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FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 0!P T H E

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^Resolved, 1. That the missionary work of the Reformed Church has n o w reached a stage of progress which demands a larger outlay than ever before, in order that advantage m a y he taken of the opportunities which past efforts have secured, to push the work of evangelizing the heathen toward an as sured and comparatively speedy success. 2. That it is our duty, and entirely within our ability, to raise 8100,000 for this purpose during the current year, and that we will use our best endeavors to reach this amount, realizing that in so doing w e are simply obeying the Master’s call to follow where H e leads. 3. That the system of apportionment be again c o m m e n d e d to the several Classes, and that the Board be directed to ar range this apportionment in consultation with the several missionary agents of the Classes, w h o are hereby requested to meet with the Board for this purpose at the regular meet ing in November. 4. That the action taken by the last General Synod, look ing toward the establishment of a theological school in con nection with the Arc^j .M^icma c b e ^ e ^ r M c M I l|hd that this Synod regards it as aYftmer o f " t h a t the s u m of 150,000, eMjMjment of

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such t h e o l o g i c d | ^ ^ J ^ Q | h J | ^ i g @ J ^ i i y ^ , 6 @ ^ ^ f f e , by the date of Dr. Chamberlain’s return to India in September; and that Dr. Chamberlain is hereby heartily c o m m e n d e d to the liberality of our churches, and of individual Christians, in his efforts to gather the much-needed funds. Continued on 3d page of cover.

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REPORT T h e Board of Tbreign Missions respectfully presents to the General Synod the following report of its operations for the fifty-fifth year of its organization, and thirtieth of inde-. pendent action. T o the facts and statements herein e m bodied, it earnestly invites the most serious attention and prayerful consideration. • Never before has the Board felt more solemnly impressed with the greatness of the work committed to it and to the ■Church, nor with the absolute need of wisdom from above, and the loftiest spirit of consecration to the service of the Lord, if His work is to be done with credit to ourselves, with anything like justice to the claims it makes upon us, and with the honor due His name. '

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T h e reports from all the Missions, herewith presented, s ho w a degree of progress that is in India and China, on the whole, encouraging, and in Japan, surprising. Briefly told, the record runs as follows : A m o y .^— T o five of the eight churches connected with this Mission, fifty-eight souls have been added on confession, forty-seven of w h o m were baptized. Twenty-five of these were received to the church at Sio-Khe. At this point, a ■church building was erected a year ago, by means of the gifts of the children in our Sunday schools. Thus early has their •offering been owned and blessed. During the last year a house has been built for a preacher, with additional accom modations for a missionary family. T h e foundation is thus laid for the h e w interior station, for which the Mission has been so long praying. L a n d has also been purchased for a church at T o n g An, with sufficient guarantees for secure possession, at a cost of $ 1,620. 5

Notwithstanding the n u m b e r of'accessions, the faith of the brethren has been sorely tried by the necessity of excom municating twelve church members, and by the death of twenty-eight. T h e net gain in the n u m b e r of communicants is only thirteen, and the total membership 802. These ex periences should not discourage. Light and shadow, gain and loss, are mingled in the-history of every church, and the wise exercise of Christian discipline is one'of the best proofs of true spiritual life, and surest guarantees of healthy growth. T h e contributions of the church members amounted to $2,076.29, being $2.59 per member, almost exactly. Th e Mission has long urged the necessity of more vigorous measures, looking to the provision of trained m e n for the native ministry,-and a more efficient oversight of the pa rochial schools. For this educational work they have set apart the,Rev. P. W . Pitcher, w h o has entered upcjp it with commendable zeal and efficiency. T h e schools already show signs of improvement under his influence and direction. A r c o x .— T he Arcot Mission reports the addition of ninetyfive to ,the churches upon confession of faith, and the acces sion of several'new villages, embracing twenty-eight families and 103 souls. T h e changes that have taken place within the bounds of certain churches, where the num ber of re movals from various causes has been great, reduce the net gain of communicants to fifty-nine. T h e whole n um ber is n o w 1,669. T he n um ber of adherents, is increased by 118. A further increase in the n um ber of native helpers of twentyfour makes the whole n um ber reported 186. T h e contribu tions of the native Christians, for all purposes, amounted to rupees 1,789.14.10, or about $760.75. T h e amount of evangelistic labor reported, in addition to the maintenance of the regular religious services at stations and out-stations, presents these surprising figures : Preach ing, 12,964 times, in 6,009 places, and to audiences n u m b e r ing 436,835 people, accompanied by the sale or free distribu tion of more than 12,000 books, tracts, leaflets and Scriptures or Scripture portions. So wide a seed-sowing needs only the watering of the Spirit of G o d to produce a most abundant and glorious harvest. For this the Church should unceas ingly pray. ' ' T he removal of the Arcot Seminary from Chittoor to

Ranipet— a suburb of Arcot— was m a d e necessary by the unhealthfulness of Chittoor. So far as the seminary is con cerned, the step has proved in every way judicious, though it has left Chittoor without a resident missionary. ,The health of the scholars has improved, the n um ber has been in creased— seventy-seven being in attendance— and the work of the school prosecuted with comfort and success. In accordance with the suggestion of the General Synod, m a d e in 1886, the Mission -has taken steps toward a separa tion of the Theological department from the Arcot Seminary, and the establishment of a distinct institution for theological instruction. Rev. W m . W . Scudder has been unanimously appointed and set apart by the Mission for this work, so soon as it is practicable to begin it. N o better or wiser selection could have been made, nor has the Mission any greater need at this time than that full facilities should be given it at once, for the successful prosecution of this wise design. T h e en d o w m e n t of 850,000, approved and recommended by the Synod, is not too m u c h for such a purpose. It has yet, h o w ever, in great part, to be obtained. O ne permanent scholar ship, in the s u m of 82,000, has been founded, and the income of two others pledged for a series of years. Dr. Chamberlain has been charged by the Board with the work of securing the whole amount.' H a d not the state of.his health prevented, it is reasonable to suppose that m u c h more would have beenaccomplished. His plan— approved by the Board— embraces the establishment of two native professorships at a cost of 810,000 each and fifteen scholarships of 82,000 each— the title of each chair or -scholarship to be given by the donor. It is believed that no worthier object— or one offering larger spir itual results— could be presented to the sympathies and,benevolence of those a m o n g us to w h o m the Lord has given the requisite means. It is therefore— with its earnest-hearted advocate— c o m m e n d e d anew to the Synqd and the church. T h e re-opening of the Arcot Dispensary, under the care of Dr. Hekhuis— as reported last year— has restored to the Mission an efficient agency for reaching the people with the Gospel message. More than 7,000 patients have been treated in hospital, etc., and have thus not only received relief from bodily ills, but come, also, under the influence of Christian teaching and example.

T h e work of all the schools has been prosecuted as usual,, and with good success. Opposition to the Caste girls’ schoolsat Vellore— instituted by Brahmins, in the shape of heathen schools in the immediate vicinity of our o w n — has completely failed of its object. In other stations beside Vellore, Zen ana work is reported. This most interesting and effectivemethod of introducing the Gospel into heathen homes, and a m o n g their ignorant and spiritually degraded women, musthenceforth be recognized as a m o n g the regular and import ant agencies employed by the Mission. T h e extent of itsapplication is necessarily limited by the want of suitable^ agents, and the means to carry it on. '

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— -The growth of the Union Church of Christ, in Japan, during the past year, and the openings for furtherefforts, have been simply marvellous. T o have had so large a share in promoting it is a privilege and an honor, for which our most grateful thanksgiving is due to the Lord w h o haswrought so wondrously through His servants. , T h e Report of the Council of United Missions (now increased to five by the addition of the Missions of the Presbyterian Church (South) of the United States, and the G e r m a n Re- , formed Church), supplemented by later statistics, shows 55 churches, of which 25 are self-supporting, connected with theDai K w a i (Synod), organized in 5 Chiu-Kwai (Classes or Presbyteries). T h e n um ber of adult members is 4,682, a n increase of 1,454, or about 45 per cent., during the year. T h e num ber of adults baptized was 1,118, of children 215. T h e reported contributions were Y e n 9,811,225, the equiva lent of about $7,930, U. S. gold. T he -work of the Missions has been efficiently furthered and supplemented by the activity of the newly organized Board of H o m e Missions' of the Union Church. T h e organization and activity of this Board are a marked token of the vigorous and independent life of this rising Church. T h e m a p which accompanies the Report shows-the n um ber of places occupied by. the Missions composing the Council, and the Board of H o m e Missions. It was prepared in Japan, under the careful supervision of Rev. J. L. A m e r m a n , by w ho m, also, a sufficient number of copies (3,000) was presented to the Board, to allow of its presentation at this time, to the 'J a

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Synod and the churches. According to letters since received, six places not indicated in the map, in the neighborhood of Osaka and Nagasaki, should be added, as occupied by the Union Church ; four of them on the Island of Kiu-Shiu. T h e m a p and the figures given furnish striking indications, of the remarkable success attending missionary efforts in this Empire. Yet they only slightly indicate, and very "imper fectly, the still more remarkable interest in Christianity that prevails throughout Japan. Calls come to the Missions, “ from far and near, from people w h o wish to have the Gos pel preached to them.” Missionaries and native preachers, oit extended tours, receive everywhere an attentive hearing— often in theatres— from audiences numbering hundreds and even thousands. T h e people willingly sit for hours listening to Gospel sermons or lectures upon Christian topics. T h e newly awakened, and wide-spread desire for instruction in English, and for female education under Christian influ ences, are further indications pointing in the same direction. It is felt and publicly stated, to be dangerous to commit thedaughters of the people to other than Christian hands and Christian influences for their instruction. M e n of influence and wealth, or communities, are seeking teachers, whose sal aries they are willing to pay, for schools which they are ready to support, preferriug Christians and missionaries, to w h o m the privilege of teaching Ohristhyiity will be freely ac corded. Such opportunities, it is safe to say, have never before been offered to the Christian Church by any'people- Our relation to them demands the .most careful thought, and the deepest spirit of loyal devotion to the cause of Christ our Lord. T h e year has witnessed the union of the Theological School and the Union College, at Tokyo, under one administration^ with the title of Meiji G a k u In (The .College of the Era of Good Government). L a n d has been purchased in an eligi ble location in the native city, and buildings are in process of erection. This Board, through the liberality of a Christian lady, a m e m b e r of the Reformed Church in this city, w h o has furnished $5,000 for the purpose, in m e m o r y of a beloved son, n o w deceased, is enabled to contribute to the united in stitution a building to be called S a n d h a m Hall. It will be used exclusively for recitation and lecture rooms. A dormi-

tory building will be supplied by the Presbyterian Mission, to be k n o w n as Westminster Hall. Other buildings will, no doubt, be added as the institution grows. T h e Theological Department has numbered twenty-five students, of w h o m eleven graduated at the close of the last year. T h e num ber of students in the College is 193 of w h o m fifty-four are Christians. T h e necessary funds have been furnished for the erection of the Jonathan Sturges Seminary for Girls, and the W m . H. Steele, Jr., Memorial School for Boys and Y o u n g Men, at Nagasaki. T h e buildings are in process of completion, and will probably be ready for occupation and use at the opening of the next school year in the coming fall. F r o m this time forth these schools will take their place a m o n g the cherished institutions of the Church in foreign lands. T h e Steele Memorial already numbered, at the close of the year, twentyone students, of w h o m seven were Christian young men. U p to April 9th, 1887, twenty-two new pupils had been received, “ coming to us wiilwid the least solicitation on our part.” In view of this rapid increase, and the near prospect of 'a still greater influx w h e n the n ew building is completed, Mr. Oltmans, in behalf of the station, makes a most earnest plea for another teacher to be sent to them at once. T h e Isaac Ferris Seminary at Y o k o h a m a looks forward to an expansion of its usefulness. T h e remarkable success of the school, testified to on every hand, makes further enlarge m e n t desirable. T h e ground upon which the Seminary stands— hitherto leased— has been purchased, together with additional land adjoining, on which it is proposed to erect n e w buildings affording accomodations for more than double the present n um ber of pupils. For these purposes the s u m of 88,239,31 has been secured, together with pledges for $1,100 more, by the indefatigable efforts of Rev. E. S. Booth. ' M E M B E R S

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T h e members appointed by the General Synod, in June, 1886, were duly elected at the next succeeding meeting of the Board. In c o m m o n with the whole Church, the Board has suffered serious loss in the removal, by death, of the Rev. John For-

syfch, I).D. Dr. Forsyth was for several years Vice President of the Board, and for m a n y years an active, interested and influential member. T h e Board has placed on permanent record a minute expressing its high sense of his personal character, his wide arid varied scholarship, his large-hearted liberality, his wise counsels, fervent missionary spirit and his valued services. T h e vacancy thus occasioned has been filled hy the election of Rev. W m . H. Clark, of Philadelphia. T h e Rev. A. V. V. R a y m o n d having removed beyond the bounds of the Reformed Church, Rev. M. H. Hutton, of N e w Brunswick, was chosen to succeed h im for the\remainder of his unexpired term. J Mr. A. A. Raven, being unable to attend the meetings of the Board, resigned his membership, and Mr. James A. Seward, of the Classis of Poughkeepsie, was elected in his place. ’ Dr. James Anderson, was, for m a n y years, one of the ex amining physicians of the Board, and as such has rendered it a nd its missionaries valuable and gratuitous service. His death has created a vacancy which was filled by the election of Dr. E. G. Janeway of N e w York, w h o has signified his acceptance of the position. , • T h e action, reported last year, by which the Honorary and Corresponding Secretaries were m a d e ex-officio members of the Board and the Executive Committee, was reconsidered and rescinded. This was done at the request of the secretaries, for reasons which c o m m e n d e d themselves to the judgment of the Board. . N o other change has occurred. T h e term of office of the following members of the Board ■expires with this session of the General Synod : Rev. W m . H. Steele, D.D., f* A. R. Thompson, D.D., “ Lewis Francis, “ W m . R. Duryea, D.D., A G E N C I E S

Rev. Charles H. Pool, Hon. H. W . Bookstaver, A. V. W . V a n Vechten, Esq., Mr. A. S. Whiton. E M P L O Y E D .

In obedience to the direction of the last General Synod,and under the guidance of its Committee, a joint conference, in the interest of Foreign and Domestic Missions, was held in

the Twelfth Street Reformed Church. Brooklyn, N. Y., in. October, 1886. T h e afternoon and evening of the first day were devoted to Foreign. Missions. T h e interest awakened, by means of these General Conferences has been marked and influential. They have unquestionably helped to elevate and intensify missionary spirit throughout the Church. T h e question of continuing them is referred to and deserves the careful consideration of the Synod. A few District or Classical Conferences have been held dur ing the year, but by no means so m a n y or so generally, as the importance of the cause demands or its interest would warrant. It is believed that they might, with great profit, be held in every Classis. It would be of great service, if, by any action of the Synod, such a result could be secured. T h e Board is more than ever convinced of the value of the: present system of Classical Missionary Agency. With few exceptions the brethren chosen have entered upon the work, with hearty zeal and performed it with intelligence and good effect: T h e Board would express its earnest desire for a, larger and more frequent attendance at its meetings, on the part of these Classical Agents, believing that the cause would be served thereby. . - T h e Rev. J. H. Wyckoff continued his labors a m o n g thechurches up to December. Dr. Chamberlain began, in Sep tember, with great vigor and earnestness, a series of visitsintended to continue through the winter. T h£ failure of hisstrength, however, forced hi m to desist from such active efforts early in November. T he Rev. W m . I. C h a m berlain in the West, and Rev. E. S. Booth in the East, have been actively and earnestly engaged. _ Rev. Lewis R. Scudder has also visited several churches. B y these brethren and the Corresponding Secretary, more than 200 churches have been visited during the year, and more than 300 addresses m a d e in the interest of Foreign Missions. > T h e press, also, has been actively and effectively e m ployed. Of the Addresses and Papers of the Brooklyn C o n ference. an edition of 5,000 copies was issued, by request of the Conference. Of Dr. Chamberlain’s address before the General Synod at N e w Brunswick, entitled, H o w H i n d u Christians Give,”' 3,000 copies, and of his address at the Brooklyn Conference^

‘■'The Lord’s W a r Waxes Hot,” 6,500 copies have been issued and distributed. Both of these addresses in full have had also the wide circulation, the former, of the Soiver and M i s sion Monthly, and the latter of the Christian Intelligencer. A sketch of the Arcot Mission, prepared by Rev. J. H. Wyckoff, has been published by the Board, and also a trans lation of the same into Dutch by Rev. T. J. Kom mers . It is proposed to issue similar sketches of the A m o y and Japan Missions as soon as practicable. Of the folded leaflet “ Our Wor k,” No. 4, for .1886, 5,000 copies have been printed, and most of them distributed a m o n g the churches. . T h e Christian Intelligencer has opened its columns freely to missionary intelligence, and they have been more largely used, perhaps, than ever. T h e pages of the Soiver accorded to the Board have been regularly employed for the diffusion of the latest intelligence from the Missions. A special organ for the diffusion of missionary intelligence has seemed to the Board to be very desirable. But, directed by the Synod to discontinue such publication, merging it.with the’Soiver, the Board has not felt at liberty to renew it without the sanction of the Synod. • Calls for missionary boxes have been met to the n u m b e r of 2.041. T h e whole num ber issued from the beginning is 15.041. ’

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This valued and indispensable auxiliary has had a ‘year of great (prosperity, and has contributed with increased liberal ity to the Treasury of this Board. Its influence in the churches, in the awakening of interest and the development of resources, cannot be too highly estimated. T h e n u m b e r of new auxiliaries organized during the year is twenty-seven, and the whole n um ber n o w in existence 217. Its receipts were $17,340.87. Its payments into the Treasury of this Board, $16,981.11, or about $1;600 more than in the previous year. Its pledge to support the Girls’ Schools, m a d e in 1880, has been m u c h more than redeemed every succeeding year, though their cost has been largely increased. T h e future of- the work' abroad, for heathen girls and •

women, in which it takes so deep an interest, is bright with promise. T h e Ferris Seminary has eminently justified the hopes entertained concerning it. T h e Sturges Seminary at Nagasaki, after long and wearying delay, is an accomplished fact, with an open and inviting field before it. T h e long search for a medical lady for A m o y has been crowned at last with success. These tokens of the favor of G o d resting on their work, will 'no doubt encourage the W o m a n ’s Board to still nobler efforts, and prove the harbinger of still greater achievements. It is to be regretted that the Mission Gnawer, issued bi monthly by the W o m a n ’s Board, at the low price of 25 cents a year, has not attained a larger circulation. R E - I N T O R C E M E N T S .

T h e Rev. Albert Oltmans and Mrs. Alice (Yoorhorst) Olt mans joined the Nagasaki Station of the Japan Mission in October, 1886. Mr. Oltmans was immediately put in charge of the Steele Memorial School. In his labors he has been efficiently and heartily assisted by Mrs. Oltmans. Mrs. Daniel Rapalje, after an absence'of two years in the United States, rejoined her husband, with their children, in A m o y , in December, 1886. M O V E M E N T S ,

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T h e return of Dr. Chamberlain to India is still delayed. A further period of absolute rest was deemed essentia,! to the recovery of his health. H e is not without hope that he m a y be able to go out in the fall, accompanied by his son. Rev. W m . I. Chamberlain. • T h e Rev. J. H. Wyckoff has been temporarily released from the service of the Board, the state of Mrs. Wyckoff’s health being such as to m a k e a longer stay in this country desirable. Mr. Wyckoff expects to labor for a year in Florida, in connection with the Presbyterian Board of H o m e Missions (North), and hopes, at the expiration of that time, to be able to return with his family to India.T he Rev. E, S. Booth arrived in the United States, with his family, in May, 1886. His time and strength have been

largely devoted to the work of securing funds for the en largement of the Isaac Ferris Seminary, of which he is Principal. In this he has been greatly and deservedly suc cessful. H e expects to return to Japan in June, by which time it is hoped that the desired fund of SI 2,000 will be complete. Miss L. H. Winn, of the Ferris Seminary, was married, February 19th, 1887, to Mr. James Walter, of Yokohama, and her connection with the Board terminated. T h e Semi nary and the Board are thus deprived of the services of one w h o has been associated with the work of Christian educa tion in Japan from the beginning. Of the value of those services hearty acknowledgment is made. A P P L I C A T I O N S

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Miss Annie D e F. T h o m p s o n of Readington, N. J., has been appointed as teacher in the Isaac Ferris Seminary, and will proceed to her destination in company with Mr. and Mrs. Booth. Miss Rebecca L. Irvine, of Greenville, Pa., has been ac cepted and appointed as a teacher in the Jonathan Sturges Seminary, Nagasaki. Miss Irvine is a teacher of large and varied experience, with the highest testimonials. She comes to us from the Reformed Church (German) in the United ’States. Miss Y. M a y King, M.D., has been accepted and appointed as a medical missionary to A m o y , China. Miss K in g is a native of China, but brought up, from the age of two years, in the family of D. Bethune McCartee, M.D., for m a n y years a medical missionary in China. T h e first w o m a n of her nation, so far as known; to obtain a medical education in this country, and attaining the first honors of the institutions 'at which she has pursued her studies, Dr. K i n g ’s prospects for usefulness are exceptional. T h e peculiar circumstances of her case specially c o m m e n d her to the interest and prayers of our Christian people. She will leave in June for her ap pointed field and work. » , T h e Rev. John G. Fagg, whose application was accepted two years ago, has been appointed and requested to proceed to China in the fall, the term having expired for which he

was released to the Church of Lawyersville, N. Y. Mr. Fagg has accepted the call, and resigned the pastorate in which his ministry has been signally blessed. lie will prob ably go to his n e w field of duty in September. Dr. John A. Otte., with the consent of the Board, has pur sued'a special course of study, theological and medical, in the Netherlands. His presence there, and his addresses, have served to awaken an interest in the'Missions of our Church. It is expected that he will return to the United States in the summer, and join the A m o y Mission in the fall. These additions to the force are all needed. They are, with one exception, the tardy answer to years of earnest pleading and expectation on the part of those already in the field. Not one of them can be dispensed with if the work of the Missions is to be done as it ought to be. /

F I N A N C E S .

T h e financial results of the year are not what the Board desired and hoped. Yet, on the other hand, they are not, or ought not to. be, discouraging. The total of Receipts from all sources, and for all purposes, is $86,787.02, being $1,400.47 more than last year. This amount m a y be classified as follows : from churches, $38, 244.59 ; from Sunday Schools, $9,785.56 ; from individuals through the churches, $17,380.62 ; from individuals, not through churches, $3,862.40 ; from miscellaneous sources, (including $10,011.30 in gross sums from the Treasurer of the W o m a n ’s Board) $16,493.85; from legacies, $1,020. Of the whole amount, $8,249.31 are specially contributed for the enlargement of the Ferris Seminary, $1,750 for the build ing of S a n d h a m Hall, and $4,976.30 for the Sturges_Seminary. None, of these sums can be used for any other purpose. They amount together to $14,965.61, leaving $70,821.41 as the contribution of the church through all channels, for the regular work of the Missions. This is $9,565.14 less than the amount received for like uses last year. Nearly half of this deficiency, $4,285.89, is due to the falling off in the amount of legacies, which were last year, $5,385.89, and'this year only $1,020. T h e decline in gifts for general purposes is thus shown to be $5,279.25.

It must not be forgotten, however, that the whole s um of §86,787.02, with the exception of 81,020 from legacies, and §500 each from the American Bible and Tract Societies, is the gift of the Church for the work of her Lord in foreign lands. As such, it is comparatively no unworthy or discred itable gift, even though it does not meet the full extent of need, or complete the full measure of the long sought and desired 8100,000. Only twice before has the Church given so m u c h for its Foreign Mission work. It is worthy of note, also, in this connection, that while from 1867 to 1883 the average receipts of the Board were, with considerable uni formity, about 865,000, for the last four years they have risen-to 884,566.96, an increase of nearly 820,000 in four years, with no corresponding increase in membership. The entire expenditures of the year have been 893,881.97, Beside the Steele Memorial F u n d of 85,000, which has been remitted intact to Nagasaki. T h e balance in the treasury is 8518. These expenditures have been, in part, for the special objects n a m e d above and from the funds contributed therefor. They were distributed as follows : For the A m o y Mission, 815,973.66 ; for the Arcot Mission, 824,506.92 ; for the Japan Mission, 845,387.94; for interest on loans, 81, 067.43 ; pr e m i u m on exchange of bonds, 8282.57 ; for other h o m e expenses, covering the entire cost of administration, printing, traveling, etc., 86,662.45. T h e excess of .expendi tures over the receipts has resulted in the addition of 87,000 to the debt, which n o w amounts to 817,500. This was pre cisely the amount of the Board’s indebtedness three years ago, when the Synod met at Grand Rapids. That it has not been wiped out is certainly unfortunate, but not necessarily discouraging. That it ought to be removed as speedily as possible is plain. ' A detailed statement of expenditures for the calendar year 1886 is appended to the Treasurer’s Report. The appropriations for the current year, exclusive of m o n e y for school buildings, are as follows : For the A m o v Mission.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815,610 “ “ Arcot ......... . ..... 31,390 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,734 “ “ Japan “ “ H o m e expenses... . .'. . . . . ........ 5,500 Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893,234

T h o u g h this s u m seems large,, it is about $10,000 less than the estimates furnished by the Missions. T o bring it d o w n even to this amount was not an easy thing. T o do it m a n y reasonable requests had to be denied ; m a n y sums deemed important, if not essential, had to be cut off. As an e x a m ple, the entire increase asked for by the Arcot Mission, for the enlargement of their work a m o n g the villages, was re fused, and the appropriation limited to the s u m granted last year. But, whatever reasons might be urged for further in crease, no such course was possible. T h e Board is deeply conscious that, in making the appropriations aibove stated, it m a y seem to m a n y to have overstepped the limits of discre tion. Yet, on this side also, no other course was possible. It1 is believed, indeed, that could the Synod listen, as the Board is compelled to listen, to the appeals that come from every quarter— could it see, as the Board sees, the openings and the needs presented to our brethren in the field, and. by them to us, its utterance would be : “ T h e appropriations are too small. Let them be increased/-’ In justification of the large expenditures required two considerations are pre sented— the complex nature of the work and the necessities of .growth. O T H E

C O M P L E X

N A T U K E

O F

T H E

W O R K .

T h e work committed to the Board and carried on by the Missions is in no sense that of simple evangelism— the pro clamation of the Gospel by the individual missionary. Such simplicity of labor is only possible, if ever, in the earliest stages of missionary effort. So soon as converts are made, churches organized, communities gathered or brought under the influence of the truth, other needs arise. Schools, both of lower and higher grade, must be established and main tained ; teachers and preachers trained, located, directed and supported; church buildings must be provided. Scriptures and other books translated and circulated, and to all these is added, in some fields, as the surest way to reach the’hearts of the people, the work of the hospital and dispensary. For all these varied forms of benevolent activity various agencies exist in Christian lands. In heathen lands they are all c o m prehended in the work of the Mission. So that a Board of

Foreign Missions, so far from being, a simple evangelizing: agency, becomes in time, and comprehends within the sphere of its activity the appropriate duties of, a Board of Missions j a Board of Church Erection and Extension ; a Board of E d ucation in all its different branches, secular and religious, c o m m o n and village schools, boarding school, high schools and theological seminaries ; a Board of Publication and Bible and Tract Translation and Distribution. It is impossible te begin a Mission anywhere, and carry it on with any degree of efficiency and success, without becoming involved in all these different lines of labor. Our o w n Missions furnish ex amples of them all. T H E

NECESSITIES

O F

G R O W T H .

It is no less impossible to keep a growing work, in constantlyexpanding fields, within the limits of fixed appropriations or expenditures. T o take up any one of these m a n y lines of labor involves expenditure. A school can not be established without a teacher, and a teacher costs. A church must have a preacher, and a preacher costs. More schools, more churches require more teachers and more preachers and a larger cost. A boarding school must have appropriate buildings. Yet te erect the buildings and not supply the necessary teachers, suitable furniture and facilities for teaching, because they cost too much, makes the previous investment useless or onlyhalf effective— is not economy but waste. T o suffer mission aries to go out and preach in the dark wastes of heathenism the everlasting Gospel, and w h e n some poor villagers, on whose blinded eyes some faint scattered rays of heavenly light have fallen, seek for a teacher w h o will come and dwell a m o n g them and explain to them the w ay of life more perfectly, to deny h i m to their prayer and hope because it costs too m u c h — surely this is not Christian. ’ T h e point need not be argued. T h e simple fact, before which we stand perplexed, if not- confounded, is that the work committed to the Board has grown beyond the possibility of longer maintenance with the resources furnished by the Church. It has so grown, not only in the natural order, but also ini

direct answer to our o w n prayer— the prayer of multitudes for years. . “ G o d answers sharp and sudden on s o m e prayers, A n d thrusts the thing w e asked for in our faces,— A gauntlet rvith a gift in’t.” "

N o t sharp nor sudden, perhaps, nor altogether unexpected, but none the less God's gift and challenge, has come the an swer to those prayers. W H A T

S H A L L

WE'

H O

W I T H

IT ?

T h e Board has m a d e no secret, hitherto, of its conviction that such a time as this must come. It has cherished the hope that w he n it game the Church would be prepared for it. Yet the situation taxes its faith and judgment to the utmost. T w o courses, and only two, are open. T h e means afforded to carry on this work must be largely increased, or the fields' occupied by our Missions must be reduced either in n um ber or extent, in order that what we do m a y be well done. T h e latter alternative the Church, in Synod and Confer ence, has repeatedly negatived. The'other alone remains. O n e hundred thousand dollars has been, for three years, pro posed as the goal of effort. H o w ever important and desirable this m a y have been hitherto, it is n o w become absolutely indis pensable. Nothing less will suffice. W e ought to raise it, .and we can. A n increase of about sixteen per cent, upon the contributions of this year will accomplish it. T h e .agencies for its accomplishment are in our hands. 1. The Churches. In the general advance every church ■ought to share. Merely standing still— keeping up to the standard of past years, does hot meet the case. A large n um ber of churches have maintained a steady advance dur ing the last six years. Yet there are not a few— some of t h e m counted liberal— that have m ad e no advance at all— or none of any importance— for ten years and more. A larger n u m b e r still can hardly, as yet, be said to have any share in' .the work. A formal collection— unprepared for— in simple compliance with custom or Synodical requirement, averaging too often less than ten or even five cents a member, is all that they contribute, whe n ten or even twenty times the amount would hardly suffice to put them abreast of sister churches, of no greater numbers or ability. It is believed that no church

a m o n g us, and no interest of any church, has yet suffered hy reason of its liberality in this direction. 2. The Sabbath Schools. While nearly $10,000 ($9,785.56) were contributed by the Sabbath schools of the Church last year, it is perfectly safe to say that this agency is, as yet, practically undeveloped a m o n g us. In.one Classis not a sin gle school contributed, in another only one, in five others only two, while in only‘three— two of them Western Classes — did the proportion of those contributing rise to the n u m ber of one-half. Out of 079 schools, donations from only 210 are reported. Yet, in more than a score of instances, schools that do contribute have given more than the churches with which they are connected— some of them m a n y times as much. 3.. Auxiliaries of the W o m a n ’s Board. T h e n um ber of ' auxiliaries n o w organized is 217. T h e noble results of their activity have already been set forth. It is believed that in every church where an auxiliary exists, the total of mission ary offerings has been largely increased. If their num ber could be doubled, a large advance might be expected. Yet doubling the n um ber would still leave 120 churches without such organization. • N o w all these agencies are lafgely in the hands and at the disposal of the pastors of our churches. So far as they are themselves active, and in earnest in the line of missionary effort— stimulating, suggesting, encouraging, supplying iniormation, w e m a y expect to see these various forms of ac tivity brought into efficient, fruitful service. Without this it will be almost impossible. Upon the pastors, then— their intelligent zeal and earnest purpose— everything, under God, ' depends. W h a t m a y be done by m e n of God, in earnest 'to have their people alive to G o d ’s work and taking an ever larger share in it, m a y best be shown by what has been done. Four instances are taken, all of them country churches. T h e record goes back six years— that of the first is, omitting fractions of a dollar, for the first year 0, the second $9, the third $23, the fourth $42, the fifth $67, the sixth $92. They m a y be tabulated thus : $9, $23, $42, $92. $67, o, a) 25, 109, 25, 87. (2) * $19* 73, 101, 53, 110, 175. 73, (3) 80, 83, 113, ■ 116, 176, 219. (4)

T h e instances of similar progress might be multiplied almost indefinitely. It is a satisfaction and a ground of con fidence to k n o w that, in constantly increasing numbers, the pastors of our churches bear this cause on their hearts and work for it with might and soul. W er e all animated by the same spirit, the limit of $100,000 would sooii be left behind. C O N C L U S I O N . ’

A year ago it was said in this Report, “ It is manifest that w e are on the eve of mightier movements of the Church and of the Spirit of G o d than the world has yet seen.” T o two striking manifestations of this movement, making direct and- forcible appeal to us as a Church— one at our very doors, nay, in the midst of us, and the other from across the Sea— it is proper that the attention of the Church and the Synod should, at this time, be called. T h e first, is the missionary interest and m ov emen t a m o n g the students of the colleges and theological seminaries of our land. More than 1,800 had, at last accounts, pledged t he m selves to Eoreign Mission work. Twenty-two of these are in our o w n institutions in N e w Brunswick, and ttuo, at least, are k n o w n to cherish similar desires at H o p e College. N o m a n can tell to h o w m a n y of these ardent spirits the Lord will open the way and give the privilege to preach His Gospel a m o n g the heathen. But this at least is plain, that we must be prepared to hear, in numbers as yet u n k n o w n to us, the voices of our o w n consecrated sons— surveying the ripening fields afar— saying, “ Here are w e — send us.” Will their voice be anything else or less to us than the voice of the Lord Himself ? A n d now, in His wise and wonderful Providence, there comes from Japan the stirring calk .for a host of laborers such as these, to enter and take immediate possession of the “ Sunrise K i n g d o m ” for the K i n g of kings. It comes from the Council of United Missions. It is signed by every one of the missionaries, our o w n and others, and is, by direction of the Board, hereto appended and laid before the Synod as apart of this Report. Before such tokens of the purpose and working of the Lord we gladly serve— whose Gospel it is our joy and privilege to proclaim— it surely does not he-

come us to hesitate, turn back or falter. Such indications of His will and the working of His mighty power, should fire the whole Church with n e w zeal, and stimulate to n e w en deavors and sacrifices for the' enlargement of His Kingdom, and the glory of His name. Approved and adopted by the Board. N e w

Y o r k , M a y 11th, 1887.

H E N R Y N. O O B B ,

Corresponding Secretary.

A P P E A L

T H E

COUETCIL

U N I T E D

MISSIONS.

At a meeting of the Council of the Missions connectedwith the United Church of C-hrist in Japan held in January, a committee was appointed to prepare a statement setting forth the call of Providence to special effort in Japan during the remainder of the century. T h e statement prepared by the committee and adopted by the Council at its meeting in March, is as follows : " T o k y o , M a r c h 28th. 1887. To the Boards of Foreign Missions of the seveml Churches represented in the United Church of Christ in Japan D e a r Brethren : There se e m t o .us to be good reasons w h y w e should put forth ' extraordinary efforts in Japan during the remaining years of this century. I. U n t o this are w e called. Japan is n o w in the midst of a great crisis in her history ; and everything goes to s h o w that the nation is in a marvelously receptive mood. ■ After t w o centuries of seclusion, the country is suddenly open to the world. T h e S h o g u n is gone, the M i k a d o restored to power; and, with the suppression of the Sats u m a revolt, the integrity of the empire estab lished. W i t h the reception of foreigners a h e w type of civilization has been welcomed. T h e telegraph stretches from one end of the land to the other. T h e mail service is admirable. Railways cross the country in various directions, a n d fleets of steamers ply f r o m port to port u p a n d d o w n the coast. Banks and hospitals have been established. Daily newspapers abound. There is an excellent system of education culmin ating in a University. T h e a r m y and navy are organized after foreign models. A n e w code of laws based u p o n those of E u r o p e has been adopted. T h e recent proclamation issued in the n a m e of the E m p r e s s r e c o m m e n d s the adoption of foreign dress by the w o m e n of the country. In the year 1890 there is to be a Parliament. Certainly'a nation that

has seen such things as these accomplished during the last quarter of a. century m a y see great things done b y the year 1900. B u t the m o v e m e n t n o w witnessed in J apan is not confined to such particulars as these. It includes also the question of religion. T here can be no vigorous national life without s o m e religion : B r a h m a n i s m and M o h a m m e d a n i s m are out of the question : B u d d h i s m is c o n d e m n e d already: there remains only Christianity. T h a t is the c o m m o n position assumed b y the press. A n d w h a t the press encourages the G o v e r n m e n t allows. T e n years ago it w a s a question whether it w o u l d be permitted to build a church on a public street in the City of T o k y o ; churches are n o w found in every direction. Once, it w a s with the greatest difficulty that a Japanese could be f ound to print a translation of one of the Gospels : now, large printing houses compete for the w o r k of the Bible and Tract Societies ; treatises on theology are printed and b o u n d at the G o v e r n m e n t establishment; and the Scriptures, and Christian books, magazines and newspapers go everywhere freely. M o r e than this : there are m e n n o w living w h o confessed Christ at the peril of their lives ; and these s a m e m e n are to-day preaching Christ in public halls a n d _ theatres to audiences that are glad to hear them. T h e tone of B u d d h i s m is a tone of defeat; Christianity is confident of victory. This, however, is not all. M o t only is Christianity a c o m m o n t h e m e â&#x20AC;&#x201D; proclaimed u p o n the platform, discussed on the railway, queried about in the country inns : not only is it encouraged openly b y the press and tacitly b y the G o v e r n m e n t ; it is rapidly crystalizing into churches. A t the close of the last year (1886), there were connected with the United C h u r c h fifty-five organized churches;'twenty-five of w hich are wholly self-supporting. There w a s a m e m b e r s h i p of 5,472. T h e ministers n u m b e r e d twenty-eight, and the theological students forty-three. T h e contributions for the year a m o u n t e d to m o r e than ten thousand (Mexican) dollars. This is the report of the United Churclr â&#x20AC;˘ alone ; and others are doing likewise. T h e Board of H o m e Missions, connected with the Synod, is simply overwhelmed with applications. It is not rash to say that rightly directed labor in almost any t o w n in the empire w o u l d end before long in an organized church. This then is our opportunity : such an opportunity as the M o d e r n C h u r c h has never h a d vouchsafed to it. A century ago w a s heard once m o r e a divine voice saying, G o teach all nations. A n d m e n asked, Whither shall w e go ? To-day a m a n stands u p o n the shore of J a pan crying, C o m e over into Asia and help us. A n d w e m u s t go now. This is reason : There is a tide in the affairs of m e n and of nations. It is Scripture also : W h e n the apostles heard that Samaria had received the w o r d of God, they sent Peter and John. W h e n tidings c a m e f r o m Antioch, the C h u r c h sent forth the Son of Exhortation. There is a time to reap. A n d it is into the harvest field above all places that our L o r d bids us to pray that the laborers m a y be sent. Other nations m a y wait, but this nation can not wait. F o r H e is not dealing so with any other nation.

I L N o t only is such effort in Japan our duty; it is true w i s d o m — wise warfare. ■ First: This course will g o far towards ending our w o r k in the empire. B y this it is not m e ant that the close of'the century will see all k n o w i n g the Lord, fr o m the least to the greatest. B u t it does m e a n that there is go o d reason to hope that a vigorous aggressive church m a y then b e planted in all parts of the land. It m e a n s that foreign missions m a y then give w a y to h o m e missions. It m e a n s that so far as w e are con cerned, the Gospel of the K i n g d o m will have been preached as a witness in Japan. A n d w h e n that is done the Church at h o m e will be free to go elsewhere. Secondly : This course will yield us a n early friend in Asia. T h e C h u r c h in the San d w i c h Islands has done excellent service in' the Pacific ; but the San d w i c h Islands are as nothing to Japan. F o r J a p a n is alive, energetic, eager— a nation with a destiny. A n d a C h u r c h of Christ in J apan w o u l d be throughout all Eastern Asia an ally that would be invaluable. Granted that the a m o u n t of effort needed to accomplish the task presented might (or m ight not) result in an equal n u m b e r of individual believers scattered here and there over the world still, as an ally in the near future, these w o u l d be but w e a k in compari son with a vigorous church in Japan. W e d o not forget that the field is the world. T h e question is merely one of method. N o one church can preach the Gospel to the w h o l e creation. E v e n the apostle to the Gentiles m a d e a choice a m o n g the Gentiles; and so mu s t we. W e m u s t choose between nations a n d individuals in different nations. In doing this it m a y be that w e m u s t needs pass b y Bithynia ; but even so, let us go into Macedonia. W h a t .we press is J a pan to-day in order to China to-morrow. III. S u c h a course will appeal to the churches at home. T h e cause of Christ lags for lack of interest. This will kindle enthusi asm. T h e facts to proclaim are these : There is the sound of abundance of rain. W o r k done n o w is sure to end in a great harvest. N o r is the w o r k to go on forever. T h e h u s b a n d m a n w h o plants m a y himself sea the grain gathered into the granary. , T o such an appeal as this the churches will respond. It is one thing to say : There is needed another house, another missionary, in order to maintain a long labor. It is quite a different thing to say that there is a very true sense in which n o w at last the isles are waiting for his law.. W h a t is asked m a y be great, but the sacrifice will be m a d e ; for it is a. d e m a n d that will nerve to effort. It will c o m e moreover with the force of a definite c o m m a n d : L a u n c h out into the deep and let d o w n y o u r nets for a draught. A n d it will meet with the ready response : Master, w e have toiled all night a n d taken nothing. Nevertheless at thy c o m m a n d , w e will let d o w n the net. Instead therefore of adding debt to debt, this m a y be the secret of no debt. A n d n o w in conclusion to be m o r e particular. ' If the signs of the times speak to y o u as they do to us, can y o u not agree to m a k e special effort in J a pan for the next f e w years a part of your general policy ?

T h e end proposed of course presupposes various means. Present •centres of w o r k mu s t be maintained and in most cases strengthened. Present plans for education mu s t be carried on and broadened. Great •opportunities are n o w afforded in the preference of officials connected with the.Department of Education, for missionaries to give instruction in the advanced schools throughout the country : and this suggests a ischeme for supplying t h e m with teachers. In particular, n e w centres of w o r k — stations m a n n e d b y foreigners— require to be established at ^trategtic points as yet unoccupied. As- a matter of course, it is to be clearly understood that any n e w plan whatever m u s t be considered b y itself, a n d can be carried out •only w h e n it approves itself to your judgment. B u t can y o u not agree .to c o m m i t yourselves before the churches to special effort to establish ■the United C h u r c h of Christ throughout Japan during the remainder of •this nineteenth Ctntury of our Lo r d ? W e pray y o u to consider the jnatter with all due deliberation, and to let us k n o w your mind. Mimon of the Presbyterian Church (North). T. C. W inn.

J ames C. H epburn . D avid T hompson . W illiam Imbrie . Jo h n C. B allagh . G eo. W illiam K nox . T. T. A lexander .

J. B. P orter . James M acCauley . A. V. B r y a n . T. M. M acN air C. M. E isher.

J. P. H earst. Mission of the Reformed (Dutch) Church. G. F. V erbeck . M. N. W yckopf. J. H. B allagh . E. S. B ooth.

H enry Stout . E. R othesay M iller.

James L. A m e r m a n .

H o w a r d H arris. N. H. D emarest . A. O ltmans .

Mission of United Presbyterian Church (of Scotland).

R obert D avidson.

H u g h W addell . T hos. L indsay.

Mission of the Presbyterian Church (South). R. E. M ac A lpine.

R. B ryan G rinnan .

Msssion ofthe Reformed (German) Church. J. P. M oore . W . E. H oy.

A. C. G ring.

R E P O R T S

F R O M

T H E

MISSIONS.

T H E A M O Y MISSION, CHI NA. O R O A N I Z E D IN 1884: ^L The Mission occupies the following cities.; Amoy, population 200,000; Chioh-be, 450,000: Chiang-Chiu. 100,000; and Tong-an, 60,000. The territory assigned to the Mission, being about 80 miles from East to West, and 50 miles from North to South, has a population of more than three million souls, including that of the cities al-

M^ssionaries.— Revs. J. V. N. Talmage, D.D., Daniel Rapalje, L. W. Kip, D.D., A. S. Van Dyck and P. W. Pitcher. t*** u Assistant Missionaries.— Mrs. Talmage, Mrs. Rapalje, Mrs. Kip, Mrs. Pitcher, Mrs. Van Dyck, Miss C. M. Talmage, Miss M. E. Talmage. _ __ Native Pastors— Revs. Ung Ho-Seng. of the 1st Church, Amoy; lap Han*Chiong, •of the Church at Sio-ke; Chhoa Thian-Khit, of the Church at Cbiang-Chiu; and TiPeng, of the 2d Church at Amoy. Licentiates.— 2. Li Kiche, Lim Khiok. Other Native Preachers.— 16. „ .. , ,, Regular Places.— iw, 18, and one (“ The— Douglass Memorial Church,1 y nini Preaching j. j. ^ \ TColongsu), ngsu), shared by the two Missions. ... , , eological School.— 1. with 7 students, connected with our churches. Theoi ddle School.— 1, under the care o£ both Missions. Pupils connected without Middle churches 11 Woman's School.— 1. “ The Charlotte W. Duryee Home.” Total number of w omen in attendance during the year, 87. Largest number at one time, 15; small est. 7. Girls' School— 1, with 84 pupils. Parochial Schools.— 6, with 91 pupils. . , ^ , , Christian Teachers.-S. Of these, 3 are also students in the Theological School. In the following Tabular Statement we give as usual the “ Totals " of the Mission of the English Presbyterian Church, making a summary for the whole Tai-hoey, or

O - K a n g (6)........... H o n g - S a n (c). . . . . . . . . . . Cliiang Chiu (d). . . . . . . . T o n g - A n (e). . . . . . . . . . :Sio-ke (/). . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total Contributions.

Suspended. Infants baptized. Adults baptized. | | |

|| Excommunicated

M e m b e r s h i p at close of Year.

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First A m o y . . . . . . . . . . . Second A m o y . . . . . . . . . .

Received on Certificate. . Dismissed.

CHURCHES.

M e m b e r s h i p at beginning of year. Received on Confession.

A M O Y T A I - H O E Y , 1886.

1886.

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T a b u l a r S t a t e m e n t o f t h e A m o y M ission f o r

i 90 4 5 i 3 2 93 3 150 5 6 6 146 14 2 8 4 2 3 (>6 5 2 *71 5 2 97 4 1 7 96 7 1 60 5 2 4 58 134 8 3 3 6 2 134 8 7 8 2 4 1 1 38 4 2 42 5 .2 164 8 18 25 146 25

$285 82 670'44 157 48 145 26 127 90 306 60 86 64 296 15

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *783 58 17 16 28 13 802 42 36 47 $2,076 29 3 5 40 15 12 3 Native H a k - k a Missions__ 1,371 88 !Eng. Pres. Missions..... *772 50 is 13 14 7 803 56 25 40 Total Tai-hoey. . . . . . . . . 1567 111 32 29 42 19 1620 98 61 90 $3,453 57 * Corrected list, one out-station ; KUnih. (a.) Has (6 .) Composed of two congregations; Kang-tau and Kio-tau. fc.) Composed of two congregations; Te^soa and Ang-tung-tau. ld. Has two ) out-stations; Thian-po and Soa-sia. t le.) Has one out-station; Poa-fau. Has four out-stations; Lam-sin, Poa-a, Po-a-hi and Toa-ke. (/•)

T h e report of the Mission is as follows : Du r i n g the year Dr. T a l m a g e w a s absent for a few days to attend a. regular meeting of the Swatow Presbytery, English Presbyterian Church. H e w e n t as a delegate of our A m o y Tai-Hoey. O n e of our native pas tors w a s also a delegate, and w e n t with Dr. Talmage. Miss C. M . T a l m a g e w a s absent about seven weeks on a health trip to Foo-Chow. ' Mr. Rapalje w a s absent about a w e e k in 1886 and a f e w days in 1887,. on a trip to H o n g - K o n g to meet his family on their return f r o m the United States. ' " T h e health of the Mission was, on the whole, good ; though Mr. V a n D y c k h a d a severe attack of typhoid fever in N o v e m b e r and December. W h e n strong eno u g h for the journey the doctor ordered h i m to H o n g K o ng, and the change proved beneficial to his health. W e are thankful for his recovery, and rejoice that he has been spared to the work. W e still deplore the w a n t of a trained teacher f r o m h o m e to look after our educational work. W e preachers can not attend to it without ne glecting our proper w o r k of preaching. There is a standing committee^ of Tai-Hoey to visit a n d examine the Parochial Schools, but this kind o f supervision is not sufficient. Still there has been a m a r k e d improve m e n t in our Parochial Schools of late. This is especially true of the t w o A m o y schools, which have been carefully looked after by Mr. V a n D y c k arid Mr. Pitcher. The Middle School, which w a s in charge of Mr. V a n D y c k during theyear, gives an. excellent training to the lads w h o attend its classes. Tothis school w e look for school teachers and theological students. T h e lads have to pass an entrance examination, and the standard has recently been raised. T h e pupils are expected to pay their o w n w a y in part or in. whole. ‘ , Dr. T a l m a g e is still able to devote a part of his time to the TheoloyicaV School, w h ich is cared for b y the t w o Missions. Rev. W m . McGregor, of the English Presbyterian Mission, has special charge of the school. H e is a most efficient teacher. W e wish there were m o r e students, b u t w e mu s t not urge y o u n g m e n to join the school unless w e believe they have been called of God. Y o u n g m e n that se e m to have such a call aregladly received. W e need the graduates to fill the thinned ranks of o u r preaching force. One,of our preachers, lately in charge at Ang-tuiig-taw, w a s very ill, during the year, and has since died. T h o u g h not as well educated ass o m e of his fellow-workers, he w a s a go o d preacher, and explained with, clearness the doctrines of grace. W e m o u r n his loss. T h e preacher Lim Khiok w a s examined for licensure at the autumn, meeting of Tai-Hoey. H e passed creditably. H e is temporarily in charge of the church at Chioh-be. • W e report no n e w out-stations. Stations might have been opened, had there been evangelists to take charge of them. Since the beginningof the n e w year w e have ventured to rent a n e w place in a t o w n in the Chiang-Chiu district, about fifteen miles N. W . of Thian-po. T h e name;

of the place is-Leng-soa. Dr. K i p is well acquainted with the neighbor hood, and both he a n d the pative assistants report m a n y ready listeners to the truth. Only five of our eight organized churches report additions on con fession. W e are thankful for those w h o have been gathered in, but w e long for a greater increase. It sometimes seems as if w e are m a k i n g almost no impression on the heathen. A n d yet m a n y of these darkened souls have heard a n d r e m e m b e r m u c h about the L o r d Jesus Christ. M a y the H o l y Spirit lead t h e m to H i m . ‘ Negotiations for improved church accommodations at Kang-tau, on A m o y Island, and at Tmig-an have been pending for months. A t the former place w e have secured a site for a n e w church building, although it is possible that the opposition manifested all along m a y still prevent the carrying out of our plans. A t Tong-an w e have not been able to close the bargain for the house which the Board' authorized us to buy. T h e local magistrate does not help us, but, on the contrary, has shielded the parties w h o oiler opposi tion, a n d w h o tried to burn us out. T h e place for which w e have been negotiating is the one w hich w e have rented for a n u m b e r of years past, a n d w h ich w e still occupy. (It has since been purchased.) T h e n e w house at Sio-ke, authorized b y the B o a r d as a temporary h o m e for any of us w h o m a y be doing Mission w o r k in that district, is nearly completed. D o w n stairs there is a reception room, a store room, a servants’ r o o m a n d a bath 'room. T h e up-stairs r o o m s are a sitting room, t w o bed r o oms a n d a bath room. T h e house is substantially built-with stone and brick. There is a narrow veranda in front. W e hope to find the n e w house a comfortable resting-place, especially after long journeys over rough country roads. There are t w o hospitals for Chinese patients at A m o y . O n e of these hospitals is supported by the foreign c o m m u n i t y of the P o r t ; the other b y the English Presbyterian Church. In both of t h e m evangelistic w o r k is carried on, and our Mission have a share in it. ' T h e ladies of the Mission report as usual to the W o m a n ’s Board. It is, therefore, unnecessary to speak particularly of their w o r k here. In the schools, in meetings for the w o m e n , in the hospital, in visits from house to house, and in visits to the out-stations, they have manifested the spirit, and taught the truths of the Gospel of Christ. A t the late meeting of Tai Hoey (Classis) one of the native pastors pre sided, and both native pastors and elders joined actively in the discus sions. A y o u n g m a n connected with one of the churches under the care of the English Presbyterian Mission w a s licensed to preach the Gospel. , I n - m a n y things'the Native C h u r c h can n o w take care of itself, but the C h u r c h at h o m e should not, on this account,- relax its efforts for the conversion of this nation. W e need all the help w e can get, and w e need it at once.

THE

ARGOT

MISSION,

INDIA.

O R G A N I Z E D I N 1854. The Mission occupies:

The North Arcot District.—

5,017 square miles; population, 1,787,134 by last

census.

The South Arcot District.— Area., 4,076 square miles;'population, 1,261,846. The force engaged consists of— Missionaries.— 'Revs. J. W. Scudder, M.D., Vellore; W m . W. Scudder, D.D., Mada n a p a H e J o h n Scudder, M.D., Tindivanam ; John W. Conklin and L. Hekhuis, M.D., Arcot; E. C. Scudder, Jr., Ami. In this country, Rev. J. Chamberlain, M.D., D.D., and Rev. J. H. Wyckoff. Assistant Missionaries.— Mrs. J. W. Scudder, Mrs. W m . W. Scudder, Mrs. John W. Conklin, Mrs. John Scudder, Miss J. C. Scudder, and Miss M. K. Scudder. In this country, Mrs. Chamberlain and Mrs. Wyckoff. Native Pastors.— 'Revs. Moses Nathaniel, Arcot; Abraham William, Kattupadi; Paul Bailey, Orattur. ‘ Native Helpers.— Ca,techists, 22; Assistant Catechists, 14; Masters in Anglo-Ver nacular Schools, 25; Readers and Schoolmasters, 44; Schoolmasters, 22; School mistresses, 30; Colporteurs, 13; Female Bible Readers, 13. Total, 186.

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Baptized Children.

Communicants in 1886.

Baptized Adults not C o m municants.

Communicants in 1885.

A N D OUT-STATIONS.

Families.

STATIONS

Out-Stations.

STATISTICAL T A B L E F O R

R. A. P. ♦A rcot .......... 3 .

*Yehamur....

A r n i ............ ' Alliendal...... Gnanodiam __ Marutuvambadi.. Vellambi. ___ _

C hittoor ......... *"

'Kottanalli....

COONOOR.......... ♦M adanapalle .... ♦Palmanair . .... T indivanam ........ Orattur....... Vellaripattu... .. Narasingauur.-... Kolapakam...... Varikkal..... Sattambadi....

V e l l o r e .....•.... ,

Kattupadi .... Kandipattur... Sekadu....... Total..........

47 5 120 2 30 2 19 e 67 20 2 27 35 9 86 65 8 105 6 16 2 69 4 55 3 47 4 48 3 40 8 67 S 78 8 127 4 107 2 91

70 1-58 57 +109 42 ,15 36 6 87 29 28 ' 10 4 40 51 22 78 35 100 21 74 +34 11 +8 28 . 7 88 17 62 6 78 6 78 15 39 21 102 16 127 23 m 164 38 lit 124 3 103 105 7

45 59 38 29 77 23 41 76 81 97 74 6 28 94 62 67 55 40 104 128

+82 +327 70 9 42 111 27 5 47 32 11 2 36 69 75 118 11 +399 +11 50 1 as 42 80 37 66 10 71 12 53 -25 127 20 107 6 147 63 126 71 86 55

4 137 6 *150 9 4 158 6 2 24 30 6 62 8 1 24 8 4 90 2 140 66 10 177 4 2 95 5 +194 1 +21 1 3 199 51 3 63 51 4 54 12 4 92 18 3 56 28 3 5S 41 7 99 1(1 5 322 58 9 184 87 5 96 69 2 47

129 584 115 87 304 91 105 205 275 227 397 19 91 283 219 163 194 161 297 287 484 399 321

210 133 8 10 493 .23 6 10 145 125 3 7 90 15 4 8 m 41 5 7 15 2 7 m 95 21 12 6 111 152 4 8 323 53 2 3 254 162 2 6 507 204 9 2 25 17 7 6 87 88 2 3 281 47 4 o 236 35 8 2 172 40 5 7 194 35 12 5 166 27 2 10 306 71 4 0 273 321 5 3 476 107 3 9 411 33 9 3 322 17.14 6

83 1372 1610 1669 505 1521 1301 557 95 2531 5437 5553 1789 14 10

♦The statistics of these stations are taken from the report of Classis. tlncludes children. tLast year’s report..

T h e Rev. J. H. Wyckoff has kindly prepared the follow ing introductory statement :< T h e past year m a y be called a prosperous one for the Arcot Mission.' There has been an advance in every department of our work. Eightyfive persons have been, received into the churches on confession of faith. T h e n u m b e r of adherents is greater b y 116 than last year. T w o h u n dred and eighteen niore scholars are attending our schools. T h e contri butions of most of the native churches likewise s h o w a m a r k e d advance. S o m e of the stations have had larger additions than usual. Tin d i v a n a m records the reception of thirty-four persons to its churches on confession of faith. Madanapalle reports 110 m o r e adherents than the previous year. Kottapalli has been considerably strengthened by accessions fr o m heathenism. Arcot, Vellore and Arni have received fifteen, twenty and eleven n e w m e m b e r s to full c o m m u n i o n respectively. O n the other h a n d there are s o m e losses to record. Y e h a m u r reports ninety-one less adherents. Vellore has suffered depletion b y the removal of several families. Orattur and Kattupadi s h o w a decline in membership. NATIVE ASSISTANTS.

Although the missionaries and their families have been preserved in good health, w e have to record the death of s o m e valuable native helpers. Rev. A n d r e w Sawyer, our oldest native pastor, after long years of faithful service, has been called, home. Samuel Zechariah, one of our best junior catechists, a m a n of superior intellectual gifts and of deep piety, after a' protracted illness, has been released f r o m his suffer ings and entered into rest. N o r m u s t w e omit to mention one, who, although he occupied an h u m b l e r position, will be greatly missed. W e refer to Elder A b r a h a m , of Orattur. O n e of the very first converts in South Arcot, he w a s for twenty-five years a strong pillar in the Orattur Church, a n d continued faithful to the end to the Saviour for w h o m he h a d suffered so m u c h . W i t h reference to the death of Pastor Sawyer, the Classis of Arcot adopted the following minute : “ Since our last meeting, one of our beloved members, Rev. A n d r e w ■Sawyer, has fallen asleep in Jesus. Classis desires to record its sense of its heavy loss in this dispensation of Providence, its appreciation of the long and faithful labors of h i m w h o s e place is vacant, a n d its sym p a t h y with those w h o m o u r n the departure of a husband and father. W e have reason to rejoice and thank God, because this holjr and useful life w a s , spared so long for labor in Christ’s K i n g d o m . ‘‘A n d r e w S a w y e r w a s the first native pastor ordained b y the Classis of ’ Arcot. H e w a s a m e m b e r of it fr o m its organization m o r e than thirty years ago. His reports to it, year b y year, s h o w that he has received and baptized hundreds of converts and their children. H e has broken the . bread of life to tens of thousands in all parts of our district. M o r e than this he wal k e d before m e n holily and consistently in the footsteps of Christ, a n d the example he has left to his fellow workers and the whole C h u r c h is a lasting treasure. H e preached the whole counsel of G o d and lived as he preached. “ Classis desires that this expression of its appreciation and s y m p a t h y be communicated to the sorrowing w i d o w and children, and published to the Ch u r c h here and in America.” ,

H I N D U Gntr.S’ SCHOOLS.

O u r educational institutions,' especially those for high caste girls, are in a prosperous state. T h e schools at Yellore, despite the organized at tempts of the heathen to destroy them, have a larger attendance than ever before. T h e Madanapalle school exhibits a gratifying advance, having fifty-eightpupils on the roll, with an average attendance of between forty and fifty. T h e s a m e success has attended the schools at Chittoor and A r n i ; and plans are n o w being considered fof organizing similar institutions in Arcot and Wallajapett. In this connection it becomes us to speak of the favorable openings for ZENANA W O K E

in nearly all the large towns of the Mission. Mention w a s m a d e in our last report of. the inauguration of this w o r k at Vellore. Since then sim ilar efforts in Wallajapett a n d Arni have m e t with encouraging success. W e cannot emphasize too strongly the importance of taking immediate advantage of these offerings. A lthough the schools accomplish m u c h — and indeed it is through t h e m that Zenana w o r k has been m a d e possible — yet where the pupils leave so young, w e cannot hope for positive re sults unless the girls are followed to their h o m e s and the instruction continued there. W c c o m m e n d this great w o r k to the w o m e n of our 'Church, and pray that they will enable us to organize it on a larger scale at each of our stations. . , EVANGELISTIC EFFORTS.

T h e Gospel has been m o r e widely and systematically proclaimed than for m a n y a year. In addition to tours in the district and visits to the great festivals, thousands have been reached b y m e a n s of the free read ing r o oms in the t o w n s ; while the resumption of the hospital w o r k at Arcot has afforded unlimited opportunities for disseminating the Gospel. Dr. Hekhuis reports 7,000 patients treated during 1886. T h e influence of the institution in allaying prejudice a n d winning the confidence of the natives cannot be overestimated. o STATISTICAL TABLE.

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A r c o t ............ ...... A r n i .................... Chittoor................. C o o n o o r r. ..... M a d a n a p a l l e ............. P a l m a n a i r .............. T i n d i v a n a m .............

Vellore............. G u d i y a t a m ............. A r c o t S e m i n a r y Pupils... T o t a l ............ G r a n d total hearers..

2,1G9 435 220 341 32 1,946 650 116 160 6,069

16,864 93,226 16.991 2,640 24,241 2,'133 111,836 5,173 92,811 283 7,093 8,270

1,574 2,988 1,028 440 1,287 191

12,964 376,705 436,835

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250 4,342 3,000

13,310 7,000 , 2,772 . 8,940 .

3,588

5,864 . 16,822 .

5,422

*i‘,666! 12,180

47,708 * 7,000

5,422

'TIIEOLOGICAT. SEMINARY.

Hitherto our theological class has been kept in connection with the Arcot Seminary, w h i c h has given both secular and theological instruc tion. A t the July meeting, the Mission, on recommendation of the G e n eral Synod, resolved to separate the theological department f r o m the ..Seminary, and place it under charge of a missionary w h o can devote himself exclusively to theological instruction. 'Eev. Dr. 'W. W . S c u d der w a s chosen to this important office, and will enter u p o n his duties as .soon as he is relieved of his w o r k at Madanapalle. T h e S y n o d likewise r e c o m m e n d e d that an e n d o w m e n t of $50,000 be raised for the Theologi cal Seminary, and the B oard has commissioned Dr. Chamberlain to se cure the amount. W i t h the Seminary and its E n d o w m e n t F u n d in such .able hands, w e do not hesitate to predict a bright future for our theo logical school. CONCLUSION.

W e begin a n e w year with grateful and encouraged hearts. T e n _years ago, three men, one of w h o m w a s unordained, constituted the w o r king force of our Mission ; wliile the whole missionary corps n u m bered but five men, with their wives and one unmarried lady. To-day w e have six ordained missionaries in the field, and t w o unmarried lady missionaries ; besides t w o missionaries and their wives in America, and .another m a n under appointment. T h a t our beloved C h u r c h has been able to do so m u c h for us, in addition to her w o r k in other heathen -countries, is truly a just cause for thanksgiving.

STA TION REPORTS, ARCOT. Rev. L. Hekhuis, M.D., Missionary; G. Paramanandam, Reader; Arivanantham,

Munshi; Mary, School Mistress. , At the Out-Stations.— John Abraham, Catechist; C. Aaron, Assistant Catechist; Elias Isaiah, Jonas Moses. T. Benjamin, S. V. Devabaranam, Readers; John Jacob, -C. Solomon, Venkata Ran, Schooipeon, Job, School Masters; Elizabeth, School Mistress.

Dr. Hekhuis reports for this station : Arcot Church.— There are three villages connected with the Arcot -Church, namely, Manim u t u , Avarakara and Walajah. It has been a pleasant a n d profitable year for this church. Several c a m e in with cer-fificates fr o m other churches, wliile thirteen Arcot Seminary lads joined o n confession, thus increasing our n u m b e r b y thirty-six c o m m u n i cants, notwithstanding that six were dismissed with certificates to other •churches. A t the beginning of the year the Arcot Seminary w a s m o v e d 'f r o m Chittoor to Arcot. This added greatly to the interest of the station, and largely increased our number, giving us an increase of -eighty-one adherents. T h e S u n d a y services were well attended, and often •every available seat w a s occupied. T h e S u n d a y school has been a . m a r k e d feature in our church work. T h e Seminary and D a y school

teachers, together with s o m e of the church members, have taken great interest in the school, and m u c h credit is due to th e m for its success ful working. Du r i n g the m o n t h of August, Rev. M oses Nathaniel, pastor of the Arcot and Y e h a m u r churches, w a s b y action of Classis temporarily transferred to the Chittoor church. T h e churches lose m u c h b y this transfer, as he is a faithful pastor; a n d m u c h beloved b y the con gregations under his charge. ' Reading Room.— M u c h of the interest in this station is centered in the w o r k going o n in Walajah. T h e Reading R o o m there has been kept u p during the year. Its table has been supplied with English and vernacu lar literature, both secular and religious. A large n u m b e r of tracts and pamphlets were sold and handbills were given away. T h e Gospel w a s preached to all w h o visited the place and w e trust the Lord will bless the work. T h e attendance w a s not as large as last year’s, o w i n g to an opposition reading r o o m opened b y the natives. Generally such reading r o o m s are short-lived a n d die out as soon as the excitement ceases. There are m a n y educated and well-to-do Hindoos in the place w h o could easily support a g o o d reading room, if they could only agree a m o n g themselves. W e w o u l d be greatly pleased to have t h e m establish one for the benefit of the community. . Sunday School.— S u n d a y school opened last year in connection with the reading r o o m has been successfully kept up. T h e attendance has been fair. Three of the Arcot Seminary lads volunteered to go to Walajah every S u n d a y afternoon to teach the scholars. A t the close of each m o n t h the children were examined in Scripture. A t the close of the year a Christuias entertainment w a s given t h e m b y the teachers, the parents of the children and b y s o m e influential natives. T h e evening w a s a very pleasant one to the children, and also to the large audience that honored the occasion with their presence. Primary School.— In A u g u s t of this year the Mission gave us permis sion to open a boys’ school in Walajah. It started with thirty-five boys, divided into four classes. A small monthly fee is charged. So far it is fairly successful. T h e Bible is taught in the school one hour every day. Zenana Work.— A t the beginning of the year the Ladies’ Missionary Society, of .Holland, Mich., sent us s o m e m o n e y for zenana w o r k in Walajah. Immediately a w o m a n w a s engaged for that work. A t first she m e t with opposition that discouraged her greatly, but after a f e w w eeks patient working several high-caste families opened their houses to her, and since then several others have followed their example. N o w she goes every day to those houses, talks to the w o m e n a n d reads to t h e m fr o m the Bible. In s o m e instances she also teaches t h e m to read, s e w and do fancy work. S o far the w o r k Iqoks very encouraging, al though no direct results are as yet visible. In connection with this w e hope soon to open a caste girls’ school in the place. T h e above m e n tioned Society kindly sent out funds to purchase a house and lot for this

purpose, as also to partly support the school. W e were very fortunate in procuring a g o o d site almost in the centre of the town, hut the place will not be available till the middle of next year. Yehamur Church.— This church, w hich has five villages connected with it, shows a decrease of ninety-one adherents. T w o were received on confession, while two were dismissed to other churches, a n d six died. T h e L o r d ’s Supper w a s administered three times, fourteen children we r e baptized and three marriages solemnized. T h e large falling off is due to a stricter counting of adherents. In the early years of this C h u r c h a n u m b e r of families c a m e and gave their n a m e s in as adherents ; partly fr o m true motives, but as the result proves, m o r e for the “ loaves and fishes.” A s they were disappointed in this respect, s o m e of t h e m w e n t back to heathenism, others left for parts un- ' kn o w n , while b y far the larger n u m b e r are still in the villages. S o m e of these still call themselves Christians, but their conduct and neglect of religious worship and instructions are such that they/lo not deserve the name. In spite of repeated remonstrances m a n y of t h e m have not c o m e near a place of worship for years. These m e n and w o m e n were kept on b y m y predecessors and b y myself, in the hope that they w o u l d c o m e back, but so far they have s h o w n no inclination to do so. Only the worst cases have been dropped this year, while s o m e are still kept on trial, but, unless they s hows signs of improvement, these will probably be dropped next year. Evangelistic Work.— Preaching the Gospel to the heathen has been at tended to as usual. All the-heathen villages have been visited again and again. Besides preaching to the heathen, the helpers w o r k e d hard in their respective villages b y preaching and conducting S u n d a y schools on Sundays, and b y holding prayer meetings and teaching day schools o n w e e k days. I a m h a p p y to say that, with one exception only, the help ers have been faithful in their -work. Medical Work.— In our last report it w a s stated that the Local F u n d B o a r d had agreed to pass the Ranipett Dispensary over to the charge of the Mission. This w a s done in February of this year (1886). J u d g i n g fr o m the n u m b e r of patients, w e have been fairly successful. W e will not trouble the reader with a long list of diseases and their treatment, but d e e m it sufficient to state that over 7,000 patients were treated, that being nearly 1,000 m o r e than for the s a m e period last year. T o nearly, all these the Gospel w a s presented b y preaching, personal conversation^ tracts and handbills. T h u s the seed w a s s o w n in m a n y hearts disciplined' by affliction, and at times when, m o r e than at any other, m e n are inclined, to think seriously about the things pertaining to their spiritual welfare. "

THE ARCOT SEMINARY.

Rev. J. W. Conklin, Principal; Mr. J. D. Solomon, Instructor in Theological Der partmeut.and Head Master ; Mr, S. Daniel, Master of Middle School Class; Mr. C. Raghara Chari,"Master of Sixth Standard Class ; Mr.'S. Francis, Master of Fifth

Standard Class.

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Mr. Conklin reports : This has been a go o d year for this institution, and the future looks brighter. It is b e coming possible to write with enthusiasm as w e look^ forward. The Theological Department has been distinct from the other for three _ years, and in that time about twenty students, including those w h o finish their course this year, have been sent out from it to their w o r k in the field. N o w another forward step is to be taken, and this department is to be transferred to another station and to receive the undivided attention of a missionary. Its standard will be raised, and its course lengthened. A n earnest effort is being m a d e in A m e rica to raise an e n d o w m e n t fund of $50,000 to place this institution on a permanent basis. ' T h e Seminary will be under the charge of Rev. W . W . Scudder, D.D., w h o will give himself wholly to it. T h e little w o r k I have been able to do in this de partment has given m e great pleasure, but I shall be h a p p y to deliver the charge into such competent hands w h e n they are ready to receive it, w h i c h will probably be about the middle of 1887. W h a t w e have longed for seems near at h a n d . O u r S y n o d and Board at h o m e gladden us by their expressed determination to encourage to the utmost our endeavors to better equip our native laborers in the vineyard. W e pray for the success of the e n d o w m e n t fund a n d cannot believe it will fail. T h e sending of students to the C h u r c h of Scotland H i g h School in Yellore w a s w a r m l y approved at home, a n d the three w h o have been studying there this year will be joined by three m o r e at the opening of •next year. ' T h e removal fr o m Chittoor to Ranipett has justified itself in the greatly improved health of the students. Three were taken fr o m us b y death in the early part of the year, but t w o of these died f r o m the effects of Chit toor fever. T h o s e w h o s e places are vacant were S. S a m s o n of the T h e o logical Class, S o l o m o n of the Middle School Glass, a n d Daniel of the Rif th Standard. T h e y were all good boys, a n d w e feel their loss. T w o ■of t h e m had confessed, their faith in Christ before men, and the third, th o u g h a small boy, seemed to have the beginning of a fine Christian character within him. ■ T h e health of the other boys has been uniformly good. T h e close of the year shows seventy-seven students in attendance. Seven are in the first Theological Class, and five in the second ; t w o in the Arcot N o r m a l School, and the rest in the three classes of our Middle School. T h e n e w head-master, Mr. Solomon, has had the care of the boys out of school hours, and, though n e w to the w o r k , has done it creditably. T h e other teachers have been very faithful. V e r y f e w boys have needed serious discipline. T w e l v e united with the Arcot C h u r c h on con fession of their faith. T h e students of the first Theological Class a c c o m panied m e o n several tours, helping greatly in the singing and preaching. T h e y also preached in the weekly market in Ranipett, which is attended b y thousands of people. It is estimated that they preached 160 times to 8,270 people and dis tributed 1,000 tracts.

I append the report of the Mission Examination Committee which gives a s u m m a r y of the sacred subjects studied: “ T h e Committee o n Arcot Seminary respectfully report that they ex a m i n e d the Theological Department on the 14th December, 1886. T h e first class has seven students, and the second five. T h e y were examined in the following subjects : the Scripture books of Jeremiah and Gala tians, Evidences of Christianity, Heidelberg Catechism, Didactic Theol ogy, Homiletics, C h u r c h History, and Test of Religions. ‘‘ Y o u r Committee are pleased to testify to the proficiency of the pupils in all the lessons studied during the year. T h e recitations in the Old Testament, Theology, and Evidences of Christianity, were particularly good and gave full proof of the diligence and faithfulness both of teach ers and taught. T h e recitations in the N e w Testament and Test of R e ligions were nearly but not quite so go o d as those mentioned above. In Homiletics, Ch u r c h History, and Heidelberg Catechism, the students were, in the opinion of the Committee, entitled to at least seventy-five out of a m a x i m u m of 100 marks. O n the whole, the examination was very creditable to all concerned. / “ Other classes were also examined, as follows: Middle School Class— T h e books of Judges a n d M a r k in English ; Sixth Standard— In Tamil, Judges, a part of I. Corinthians, and twenty-six pages of the Heidelberg Catechism ; Fifth Standard— Genesis, Matthew, and twenty-six pages of the Catechism. These examinations were well sustained. All the classes did well, the Fifth Standard bearing oil the palm. “ T h e Committee heartily congratulate the teachers a n d the pupils on the results of their year’s w o r k in branches of study which, being out side the secular curriculum, are in m a n y schools too easily relegated to a secondary place.” (Signed) J. W. S C U D D E R , J O H N SCUDDER. The-Graduating Exercises of the class of ’86 were held in the Arcot C h u r c h on the morning of the 13th of January, 3887. Seven students received, diplomas certifying to their attainments and go o d conduct. T h e order of exercises w a s as follows, singing being freely interspersed : Prayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. W . W . Scudder, D.D. Address in T a m i l ... '.. . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Alexander. Address in T e l u g u . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . J o h n David. Valedictory in English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Assirvatham. Presentation of Diplomas b y the Principal. Address to the Graduating Class__ Rev. Moses Nathaniel/ D o x o l o g y and Benediction. A b o u t sixty former graduates sat d o w n with these n e w ones to a dinner, and this w a s followed b y a meeting of the Graduates’ Asso ciation. ■ Five of the class of ’86 are to be married and stationed as soon as pos sible, the other t w o taking a year’s course in the Arcot N o r m a l School.

ATINL Rev. E. C. Scudder, Jr., M. A., Missionary in Charge. Abram Muni, Catechist in Charge; P. Nithian, Catechist; Cephas Whitehead, Head Master Primary Department Arcot Seminary; Edward Bedford, Second Master; Gnanamuthu, Samson, Readers; Isaac Souriappen, Teacher; Gnanam, Aroickam, Bible-women; Naomi, Sexoing Mistress Hindu Girls' School. At the Out-Stations.— Simon, Joseph Paul, H. P. Joseph, Catechists;Souriappen, Cornelius, Subu David, Assistant Catechists; Isaac Aaron, Po Isaac, Tychicus, Sadanandan, M. Daniel, Crispus, C. Daniel, Readers and Teachers; Magdalene, Caroline, Antonia!, Rachel, Gnanammal, School Mistresses; David, Francis, Colporteurs. v ,

Mr. Scudder writes : Although nothing n e w or startling occurred during the past year in this station, it is pleasant to report progress. There has been a quiet increase in all the churches except one, and in ten out of the sixteen villages, one remaining unchanged: T h e loss in three places is large, but is almost entirely that of unbaptized adherents w h o no longer c o m e to a n y religious services. So it w a s thought best to drop th e m fr o m the lists, rather than to have a s h o w i n g of those who, having once given their n a m e s as adherents, n o w care nothing whatever for Christianity. There have been ten deaths. : t w o adults and eight children. Notwith standing all this the gain in the field is ten. Eleven persons have been received into full c o m m u n i o n on confession of their faith, and nineteen o n certificates from other churches ; four have been dismissed to other churches, and one m e m b e r has died, leaving a net increase of twentyfive in church membership. Contributions, too, have increased. T h e total a m o u n t given was Rs. 220-12-8, of which s u m Rs. 119-14-3 w a s for Congregational pur poses, a n d Rs. 100-14-5 for various religious and benevolent objects. Preaching has been faithfully attended to both in the station and district. T h e Helpers report that they have been uniformly well treated and respectfully listened to everywhere. In the Reading R o o m also in Arni the Catechist has spoken personally to 2,772 people. This r o o m has been fairly popular during the year, and w e think g o o d has been done. 1 " In October a Bible-woman w a s engaged who, for t w o months, has been doing faithful w o r k in the few Zenanas w h i c h she has been able to visit. She says she w a s w e l c o m e d wherever she Went, and the outlook for this branch of the w o r k in Arni is encouraging. Dur i n g the last half of the year there have been twenty-five boys in the Primary Department of the Arcot Seminary, s o m e having been sent a w a y for various reasons in the middle of the year. T h e health of the school lias been on the whole good. T h e following is the Report of the Mission Committee (Rev. Messrs. Conklin and Hekhuis) u p o n the Scripture examination : “ Y o u r Committee examined the Arni School on the 5th of December, 1886, and submits the following report: In the Third Standard eleven boys c a m e u p for examination. T h e class w a s prepared o n t w o books of the Bible— Genesis and M a t t h e w — and three L o r d ’s D a y s of the

Heidelberg Catechism. T h e y were well posted in the lessons assigned ‘ them, a n d almost without exception answered readily. T h e study of the Heidelberg Catechism w a s faithfully attended to and both answers and proof texts were recited without a n y hesitation. “ In the Fourth Standard fourteen boys c a m e u p for examination. T h e parts of Scripture studied b y this class were Genesis and E x o d u s in the Old, a n d M a t t h e w a n d L u k e in the N e w Testament. Besides this they h a d committed to m e m o r y six L o r d ’s D a y s of the Heidelberg Catechism, together with the proof texts. This class w a s not so well posted in the Scripture lessons as the Third Standard. T h e reason w a s not that the Bible studies had been neglected, but because they h a d undertaken too m u c h . * * * T h e y were, however, well prepared on the Heidelberg Catechism. “ Y o u r Committee w a s pleased to note that the Scripture portions had been faithfully studied, a n d that the boys have a fair knowledge of the historical parts of the portions assigned.” The Hindu Girls’ School has been kept u p well, a n d the teachers have done their w o r k faithfully. T w o Christian teachers are employed in the school, a n d the Bible regularly taught. T h e n u m b e r on the rolls has been u p to seventy ; the year closed with sixty-five, and the aver age attendance w a s about fifty. A school w a s opened in the Suriakulam last year. T h e children are all f r o m the lowest classes, a n d the w o r k is hard a n d discouraging to both teachers a n d manager. B u t w e trust s o m e good is being done to the forty or fifty boys w h o c o m e with such painful irregularity. The Chetpet School has done poorly, o w i n g to the fault of the teach ers. W e hope for i m provement in the future. T h e n u m b e r on the rolls on D e c e m b e r 31st w a s seventy-one. The Sanganapuraru School has done well. Fifty-two boys and three girls are o n the rolls a n d c o m e regularly. T h e teacher has been faithful in his work, and the school s h o w s the effect of it. ■ Schools have been kept u p in all the other villages except Sevur, where the Catechist, for the m o s t part of the year, has been too ill to teach. S o m e of these schools are flourishing ; others are small and weak, and it seems hardly w orth while to keep t h e m going, or even to keep a helper in the village, but w e k n o w not “ whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.” T h e w o r k of the year has been, w e can feel, a w o r k of advance and encouragement. Tabulated results are not the only signs. Although there are cold a n d l u k e w a r m Christians, although there have been dis sensions perhaps and discouragements of various kinds— and w h a t mis sionary has t h e m not in his field— there have been also, w e believe, firmer resolves to be better m e n a n d w o m e n ; there have been encouraging confessions of faith ; there has been the death of one w h o s e latest breath w a s used to testify in quiet content that all w a s well with his soul, and there are, without doubt, growths under the surface w hich in due time will s h o w themselves to the glory of God.

CHITTOOR. ^ Rev. J. W. Conklin, Missionary. Mrs. Conklin, Assistant Missionary. Rev. Moses Nathaniel, Acting Pastor. F. Samuel, Reader and Teacher in Hindu Girls' School. R. David, J. Pakyanathan, School Masters. Salome, Sewing . Teacher. . At the Out-Stations.— 3. Raji, Cathechist. Zechariah Appavoo, S. Isaiah, John Zechariah, Asssistant Catechists. P. David, Reader and School Master. S. An drew, Satthiavasagam, R. Nathaniel, School Masters. R. Martha, S. Sarah, A. Re becca, J. Arokiam, P. Santhai, Carolina, School Mistresses. Alexander, Colporteur.

Mr. Conklin writes : M y former reports of this church have always been supplemented b y those of Pastor Sawyer. H e can no m o r e report to Mission or Classis or Synod, but only to his Heavenly Master and to the “ General A ssembly and C h u r c h of the First Born.” T h e church of Chittoor which he loved, guarded and labored to build up, is'sorely stricken b y his re moval. T h e missionary has lost from his side a support o n w h i c h he leaned m u c h , and w h i c h never proved untrustworthy. T h e removal of the Seminary, principal, teachers and students dir minished the congregation b y about 100 a n d the m e m bership b y twentyfive. B u t as the loss to this church is a gain to that in Arcot, w e need not deeply mourn. F o u r were received into full c o m m u n i o n on confes sion a n d four b y certificate. F o u r have been r e m o v e d b y death and twenty-nine dismissed to' other churches. T h e present membership isfifty-one. T h e total of the congregation has fallen from 205 to 108. T h e church has given for pastor’s support, Rs. 104-11-2, and for other purposes Rs. 47-9-6, m a k i n g a total of Rs. 152-4-8. A part of the con tributions of the boys of the Arcot Seminary is included in this sum. Rev. M oses Nathaniel has been the acting pastor of the church since September 1st. ^ During the interval after Pastor S a w y e r ’s death in April, the Chittoor teachers ministered to the church for the most part, and deserve m e n tion for their zealous endeavors to keep u p the work. Pastor A b r a h a m William kindly visited the church while I w a s o n the Hills. There are still thirty-five families in the congregation, and the Sabbath services and prayer meetings are well attended. T h e S u n d a y school has an at tendance of about fifty. Pastor Moses will continue to act therefor a time longer, and w e hope to see growth the co m i n g year. The Church of Kottwpalli.— This is m a d e u p of Christians f r o m ten villages. I administered the c o m m u n i o n in March, July , and December, and visited the villages. Three have been received into mem b e r s h i p on confession a n d three by certificate. O n e w a s dismissed to another church, t w o died, and three were suspended for walking disorderly. T h u s the n u m b e r of actual c o m m u nicants is seventy-eight, the s a m e as 1 ast year. T hose suspended were Christians of long standing w h o had b e c o m e stumbling blocks, and w e hope the discipline will have a salutary effect u p o n others as well as up o n them. T h e n u m b e r of adherents has i ncreased from 275 to 328, a gain of forty-nine. ■ Several families have c o m e out fr o m heathenism, and I think the

church is in a m o r e healthy condition than last year. Another evidence of this is the increase in the a m o u n t given to the Lord. Last year the contributions of the church were Rs. 40-2. This year they are Rs. 52-2-3. A gain of one-fourth in one of our poor “ country” churches m e a n s m uch. T h e village congregation of B o m m a s a m u n d r a m bears the p a l m in giv ing. T h e n e w village of Paramasattu has' m a d e a g o o d beginning, Rs. 10-3 having been received f r o m its people. Three infants have been baptized, and four marriages solemnized during the year. These villages are so scattered that it is difficult to get all the church m e m b e r s together for the c o m m u n i o n . In March, however, w h e n Revs. J. W. Scudder and Moses Nathaniel visited it, as a Committee of Classis, communicants were present f r o m all the villages, a n d fifty-six sat d o w n at the L o r d ’s Table. S o m e of t h e m journeyed fifteen miles, a n d I cannot ask th e m to do it often. Work among non-OkriMians.— T h e Chittoor a n d village Helpers have done a considerable a m o u n t of outside preaching during the year. Their custom is to hold school m o r ning a n d evening, and preach in other vil lages at mid-day, w h e n the cultivators c o m e in fr o m their fields for food and rest. Their records s h o w that they have preached 1,028 times; in 435 places, to 16,991 people, a n d distributed over 3,000 tracts and h a n d bills. ". The Beading Boom is useful in this sa m e direction. There have been 8,940 visitors, and the hooks and papers s h o w signs of m u c h handling. T h e sales fr o m it, b y the aid of a village colporteur, have been 498 Christian school books and 1,355 tracts. Primary Scfowfs.— There are twelve of these under m y charge. T w o are in Chittoor and ten in villages. O f the former, one is a School for Hindu O-irls. It w a s opened in January with seventeen pupils, and has been steadily increasing until in D e c e m b e r there were 106 on the roll, and ninety were present w h e n I last visited it. Th a t the school w a s needed is s h o w n b y the fact that before it w a s opened only about 120 irirls were under instruction in Chittoor, whereas n o w there are about

200. S o m e of the E u r o p e a n ladies of the station have kindly visited the school and given it the benefit of their oversight and advice. T h e girls are studying Christian books a n d being taught -hymns and Bible verses. This school is entirely supported by friends in America, outside of our o w n Church, and w e k n o w that it has earnest prayers offered specially in its behalf. ' ■ .

The Mixed School in the C h u r c h c o m p o u n d is pretty well kept iip. W h e n I have examined it, the children have recited well. It is a school for the poor, and about thirty-five are in attendance. . Village Schools are better than last year. m o r e pupils and m o r e regular attendance.

T h e y report twenty-five T h e teachers have hard

work. T h e y mu s t usually go out literally after the children “ into the hig h w a y s a n d hedges and compel t h e m to c o m e in.” . Generous Help.— Again, this year, m u c h aid has been given to our >work b y residents of Chittoor. Besides subscribing to the Station F u n d they gave m o n e y to b u y a goodly a m o u n t of rice a n d other provisions ;for all the Christian poor at Christmas time. T h e y have our hearty thanks. ‘ COONOOK.

Rev. John Scudder, M. D., Missionary in Charge. " C. David, Catechist; Isaac Abraham, Elder; T. N. Ponoosawmi Pillai, Acting Head Master ; Methuselah Solomon, 2d Teacher, T. Gamaliel, M Teacher, Boys' School; Christiana David, Head Mistress, Mary Paul Isaac, 2d Teacher, Girls' School. .

Dr. John Scudder reports : * Rev. J. W . Scudder, M . D., spent three mon t h s in this station, during w h ich time he kindly administered to the wants of the church. There has been an increase of twenty-seven souls in the congregation during the year. Seven children and one adult were baptized; t w o were received on confession of their faith, and eight on certificate. Seven were dismissed to" other churches, leaving the present n u m b e r of c o m municants one hundred, being three m o r e than last year. • - T h e Sabbath services are very well attended, but s o m e are prevented f r o m being present every Sabbath, as they live at a distance fr o m the church. A prayer meeting is held during the week, and one also for the w o m e n . T h e Sabbath School is held before the m o r n i n g service. T h e Catechist also holds prayers with the servants of s o m e of the English residents, and preaches to the heathen. H e has preached dur ing the year 440 times in 220 places to 2,040 persons. T h e contributions for benevolent purposes a m o u n t to Rs. 162-2-6, w h i c h is Rs. 22-3-0 m o r e than last year. Rs. 117-2-0 of this was given for the support of the ministry. . The Boys’School.— T h e H e a d Master resigned in July, and w e have not been able to supply his place. T h e 2d Master has been acting in his place. T h e school is smaller than before. There were fifty n a m e s on the roll at the end of the year. T h e school is under the charge of J. G. Clarkson, Esq., to w h o m , and also to those w h o contribute towards its support, w e are deeply grateful for their interest in the school. The Girls’Sc/tooJ.— This school is smaller than last year. T h e present n u m b e r is forty-five, being a decrease of five. Miss J. C. Scudder visited the school a n u m b e r of times while she w a s in Coonoor. T h e school is under the m a n a g e m e n t of Mrs, Clarkson. "We tender our thanks to her and to the other ladies w h o are interested in the school a n d w h o have contributed towards its support. ' MADANAPALDE. Rev. W „ W. Scudder, D.D., Missionary in Charge. Mrs. W. IV. Scudder, in charge of the Boys' Boarding School. Miss M. K. Scudder, in charge of the Girls' Boarding School and the Hindu Girls' School. P. Souri, John Souri, Catechists:

James Haydayetallah, Head Master of the Boys' Boarding School; P. Timothy. 2d Master; Elijah John, 3cZ Master; Joseph John, Head Master of the Girls' Boarding School; Papaya Sastri, Telugu Munshi; Esther Jula, Mary Teruvengalam, School 'Mistresses; Esther Sawyer, Matron of the Girls' Boarding School; Rebecca Souri, Selvam Souri, Rebecca Hill, Bible Readers; Samuel Kanniah, Colporteur of the American Bible Society. At the Out-Stations.— 3. Anthony Chinnaya, Assistant Catechist; Lazar Mariam Eleazer Anthony, Jonas Chinnappa, James Neal, Timothy Neal, Samuel Seth, Mark Eaccheus,.Readers ; Marial Rayal, Bible Reader, supported by friends in England ; Abraham, supported by Madanapalle church.

Report by Dr. W . W . Scudder : Dur i n g the past year six persons were received to the church on con fession of their faith, a n d t w o o n certificate ; seven c o m m u n i c a n t s were dismissed, a n d one died. T h e n u m b e r of communicants remains there fore the sa m e as last year, 74; five infants and one adult were baptized. W h i l e the n u m b e r of communicants is the s a m e as last year, the station pCongregation has risen f r o m 147 to 197, showing a net increase of 50. T w o Sabbath services a n d t w o weekly prayer meetings have been maintained throughout the year; and our three S u n d a y schools have continued their w o r k of instruction a n d usefulness. A b r a h a m , the M a h o m m e d a n convert, has continued in the e m p l o y m e n t of the church, a n d has faithfully performed his duties as an Evangelist. A part of his salary has been paid during the past year b y friends in Australia, and they have kindly intimated their desire to assume his entire support for the current year. T h e contributions for benevolent purposes are Rs. 204-9-2. This s u m falls short of last year’s contribution b y Rs. 28-8-9. This is greatly to be regretted, for the charities of a church generally keep pace with its spirituality, and a falling off in its contributions almost always indicates a decline of religion in the hearts of its members. T h e spirit of Christ is the spirit of benevolence, and in proportion to the possession of that spirit b y a church will be its outflow of charity. W e trust that the church m a y be led to a proper apprehension of this great truth, a n d that the current year m a y s h o w a large increase in their contributions to benevolent objects. Boys' Boarding School.— Mrs. Scudder, w h o has charge of this school, writes as follows : . O u r school closes this year with twenty-five boarders and nineteen day-scholars. Three boys have been received during the year, a n d one has left us. T h e latter w a s a caste boy w h o begged to be taken into the school; voluntarily broke his caste, a n d w a s at first very anxious to learn to read. T h e restraints of school life, however, probably be c a m e irksome to h i m after a while, for he suddenly disappeared, having per suaded Isaac, a lad w h o h a d joined us fr o m M o h a m m e d a n i s m , to go with him. After m a n y weeks of wandering Isaac returned, like the “ Prodigal,” having stealthily left his companion w h o tried to induce h i m to go with h i m to Ma d r a s and take passage to the Mauritius. W e have heard nothing since of the wandering one, a nd can only pray that he m a y yet be led into the fold of the G o o d Shepherd.

It is a.great joy to us that five of our boys have been received into the church during the year. T h e health of the school has been uniformly good, a n d the boys have m a d e c o m m e n d a b l e progress in their studies. T h e boys passed a good examination at the close of the year in Bible study, in w h ich they were examined b y Dr. Hekhuis a n d Rev. E. 0. Scudder. T h e y also greatly enjoyed a Christmas tree, for w h i c h pleasure w e sincerely thank our kind friends in America. Girls’Boarding School and Hindu Girlg School.— Miss M . K. Scudder, w h o has charge of these schools, writes as follows : T h e health of the Boarding School has been unusually g o o d during the year. O f twenty-nine n a m e s entered o n the roll, twenty were those of boarding pupils. O n e of the orphan girls w a s married to a helper in a village near by. . A great loss has befallen us .in the death of S a m u e l Zachariah, the 2d Teacher in the school. H e w a s an earnest Christian a n d Bible student. W i t h grief w e watched his increasing suffering, k n o w i n g that no earthly help could save h i m to us. Although w e a k e n e d b y c o n s u m p tion, he tried to meet his classes until within two mo n t h s of his death. W h e n too feeble to hold his Bible, he had it placed, in a rack on the cot, beside him, where he could read a few words at a time. Quietly he passed a w a y at the last, and w e feel sure that he n o w rejoices in the presence of his Lord, w h o s e w o r d he so dearly loved. T h e year closed happily for the children, o w i n g to kind friends in A l b a n y and Philadelphia w h o s e abundant and beautiful gifts m a d e gay our Christmas tree. If they could have seen the joy they had caused they w o u l d k n o w h o w sincere are our thanks. The Hindu Girls’School has closed with fifty-eight n a m e s on the roll, a n d an attendance of between forty and fifty. T w o of our brighest little girls (Brahmin sisters) died during the s u m m e r , after long w e e k s of suffering f r o m fever. A n u m b e r of the children were attacked with small-pox, t w o fatally. T h e classes in Catechism and Bible studies an swered well at their annual examination. T h e older girls often ask for ' the stories to read for themselves. The Anglo- Vernacular School.— This school, w h i c h is in Vayalpad, has been continued throughout the year, a n d has been doing its important, w o r k of instruction; chiefly a m o n g the upper classes of society. T h e attendance, o w i n g to various causes, has not been quite as large as last year. T h e Bible is taught one hour daily in each class b y a Christian teacher, w h o also has a S u n d a y School attended b y about sixty of the scholars. P. Souri, catechist, visits the school from time to time, and examines the pupils in their Biblical studies. A t the request of the inhabitants of Yayalpad I have opened a,Reading Room in the place ; the people promising to contribute Rs. 60 a year towards its expenses.' Evangelistic Work.— This important w o r k has been carried on as usual, as the statistical table will show. ■

W h a t will be the final outcome of these evangelistic labors w e cannot tell. W e have, however, the promise that “ the w o r d which goethforth fr o m the mouthjof G o d shall not return unto H i m void, but shall a c c o m plish that wliich H e pleases a n d shall prosper in the thing whereunto H e sends it.” Trusting in this promise w e look forward to an abundant harvest to be gathered, in G o d ’s o w n appointed time. In connection with this w o r k I a m glad to report that the Manadapalle Free Beading Boom is still carried on ; and' that the G o s pel, through its instrumentality, is m a d e k n o w n to multitudes. I a m taking measures whiclt I hope m a y m a k e it still m o r e efficient for good. Out-Stations.— I mentioned in the report of 1885 that, in the vicinity of Angallu, fifteen families n u m b e r i n g sixty-three souls h a d placed themselves u n d e r our care, giving us their pledge to renounce heathen ism a n d to w a l k as Christians. W i s h i n g to test their sincerity, I did not include t h e m a m o n g our adherents. M o s t of t h e m have continued to express their determination to w a l k as Christians, a n d though not fully satisfied in regard to t h e m I have entered t h e m in the report for 1886. A plain building has been erected, serving the double purpose of a prayer r o o m a n d schoolhouse, and a small school has been opened. T h e people w h o thus join us are very ignorant and superstitious, but past experience has taught us that the Gospel has great p o w e r in enlight ening and reforming them. W e c o m m e n d this n e w congregation to the prayers of G o d ’s people, that they m a y be kept fr o m backsliding, and m a y be established in the Gospel faith. There is nothing of interest to report from the other Out-Stations. 'T h e w o r k is carried on steadily, and, including the n e w adherents, there is a net increase of sixty. A d d ing this to the increase at the Station, w e have a net increase of 110 souls. PALAMANAIB.

Rev. W. W. Scudder, D.D., Missionary in, Charge; P. Moses, Catechist; Moses Abel, Teacher; Ruth Abel, School Mistress.

Dr. Scudder writes :

O f the six communicants reported last year t w o were dismissed, and seven m e m b e r s were received, m a k i n g the present n u m b e r of c o m m u n i cants eleven. T w o services have been held in the church each Sabbath, and the L o r d ’s Supper w a s administered three times. T h e Gospel has been systematically preached by the Catechist in the t o w n a n d adjacent villages. T h e school closes with twenty-one n a m e s on the roll. T h e contributions m a d e to benevolent purposes were Rs. 17-7-6. O . TINDIVANAM. ’ Rev. John Scudder, M.D., Missionary. Mrs. John Scudder, Assistant Missionary. . S. A. Sebastian, Catechist and Head Master* Anglo-Vernacular School; Samson Samuel, Assistant Catechist; Joseph Paul Bailey, Reader and Head Teacher* Feeder School; C.Iyakan, Reader and Teacher, Hindu Girls' School; Rukkumani Ammal, Saving Mistress; Non-Christian School Masters, Boys1 School 6, Girls’

School 1; Mrs. Caroline Sawyer, Bible Reader; C. R. Chimappen, Colporteur, Tract Society; A. Mathalaimuttu, Colporteur, Madras Bible Society. At the Out-Stations.— Rev. Paul Bailey, Native Pastor, Orattur ; A. Daniel, John Peter, Prakasam Malliappen, Catechists; Yesadian Israel, Assistant Catechist; Christian Daniel, T. Shadrach, C. Jacob,'John David, Francis Jacob, A. Joseph, C. Ephraim, John Matthew, Moses Joshua, B. John, A. Francis, J. Masillamini, A. Isaac, Readers ; T. James, S. Zachariah, P. Daniel, P. Abraham, Aaron K. Zacha riah, Kanakaryan, Peter Malliappen, Teachers; Mary, Asenath, Emini, Diavai. Joanna, Animal, Sattiam, School M i s t r e s s e s Elizabeth, Martha, Bible Readers; Silas, Village Colporteur.

T he Rev. John Scudder writes : ■ T h e past year has been one of steady and persistent work. T h e seed has been s o w n extensively, s o m e useless and noxious w eeds removed, and the field well cultivated. T h e harvest reaped has not m e t our ex pectations, still w e are thankful for the fruit w h i c h the L o r d has gra ciously given us. . A s usual, there has been a n increase in s o m e villages a n d a decrease in others, still the adherents n u m b e r thirty-four m o r e than last year. This increase is o w i n g to t w o n e w villages which have joined us during the year. In one, nine families numbe r i n g twenty-seven souls, and in the other, four families n u m b e r i n g thirteen souls, have placed t h e m selves under Christian instruction, and are anxious to have a helper lo cated a m o n g them. This has not yet been done. T h e y have worshipped with the congregation nearest to them, and have been visited f r o m time to time b y a Catechist. In the first village, the people have ’themselves erected a small building in order that divine service m a y be conducted a m o n g them. In the other village, there were, a f e w years ago, a n u m ber of adherents, but they all relapsed except one family, w h o have re mained firm, and have n o w persuaded three others to join them. There are hopes that others will also be added to their number. T w o villages have been without a resident Helper.. All were provided for at the beginning of the year, but as w e were compelled to dismiss t w o m e n for misconduct, and have not been able to supply their places, the t w o villages have remained vacant. O n e of the m e n dismissed re turned to his o w n village, w h e r e there is a small'Christian congregation, and did all he could for s o m e time to break u p the school and congrega tion. H e succeeded in breaking u p the school, but the people still re m a i n faithful. H e seems to have repented of his course, as, towards the end of the year, he sent us a letter confessing his sins, and asked for pardon. I a m sorry to add, that shortly after that, he w a s taken sick and died, leaving a family in destitute circumstances. T h e communicants n u m b e r twenty-five m o r e than last year, thirtyfour have been received on confession of their faith, and thirteen on cer tificate. T e n have been dismissed to other churches, nine 'have been suspended for disorderly conduct, and one has died, leaving the present n u m b e r 475. Twenty-nine adults and sixty children have been baptized. Twe n t y - t w o of these— eleven adults and eleven children— belong to the village of Pudupoliam, w h ere w e spent a w e e k in April, w o r king a m o n g the heathen, and instructing the people. T h e y were very anxious for baptism, a n d as w e k n e w of no objection it w a s decided, after a thor

o u g h examination of their knowledge and faith, to administer the rite to them. In the congregation of T i n divanam itself, the communicants remain the s a m e as last year, but there has been a loss of four in the total. This is o w i n g to the departure of one of our helpers, who, together with his wife, h a d been educated b y the Mission at a great expense, and w h o w a s induced by the offer of a higher salary to leave us a n d seek e m p l o y m e n t in another mission. T h e contributions of the native congregations for benevolent purposes . a m o u n t e d to Rs. 345-7-5, an advance of nearly twenty per cent, over the gifts of last year. Rs. 184-1-8 of this a m o u n t w a s given for the support of the ministry. T h e Rev. Paul Bailey has been faithful in the discharge of his duties to the congregations under his charge, and has spent considerable time in touring a m o n g the heathen. His church in Orattur has m e t with a great loss in the death of Elder A b r a h a m , through w h o s e influence his village w a s led to c o m e over to Christianity. Although he m e t with persecution and trouble, he never wavered in his faith, but w a s firm and zealous to the last. H e w a s ill for s o m e months before his death, and, though he k n e w that the time of his departure w a s near at hand, w a s cheerful and resigned, and expressed his willingness to go w h e n the L o r d called. W e trust he has gone to me e t his reward. Middle School— The attendance has not been as large as in former years.' T h e year closed with ninety-two n a m e s on the roll. T h e large fees required b y the G o v e r n m e n t have prevented m a n y f r o m attending w h o w o u l d have done so at the old rates. T h e a m o u n t of fees received has also fallen off nearly Rs. 100. A s yet no grant has been received. Feeder School.— This school is in a m u c h better condition than last year. A change of teachers w a s made, a n d it has improved in every way. T h e attendance has been better, the a m o u n t of fees ^received* larger, and the grant earned considerably more. T h e year closed with sixty-six n a m e s on the roll. • ' The Hindu Girls’School— There were forty-three girls in attendance at the end of the year, w h i c h N o n e less than last year. T h e school has done fairly well, but w e h oped for greater improvement. It is with the greatest difficulty w e can get the parents to send their children regularly. Their frequent absences are deleterious to the scholars a n d to the con dition of the school. Mrs. Scudder visits the school several times a week, and examines the scholars in their studies. The Preparandi School— Four boys f r o m this school we r e sent to the Arcot Seminary and t w o to the school in Arni. There have been twentynine scholars during the year. M o s t of t h e m have conducted themselves well, and have m a d e fair progress in their studies. A s m a n y of t h e m are deficient in English, Mrs. Scudder has instructed t h e m in this study. Village Schools.— S o m e of t h e m are in a better condition than last year, but there is r o o m for a vast improvement. It is with the greatest diffi culty that w e can keep t h e m up. If the G o v e r n m e n t realized this diffi

culty, they w o u l d be m o r e liberal in their support and not be so particu lar about the n u m b e r in each class and the n u m b e r of days each scholar attended. The Reading Room.— This has been kept open during the year and has been visited b y 5.864 persons. Tracts and school books are kept for sale. T h e sales are as follows: C. Y. E. S. books, 386 ; G o v e r n m e n t school books, 340 ; religious books and tracts, 146. Total a m o u n t of sales, Rs. 133-8-3. Besides these the Tract Colporteur has sold books and tracts amounting to over Rs. 87, and the Bible Society Colporteur Bibles and portions amounting to Rs. 52-3-3. ■ Evangelistic Work.— I have been engaged nearly 100 days in district work. Fifty days were spent touring a m o n g the heathen. Another tour w a s planned, but had to be abandoned on account of sickness. A n u m b e r of the native assistants, together with Rev. Paul Bailej', visited C a n j e e p u r a m a n d M i l a m during the feasts held at these places, and preached-the Gospel to the multitudes assembled there. T h e y have also visited the villages surrounding their stations. M o r e than 1,946 villages have been reached, and the truth proclaimed to 111;836 persons, and 3,716 books and tracts distributed, besides m a n y handbills .which were 'given a w a y freely. T h e remaining portion of the 100 days w a s spent in visiting the Chris tian congregations a n d administering to their wants. Mrs. Scudder accompanied m e on these tours, and relieved m e of part of the w o r k by examining the schools at the different places. .

Rev. Paul Bailey writes:■

B y the blessings of G o d the congregations committed to m y care have g r o w n in knowledge and grace, and are b ecoming m o r e civilized and orderly in their conduct. S o m e of the Christians preach the Gospel a m o n g the heathen as they have the opportunity. T h e helpers and I have continually preached to the heathen in the sur rounding villages, and s o m e of the villagers have said that they w o u l d c o m e over to Christianity. Ni n e families, aggregating forty-three per sons, in Salamur have already joined usr S o m e of the Christians have m a d e special gifts during the year. O n e person in Narasinganur gave a sheep he h a d raised. Silas gave a collection bag, and Joseph a l a m p for the C h u r c h in Orattur. M a t t h e w gave a m a t for the pastor’s cart. M y wife holds prayers every m o r n i n g with the w o m e n and teaches t h e m the Catechism. Prayers are also held for the m e n in the evening. I have m e t with a great loss in the death of Elder A b r a h a m . In 1868, w h e n stationed in Nungatoor, he sent for m e to visit his village, w h i c h I did as soon as possible. H e then promised to renounce heathenism and join us. In a short time he persuaded fourteen families.to c o m e with him. T h e y promised to give us so m e land for a church building, and w o u l d have done so, had not a heathen w h o o w n e d a share in it o b jected. W e could have got another piece, but A b r a h a m w a s determined that w e should have that, as it had been promised, and for three years he w o r k e d unceasingly for it, having had to go to court a n u m b e r of times.

A t last the Collector c a m e to the village and gave the desired bit of land. A b r a h a m w a s always faithful and zealous, and a great aid to m e in in structing the people and urging t h e m to wa l k as Christians. F o r two years he w a s ill, but his faith never wavered, a n d he died expressing his trust in his Saviour. His death is a great sorrow and loss to me, as I have no one to take his place. 1 visit the Christian congregations under m y care every m o n t h and administer the c o m m u n i o n every third month. T w i c e a year Rev. John Scudder and Mrs. Scudder a c c o m p a n y m e on these visits and examine the schools and aid m e in the administration of the sacraments.VELLORE. Rev. J. W. Scudder, M.A., M.D., Missionary. . . Mrs. J. W. Scudder, in Charge of Female Seminary. Miss J. C. Scudder, in Charge of Hindu Girls' Schools. Teaching Staff of Female Seminary.— Ebenezer Yesudian, Head Master ;Joseph Packianadan, Second Teacher; David Muni, Third Teacher; Jacob Lazarus, Fourth Teacher : Anna, Fifth Teacher; Mrs. A. White, Matron ;■A. Massillamony. P. Jaganadan, V. Thomas, Catechists ; Isaac Henry, Catechist and Bible Teacher in Hindu Girls' Schools; N. Gideon, Teacher of Elementary School; Appow, Sandrasegaran, Colporteurs; Gnanatipam, Bible Woman; Philipina, Zenana Teacher. Atthe Out-Stations.— Rev. Abraham William, Native Pastor at Kattupadi; Mrs. A. William, R/We Reader ,•Isaac Lazarus, Christian Samuel, Israel Andrew, John Abraham, Catechists; S. Vedamonickam, M. Joshua, S. Treadwell, L. Bashyam, Assistant Catechists; David Daniel, David Vareed, lyavu David, Daniel Lazar, K. Solomon, Readers and School Masters; Philip, M. Paramanandam, John Moses, Zavier Lazar, A. Daniel, School Masters; A. Mary, L. Lazarus, School Mistresses; Shadrach, Colporteur.

Nineteen persons were received into this church during 1S86, thirteen of t h e m o n confession of faith and six by certificate. Seventeen were dismissed to other churches and three died. A t the close of last year I reported one hundred and twenty-eight communicants. T h e c o m m u n i cants at the close of the present year n u m b e r e d one hundred and twentyseven, s h o wing a net decrease of one. While the addition to the church this year w a s not small, the depletion both of church and congregation w a s unusually large. This is o w i n g partly to the permanent removal of the native regiment fr o m Vellore and partly to the migration of five fami lies, aggregating twenty-six souls, w h o h a d been connected with us for m a n y years. O f the communicants dismissed, eight were c o m m e n d e d to churches of our o w n Mission, and, therefore, are not lost to us. T h e remaining nine have passed altogether beyond our bounds. T w o adults and nineteen infants were baptiz.ed, and seven marriages were solemjtized. T h e congregation, all told, n o w n u m b e r s t w o hundred and thirtyseven. Three general prajmr meetings, one especially for w o m e n , are held every week, the latter b y the missionary ladies here. T h e S a b bath schools continue their useful work. Attendance -on divine service has been fair, and, so far as w e k n o w , the conduct of our people good a n d consistent. T h e contributions of the church during 188(5 were Rs. 321-5-3. T h e aggregate gain this year over last amounts to Rs. 36-2-4. R e m e m b e r i n g the decrease in the strength of the congregation, this re sult is creditable.

Female Seminary.— Mrs. J. W . Scudder, w h o has charge of this institution, writes as follows : “ I a m h a p p y to say that in reviewing the occurrences of the year in connection with the F e m a l e Seminary, I find but very few things to cause either regret for the past, or anxiety for the future. T h e health of the girls has been unusually good. W e have not been visited b y death or b y serious illness, and though t w o accidents occurred— one of a child falling into a well, and another of a girl scalded b y breaking a pot of hot water w hich she w a s carrying— in both instances serious results were averted b y our loving Heavenly Father. Eight of the pupils have, within the year, m a d e a public profession of religion, and c o m m e m o r a t e d the dying love of the Saviour b y partaking of the holy Sacrament. Five girls were given a w a y in marriage, and have a c c o m panied their husbands to various parts of our Mission field. In M a r c h last w e were fortunate enough to secure the services of a go o d matron w h o looks carefully after the temporal welfare of the scholars and exerts a g o o d influence on them. In conclusion I wish to thank those friends at h o m e w h o have contributed to the support of m a n y of the girls, and have sent t h e m encouraging letters fr o m time to time. I have also to acknowledge m a n y little gifts to the pupils from kind friends, for w h i c h w e return our grateful thanks. I will only add that the girls of the Seminary have this year contributed from their little savings-Rs. 20 to the Ma d r a s Bible Society, and Rs. 20 towards the support of a pastor. Hindu Girls’ Schools.— T h e A r a s a m a r a m Street school, with a w o r k ing staff of four teachers, one sewing mistress and t w o peons, has on its roll 127 pupils; the average daily attendance w a s ninety. • T h e Circar • M a n d y Street school has four teachers, one sewing mistress, and t w o peons. T h e n u m b e r of scholars o n its roll is 105, and its'average daily attendance w a s seventy-eight. ' In A u g u s t last a “ C o m m i t t e e ” of H i n d u gentlemen started an o p p o sition girls’ school almost within a stone’s throw of our A r a s a m a r a m street institution, with the a v o w e d purpose of breaking u p the “ mis sionary’s school.” In a courteous letter I requested the patrons of the n e w enterprize to open it in s o m e place sufficiently r e m o v e d from us to prevent a clashing of interests. T h e request w a s refused, a n d vigorous efforts, s o m e of t h e m of a questionable and offensive nature, were m a d e to capture our pupils and injure our school. These, I a m glad to say, were, in the main, frustrated by the firm, yet always courteous activity of our teachers. A few of our advanced scholars, w h o are daughters-or relatives of the m e m b e r s of the “ committee,” have beeno transferred to the n e w school; but, beyond this, w e have suffered no damage. O n the contrary, our attendance has increased since the rival institution was.established. W e hope that its patrons will soon profit b y experience and rem o v e it to s o m e other place w h ere it will stand a better chance of continued life and prosperity than it does in its blunder ing a n d ill-starred juxtaposition to the A merican Mission school. T h e annual prize distribution took place in January. M a n y of the ' girls w h o have wealthy parents appeared elegantly dressed, and, as is

the H i n d u custom, profusely decked with costly jewels. Heads, ears, noses, necks, waists, ankles, and even toes glittered with gold and silver a n d precious stones. AVhile a cultivated taste might, perhaps, reflect u p o n so lavish a decoration of individuals, the-general effect produced b y a large assemblage of y o u n g girls thus embellished is certainly brilliant and not unpleasing to the eye. So, judging from the gratified expression of their faces, thought the assembled parents and friends of the pupils. After a brief recitation of lessons interspersed with the singing of Tamil and Te l u g u lyrics, the prizes were given to the chil dren. and the}7 went home, pressing dolls, workboxes, and books to delighted hearts. These schools are in the charge_of Miss Scudder, w h o visits t h e m daily, and gives m u c h time and effort to the instruction of the pupils. I a m sure the ladies of our W o m a n ' s B o ard w h o support these institutions, w o u l d feel abundantly repaid, could they hear these y o u n g H i n d u girls reciting their catechism and fluently repeating the sweet stories of the Bible. Teachers a n d scholars have w o r k e d diligently throughout the year, and have, as they deserve, our commendation. Zenana Work.— This w o r k which, as I mentioned in m y last report, w a s partially interrupted at the close of 1885 b y the removal of our trained assistant, w a s fully resumed on her return in M a r c h of this year. It is a most important agency, and might be amplified to almost any ex tent in this city. B u t w e cannot do m u c h with the limited m e a n s at our disposal. A few hundred rupees a year w o u l d enable us to em p l o y sev eral qualified w o m e n in this work, and scores of secluded zenanas might be illumined with Gospel light. T h e chief, not to say the only, hin drance, is the w a n t of funds. It will give us pleasure to press this w o r k on just as fast and as far as m e a n s m a y be furnished for its prosecution. Mrs. Isaac H e n r y has, w e are glad to say, continued to give her volun tary services in this department this year. Heading Boom.— T h e reading r o o m has been open almost every w e e k day throughout the year. A s s h o w n b y the record, the average daily n u m b e r of visitors w a s fifty-six, giving an aggregate of 16,822 for the twelvemonth. M a n y of these, doubtless, are attracted mainly by the secular newspapers and magazines spread on the tables of the room. But, f r o m whatever motive they come, all have the Gospel preached to them, and all are invited to read the Scriptures a n d other Christian books that occupy places alongside of the worldly literature. Bibles and tracts are also kept on sale, and are purchased to s o m e extent b y visitors. Religi ous publications to the value of six or seven rupees are thus put in circu lation every month. W e heartily thank F. Wilkinson, Esq., w h o has kindly continued his liberal contribution towTards the expenses of this reading room. Out-Stations.— T h e changes at m y Out-Stations have been so trifling that I have little or nothing to report concerning them. T h e usual pas toral, educational, and evangelistic w o r k has been steadily and earnestly carried on throughout the period under review. W e are encouraged, as

w e see in s o m e of the villages sure indications, fr o m year to year, of social and spiritual advancement. In s o m e places the change for the better is too plain to escape even a cursory observation ; in others, w e are forced to admit that the i m provement is m o r e tardy, as it is less conspic uous. But, on the.whole, the m o v e m e n t is unquestionably o n w a r d and upward. W e have had n o accessions fr o m a m o n g the heathen this year. There is talk in s o m e villages of c o m i n g over to Christianity, but the talk still waits on courage. Probably w e m a y count on these talkers joining us after a while. A s always, s o m e of the village schools have done creditably, while others afford us but scant comfort. In several places conscientious and energetic native assistants, seconded b y parents moderately appreciative of their children’s interests, s h o w us schools that w e are not a s h a m e d o f ; in others our best efforts do not very noticeably succeed in energizing either teachers or parents. Yet, viewed fr o m a general standpoint, there is progress in this department also. W h a t w e have to do is to press on perseveringly in the path of duty, faint sometimes, like Gideon, yet, like him, pursuing. T h e Out-Station churches under m y pastoral care, viz, those of S e k a d u and Kandipputtur, have, respectively. 105 a n d 124 m e m b e r s in c o m m u n i o n . T o the former three persons were added b y certificate this year, and one c o m m u n i c a n t w a s removed by death. • Into the latter I had the pleasure, in N o v e m b e r last, of receiving seven persons on confession of their faith. O n e of these w a s baptized in infancy, the remaining six had the rite administered to t h e m as adult converts f r o m heathenism. Ninety-four communicants sat d o w n on that day at the table of the Lord, a n d thjs in a place w h ere twenty-five years ago the n a m e itself of Christ w a s u n k n o w n . T h e church in Kandipputtur w a s organized in 1866. Evangelistic Work.— Daily preaching of the Gospel to the heathen has been steadily kept u p throughout the year, both in Yellore and at the ■Out-Stations. In N o v e m b e r , accompanied b y Dr. J o h n Scudder, and for part of the time b y Mr. Conklin, I visited Gudiyatam, a large t o w n twenty miles west of Vellore. W e spent m o r e than a fortnight there pro claiming the W o r d in all its streets, and in the adjoining villages as well. O n this tour w e preached 233 times, in 116 places, to 7,193 people. A d d i n g these to the above, inclusive of reading r o o m audiences, a nd the totals are: Times, 5,406 ; places, 766 ; audiences, 116,726.

.THE

J A P A N

MISSION.

O R G A N I Z E D IN 1859. This Mission has two principal stations, the Nagasaki and the Tokyo-Yokohnma Stations. , Missionaries— 'Nagasaki Station— Revs. Henry Stout, N. H. Demarest and A. Oltmans. Tokyo-Yokohama Station— Revs. G. F. Verbeck, D.D., James H. Ballagh, E. Rothesay Miller, James L. Amerman, D.D., Howard Harris and Prof. 31. N. Wyckoff. tn America, Rev. E. S. Booth. Assistant Missionaries— Nagasaki Station— Mrs. Stout, Mrs. Demarest. Mrs. Oltmans and Miss 31. E. Brokaw. Tokyo-Yokohama Station— Mrs: Verbeck, Mrs. BallaglvMrs. Miller, Mrs. Amerman, Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Wyckoff, Miss H. L. Winn, Miss 31. Leila Winn and 31iss AnnaH. Ballagh. In America, Mrs. Booth. Connected with the Nagasaki Station are two organized churches, with a baptized membership of one hundred and twenty-nine, of w h o m forty-five are children. The churches connected with Tokyo and Yokohama are so intimately associated with those of the other 3Iissions in the Union Church, that no special report ismade of them by the 31ission. t The tables which accompany this report are those of the Council of United 3Iissions, for 1886. The Council is composed of the Five 3Iissions of the Reformed Church, the Presbyterian Churches (North and South), and the German Reformed Church of the United States, and the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. According to the tables, there are fifty churches on the roll of the United Church. Of these, the Kaigan Church, of Yokohama, is the oldest, having been organized in 3Iarch 11th, 1872, with only eleven members. The total church membership reported at the meeting of Synod in November, 1885. was 3,808. Of these, 3,228 were adults. The number determined from material sent in by the late October Presbyteries, reaches 5,115, or, not counting children, 4,356. This shows a gain in adult membership of 1,128, or nearly thirty-five per cent. Of the adult membership, the proportion of men to women is as fifty-nine to forty-one. These figures differ slightly from those of last year, which were sixtyone and thirty-nine. T w o of the churches have each over three hundred members ; three have between two hundred and three hundred each ; sixteen more have over one hundred, and several of these nearly or quite reached two hundred in the last days of the year after the Presbyteries met, e. <j.the church at Sendai with one hundred and ninetysix recorded in October, is just reported as having added over twenty to its roll. A like report comes from the church in Kochi. The total amount of contributions made during the year by the native churches for their own support and for benevolent objects is Yen 9,911,225, an increase for the year of nearly twelve per cent. The current equivalent in U. S. gold of Yen 9,911,225 is about $7,930. The average contribution per adult church member is thus about $1.82 U. S. gold. The accompanying map, illustrating the extended operations of the United 3Iissions and the Union Church of Christ, was prepared under the careful direction of /Rev. J. L. Amerman, D.D., of Tokyo.

T H E U N I O N C H U R C H O F CHRIST IN JAPAN.

Contributions for all purposes.

' S. S. Scholars.

I Households.

| Candidates for Baptism.

„ | Suspended.

Total.

Adults.

| Children.

| Dismissed by letter.

Baptisms.

Present in October 1886.

j Adults.

De crease. | Died. | | Excluded from m e m b ’shipl

Total number on the roll in 1885.

| Number.

P resbyteries or C lasses a nd C h ur ches .

Increase in 1886.

Statistical T able , 1886.,

Y en.

D aiichi T okyo : Kaigan....... Shinsakae..... Sumiyoslii Cho.. Hoden.. ...... Sukiyabashi... Shinagawa.... Kojimachi.... Saicura....... Daimachi.... % Mishima...... Kuiukuri..... Shiba..... ... Shimbashi.... Nishi Shiba.... Akasaka.....

1 2

309

91 41 23

210 120

3 4 65 5 140 6 60 7 101 8 59 9 32 10 100 11 112 12 80 13 222 14 76 15 60 16 22 17 18 19

4 6 2

6 22 20

3 1

19 17

7 6 2

6 4 37 6 28 18 45 22 43 1 19 2 9 6

95 7 45 5 3 47 5 9 2 2 25 6 4 6 .... 2 .. 25 ■3 7 2 3 21 1 15 1 5 26 6 6 1 2 23 3 14 4 0 10 12 • 5 1 43 1 46 1 2 .. 67 2 13 4 28 44 10 14 2 4 21 5 5 2 15 0 2 i

335 234 117 54 140 35

24 16 29 15 15 7 110 14 63 17 42 3 79 35 136 18 92 31 172 40 103 10 60 17 21 13 142 35 33 3 22

359 19 151 120 645.940 250 4 61 100 711.075 146 2 9 61 140 334.069 69 1 4 20 14 52.603 155 3 52 40 280.146 4!J 4 13 42 109.129 124 9 23 37 135.676 80 3 3 38 24 122 .66 ? 45 26 114 2 90 304.293 154 12 45 50 230.014 123 7 9 16 75 113.140 212 8 73 135 417.872 113 .., 7 44 31 156.301 77 7 40 35 114.640 34 9 15 30.060 177 36 9 30

Totals.... 19 1768 438 90 528 61 125 29 53 1990 342 2332 45 103 681 1028 3917.680

D aini T okyo : ,

1 78 1 1 2 68 g 76 0 2 24 2 20 Asakusa...... 3 276 70 17 8T 2 14 9 26 261 56 317 8 110 93 596.389 Ushigomi.... 4 209 35 13 48 6 18 4 1 204 34 238 46 105 397.450 Ryogoku ..... 5 143 27 1 28 1 2 6 1 144 21 165 6 78 50 365.924 Kongo ....... 6 112 22 3 25 15 9 6 109 21 130 2 8 30 72 250.149 W a d o ........ 7 74 11 1 12 1 75 10 85 2 33 32 614.751 Kiriu..... . 2 2 8 148 i 2 16 73 24 97 "2 18 28 82.606 Shitaya....... 9 106 24 24 13 1 3 6 129 1 130 3 45 51 272.589 Nihombashi... 10 99 24 4 28 9 1 4 17 90 20 110 i 3 33 60 212.630 11 56 5 8 13 2 52 15 0 39 6 45 3 Honjo........ 12 30 13 1 14 6 1 20 37 134.290 Utsunomiya..... 13 3 3 6 3 27 13 40 flo non _ __ _ ___ __ __ Totals.... 13 1355 238 51 289 53 48 42 79 1291 235 1526 12 31 459 649 8309.789

C hinzei : Nagasaki..... 1 Yanagawa.... 2 Akamagaseki.... 3 4 Yamaguchi... 5 Toyonoura .... 6 Hiroshima.... 7 —

Totals....

23 9 60 21

08 71 32 24 60 34 26

—

9 14 15

5 2 2

32 13 81 2

1 5

16 2 17

1 7 2 1 7 2 1

9 3 7 4 5 1 14 3 11

69 80 104 2 13 48 :. 113 35 148 7 59 30 5 35 7 3 16 51 18 25 11 30 2

69 7 36 32 4

29 17 8 23

37 90

86.710 74.730 25.160

45 140.150 23 22.860 14 206.350

—

7 315 128 40 168 08 39 9 8 333 116 449 20 41 201 283 573.550

T H E U N I O N C H U R C H O F CHRIST IN JAPAN. S t a t i s t i c a l T a b l e , 1886.—

Increase in 1886.

De crease.

Continued.

Present in October, 1886.

nto

Baptisms.

=5 £

P resbyteries or C lasses and C hur ches .

P .2

f N ani w a : Kanazawa.... Kita r........ Minami...... Totals....

iyagi

113 93 86 77 87 8 95 15 128 1 6 i 113 35 7 42 1

189 255.173 45 46.976 110 371.673 75 188.447 40 72.784

6 214 222 34 256 23 15 17

405 59 464

83 146 459 935.053

1 162 2 52 s 22 20 14

194 4£ 37 25 2C 12

2 196 4 52 37 25 1 21 13

529.114 436.559 113.730 35.750 60.000

337

7 344

1175.153

1 2 3

4 5

76 66 31 21 20

Other Baptisms Totals....

15 5 7 13

5 270

19 1768 13 1355 7 315 6 214 270

438 238 128 222

Su m m a r y . Daiichi, Toky Daini “ Chinzei... Naniwa.... Miyagi....

6 3 1 3 5 6 1

34 5 39 8 25 4 29 .2 51 5 56 10 95 16 111 1 17 4 21 2

90 51 40 34

— —

528 62 125 29 53 1990 342 2332 45 113 681 1028 3917.680 289 53 48 42 79 1291 235 1526 12 31 459 649 3309.789 ins 28 39 9 3 333 116 449 20 41 199 233 573.550 256 23 15 17 9 405 59 464 5 33 146 459 935.053 1175.153 337 7 344

_ 111 Grand Totals 50 3922 1100 215 1315

___

_ __

4356 759 5115

9911,225

N ote .— In the absence of a full statement from the Miyagi Presbytery (Classis) a complete table of statistics cannot be given. The above, however, indicates with sufficient accuracy the state of the Church as a whole.

i KEPOllT OF THE MISSION.

In reviewing the past year w e are struck not only b y the great pro gress w h i c h has been m a d e in all departments of our work, but also by the changed aspect of the Japanese in certain relations w h ich they bear1 to it. This change has been gradual, a n d yet it has manifested itself m o r e prominently this year than hitherto. ' Last year w e called attention to the rapid growth of the “ R o m a j i K w a i ” ( R o m a n Letter Society). N o w w e wish to emphasize the fact that

the Japanese, through all grades of society, are pursuing the study of English with passionate enthusiasm. Schools to teach h o w to speak English, in distinction from the reading of English books, are springing u p all over the country. T h e d e m a n d for competent teachers is so great that it is an important question h o w this w a n t can be supplied. Applications have been m a d e to several of the missions, asking that m e n be sent to the different prominent towns throughout the E m p i r e to teach in such schools w here they will have full liberty to preach Christianity. Married missionaries are generally preferred to'other teachers on account of the moral influence they can exert, and because their wives can benefit socially the ladies of the towns w h ere they m a y live. T h e salaries offered in these schools range f r o m 50 to 150 yen a month. O n e v e r y urgent call has c o m e fr o m Yamaguchi, w here the people offer 150 yen and promise to give a contract for three years to be renewed if mutually agreeable; they promise also to build a house for the teacher, w h o mu s t be a graduate of a college.. Y a m a g u c h i is a city of 6,000 houses, the capital of the prefecture of the s a m e n a m e in the country of Ghoshu. T h e C h o s h u clan w a s one of the three great clans at the time of the revolution. Its leaders have been and are still prominent in the Government. T h e Minister President of State, C o u n t Ito, and the M i n ister of State for Foreign Affairs, C o u n t Inoue, and m a n y other promi nent officials, are C h o s h u men.. T h e officers and people of influence in the to w n of Nakaisu., of the Oita Prefecture, w h ere the Nagasaki Station have carried o n w o r k for s o m e time past (knowing that our Mission could not c o m p l y with their request), applied to the Methodist Mission for a teacher for an English school. T h e n e w school is started under the patronage of the former D a i m y o of the place, w h o has promised to give 1,500 yen for three years. T h e Revs. Messrs. T o m e g a w a and S e g a w a are f r o m this town. T h e latter c a m e to the Capital not long ago to see Mr. F u k u z a w a , w h o is also a native of Nakatsu, and interest h i m in the school. Mr. Hattori, an officer in the educational department, and a graduate of Rutgers, has interested himself in this matter of asking the mission aries to g o to teach in such schools in the interior. H e urges it as a plan which promises g o o d for both parties. T h e schools will obtain reliable teachers in the missionaries, and they will have advantageous opportun ities, throughout the country, to preach the Gospel and gain an influence with the scholars of the next generation, with very small expense c o m paratively to the Boards. ’ This d e m a n d for teachers has to be m e t in s o m e way, and the burning tquestion for us n o w is, w h a t part w e shall take in this educational problem w h ich is confronting us. Especially is this important in regard to the education of girls. T h e nation seems to be thoroughly aroused in behalf of the education of w o m e n . T h e papers are full of it. M a g a zines have been started in its interest. N e w schools have been opened by the Japanese, and, besides the cry for w o m e n to teach in these schools, all the Mission schools are full to overflowing. T h e n u m b e r of their pupils is only limited b y the extent of their accommodations. Attention

is called to the report of the ‘‘ Isaac Ferris Seminary ” and to the urgent necessity that the C h u r c h at h o m e see to it that this and the “ Jonathan Sturges Seminary ” at Nagasaki arc fully equipped a n d maintained in efficient working order. T h e Mission feels that this is such an important subject that, in con nection with others w h o are in the Council of the United Missions, they have appointed a Commi t t e e to d r a w u p a paper w h i c h m a y be pre sented to the different Boards, so that the churches m a y see that our earnest d e m a n d for m o r e workers is based on the measure of success which has attended our efforts during the past year. Statistics.— T h e present n u m b e r of churches on the roll of the United C h u r c h is fifty (50), w hich is a gain of eleven (11) since the last tables were m a d e out. O f these, the churches in and near Sendai joined at the meeting of the Daikwai, but were not o n the roll; and of the rest the only ones that were n e wly organized during the year were the T o n a m a c h i church in K a n a z a w a , organized on the 8th of October, with twenty believers, and the Y o k o s u k a church, w h i c h w a s organized on the 15th of July, with thirty-four members. This church is entirely self-supporting, and had g r o w n to a mem b e r s h i p of over fifty b y the end of the year. T h e y have contributed 80 yen for all purposes during the year. T h e Motodaikucho church joined the U n i o n f r o m the G e r m a n Re- • formed Mission, with a m e m b e r s h i p of 177, m a n y of w h o m are living in the country towns w h ere the Mission has work. Another church of this Mission expects to join the Second T o k y o C h u k w a i at its spring me e t ing. ' T h e m e m b e r s h i p of these eleven churches is 681. Membership.— T h e present n u m b e r of baptized Christians is 2,554 men, 1,802 w o m e n and 759 children— in all, 5,115. T h e total reported last year w a s 3,922, w h i c h is a gain of 1,193. T h e n u m b e r of baptisms re: ported is 1,100 adults and 215 children, or a total of 1,315. . Contributions.— T h e w hole a m o u n t contributed by the native churches w a s 9,911,215, while that for last year w a s 8,859,927, w h ich m a k e s a gain of 1,051,298 }ren. , Comparison with other Churches— Thz statistics for the Evangelical Alliance, of all the Protestant churches in Japan, are just published, and, being m a d e out to the end of the year,, are s o m e w h a t larger than the figures given above. Ta k i n g from this table the statistics for the United Church, the Churches under the A. B. C. F. M., all the Methodist churches a n d all the Episcopal churches w e have the follow ing : Churches.

Self-supporting Baptisms, Contributions, Churches. l8$0. Members. Yen.

10,392.02 5,472 1,335 25 United C h u r c h . .. . 55 10,269.33 4,017 965 26 A m erican B o a r d .. . 31 '2,637.98 970 2,798 2 Methodist. . . . . . . 66 ■ 1,408.39 1,209 465 Episcopal . . . . . . 19 F r o m this table it will be seen that the United C h u r c h s hows larger gains during the year, a larger mem b e r s h i p than any other b o d y and

larger contributions, but that of the churches of the A. B. C. F. M . a larger n u m b e r are self-supporting. F o r the whole of Japan the n u m b e r of churches is 193, the baptisms for the year are 4,269, the m em b e r s h i p is 14,815 and the total contribu tions are, yen 26,866.01, w h ich s hows a gain of 25 churches, 3,137 m e m bers, and yen 2,721.81 in contributions over last year. The Growth of the United Church.— T h e United Ch u r c h has g r o w n not only in numbers', but also in strength and self-reliance. T h e believers are working together and individually, and the prayer-meetings, as well as the Bible classes and regular church services, are well attended. T h e business of the C h u k w a i and Daikwai is carried on almost entirely b y the native ministers. T h e examinations for both licensure and ordi nation have been m a d e m u c h stricter, so that the intellectual standard of the ministry will be raised, as there is an expressed desire for well-edu cated pastors on the part of the churches. T h e n u m b e r of the theolog ical students is increasing, at the s a m e time that their general ability seems to be improving. T h e spirit of self-support seems to be increasing, though m a n y of the old churches have not g r o w n strong e n o u g h to be entirely independent of Mission aid. W e hope the day will soon c o m e w h e n the whole Ch u r c h will be self-supporting, and, as looking toward this end, the ' n e w churches organized are generally expected to help themselves. • O f the churches which are still receiving help f r o m the Mission— ex cept those in Kiushu— the Kojimachi, the Mish i m a and the N a g o y a churches are the only ones w h ose acting pastors receive their salaries f r o m the Mission. O f these, both Mr. Ogimi, at Kojimachi, and Mr. Banno, at Nagoya, do other w o r k besides supplying the pulpits of those churches. All three of these churches pay all their current expenses outside of the pastors’ salaries. Further, the Kokim a c h i church is con sidering the matter of calling a regular pastor. Mishima.— \N(i hope that the Rev. Mr. O k u n o ’s labors for the Mishi m a church, w h ere he has been under the direction of the Mission since the 1st of November, will result in great'good. T h e example w h ich they have a m o n g them, of the large gift of one of their o w n number, should rouse t h e m to large efforts toward self-support. Mr. Han a j i m a w a s a large "sake” merchant. H a v i n g c o m e under the influence of Christianity, he, with his family, began the observance of the iSabbath, but w a s not baptized because he could not see his w a y clear to give u p the business. His younger brother retired fr o m the business entirely, and w a s received into the Church. Afterwards Mr. Ha n a j i m a stopped the further manufactory of "sake,” but h o had a large stock on hand. Mr. Ballagh told h i m of the case of the President of one of the English T e m p e r a n c e Societies w h o had emptied his wine cellar into the gutter so as to get rid of it without doing h a r m to others, a n d he w a s so m u c h impressed by the example that the next day he sent in his license to sell to the Government, and with his family and dependents, sixteen in all, received baptism. Subsequently, up o n the advice of his brethren, he offered his large storehouse and the ground on which it stood, which

•were valued at 6,000 yen for the liquor business, for a chapel and a girls’ school. F o r these latter purposes it is valued at 3,000 yen, a n d will re quire about 500 or 600 yen m o r e to m a k e the necessary alterations. T h e people are so excited over the idea of having a girls’ school that they can hardly think of anything else, and are holding meetings for prayer that the request for a lady teacher fr o m A m e r i c a m a y be granted. Quite a n u m b e r of girls are already waiting for the opening of the school w h i c h they confidently expect. Early in February preparations were m a d e for a three days preaching a n d lecture meeting at Mishima, but, just as the lecturers were about to start fr o m Tokyo, w o r d c a m e that the local police h a d forbidden the holding of the meeting. Immediate steps were taken to ascertain if this w a s in compliance with instructions from Tokyo, as the police in M i s h i m a gave the Christians to understand. T h e Secretary of the Min- <■ ister of State for Foreign Affairs said that he w a s sure that no such order h a d been issued from the Foreign Office. "When the Chief of Police u n derstood the matter he said that the lectures might go on, and that he w o u l d issue instructions b y telegraph to the police in M i s h i m a not to in terfere ; that the missionaries might not only preach as m u c h as they liked, but might even lecture on political subjects, if they complied with the regulations issued on the subject. * n O n Sunday, the 21st of February, the opening services were held in the chapel, w h e n the Rev. Mr. O g i m i preached a sermon on the “ Heir ship of Christians.” After the sermon Mr. Ballagh administered the L o r d ’s Supper and baptized seven persons. In the afternoon various meetings were held and different persons visited. A m o n g others, Dr. V e r beck and Mr. Ballagh called o n a school teacher w h o lived about three miles out of town. This m a n had for m e r l y been a Buddhist priest. Three years ago he had been found by these s a m e missionaries, in true hermit style, sitting in a little open hut o n the margin of a miniature lake in the rear of the town, m a k i n g merit for himself and his patrons b y daily beating a g o n g fr o m sunrise to m i d night. T h e y reasoned with h i m on the vanity of his pounding that gong, directed h i m to a m o r e excellent wray and gave h i m s o m e tracts and portions of the Scriptures. H e soon after gave u p his vain performances and b e c a m e a school teacher in the village w h e r e they called on h i m that afternoon. H e is not a believer, but continues read ing. and sometimes attends the preaching of the Gospel. H e attended the evening meetings of the following days. O n S u n d a y evening the Rev. Mr. Miura, one of the T o k y o pastors,, preached, and also Dr. Verbeck. Both the m o r ning and evening meet ings lasted fully t w o hours, yet, at the close of the meetings, the people looked as if they w o u l d willingly listen for an hour or t w o longer. M o n d a y , the 22d, w a s a cold, rainy day, but the lectures were ar ranged for the evenings, as at that time the people are at leisure. A l though the night w a s so stormy the audience which c a m e xvas the largest of the kind ever got together in Mishima. T h e next day Dr. Verbeck baptised a school teacher, w h o promises to

be a zealous worker. In the evening, again, a large audience w a s gath ered in spite of the cold. ■ F r o m the experience and results of these three days meetings it is clear that a great change has c o m e over the people of this region. M i s h i m a contains several large and popular temples, and has been considered a stronghold of Buddhism. In former years, attacks on colporteurs a n d Bible carts, as well as riots threatening evangelists and Christians, had. not been u n k n o w n , nor w a s it easy to get the m o r e respectable of the residents to attend the meetings. T h e seed w h i c h h a d been so diligentlys o w n by Mr. Ito, and later by Mr. Hayashi, was, indeed, springing up, a n d promises an abundant harvest. E v e r y forenoon of the days of the lectures the Christians held a_ special prayer meeting for the divine blessing to rest u p o n the meeting w h i c h w a s to be held in the evening.' Numazu.— After the meetings in M i s h i m a were over Dr. Verbeck, Mr. M i u r a and Mr. Hayashi went to the t o w n of N u m a z u , about four miles west of Mishima. This is an important out-station of the Canadian Methodist Mission, w h i c h has always been very friendly with ours, so that w h e n o p por tunity offers brotherly co-operation is freely rendered. Preliminaries having been m a d e on the evening of the 24th, a c r o w d e d house w a s waiting the advent of the lecturers. Just before the lecture began a curious altercation took place between the leader of the meeting a n d a. y o u n g m a n in the audience who, with others like him, seemed inclined for a disturbance. H e wished to k n o w if they were to listen to sermons or lectures. If the former, they were willing to remain quiet as h a d been requested b y the leader of the meeting, but if, on the other hand, they we r e to be only lectures, he and others with h i m w o u l d certainly claim the right of expressing their assent or dissent in the usual- w a y — w h i c h is often disturbing enough. It w a s explained that, though the w o r d lecture might have been used in giving out the notices, Christian lectures were about the s a m e as sermons, and so he w o u l d in all proba bility regard them. H e w a s satisfied, and promised that, in that case, he w o u l d keep quiet, w hich he did, except in one or t w o instances, w h e n he called out that the Japanese speakers were wandering fr o m their subjects and lecturing instead of preaching. It w a s an agreeable sur prise to see h o w ready he w a s to m a k e a distinction between preachingand lecturing, and to recognize the fact that the Gospel should be lis tened to with respect. T h e meeting passed off very quietly and satisfac torily. Wado.— T h e W a d o church is certainly developing the abilities of its elders in a m o s t wonderful manner, though they have not yet called a pastor. They, however, invite s o m e of the T o k y o pastors to c o m e out and preach for t h e m once or twice a month, paying their expenses. T h e y have a n e w chapel at Senji'contiguous to the to w n of Sugila, about two miles f r o m the little village w hich gives the n a m e to the church. This chapel w a s built b y the believers, m a n y of w h o m are w o r k m e n , one of the elders being head carpenter. T h e funds were contributed largely b y a gentleman in the United States, supplemented b y the gifts.

of the Christians. It is large, c o m m o d i o u s and the mo s t church-like looking chapel that w e have except the building in Y o k o h a m a . T h e dedication w a s held on Saturday, the 15th of M a y , w h e n Dr. Verbeck, Mr.. Ballagh a n d Mr. Miller we r e present. Appropriate services were held, with a crowded house, and on the next day, Sunday, the L o r d â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper w a s celebrated in the morning, and sermons preached. O n M o n d a y and Tuesday following, lectures were given in t w o of the neighboring towns by Dr. Verbeck, Mr. Miller and Mr. Miura, w h o had c o m e out for the purpose. THE BOARD OF MISSIONS.

A prominent feature of our report last year w a s the account of the Board of Missions of the Daikwai, and great hopes were entertained of its success. W e have n o w to report the first year of its work, and are only sorry that, as the time of meeting of the Daikwai is the s a m e as that of our General Synod, w e can not, at this time, give as complete a report of the w o r k done during the year as w e could wish. T h e Board consists of twenty members, ten of w h o m are foreigners. This B oard decides all estimates of the different C h u k w a i committees, a n d has fixed the salaries of evangelists within, certain limits, but nearly all the w o r k is left to the different committees of the Chukwai, one-half of w h o m are foreigners. It is further provided that a n y of the C h u k w a i can unite in their Mission w o r k if they wish, and in accordance with this permission the First and Second T o k y o C h u k w a i have united and have one committee, com p o s e d of ten foreigners and ten Japanese. T h e appropriations m a d e to the different Chukwai, according to the estimates sent to the Board, we r e as follows : First and Second Tokio, 200 yen a month, but the committee has never d r a w n the full a m o u n t ; Miyagi Chukwai, 140 yen a m o n t h ; the Chinzei Chukwai, 150 yen a month, and the N a n i w a C h u k w a i 90 yen. T h e salaries determined by the B o a r d were fr o m 7 yen to 20 per m o n t h for unordained evangelists, and f r o m 12 to 30 for ordained evangelists. T h e receipts and expenditures of the B o a r d to the end of February, 1887, for thirteen mon t h s were as follows : Beceipts f r o m native sources (one-fourth), yen 1,325.93; fr o m the Missions (three-fourths), 3,977.79 ; total, yen 5,303.72. T h e payments were, yen 4,908.89 ; balance, yen 394.83. , T h e receipts fr o m mo s t of the churches we r e larger at the beginning of the year, but s o m e few of the growing churches are giving m o r e largely n o w than ever before. T h e receipts are, as a general rule, sent in monthly. . [Space will not permit the reproduction here of the detailed and v o l u m Â inous reports f r o m the Missionary Committees of the different C h u k w a i (Classes) w hich a c c o m p a n y the report of the Mission. T h e y s h o w a vast a m o u n t of labor performed with an encouraging degree of success. T h e following extracts must suffice, as illustrating the nature of the w o r k and the character of the opportunities that offer. Hiroshima is a large city of 19,000 houses and 76,000 persons. It is

the capital of the Prefecture of the s a m e name, and lies on the northern shore of the Inland Sea, about one-third of the w a y between K o b e and the Straits of Shimonoseki. It is the largest t o w n west of Osaka, and contains a court, the Prefectorial offices, a garrison, and lately a n e w naval station has been established about fifteen miles f r o m the city, so that the n u m b e r of officials of all grades, both military and civil, is very large. Hiroshima, however, bears a bad n a m e for its notorious i m m o rality. T h e towns-people'also are not so enterprising, nor the neighbor ing farmers so well off as those in s o m e of the near provinces. ■ There is a church of thirty-two members, and the Rev. Mr. S. Hattori is settled here as evangelist. Since the s u m m e r Mr. Otani, one of the graduates of the Theological School, has also been w o r king here. There is a chapel built by the church m e m b e r s last May. A s our Mission w a s expecting to hold its annual meeting at Nagasaki, Dr. Y e r b e c k a n d Mr. Miller were requested to stop at Hiroshima either on their w a y thither or returning. T h e y left T o k y o near the beginning of December, reaching Hiroshima the 10th, and remained there and in the vicinity till the 21st. _ During their stay of eleven days, preaching services were held almost every day in the church, and, as soon as a theatre could be procured, lectures were given on three afternoons to audiences of 300 or 400 per sons. T h e last night of the stay one of the large theatres w a s engaged and lectures given to an audience of nearly 1,200. T h e proprietor of the small theatre w a s at first afraid to let it at night. S o m e time before, s o m e Buddhist lectures were the cause of such a disturbance that he thought there might be the s a m e opposition raised to Christian meetings, and so his property w o u l d be in danger. W h e n , however, he s a w the respectful m a n n e r in w h i c h the lectures were listened to, he changed his m i n d and offered to rent the theatre in the evening, but by that time ar rangements had been m a d e to hold one lecture in the large theatre. All the audiences were very attentive, a n d did not seem in the least inclined to m a k e a disturbance. T h e meetings in the church were not so fully attended as had been hoped, yet those w h o c a m e evidently wished to hear, a n d it must be r e m embered that these meetings in the church were strictly preaching services and not popular lectures. Besides the meetings held at Hiroshima, there w a s one at the little village of Funakoshi, s o m e five miles fr o m the city, w h e r e a service had been undertaken b y Mr. Hattori at the request of s o m e of the officials of the district office, w h ich w a s located there. T hose w h o c a m e to the meetings were entirely government officers, w h o had requested Mr. Hattori to continue the meetings should the district office be removed, as w a s contemplated, to' the n e w naval station of Kure. Mr. Hattori hopes that go o d will c o m e of this meeting. A t present there are one or t w o Christians a m o n g the n u m b e r of those w h o attend. After a w e e k of meetings at Hiroshima, Dr. Verbeck and Mr. Miller, accompanied b y Mr. Hattori, w e n t to the t o w n of Iwakuni, s o m e twentyfive miles from Hiroshima, in the precincts of the Y a m a g u c h i pre fecture.' Here preparations h a d been m a d e for their coming. There were held t w o public meetings, at w hich lectures were given, where the people were very attentive, and afterwards requested that the gentle m e n w o u l d stay over another night that they plight have a meeting- in the evening at, which they could ask questions. T h e y consented, and .about twenty-five of the prominent m e n of the place c a m e together and asked questions, principally on the future life. O n this trip of thirteen days spent at Hiroshima and its neighborhood there were twenty meetings held, at w h i c h twenty-three lectures and thirteen sermons were delivered. O f these, t w o lectures were given in the village of F u n a k o s h i ; fifteen lectures and thirteen sermons in Hiro shima : four lectures in Iwakuni, a n d t w o lectures in Shimonoseki. Tosa.— A long trip w a s m a d e b y Mr. and Mrs; Miller, of three

months, in c o m p a n y with Messrs. Grinnan and MacAlpine, of the Pres byterian C h u r c h (South). T h e y reached K o chi on the 25th of January, 1886. Messrs. Grinnan and M a c A l p i n e decided to stay for a year at least. T h e y immediately began w o r k by teaching an hour each, daily, in the Kyoritsu school, besides taking a conversation class of the m o r e advanced scholars a n d 1 teachers for an hour a day. This w a s given u p after the s u m m e r vacation. T h e y also began a Bible class in the S u n d a y school, which students from other schools in the city attend. B e sides, thej' have classes at their house and m a n y opportunities to teach the truths of Christianity to those w h o c o m e to them. T h e Rev. Mr. Y a m a m o t o , w h o h a d been ordained as an evangelist for Tosa, has been in K ochi since the a u t u m n of 1885, acting as the pastor of the church and working in the vicinity, as he has the time. Mr. Oshikawa, the pastor of the Sendai Church, w a s there from January, for over a month, and did a great deal of go o d in arousing an interest in those w h o had not heard anything of Christianity. H e also urged on the people the need of becoming self-supporting, and from the first of M a r c h they undertook the entire support of their pastor, having paid al ready, from the time of the organization of the church, all their current expenses. Mrs. Miller took charge of the w o m e n ’s meetings, w h i c h were well attended. A s they were held at the houses of believers in different parts of the town, n e w faces were constantly seen. M a n y thus bec a m e inter ested w h o afterwards c a m e to the meetings held in the preaching place. Since the return of Mrs. Miller, Mr. Y a m a m o t o w a s married and brought his wife to Kochi, and she has helped greatly to increase and carry forward the interest already a w a k e n e d a m o n g the w o m e n . Since the.autumn the w o r k has been carried on efficiently by Mrs. Grinnan. After Mr. and Mrs. Miller’s arrival the different meetings were in creased somewhat. S o m e y o u n g men, w h o m Rev. Mr. O s h i k a w a had gathered fr o m those w h o were interested in his lectures, were formed into a class for inquiry into the truths of Christianity, and afterwards taught b y Mr. Miller as a Bible class in the Gospel of John. A n e w preaching place w a s opened in another part of the t o w n ; and just be fore Mr. O s h i k a w a left, there w a s a large lecture meeting held in the theatre at which the following themes were treated ; “ T h e Relation of Christianity to the Country and the F a m ily;” “ T h e Bible;” “ T h e P o w e r of the Bible;” “ T h e Necessity of Christianity for the Present Time, from the State of Morality, the Relations of the Sexes, the N e e d of a Religion,” etc. Dur i n g the stay of Mr. O s h i k a w a trips had been taken to several towns and villages in the neighborhood, w here w o r k had been started be fore, the different officers of the church accompanying h i m as they were able. O n e of these villages is Akij/ama, about nine miles to the south"west of Kochi, the h o m e of Mr. Hosokawa, one of the officers of the church, w h o had resigned his position in the Provincial Ass e m b l y so as to have m o r e time to devote to the preaching of the W o r d . T h e me e t ings were held in his house and were largely attended, as he has consid erable influence in the neighborhood. His wife and mother are earnest Christians. Besides tours to places in the immediate vicinity of Kochi, a longer tour w a s taken b y Mr. Miller and Mr. Y a m a m o t o d o w n the east coast of Jhe province, towards the C a p e of Misaki. S o m e gentlemen w h o lived in the towns of that part of the province had been to K o c h i and heard s o m e of the lectures, and, becoming interested, h a d asked that lec tures might be given in their neighborhood. It w a s to c o m p l y with their request that this tour w a s undertaken. T h e y were specially anxious that the' lectures should be given at that time, because a priest h a d been lecturing against Christianity and so roused the interest of the people that they were very desirous of k n o w i n g w h a t Christianity w a s that h a d been

t so m u c h abused. This priest had been formerly a m e m b e r of the Greek Church, and so w a s supposed to k n o w all about Christianity. H e had adopted the tactics of s o m e other Buddhist lecturers, in preaching the tenets of esoteric Buddhism, and h a d not met with m u c h favor with the country people, w h e n he told t h e m that Heaven, Hell, Angels, D e m o n s , etc., were not real, but only “ pious frauds ” to catch the fancies of the ignorant. T h e y could not understand the philosophy after all the reli gion had been taken out. A.mong the better classes his lectures h a d at tirst s o m e influence. But, in speaking of Buddhism, in Kochi, he had m a d e so m a n y misstatements that he h a d been refuted b y a y o u n g m a n w h o w a s not a Christian, and, though at first he h a d professed to be ready to receive all w h o wished to ask questions, after he s a w that he could not answer t h e m satisfactorily he refused to meet any m o r e ques tioners. T h e police tried to put obstacles in the w a y of holding lectures by their interpretation of a law promulgated at headquarters; but although they gave s o m e trouble, the only real effect w a s to effectually advertise the lectures. Meetings were held in three or four large towns and villages, and an interest excited which will bear fruit hereafter. These various places, and also others where lately the people have been desirous to k n o w of Christianity, have been visited, a n d the n e w s lately received f r o m Kochi seems almost startling in the grand results which, have g r o w n from the seed s o w n with so m u c h care. In one village all the people c o m e to the meetings, w h ich are held every night, and before very long w e m a y expect to see a whole village of Christian homes. During the stay of Mr. Miller there were thirty-four persons baptized, and by the end of the year there were on the roll of the church 157, of w h o m seventy-four were men, sixty-six w o m e n , and seventeen children. There w a s also, at that time, a class of nearly fifty candidates for bap tism, so that, before long, there will be over 200 church members. This will be in less than t w o years from the time that the church w a s organ ized with only twenty-two persons. During a tour of forty days in February and March, m a d e b y Mr. Ballagh, to B o s h u and back, a n d then on to M i s h i m a and so to Nagoya, fifty persons were baptized. T h e Rev. Mr. K. B a n n o is the acting pastor of the church in Nagoya, as well as the evangelist for all that region except the villages of M i z u n o and Seto. H e is entirely' supported b y the Mission, but the believers pay the rent of the preaching place and supply the lights and fuel. T h e believers at Okazaki, a large to w n twenty-five miles fr o m Nagoya, on the road;to Tokyo, have kept u p services a m o n g themselves, being occasionally visited by Mr. B a n n o or Mr. Kato. Lectures have also been held there in w h i c h Mr. Ballagh took part. , • ' There has been a m a r k e d advance in the attention paid to the preach ing of the Gospel in all that region. Lectures have been well attended and attentively listened to, although spiritual topics have been discussed. A t a lecture meeting in Tsu s h i m a there were .from 600 to 800 the first night, and f r o m 1.000 to 1,200 the second night. A t these lectures idol atry, so ril'd in the to w n a n d province, w a s unsparingly attacked, a n d the attack seemingly approved of ] Besides the evangelistic work, w h ich is under the direction of the ■B o a r d of Missions of the Daikwai (Synod), there has been w o r k carried o n b y the different Missions separately. A s yet the B oard has not suf ficient funds to take over all the evangelistic w o r k of the United Church. S o m e of the old w o r k is thus left on the hands of the Mission. Mr. Ballagh has m a d e frequent visits to Boshu, the peninsula on the other side of Y e d o bay, where Mr. Yoshioka has been working for s o m e time past. H e is licensed, but not ordained. These visits were m a d e in the middle of February, and also in M a y and October. ■

Mr. Ballagh also m a d e a visit to Shinahu, and baptized eleven believers at the village of Kasuga. Since that time a request has c o m e in for s o m e one to g o to baptize the recent candidates w h o have been waiting for s o m e time. T h e Japanese helpers n o w wholly under the care of the Mission are Mr. B a n n o and Mr. K a t o in the N a n i w a C h u k w a i ; Mr. O k u n o at M i s h i m a ; M r . Maki, w h o has been unable to do any w o r k for over a year except s o m e preaching; Mr.Ogimi, w h o is still acting pastor of the Kojimachi church and lecturing in the Theological School. T h e Rev. Mr. K. K i m u r a left the employ of the Mission in February, 1886, a n d has been carrying on a school for girls and w o m e n called the Meiji-Jo-Gakko, w h i c h is situated in the K a n d a district of the city. Mrs. Harris is helping h i m b y teaching English in the school four days in the week, and Mrs. W y c k o f f has a class in sewing once a week. T h e school has at present about ninety scholars. Since last a u t u m n Mr. K i m u r a has been teaching in one of the large private schools in the city called the Kyoritsu Gakko. BIBLE TRANSLATION.

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Dr. Verbeck has given three hours daily to the translation a n d revision of the Old Testament. T h e first draft of the translation is n o w finished. T h e r e were published during the' year, under the auspices of the P e r m a nent Committee, Daniel, A m o s , Obadiah, Micah, N a h u m , liabakkuk, Zechariah, H o s e a and Joel. , , T hose translated were nearly the whole of Job, Lamentations, the S o n g of Solomon, Esther and Isaiah. A t present the Revision Committee are at w o r k u p o n I and II C h r o n icles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, S o n g of S o l o m o n a n d L a mentations. . . T h e whole Bible will probably be published next s u m m e r . PUBLICATION.

There have been circulated by sale and donation, through the A m e r i c a n Tract Society, tracts and booksj prepared by the m e m b e r s of the Mis sion: Tracts, 13,485 copies ; books, 884 copies. T h e Am e r i c a n Tract Society’s Committee for N o r t h Japan have printed during the year 1,588 copies of t w o books and 72,000 copies of fifteen tracts. . Sales and donations of books and tracts during the year have been 82,560 copies, being 1,356.494 pages. O n this Committee are Dr. A m e r m a n and Mr. Wyckoff, w h o are obliged to devote a large share of time and attention to the w o r k of the C o m m i t tee. Mrs. Miller continues to edit the “ Glad Tidings,” w h i c h has a monthly circulation of 3,300, and a Leaflet for very y o u n g children of 2,000 copies, a n d w h i c h has been increased for the ensuing year to 2,500 copies. She has t w o Bible classes, for w o m e n weekly, and with M rs. W y c k o f f meets a class of ladies for reading and sewing.

REPORT ON II. KAGASAKI STATION.

Du r i n g the year the forces at this station have been increased b y the addition of Rev. and Mrs. A. Oilmans, w h o arrived in Nagasaki Oct. 16, 1886. W e are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of a lady w h o will share the duties and pleasures of the Girls’ School with Miss Brokaw. O u r w o r k m a y be divided into t w o general classes: 1.— School W o r k ; 2.— Evangelistic W o r k . .

SCHOOL W O K K .

Theological Instruction.— There are n o w six students of theology at Nagasaki, beside three m e n who'are attending the theological classes. Three of the students will complete the entire course of study next June, and w e hope that they will then be licensed as preachers b y Chiu Kai. Mr. Stout has given instruction in Church History a n d Homiletics, a n d Mr. S e g a w a in Systematic Theology. Instruction has also been given in the critical study of J o h n ’s Gospel b y Mr. Stout, and in the Epistles, Philippians, Colossians, Titus, a n d Jude, b y Mr. Segawa. T h e students have diligently applied themselves throughout the year, and their examinations in July were very satisfactory evidence of their faithful study, a n d of their understanding of the parts gone over. Besides instruction in Theology, Mr. S e g a w a and Mr. Stout are sever ally responsible for the morning and evening services each'Sunday in our Nagasaki church. Mr. S e g a w a is the pastor of this church, and conducts the weekly prayer-meeting. During the past year Mr. Stout has translated Yol. II. of Dr. 'Woodbridge’s Chu r c h History. It is n o w almost through the press, and c o m pletes the books necessary for our instruction in. History. Mr. S e g a w a has completed his translation of Dr. W o o d b r i d g e ’s Theology, and uses it in connection with his instruction. Win. II. Steele, Jr., Memorial.— T\\nre. are n o w twenty-one students in this school, of w h o m eight are Christians. O f the others, seven are children of Christian parents. T h e various branches of Japanese study w h ich are taught in the pri m a r y schools throughout Japan are taught in Steele A c a d e m y , b y Mr. S. A. Iwamatsu, w h o has been a m e m b e r of our Nagasaki C h u r c h m o r e than t w o years. T h e classes in translation are taught b y Mr. M . Saito, w h o is also a m e m b e r of our church here. H e l m s been a Christian sev eral years, and w a s formerly connected with one of our churches in Tokyo. T h u s all the students are under Christian influence during their entire course of study. T h e various classes in English were taught b y Mr. Demarest until N o v e m b e r 1, w h e n Mr. Oilmans took charge.- Mrs. Oilmans also teaches, in this school for one hour and a half each morning. Several students are advanced en o u g h to prepare recitations in such books as Swinton’s Outlines of History, and W a y l a n d ’s Moral Philosophy.

T h e older pupils attend the daily Bible classes, w h i c h are considered a part of the curriculum. Their w o r k has been faithfully done b y all the students, and the year has been a very satisfactory one to us all. T h e examinations in April and July were successfully sustained by°the students, both in the English and Japanese Departments. Dur i n g the year one of our older pupils has been led to Christ. Jonathan Sturges Seminary.— T h e n a m e of our Girls’ School is to be “ Jonathan Sturges Seminary.” N o t having a n y one to asssist Miss Brokaw, and without suitable accommodations, w e could m a k e no efforts to obtain pupils for a school. There are, however, seven girls w h o have c o m e to Miss B r o k a w during the year, and they are taught b y her in the mornings. O n e of these girls is a Christian. Miss B r o k a w has also spent several hours each day in the study of Japanese, and twice a w e e k has had Bible lessons with the ladies con nected with the Mission. ' .

EVANGELISTIC W O R K .

This has nominally been under the care of Mr. Demarest, but, until N o v e m b e r 1st, his duties in the B o y s ’ School prevented any active super vision except during vacations. Both Mr. Stout and Mr. S e g a w a have m a d e trips into the country, the latter spending his s u m m e r laboring atHitoyoshi. H e also spent several w e eks there in Novem b e r . He r e in the South w c are associated with the Southern Japan Mission of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., w h o s e w o r k centres at Osaka, but our fields are yet quite distinct. Connected with this Station are t w o organized churches situated at K a g o s h i m a and Nagasaki. . T h e Out-Station of Kagoshima is Tarumidzu. T h e Out-Stations of Nagasaki are Eukahori, Isahaya, O m u r a , Karatsu, Saga, K u r u m e , Nakatsu. and Hitoyoshi. o Kagoshima and Tarumidzu.— T h e w o r k at K a g o s h i m a goes on quietly. T h e w o m e n have been organized into Bible classes b y Mrs. Yoshidomi. T h o u g h only one m e m b e r has been added to the church on confession of faith, the church is in good condition. There is in K a g o s h i m a an appli cant for admission, w h o w a s formerly a preacher of the Greek Churcfi i at Hitoyoshi. Mr. Y o s h i d o m i has gone several times each m o n t h to T a r u m i d z u w here there are n o w a f e w candidates for baptism. Nagasaki.— Nagasaki is still a very difficult field. T h e people are mainly tradesmen a n d take little interest in anything w h i c h does not immediately relate to their daily work. There is m u c h encouragement in the fact that the audiences throughout the year have been large. O u r church is often filled with listeners, and several have b e c o m e quite regular attendants. O u r students are m e m b e r s of the Nagasaki Y. M . C. A. During, the year this Association has held several lectures u p o n various subjects relating to Christianity, and our students have taken an active part in

these. T h e lectures have always d r a w n large audiences, w h o have listened attentively a n d with evident interest. > O u r y o u n g m e n have continued' to visit Fukahori, Isahaya, and Omura, a n d report good audiences, hut there are n o candidates for baptism yet in these places. * Saga.— T h e w o r k in Saga is very encouraging. T h e people seem n o w to be rather favorably inclined toward Christianity, and the w a y seems opening for m o r e extended work. T h e Christians greatly desire to have a church building, and have been m a k i n g a subscription for‘this pur pose. All things s e e m to indicate that the time has c o m e for us to establish our w o r k in Saga on a m o r e permanent footing, and with the kind assistance offered by m e m b e r s of the church at F o r d h a m and others w e hope to have a church-home for our people there. Karatsu.— F r o m Saga, Mr. K a w a s a k i has gone to Karatsu once a month, and w h e n returning has visited Ogi and t w o other villages be t w e e n Karatsu and Saga. In t w o villages there are Christian families w h o s e h o m e s are used b y Mr. K a w a s a k i as preaching places. M a n y neighbors and friends of the Christians have bec o m e interested in the truth. There are n o w ten adult Christians in the vicinity of Karatsu (besides a candidate for baptism. There has been persecution in Karatsu •during the year, and m u c h opposition is still m a d e b y the Kiukai, but •our Christians are united and very h a p p y in their faith. T h o u g h not wealthy, they form a substantial beginning for a self-supporting church. Kwrume.— T h e Kev. I. T o m e g a w a is in charge of our w o r k in K u r u m e , and it is beginning to be very encouraging. During the past year there have been four adults baptized. T w o m e m b e r s of the Y a n a g a w a church, a n d also t w o Christian ladies of other churches, live in the neighborhood ■of K u r u m e , and regularly meet with the K u r u m e •believers, so that there is n o w a congregation of eight persons worship i n g in that^lace. O u r entire w o r k has m e t with a severe loss in the death, last October, ■of Mrs. I. T o m e g a w a . W h e n young, she first received a knowledge of •Christ in the girls’ school at Osaka, but w a s led to a personal knowledge a n d confession of her Savior in our Nagasaki church. After s o m e m o n t h s of study in Ferris.Seminary she be c a m e the wife of the Rev. I. T o m e g a w a , the wedding service being performed b y Mr., Stout. She ■was always a very active Christian, b y her loving, consistent character causing all w h o k n e w her to respect her. She w a s always an efficient helper to her husband, and b y her “ falling asleep ” he has lost m u c h Sight a n d joy fr o m his life. She served her Master faithfully, and H e has called her “ h o m e . ” ' Nakatsu.— Du r i n g the year Mr. S e g a w a has m a d e several visits to Nakatsu. Mr. Hirayama, one of our theological students, spent the s u m m e r laboring there. T h e people seem very desirous of k n o w i n g about Christ, and there are several candidates for baptism. Hitoyoshi.— Hitoyoshi is a t o w n a m o n g the mountains north of K a g o

shima,'and about half w a y to K u m a m o t o . T h e w o r k there w a s begun b y a y o u n g m a n n a m e d M i n o d a w h o had been a m e m b e r of one of our churches in Tokyo. U p o n his request the place w a s visited, and the various circumstances seemed to indicate that w e were the proper ones to undertake w o r k there. O n e of our students spent, a few weeks there in the winter of 1885-80, and Mr. Stout spent several days there last April. During Mr. Stout’s stay he baptized’t w o y o u n g m e n w h o m Mr. M i n o d a had led to Christ. Mr. S e g a w a spent the s u m m e r at Hitoyoshi, and h a d daily Bible classes, besides various public services during the week. G o d has greatly blessed our eSorts, and there are n o w eleven Christians in Hitoyoshi a n d a few candidates for baptism. T h e people of the place are quite intelligent a n d se e m very desirous to understand the Gospel. In all our stations and out-statioris .there are Sabbath schools and weekly prayer meetings. T h e prayer meetings at Nagasaki have been very interesting and helpful. M o r e than forty persons assemble every Saturday night, and the earnestness of the prayers and occasional addresses, indeed the whole tone of the meetings, have evidenced the fulfillment of our Savior’s promise to be in the midst of those w h o assemble in His name. During the past year the prevalence of cholera throughout Japan has s o m e w h a t hindered the w o r k in s o m e of our out-stations. Persecution has also been experienced b y s o m e of our brethren. B u t notwithstand ing these, and the sad fact that t w o m e m b e r s of the Nagasaki church have been guilty of gross immorality and had to be disciplined, the L o r d has greatly blessed us. M a n y have been added unto the church, a n d there are still seventeen candidates for baptism. T h e m e m b e r s of this station are very thankful to those w h o have given, so liberally, the funds necessary to establish the much-needed schools for boys and girls. T h e contract for the girls’ school has been made, and the grounds will be ready for the foundation about January 1 , 1887. W e hope that the Jonathan Sturges Seminary, a n d the W m . H. Steele Memorial will both be ready for occupancy b y the begin ning of the fall term, September 1887.

III. T H E MEIJI GAKU-IN.*

T h e past year has been a n eventful one in the history of the two institutions, the Union Theological School a n d the U n i o n College, which, b y the combination finally effected"in June, b e c a m e one under the n a m e of the M eiji G a k u -i n . T h e plan of union embodies : 1. A general directorship, w h i c h is lodged in a board com p o s e d of seven Japanese representing the S y n o d of the C h u r c h and seven foreigners, the former being, furthermore, a B o a r d of Trustees to answer to the requirements of Japanese law, but to act only in accordance with the direction of the whole Board. * * This title signifies the College of the Era of Good Government.

II. A division of the institution into a Japanese Theological Depart ment, an A c a d e m i c Department, a n d a higher department with the n a m e Special, w h i c h is designed to provide special instruction for academic graduate students w h o m a y elect to remain in the institution. A t present this higher instruction is confined to the teaching of Theology in English — its first distinctive feature. It is expected to add to this beginning in other lines of study as rapidly as m a y he d e e m e d practicable. III. A Faculty, to consist of all the professors in the institution as appointed b y the Board of Directors, with officers elected annually from its o w n number. W h i l e the Faculty as thus constituted has the detailed direction of the institution as a. whole, practically the affairs of theseveral departments are regulated b y three faculty committees called, (») the A c a d e m i c Faculty, (p) the Japanese Theological Faculty, a n d (c) the Faculty of the Special Department. T h e first a n d second are c o mposed respectively of the several professors actively connected with each. T h e third is simply a combination of the other two. T h e aim of the institution is to provide a thorough Christian educa tion, with the ho p e of securing the large and widespread influence at tendant thereon, and there is the especial purpose to thoroughly train y o u n g m e n for the ministry of the Church. It was, moreover, an objective of no small m o m e n t , though of secondary importance, to m a k e the Meiji Gaku-in conform, as nearly as w a s possible and wise, to the prevailing national system of education. There’were certain changes m a d e by the Japanese G o v e r n m e n t during the year in accordance with w h ich the several K o t o chiu g a k k o (‘‘higher middle schools ”)establishments in the larger cities of the E m p i r e are to prepare students for the Imperial U n i versity in Tokyo, the latter advancing to a higher plane of worth than formerly, comparing favorably in plan with the G e r m a n Universities, the middle schools becoming its gymnasia. This arrangement w a s favor able to our Mission college work, inasmuch as, with no sacrifice of princi ple, with in fact the modification of but a f e w unimportant details, the A c a demic Department w a s m a d e so to conform its course of instruction to that of the G o v e r n m e n t middle schools that its graduates could enter the highest class in such schools, and thence secure speedy entrance into the University. Provision is m a d e in the Special Department to give A c a demic Department graduates further training, such as to thoroughly fit t h e m for direct entrance to the University in at least the Departments of Literature and La w . T h e Meiji Gaku-in is, therefore, a Christian College, having for its models the best Ame r i c a n colleges; a n d at the sa m e time, because of the recent G o v e r n m e n t changes, holding a natural position in the educational system of the country, w h i c h goes far towards securing for it a permanent place in this land. T o secure its recognition b y the C h u r c h — an event so requisite to its permanence and to its use fulness, both n o w and in the future, w h e n missionaries shall be no longer necessary to its continuance— was.a first cause of the establishment of .the Meiji Gaku-in o n the present basis— of the,making it, as one whole, the College of the U n i o n C h u r c h of Christ in Japan. Following are the detailed reports of the several departments of the institution :

F irst- T ub Japanese T heological D epartment (the T enth A nnual R eport of the U nion T heological School ). ‘ T h e n u m b e r of students composing the last graduating class w a s eleven. A t present there are twenty-five in attendance. O f these nine are Seniors, nine are Middlers, and seven are Juniors. O f their diligence, their order, and their general good conduct it gives us great pleasure to speak. During the s u m m e r most of t h e m were at w o r k under the direction of the several Presbyterial H o m e Mission C o m m i t tees, and tlie reports of their labors at the a u t u m n meeting of C h u k w a i (Presbytery) were listened to with evident interest. It is gratifying to k n o w that the m e m b e r s of the last graduating class are now, without ex ception, regularly at w o r k at various points throughput the Empire, from H a k o d a t e in the N o rth to Kochi a n d Toyon o u r a in the South, a n d K a n a z a w a on the W e s t coast. “ W e have great pleasure in stating that the Scotch Mission is once m o r e represented in the school, nor is it necessary to say that Mr. W a d d e l l is w e l c o m e on every account. F o r a year or m o r e to c o m e • Mr. K n o x ’s absence f r o m the country will deprive the institution of his counsels and labors. O n his return, however, w e shall enjoy the benefit of his presence once more. Du r i n g his absence Dr. Yerbeck most kindly agrees to meet the classes in Homiletics. F r o m the beginning of the present term Mr. I b uka has occupied the position of full professor. W e are confident that the Council will recognize this advancement as only due to Mr. Ibuka a n d for the greater good of the institution. . “ A s a result of the n e w organization of the Meiji Gaku-in, the A c a demic and Japanese Theological Departments united last J u n e to hold c o m m e n c e m e n t exercises. T h e exercises were held in the Koseikwan, in the presence of a large audience. It is expected that C o m m e n c e m e n t D a y will hereafter be a day always to be observed. “ T h e yearly grant b y the several B&ards of Foreign Missions of fifty dollars ($50) each (gold) to the Library has been expended with, great care, a n d w e wish once m o r e to express our thanks for these grants. T h e books purchased have been of the greatest service to ourselves, to those engaged in translating the Scriptures, to the missionary c o m m u n i t y generally a n d to m a n y of the Japanese pastors. T h e Report of the Treasurer s h ows that the expenses of the school for the year, including the salary of Mr. Ibuka and the painting and repairs of the building, a m o u n t in all to yen 1,118,905. “ W i t h this w e conclude. W e are grateful for the past and hopeful for the future- F o r w h a t has been done w e thank God, and to H i m w e c o m m i t ourselves for the w a y that is still before us.”

Second .— T he A cademic D epartment . '

T h e w o r k of the year has h a d the usual success, and is m a r k e d by i m provements incident to the absorption of the U nion College into the Meiji Gaku-in, and the larger plans a n d hopes m a d e practicable b y the change. W e look with confidence to the future to confirm the w i s d o m of the movement.

For a year or two it had been evident to the Faculty that m o r e time and labor should be given, especially during the first four years of the course, to the teaching of English, so as to adapt the training as a whole to the larger d e m a n d s in that line of the present over those of for m e r years. Consequently, at the opening of thei present college year special arrangements were m a d e for the accomplishment of this end. Since reorganizing the college S u n d a y school, m a k i n g attendance o p tional, following indeed the usual h o m e plan, it has g r o w n in popularity. M o s t of the boarders attend a n d m a n y of the day scholars, s o m e co m i n g even fr o m a distance. ■ . T h e boarders in the college, numbering forty, attend as usual the S u n d a y evening services and the Bible classes on three evenings of the week. T h e S u n d a y evening services are conducted b y the foreign professors in turn, as are also the services during the week. T h e students,>hold their weekly prayer meeting on W e d n e s d a y evening, and also spend in prayer fifteen minutes at the close of each of the three week-day « services. Friday evening is occupied b y the Literary societies. T h e benefit the students derive fr o m these exercises is apparent. Their interest in them, and the zeal with w hich they avail themselves of the opportunity thus offered, have steadily increased from the first. A professor is usually present, at their request, to offer criticism. M u c h attention is given in . the regular college course to speaking and composition. A n especial impetus is given to the Juniors, in this direction, b y the recent establish m e n t of a Junior Orator contest for t w o prizes, of ten and five yen respectively. T h e first contest will be a feature of the next C o m - ' m e n c e m e n t occasion. In J u n e last, certificates of graduation,were given to four y o u n g men. O n e of these is n o w a student of Theology in the Special Depart m e n t ; another, b y extreme ill-health, is deterred fr o m pursuing the s a m e course. T h e remaining t w o have b e c o m e assistant teachers in the Y o b i k o (Preparatory Department). - T h e total n u m b e r of students attending during the school year closing with June, 1886, is as follows : |

C lasses. Senior (Graduated).... Junior. . . . . . ..... Sophomore........ Freshman......... 2d year Preparatory... 1 st “ “ ... Total. . . . . . . . "

W hole Mo. C hristians. Baptisms duking THE YEAK. 4 5 15 42 67 60 193

4 5 7 13 13

• 3 8

, 52

T h e whole n u m b e r n o w in attendance is as follows : 4

Classes.

W hole No. C hristians.

B aptisms during THE YEAR.

OLD. >’E\V. Seniors. . . . . . . . . . . Juniors. . . . . . . . . . . Sophomores....... F r e s h m a n . . . . ;... 2d year Preparatory... 1st “ , ••• Total. . . . . . . . .

3 13 32 31 32

1 11 28 39

193

3 7 14 12

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It is noteworthy that while the total n u m b e r of students is the s a m e m both the above statements, viz, 193, yet there is a m a r k e d increase m the higher classes enumerated in the second. This is due, in part, to the increased n u m b e r of applicants for admission to the m o r e advanced classes, and, in part, to the fact that fewer students have left these classes than heretofore, to enter government institutions. All the classes, w i t h one exception, the Senior, are n o w larger than at this time m any P revi ous year. This is very gratifying, especially to those w h o have labored in the institution fr o m its beginning. It is also gratifying to see, as w e have already done in m o r e cases than one, those w h o have left us for s o m e o-overnment institution return and apply in the ordinary w a y for readmission. W h i l e the position of '‘ stepping stone” to the Government. University m a y comport with a proper ideal for a Mission college. iC being necessary for a student to reach a degree of nuitunty therefor quite compatible with the reception of a due a m o u n t of Christian influ ence in order to his conversion, it becomes on the otter h a n d s o m e w h a t tryin- to expend that earlier effort connected with the beginnings of English study, w h i c h to m a n y is only needful drudgery, and then lose the student to the Agricultural College, or s o m e other minor G o v e r n m e n t school -just as he c o mes fairly within the range of one’s personality. .This will explain the feeling of gratification at the stability of o u r students. W e hope to see yet greater gains in this respect. It is to be reported that certain of our undergraduates, in all eight, have yielded to the attractions of A m erican Colleges. W i t h o u t hesita tion d o w e c o m m e n d the imm i n e n t departure of a..graduate of the class of 188o, w hose a i m is to spend s o m e years at Princeton, a n d also the similar intentions of a student about to be graduated. T h e college military exercise has already given ample returns for the trouble involved in its organization and equipment, in the greatly i m proved health of the students. T h e presence of Mr. Uchida, w h o s e former connection with the Japanese a r m y fully fitted h i m for the posi tion he occupies, besides contributing to the excellence of the drill a n d gymnastic exercises, secures an orderliness in the college w h i c h heightens to professors the comfort a n d pleasure of connection with it, a n d is.

S o S v ^ T 18 Sir e n ’ fr° m m 0 n t h t0 ra0nth’ of the Co,l«Se Missionary Socety,* s h o w that not a little good w o r k has been done. M e m b e r s of

tle Soc.ety have hlledthe pulpits of several of the city churches, on inp- ^ i -1 ”l°lniI1SS.during t,ieyear’ and on almost every Sabbath even ing, religious meetings of a less formal character have been held either • b e r s ^ T .1118 Sta-10nS,°r m the PriVat° h0USeS ° r certain church m e m Residpa ,le.S0Clety lms held f0,lr Public meetings (Enzetsu Kwai). esides, lectures on vanous subjects have been delivered in Y o k o h a m a w o 'k nf H 11003 t0 rg<: audiences- M o r e details might be given of the w ^ k o f U u s o r g a m z . t m n , but the above will suffice to s h o w its con tinued activity and usefulness, both in the college a n d in the church. nte first ed.t.on of Prof. W y c k o t f s “ English Composition for BeginedUion also

d,SP0Sed °f’ and “ considerable portion of the second

rJ V.d o n “tion ° f books to the a m o u n t of $100 U. S. gold has been recetved from the Presbyterian B o a r d of Publication, also a full set of ,U e publications of the s a m e Board of the R e f o r m e d (Dutch) church. " i r r aPPr 0Priati°n °f $10° U ' S ‘ g° ld ($50 each) fr o m the I D m e h pi ST D ? ° arf ° the f>re‘sb.y^crian (North) and Re f o r m e d Dutch) churclies, for the purpose of buying books for the library of the Academic Department, began with the year 1886. Purchases on the basis of this grant are n o w making. agent °,f the A m e rica“ Bible Society presented several volumes of the Society’s publications in the Japanese language, and for several important books of reference the college is indebted to Rev. H L o o m i s a n d to Prof. MacNair. Further, a gift of two hundred and one copies of Spiritual Songs for Social W o r s h i p ” has been received from Dr. C. S. Robinson of N e w York. This book is peculiarly well suited to the needs of the college singing, as the experience of its use for .some time past has shown. T w e l v e copies of the “ T h e Story of the Bible, from the author and publisher; Mr. Foster of Philadelphia aid as text-books in the Bible study of the Junior class. T h e s u m of w enty c ollars U. S. gold ($ 20). w h ich w a s received late in 1885 from the Mission B a n d of the Rev. T. C. Beattie’s church in Chester N Y w a s expended early in the year for philosophical instruments’, which have since afforded valuable assistance in the teaching of physics. T h e Treasurer of the A c a d e m i c Department reports an expenditure for the year ending A u g u s t 31st. of Y e n 1,743.70. This a m o u n t includes all expenses except the salaries of foreign professors. TimiD. In the Special Department, instruction is at present afforded -J«°U S h th.er,m c d u " u of the English language, in Natural Theology’ Ethics and Systematic Theology. It w a s decided to defer the arrange m e n t of a detailed schedule for this department, until the plan as outr . T 6 meml’e,'shiP is not confllled to imdereraduate academic students

The

"lined in the Constitution of the Meiji Gaku-in could be m o r e readily followed out in the actual presence of a varied class of students. FACULTY. ,

J A P A N E S E T H E OLOGICAL D E P A R T M E N T .

Rev. J a m e s L. A m e r m a n , D.D., President of the Faculty a n d Prof, of Biblical and Systematic T h e o l o g y ; Rev.'Geo. W m . K n o x , A . M . (absent), Prof, of Apologetics, Pastoral Theology and Homiletics; Rev. H u g h Waddell, A.M., Prof, of Old Testament History and Literature ; Rev. W m . Imbrie, D.D., Prof, of N e w Testament Exegesis ; Rev. K. Ibuka, Prof, of C h u r c h History and the Life of Christ; Rev. E. R. Miller, A.M., Lecturer on N e w Testament Exegesis ; Rev. M . Oghimi, Lecturer o n Biblical G e o g r a p h y and Antiquities, and C h u r c h Go v e r n m e n t ; Rev. G. F. Yerbeck, D.D., Lecturer on Homiletics. ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.

J o h n C. Ballagh, Prof, of Mathematics and Bookkeeping ; M . N. Wyckoff, A.M., Prof, of Chemistry and Physics ; Rev. J a m e s M . M c Cauley, A . M . Prof, of History and Ethics ; Rev. H o w a r d Harris, A . M . , Prof, of English L a n g u a g e a n d Literature ; Rev. Theodore M . MacNair, A.M., Prof, of Psychology, Logic and Political E c o n o m y ; S. Ishimoto, Prof, of English L a n g u a g e and Physiology ; A. Hattori, Kanji (Japan ese Superintendent) a n d Prof, of English ; Y. Suzuki, Assistant Kanji a n d Instmctor in English ; T. Hashimoto, Instructor in English ; Y. H. I wamoto, Instructor in Chinese a n d Japanese Literature; Miss A. P. Ballagh, Instructor in English ; Mrs. J. C: Ballagh, Instructor in Instru mental M u sic ; A. Uchida, Drill and Gymnastic Master and Proctor. SPECIAL D E P A R T M E N T .

Rev. W m . Imbrie, D.D., Prof, of Natural Theology, Ethics a n d Sys tematic Theology. Tobetter meet the growing requirements of the institution as a whole, it w a s decided to procure a site for its permanent establishment in s o m e m o r e desirable part of T o k y o than Tsukiji. After m u c h seeking and delay, a lot of ground, containing about eight acres w a s obtained at a cost of Y e n 9,500. It is beautifully and healthfully situated in the suburb k n o w n as Shirokane-mura. T h e lot has been cleared of its former buildings, and of the trees and plants w h ich covered it, and is n o w ready for the erection of the various college halls for which plans are preparing. A recitation building, to be called S a n d h a m Hall, a nd a dormitory for at least one hundred students, together with a refectory and several profes sors’ houses, will be the first buildings to receive attention. W i t h a larger fund than is n o w available, other necessary buildings, e. g., a chapel, one or m o r e additional dormitories, a Theological hall, will be added to the number. It is expected that suffleient progress will be m a d e to permit the opening of the next school year in this n e w environ ment. '

W e take pleasure in recording the receipt of $3,000 U. S. gold f r o m a gentleman in Philadelphia, Pa., w h i c h has been used for the purchase of the land for the Meiji Gaku-in ; also a gift of $2,000 (Mexican cur rency) from Dr. J. C. H e p b u r n towards the erection, of buildings. T h e fund for land purchase w a s a u g m ented b y about Jl, 000 (Mex.) received on account of services rendered b y Rev. Geo. W m . K n o x during the past a u t u m n in the Imperial University. A s u m of m o n e y ($5,000 U. S. gold) given b y Mrs. S. A. S a n d h a m 1of N e w Y o r k has been for s o m e time awaiting the choice of permanent location. It is n o w to be used as above. TV. T H E ISAAC FERRIS SEMINARY.

Eleventh Annual Report, by Miss M. L.sW i n n :

N e ver in the history of this school has there been a m o r e successful year than the one drawing to a close. Ferris Seminary, together with almost every other Mission Girls’ School in Japan, isfull to overflowing. W e n o w have one hundred a n d five pupils. Excepting five daypupils, all of this n u m b e r are boarders. Scarcely has a w e e k passed since September that w e have not had to refuse applications for admis sion into the school for want of accommodations. E v e n n o w I fear w e are trespassing u p o n the laws of hygiene b y crowding too m uch. D u r i n g Mr. B o o t h ’s absence Dr. J. L. A m e r m a n kindly consented to be nominally principal of the institution, that he might aid us so far as his duties in T o k y o w o u l d permit. H e has c o m e d o w n to the S eminary once or twice a month, and even oftener. W e have found his s o u n d a n d practical ju d g m e n t a n d good advice very helpful indeed, and feel that w e could not have done without him. Miss L. H. W i n n reports the following : “ Another year of w o r k is drawing to a close, and I can only say in every respect it has been a, most satisfactory one. I have enjoyed m y w o r k m o r e than ever before. In the school-room m y pupils have endeared themselves to m e by their faithful labors and docile manners. Since Mr. Booth departed for America, m y duties outside of the schoolroom have been so m a n y a n d varied that it is impossible to speak of th e m all. A m o n g other things I have devoted two evenings in the w e e k to reading with the pupils. T h e older ones have been reading Lord’s “ Beacon Lights of History;” the less advanced have confined themselves to m o r e simple things. I h a v e greatly enjoyed a prayer meeting held every evening after the w o r k of the day is over. This is conducted by. the older Christian pupils, and' the object is especially to ask for guidance and help in the m a n a g e m e n t d a y b y day, and for the success of Mr. B o o t h ’s plans for enlarging the school.” ‘ After Mr. B o oth left, Miss A n n a H . Ballagh, w h o had until then resided with her parents, m o v e d over to the Seminary. H e r report is this: “ It has been a great pleasure to have passed another year w o r k ing for the welfare of the dear girls in the institution. T h e w o r k itself

has been m u c h the s a m e as last year, teaching English all the m o r ning v a n d music in the afternoon. B u t since m o v i n g over to the Seminary building there has been such a n u m b e r of minor duties to occupy spare minutes that very little time has been left to be devoted to the study of the Japanese language. I have g r o w n daily m o r e interested in the various classes under m y charge, a n d the w o r k given t h e m has been faithfully performed. Since taking u p m y residence here I have been d r a w n m o r e closely to the girls a n d they to me. I trust that this mutual feeling of trust and respect will result .in m u c h good to us both. I have been m u c h gratified to find on a closer acquaintance with the pupils h o w deep an interest the older Christian girls take in the n e w ones. T h e y seem to realize that these n e w pupils m a y be with us for only a short time and that it is of the utmost importance for t h e m to get a clear understanding of the Christian religion. S o m e of these girls live such noble, self-sacrificing lives that there can be n o doubt that the truths of tha Christian religion are living realities to them.” F o r myself, I m a y say that I have been teaching for four and a half hours a day, and given w h a t time I could get to the study of the Japan ese language. I spend m y Saturdays at Yokosuka, a t o w n across the bay. I teach a class of w o m e n there, m a n y of w h o m are the wives of naval officers. There are about forty in the class, but the average at tendance is about twenty-five. S o m e one of the Christian girls f r o m the school always accompanies me. W e have reason to believe that our h u m b l e efforts to m a k e k n o w n the Gospel of Jesus Christ have not been in vain. W e have twenty-eight Christian girls in the school, five of w h o m have received baptism during this year. There are at present four w h o aie candidates for baptism. E v e r y pupil in the school has daily s o m e lesson in the Scriptures besides the Sabbath school lessons on Sundays. T h e n u m b e r of classes daily taught is as follows: Six Bible classes (all in the Japanese language), twenty-six English classes, and nineteen classes in Japanese and Chinese literature. Besides the three foreign teachers w e have t w o graduates, namely, Miss Kashi S h i m a d a a n d Miss Y a s u Sakayori, to assist in teaching-English. W e have an excellent elderly Japanese gentleman to teach the Chinese literature, also a J a p a n ese drawing teacher. Besides these there are several pupil teachers, w h o b y teaching several hours earn their board and tuition. W e feel that m u c h of the success of our school is due to our Japanese matron, Mrs. Katayama, She is an excellent Christian w o m a n , quick to detect anything like deceit in the pupils, and ever ready to enforce the rules of the school. She has the love and respect of both teachers a n d pupils, and w e wish Japan w a s full of such noble w o m e n . Special Providences.— T h e past s u m m e r w a s a very trying and anxious one. T h e heat w a s intense. O u r water supply failed long before the s u m m e r vacation began, a n d w e h a d to imy water all s u m m e r . That fearful disease, cholera, raged throughout Japan, hurrying thousands u p o n thousands into eternity. W e were anxious about our pupils scat tered here and there taking their vacation. W e feared s o m e of them

might be snatched fr o m us, but a kind Providence returned all to us to gether with m a n y n e w ones. Just w h e n w e were feeling safely freed fr o m this terrible disease, Miss L. H. W i n n w a s violently attacked b y it. F o r s o m e time her condition w a s critical in the. extreme. It w a s an anxious time indeed. W e wore not only troubled about her, but also for the m a n y pupils in the building, whose lives w e felt responsible for. W e had to keep ourselves aloof fr o m them, and forbade any one of them entering our part of the building. E v e r y precaution w a s used to prevent the disease from spreading, so thateven a servantwas not allowed to enter the sick room. Again, through the kindness of a loving Father, our prayers were answered. Miss W i n n w a s restored to her usual health, and the disease spread n o further. ’ O n N o v e m b e r 8 the house on the adjoining lot w a s burned to the ground. This house w a s so near that the destruction of Ferris S e m i n ary seemed inevitable. W e felt so sure that our building w o u l d be de stroyed that w e were m a k i n g preparations to abandon it, and had already sent the pupils to the house of a neighbor, w h e n the w i n d changed, carry m g the sparks a n d d a m e s in the opposite direction a n d leaving the Seminary standing untouched and almost unharmed. This deliverance seemed almost a miracle. W e n o w look u p o n this fire as a blessing in disguise, as this is one of the lots w e are desiring to purchase. T h e o w n e r refused to sell, it without the buildings, a n d these were not desirable. T h e lot can be h a d n o w at a cheaper rate. And, now, has the Isaac Ferris Seminary reached the limits of its use fulness ? W e hope not.' A wide door of usefulness is open before us. Will not those w h o love Christ and his cause allow us to enter it ? W e trust that this successful year is but the beginning of still better things. O h ! it is so hard to turn a w a y pupils w h e n for years past it has been so difficult to get t h e m to come. W e feel perfectly confident in asserting that had w e the enlarged accommodations w e could get twice the nvmber of pupils, a n d our constant prayer is that these m a y be given us. W e feel that now is the time. '

G E N E R A L S U M M A R Y , 1886-7. 1

C h i n a . In d i a . J a p a n . T o t a l .

Stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 2 if** Out-stations and preaching places.. 18 83 ^ Missionaries, ordained. . . . . . . . . . 5 9 8 1 Missionaries, unordained....... .Assistant Missionaries, married... 5 6 10 Assistant Missionaries, single. . . . 2 2 4 U n d e r appointment, ordained Mis1 sionaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 U n d e r appointment, unordained Mis sionaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 U n d e r appointment, single assistant 1 Missionaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ** Native ordained Ministers. . . . . . . 4 3 ** Other Native Helpers, m a l e . . . . . . 21 151 ** Other Native Helpers, female.... 35 ** Churches... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 23 ** Communicants............... . 802 1669 Seminaries, male . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 Seminaries, male pupils. . . . . . . . 11 163 **21 Seminaries, female. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 2 Seminaries, female pupils. . . . . . . 34 112 90 Theological Schools or Classes... 1 1 Theological Schools— Students... 7 *12 **9 D a y Schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 95 D a y Schools— Scholars. . . . . . . . . 91 2531 ** Contributions of Native Churches.. $2076.29 $760.75

11 101 22 1 21 8 2

7 172 35 31 2471 6

195 5 236 3 28 101

2622

* T h e whole n u m b e r of helpers in India are under theological instruc tion. ** T h e n u m b e r of ordained ministers and other helpers in Japan, of churches and communicants, and their contributions, cannot be reported separately as they are included in the statistics and w o r k of the U n i o n C h u r c h and the Council of United Missions. T h e Steele Memorial S e m inary at Nagasaki is not so included, and h a d 21 scholars— since increased to 42. T h e Theological Class at Nagasaki h a d 6 students. F o r statistics of the U n i o n C h u r c h reference is m a d e to the Report of the J apan Mis sion.

T A B U L A R V I E W O F RECEIPTS. The first four columns contain all sums received directly into the Treasury of the Board, those coming through the W o m a n ’s Board forming a part of the amounts in the third column. Other donations to the W o m a n ’s Board, legacies, etc., are added, to make the fifth column, thus including everything given for Foreign Mis sions.

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

Grand Total.

Classis of Albany, First, Albany.......... Clarksville............ Onisquethavv.... :.... Holland, Albany. ...... Madison Avenue, Albany.. Uoeymans...... ...... N e w Baltimore........ Third Church, Albany... First, Bethlehem-....... Second, Bethlehem..... Jerusalem............ Fourth, Albany.... ... K n o x ................ Second, Berne......... Westerlo........... . Union ville............ N e w S a l e m ...........

510 95 5 43 2

- 20

921 50

79 33 608

936 92 35 , 50 80 ' 17 33 11

1,452 45 5 43

48 51 5 10 25 62 3

79 33 1,544 92 35 99 31 22 10 74 73 3 40 10 7

1,553 95 5 43 2 79 33 1,652 50 92 35 99 31 56 40 10 107 84

40 10 7 7 46

■

Classis of Bergen. First, Hoboken.. ........... Grove, N e w D u r h a m........ Second, Hackensack...... . First, Hackensack........ .\. North Bergen ............. Schraalenburgh............ Central Avenue, Jersey City.... Park, Jersey^City.... ...... Third,Hackensack........ .. English Neighborhood....... Cherry Hill................ Closter.................... German Evangelical, Hoboken.. Palisades .... ............ Guttenburgh.............. Spring Valley.............. Secaucus...... ........... Westwood— ...............

12 63 177 50 25 238 79 50 95 06 13 101 81 1 37 27

30 50 50 ie so

12 63 207 50 125 390 60

14 57 68 8 05 22 70

200 678 79 50 171 86 27 159 49 1 37 35 05 22 70

12 63 237 50 200 788 79 201 86 27 159 49 1 37 35 05 22 70

S. Classis ofBergenSouth Bergen........ ..... Bergen— ................ First Jersey City.. ........ Bergen Point............... Lafayette................. Second, Jersey City.... ".... Second, Hudson City........ Greenville................. First, Bayonne............. Free. Jersey City.......... Third, Bayonne ............ First, German Evan.,Jersey City St. John’sGer. Evan., Bergen..

G 65 76 33 ....... ....... 139 68 80 10 4 61 25 37 05

27 62 20 117 50 95 55 74

41 42 435 51 19 50 483 44 638 76 246 31 40 64 4 61 136 05

41 42 628 92 19 50 546 10 809 26 246 31 40 64 216 63 136 05

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

Grand Total.

0 °

- Classis of CayugaSyracuse ............. West Leyden.. ....... Utica................ O wasco.............. Point Rock........... Chittenango .......... Naumberg............ N e w Bremen.......... Owasco Outlet........ Thousand Isles........ Canastota............ Cicero............ . ..

202 25 14 71 76 8 4 11 1 45 75

403

605 25 14 416 76 8 4 37 1 45 75

605 25 14 523 01 8 4 37 1 '45 75 5 23 50

45 77 63 66 2 45 65 2 5 20 1 90 13 29 271 30 35 10 13 15 47 50 8 89

45 77 73 66 2 45 65

I 20 1 90 48 56 301 30 35 10 13 15 47 50 8 89

94 77 297 68 175 20 15 75 374 75 311 85 87 03 77 45 16 02 92 46 31 30 2 50 7 60 32

94 77 361 68 175 20 15 75 374 75 311 85 87 03 77 45 16 02 92 46 31 30 2 50 7 60 32

234 56 365 65 41 67 29 18 100 13 5

319 56 493 65 78 67 46 60 100 20 50 5

149 30 63 80 189 37 181 60 13 15

Classis of Geneva. Tyre.............. Lodi.............. East Williamson.... Pultneyville....... Dunkirk.......... Mina............. Arcadia .......... Farmer Village..... First Rochester .... Abbe Church, Clymer Marion........... Clymer........... Classis of Geneva... Caroline__ ,...... Ontario ..........

10 20

35 57

63 66 45 65 2 5 20 1 00 13 29 140 30 18 60 13 15 30 50

120 16 50 8 89

Classis of Grand River. Second, Grand Haven...... First. Kalamazoo.......... Fourth, Grand Rapids..... Coopersville............ .. Second, Grand Rapids...... Muskegon............... Third, Grand Rapids....... Soring Lake............. .. Fifth, Grand Rapids... v... First, Grand Haven........ Twin Lakes.............. South Haven............. Fremont.............. Grandville .............. Detroit..................

94 77 42 12

15 75 51 40 59 78 39 45 16 02 19 21 25 20

50 56 70163 35 117 27 25 38

205 6 20

160 194 85

73 25 6 10 2 50 7 60

Classis of Greene. Second, Coxsackie... . Catskill.............. First, Coxsackie....... Kiskatom............ First, Athens.......... Leeds................ Second, Athens........

199 56 •250 65 • 31 67 15 14 100 13 5

25 75

40 10 14 04

Classis of Holland. Jamestown............ Ebenezer.............. Thirst,,Holland.......... Vriesland............... Cleveland.............

124 58 63 80 36 41 118 50

1 21 152 96 13 10 13 15

23 51

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’Js

Total.

Grand Total.

Classis of Holland(■c o n t i n u e d .)

Zeeland................ North Holland........... Graafschap ............. Third, Holland.......... Rotterdam, Kansas....... Overisel................ Beayerdam.............. First and Third, Holland... South Blendon..... ..... Three Oaks............. Young Ladies’Soc., Holland. Auxiliary, 3 Churches..... Zabriskie............... Drenthe..?.............. East Overisel............ Fynaart.................

237 35 60 50 16 25 21 40 68 64 13 90 73 70

278,73 14 9C 147 35

10 13' 3 30

102 74 17 90

12 25

525 73 63 50 50 166 90 21 40 198 38 31 80 73 70 5 12 25 25

650 73 63 50 •50 166 90 21 40 292 17 31 80 73 70 5 12 25 25 64 85

768 01 98 90 174 57 120 12 196 40 20 44 51 48 20 33 16

874 60 98 90 174 57 152 37 206 40 20 44 51 48 20 51 16

162 07 145 09 19 20 10 10 159 8 10 86 70 20 16

208 29 166 09 19 20 10 10 159 8 10 86 70 20 16 43 36

265 75 8 12 73 28 .40 28 183 10 41 33 183 20 4 34 5 95 59 15 8 58 3 12 15

265 75 8 12 73 28 40 28 183 10 41 33 183 20 4 34 5 95 59 15 8 58 3 12 15 30 107

Classis of Hudson. Hudson........ Second, Claverack. First, Claverack... Greenport...... Upper Red Hook.. Germantown.... West Copake... Gallatin........ Linlithgo.......

382 61 82 15 118 47 30 12 68 6 51 48 20 31 84

117 40 16 75 46 10 10 89 38 40 14 44

268 10 79 11 90

1 32

Classis of Illinois. Second, Pella. Fairview.... Second, Pekin. Norris..... Irving Park1... H a vana.... Spring Lake and Manito...... Raritan................... Norwood Park. First, Pekin ... Bushnell.... Bethel Otley

27 07 85 09 19 20 10 10 35 90 8 10 35 70 5 85 16 '

135 60 123 10

51 4 65

.12 45

Classis of Iowa. First, Pella........ Parkersburgh....... Third, Pella........ North Orange....... Harrison........... West Branch....... American, Orange City. Alton....... ..... Sioux Falls......... Maurice............ . First, Orange City....... Centreville, Dakota........ Grandview, Dakota....... Washington............... Young Ladies Soc., Orange City. Dorcas Vereeniging, Orange City Belmond— Charles Mix Free Grace.

199 30

$ 12

13 28 3t 50 119 57 11 33 89 4 34 5 95 59 15

60 5 78 ‘26 53 30 7 70

1 49

37 86 50

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls Total.

Classis of Iowa. .

Grand Total.

(c o n t i n u e d .)

Hope............... Hospers............ Le Mars........ .... Lennox............. Marion Junction.... ... Monroe............. 'Pattersonville........ Salem.............. Turner........> ....

Classis of Kingston. Marbletown...*. .......... North Marbletown........ Fair St., Kingston....... N e w Paltz.............. Bloomingdale.......... ! Hurley................ St. R e m y ..............’ Guilford............... Clove................. .Dash ville Falls.......... K r u m ville...... ........ Lyons ville.............. Rochester.............. Rosendale.......... ...

44 50 17 09 44 21 136 46 11 07 66 37 4 25 5 32 95

12 18 66 53 8C 10 05

60 5 5

55 06 45 89

10 40

116 50 40 75 103 01 146 51 11 07 121 43 4 25 15 118 84

116 50» 40 75 177 00 240 80

24 08 187 02 10 50 34 44 141 73 171 85 117 68 15 125 73 89 27 23 88 2 40 37 78 275 70 45 361 36 153’

24 OS 225 2® 10 5 0 34 44 194 9S 171 85 137 6S 15 125 73 104 27 23 8S 2 40 77 7S 275 TO 45 361 3® 153 ■

1,788 07 105 23 349 03 185 80 24 63 152 265 30 116 05 70 13 21 38 2,528 59 80 36 89

1,966 35? 105 23 571 37 185 80 24 63 152 266 07 176 05 70 13 21 3S 2,579 08> 80 36 88>

ii or

121 43 4 25 15 178 84

N. Classis of L. Island, First, L o n g Island Ci t y ........ J a m a i c a ....................... G e r m a n Evan., J a m a i c a ...... G e r m a n Evan., St. Peters..... Second, Astoria, G e r m a n ...... First. Astoria.................. Q u e e n ’s .... .............. ‘.... F l u s h i n g ...................... L o c u s t valley.. ............!.. College P o i n t .................. Oyst e r B a y .... :.............. N o r t h H e m p s t e a d ............. S a y ville........................ S o u t h B u s h w i c k .............. ’* W i l l i a m s b u r g h ................ E a s t W i l l i a m s b u r g h ........... G r e e n p o i n t ........ ............ N e w t o w n ...................... J e r i c h o ........................ Hicksville.................... !! B u s h w i c k ......................

17 39 10 50 34 • 24 82 17 24 50 77*68 125 73 29 27 10 46 2 40 37 78 60 70 25 286 36 100

4 44 16 45

2 25 101 46

20 59 56 147 35 40 60 3 42

30 20

185

75 10

S. Classis of L. Island. First, Flatbush...... Bedford......... ... New Utrecht........ New Lots.......... First. Brooklyn...... New Brooklyn....... Flatlands.......... Gravesend.......... Twelfth Street, Brooklyn South Brooklyn. Middle Brooklyn On the Heights............ Bethany Chapel........... . On the Heights and 1st Church.

997 07 71 20 239 03 185 80 24 47 64 116 05 21 13 21 38 2,103 59 80 36 89

791 35 03 110 54 50 82 05

9 55 119 25

400

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

Grand Total.

S. Classis of L.,Island. (c o n t i n u e d .)

Canarsie................ East N e w York........... Second, Flatbush......... Ocean Hill .............. St. Thomas, W. I... ^.....

6 50 1 75

109 30 68 29 15 20 78 *5 87 16 6 25

109 30 68 29 15 52 85 5 87 16 6 25

30 30 131 35 217 60 102 11 28 , 35 62 15

30 30 131 35 217 80 152 11 58 35 62 . 35

*120 07 247 30 39 10 16 30 5 34 67 111 87 14 64 1 26 38 95 82 39 40 66 37 87 2 68 88 25 121 49 86 80 80 79 36

120 07 284 18 30 39 10 16 30 24 67 111 87 26 38 95 118 24 27 87

175 57 49 64 15 19' 2,742! 173 70 20 9

175 57 49 64 15 19 3,272 214 39 20 9

0 50 1 75

Classis of Michigan. First, Grand Rapids..... . Constantine........... Second, Kalamazoo...... Centreville............ South Macon .......... Hope; Holland .......... South B e n d . ......... De Spelder...... ....... Porter... ............. M a c o n ..............

109 30 38 29 15 20 78 5 29 GO 6 25

57 50

Classis of Monmouth. Spotswood.............. Middletown............. Second, Freehold......... Holmdel................ Colts Neck....'.......... First, Freehold.......... . Keyport.............. Asbury Park............ Highlands.... ......... XongBranch....... ...

30 30 15 110 45

37 35

116 35 70

102 11 28

20 68

14 94

Classis of Montgomery. Glen.................... Fonda.................. Auriesville............... Currytown............... Mapletown.. ..........•... Columbia................ Herkimer....... ........ St. Johnsville ....1....... H a g a m a n ’s Mills.......... Port Jackson ............ M o h a w k ... ............. Florida..;............... Fort Plain............... Fultonville............... Canajoharie.............. Canastota............... Ephratah................ Fort Herkimer........... Manheim... ..... t...... Spraker’s Basin.......... Stone Arabia... .........

99 07 '216 30 39 10 16 30 6 97 63 66 16 38 95 41 71 25 87 35 89 86 46 90 44 79

20 31

89 32 40 96 15 19 1,975 64 94 20 9

12 70 33 57 10

8 8S 31 CS 39 9C

68 88 121 49 86 80 80 79

Classis of Newark. First, Newark ......... Stone House Plains...... Linden................ Woodside.......... . North Newark......... Belleville.............. East Newark........... West Newark..........

1 25

8 68

1 76

767 107

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

Grand Total.

Classis of Newark. (c o n t i n u e d .)

Second, Newark........ First, Orange........... Clinton Ave., Newark.... Irvington.............. Plainfield..............

15 480 55 152 23

87 45 220 35

127 09

132 65 700 55 314 32 11 233 07

132 65 750 55 406 09 11 243 57

500 20 242

911 83 71 50 670 12

1,019 23 98 65 724 12 40 63' 137 08 47 09 25 50 120 58 967 18 106 59 191 22

233 07

Classis of New Brunswick. Second, N e w Brunswick..... Suydam St................ First, N e w Brunswick....... Third, N e w Brunswick....... Griggstown...... ......... East Millstone............. . Bound Brook......... ..... Hillsboro .......... ....... Franklin Park.... ......... Metuchen.................. Middlebush............... .

411 83 51 50 278 12 50 47 09

70 390 24 150

10 50 58 29 24 77

25 45

789 23 29 91 3,177 15 43 12

50 225 68 90

50 435 82 35

* 81 76 47 09 25 50 120 58 825 29 106 59 176 22

Classis of New York. South..... .. Manor Chapel.. Collegiate.. Knox Memorial.. De Witt Chapel.. Grace........ Port Richmond.. Brighton Heights Norfolk Street .. Fourth, German. Prospect Hill............ German Ev., Houston Street Harlem, Collegiate....... St. Paul’s, Mott Haven..... Thirty-fourth Street....... Union, Sixth Avenue..... . Madison Avenue..

Avenue B. Huguenots__ Holland...... Kreischerville.

120-22 20 53 10 128 76 55 71 80 30 80

200 325 24 32 11 40 13 84 588 47 65 48 58 7

100

250

1,139 23 79 91

1,600 42

5,002 as

175 12

120 22 35

100 125 115 50 50

20 5 3 75

55 . 173 10 258 76 ,59 46 80 30

210 20 80 170 275

250 395 24

112 11 50 183 84 863 47 .65 48 58 7 20

1,139 23 79 91 5,363 08 175 12 120 22 67 50 273 10 333 76 59 46 80 30 277 81 250 603 74 112 11 128 89 285 84 1,013 47 160 75 134 83

ao7

Classis of Orange. Fallsburgh..... .*■...... Minnisink............. Montgomery........... N e w Prospect......... Ellenville............. Kerhonkson........... Shawangunk.......... Wallkill.............. Lower Walpack......... Wawarsing . . ........ Upper Walpack........ New b u r g h ........... . Deer Park.......... !. Berea............... Walden.............. Mamakating...... . . N e w Hurley...........

34 29 5 50 617 85 67 75 68 54 36 50 29 41 32 3 85 12 73 79 34 51 106 75 9 73 52

53 10

59 70 50 3

49 29 5 50 617 85 67 75 143 24 50 92 60 29 41 32 3 85

12 83 17 25 17

258 66 140

419 244 68 168 9 78

66 53 5 50 617 85 67 75 159 28 50 92 60 29 41 32 3 85

12 83 34 75 52

499 83 244 34; 68 216 93 9 87 20

CLASSES AND CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

otal.

Grand ' Total.

Classis cf Orange. ^

(c o n t i n u e d .)

Callicoon.. ......... Bloomingburgh......... Cuddebackville... ..... Claraville............. Grahamsville.......... Unionville.... ........

10 15 48 32 07

270 37 866 444 36 10 58 55 47 53 155 97 148 47 261 55 11 50 13 118 76 9 100 7fl 27 36 214 35 26 23 20 17 27 34 7C 47 51 154 30

270 37 866 752 36 10 91 07 47 53 155 97 202 11 261 55 67 24 13 118 76 9 100 79 27 38 240 67 26 23 20 17 27 41 33 47 51 167 55

Classis of Faramus. Warwick............... Acquackanonck......... Nyack................. Second, Lodi........... Piermont.............. Pascack................ Broadway, Paterson...... Spring Valley........... North Passaic........... M a h w a h ............... Holland, Wortendyke... .. Paramus... ......... . Holland, Lodi... ....... Clarkstown............. West N e w Hempstead.... Second, Totowa......... First Holland, Paterson--Ridgewood............ Saddle River...... ...... Tappan .............. First Holland, Passaic... Centreville............. Ramseys........... ••••

196 37 306 115 04

20 300 69 32

54 260 260

28 12 6 85 50 47 72 70 147 55

38 60

10 30 43 40 68 105 50 37 77 54 11 50 13 71 30 9 50 79 27 38 141 62 26 23

47 46

72 73 . 20

17 27 6 70 18 35 154 30

10 29 16

107 70 49 15

4 35

Classis of Passaic. Pompton.............. Ponds__ .............. Fairfield............... Wyckoff.............. Union................. First, Totowa........... Pompton Plains........ Preakness............. Sixth Holland, Paterson.... Little Falls............ Montville.............. Franklin Furnace....... Boonton............... Boardville.......... :•••

66 15 30 950

36 27 50 150 9

55 44

11 10

32 70

33 15 3 25 35 18

4 6 82

138 11

177 70 177 70 53 50 53 50 66 66 50 30 24 30 45 50 45 50 27 50 „ 66 02 343 55 0 343 55 9 9 43 80 43 80 33 33 • 100 100 7 25 7 25 42 42

Classis of Philadelphia. Blawenburg....... First, Philadelphia— Second, Philadelphia.. Addisville .. . ....... N. andS.Hampton.... Clover Hill.... ... Fourth, Philadelphia. Neshanic....A .... Stanton........... Three Bridges Fifth, Philadelphia.... Harlingen......... Rocky Hill ...’ .....

135 100 ....... ) 43 91 10 185 76 )

54 4 69 4 50

} 8 40 1 .......

116 50 35 13 50 105 68 23 33 30 9

64 07 329 26 561 82 21 18 226 09 40 16 185 160 58 51 30 60 29 78 39 04

64 07 539 62 561 82 21 18 226 09 66 83 185 160 58 51 30 60 29 73 39 04

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

Yom From From urches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

Grand Total.

Classis of Poughkeepsie. Fishkill....... Rhinebeck.... Hopewell..... Fisnkill Landing. N e w Hackensack Hyde Park........ Second, Poughkeepsie Glenham.......... First, Poughkeepsie... Cold Spring........ Millbrook..........

73 82 121 04 63 S3 122 74 42 25 23 27 112 34 5 70 536 93 12 50 10

72 43 60 20 50 5 26 75 590 10 •

145 82 164 64 83 83 172 74 42 25 28 27 112 34 32 45 1,126 93 12 50 20

145 82 164 04 156 73 172 74 28 27 1R3 ftl 32 45 1,236 93 38 72

...

Classis ofRaritan. Peapack.............. Clinton Station...... . Second, Raritan....... Third, Raritan......... Rockaway . .......... First, Raritan........ .. North Branch......... Branchville........... Lebanon ............. High Bridge........... Bedminster........... Readington........... Pottersville........... Easton............... Fourth, Raritan.......

13 34 35 125 84 112 73 40 15 174 16 142 64 66 24 26 20 45 93 33 30 12 50 58 35

37 39 10 53 50 122 73 12 81 24 47 30

71 32 94 60 65 149 46 825 76 95 18 13 132 76 10 8 100 10

10 69 110

57 25 15 60

224 88 45

139 26 219 60 125 149 46 1,050 64 215 18 13 175 22 53 8 200 10

35 35 100 150 6 119 46 10 50 10 45 41 50 . 26 90

15 28 7 50 20 23 70

50 43 69

75 10

100

50 39 60 16 175 84 242 96 52 96 218 63 172 88 36 24 26 20 45 218 86 99 12 50 158 35

50 39 60 16 275 84 377 96 552 96 298 68 252 88 36 218 210 79 19! 50 185 10

Classis of Rensselaer. Stuyvesant....... ...... Schodack Landing....... Nassau ................ Greenbush ............. Kinderhook............. First Ghent............. Castleton... ............ Schodack............... Blooming Grove.......... Second Ghent........... Chatham............... N e w Concord............

42 24 12 53 100

139 26 219 60 163 64 170 46 1,050 64 260 18 13175 0 22 53 8 270 10

Classis of Saratoga. Fort Millen............. West Troy, South....... Saratoga............... Cohoes................ Boght................. West Troy, North........ Northumberland......... Wynantskill............ Union Village........... Buskirk’s.............. Scaghticoke............ . Easton................ Gansevoort............. Rensselaer........... :...

35 35 100 150 6 109 46 10 50 10 45 41 50 26 90

35 35 100 215 50 17 119 46 47 50 10 45 57 50 26 90

CLASSES A N D CHURCHES.

F r o m ' From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

[Grand Total.

Classis of Schenectady. Lisha’s Kill....... First, Glenville.... Second, Glenville. .. Second, Schenectady Niskayuna......... First Rotterdam... First Schenectady__ Helderberg...... Second Rotterdam... Amity........... Princetown..... .

77 25 31 75 20 129 79 138 75 50 62 493 39 15 14 87 10

19 32 39 60

30 60 18 7 50 . 30 206 . 50 10 50

8 63 20

107 25 111 25 20 129 79 185 25 80 62 759 39 50 25 50 23 50 30

107 25 111 25 20 151 36 215 25 80 62 853 39 68 25 50 48 50 30

Classis of Schoharie. Schoharie....... Middleburgh..... Lawyersville.... . Beaverdam....... Berne .......... Sharon.......... Central Bridge...... Gilboa........... North Blenheim__ _ Breakabin___ ____ Schoharie Mountain. Cobleskill........ Gallupville....... Moresville.... . Prattsville ....... South Gilboa.....

26 70 12 41 32 12 49 21 51 6

44 35

20 55

5 5 100

7 17 8 78 8 50

91 05 91 05 67 41 67 41 32 32 12 49 12 49 21 51 . 29 01 11 11 5 5 100 100 7 17 7 17 8 78 8 78 8 50 8 50

Classis of Ulster. Saugerties... Esopus..... Caatsban.... First, Kingston Flatbush.... Port Ewen __ Wiltwyck.... Plattekill.... Roxbury .... Woodstock__ Blue Mountain. Shandaken — Shokan...... Stewartville__ West Hurley ..

153 65

20 218 356 26 70

78 61 97 38

65 5 40

62 50 10

33 78 17 80 6 32 72 21

382 65 15

20 24 40 4

281 15 85.40 218 78 773 04 59 77 76 70 72 21 20 24 40 4

293 52 60 40 388 78 773 04 79 04 70 70 72 21 20 24 40 4

Classis of Westchester. Bronxville....... Mt. Vernon...... Fordham....... Peekskill........ Yonkers........ Hastings....... West Farms...... First. Tarry town... Cortland town... Second, Tarrytown Greenville...... Melrose........ Greenburgh..... Unionville......

51 91 210 57 45 26 50 70 29

9 40 192 41 31 61 . 100 15

65 70 270 45 165

10 40

. 95

8 24 23 15

,126 31 473 06 315 102 61 315 70 44 10 50 8 24 155 < 23 15

126 31 548 03 315 102 61 325 70 44 10 65 16 24 155 23 15

CL ’LASSES A N D CHURCHES.

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

Grand Total.

Classis of Wisconsin.

Alto.................. .. Pella, N e b ................. Gibbsville ................

Sheboygan Falls ...........

30 25 84 11 37 37 90 250 80 102 62 10 35 50 20 20 51 96 7 04 102 61 10 05 64 15 43 74 201 7 400 40

120

8 68 4 5 65 52 30 76 64 67 36

30 95 90 160 80 14

250 4 12

40 25 34 11 37 37 90 250 80 222 62 18 68 39 50 25 20 117 48 67 04 275 15 10 05 224 15 191 10

201 21 400 300 4 12

40 25 34 11 37 37 90 250 80 222 62 18 68 39 50 25 20 139 08 ■102 04 275 15 10 05 224 15 191 10 201 21 400 300 4 12

P E O M INDIVIDUALS, N O T T H R O U G H C H U R C H E S . . “ A ” .................... $40 Special Gifts for Debt: l 25 , Cash................... o .Rev. J. Whitbeek......... 3 “ S. M. Woodbridge, D.D. ii5 W. W. Rand, D.D..... 10 “ F. N. Zabriskie, D.D.... 2 A n invalid Pastor......... 1 Rev. J. H. Kershow....... 1 For Ministers’Fund....... 10 Rev. F. M. Kip, D.D....... 2 25 ^ “ H. F. Schnellendreussler 1 “ J. E. Bernart........ 2 41 C. W. Higgins....... 1 5 “ Jno. Forsyth, D.D._____ For Sandham Hall, Tokyo.... 1750 Rev. F. N. Zabriskie, D.D...... 10 Cash from “ R ” ... 8 65 K H ...................... 2 3 K. B. J.,Brooklyn...... .'... Cash from a Friend.......... 5 James E. Hedges............. 100 F. R. M.................. 30 1 50 J. M. A .................... Rev. E. Nevius.............. 5 M. M. L ............ 5 C. S., Brooklyn.............. 5 D. T. Lennon, Palenville...... 10 A m y Dosker’s Bank.. ........ 5 Rev. J. E. Bernart .......... 5 Rev. E. Miller....../........ 5 Mrs. Andrew Wright.......... 10 E. J. Gillies......... 5 ‘‘Unknown,” through Dr. West. 110 # For Catechist, India ........ 90 Cash, M. K. S.... '... ....... 10 E. E. Olcott................ 100 5 Mrs. Lizzie Wabeke.......... Rev. A. J. H a g e m a n __ ‘...... 10 A member R. D. Church...... 5 In Memoriam Chas. Van Wyck... 25 S. L. C...................... 5 A Friend, Toledo, O .......... 100 Mrs. Kate V. D. Searle........ 20

M. C. Morristown........... ’ Mrs. S. R. Brown...’...... P. C. Pitsford, Mich...... In Memoriam S. 0.... Rev. W. H. Steele, D.D....... Mrs. S., for Church in India___ E. C. D., Montclair, Fla....... A Presbyterian Lady........ Randolph..^....... .°__ ___ Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Lansing, Al bany.................... MissDouw, Albany.......... Cash, Albany.............. Miss Ann R. Seward, Fishkill... A. S. V. S................ K. V. S. O ............. \ .... Mrs. Isaac Ferris........... Miss Caroline Storm......... Miss Letitia Gibson.......... Rev. Chas. R. Ross........... Peter Fagg, Madison, Wis.. ... Peter Fagg’s Children........ Gold, R., Mass...... Rev. J. Knieskern........ J. H. Collins, Jr........ ‘*J. A.,” Thank-Offering.... Mrs. Mary Becker..!........ Rev. C. N. Waldron......... “ N. Merwin, Trumbull, Conn. “ J. Chamberlain, D.D.... “ G. H. Mandeville, D.D... L. R. S.................... Rev. A. M. Mann, D.D....... A Friend, Albany, N. Y ....... Privilege.................. Rev. J. N. Jansen........... Abrm. Delamater, Weedsport, N. Y .................... Mrs. Isaac Brinkerhoff....... Rev. J. M. Wagner........... Rev. W m . Brush.......... ;. W . Howard Brown, Albany___ Total... ..... .

$2 65 10 50 500' 100 :8 5 5 50 25 125 15 5 5 10 5 5 25 5 50 5 5 25 3 25 100 5 20 15 1 12 50 7 6 25 4 75 4 4 10 5

$3,862 40

From Miscellaneous Sources. Premium from Exchange of Bonds............................... $214 25 Returned by Rev. Eugene S. Booth............................... 511 05 1,629 50 Interest on Bonds, Security Fund................................ Cash from various sources..................................... 42 Theological Seminary, N e w Brunswick, N. J......... ............. 10 Rutger’s Grammar School, N e w Brunswick, N. J ................... 2 50 Mission Circle, Hertzog Hall, N e w Brunswick, N. J...... ........... 16 Society of Inquiry, Union Theol. Sem., N e w York................... 6 ■Woman’s Board.............................................. 10,01130 For Freight to India, etc...... ................... .............. ’ 18 30 For half printing for Conference, from Board Dom. Missions.......... 8 Infant Class Tompkins Ave. Congregational Church, Brooklyn........ 30 S. S. Presbyterian Church, Parsipanny, N. J........................ 35 % 107 Dorcas Vereeniging, Orange City, low’a ..... • .................... For Tracts................................................... 2 75 Collection at Ordination of Rev. A. Oltmans....................... 30 33 S. S. Presbyterian Church, Pine Plains, N. Y ....................... 30 Broome Street Tabernacle, N e w York...... ....................... 20 Congregational Cfiurcli, Trumbull, Conn.......................... 33 34 M. E. Church, Long Hill, Conn................................. 10 27 “ “ Nichols, Conn................................... 7 97 Cash for Mite Boxes........................................... 1 65 'N e w Centre, N. J., Missionary Society............................ American Bible Society............ !...... -.............•....... 500 American Tract Society...................................... 500 Union S. S., South Columbia, N. Y ...................... *......... 16 22 For Ferris Seminary enlargement............................... 2,500 Young Ladies’ Seminary, Philadelphia, P a ........................ 25 Ladies’Society, Orangeburgh, S. C ............................... 1 FourHopers................................................. 60 Bright Hope Mission Band, Unionville, N. J ........................ 20 «Young Ladies’Missionary Society, Orange City, Iowa............... 30 Total.......................................... $16,493 85

From Legacies. Estate of Eleanor W e b b ........................................... .$15 Mrs. Jane Crawford, Newark, N. J.................................. 50 Estate of Elsie Manton............................................ 20 Esther Hagaman, Hagaman's Mills................................. 285 Robert Burhans, Saugerties........................................ 100 Anna Hertz, Philadelphia, Pa................................ ’..... 50 Fanny Traphagen, White House, N. J............................... 500 Total ................

$1,020

RECEIPTS F R O M CLASSES. CLASSES O F S Y N O D OP

N e w York.

Hudson Kingston....... North Long Island. South Long Island N e w York-...... Orange........ Poughkeepsie... Westchester.... Total

From From From Churches S.Schools Individ’ls

Total.

Grand Total.

$790 07 361 90 1,017 05 4,069 08 5,917 74 1,360 70 1,124 42 469 42

$245 30 195 46 444 22 356 83 950 68 193 27 75 35 448 50

$*147 11 $1,483 08 $1,649 92 120 677 36 905 70 398 71 1.859 98 2,026 47 1,423 25 5,849 16 6,361 02 2,480 75 9,349 17 10.635 62 588 36 2,148 39 2,323 33 742 1.941 77 2,212 89 720 i;637 92 1,745 92

15,117 04

2,909 61

6,920 18 24,946 83 27,860 87

.. Albany.

1,704 64 . 137 95 56 313 21 189 07 353 45 615 02 100 187 68 810 18 545 34 1,580 03 608 96 126 95 981 42 44 35 135 56 894 79 200 51

1,599 01 718 12 89 74 04 124 82 207 25 10 ‘ 414 18 185 470 15

7,997 26

1,587 85

3,814 84 13,399 95 14,969 74

Bergen...... South Bergen... Monmouth.... Newark...... N e w Brunswick Paramus..... Passaic ..... Philadelphia__ Raritan......

778 79 1,327 72 321 54 3,145 22 1,530 05 1,443 23 542 88 1,121 35 948 75

226 53 342 27 52 29 437 89 197 71 874 36 118 61 360 50 '481 62

Total

11,149 53

3,091 78

494 70 872 03 252 41 581 63 238 14 1,460 19

556 61 747 04 70 125 50 82 50 636 32

565 05 151 81 313 75 195 95 5 394 90

1,616 36 1,770 88 636 16 903 08 325 64 2,491 41

1,680 36 2,054 52 746 74 1,040 08 357 71 2,548 01

3,899 10

2,217 97

1,626 46

7,743 53

8^427 42

Albany.... Cayuga.... Geneva ___ Greene.... Montgomery Rensselaer.. Saratoga__ Schenectady. Schoharie__ Ulster.... . Total

3,441 60 1,087 21 555 41 789 06 1,122 18 2,332 62 618 96 1,522 55 364 91 1,565 45

3,726 57 1,221 96 630 68 1,063 98 1,195 21 2,507 26 748 46 1.711 12 372 41 1,792 09

N e w Brunswick.

597 70 370'25 186 35 1,012 39 1,349 35 740 311 61 333 01 151 48

1,603 02 2.046 24 560 18 4,595 50 3,077 11 3,057 59 973 10 1,814*86 1,581 85

1,773 02 2,684 84 640 18 5,318 46 3,477 87 3.553 69 1,037 62 2,051 89 2,627 45

5,058 14 19,299 45 23,155 02

Chicago.

Grand River. Holland... Illinois.... Iowa.. ... Michigan__ Wisconsin .. Total

Grand Total

38,162 93

9,807 21 17,419 62 65,389 76 74,413 05-

TREASURER’S A N N U A L REPORT. The Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America in Account with J O H N M . F E R R I S , Treasurer. Dr. April 30, 1887. a r g o t mission . To cash disbursements during year.............................. $24,506 92 •

A M O Y MISSION.

To cash disbursements during year..............................

15,973 66

JAPAN MISSION.

To cash disbursements during year........ ...................... 45,387 94 To cash paid Hon. Secretary for salary.................... $300 2,400 “ Corresponding Secretary for salary............ “ Bookkeeper for salary....................... 500 “ Postage, H o m e and Foreign.................. 123 59 “ Kent of office............................... 640 497 32 “ Travelling expenses......................... “ On account of “ Mission Monthly ” ............. 225 95 “ Incidental expenses, moving office, etc.......... 688 38 “ Printing, “ Annual Report,” etc................ 885 34 “ Books, Magazines and Mite Boxes.............. 357 87 * “ Care of office............................... 44 • 6,662 45 “ • Loans due Bank.......................... 20,000 “ Interest on Loans........................... 1,067 43 “ Premium, Exchange of Bonds................. 282 57 -------- 21,350 “ Balance in Treasury......................... 518 $114,398 97 E. '& O. E.

•

Cr.

April 30, 1886. By Balance in Treasury, last report..................... ...... $611 95 April 30, 1887. By Cash received from Churches.. .......................$38,244 59 “ “ Sunday schools..................... 9,78556 “ “ Individuals through Churches......... 17^38062 “ “ Individuals not through Churches...... 3,86240 “ “ Miscellaneous sources......... 16,493 85 “ “ Legacies.......................... 1,020 ♦ ---- :-- 86,787 02 “ “ Borrowed from Bank during year..... 27,000 $114,398 97 Examined and found correct.

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N e w Y o r k ,May 11th, 1887. J A M E S A. WILLIAMSON, I ]nnance Committee D. J A C K S O N S T E W A R D , f committee. N. B.— Of the receipts reported above from miscellaneous sources, $10,011.30, and of the others $6,969.81, making a total of $16,981.11, were paid into the Treasury by Mrs. Peter Donald, Treasurer of the W o m a n ’s Board. The Security Fund amounts to $39,600, against which due banks, April 30th, 1887, $17,500. The Treasurer also holds two bonds, of $1,000 each as the foundation of the Joel T. Simpson Scholar ship in the Theological Seminary, India. J O H N M. FERRIS, Treasurer.

A N N U A L REPORT OF T H E

Treasurer of the W o m a n ’s Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America. ,

RECEIPTS. M a y 1st, 1886, Balance on1hand......................... $3,471 94 Acquackanonck, N. J. Auxiliary...................... . $200 Helen Aycrigg Mission Band.............. ..... ...... 160 360 Albany, N. Y., First Reformed Auxiliary................. 125 01 “ “ “ Sunday school..... '...... 20 ‘1 “ 11 Golden Rule Band................57 50 10 212 51 “ ^ “ “ Miss Yan Schoonhoven..... “ ** Madison Avenue Reformed Auxiliary.. ..... 183 “ u Miss Van Woerts Class, same Church....... 3 50 “ “ Boys’Club, same Church.. .............. 30 216 50 *. 39 40 “ u Third Reformed Auxiliary.... ........... , Alexandria Bay, N. Y ....................... ........ 23 50 Athenia, N. J., Band of'Workers ....................... 3 “ ■* Centreville Church....................... 10 25 13 25 25 Amity, N . Y ... .... ................................ ' Astoria, L. I. Auxiliary........ ^....... ......... ..... 53 25 Bacon Hill Busy Bees................................ 37 Belleville, N. J. Auxiliary........................... 4 Bergen, South Auxiliary.................................... 27 Bergen Point Auxiliary..................................... 6266 Bethlehem, Second .................................... 3311 • Bronxville Auxiliary, $20; Star of Hope Mission Band....... 20 40 16 Buskirks Bridge Mission Workers...................... Bushnell, 111. Auxiliary........................... 26 26 “ Willing Workers................... 17 10 4336 ,Boght Reformed Church Auxiliary...................... 11 Bushwick, South..................................... 40 Brooklyn, L. I. First Church, E. D., Auxiliary........... 125 “ “ “ “ Crystal Society .... 60 00 185 u u Church-on-the-Heights.................... 250 50 “ “ South Reformed................... 49 “ “ Twelfth Street......................... 60 Caatsban Auxiliary.................................. 105 “ Sunday School.............................. 65 170 Canajoharie, N. Y ................................... 36 Catskill, N . Y ................. 128 Clarksville, N. Y ..................................... Chatham, N. Y ................................ Claverack Mission Band, Willing Workers, First Church.... 5 Cedar Grove, Wis., Work and Praying B a n d ...... !...... 65 Centreville, Mich........................................... 3207 Closter, N. J. Auxiliary............................ Cohoes, N. Y. ^Auxiliary...................... ..;...... 65 50

Colt’s Neck, N. J. Auxiliary........................... * 30 Clover Hill, N. J. Auxiliary........... ................ 50 Coxsackie First Reformed Church Auxiliary.............. 37 “ Second “ ^ “ ....... ...... 85 Easton, Pa. Auxiliary.................. .............. > 26 75 75 74 Ellenville, N. Y. Auxiliary............................ Esopus Auxiliary................................... 20 Fallsburgh, N. Y. Auxiliary........................... 17 24 Flushing, L. I. Auxiliary.............................. 20^ 37 18 Fonda, N . Y ....... ........... .................... Farmers Village, N. Y .... *.......................... 35 27 21 Fairview, 111........... ;.......................... Freehold, N. J., Second Church........................ ’ 70 . Flatbush, Ulster Co., N. Y ............................ 19 27 Flatbush, L. I................ ,..................... 186 25 Franklin Park, N. J. Auxiliary.................. ...... 160 7177 Mission Guild.................... ...... “ Taylor Mission B a n d ....................... 10 2124189’ Fishkill on the Hudson Auxiliary.. .................... 50 Fishkill Auxiliary, $40; Sunday School.................. 20 60 Fulton, 111................................. >....... 2160 Gravesend, L. I.... .................. 120 02 Greenbush, East., N. Y ...................................... 21 -Greenville, N. J ..................................... 212 OS Greenpoint, L. I..................................... 32 25 . Greenport, Col. Co., N. Y. Auxiliary.................... “ “ Red Hill Chapel....................... 60 92 25 Griggstown, N. J. Auxiliary.................. ...'*.... 37 82 37 507532 “ ’ “ Self-denial Mission Band................ Gibbsville, Wis.................................. .*... ' 80 Ghent, N . Y ................. .......... ,............ 45 Grand Rapids, Mich., Fourth Church, Little Children...... 7 Hackensack, N. J., First Reformed...................... 200 Herkimer, N. Y ........................................... 2786 100 High Falls, N. Y., Church of the Clove.................. Helderberg Auxiliary, $50 ; Scudder Band............... 18 68 High Bridge Union Reformed, N. Y ..................... 86 25 Hopewell, N. Y., Auxiliary................... ........ 70 90 u “ Three L a d i e s . ...... ............... 20 90 90 0 Hampton, Pa., North and South............. 73 81 Holmdel, N. J ...................................... 50 Holland, Mich. Auxiliary, Three Churches................ 64 85 “ lt Young Ladies’Society..... ;............ 25 89 85 127 19 Hudson, N. Y. Auxiliary.............................. 41 “ Mission B a n d .......................... 17 40 144 59 Jamaica, L. I............................ 38 21 Jersey City, Wayne Street Auxiliary, Second Reformed..... 95 55 “Lafayette Church Auxiliary........................ 108 u 44 Memorial Mission Band. ....... 6250 170 50 44 Heights, Bergen Avenue Reformed Mission.... 227 41 44 44 Reformed, Nellie Amer m a n Circle.... 28 20 255 61 Kalamazoo, Mich.................................... 64 Kerhonkson, N. Y., Mission Band....................... 50 69 05 Kingston, Fair Street Auxiliary........................ . • 44 Mrs. C. H. Stitt................................ 5 74 05 kiskatom, N . Y ................ 31 46 Linlithgo, N. Y ............... :..................... 18 Lisha’s Kill, N. Y ................................. 30 Lodi, N.Y...’........................................ 10

Leeds, N. Y ....................................... ... Mahwah, N. J ................... ’................. . Metuchen, N. J .............................. ...... Mt. Vernon, N. Y ......................... •......... Montville„N. J .................... ................. Mott Haven, N. Y., St. Paul’s... ....................... Middlebush, N. J.' ........................... ..... Millbrook, N. Y ....................... .............. Nassau, N. Y. Auxiliary....... ....................... # “ Sunbeam Mission Band................... Niskayuna, N . Y ... ....... ................. ....... Neshanic, N. J ...................................... Newburgh, N. Y ................................... N e w Baltimore, N. Y ................................. N e w Durham, N. J., Grove Church Auxiliary............. N e w Hurley, N. Y ....................... ............ N e w Paltz, N. Y., Auxiliary. *.......................... . “ “ ,Miss Esther Eltinge................... N e w Utrecht, L. I., Auxiliary......................... “ •“ Young man, per Auxiliary ........... Newark, N. J., First Reformed Sunday school............ u “ Second Reformed, Ready Helpers........... “ “ North Reformed Auxiliary............... “ u “ Bible and Mission Class.............. “ “ Infant Class........................... . “ u Birthday Offerings..................... . “ “ Clinton Avenue............... ......... N e w Brunswick, N. J., First Reformed Auxiliary.... ...... “ “ “ Young Ladies’Mission B a n d ........ “ “ “ Second Reformed Auxiliary......... “ “ Sunday school................... “ u “ Primary Department............... “ " “ Mrs. D.O. Vail.................... “ “ tl The Misses Pareck................. “ “ “ Suydam Street Auxiliary........... “ “ , “ “ “ Young Ladies’Society.. N e w York City, Fifth Ave. and Forty-eighth St. Auxiliary.... “ “ “

“ In Memoriam... “ Sunday school. and Twenty-ninth St. Auxiliary... Mrs. Jonathan Sturges......... “ Miss Josephine Penfold......... Miss Pryce Infant Class, Free-Will Offering... Fourth Street Collegiate................. Grace Reformed, Fifty-fourth Street....... Madison Avenue Reformed Auxiliary...... Sixth Avenue Reformed, Ferris Auxiliary.,..... “ Faith Mission Band.......... South Reformed Auxiliary............... Thirty-fourth Street Auxiliary........ .... Prospect Hill Ref. Church, 87th St. Auxiliary. Bloomingdale Auxiliary............ ... Fordham Mission Band...... .... .... First, Harlem........................ . Second, Harlem....................... Norwich, East, L. I., C. L. S. C ............. ..... ....... North Branch, N. J... ,....................... ....... “ “ Depot.............................

7 50 55 74 18 35 75 60 * 80 15 18 72

-68 64 30

98 64 30 30

220 48 51 * 30 13 50 89 29 5 184 94 37 40

130 52 60 5 136 60 162 74 109 66 15

94 29 222 34 35 15

247 ‘ 118 86 196

120 20 7 15 20 435 80 20 50 419 150

42740 27 15

585

120 1 25

80 62

690 25 103 12 50 270 142

100

78 89 67 31 95 75 60 128 101 50 15 50 30

Nyack, N. Y., Girls’Mission Circle...................... 60 “ “ Auxiliary.............................. 308 Orange, N. J ....................................... Overisel, Mich...................................... ® Owasco Outlet, N. Y .................. ■.............. Paramus, N. J., Sunday School........................ Passaic, North, N. J .................................. " Paterson, N. J., First Reformed Auxiliary, $15; Mission Band. 23 52 “ “ Second, Totowa........................ Peekskill, N. Y., Auxiliary, $10; Mission Band......... — 10 Pella, Iowa, Second Reformed Auxiliary................. 50 “ Band of Little Workers...... ........ ...... .126 22 Piermont, N. Y .................. -.................. Plainfield, N. J., Trinity Reformed Auxiliary.................... Princetown, N. Y .......................................... Port Jackson, N. Y ......................................... Pompton, N. J ............................... . ..... Philadelphia, Pa., First Church Auxiliary.... ........... '“ “ Second Reformed Sunday School....... 100 “ “ “ Auxiliary............ ‘35 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., First Reformed Auxiliary........... 170 “ “ “ Young Ladies Society... 60 u “ Miss Alice Dockstader......... *.... 60 “ u Second Reformed Auxiliary......... Raritan, N. J. Auxiliary.. ............................ Raritan, 111. Auxiliary................................ Readington, N. J ....... ....................... ,.... Rochester, N. Y ............................................ Rotterdam, West, N. Y .............................. Saugerties, N. Y. Auxiliary, $62.37; Mission Band.......... 10 1 70 Schenectady, N. Y., First Reformed Auxiliary............ “ “ “ Griffis Band.... ...... 124 “ “ Second Reformed Auxiliary........... Somerville, N. J., First Reformed........ .............. “ “ Second Reformed..................... Schoharie, N. Y ..... ....... Stuyvesant, N. Y ............ Spring Valley, N. Yl Auxiliary.., Schraalenburgh, N.‘J. Auxiliary Staten Island, Port Richmond Auxiliary................. “ Brighton Heights Auxiliary............... Tappan, N. Y. Auxiliary, $24.63; Sunday School........... 10 Tarrytown, N. Y., First Reformed Auxiliary.................... “ “ Second Reformed Auxiliary....... (... # Unionville, N. J., Bright Hope Mission Band.............. Utica. N. Y. Auxiliary................................ 141 25 “ “ Christ Church Sunday School............... 30 “ “ A Lady................................. 30 Upper Red Hook, N. Y., Scudder Memorial............... 40 “ lt “ Mrs. Eltinge.................... 30 Verplancks, N. Y ................................... Warwick, N. Y ............................................ Walden Auxiliary, $42.68 ; Willing Workers............... 5 50 Westerlo Auxiliary, $6 ; Sunday School................. 1 26 Wyckoff, N. J ..................................... Yonkers, N. Y. Auxiliary... ........................... 130 “ “ Joy Bells.............................. *10 Zeeland, Mich. Auxiliary .......................... . 20 “ “ Married W o m e n ’s Society................ .105

368 60 93 70 5 17 35 60 38 52 26 32 20 176 22 32 52 1050 20 3585 210 36; 135

290 e 7150 135 51 123 80 30 30 72 37 194 2157 80 05 100

115 75 3463 55 05 20 00

20125 70 8 6*1 4818 726 26 170 125

$17,997 30

INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS. Mrs. Adams, per Miss Bergen........................... Miss Bergen.................................. ...... Freddie Woods1 Birthday Offering ................ . .... A Friend, for the Jonathan Sturges Seminary............... A Friend, Montclair, Fla.................... ... t...... Mrs. W m . B. Walker, in Memoriam, Little Martha........... Rev. John L. Stillwell.................................. H. H ......... Thank Offering, “ J ” ..... Editress Mission Gleaner............................... Receipts from subscriptions to Mission Gleaner............ “ advertisements in Mission Gleaner........... ' Christmas Offering, Miss A m y Duryee..................... Miss Mary O. Duryee, in Memoriam....................... Miss A. Van Wagenen................................. A Friend from Albany....................... A ----................... F. R. JI..................... ................... . . Mrs. Mary C. Van .Brunt............................... Mrs. J. H. Van Doren......... Mrs. Charles Van W y c k ..............

' $1 1 1

2,200 3

20 *>5

5 3

$20 274 85 20 314 85 50 100 10 5

7 50 30 5 5 5

$20,812 81

DISBURSEMENTS. Paid Rev. Henry Cobb, D.D., Cor. Sec ...........$16,858 15 14 “ John M. Ferris, D.D., Treas........ . 71 29

June 22. Nov. 24. M ay 25.

Nov. 16.

“ 44 44 44 “ “ 44 44 44

Total Amount Paid to Synod’s Board...__ $16,929 44 Mr. R. Brinkerhoff, for Reports, etc..... .... ( $250 62 44 Stationery, Secretaries... 13 90 Hatch Lithographic C o ............ ...... 1150 Rogers & Sherwood,Printers of Mission Gleaner. 240 Editress Mission Gleaner................. 100 Postage and Wrappers, Mission Gleaner..... 11 51 Agent’s Allowance....................... 30 Rev. Eugene S. Booth, Organs, etc.......... 350 Postage and Stationery, Treasurer.......... 8 ------- 1,015 53 Total Disbursements..................

$17,944 97

The undersigned has examined the foregoing accounts and* compared the vouchers, and finds the same correct. The balance in the Treasury, April 25th, is two thousand eight hundred and forty-seven 81-100 dollars, of which three hundred and sixty-seven 40-100 dollars is the Medical Missionary Fund. N e w York, May 9th, 1887. T A L B O T W. C H A M B E R S .

DETAILED S T A T E M E N T OP EXPENDITURES, FOR THE

CALENDAR

YEAR,

1886.

{In compliance with the resolution of General Synod,- 1 ^ . ) FOR THE

AMOY

MISSION.

Salaries— Ytev. J. V. N. Talmage, D. D., 1 year, $1,100 gold... $1,375 Rev. L. W. Kip, D. D ................ ........ . M 7 5 Rev. P. W. Pitcher........................ i’375 875 Rev. D. Rapalje, $700 gold................. 875 Rev. A. S. Van Dyck........ ........ . •••■•• 750 . Miss K. M. Talmage, $600 gold..........."■•■• $7,375 750 Miss M. E. Talmage........... ........... 22 72 72 Traveling Expenses-Dr. Talmage to and from Swatow.... 33 75 Rev. and Mrs. Van Dyck to and from Hong Kong. 25 Rev. D. Rapalje to Hong Kong........... 172 72 50 Dr. and Mrs. Talmage from Hong Kong....... 78 75 Property— Balance for land at Sio Khe and Poa-a..... — 1,328 75 1,250 House erected................. — .----/ 375 Outfit of Mrs. Van Dyck, $300 gold................ . ••■ 50 Bible Women, $130, less deductions, $80......... . ^ 139 47 80 47 The “ Duryee W o m a n ’s H o m e ” ..................... ,185 50 Personal Teachers and Helpers......... ............ 350 20 244 95 258 63 1,241 51 387 73 Girls’School, $457.41, less donations, WJ-oo..... 288 37 Gospel Boat— Expenses and repairs......... ......... 2,302 98 Out Stations— Expenses of 13 Stations outside of A m o y .... 318 95 Traveling Expenses of Native Helpers............. .... 57 Current Picpenses— Public Worship.................... i 516 45 Medical............................. . — . 71 13 , Printing............................. ..... ' 490 37 ” 107 &5 1,416 33 173 53 15,144 58

Mexican Dollars. ,

12,941

U. S. Currency................. ...

Paid in America— Mrs. D. Rapalje. on account Salary.. Children allowance............ ........ House rent.......................... Traveling Expenses to California......... Passage to China..................... Freight and insurance on goods..........

ARCOT

1,933 23 $14,874 23

Total for the A m o y Mission. FOR THE

600 200 350 150 580 53 23

MISSION.

Salaries— Rev. \V. W. Scudder, D.D., $1,200 gold....... Rev. J. W. .Scudder, M.D.................. Rev. John Scudder, M.D................... Rev. J. W. Conklin (2 children).............. Rev. L. Hekhuis, M.D., $800 gold............ Rev. E. C. Scudder, Jr............ M U s M. K. Scudder, $650— ............... aVlissJ. C. Scudder............ ............

Rupees. 3,217 0 0 3,217 0 0 3,217 0 0 3,576 2 4 2,145 0 0■' 2,145 0 4) , 0 ’0 ® ® 21,001 2 4

Native ^4s«i8/anlls— Salaries of Pastors, Catechists, Readers, etc..................... i....... Arcot Seminary— Teachers’ salaries, board, clothing,

books, etc............................$6,223 10 5 Less fees, 551 4 0 ; gov. grant, 642 10 12 ; dona• tions, 36 0 0.............. ........ 1,230 0 10 Female Seminary— Teachers’ salary, board, clothing, books, etc.... ...................... 2,896 8 1 Less fees, 416 8 0; gov. grant, 1,234 12 0... 1,651 '4 0 Vernacular Sc/ioois— Expended at Stations and Out-Sta tions, including Anglo-Vernacular Schools.. 9,850 1 11 Less Fees, 977 3 0; gov. grant, 1,266 8 2; sales books, 742 6 7.................. 2,986 1 9 Hindu Girls' Schools— Teachers’ salaries and expenses of • sevenschools.................... 3,100 3 11 J Less fees, 123 1 0; gov. grant, 164 10 0.... 287 11 0 Madanapalle Boys' School— Teachers’ salaries, board, clothing, books, etc.................... 1,566 8 10 Less fees, 80 0 0 ; gov. grant,^149 8 0...... 229 8 0 Madanapalle Girls' School— Teachers’ salaries, board, ‘ ‘ t . clothing, books, etc.................... 1,091 11 3 Less fees, 149 0 0 ; gov. grant, 1610 0...... 310 0 0 Preparandi School— Teachers’ salaries, board, clothing, J books, etc... ■........................ 886 9 9 Less fees............................. 58 8 0 Building Department— Expended on Stations and Out-Sta tions................................ Rents and Repairs— Expended on Stations and Out-Sta tions............................... Touring and Traveling— Touring, among heathen, Visiting , •%., Hills, etc............................ Medical Department —Medicines, doctors’ fees, etc., for whole Mission ....................... Library .Fund— Annual grant to Mission Library....... Miscellaneous— Cure of Churches and Cemeteries, 363 14 0j postage, 211 14 6; stationery, 43 13 3; print ing and mailing reports, 152 1 2; Tappal, 63 15 0;’ Communion Wine, 38 1 8; Mission 4 Meetings, 96 8 0; bank charges, 78 3 10; Al * mirah, 20 2 0; sundries, 24 11 6.......... Amounts contributed in America for special pur . poses outside the appropriations........

$8,609 8 1

5,003 9 7

1,245 4 1

6,870 0 2

2,812 8 11

1.337 0 10

781 11 3

828 1 9 1,723 10 6 2,222 1 9 2,968 12 8 500 0 0

100 0 0

1,093 4 11 231 5 4

57,328 2 2 Rupees .................... The Rupee is equal to 37J4 centsttherefore the the above amount is equivalent to U7 S. Cur $21,366 68 rency ................ .............. Paid in America— Rev. Jacob Chamberlain, D.D., salary, rent, etc............................ $1,560 Rev. J. H. Wyckoff, salary, rent, etc........ 1,860 33 Rev. W. I. Chamberlain............. '...... 60 , Lewis B. Chamberlain.................... 125 Charles Chamberlain..................... 75 Rev. Jared W. Scudder’s 1 son .............. 150 Rev. John Scudder’s 4 children ............ 500 JohnHeeren, orphan..................... 150 4,580,33 Miss Fanny Scudder, expense to India.. ........ 100

FOR THE

. J A P A N 3IISSION.

Salaries—-Rev. H. Stout.................... ..... .

$1,200 Rev. N. H. Demarest................... . 1,200 Rev. A. Oltmans, 2 ^ months................ 250 1,200 Rev. G. F. Verbeck, D. D ................. . Rev. J. L. Amennan, D. D . t.............. • 1,200 Rev. J. H. Ballagh, part in America......... 766 60 Rev. E. R. Miller........... ........ . 1,200 Rev. E. S. Booth, part in America........... 348 33 Rev. H. Harris... ® ...................... 1,200 Prof. M. N. Wyckoff..... ................ 1,200 Miss A. H. Ballagh................. 600 MissH. L. W i n n......................... 600 MissM. L. W i n n .......... 600 Miss M. E. Brokaw.. .......... \........ 600 Children's Allowances— Rev.H. Stout............ .... 200 Rev. N. H. Demarest...................... 100 600 Rev. G. F. Verbeck, D. D ................ Rev. J. L. Amerman, D. D ...®.......... 224 43 Rev. E. S. Booth......................... 57 22 Prof. M. N. Wyckoff......... ............. 400 House Rents— For Messrs. Verbeck, Amerman, Harris, Wyckoff and Miller, $700 each........... Teachers and Literary Assistants— Revs. Stout, Demarest and Oltmans...................... 230 18 Dr. Verbeck, $148 56 ; Amerman, $157 50...... 306 06 Revs. Miller, $82 39 ; Booth, $25............. 107 39 Rev. Harris, $51 22 ; Prof. Wyckoff, $53 96.... 105 18 The Four Ladies........................ 220 14 Traveling JE^pen-ses— Tokyo-Yokohama Station.. ...... 230 97, Nagasaki Station, Classis, Synod, etc........ ' 16183 Medical Riiis— Tokyo-Yokohama Station............. 186 Nagasaki Station........................ • 57 54 Meiji Gaku-In— Japanese Theological Department— 483 89 Students* support.......... *............. Rev. Ibuka (salary).......... '....... .. .... 214 87 Current expenses, one-third........... 832 65 Sandham Hall— Balance between expenses and receipts...... Theological C7cm— Nagasaki— r Students’support...................... :.. 773 23 Rev. A. Segawa (salary)...... ;............ 221 46 Isaac Fends Seminary— Current expenses............. 4,095 70 Less tuition, etc..... ................. •... 1,820 13 Jonathan Sturges Seminary— Land rent ............. 121 30 Current expenses........................ 18 62 Wm. H. Steele,Jr., Memorial Academy— Land rent...... 152 07 Current expenses... .................... 340 87 Moving temporary school building.......... Mission Property— Nagasaki Chapel, land rent....... . 46 27 Insurance, $12 96; repairs, $5 10............. 18 06 Sexton, $66 01; Current expenses, $5 24 ...... 71 25 Mr. Stout’s house, land rent ......... 62 69 Insurance, $23 33; repairs, $29 96 ...... 53 29 Mr. Demarest’s house, land rent............ 49 96 p Insurance, $19 50; repairs, $17 03............ 36 53 Interest on $1,000, silver loan.............. 64 80 Mr. Oltmans’House, land rent............ 106 92

$12,159 99

1,581 65 3,500

968 95 392 80* 243 54

1,031 41 713 96

994 69 2,275 57 189 92 492 94 45 03

135 58 115 98

* 151 29

Insurance, $7 87; exchange and re pairs...................... Church and House at Yokohama— Land rent, $191 06 ; insurance, $177 ....... Repairs— church, $385 13 ; house, $539 45....................... Current expenses, etc.............. I

Less rent of church, etc..........

76 79 • 368 06

$8466

$191 58

92458 12359 $1,416 23 64173

Mexican dollars,

$774 50

equal to

587 26

Evangelistic Work— Tokyo-Yokohanm— Board of Domestic Missions......... $79757 Rev. M. Ogimi’s salary.......... 500 Rev. Maki’s salary.............. 23040 Traveling expenses of Mission aries ....................... 10960 Work at and about Nagoya, Mishima, Awa, etc..!........ \... 1,18-1 05 . -----2,821 62 Nagasaki, Kagoshima........... 289 22 Saga.......................... 10663* Kurume(5 months)............. 99 47 Out-Stations................... 38 32 Students’summer work.......... 36 59 Native Evangelistic Committee.... 204 32 . -----774 55 3,596 17

Sandham Hall Jh'operty Account— Expended on building, etc................................. Publication Committee— Allowance for year.. ........ Traveling Expenses of Mr. Booth and Miss E. B. A m e r m a n to America.......................... ilttscettaneoMS— Tokyo-Yokohamastation, sundries..1.... Nagasaki station........................ Deficiency in Nagasaki account last year..... Union College Library grant............... Balance of Mr. Oltmans’outfit..............

3,681 55 300 « 1,650 395 83 68 52 59 07 50

189 60

763 02 $35,712 88

Paid in America— Rev. J. H. Ballagh, on account....... Rev. E. S. Booth, salary, rent, etc...... 1,108 410 Rev. Mr. Oltmans, on acccount outfit... u passage and expenses to Japan “ freight and insurance on goods

550 89 60 806 28 08

Total for the Japan Mission......... H O M E

$38,615 95

EXPENSES.

Dr. Cobb’s salary............. ................... Dr. Ferris’s salary................................ Bookkeeper’s salary... !........................... Office expenses.................................. Printing, $993 92 ; Mite Boxes, $250 ................. Traveling expenses of Missionaries and Agents.........

2,903 07

$2,400 300 60q 299

1,243 92 362 67

Rent, $656 25 ; interest, $830 75............ . ..... . Ourproportion, expense on “ Sower’’.... .......... . N e w safe (old one sent to Amoy).................... .

$1,487 183 88 240

$((,906 47

R E C A P I T U L A T I O N .

Expended for A m o y Mission............. u Arcot “ “ Japan “ “ H o m e office.........................

14,874 23 25,947 01 38,615 95 6,966 47

Total in U. S. Currency......................

$86,403 66

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5. That the issuing of occasional leaflets on subjects of <’o current interest, in connection with the work, is highly ap proved, and that the Board be recommended to continue such issues from time to time. 6. That pastors and Consistories be affectionately urged to secure the training of the children and youth in the S u n day schools in the habit of giving to this cause, thus culti vating in them the grace of benevolence, and, at the same time, securing an additional s u m for the missionary treasury of the Church. 7. That it be recommended to all our churches to hold a monthly missionary meeting, devoting the time to the con sideration of missionary topics, and to prayer for the blessing of G od upon missionary effort. 8. That a Committee of Seven, of which the Secretaries of the Foreign Board, the Domestic Board, the W o m a n ' ,s Board of Foreign Missions, and the W o m a n ’s Executive Committee of Domestic Missions, shall be members, be ap pointed by the Synod to arrange for a joint missionary con vention, to be held in the a u t u m n in N e w Brunswick, N. J., and also for a similar convention to be held in the West, if found advisable. 9. That the several Classes be requested to consider the advisability and practicability of holding local missionary conventions within their bounds, or in districts embracing more than one Classis, with a view to the dissemination of missionary intelligence and the arousing of missionary zeal in the churches. 10. That this Synod c o m m e n d s the work of the W o m a n ’s Board to the Christian w o m e n of all our churches, and urges their co-operation in the formation of auxiliaries where they do not exist, and the hearty support of them where they have already been formed.

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BOARD OF- FOREIGH MISSIONS. Members whose Ter m expires June, 1888. Eev. A. P. Va n Gieson, D.D., “ C. L. Wells, D.D., “ M. H. Hutton, D.D., “ AV. K. Davis, D.D.,

Eev. A. J. Hutton, Mr. D. Jackson Steward, Hon. H. E. Graves, Mr. Jas. A. Sev'ard.

Members ivhose Term expires June, 1889. Eev. W m . H. Clark, D. D., “ T. W. Chambers, D.D., “ W . J. E. Taylor, D.D., “ T. S. Brown,

Eev. J. H. Oerter, D.D., Mr. James A. Williamson, “ F. S. Douglas, “ J. Townsend Lansing.

Members whose Term expires June, 1890. Eev. “ “ “

W m . H. Steele, D.D., A. E. Thompson, D.D., Lewis Francis, W m . E. Duryee, D.D.,

Eev. C. H. Poole, Hon. H. AY. Bookstaver, Mr. Augustus S. Whiton, “ AYilliam L. Brower.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Eev. A. E. Thompson, D.D., “ Lewis Francis, “ C. L. Wells, D.D., <c AYm. E. Duryee, D.D., “ AYm. J. E. Taylor,

Hon. H. W . Bookstaver, Mr. Jas. A. AVilljamson, D. Jackson Steward, “ F. S. Douglas, “ W . L. Brower.

O F F I C E B S F O E 1887-J8. Eev. AY. H. Steele, D.D., President. t “ W m . J. E. Taylor, D.D., Vice-President. “ C. L. AYells, D.D., Recording Secretary. “ John M. Ferris, D.D., Hon. Secretary. “ Henry N. Cobb, D.D., Cor. Sec., 26 Eeade St., N. Y. “ John M. Ferris, Treasurer, 85-91 E l m St., N. Y. .

M E D I C A L ADVISEES.

H en ry E. Baldwin, M.D., Y e w Brunswick. E. G. Janeway, M.D., N e w York.