. Robbins Wood, Catherine Des M., India, a. 1892. d. 1925 Wood. Daisy Dean Des M., India, a. 1909, m. 1919, Van Sant Wood, Elizabeth N. W.. India, a. 1911 d. 1913 Wood, Elsie N. Y., South America, a. 1889*, m. 1915, Schofield Wood. Grace N. Y., Korea, 5. 1929, c. t., miss. 1931 Wood. Hazel O Top., India, 5. 1925 Wood. Lola N. W., Korea, a. 1914, R. 1930 Woodruff, Frances E N. Y., China. 5. 1919, c. I., miss. 1930 Woodruff. Jennie G N. W.. Africa, 5. 1925, m. 1932, Schamber Woodruff, Mabel A N. Y.. China, a. 1910 Woodruff, Sadie J N. W., Burma, 5. 1920, r. 1928 Woods, Grace M N. W.. India, a. 1901, m. 1911, Kingham Woodworth, Kate Phila., Japan, a. 1880, m. 1883, Quinn, d. 1924 Woolston, Beulah Bait., China, a. 1871, R. 1879, d. 1886 Woolston. Henrietta, M.D Phil., India, a. 1878, dis. 1879 Woolston. Sarah N. W., China, a. 1871, R. 1896, d. 1910 Wright, Laura S N. W., India, a. 1895, R. 1929 Wright, Mildred V D. M., India, 5. 1931 Wyatt, Lillian D N. W., Mexico, S. 1919, m. 1921, Bowman Wysner, Glora M Cin., N. Africa, 5. 1927 Wvthe, K. Grace Pac, Japan, a. 1909, R. 1931 Yates. Elizabeth U N. E.. China, a. 1880, R. 1885 Yeager, Maud N. W., India, a. 1910, m. 1921, Brooks Young. EiSe G N. E., China, a. 1892, R. 1929 Young, Ethel N. W.. Netherlands Indies, a. 1916. r. 1919 Young. Mariana Cin., Japan, a. 1897, d. 1932 Young, Marv Elizabeth Col. R., Korea, 5. 1919 Youtsey, Edith R Top., China, a. 1912 Zentmire, Cora N. W., Africa, a. 1898, m. 1900, Brewster, d. 1901 ZoUiker. Johanna Z N. Y.. Japan, a. 1913, r. 1914 CONTRACT WORKERS

5 sailed; m marriage; 'daughter of mis.'^ionaries; {detached service; c. e. contract expired, Alt man, Esther Cin., Japan, S. 1931. c.e. Appenzel'er. Mary Ella Phila., Korea, 5. 1917,* m. 1920, Lacy Ashley. Tl elma G Pac, Malaya, 5. 1929, c. e. Atkins. Ruth E Minn., Mala\sia. -S". 1912. c. e. Bennett. F. Mabelle Bait., Mexico, 5. 1925. c. e. Blackburn, Frances E Cin., South America, 5. 1922, c. e. Bolton. Mary Lee Minn., France, 5. 1918, c. e. Boyce, Florence Phila.. India, 5. 1914, r. e. Brewster. Karis Cin., China, 5. 1926,* m. Brittain, Blanche F Des M., Japan. 5 1929, c. e. Brooks, Alice F Pac, Italy. .S. 1919, m. 1919. Updegrafj Brown, Anna M N. W.. India, 5. 1917, c. e. Caldwell, Ruth M N. W., China, 5. 1922, m. Wrim Chandler, Frances A Cin., South America, S. 1920, c. e. Chandler, Mary H Cin., South America. 5. 1920, c. e. Chapman, Irene Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1917, c. e. Chesney, A. Louise Des M., China. 5. 1922, c. e. Cnossen. Sadie M N. W., India, 5. 1927, c. e. Corbett Evelyn D Cin., South America, 5. 1931 Courtney, Margaret E Minn., Italy, 5. 1930, w. 1934, Ferreri Davis, Helen T. Minn., India, S. 1923, m. 1926, Graten Edwards, Jessie E N. W., China, 5. 1921, c. e. Evans, El zabeth Pac, Mexico, 5. 1931, c. e. Fairchild. Nora M., M.D N. W., India 5. 1933, c. e. Finton. Iva M Phila.. Mexico, S. 1917, c. e. Forsythe, Genevieve Cin., Mexico, 5. 1924, c. e. Frf dine, Marian C Phila., South America, 5. 1930 c. e. Fry, Edna E Phila., Mexico, S. 1916, c. e. Garden, Frances E Cin., India, 5. 1924, c. e. Garrett. Minnie Hester N. Y., China. S. 1919, c. e. ,

~~Directory of Missionaries 1 77~~

Gibbons, Gertrude L. N. E . India, S. 1929, c. e. Graves, Anna M N. Y., China, S. 1919, c. e. Hammond, Dorothy Top., Malaysia, 5. 1920, c. e. Harper, Florence O Bait., Mexico, 5. 1918, c. e. Hartman, Martha Phila., South America, 5. 1922, c. e. Hatfield, Mrs. Sarah M Pac, South America, 5. 1918, c. e. Heath, Neva Minn., Mexico, S. 1923, c. e. Howey, Mary E Cin., Japan, 5. 1927, c. e. Hoyt, Herma O Cin., Mexico, S. 1919, c. e. Tustin. Florence L Top., India. 5. 1923. c. e. Killheffer, Marie Top., Japan, i. 1919, c. e. Knoles, Edith E Pac, South America, 5. 1931, c. e. Lee, Helen Morris Minn., Japan, 5. 1931, c. e. Leonard, Ethel L., M.D Pac, China, 5. 1917t, c. e. Lewis, Donna May Top., Japan, S. 1919, c. e. Long, Laura V Pac, India, 5. 1920, c. e. Longshore, Lillian Phila., Mexico, 5. 1921, c. e. Lytton, Ruth Twila Cin., Japan, 5. 1918, c. e. Maclay, Jean R Phila., Mexico, 5. 1921, c. e. Maddox, Grace Des M., China, 5. 1920, c. e. Malberg, Mildred A Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1921, m. 1925, Malmquist Matheson, Margaret Phila., Japan 5. 1916, c. e. McConnell, Esther M N. Y., Mexico, 5. 1931, c. e. Meek, Lucile C Phila., Mexico, 5. 1924, c. e. Merryman, Florence Phila., South America, 5. 1933 Milam, Ava B Col. R., China, S. 1922, c. e. Milnes, Frances A Pac, China, .S. 1924, c. e. Mitchell, Zoa N. W., Mexico, 5. 1924, c. e. Moore, Helen G N. Y., Japan, S. 1931, c. e. Myers. Miranda M Pac, India, S. 1915, c. e. Paulson. Mildred N. W., Korea, 5. 1931, c. e. Peterson, Ruth N. W., India, 5. 1915, c. e. Pike, Isabel K Phila., Malaysia, 5. 1920, c. e. Plimpton, Margaret N. E., Japan, S. 1916, m.

Price, Effie C N. W., South America, 5. 1922, c. , Raab, Theodora A Pac, China, 5. 1923, c. e. Raney Salena Cin., Korea, S. 1930, c. e. Richardson, Ruth E Pac, China, S. 193 i, c. e. Ritchie. Estelle N. E., Mexico, 5. 1921, c. e. Robertson, Winifred Phila., Mexico, S. 1925, c. e. Rodgers, Rosetta B Phila., Mexico, 5. 1919, c. e. Rowe, Dorothy N. Y., China, 5. 1919*. c. e. Rudisill, Mrs. T. F Top., Malaysia, 5. 1918, c. e. Seesholtz. Jessie Phila., Mexico, 5. 1915, c. e. Sewall, Ruth McK N. W., China, 5. 1924, c. e. Shaver, Icy Virginia N. W., India, 5. 1919, c. e. Skinner, Geraldine Cin., China, 5. 1920, c. e. Smith, Jean Gardiner Minn., South America, 5. 1928, c. e. Spencer, Edith A Phila., South America, 5. 1917, m. Ferguson Spencer, Helen M Des M., China, 5. 1920, c. e. Stevenson, Julia E Cin., France, 5. 1919, c. e. Terry, Beatrice C N. W., South America, S. 1930 Townsend, Elinor B Des M., India, S. 1921, c. e. Tucker, Emma Curtiss Top., India, 5. 1932, c. e. Twitchell, Thera N. Y., India, 5. 1920, m. Lindsay Vandertill, Elizabeth N. W., China. 5. 1920, c. e. Vaughan, Elizabeth B Col. R., South America, S. 1918, c. e. Yoke, Rea G Cin., Malaysia. S. 1915, m. Shover Wadsworth, Lettie I Minn., Philippine Islands, 5. 1929, c. e.. Wagy, Ada Minn., Malaysia, S. 1913, m. 1917, Ferree Waldorf, Ethel M Top., South America, 5 1928,m. 1934, Wagner. Webster, Grace Minn., Malaysia 5. 1914, m. 1917, Hornbeck White, Laura Phila., Malaysia. S. 1921, c. e. Whitford. Marian T N. Y., China, 5. 1920. c. e. Wilson, Julia N. Y., China, S. 1926, c. e. Winn, Prudence N. E., Mexico, S. 1921, c. e. Zimmerman, Doris Phila., South America, 5. 1930, c. e. 178 Directory of Missionaries SUMMARY

~~Missionaries in service 549 Retired 202 Resigned 189 Married 329 Deceased 225 Detained 42 Transferred to National Units 4~~

~~Missionaries sent out since organization, not including contract workers~~

~~Active missionary force November 1, 1934 Active 549 Detained 42 Contract workers 3~~

~~Daughters of missionaries since organization 56 Self-supporting since organization 12 Now on detached service 7~~

~~WORKERS UNDER UNITS OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT~~

Miss Esther Bjork Kambini, P. E. A. Mrs. Maria Bozinovich Strumitza, Yogoslavia Miss Peregrina Chavez Lima, Peru Miss Winnie M. Gabrielson Phalera, India Miss Agnes Nilsen Hissar, Punjab, India Miss Elizabeth Roberts East Gate Hospital, Seoul, Korea Miss Hanna Scharpff Hongsung, Korea Miss Elsie Schwab Tebing Tinggi, Sumatra, D. E. I. Miss Lydia Urech Malaya Miss Bessie Ye Kongju Ryung, Manchukuo Miss Marian Ye Hsinking, Manchukuo Pok Nyo Ye Harbin, Manchukuo Two deaconesses La Luz, Mexico Two graduates of Sw.'et Memorial Among Auracanian Indians, Chile —

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

The purpose of this Society is to engage and unite the efforts of Christian women in sending missionaries to the women in foreign mission fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in supporting them and national Christian teachers and Bible readers in those fields, and in all forms of work carried on by the Society; *also to purchase, sell, mortgage, cede, transfer, recuperate and in any other way dispose of, acquire, or affect properties movable or immovable (real estate) or any other kind, located in the United States of America or in any foreign country; to give or take moneys in loan, establish or grant effective rights on real estate, accept legacies, donations, assignments and transfers of properties; to celebrate contracts for leases and carry out any other act or contract related to the affairs and operations of the Society.

ARTICLE III—Membership The payment of one dollar annually shall constitute membership. The payment of twenty dollars shall constitute life membership; one hundred dollars a life manager; and three hundred dollars a life patron.

ARTICLE IV—Organization The organization of this Society shall consist of a General Executive Committee, co-ordinate Branches, district associations, auxiliary societies, to be constituted and limited as laid down in subsequent articles.

ARTICLE V General Executive Committee L The management and general administration of the affairs of the Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee, consisting of a president, one or more vice-presidents, recording secretary and treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the corresponding secretary, the secretary of the home base, and two delegates from each Branch, the secretary of the young people's department and the secretary of the junior department, the secretary of student work, recording secretaries of the Foreign and Home Departments, the secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, and such other persons as the constitution of the said Society shall hereafter from time to time provide. 2. The president, vice-presidents, recording secretary, treasurer, the secretary of the young people's department, the secretary of the junior department, the secretary of student work, and the secretary of the \\'esleyan Service Guild shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. The two delegates and reserves shall be elected at the Branch annual meetings. Said Committee shall meet in Boston the third Wednesday in April, 1870, and annually, or oftener, thereafter at such time and place as the General Executive Committee shall annually determine. 3. The duties of the General Executiv^e Committee shall be: (a) To take into consideration the interests and demands of the entire work of the Society as presented in the reports of its several secretaries and * This provision necessary for legal transfer of real estate in foreign countries. 179 —

180 Constitution in the estimates of the needs of mission fields; to ascertain the financial condition of the Society, to appropriate its money in accordance with the purposes and method therein indicated; to devise means for carrying forward the work of the Society; fixing the amounts to be raised, employing new missionaries, designating their fields of labor, examining the reports of those already employed, and arranging with the several Branches the work to be undertaken by each. (b)* To administrate freely the business and properties of the Society; to purchase, sell, mortgage, exchange, grant, transfer, recuperate and in any other way dispose of, acquire or affect properties movable and immovable (real estate) and of any other kind that the Society now possesses or may in future acquire, situated in the United States of America or in any foreign country, at whatever price, period of time, special agreement, form of payment, cash or time payments, or under any of the other conditions that it may consider convenient; to give or take moneys in loan, effect, accept and transfer mortgages and every kind of effective rights in connection with properties; celebrate contracts for leases for periods longer than six years, if necessary; to •collect, receive, give receipts and statements of cancellation of all that may be owed to the Society; to accept legacies, donations and the transference of properties; to settle judicial questions, agree on arbitrators, extend jurisdic- tions, make payments other than the ordinary administrative payments, make novations, recognize and acknowledge obligations, make reductions and cancellation of debts; to confer powers and effect every other act of administration and disposal of properties related to the interests of the Society. (c) To transact any other business that the interests of the Society may demand, provided the plans and directions of the Committee shall be in harmony with the provisions of the constitution. ARTICLE VI Co-ordinate Br.\nches 1. Co-ordinate Branches of this Society, on their acceptance of this relationship under the provisions of the constitution, may be organized in accordance with the following general plan for districting the territory of the Church: NAME STATES INCLUDED HEADQUARTERS New England Branch .... New England States Boston, Mass. New York Branch New York, New Jersey New York, N. Y. *

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

~~Columbia River Branch . .Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon Portland, Ore. This provision necessary for legal transfer of real estate in foreign countries. — ——~~

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This plan, however, may be changed by an affirmative vote of three- fourths of the members of the General Executive Committee present at any annual meeting of the same. 2. The officers of each Branch shall consist of a president, vice-president, corresponding secretary, secretary of the home base, recording secretary, treasurer and such other officers as shall be necessary for the efficient work of the Branch. These officers and such other persons as the Branch may elect shall constitute an executive committee for the administration of the affairs of the Branch, nine of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. This committee and an auditor shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Branch, and shall serve until others are chosen in their stead. 3. The executive committee shall have supervision of the work assigned to the Branch by the General Executive Committee, provide for all the needs and receive reports from all forms of work carried on by the Society which, by the plan of the General Executive Committee, are to be supported by the Branch. 4. Each Branch shall appoint a standing committee of not less than five, of which the Branch corresponding secretary shall be chairman, who shall investigate the case of any candidate within the limits of the Branch, and shall supply such candidate with blanks for application and health certificate to be filled out and answered by her, and, when practicable, a personal interview shall be had with the candidate by two or more of the committee before her papers are forwarded to the Foreign Department. The corresponding secretary of the Branch presenting missionary candidates shall have a personal interview with each candidate before her final appointment to a foreign field. 5. No Branch shall project new work or undertake the support of new missionaries, except by the direction or with the approval of the General Executive Committee. 6. Each Branch may make such by-laws as may be deemed necessary to its efficiency, not inconsistent with this constitution.

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

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

ARTICLE I X Relation to the Missionary Authorities of the Church 1. In respect to fields of labor, policies, and standards and qualifications of missionary candidates, the Society shall work in harmony with the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Its appropriations shall be reported to the Board of Foreign Missions at its annual meeting. The Society shall have a standing committee which shall meet at stated intervals with a similar committee from the Board of Foreign Missions for consultation on all matters of mutual interest. 2. The acceptance, assignment, remuneration, and recall of missionaries of the Society shall be determined by the General Executive Committee of the Society. 3. All missionaries sent out by the Society shall labor under the direction of the particular conferences or missions of the Church in which they may be employed. They shall be appointed annually by the president of the confer- —

182 By-Laws ence or mission, and shall be subject to the same rules of removal that govern other missionaries, and they shall be members of the Church and quarterly conference and the district conferences where they reside. 4. All the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in foreign lands shall be under the direction of the conferences or missions and their committees in exactly the same manner as the work of the missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The superintendent or district superintendent shall have the same relation to the work and the person in charge of it as he would have were it a work in the pastoral charge of any member of the conference or mission. 5. The funds of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be provided by annual, life, honorary, memorial, and extension memberships; by consti- tuting life managers and life patrons; by gifts, annuities, bequests, and devises; by collections from audiences convened in the interests of the Society; and by such other methods as the constitution of the Society shall provide. None of these shall interfere with the contributions of the Church, church schools and Epworth League to the Board of F~oreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The amounts so collected shall be reported to the annual conference through the preachers in charge, entered among the benevolence collections and published in the Annual Conference Journal and the General Minutes. ARTICLE X Change of Constitution This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General Executive Committee by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given at the previous annual meeting; but Article IX, embodying paragraphs from the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, may not be changed by the General Executive Comnittee, but shall be changed automatically to correspond with any changes made in these paragraphs of the Discipline by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. BY-LAWS

I —Officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (a) The general officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall b^ a president, two vice-presidents in charge of Departments, vice-presiFents- at-large, recording secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as shall be now or hereafter provided for according to the constitution in Article V. These officers shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. In case of the disability or death of the president, the vice-president who is senior in ofllce shall perform the duties of the president. In case of the death or resignation of either of the vice-presidents in charge of Departments in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Com- mittee, a vice-president pro tempore, to serve until the next session of the General E.\ecutive Committee, may be appointed by unanimous vote of the remaining general officers on nomination of the Home Department or the Foreign Department, according as the vice-president to be chosen is to be the presiding officer of one or the other Department. In case of the death or resignation of the recording secretary or treasurer, the other general officers may, by unanimous vote, choose a successor pro tempore, to serve until the next session of the General Executive Committee. In case of a vacancy occurring ai interim in representation on an interdenominational board, the chairman of the Department that nominates the representative or representatives on the board concerned shall, after consultation with the chairman of the nominating committee of her Department, if such committee exists, appoint a representative for the remainder of the year.

~~)e i , 1 iitor of accounts of (^ j) Tnere saall i {: /al eja.isilor an an au the the treasurer of the Society, to le elected annually by the General Executive Committee. . —~~

~~By-Laws 183~~

~~II Duties of Officers It shall be the duty of the~~

1 President (a) to preside at all meetings of this Society and of the General Executive Committee: (b) with the vice-presidents, vice-presidents-at- large, recording secretary and treasurer, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of these officers being necessary to action except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote; in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. In case the vote is not unanimous the matter shall be referred by the recording secretary to the Home and Foreign Departments, voting separately, a three-fourths vote in each Department, exclusive of the officers, being necessary to pass a measure. No vote of the general officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the recording secretary of the Woman's F"oreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the president) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said secretary after examination of the votes returned; (c) with the recording secretary to sign all documents relating to the transfer of real estate and other legal papers not otherwise provided for, and to make any affidavit or acknowledgment that may be required or necessary thereto; (d) with the treasurer to sign all notes and other obligations and evidences of indebtedness, which from time to time may be issued by the Society, by the authority of the General Executive Committee, or its duly empowered sub- committees, the Foreign and Home Departments. 2. Vice-Presidents (a) to be chairman—one of the Foreign Department, the other of the Home Department; (b) to render assistance when needed; (c) with the president, vice-presidents-at-large, recording secretary and treasurer, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of these officers being necessary to action except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote; in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. In case the vote is not unanimous the matter shall be referred by the recording secretary to the Home and Foreign Departments, voting separately, a three-fourths vote in each De- partment, exclusive of the officers, being necessary to pass a measure. No vote of the general officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the president) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said secretary after examination of the votes returned.

3. Recording Secretary (a) to give notice of all meetings of the General Executive Committee; (b) to keep a full record of all their proceedings; (c) to present a report of the year's work of this Society at its anniversary; (d) to prepare and issue the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society, including the Minutes of the General Executive Committee; (e) to prepare and present a Quadrennial Report to the General Conference; (f) with the president, to Sign all documents relating to the transfer of real estate and other legal papers not otherwise provided for; (g) have custody of the seal of the corporation; (h) to affix the corporate seal of the Society whenever the corporate seal is required or should be affixed to any document or instrument executed on behalf of the Society, unless this duty is performed by the treasurer; (i) with the president, vice-presidents, vice-presidents-at-large, and treasurer, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, 184 By-Laws to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of these officers being necessary to action, except in case one or more of said ofificers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote, in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. In case the vote is not unanimous the matter shall be referred by the recording secretary to the Home and Foreign Departments, voting separately, a three-fourths vote in each Depart- ment, exclusive of the officers, being necessary to pass a measure. No vote of the general officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the president) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said secretary after examination of the votes returned.

4. Treasurer (a) to receive all money from bequests, gifts, donations, or legacies made to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and, unless otherwise specified by the donor, pay the same to the treasurer of the Branch within whose bounds the donor resided at the time of death; (b) to receive all money paid into the General Fund by the several Branches, and disburse the same, subject to the order of the General Executive Committee; (c) with the president, to sign all notes and other obligations and evidences of indebtedness which from time to time may be issued by the Society, by the authority of the General Executive Committee, or of its duly empowered sub-committees, the Foreign and Home Departments; (d) with the president, vice-presidents, vice-presidents-at-large, and recording secretary, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of these officers being necessary to action, except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote, in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. In case the vote is not unanimous the matter shall be referred by the recording secretary to the Home and Foreign Departments, voting separately, a three-fourths vote in each Depart- ment, exclusive of the officers, being necessary to pass a measure. No vote of the general officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the president) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said secretary after examination of the votes returned; (e) to issue power of attorney to persons designated by the General Executive Committee or its duly empowered sub-committees, the Foreign Department or the Home De- partment; (f) to affix the corporate seal of the Society whenever the corporate seal is required or should be affixed to any document or instrument e.xecuted on behalf of the Society, unless this duty is performed by the recording secretary; (g) to execute release to executors and trustees through whom this Society may receive bequests and legacies, and make the required acknowledgment or affidavit and affix the corporate seal to said releases, and to perform such other acts as are required by the Act of Incorporation, and which cannot legally be executed by Branch treasurers; (h) with the recording secretary to sign such papers as require the formal written assent of the Society authorizing appearances in Court to represent the Society or its interests, and to make the required acknowledgment or affidavit to such papers and affix the corporate seal thereto; (i) forward to foreign treasurers a copy of the appropriations for each mission as soon as practicable after the adjournment of the General Executive Committee. —

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~~III Departments~~

There shall be two Departments of the General Executive Committee: the Foreign and the Home. When the two Departments meet in joint session matters of mutual responsibility pertaining to both and not specifically to either may be passed upon for presentation to the General Executive Committee in the same way and under the same consideration as by vote of either Department acting separately. Matters pertaining specifically to either Department shall be referred by the joint session to such Department.

Foreign Department—The Foreign Department shall consist of the president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, ex-officio, one vice-president as chairman, the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the Branch corresponding secretaries and the recording secretary of the Department. In the eveat of the inability of a corresponding secretary to attend the meetings of this Department, the executive committee of her Branch shall have the privilege of sending a substitute with full power.

Duties of Foreign Department— It shall be the duty of this Department to (a) consider estimates and make appropriations for the foreign work; (b) conduct the official correspondence with the missionaries and with missions assigned for such official correspondence; (c) give careful consideration to the requests of missionaries; (d) examine the testimonials of missionary candidates that are presented to it by the Branches, and decide as to their acceptance as missionaries of the Society; (e) consider all matters that may be brought before the General Executive Committee relative to nationals of the mission fields; (f) consider all foreign field matters requiring attention in the interim of sessions of the General Executive Committee, and decide on such action as shall be ordered by a majority vote of the members of the Depart- ment, if the vote be taken at a regular meeting of the Department, but by a three-fourths vote of all members if the vote be taken by correspondence except in case of the disability or death of one of more members, in which case a three- fourths vote of the other members shall suffice. If, however, it be desired to reverse or materially alter by correspondence actions taken when the Depart- ment was in session, a vote of twelve members shall be necessary. No vote of the Foreign Department taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the person who, for the time being, is the recording secretary of the Foreign Department, and unless the vote itself shall have been dsclared by said secretary after due examination of the vote returned to said secretary; (g) present a full written report of its action during the year to the General Executive Committee for approval and permanent record; (h) hold semi-annual meeting at such time and place as shall be designated by its chairman and secretary; (i) appoint the official

correspondents and foreign treasurers; (j) present to the General Executive Committee, through the Branch corresponding secretaries, a statement of the Branch appropriations and furnish a copy of the same in itemized form for publication; (k) through the official correspondents furnish a report of the foreign work for publication in the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society.

Hjme Department—The Home D^partm^nt shall consist of the president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, ex-officio, one vice-president as chairman, the Branch secretaries of the home base and the recording secretary of the Department. In the event of the inability of a secretary of the home base to attend the msetings of this Department, the executive committee of her Branch shall have the privilege of sending a substitute with full power. — — —

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Duties of Home Department—It shall be the duty of this Department to (a) superintend all publications, the work of the special secretaries, and all other interests pertaining to this Department; (b) present to the General Executive Committee nominations for editors, publisher, and special secretaries, and in each case where salaries are paid to designate the amount; (c) receive and consider all reports of editors, publisher and special secretaries; (d) have charge of literature for meetings held outside of the country, the expense therefor to be paid from the General Fund; (e) present a full written report of its action during the year to the General Executive Committee for approval and permanent record; (f) consider all cases of emergency relating to the Home Department which may arise in the interim of sessions of the General Executive Committee, and decide on such action as shall be ordered by a majority vote of the members of the Department, if the vote be taken at a regular meeting of the Department, but by a three-fourths vote of all members if the vote be taken by correspondence. If, however, it be desired to reverse or materially alter by correspondence actions taken when the Department was in session, a vote of ten members shall be necessary. No vote of the Home Department, taken ad interim, shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the person, who, for the time being, is the recording secretary of the Home Department, and unless the vote itself shall have been declared by said secretary after due examination of the votes returned to said secretary; (g) resolve itself into committees on the various sections of its work; (h) present to the General Executive Committee the annual report of the home work, with statistics and receipts by Branches.

~~IV Voting Privileges~~

The general secretaries, whose duties logically allocate them to the Home Department shall be given the vote in that Department on all questions except those definitely connected with Branch finance. The recording secretary of each Department shall be given the vote in the Department of which she is a member, with the exception noted above.

~~V Delegates~~

The recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall organize the delegates to the General Executive Committee into a conference, which shall hold at least three sessions for the purpose of nominating three delegates to serve on the committee of nominations and considering measures for the promotion of the interests of the work in the Branches. They shall attend the public meetings and such sessions of the Foreign and Home Departments as may be open to them. When important changes or new by-laws are to come before the General Executive Committee, a copy of the same shall be presented to the delegates on the day previous.

~~VI General Office at New York~~

There shall be a general office at New York. The purpose of its maintenance shall be to (a) serve as a bureau of general information regarding the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at home and abroad; (b) serve as a central agency for those interests common to all Branches which can be more effectively and economically conducted through such a center; (c) form the point of contact between the Woman's — —

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Foreign Missionary Society and other organizations of related interest in the Methodist Episcopal Church and in other denominations; (d) render assistance to outgoing and returning missionaries; (e) serve in other lines as determined by the standing committee on general office.

~~VII Secretary of General Office~~

There shall be a secretary of the general office. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the general office to express the purpose of the general office under the direction of the standing committee on general office.

~~\'III Special Secretaries for the General Work~~

There shall be a secretary of the young people's department, a secretary of the junior department, a secretary of student work, a secretary of the VVesleyan Service Guild, nominated by the Home Department and elected annualh' by the General Executive Committee. Field secretaries shall be employed as required by the Home Department. These secretaries shall send their statistical reports to the Home Department by the day of its opening session.

Duties of the Secretary of the Young People's Department—-It shall be the duty of the secretary of the young people's department to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondence with Branch superintendents of the young people's department; (c) receive from Branch superintendents an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented to the Branch annual meeting; (d) prepare the annual report of the department for the General Executive Committee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) represent the department in significant gatherings; (f) provide material necessary for periodicals and press reports; (g) perform such other duties as the Home Department may define and the General Ex- ecutive Committee approve.

Duties of the Secretary of the Junior Department— It shall be the duty of the secretary of the junior department to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondence with Branch superintendents of the junior department; (c) receive from Branch superintendents an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented to the Branch annual meeting; (d) prepare the annual report of the department for the General Executive Committee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) represent the department in significant gatherings; (f) provide material necessary for periodicals and press reports; (g) perform such other duties as the Home Department may define and the General Executive Committee approve.

Duties of the Secretary of Student Work— It shall be the duty of the secretary of student work to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondence with the Branch student secretaries; (c) receive from each Branch student secretary an annual statistical report which shall correspond with the one presented to the Branch annual meeting; (d) prepare the annual report of the department for the General Executive Committee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) represent the Society in significant gatherings; (f) provide material necessary for periodicals and press reports; (g) perform such other duties as the Home Department may define and the General Executive Committee approve. —

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Duties of the Secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild— It shall be the duty of the secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild to (a) act as chairman of the central committee, (b) superintend and devise plans for the work of the Guild, (c) conduct correspondence with the conference secretaries or with the Guild units, (d) receive from them semi-annual reports, (e) report to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

~~IX Branch Officers~~

There shall be in each Branch a president, vice-president, corresponding secretary, secretary of the home base, recording secretary, treasurer, superintendent of the young people's department, superintendent of the junior department, secretary of literature, and such other officers as each Branch shall determine.

~~Duties of Branch Officers— It shall be the duty of the~~

Branch President to (a) have general supervision of the afTairs of the Branch; (b) preside at all meetings of the Branch and of its executive committee; (c) be ex-officio member of all standing committees, with the privilege of voting.

~~Branch Vice-President to (a) perform all the duties of the president in her absence; (b) render assistance when needed.~~

Branch Corresponding Secretary to (a) superintend all interests of the Branch pertaining to the foreign field; (b) conduct the correspondence of the Branch with foreign missionaries and missionary candidates; (c) sign all orders on the Branch treasury, including foreign remittances, in accordance with the appropriations; (d) give to the Branch all foreign communications, plans and business of the Branch essential to the futherance of the work; (e) attend and present a report of her work at all Branch annual and quarterly meetings, and submit an annual report for publication in the Branch annual report; (f) perform such other duties as the Branch may define.

Branch Secretary of the Home Base to (a) superintend all interests of the Branch pertaining to the home field; (b) conduct the correspondence with the special secretaries, the conference secretaries, and the Branch superintendents; (c) serve as an ex-officio member of all Branch standing committees, with privilege of voting; (d) assist in the preparation of the Branch annual report; (e) attend and present a report of the home work at all Branch annual and quarterly meetings, and submit an annual report including statistics by conferences, for publication in the Branch annual report, and, as required, for the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society; (f) perform such other duties as the Branch may define.

Branch Recording Secretary to (a) give notice of all Branch meetings; (b) keep a full record of all proceedings; (c) furnish reports of quarterly and annual meetings for publication; (d) prepare for the Branch annual report a summary of the proceedings of the Branch executive committee throughout the year; (e) receive for publication in the Branch annual report the reports of Branch officers, conference secretaries, special superintendents, and such other material for permanent record as the Branch shall determine.

Branch Treasurer to (a) receive all funds of the Branch; (b) make and promptly forward the quarterly foreign remittances according to the appropriations, upon the written order of the Branch corresponding secretary; (c) disburse other funds under the direction of the Branch executive committee. By-Lazvs 189 upon the written order of the Branch corresponding secretary; (d) present full items of receipts and disbursements annually and quarterly to the Branch, and furnish a copy to the Branch corresponding secretary and the secretary of the home base; (e) prepare an itemized report for the Branch annual meeting and for publication in the Branch annual report; and (f) perform such other duties as each Branch may define.

Branch Secretary of Student Work to (a) present to Methodist women students the purposes and current work of the Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society, and interest them in personal service for the Society after leaving college; (b) in each student center of the Branch, secure a student center chairman who, with a committee that she shall choose, shall work out plans, for the promotion of missionary interest among students; (c) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from the student center chairman; (d) keep in touch with prospective candidates in co-operation with the Branch corresponding secretary; (e) make an annual report to the secretary of the home base of the Branch, sending duplicate to the general student secretary, and provide material for press reports; (f) be ex-ofjicio member of the Branch candidate committee. Branch Secretary of Literature to (a) advance the interests and increase the sale of the literature and publications; (b) have charge, in connection with the Branch committee on literature and the agent of supplies, of exhibition and sale of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society publications at the various public gatherings and conventions throughout the Branch,, the expense to be borne by the Branch within whose bounds such meeting is held; (c) present quarterly and annual reports to the secretary of the home base, and to the quarterly and annual meetings of the Branch; (d) encourage the organization of mission study circles to study the textbook of the united study course.

Branch Superintendent of the Young People's Department to (a) superintend and devise plans in her department, under the leadership of the secretary of the young people's department, and in co-operation with the secretary of the home base and conference secretaries; (b) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from conference superintendents, and report quarterly and annually to the secretary of the home base; (c) send to the secretary of the young people's department an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented at the annual meeting; (d) attend and present reports at the Branch annual and quarterly meetings; (e) perform such other duties as the Branch may require.

Branch Superintendent of the Junior Department to (a) superintend and devise plans in her department, under the leadership of the secretary of the junior department, and in co-operation with the secretary of the home base and conference secretaries; (b) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from conference superintendents, and report quarterly and annually to the secretary of the home base; (c) send to the secretary of the junior department an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented at the annual meeting; (d) attend and present reports at the Branch annual and quarterly meetings; (e) perform such other duties as the Branch may require. Branch Secretary of Field Support to (a) stimulate interest in the support of orphans, Bible women, assistants and other forms of special work, under the direction of the corresponding secretary; (b) keep an accurate record of objects supported and patrons giving support; (c) conduct correspondence with patrons and forward to them communications received from the missionaries concerning the work; (d) present reports at Branch annual and quarterly meetings; (e) perform such other duties as the Branch may require. — ——

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Branch Secretary of Extension Work to (a) develop plans for piomotin? the work of the Society among shut-ins, women whose duties confine them to home or business, or any others who cannot attend meetings and take part in the usual activities of the Society; (b) secure members in churches where there is no auxiliary; (c) prepare such extension groups for organization as auxiliaries as rapidly as possible; (d) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from conference secretaries of extension work; (e) prepare plans and reports for presentation at Branch meetings and for publication; (f) report to secretary of the home base and committee of the Home Department on extension work.

Branch Secretary of Christian Stewardship to (a) develop plans for promoting the work of this department by distribution of literature, correspondence and public presentations; (b) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from conference secretaries of stewardship; (c) prepare plans and reports for presentation at Branch meetings and for publication; (d) report to secretary of home base and committee of the Home Department on stewardship. X ^Branch Finance Committee

1. There shall be a Branch finance committee composed of at least five members, including the following: president, corresponding secretary, home base secretary and treasurer. One of the duties of this committee shall be to recommend at the beginning of each year, an appropriation for Branch home administration of sufficient size to provide for the home administration budget of the Branch.

~~XI ^Depots of Supplies~~

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

~~Xn Missionary Candidates~~

1. Each parson who offers harsslf as a missionary candidate shall declare her belief that she is (a) divinely called to the work of a foreign missionary; (b) actuated only by a desire to work in accordance with the will of God; (c) that she intends to make foreign missionary work the service of her effective years.

~~2. The preferred age of a candidate shall be twenty-three to thirty years. 3. She shall be a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.~~

4. The candidate shall fill out required application blanks and present them to the corresponding secretary of the Branch in whose territory she resides. These application papers shall be presented by the corresponding secretary to the Branch standing committee on candidates, by which committee the case shall be investigated and reported, through the corresponding secretary, to the Foreign Department, where it shall be again considered and passed upon. 5. In case a candidate shall not have been sent out within two years from date of her acceptance, the question of her acceptance must be again presented to the Foreign Department before final appointment. 6. Applicants who are on the mission field or who do not reside in the United States of America shall present to the Foreign Department such cre- dentials as are required of other candidates. —

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~~XIII Missionaries~~

1. On acceptance by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society each missionary shall (a) be under the control of the General Executive Committee, directly amenable to the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting her; (b) enter into the following contract by and with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society through the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting her. This contract shall be signed in duplicate for file by the missionary and the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting her; (c) this relation shall be sustained for a period of not longer than five years. CONTRACT

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

(c) consider the regulations of the Society named in the constitution and by-laws as binding as the terms of the contract, and failure to conform to them on the part of the missionary shall release the Society from all financial liability; (d) devote her entire time and attention to her work; (e) serve for five years as the first term and six years for each succeeding term except in Malaysia; Philippine Islands; Netherlands Indies; Chengtu and Chungking, China; Angola and Rhodesia, Africa; North Andes and Eastern South America, where all terms shall be five years. No missionary supported by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall adopt any child as her own, nor bring foreign-born girls or helpers to this country except upon the recommendation of the field reference committee of the conference in which they reside and with the permission of the F"oreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. At the close of a missionary's first term of service, the question of her return to the field shall be as carefully considered by the Foreign Department as was her original acceptance for service. It shall, however, not be necessary for her to present new papers, except a medical certificate.

~~2. Classification of Missionaries~~

For purposes of administration missionaries shall be classified as follows: active, furloughed, detained, self-supporting, on detached service, retired, resigned, discontinued, married, deceased. 192 By-Laws

(a) Active missionaries are those engaged in specific work assigned them on the field. (b) Furloughed missionaries are those who have received permission from the Society for temporary absence from the mission field. (c) Detained missionaries are those who for reasons satisfactory to the Foreign Department have remained away from the field longer than two years, but expect to return at some future time. This relation shall be sustained for a period of not longer than five years. (d) Self-supporting missionaries are those who serve without salary; but if regularly accepted by the Foreign Department they shall have the same standing as those who receive salary and shall be amenable to the same regulations. (e) Missionaries on detached service are regularly accepted missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society who are assigned to union institutions or union work in which the Society is participating. They retain all the rights and privileges of regular missionaries except that from their retirement allowance shall be deducted any retirement allowance that they may receive through the union agencies with which they have been connected.

(f) Retired missionaries are those whose services have been deemed impracticable by reason of family conditions, impaired health, advancing years or other causes, and who, after two years' furlough, have been placed on the retired list.

(g) Resigned missionaries are those have been accorded the privilege of withdrawing from service as missionaries of the Society. (h) Discontinued missionaries are those who have been deemed by a three-fourths vote of the Foreign Department unfit for continuance in the service.

3. In Active Service (a) Outfit and Furniture—Tha Society shall provide each missionary, when beginning service, with $200 for personal outfit, and shall provide a furniture allowance of $100. Furniture and medical outfit provided by the Society shall be the property of the Society and subject to its disposition. (b) Salary—-The salaries of missionaries shall include all expenses hitherto classed as incidentals and shall be $800 in all India Conferences and Mexico Conference; $900 in all China Conferences and in Burma, Malaya, Netherlands Indies and Philippine Islands Conferences; $950 in Africa (except North Africa); $1,000 in Europe, North Africa, Japan, Korea and South America Conferences. The value of the salary on the field shall be based on the par of exchange between U. S. gold and the currency of the country concerned, any exchange loss to be made up by the Society and any gain to belong to it.* The first year's work of a new missionary shall be so planned by the mission that the major part of her time shall be given to the study of the language. (c) Finance—-Each missionary shall (1) incur no expense which has not been authorized by the General Executive Committee; (2) apply to private sources for financial aid only by authority from the Foreign Department of the General Executive Committee; (3) keep an itemized account of receipts and disbursements, also of all donations, fees, and other sums received for the support of the work, and report the same in her annual financial statement to the conference treasurer; (4) present estimates and all other matter requiring the action of the General Executive Committee through the field reference committee of the conference in which her work is located; (5) include in her estimates for Bible women and zenana workers all expenses of conveyances

* Grants to missionaries, in addition to salary, are as follows: for Japan, Korea and Mexico. $200; for Philippine Islands, Malaya, Netherlands Indies, $100; full exchange gain allowed for Europe. By-Laws 193 and teachers, and in those for scholarships the cost of fuel, light, medicines, and minor expenses necessary in the maintenance of the school. (d) Reports and Records—Each missionary shall (1) furnish the official correspondent with all facts as required; (2) report each quarter to the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting her and to | the .'superintendent of the district in which her work is located; (3) send annual communications for patrons supporting field support to the Branch secretary of field support; (4) keep a clear record of all field support in her charge, and on her removal or furlough transfer this record to her substitute or successor.

4. Furloughed (a) Each missionary when entering on furlough shall receive such amount as will presumably cover (1) cost of travel by direct route, and (2) authorized incidental expenses. Any balance shall be applied on home salary. (b) The Society shall be liable for travel expenses only to the extent necessitated b}' conformity to the regulations of the Foreign Department as to lines of travel and incidental expenses. If a missionary returns home early for any other reason than ill health, travel expenses shall be paid only on authorization by the Foreign Department. (c) Fifteen months absence from the field shall constitute the regular furlough. Minor adjustments as to the date for beginning furlough may be made on the field; but a deviation of more than six months from the regular time shall be on the authority of the Foreign Department. The missionary's last furlough before retirement shall be two years in length. (d) In all cases where the relations of the missionary with the Society are satisfactory, her home salary for the fifteen months of the regular furlough shall be at the rate of $850 a year; if the Foreign Department sanctions extension of furlough, or if the furlough is the last before retirement, salary for nine months, after the first fifteen months, shall be at the rate of $600 a year. In cases of return before furlough is due, the foregoing shall apply until the next meeting of the Foreign Department, if salary is needed. Home salary, except as elsewhere provided, shall begin upon date of leaving work on the field, and shall continue until return thereto, provided said return is within two years. In case return is delayed beyond two years, the question of a further continuation of home salary shall be referred to the Foreign Depart- ment. In the case of a missionary who has completed a full term of service and does not expect to return to the field, home salary at the rate of $850 a year shall be paid for nine months only from the date of leaving work on the field. (e) Missionaries indigenous to the field shall receive full salary when on furlough, in which case no furlough expenses will be paid by the Society. This provision shall apply only to missionaries in satisfactory relation to the Society and for the term of furlough authorized by the General Executive Committee through the Branch supporting the missionary. (f) In case of emergency demanding immediate return home, the missionary shall obtain the written approval of the field reference committee, or, where there is no field reference committee, of the bishop and a majority of the missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in her conference, and shall send this statement to her official correspondent and a copy to her Branch corresponding secretary. (g) She shall, unless excused by the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting her, attend the first session of the General Executive Com- mittee held after her return from the foreign field, provided she is returning after a term of at least four years. Her travel expenses to and from the place of meeting shall be paid from the same fund as those of members of that body. (h) For information regarding the return of a missionary after furlough each member of the field reference committee shall fill out and sign duplicate —

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blanks, one of which shall be sent to the official correspondent and one to the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting the missionary concerned. The bishop of the Area is requested to send blanks in like manner. These blanks shall be prepared and sent before the missionary leaves the field. To authorize return to the field there shall be a two-thirds vote of the Foreign Department, based upon the information contained in the blanks received from the field, a new medical certificate, and the recommendation of the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting the missionary. (i) As soon as possible after the granting of a furlough, the missionary shall be informed by the Foreign Department as to whether or not her return to the field will be sanctioned, if at the time for return health conditions be satisfactory. 5. Retired (a) The missionary shall be automatically retired at the end of the furlough closing nearest to the day when she reaches the age of sixty-eight years. In case a previous furlough or return to the field may be arranged in such a way as to make an additional term possible before retirement, and in case the missionary desires such an arrangement, the matter shall be referred to the Foreign Department and each case decided on its merits. (b) Missionaries may be retired earlier by a three-fourths vote of the Foreign Department. 6. Resigned (a) The resignation of a missionary shall cause the obligation of the Society for salary and traveling expenses to cease. Traveling expenses may be paid if the Foreign Department so orders, but the decision shall be made for each case on its merits. (b) The marriage of a missionary shall be considered a resignation. 7. Discontinued (a) The Foreign Department shall have authority by a three-fourths vote to sever the relations between a missionary and the Society. (b) After discontinuance she shall be paid in final settlement a lump sum equal to one-fourth of the annual salary last received by her when a missionary; and, if presentation of bills be made within three months after notice of discontinuance has been given, she shall be paid travel expenses to her home to the extent provided by by-law XIII, 4 (b). 8. In case a missionary withdraws from the work of the Society or is recalled, unless she leaves the field within two months after withdrawal, or after receiving notification of recall, no travel allowance shall be granted her and her salary shall be discontinued, except by special action of the Foreign Department. XIV Contract Teachers 1. Contract teachers shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 2. On acceptance by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society each contract teacher shall (a) be appointed for a term of three years and shall be a member of the woman's conference; (b) while on the field have the same prerogatives, privileges and obligations as a missionary, except provision for language study; (c) enter into the following CONTRACT "I agree to render three years' consecutive service as a teacher in the schools of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episco- pal Church and, during my term of service, to be subject to and governed by the same rules and regulations as those which govern the regular missionaries of the Society, which rules I have read and understand. Date Signed ——

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"For these services we agree to compensate as follows: "We agree to pay expenses incurred by her round trip from her home in America to her field of labor over routes prescribed by the Society; to provide her with all of which is subject to the provision that she conform to the rules and regulations which govern the regular missionaries of the Society. Date Signed Cor. Sec'y of the Branch On behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church."

~~(d) In case she has served four or more years receive, for the first three months after leaving her work on the field, home salary at the rate paid to missionaries during the first year of furlough.~~

XV Nation.\l Women Workers National women workers shall be eligible to full membership in the woman's conference and to appointment by the bishop on the following conditions: 1. They shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church or, in Japan, of the Japan Methodist Church, or in Korea, of the Korean Methodist Church, or in Mexico, of the Methodist Church of Mexico, graduates of a recognized high school, and shall have had two years additional educational training in college, normal, medical, kindergarten, nurse, or Bible training school. 2. They shall be recommended for such conference membership by the woman's conference, within whose bounds they are working or residing and by the bishop of the Area or the superintendent of the mission. 3. They shall be eligible to membership in any of the committees of the woman's conference except that eligibility to membership in the field reference committee shall be determined by vote of the woman's conference; they shall be entitled to regular annual vacations, but more extended leave of absence shall be without salary, and in view of their domicile, they shall not be entitled to furlough in America, nor to a retiremsnt allowance unless retirement funds are provided on the field. They shall qualify in the language according to a course of study prescribed by the central conferences of their respective fields, where such exist, otherwise by the woman's conference. XVT Organiz.\tion on the Field 1. Woman's Conference —Working in co-operation with each conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the foreign field there shall be, wherever practicable, a woman's conference. This woman's conference shall be made up of the missionaries (including contract teachers) of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, such wives of missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions as are in charge of work for the Society, workers provided for by by-law XIII, and such other women workers as each woman's conference and the central conference ot the field concerned, shall from time to time determine. This conference shall meet annually and elect a president, a vice-president, secretary, ofiicial correspondent and such other officers as shall be needed, hear reports, appoint committees, and consult concerning the work in charge of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society within the bounds of the conference. All important recommendations to th3 Gan^ral Executive Committee through the Foreign Department shall first be acted upon by the woman's conference. This conference may delegate any of its functions to the field reference committee or other committees. 196 By-Laws

2. Foreign Treasurer—There shall be in each annual conference, mission conference or group of conferences, as the Foreign Department shall direct, a foreign treasurer for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, appointed by the Foreign Department. It shall be the duty of each foreign treasurer to (a) forward receipts immediately upon receiving remittances from the Branch treasurers; (b) apply the funds of the Society only for the purpose designated by the General Executive Committee, and make no disVjursements in excess of the appropriations made by the General Executive Committee, nor for objects not included in the appropriations of that Committee; (c) pay all appropriations, including salaries and buildings, on the basis of currency of the country at i)ar;(d) pay money for buildings on order of the building committee in such amounts and at such time as required by the contract; (e) invest, on action of the field reference committee of the woman's conference, all money sent to the field for buildings and land, the use of which is temporarily delayed; (f) forward to the Branch corresponding secretary on January first and July first of each year itemized statements, both in local currency and in U. S. gold, of balance arising from unused current work appropriations, exchange, or other source, and hold such funds subject to the order of the corresponding secretary from whose Branch said funds accrue; (g) forward to the general treasurer on January first and July first of each year itemized statements, both in local currency and in U. S. gold, of amounts received and expended for buildings and property, taxes and insurance, and such other items as are paid by the general treasurer to the conference concerned; (h) forward estimates approved by the field reference committee and printed according to prescribed form, two copies to each of the general ofiicers, and three copies to the corresponding secretary of each Branch, to insure arrival on or before September first; (i) receive building accounts properly audited, and hold them in custody for the Society.

3. Field Property Committee—There shall be a field property committee in each woman's conference, nominated by the field reference committee and elected by the woman's conference. The treasurer of the annual conference, mission conference or group] of conferences shall be ex-officio member of this committee, without vote except in the conference of which she is a member. It shall be the duty of the field property committee to (a) have in charge, under the direction of the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, all matters relative to the purchase and sale of property, erection and insurance of buildings, and extensive repairs for which appropriations have been made. No building, however financed, shall be erected on the property of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society without the approval of the field property committee and without consultation and mutual agreement with the Foreign Department. After a building has been authorized by the Foreign Department, the property committee shall appoint a local building committee, which shall have authority to draw up plans, make contracts, subject to the approval of the property committee, audit bills, and direct the work; (b) secure safe legal titles to all real estate purchased by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. When possible, all deeds shall be made to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in trust for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; where neither of these is possible, they shall be made in the way that shall be approved by the field reference committee and the finance committee of the Board of Foreign Missions of that conference; (c) have all deeds recorded in accordance with the laws of the country and preserve all deeds and other legal papers not forwarded to America in the office of the treasurer of the conference, mission conference or group of conferences whenever it is —

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practicable so to do; (d) keep a record of all real estate belonging to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society; (e) furnish the committee on real estate with information as required; (f) keep on file all documents giving power of attorney for the transfer of property within the conference; (g) furnish the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society with a copy (and a translation when the deeds are not in English) of deeds to all property acquired by purchase or other means. 4. Field Reference Committee—Each woman's conference shall have a field reference committee to be elected annually by ballot. The Bishop of the area shall be a member ex-officio. Others eligible to membership in the field reference committee shall be (a) active missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society; (b) such w'ives of missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions as are in charge of work for the Society, and (c) national women workers if declared eligible by the woman's conference. This committee shall consist of not less than six nor more than nine representative members, two- thirds of whom shall be missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The treasurer of the woman's annual conference, mission conference or group of conferences shall be, ex-officio, an additional member of this committee without vote except in the conference of which she is a member. It shall be the duty of the field reference committee to (a) prepare estimates which require ihe action of the General Executive Committee; (b) consider the furlough of missionaries and forward recommendations concerning the individual cases to the Foreign Department; (c) in consultation with the bishop in charge, approve, and through the chairman and secretary sign contracts, in accordance with the appropriations and the regulations in force toj the employment of workers engaged on the field to fill major positions* in the work of the Society; (d) consider all matters of general interest arising during the interim of their annual meetings.

~~XVII—Official Visitors to the Mission Field~~

1. When in the judgment of the Foreign Department it shall seem desirable that an official visitor be sent to the mission field, a nomination shall be made by a two-thirds vote of the Foreign Department and presented by the Foreign Department to the General Executive Committee for action. 2. An official visitor shall (a) acquaint herself with the work in the field or fields visited; (b) make a report and recommendations. She may be charged with some special duty, such as (a) acting as delegate to an assembly or (b) making a special investigation. In her social contacts she shall be recognized as an official representative of the Soceity. While she is at liberty to express her own views and judgments, she shall make it clear to those on the field that she cannot speak with final authority on matters requiring action by the Foreign Department or the Society.

XVIII Publication Department 1. The periodicals of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be known as the Woman's Missionary Friend, Junior Missionary Friend and Der Frauen Missions Freund. 2. The literature of the Society shall include all other publications not specified in Section 1. 3. The editors and publisher of the periodicals and literature shall be elected annually at the meeting of the General Executive Committee, when their reports shall be received, and a copy thereof submitted for publication in the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 4. The editors and publisher shall be entitled to floor privileges on matters concerning their work.

* The term major positions shall be interpreted to include those of conference evangelist Staff members for high schools and hospitals, and the like. — —

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5. In the interim of the General Executive Committee the management of the Society's publications shall be under the control of the Home Depart- ment. 6. Sample copies of all publications issued by the Society shall be sent to the general officers and to the members of the Home Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and to such other officers and exchanges as may be deemed essential to the progress of this department. XIX Zenana Paper

1. The Foreign Department shall make appropriations from the income of the endowment of the Zenana Paper and shall have general supervision of the interests of the paper. 2. The woman's conference in India shall nominate a committee consisting of five persons—three women and two men—one of whom shall be the publisher, to supervise the interests of the paper, and arrange with the press- committee for editing and publishing the Zenana Paper in the various languages and dialects required, these nominations to be subject to the approval of the Foreign Department of the General Executive Committee. 3. The editor-in-chief shall send an annual report of the Zenana Paper to the chairman of the Foreign Department with the amount of circulation and items of interest, in time to be presented to the annual meeting of the General Executive Committee in America. 4. A report of the Zenana Paper shall be published in the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 5. The treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be the treasurer of the Zenana Paper funds, and shall disburse the income of the same only upon the order of the chairman of the Foreign Department. XX Funds 1. All money raised under the auspices of this Society belongs to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and shall not be diverted to other causes. 2. xA reserve fund of $5,000 shall be retained in the treasury of the Society's publications and shall not be used except for an emergency in the business of the publication office and with the approval of the general officers and publisher.

.3. Gifts, bequests, donations and other moneys received from donors residing outside the United States shall be paid to the general treasurer and credited as "received from the Society at large," except where such gifts come from foreign conferences regularly affiliated with Branches, in which case they shall be paid to the treasurer of the Branch concerned. 4. Balances accruing fiom exchange, surplus from remittances made under appropriation and other sources, shall lieiong to the Branch supporting the work, and shall be reported January first and July first of each year, and held subject to the order of the corresponding secretary in whose Branch they accrue. 5. No college or other endowment funds shall be held or invested on the foreign field. College endowments shall be held by the general treasurer and invested under the direction of the committee on investments. 6. A fund for general home administration expense shall be created by annual appropriations paid by Branches into the treasury of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 7. Gifts received on the life income plan shall be invested and reinvested during the lifetime of the donor by the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the instruction of the committee on investments, except such portions of said Life Income Gifts as shall be required to purchase from life insurance companies approved by the committee on investments, annuity policies to cover the life income payable to the donor. —

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

~~For eighty and over the rate is 8%. The rate on two lives shall be that of the younger, or if there be more than two in a group, that of the youngest in the group.~~

~~X XI Retirement Fund and Pensions~~

1. There shall be no legal obligation on the part of the Society to pay retirement allowance except to such missionaries as it shall, through its General Executive Committee on recommendation of the Foreign Depart- ment, designate, and only for the period and for the amount designated by the said General Executive Committee.

2. Except as provided under (4) and (5), no missionary shall be eligible to retirement allowance who (a) was retired prior to January 1, 1900; (b) is, at the time of retirement, less than sixty-five years of age; (c) has served less than twenty-five years on the foreign field including furloughs to a maximum total of sixty months.

3. The maximum retirement allowance for missionaries in the service of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society October 1, 1926, who were born in 1878 or earlier shall be $600 a year. Nothing in this section shall be con- strued as changing or increasing the allowance of any missionary on the retired list October 1, 1926. For missionaries born in 1879 or later the maximum allowance shall be $480 a year. Regular missionaries of the Society who are indigenous to the field in which they work and who were in service January I, 1918, shall receive, if placed on the list of missionaries eligible to allowance, retirement allowance on the same basis as American and European missionaries, except in cases where they have been receiving a salary smaller than that paid to American and European missionaries. In such cases their allowance shall bear to $600 (if they were born in 1878 or earlier) or to $480 (if they were born in 1879 or later), the same ratio as the salary they have received when in active service bears to the salary of the American and Euro- pean missionaries in their respective conferences.

4. If a missionary at the time of necessary retirement has not reached the age of sixty-five years, or has not served twenty-five years, or has neither qualification, the Foreign Department may, by a three-fourths vote, recommend to the General Executive Committee an allowance according to the followina; scale: 200 By-Laws

~~(a) For missionaries born prior to Jan. 1, 1879:~~

Age at Re- tirement Amount of Allowance After Service 25 yrs. 24 yrs. 23 yrs. 22 yrs. 21 yrs. 20 yrs. 55 $390 $374 $359 $343 $328 $312 56 407 391 374 358 342 326 57 422 405 388 371 354 338 58 439 421 404 386 369 351 59 460 442 423 405 386 368 60 480 461 442 422 403 384 61 497 477 457 437 417 398 62 520 499 478 458 437 416 63 546 524 502 480 459 437 64 574 551 528 506 483 460 65 600 576 552 528 504 480

~~(b) For missionaries born after Jan. 1, 1879:~~

~~Age at Re- tirement Amount of Allowance after Service~~

25 yrs. 24 yrs. 23 yrs. 22 yrs. 21 yrs. 20 yrs. 55 $312 $300 $287 $275 $262 $250 56 326 313 300 >87 274 261 57 338 324 311 297 284 270 58 351 337 323 309 295 281 59 368 353 339 324 309 295 60 384 369 353 338 323 307 61 398 382 366 350 334 319 62 416 399 383 366 349 333 63 437 420 402 385 367 350 64 460 442 423 405 386 368 65 480 461 442 422 403 384

When missionaries have not reached the age of fifty-five and have not served twenty years, the Foreign Department may recommend for each case, according to its merits, the allowance to be paid. 5. In exceptional cases where the necessities of the individual require a larger allowance than is provided for under (3) and (4) the Foreign Depart- ment is empowered to recommend to the General Executive Committee by a three-fourths vote such allowance for her as in the judgment of the Depart- ment shall seem equitable. 6. (a) In case a missionary of the Board of Foreign Missions becomes a missionary of the Society, her retirement allowance from the Society shall be based on her years of service as a missionary of the Society; and if transfer is made during her first term on the field, the time spent in language school shall be counted as a part of her years of service with the Society. (b) In case a missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society marries a missionary of the Board of Foreign Missions after a minimum service of ten years with the said Society, and, after marriage continues in the active service of the Board of Foreign Missions until she shall have attained the age of sixty-five years, and shall have served at least twenty-five years on the field, (including furloughs to a maximum total of sixty months) her retirement allowance as and when a widow, from the Society, shall be based on the years —

By-Laws 201 of service as a missionary of the Society, and shall bear such proportion to the allowance which would have been paid her had she continued in the service of the Society as her actual years of service with the Society bear to twenty-five.* (c) If a contract teacher having served with the Society, or if a member of the faculty of a union college under appointment by the union college committee or a missionary in the Lee Memorial Mission, Calcutta, becomes a missionary of the Society, her years of service as a contract teacher or as an appointee of the union college committee or as a missionary in the Lee Memorial Mission, Calcutta, shall be counted in calculating her retirement allowance. 7. No retirement allowances or special grants to retired missionaries shall be paid by Branches. 8. Retirement allowances shall begin two years after the missionary's active service on the field ends. 9. There shall be a Retirement Fund for care of retired missionaries consisting of gifts solicited for this purpose throughout the Society. Such gifts as are definitely designated for endowment shah he invested and reinvested by the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the instruction of the committee on investments, the principal being preserved intact and the income only being used to pay retirement allowances or to purchase pensions from insurance companies, approved by the committee on investments. Such gifts as are not definitely designated for endowment may be used for purchases of pensions from insurance companies, approved by the committee on investments, or for such other purposes involved in the retirement care of missionaries as by action of the General Executive Committee shall be authorized from time to time. 10. There shall be inaugurated on January 1, 1927, a plan of purchasing pensions from life insurance companies for missionaries sent out after October 1, 1926, and on January 1, 1929, for purchase of pensions for missionaries who are at that date in active service for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, who were born in 1879 or later years and who were sent out prior to October 1, 1926, such pensions not to exceed $480 a year and to be purchased in such amounts as shall be necessary to supplement the income from the Retirement Fund Endowment. The life insurance companies from which such pensions may be purchased shall be approved by the committee on investments. 11. In case in any year the income from the Retirement Fund Endow- ment plus the proceeds of pension purchases shall not be sufficient to pay to retired missionaries the allowances above provided, the deficiency shall be supplied by a pro-rata assessment on the Branches; in case in any year the income from all sources shall exceed the total of allowances to be paid, the surplus shall be retained in income account and carried forward to succeeding years. 12. Gifts for endowment, as distinguished from those for pension purchases, shall be added to the principal of the Retirement Fund and only the income from them used. XXII Expenses 1. From the General Home Administration Fund shall be paid: (a) Expenses of the general officers and special secretaries of the Woman 's Foreign Missionary Society; (b) traveling expenses to and from the meeting of the General Executive Committee incurred by the officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, corresponding secretaries, secretaries of the home base, special secretaries, secretary of German work, recording secretaries

*It is understood that a former missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society who is the widow of a man who had been retired for disability before the regular age of retirement, shall be considered a special case, and the adjustment of an allowance for her shall be made by the Society and the Board under their respective rulings for special cases among retired missionaries. —

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of the Home and Foreign Departments, secretary of the general office, missionaries and two delegates from each Branch; (c) traveling expenses of the general officers, members and recording secretaries of the Home and the Foreign Departments to and from the mid-year meeting; (d) expense of the general office; (e) cost of literature supplied for meetings held outside of this country; (f) and such other expenses of home and foreign administration as the General Executive Committee shall from time to time direct. 2. From the receipts of the publisher's office shall be paid: (a) Salaries of the editors and publisher and their assistants; (b) office expenses of editors and publisher; (c) travel expenses of editors and publisher to and from the meeting of the General Executive Committee; (d) travel expense of the publisher and editor of the Woman's Missionary Friend to the mid-year meeting.

1 XXI 1 Committees 1. On Nominations There shall be a committee on nominations composed of two members from the Foreign Department and two members from the Home Department, these to constitute a standing committee and, when the General Executive Committee convenes, three delegates shall be added to serve during the session. Members from the Foreign and Home Departments shall be nominated by their respective Departments and shall serve two years each, one new member from each Department being chosen annually. The three delegates shall be nominated by the delegates' conference as soon as possible after the General Executive Committee convenes. It shall be the duty of this committee to present nominations for the officers for the Woman's F^oreign Missionary Society, the general counselor, auditor of the accounts of the general treasurer, and standing committees on by-laws, consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions, general office, investments, state of the Society, and such other standing committees as the General Executive Committee shall from time to time determine. 2. On Memorials There shall be a committee on memorials consisting of one member from the Home Department, one member from the Foreign Department and three delegates. 3. On Investments There shall be a committee on investments, to consist of the general officers, the general counselor, ex-officio, and co-opted members as need shall arise. The treasurer shall invest all trust, annuity and endowment funds of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the direction of this committee. Any Branch which so desires may turn over its Branch trust, life income gift and endowment funds to the control of this committee on investments. At the death of the donor of the life income gift or at the termination of the trust, the principal remaining to the credit of the original trust or life income gift shall be paid to the Branch treasurer by the general treasurer for the use of the Branch. When a life income gift lapses and before the net proceeds are paid to the Branch from which the donor came, ten percent shall be deducted and retained' for investment and reinvestment as an additional reserve to protect life income gift agreements. Branches which prefer to retain control of their invested funds may do so, but shall submit to the committee on investments above created an annual statement of their invested fluids and of the securities held therefor. The committee on investments shall present from time to time to each such Branch a list of investments suited to the particular Branch, this list to be suggestive only and the Branch to be as free as at present in the matter of making investments if it so desires. 4. Resolutions There shall be a committee on resolutions consisting of the recording secretary and two delegates. — —

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XXIV Order of Business The following items of business shall be considered at the General Execu- tive Committee meeting: Calling the roll. Minutes. Appointment of committees. Reception of memorials, petitions and proposed changes in the constitution. Reports of the secretaries of the home base. Reports of special secretaries. Report of the Home Department. Reports of the corresponding secretaries. Report of the Foreign Department. Reports of oflicial correspondents. Reports of editors and publisher. Fixing place of next meeting. Election of president, vice-presidents, recording secretary, treasurer, special secretaries and other officers. Election of editors and publisher. Notice of constitutional amendments. Reports of committees. Miscellaneous business. Introductions.

All resolutions to be discussed shall be presented in writing. No member shall be granted leave of absence except by vote of the entire body. XXV—Fiscal Year The fiscal year of the Society shall begin October first. XXVI Meetings 1. The General Executive Committee shall convene annually not later than the last week in October, at such place as the said Committee shall elect. 2. The program for the meeting of the General Executive Committee shall be arranged by a committee composed of the president of the Society as chairman, the corresponding secretary, secretary of the home base, and the president of the Branch within whose bounds said meeting is to take place. 3. Local arrangements for the entertainment of the General Executive Committee shall be in the hands of committees appointed by the Branch within whose bounds the meeting is to be held. 4. The members of the Foreign Department and of the Home Department shall a.ssemble not less than three days before the opening of the General Executive Committee meeting. 5. The Foreign Department and the Home Department shall hold a mid- year meeting at a time and place agreed upon by themselves. 6. A majority of the members of the General Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. XXVII—By-Laws These by-laws may be changed or amended at any meeting of the General Executive Committee by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting. CONSTITUTION FOR DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS ARTICLE I—N.\ME This association shall be called The District Asso- ciation of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ——

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ARTICLE II—Purpose The purpose of this association shall be to unite the auxiliaries of the district in an earnest effort for the promotion of the work of the Woman's F"oreign Missionary Society. ARTICLE III—Membership All members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in District shall be considered members of this association. ARTICLE IV—Officers The officers of this association shall be a president, three or more vice- presidents, a corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, a treasurer, a counselor for the young people's department, a superintendent of the junior department, a superintendent of literature, and such other officers as the district shall determine, in harmony with the constitution of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. These officers shall constitute the executive committee to administer the affairs of the district. ARTICLE V—Meetings There shall be an annual meeting of the district association, when reports shall be received from all auxiliaries in the district, missionary intelligence shall be given, and necessary business transacted. ARTICLE VI Change of Constitution This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by a three- fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given to each Branch by its secretary of the home base before April first of that year. CONSTITUTION FOR AUXILIARY SOCIETIES Auxiliaries are expected to labor in harmony with and under the direction of the Branch. ARTICLE I—Name This organization shall be called The Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety of , auxiliary to the Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. ARTICLE II—Purpose The purpose of this society shall be to aid its Branch in interesting Christian women in the evangelization of women in the foreign mission fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in raising funds for this work. ARTICLE III—Membership Any person paying a regular subscription of two cents a week, or one dollar per year, may become a member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Any person contributing five dollars per quarter for one year, or twenty dollars at one time, shall be constituted a life member. ARTICLE IV—Funds All funds raised under the auspices of this society, contributed or be- queathed to it, belong to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and shall not be diverted to other causes, but shall be paid into the Branch treasury. Remittances shall be forwarded quarterly to the conference treasurer. ARTICLE V Officers and Elections The officers of this society shall be a president, one or more vice-presidents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, a counselor for the young people's department and a supervisor of the junior department, who shall constitute an executive committee to administer its affairs. Managers and superintendents of departments of work may be ———

By-Laws 205 added as needed. These officers shall be elected at the annual meeting of the society. ARTICLE VI Change of Constitution This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the Gen- eral Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given to each Branch by its secretary of the home base before April first of that year. CONSTITUTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES ARTICLE I—Name This organization shall be called The Young Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society, or The Standard Bearer Society of The Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society of the Church, Auxiliary to the Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ARTICLE II—Purpose The purpose of this organization is to interest young people in foreign missions and to support the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ARTICLE III—Membership Any person may become a member of the Young Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by the payment of one dollar a year and a member of the Standard Bearer Society by the payment of sixty cents a year. The payment of fifteen dollars shall constitute life membership. ARTICLE IV—Badge The badge of this organization shall be the Church Pennant pin. Mem- bers paying one dollar per year may wear the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society badge, if preferred. ARTICLE V—Funds Funds raised under the auspices of this society belong to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and shall not be diverted to other causes. Re- mittances shall be forwarded quarterly to the district or conference treasurer. ARTICLE VI Officers and Elections The officers of this organization shall be a president, two or more vice- presidents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer, who shall be elected at the annual meeting of the organization and constitute an executive committee to administer the affairs of the same. Superintend- ents of departments may be added as needed. ARTICLE VII Change of Constitution This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given at the previous annual meeting. CONSTITUTION OF THE WESLEYAN SERVICE GUILD ARTICLE I—Name The name of this organization shall be the Wesleyan Service Guild. ARTICLE II—Purpose The purpose of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be to interest business and professional women in a four-fold program for others as well as for themselves: (1) Development of spiritual life. (2) Opportunities for world service. (3) Promotion of Christian citizenship and personal service. (4) Provision for social and recreational activities. 206 By-Laws

ARTICLE III—Organization Section 1. The Wesleyan Service Guild shall be auxiliary to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and to the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Sec. 2. There shall be a central committee composed of three members appointed annually by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and three members appointed annually by the Woman's Home Missionary Society at their annual meetings; one of these members shall be the chairman of the Guild committee for her organization; and eight or more representatives of business and professional women shall be selected by the central committee at the annual meeting of the Wesleyan Service Guild and presented for approval of the Woman's Foreign Missionary' Society and the Woman's Home Mission- ary Society. The central committee shall have general supervision of the work of the Wesleyan Service Guild and shall promote its interests. Sec. 3. The officers of the central committee shall be a chairman, one or more vice-chairmen, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer, and such other officers as the development of the organization may require. Sec. 4. The central committee shall have four departments: the department of spiritual service, the department of world service, the department of Christian citizenship and personal service, the department of social and recreational activities. There shall be a department chairman for each department. Sec. 5. There shall be a secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild elected annually by vote of the General Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Board of Managers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society on nomination of the central committee. Se^.. 6. The secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall act as chairman of the central committee and shall report semi-annually, by July 10 and January 10, to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and to the Woman's Home Missionary Society. ARTICLE IV—Membership The Wesleyan Service Guild welcomes to its membership any business or professional woman who is in sympathy with the four-fold purpose of the Guild and who will co-operate in carrying out its program of education and activities. The annual dues are vS2.50. Men may become associate members upon payment of the annual dues. ARTICLE V—Funds

Section 1. The fiscal year of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be from June first to June first. Sec. 2. The annual payment of $2.50 provides for: Membership dues in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society $1.00 Membership dues in the Woman's Home Missionary Society. 1.00 Branch contingent fund (W. F. M. S.) 10 Conference contingent fund (W. H. M. S.) 10 District contingent fund (W. F. M. S.) 05 District contingent fund (W. H. M. S.) 05

~~Wesleyan Service Guild contingent fund, central committee . . .10 Wesleyan Service Guild contingent fund, local unit 10~~

Total $2.50 which shall be disbursed as follows: $1.15 to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and $1.15 to the Woman's Home Missionary Society (to be sent through the regular channels of each Society), —

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10 cents to the treasurer of the central committee, 10 cents to be retained in the treasury of the local unit. Sec. 3. In the matter of undesignated gifts, the funds of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be divided on a basis of 50 per cent for work on the foreign field and 50 per cent for work in the home field, the funds to be credited and administered as follows: 5C% credited to and administered by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 45% credited to and administered by the Woman's Home Missionary Society. 5% credited to and administered by the local unit of the Wesleyan Ser- vice Guild for the department of Christian citizenship and personal service.

~~ARTICLE VI—Meetings~~

The annual meeting of the central committee shall be held in June or as soon after the close of the fiscal year as is practicable, and other meetings of the central committee shall be held at the call of the chairman or of five members of the central committee at such times as are necessary or desirable.

ARTICLE VII—Amendments Amendments not affecting the fundamental meaning of the constitution may be made with the approval of the representatives of the two Missionary Societies on the central committee. All other amendments require the con- currence of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Home Missionary Society.

~~ARTICLE VTII Conference Organization~~

Section 1. A Wesleyan Service Guild conference secretary, preferably a Guild or ex-Guild member, shall be nominated by the units in each conference where there are three or more units of the Wesleyan Service Guild and the nomination confirmed by the conference secretary and conference treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary .Society, and by the conference president and the conference secretary of the Woman's Home Missionarj' Society. Sec. 2. The conference Guild secretary shall promote the work of the Guild in her conference, receive reports from the units, assist in the organization of new units, and shall report semi-annually (December first and June first) to the central committee and to the conference corresponding secretaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Home Mission- ary Society. She should familiarize herself with the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary .Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, and attend, as far as possible, the district and conference meetings of these Societies, and when practicable, present the interest of the Guild at these meetings. Sec. 3. Where it is impracticable for the units of the Wesleyan Service Guild to meet and nominate a Guild conference secretary, the conference corresponding secretaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society shall upon consultation with the units nominate a conference Guild secretary, preferably a Guild or ex-Guild member, whose appointment shall be approved by a majority of the Guilds within the conference, and who shall be assisted, whenever necessary, by the conference corresponding secretaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society. —

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ARTICLE IX— District Organization Section 1. A Wesleyan Service Guild district secretary, preferably a Guild or ex-Guild member, shall be nominated by the units in districts having three or more units of the Wesleyan Service Guild; or, in default of a meeting of the units she may be nominated by the district corresponding secretaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society in consultation with the units within the district, and her election confirmed by a majority of the units. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the district Guild secretary to receive reports from the units, to send, semi-annually, a summarized Guild report to the conference Guild secretary where such an officer exists, otherwise, to the corresponding secretary of the central committee, to co-operate in the organization of new units, to familiarize herself with the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, when practicable to arrange for group or district conferences, and to attend the district meetings of these Societies, and to present a report of the units of the Wesleyan Service Guild to each Society.

~~CONSTITUTION FOR LOCAL UNIT~~

~~ARTICLE I The local organization shall be designated as a unit of the Wesleyan Service Guild and shall be subject to the provisions of its constitution.~~

ARTICLE II The officers of a local unit shall be: a president, one or more vice-presidents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer. They shall be elected at the annual meeting of the unit.

ARTICLE III A local unit shall have four departments, each of which shall be under the supervision of a department chairman. ARTICLE IV The officers and department chairman shall constitute an executive committee. ARTICLE V The collection and disbursement of funds of the local unit shall be in accordance with Article IV and V of the Wesleyan Service Guild constitution.

~~BY-LAWS FOR LOCAL UNIT~~

ARTICLE I Duties of Officers Section L The president shall have general supervision of the work of the unit, shall appoint the department chairmen, and shall preside at the meetings. Sec. 2. The vice-president shall in the absence of the president assume her duties. Sec. 3. The recording secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of each meeting and shall provide notices for the church bulletin and for the press. She shall also keep an accurate list of the members of the unit, including home and business address and telephone. Sec. 4. The corresponding secretary shall conduct all correspondence of the unit. This correspondence includes filling out and sending semi-annually —

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the Wesleyan Service Guild report blanks to the district secretaries of the V^^oman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society and to the district (or conference) secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild where such an officer exists, or to the corresponding secretary of the central committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild. These blanks must be so sent as to be in the hands of these officials by the first day of December and June. She shall notify the three above named secretaries of changes of officers in the unit. She shall retain a copy of each report as part of the permanent record of the local unit. Sec. 5. The treasurer shall have .-.harge of all money of the unit. She shall collect membership dues, and shall keep a book account of all money received and disbursed. All money received by her, except the central committee contingent fund and the five per cent allowed for the department of Christian citizenship and personal service of the local unit, and certain specified items of supplies, together with the Wesleyan Service Guild treasurer's report blanks, must be sent so as to be in the hands of the district (or conference) treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Home Missionary Society by the first of each month. At the same time duplicate reports of each must be sent to the treasurer of the central committee. Wherever there is a district or conference Guild secretaiy, the treasurer of the local unit shall send a copy of her reports through these officers to the central committee. Sec. 6. The executive committee shall plan the work of the local unit, shall approve all askings for missionary projects, presenting these askings for adoption by the unit, and shall promote the interests of the unit in harmony with the constitution of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

~~ARTICLE H Departments and Committees~~

Section 1. The department of spiritual service shall provide for the devotional service at the meetings of the unit and shall endeavor by every means to promote the spiritual welfare of the members. Sec. 2. The department of world service shall provide for the educational program of the unit in harmony with the program of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the W^o man's Home Missionary Society and in harmony with the recommendations of the central committee. Sec. 3. The department of Christian citizenship and personal service shall seek to align business and professional women with all forward non- partisan movements for civic, moral, industrial, and social betterment. Sec. 4. The department of social and recreational activities shall provide for the social hour at the meetings and for such other social and recreational activities as are deemed advisable. Sec. 5. The chairman of the four departments specified in the constitution shall work in harmony with the chairman of these departments in the central committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild. Sec. 6. Standing committees may be appointed as desired, such as membership, wa^s and means, music, publicity, etc. ARTICLE HI

Section 1 . There shall be at least nine monthly meetings during the year. Sec. 2. The annual meeting of the local unit shall be held in May at which time annual reports shall be given by officers and department chairmen, a nd officers shall be elected for the ensuing year. NOTE: (1) Reports of the Wesleyan Service Guild should not be confused with the reports of auxiliaries and young women's societies of the Woman's —

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Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, but should be reported in a separate column for the Guild under the adult department of each vSociety. (2) For officers and department chairman of the central committee see current Guild Year Book. CONSTITUTION FOR KING'S HERALDS ARTICLE I—Name This organization shall be called the King's Heralds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and be under the supervision of the auxiliary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in the said Church, if any exist; otherwise under the special supervision of the district secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. ARTICLE II—Object The object of this organization shall be to promote missionary intelligence and interest among children and to aid in the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ARTICLE III—Membership Any child between the ages of six and fourteen may become a King's Herald by the payment of twenty-five cents a year, the older group from twelve to fourteen to be known as senior King's Heralds. The payment of ten dollars shall constitute a junior life membership. ARTICLE IV—Officers The oflScers of this organization shall be a superintendent, president, two vice-presidents, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer, and agent for the Jtmior Missionary Friend. ARTICLE V—Meetings Meetings of this organization shall be held on the of each month. The officers shall be elected semi-annually at the September and March meetings. ARTICLE VI—Badge The badge of this organization shall be a silver trumpet with "King's Heralds" in blue lettering. ARTICLE VII Change of Constitution This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given to each Branch by its secretary of the home base before April first of that year. PLAN OF WORK FOR LITTLE LIGHT BEARERS

Children under six years of age may be enrolled as Little Light Bearers by the payment of twenty-five cents annually, receiving the enrollment card as a certificate of membership. The payment of ten dollars shall constitute a junior life membership. Directions The superintendent, elected by the woman's auxiliary, shall have charge of the work of the Little Light Bearers and plan for the collection of dues, remitting and reporting quarterly through the regular channels, arrange for the annual public meeting, keep an accurate record in the Little Light Bearers' .Record Book, and report regularly to the woman's auxiliary. Forms of Will, Devise and Life Income Gifts 211 FORMS OF WILL, DEVISE AND LIFE INCOME GIFTS FORM OF BEQUEST

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

I hereby give and devise to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, (describe land, etc., intended to be given to the Society), and to its successors and assigns forever. Note.—-In each of the above forms, when it is desired to bequeath directly to a Branch, the name of the Branch to which the bequest or devise is made shall be inserted immediately before the words, "Woman's Foreign Missionary Society," whenever such Branch is incorporated. The name of the State under the laws of which said Branch is incorporated shall be inserted, instead of the words "New York." Incorporated Branches: New England, under the laws of Massachusetts; New York, under the laws of New York; Philadelphia, under the laws of Delaware; Baltimore, under the laws of Maryland; Cincinnati, under the laws of Ohio; Northwestern, under the laws of Illinois; Des Moines, under the laws of Iowa; Minneapolis, under the laws of Minnesota; Topeka under the laws of Kansas; Pacific, under the laws of California; Columbia River, under the laws of Oregon. FORM OF LIFE INCOME AGREEMENT

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

~~and , its president and~~

~~treasurer, this day of , 19. . . . Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By President.~~

Treasurer, (b) For the Branches: Same phraseology as (a) except that the "said Branch" is substituted for "the said Society," and the name of the Branch is inserted before the name of the Society in the second line, and in the signature lines. 212 Act of Incorporation

~~LIFE INCOME GIFTS~~

Where it is practical, instead of making a bequest it is far better to convert property into cash and place the same in the treasury of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at once, on the life income gift plan. By so doing all possibility of litigation is avoided and a fair income is assured. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society does not spend money so contributed while the giver lives, but invests it in good securities in this country and in annuity policies with Life Insurance Companies. At a meeting of the Inter-Board Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Chicago, Illinois, in May, 1918, the following uniform schedule of life income gift rates was recommended for adoption by all the Boards of the Church receiving gifts on the life income gift plan.

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

For eighty and over the rate is 8%. (b) Joint life income gift rates payable during the joint existence and to the survivor of the two lives; for these apply to Miss Florence Hooper, Treasurer, Maryland Life Bldg., Baltimore, Md., or to Branch treasurers. ACT OF INCORPORATION

~~State of New York, "1~~

City and County of New York, j We, the undersigr»ed, Caroline R. Wright, Anna A. Harris, Sarah K, Cornell and Harriet B. Skidmore, of the City of New York, and Susan A. Sayre, of the City of Brooklyn, being all citizens of the United States of America, and citizens of the State of New York, do hereby, pursuant to and in conformity with the Act of the Legislature of the State of New York passed on April 12, 1848, entitled "An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable and Missionary Societies," and the several acts of the said Legis- lature amendatory thereof, associate ourselves together and form a body politic and corporate, under the name and title of "The Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church," which we certify is the name or title by which said Society shall be known in law. And we do hereby further certify that the particular business and object of said Society is to engage and unite the efforts of Christian women in sending female missionaries to women in foreign mission fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in supporting them and native Christian teachers and Bible readers in those fields. That the number of managers to manage the business and affairs of said Society shall be seventeen, and that the names of such managers of said So- ciety of the first year of its existence are: Lucy A. Alderman, Sarah L. Keen, Ellen T. Cowen, Hannah M. W. Hill, Mary C. Nind, Elizabeth K. Stanley, Harriet M. Shattuck, Isabel Hart, Caroline R. Wright, Harriet B. Skidmore, Rachel L. Goodier, Annie R. Gracey, Harriet D. Fisher, Sarah K. Cornell, Anna A. Harris, Ordelia M. Hillman and Susan A. Sayre. Certificate of Incorporation 213

That the place of business or principal office of said Society shall be in the City and County of New York, in the State of New York. Witness our hand and seal this 20th day of December, A.D., 1884. [Seal.] Caroline R. Wright Anna A. Harris Harriet B. Skidmore Susan A. S.wre Sarah K. Cornell State of New York, \ City and County of New York./ On the 20th day of December, 1884, before me personally came and appeared Caroline R. W' right, Anna A. Harris, Harriet B. Skidmore, and Sarah K. Cornell, to me known, and to me personally known to be the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and they severally duly acknowledged to me that they executed the same. [Notary's Seal.] Andrew Lemon, Notary Public (58), New York County. State of New York,] County of Kings, [ss.

City of Brooklyn. J On the 22d day of December, A.D., 1884, before me came personally Susan A. Sayre, to me known and known to me to be one of the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and duly acknowledged to me that she executed the same. [Notary's Seal.] F. G. Mintram, Notary Public for Kings County. State of New York,) ss. County of Kings.

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

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

I, the undersigned, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, for the First Judicial District, do hereby approve the within certificate, and do consent that the same be filed, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, entitled, "An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, .Scientific and Missionary Societies," passed April 12, 1848, and the several acts extending and amend- ing said act. Dated New York, December 26, 1884. Abm. R. Lawrence, J. S. C. 214 Amended Act of Incorporation

~~State of New York, City and County of New York~~

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

AMENDED ACT OF INCORPORATION CHAPTER 213 An Act to Authorize the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church to Vest its Management in a General Executive Committee. Became a law April 12, 1906, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

~~The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:~~

Section 1. The Board of Managers of the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church is abolished. Sec. 2. The management and general administration of the affairs of the said Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee, to consist of the president, recording secretary, general treasurer, secretary of German work, secretary of Scandinavian work, and the literature committee of said Society, together with the corresponding secretary and the two delegates from each co-ordinate Branch of said Society. Sec. 3. The president, recording secretary, general treasurer, secretaries of the German and Scandinavian work and the literature committee, now in office, shall be members of the General Executive Committee, which shall meet on the third Wednesday in April, in the year nineteen hundred and six; and, thereafter, such officers and literature committee shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. The corresponding secretary and two delegates of each co-ordinate Branch shall be elected annually by such Branch. Sec. 4. Meetings of the General Executive Committee shall be held annually or oftener, at such time and place as the General Executive Com- mittee shall appoint, and such place of meeting shall be either within or without the State of New York. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

~~State of New York, \ Office of the Secretary of State./ "~~

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the City of Albany, this sixteenth day of April, in the year one thousand nine hundred and six. Horace G. Tennant, [Seal.] Second Deputy Secretary of State Rules for Payment of Expenses 215

~~ACTION OF 1908~~

CHAPTER 91 An Act to Amend Chapter Two Hundred and Thirteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act to Authorize the Woman's For- eign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Vest its Management in a General Executive Committee," relative to the membership and election or appointment of such General Executive Com- mittee. Became a law April 6, 1908, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

~~The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:~~

Section 1. Sections two and three of chapter two hundred and thirteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act to Authorize the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Vest its Management in a General Executive Committee," are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: Sec. 2. The management and general administration of the affairs of the said Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee to consist of the president, recording secretary, and treasurer of said Society, together with the corresponding secretary of each co-ordinate Branch of the said So- ciety; and one or more delegates to be chosen by such co-ordinate Branches; and such additional or different members as may be now or hereafter provided for by the constitution of the said Society. Sec. 3. The president, recording secretary, and treasurer of said Society shall be members of the General Executive Committee; and hereafter such officers shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. The corresponding secretary and one or more delegates of each co-ordinate Branch shall be elected annually by such Branch; and such other members of such General Executive Committee as shall hereafter be created by the constitution of said Society shall be elected or appointed in the manner which shall be prescribed by the said constitution. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

~~State of New York, Ofi&ce of the Secretary of State.~~

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom., and of the whole of the said original law. John S. Whalen, Secretary of State.

RULES FOR THE PAYMENT OF EXPENSES OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND OF THE MID-YEAR MEETING General Executive Travel Expenses. The travel expenses to and from the meeting of the General Executive Committee shall be paid from the general treasury of the Society for—the general officers, the special secretaries, the recording secretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments, the publisher, the editors of the "Friend," the "Junior Friend" and the "Executive Daily," the secretary of the general office, the chairman of the world citizenship committee, the Swedish —

216 Rules for Paymeyit of Expenses representative, the Branch corresponding and home base secretaries, two delegates from each Branch, and the missionaries for whom it is the first session after their return on furlough, providing they have served on the field a term of at least four years. Entertainment. Entertainment expenses during the meeting of the General Executive Committee shall be paid by the general treasury of the Society for the general officers, the special secretaries, recording secretaries of Home and Foreign Departments, the editor of the "Executive Daily," the secretary of the general office and the chairman of the world citizenship committee. The respective Branches shall pay the entertainmnt expenses of the corresponding and home base secretaries, and the luncheons and dinners of delegates and special guests. The entertaining Branch shall furnish full entertainment for missionaries and the Swedish representative and lodging and breakfast for delegates and special guests. The publication office shall pay the entertainment expenses of the publisher and the editors of the "Friend" and "Junior Friend." Participants In the Program. Travel expenses of those taking part on the program of the General Executive Committee shall be paid by the entertaining Branch, if not already provided for by other funds. Entertainment expenses shall be borne by the entertaining Branch unless otherwise provided for.

Mid-Year Travel Expenses. Travel expenses to and from the Mid-Year Meeting shall be paid from the general treasury for—the general officers, the members of the Home and Foreign Departments, the publisher, the editors of the "Friend" and "Junior Friend" and the secretary of the general office. Entertainment Expenses. The entertainment expenses shall be paid from the general treasury for—the general officers, the special secretaries and the recording secretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments. The entertainment expenses of the Branch corresponding and home base secretaries shall be paid by their respective Branches. The entertainment of the publisher and editors of the "Friend" and "Junior Friend" shall be paid from the funds of the publication office and the entertainment expenses of the secretary of the general office from the funds of that office.

~~Delegates and Special Guests~~

Delegates are elected by each Branch according to its own procedure. The home base secretary should communicate with them informing them on the following points: (1) election; (2) information about place and time of meeting; (3) instruct them to notify hospitality committee of the time of their arrival; (4) general treasurer pays travel bills; (5) entertaining Branch provides entertainment on the Harvard Plan; other meals are left to their individual Branches. If they prefer hotel accommodations, they must secure them at their own expense. Delegates arrive the day before the public program begins. Meetings are provided for on page 186 of this Year Book. They are called together and organized by the recording secretary. Special guests come at the invitation of the General Executive Committee. They arrive two days before the public program. The home base secretary sends them the necessary information. Miscellany 217 MISCELLANY POSTAGE TO FOREIGN LANDS

~~Letters—To Mexico and to all countries and places in South and Central~~

America, except Chile . . . the postage rate is the same as in the United States. To all other foreign countries the rate is for the first ounce, five cents, for each additional ounce three cents. Priyited Matter—^In general to all foreign countries is one and one-half cents for each two ounces. Parcel Post— In general the rate is fourteen cents per pound. For further particulars consult your postmaster.

~~FOREIGN MONEY~~

India—A pice is one-fourth of an anna, or about two-thirds of a cent. An anna is worth one-sixteenth of a rupee. The rupee varies in value and is worth about i3 cents. Korea and Japan—A yen, whether in gold or silver, is one-half the value of the gold and silver dollar in the United States. There are one hundred sen in the yen. China—A cash is one mill. The tael is worth in gold about $1.15. The Mexican dollar is also used in China, but varies in value; it averages, however, about one-half the value of the United States gold or silver dollar.

~~MEMBERSHIPS AND DUES~~

The payment of one dollar annually constitutes membership in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The payment of one dollar annually constitutes membership in the Young Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The payment of sixty cents annually constitutes membership in the Standard Bearer Society. There shall be contingent funds from district, conference and Branch for administration purposes. The amounts shall be decided by each Branch. The payment of twenty-five cents annually constitutes membership in King's Herald Bands. The payment of twenty-five cents annually constitutes membership in Little Light Bearer Circles. The payment of one dollar annually constitutes an extension member. The payment of one dollar annually constitutes an honorary member. The payment of three hundred dollars constitutes an honorary life patron. The payment of one hundred dollars constitutes an honorary life manager. The payment of fifty dollars constitutes a senior memorial member. The payment of thirty-five dollars constitutes a young people's memorial member. The payment of twenty-five dollars constitutes a junior memorial member. The payment of twenty dollars constitutes a life membership in the auxiliary. This membership is an honorary distinction and does not preclude the payment of annual dues. The payment of ten dollars constitutes a junior life membership. The payment of fifteen dollars constitutes a Standard Bearer life membership. The life memberships of Standard Bearers and juniors cover the annual dues to the age limits in each department. Dues may be paid by Standard Bearer and junior life members but it is not obligatory. 218 Miscellany

~~SCHOLARSHIPS~~

Scholarships in Africa are twenty-seven and one-half to thirty dollars. Scholarships in China are twenty to one hundred and fifty dollars. Scholarships in India vary from twenty-five to one hundred dollars. Scholarships in Malaya are thirty-five to fifty dollars. Scholarships in the Philippine Islands vary from twenty to sixty dollars. In Japan, Korea, North Africa, Mexico, South America and Europe the share plan obtains. Work in individual stations is classified and listed as- follows: educational, evangelistic, medical. Shares, except in France, are twenty dollars. In P'rance shares are one hundred dollars each. Patrons will be kept informed concerning shares through station letters, issued quarterly. ENDOWMENTS

Any individual or Branch desiring to name a building may be given that privilege on payment of more than one-half of the cost of said building. A gift of $1,200 may endow a medical scholarship; a gift of $1,000 may endow a hospital bed. The difference between the income derived from this sum and the amount asked for the annual support of a bed is to provide a proportionate share of the upkeep and running expenses. A gift of $1,000 may furnish and name the operating room or a ward in a hospital. A gift of $1,000 may furnish and name a chapel or library within a school or other building. A gift of $500 may furnish and name a classroom, and a gift of $100 a smaller room in any building. Not less than $1,000 shall be required for endowment to cover an object costing $50 a year or less, larger items to be capitalized at 5%. We call attention to the by-laws requiring that all endowments shall be invested in the United States of America. RECEIPTS FOR 1934-1935 From Branches New England $ 59,921.41 New York 160,796.47 Philadelphia 144,799.33 Baltimore 37,602.50 Cincinnati 177,908.04 Northwestern 275,017.24 Des Moines 90,372.11 Minneapolis 48,040.41 Topeka 148,441.18 Pacific 90,771.60 Columbia River 33,168.95

~~Total from Branches $1,266,839.24~~

From Other than Branch Sources Retirement Fund Principal and Income $ 46,313.26 Zenana Paper Fund Income 999.22" Interest on various invested funds 5,647.43 Miscellaneous gifts for buildings 14,929.55 Women's Christian College of Korea 72,000.00 Isabella Thoburn College 1,186.48

~~Total Receipts $1,407,915.18- ......~~

~~Statistics 219~~

~~SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE~~

~~Date Place President Secretary Receipts~~

1870 Boston, Mass Mrs. David Patten . . Mrs. W. F. Warren.. $4,546.86 1871 Chicago, 111 " Calvin Kingsley " W.F.Warren.. 22,397.99 " " 1872 New York City . . . D.W.Clark W.F.Warren.. 44,477.46 " " 1873 Cincinnati, O L. D. McCabe... R. Meredith . . . 54,834.87 " " 1874 Philadelphia, Pa... F. G. Hibbard... J. H. Knowles. 64,309.25 1875 Baltimore, Md " F. A. Crook " R. R. Battee... 61,492.19 1876 Washington, D.C.. ' F. G. Hibbard... " W. F. Warren. 55,276.06 " " 1877 Minneapolis, Minn. Goodrich Delia L. William 5 72,464.30 " " 1878 Boston, Mass W.F.Warren... J. T. Gracey . . . 68,063.52 1879 Chicago, 111 " S.J.Steele " L. H. Daggett.. 66,843.69 " " 1880 Columbus, O W.F.Warren... J. T. Gracey . . 76,276.43 1881 BuiTalo, N. Y " F. G. Hibbard... " Mary C. Nind. 107,932.54 " " 1882 Philadelphia, Pa.. . W.F.Warren... J. T. Gracey... 195,678.50 " " 1883 Des Moines, la.. . . L. G. Murphy. . J. T. Gracey . . 126,823.33 " " 1884 Baltimore, Md W.F.Warren... J. T. Gracey . . . 143,199.14 1885 Evanston, 111 " I. R. Hitt " F. P. Crandon. 157,442.66 " " 1886 Providence, R. I. . . W. F. Warren.. . J. H. Knowles. 167,098.85 " 1887 Lincoln, Neb Miss P. L. EUiott J. T. Gracey . . . 191,158.13 " 1888 Cincinnati, O Mrs. D. W. Clark J. T. Gracey . . . 206,308.69 " " 1889 Detroit, Mich I. N. Danforth.. J. T. Gracey . . . 226,496.15 " " 1890 Wilkesbarre, Pa. . . W.F.Warren... J. T. Gracey . . . 220,329.96 " " 1891 Kansas City, Mo. . J. J. Imhoff J. T. Gracey... 263.660.69 •' " 1892 Springfield, Mass. W.F.Warren... J. T. Gracey . . . 265,242.15 " '• 1893 St. Paul, Minn W. Couch J. T. Gracey . . . 277,303.79 " " 1894 Washington, D. C. A. H. Eaton. . .. J. T. Gracey . . 311,925.96 " 1895 St. Louis, Mo Miss E. Pearson J. T. Gracey... 289,227.00 " 1896 Rochester, N. Y Mrs. S. L. Baldwin. . . J. T. Gracey . . 285,823.94 " " 1897 Denver, Colo Cyrus D. Foss. . J. T. Gracey . . 313,937.86 " " 1898 Indianapolis, Ind... Cyrus D. Foss... J. T. Gracey . . 328,488.75 " " 1899 Cleveland, O Cyrus D. Foss. . J. T. Gracey . . 360,338.63 " " 1900 Worcester, Mass... Cyrus D. Foss. . J. T. Gracey . . . 414,531.33 " " 1901 Philadelphia, Pa.. . Cyrus D. Foss. . J. T. Gracey . . 426,795.28 " " 1902 Minneapolis, Minn. Cyrus D. Foss. . J. T. Gracey . . 478.236.03 " " 1903 Baltimore, Md. . . . Cyrus D. Foss. . J. T. Gracey... 491,391.75 " " 1904 Kansas City, Mo. . Cyrus D. Foss. . J. H. Knowles. 534.040.17 " " 1905 New York City . . . Cyrus D. Foss. . C. S. Nutter .. 548.943.55 " " 1906 Omaha, Neb A. W. Patten.... C. W. Barnes. . 616,456.71 " " 1907 Springfield, 111 Cyrus D. Foss... C. W. Barnes. . 692,490.07 " " 1908 Cincinnati, O Cyrus D. Foss. . C. W. Barnes . . 673,400.04 " " 1909 Pittsburgh. Pa W. F. McDowell C. W. Barnes . . 691,961.39 " " 1910 Boston, Mass W. F. McDowell C. W. Barnes. . 743,990.31 " " 1911 St. Louis, Mo W. F. McDowell C. W. Barnes . . 939,257.55 " " 1912 Baltimore, Md. . . . W.F. McDowell. C. W. Barnes . . 837,224.49 " " 1913 Topeka, Kan W. F. McDowell C. W. Barnes . . 911,337.43 " " 1914 Buffalo, N. Y W.F. McDowell. C W. Barnes . . 1,096,228.85 " " 1915 Los Angeles, Calif. W.F. McDowell. C. W. Barnes . . 931.780.67 " " 1916 Minneapolis, Minn. W. F. McDowell C. W. Barnes . . 1,033,770.65 " " 1917 Detroit, Mich W. F. McDoweH. L. L. Townley . 1,175,758.90 1918 Cleveland, O " W. F. McDowell " Charles Spaeth. 1.343.930.03 1919 Boston, Mass " W. F. McDowell " Charles Spaeth. 2,006,370.66 " " 1920 Philadelphia, Pa.. . W. F. McDowell Charles Spaeth 2,000,631.12 1921 Wichita, Kan " W. F. McDowell " Charles Spaeth. 2,267,767.93 " 1922 Baltimore, Md. . . . Thomas Nicholsor1 " Charles Spaeth. 2,255.740.88 " 1923 Des Moines, la. . . . Thomas Nicholsor1 " Charles Spaeth. 2,303,225.98 " 1924 East Orange, N. J. Thomas Nicholsor1 " Charles Spaeth. 2,263,088.55 " 1925 Kansas City, Mo. . Thomas Nicholsor1 " Charles Spaeth. 2,405,461.08 " 1926 Peoria, 111 Thomas Nicholsor1 " Charles Spaeth. 2,389,805.28 " 1927 Minneapolis, Minn. Thomas Nicholsor1 " Charles Spaeth. 2,465,623.66 " 1928 Los Angeles, Calif.. Thomas Nicholsor1 " Charles Spaeth. 2,415,693.77 " 1929 Columbus, Ohio . . . Thomas Nicholsor1 " Frank S. Wallace'. 12,795,199.54 " 1930 Springfield, Mass. Thomas Nicholsor1 " H. E. Woolever. 2,396,073.75 " 1931 Erie, Pa Thomas Nicholsor1 " H. E. Woolever. 2,085,112.23 " 1932 Tulsa. Okla Thomas Nicholsor1 " H.E. Woolever. 1,692,327.37 " 1933 Chicago, 111 Thomas Nicholsor1 " H. E. Woolever. 1,256.918.63 " 1934 Washington. D. C. Thomas Nicholsor1 " H. E. Woolever. 1,326.275.00 1935 St. Louis, Mo " Thomas Nicholsor " H. E. Woolever. 1,407.915.18

~~Total since organization $55,344,156.15~~

* $163,795.00 Bequest and gifts of Mrs. Francesca Nast Gamble, t 8274,000.00 Bequest of Miss Emma E. Dickinson. INDEX

Page Page Act of Incorporation 212 Extension Members, missionaries Action of 1908 215 supported by 86 Actions of the General Officers ... 96 Field Correspondents and Treas- Actions of the General Executive urers 9 Committee on Recommendation Foreign Department 3 of Action of 107 Committee on Investments. ... 99 Committees 8 Home Department 100 Foreign Language Conferences. . . 86 Foreign Department 107 Foreign Money 217 International Department 100 Forms of V/ill, Devise and Life Unit Meeting 98 Income Gifts 211 Amended Act of Incorporation. . . . 214 Forward Movement Slogan and Appointments, Special 6 Plan 2 Appropriations Frauen Missions Freund Summarized by Foreign Confer- Editor 4 ences (see note) 135 General Executive Committee Summary by Branches 136, 137 Members of (1935) 4 {also Additional Pamphlet) Minutes (Proceedings) 13 Bequest, Form of 211 Sessions of 219 Bequests and Lapsed Life Income General Fund, Treasurer's Report Gifts 132 of 123 Branch General Literature Assignment of Foreign Language Editor of 4 Conferences 86 General Office Officers 81 Secretary of 5 Statistics 138, 139 General Officers 3 Territory 88 Actions of . . 96 By-Laws Report of Committee on 95 Home Base, At the 81 The Quadrennium 89 Certificate of Incorporation 2l3 Statistics of 138,139 Colleges Home Department 4 W. F. M. S 68 Actions of 100- Union 70 Committees 8 Committees Foreign Department 8 In Lands Afar 19 Home Department 8 Africa 19 Special 5 Burma 21 Standing 5 China 25 Constitution and By-Laws Europe and North Africa 61 Auxiliaries 204 India 37 District Associations 203 Japan 50 King's Heralds 210 Korea 55 Little Light Bearers, Plan of 210 Latin America 64 Wesleyan Service Guild 205 Malaya 57 Woman's Foreign Missionary Philippine Islands 59- Society 179 Sumatra 61 Young People's Societies 205 In Memoriam 12 Corresponding Secretaries 3 International Department Actions of 100 Depots of Supplies . .Third Cover Page Directory of Missionaries 156 Committee 5 Disbursements, Summary of 134 Workers under Units 178 Editors 4 Junior Department Endowments 218 Secretary 4 Executive Daily Missionaries Supported by 86 Editor of 5 Branch Superintendents. 85 220 Index 221

Junior Missionary Friend Page Page Editor 4 Scholarships 218 Library Service Secretaries of the Home Base. ... 4 Director of 5 Sessions of General Executive Branch Directors 85 Committee 219 Life Income Agreement 211 Special Secretaries 4 Life Income Gifts 212 Statistics

List of Real Estate {see 1929 Year Book) Educational Institutions. . . . 142-151 Bible Training Schools 152 McDowell, Clotilda Lyon Colleges 153 Fellows 79 Memberships and Dues 217 Summarv by Fields 153 Foreign Miscellany 217 Work. 136, 137 Base Missionaries Home 138, 139 Medical 154, 155 Alphabetical List of 156, 178 Summary of General Statistics And Their Stations by Conferences 141 Africa 19 140, Student Work Burma 21 4 China 23 Secretary Branch Secretaries 84 Europe and North Africa. ... 61 Summary of India 34 Japan 50 Appropriations {see note) 135 134 Korea 54 Disbursements Foreign Conferences (Gen.) 140,141 Latin America 64 Malaya 57 Home Statistics 138, 139 Missionaries 178 Philippine Islands 59 Treasurer 3 Sumatra 61 Reports of 123-129 Colleges Auditor's Certificate 129 W. F. M. S 68 Union 70 General Fund 123 Contract Workers 176 International Department. . . 125 Payments on Land and Build- Fellows in Service 79 ings 126 Summary of 178 Purchases 128 Supported by Young People, Pension Real Estate (see 1929 Year Book) Juniors, Extension Members 86 Retirement Fund Principal Officers 3 and Income 126 Official Correspondents, Field Cor- Summary of Appropriations respondents and Treasurers (see note) 135 in Foreign Fields 9 Summary of Disbursements . 134 Payments on Land and Buildings 126 Union Colleges 125 Postage to Foreign Lands 217 Zenana Paper Fund 126 Proceedings 13 Publication Office, Report of 130 Union Colleges 70 Publisher 5 Quadrennivun Reports Wesleyan Service Guild At the Home Base 89 Chairman of Central Committee 4 Financial History 92 Woman's Foreign Missionary Real Estate,List of (see 1929 Year Book) Society Form of Devise 211 Colleges 68 Receipts for 1934-1935 218 General Executive Committee.. 4 Since Organization 219 Officers 3 Report of Committee on By-Laws 95 Woman's Missionary Friend Representatives on Boards and Editor 4 Committees 6 Rules for Payment of Expenses Young People's Department 4 Delegates and Special Guests.. . 216 Secretary General Executive 215 Missionaries Supported by 86 Mid-Year 216 Branch Superintendents 85

~~Date Due~~

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~~Methodist TT.pi scogal_chmxh. Womans Au-.r.— foreign missionary society. Year_book> Mtli,_Annual TiTi-E report, 1935.~~

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~~Drew University Library Madison, New Jersey~~

~~1. A fine of two cents a day will be charged on each book which is not returned by date stamped in book. No book will be issued to~~

~~any person incurring such a fine until it has been paid.~~

~~2. All injuries to books beyond reasonable wear and all losses shall be made good to the satisfaction of the Librarian.~~

~~3. Each borrower is held responsible for all~~

~~books charged to him and for all fines accruing on the same.~~

~~L. B. 2 10-696S3-'41 THE WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY GENERAL OFFICE Room 710, 150 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. MISS RUTH RANSOM, Office Secretary~~

~~PUBLICATION OFFICE 581 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. MISS ANNIE G. BAILEY, Publisher~~

~~Send all orders for Periodicals to the Publication Office~~

~~Depots of Supplies New England Branch~~

~~Miss Sigrid C. Bjorklund . . . Room 66, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass^ New York Branch~~

~~Miss Ella West . . Room 715, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.~~

~~Philadelphia Branch Mrs. Harry H. Campbell, Room 304, 1701 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.~~

~~Baltimore Branch~~

~~Mrs. Cora L. Moffit . . . . 903 St Paul St., Baltimore, Md.~~

~~Cincinnati Branch Miss Geneva Hutchinson, Room 303, 420 Plum St., Cincinnati, O.~~

~~Northwestern Branch Miss Marie Winterton ... 740 N. Rush St., Chicago, 111.~~

~~Des Moines Branch~~

~~Miss Minnie Callison . . 1306 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines, la.~~

~~Minneapolis Branch Mrs. B. L. Bummert .... 607 Wesley Temple Bldg., MinneapoUs, Minn. Topeka Branch Miss Anna Simpson .... 502 Sharp Bldg., Lincoln, Neb.~~

~~Pacific Branch Miss Anna McFarland 125 Marchessault St., Los Angeles, Calif. Columbia River Branch Miss Louise Godfrey, Room 303, Artisans Bldg., Portland, Ore.~~

~~German Supplies~~

~~Miss A. M. Achard . . . 1119 La Boice Drive, Glendale, Calif.~~

~~Swedish Supplies~~

~~Mrs. Charles Carlson . . . 1419 Balmoral St., Chicago, III. Affirmation of *Turpose^~~

BELIEVING Jesus Christ and his gospel to be the answer to the world's need, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society re- affirms its purpose: To know him and to make him known; to aid in making possible the realization of his kingdom for all peoples and in all areas of life; to share with womanhood and child- hood through education, social uplift, healing ministries and evangelism the abundant life in Christ; to enlist and maintain trained women as missionaries; to assist in promotion of the missionary spirit throughout our world parish; to seek with women of all lands fellowship and mutual help in the building of a Christian world order.

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