Fifty-Seventh Annual Report

OF

The Woman's

U nzon Mzsszonary Soczety of America

··~x

s+ January, 1918

1 New York

The "Woman's Union Missionary Society of

America" was organized in November, 1860, and in­

corporated in New York, February I, 1861.

FORM OF BEQYEST

I gi1Je and bequeath to the" Woman's Union Mission­

ary Society of America," incorporated in the City of New

York, February I ~ 1861, the sum of

to be applied to the missionary purposes of said Society.

Officers of tke

Woman's Un£on M£ss£on for 1918

PRESIDENT MRS. SAMUEL J .. BROADWELL

Address, 67 Bible House VICE-PRESIDENTS

NEW YORK

MISS EMILIE S. COLES MRS. Z. STILES ELY MRS. J. E. JOHNSON MRS. DE WITT KNOX MRs. HENRY L. PIERSON MRS. ALBERT G. ROPES MRS. V. H. YOUNGMAN

BROOKLYN MRS. S. T. DAUCHY MRS. FRANK H. MARSTON MRS. PETER McCARTEE MRS. L. R. PACKARD MRS. E. E. ROBINSON MISS IDA P. WHITCOMB

AILBANY, N. Y. MISS JUSTINE B. ERVING MRS. J. TOWNSEND LANSING MRS. GEO. DOUGLAS MILLER

SYRACUSE, N. Y. MRS. ROBERT TOWNSEND

BOSTON, MASS.

MISS M. B. MEANS

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

MRS. F. B. DEXTER NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.

MRS. JOHN S. CLARK MRS. CHARLES DUNHAM MISS HELEN H. J ANEW A Y

MORRISTOWN, N. J. MISS E. M. GRAVES

SUMMIT, N. J. MRs. F S. PHRANER

PRINCETON, N. J. MRS. WALTER B. HARRIS

PHILADELPHIA, PA •

.MRS. WM. W. FARR MRS. GEO. E. SHOEMAKEH MRS. ABEL STEVENS MRS. WM. WATERALL

DETROIT, MICH. MRS. MINOT C. MORGAN

ST. LOUIS, MO.

DR. MARY H. McLEAN

HOME CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

MRS. S. T. DAUCHY CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR CALCUTTA

MISS ALICE C. MOFFAT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR ALLAHABAD

MISS ADELE MASTERS CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR CAWNPORE

MRS. WILLIS C. BRIGHT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR JHANSI

MRS. WM. W. CLARK CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR FATEHPUR

MRS. H. S. FULLERTON CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR CHINA

MRS. S. T. DAUCHY CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR JAPAN

MRS. DAVID 1. REYNOLDS RECORDING SECRETARY

MISS CLAIRE CHAPMAN TREASURER

JOHN MASON KNOX, Esq.

ASSISTANT TRE:AStm.ERS MISS CLARA E. MASTERS MISS ELSIE E.. McCARTEE

AUDITOR FRANK H. MARSTON, Esq.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INVESTMENTS ALFRED R. KIMBALL, Esq.

MANAGERS

MRS. JUSTIN E. ABBOTT MISS J. W. ABEEL MRS. RICHARD H. ALLEN MRS. J. W. AMES MRS. S. J. BROADWELL MISS E. W. BEERS MISS ALICE H. BIRDSEYE MRS. 'FREDERICK BILLINGS MRS. WILLIS C. BRIGHT Mits. J. M. BRODNAX MRs. JOSEPH E. BROWN MISS CLAIRE CHAPMAN MRS. W. W. CLARK MRS. JOHN S.· CLARK MRS. S. T. DAUCHY MRS. GEORGE H. DANFORTH MISS H. E. FORBES MRS. H. S., FULLERTON MRS. S. H. GILLESPIE MISS EUZABETH GOULD MRS. W. P. HALSTED MRS. GILBERT C. HALSTED

. MRS. J. E. JOHNSON MISS H. P. JOHNSON MISS H. L. KINGSBURY

MRS. DE WITT KNOX MISS KATHERINE LAMBERT MRS. BURDETTE LEWIS MRs. PETER McCARTEE MISS ELSIE E. M~CARTEE MRS. F. H., MARSTON MISS C. E. MASTERS MISS ADELE MASTERS MRS. CHARLES C. MICHENER MISS ALICE C. MOFFAT MRS. L. A. OPDYKE MRS. L. R. PACKARD MRS. CALVIN PATTERSON MRS. F. S. PHRANER MRS. H. L. PIERSON MRS. D. I. REYNOLDS MRS. ALBERT G. ROPES MISS E. B. STONE MRS. W. E. TRUESDELL MISS A. T. VAN SANTVOORD MISS JULIA VAN VORST MISS EM.MA A. WETTEREAU MISS I. P .. VlHITCOMB MRS. T. S. WILLIAMS

STANDING COMMITTEES NOMmATION

MISS BIRDSEYE

MISS JOHNSON

MRS. BILLINGS MISS BIRDSEYE MRS. BRIGHT MRS. CLARK MRS. DAUCHY MRS. G. C. HALSTED

MRS. REYNOLDS PUBLICATION

MISS MOFFAT MISS WHITCOMB

FINANCE MRS. MARSTON MISS MASTERS MISS ADELE MASTERS M'ISS McCARTEE MRS. MICHENER MRS. REYNOLDS

MISS STONE

COMMITTEE ON CANDIDATES

MRS. M'ARSTON MISS MASTERS MRS. DAUCHY MIss BIRDSEYE

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REPORT OF THE BOARD FOR 1917

MISSION STATIONS

INDIA CALCUTTA, ALLAHABAD, CAWNPORE, JHANSJ, FATEHPUR

CHINA SHANGHAI

JAPAN VOKOHAMA AND VILLAGES

INDIA.-CALCUTTA

~ork opened 1862 GARDNEk MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL AND HINDU SCHOOLS

REPORT

By MISS LILLIAN NORTON

Mission~ry.-Miss Lillian Norton. Assistant Missionaries.-Mrs. Renton, Miss Buchanan. Head Mistress Gardner Memorial School.-Miss Gilder.

Gardner Memorial High School

Our staff during the past year has consisted of six Indian teachers, a Pundit, a matron and a nurse. Seventeen new pupils were received at the beginning of the year and the enrollment has been fifty-one students throughout the year. Our seven Matriculation students have just left, some for further study and some to teach.

The majority of our pupils are Bengali, though we have also representatives from all parts of India.

At the beginning of the year our students again won the first prize (a silver shield) in the Calcutta Inter­Schools Singing Contest. In March our Prize Distribution

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was held and a concert was given, when the new piano was used. Certificates were given instead of prizes.

The School Y. W. C. A. is very active in all its depart­ments. Four of the members attended an Easter Camp which they found very helpful. At Christmas time the girls were given a picnic· instead of gifts.

The Prayer Band meets regularly twice a week and the little prayer-room is never empty outside of school hours.

Again we thank God for His wonderful help and guid­ance throughout the year and ask our friends to continue to pray for the Gardner School, that by the help of the Holy Spirit it may be a place for the building of strong and true Christian character in the lives of those who come to us.

Hindu Schools and Zenana ]:-17 ork

There have been a Jfi1umber of changes in the staff of Hindu School teachers, but all are working well and seem to love the children and the work. Our greatest problems are those of securing suitable school-rooms and conveyances for the work. Our little Hindu children love their Bibles and repeat their Scripture. verses and sing their hymns in their homes. During the year some of these little ones have married, and we have lost others by death. In February, all the four hundred girls from these schools came to our High School compound for their Prize Distribution. They were disappointed not to receive dolls, but were given sweets and scrap-pictures and spent a very happy day.

We try to follow these children into their homes, both while they are with us and when marriage takes them from us. Two Zenana w:orkers now give their time to this work.

Village ~Vork-Shonapur

With great joy and thanksgiving we report the comple­tion of the new school building, a gift from a member of

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the Brooklyn Branch. It will be dedicated at Conference time. Three faithful workers live there and devote their time to the school and evangelistic work, and we hope for good things in this little Indian village-better than ever before.

Before closing this report we want to tell of our great pleasure in receiving a visit from two members of our Board. It was a great encouragement to us as well as a personal pleasure. We feel more and more strongly that we must must work and pray and lift together, at home and on the field.

THE ORPHANAGE

REPORT

By MISS ARMINTIA M. EVANS

Missi01wries.-Miss Bessie M. White (on furlough), Miss Armintia M. Evans.

Indian Teachers.-In Orphanage School, 6; in Hindu Schools, 6; Children, 64.

Our School year opened with a day of prayer at the Orphanage. We now open each new term in this way and it has helped our children. \Ve also have a special meeting on Tuesday evening, which is proving helpful to all.

Christm'as was' a very happy time for our little ones, and they were made happy through the kindness of friends in America.

Early in the year our girls began to care for their part of the house, including the Chapel and sick-rooms. At first some of them were very rebellious, and it was hard to conquer all this bad feeling, but now they willingly do the work. In February we had an epidemic of fever; at one time 23 were in the sick-room for over a week.

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During the latter part of March a special meeting was held at which time a number of our girls gave themselves defi­nitely to Christ.

We have lost three children by death while eleven have left us for various reasons-to teach, to receive further training in order to teach, to be trained in our Jhansi Hospital in nursing, and to be married. One of our former girls, who has been four years in Jhansi, has finished her nurse's training and is coming back to us as ou,r own school nurse. We have received eight new children dur­ing the year. It is wonderful how God has sent these chil­dren to us, for the Hindu and Mohammedans work against us and try to prevent children from coming here .

. During the coming year we want to grow here at the Orphanage in many ways but, above all, grow in spiritual things.

ALLAHABAD

Work Opened 1868 REpORT

By MISS EMMA M. BERTSCH

Missionary.-Miss Emma M. Bertsch. Assistant 1I1issionaries.-Miss Roderick, Miss Eda

Roderick, Miss Ahmad Shah, Mrs. Carr, Miss Pickard. Zenana Workers and Teachers.-Sixteen. . Enrollment.-Central Girls' School, 317; Three other

schools, 117; Zenana Pupils, 499.

The work in all our departments has continued as usuaL The daily average attendance at Central School has been 105. Both staff and children are doing good work ·so the school is deservedly popular. The little' program on the last Friday of each month continues to be a delight to the

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performers who are improving in both delivery and con­duct. All the children in this schoo.! are of good caste. No less than twenty castes are represented, and this is not all for we find divisions within castes so that many called by the same general name will not inter-dine nor inter-marry. The Mohemmedans include several sects. We have a few Christians also.

l\1rs. Carr, the former head-mistress of our Bengali De­partment is now our school visitor, looking up absentees, following children who through marriage or for other reasons have been taken from us, into their homes, and trying to reach other members of pupils' families. She teaches thirty-four pupils regularly in homes, and all but six of thes~ are in some way related to the Central School.

Each one of lOur Indian teachers and helpers has done steady and conscientious work. The Friday evening meet­ings with the English-speaking members of staff and the Saturday morning Bible Classes with the vernacula:­speaking teachers have been held regularly, as were also several Sunday School classes. The teachers have had a Literary Society meeting on Tuesday evenings and this has proved an intellectual stimulus. The School Library has been less popular this year because new bo-oks were not forthcoming. Mrs. Kuroyer of the Presbyterian Mission kindly gave the Art Club a course of lessons in water colors and we are hoping she may give them another course this winter. Our pupils in schools and Zenanas have raised for war relief Rupees 76/4 during the year.

In Daraganj cholera has raged. Miss Eda Roderick and Mrs. Karmarkar have helped with drugs, advice and spiritual solace.

Miss Lilian Roderick continues her work chiefly in the homes of Bengalis of the professional class. Miss Pickard has worked chiefly among Moslems while the other helpers

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divide their forces among the different classes. Nearly haH the pupils taught belong to the three highest castes; oyer one hundred are Mohammedans. About thirty differ­ent castes or social classes were represented in the year's work. We cannot give 'statistics as to the total number who have had the Gospel message given to them, though ntOt as regular pupils-it runs up into the thousands. I will close with a simple sentence by one of Mrs. Wybrow's pupils. She said to her teacher, "Mem Sahib, I am so grateful to you for telling me all this and leading me to Jesus Christ. ,.

CA\VNPORE

Work opened 1879

REPORT

By 1\1r55 CLARA M. BEACH

Missionaries.-Miss Clara M. Beach, Zenana and Day Schools; Miss Frances Webb (on furlough), Mary A. Mer~ rim an Schoo.!.

Assistant Missionaries.-The :Misses E. and N. Harris, J\1iss Shaw.

Indian H elpers.-13. Day Schools, 8. (Enrollment 173.) Zenana Pupils, 160. Sunday Schools (average attendance), 140. Enrollment, Merriman School, 140.

CITY WORK

Severe illness in the city closed a great deal of our work both in Zenanas and day-schools for several mooths last spring, and when work was re-opened on july 1st, the outr look seemed far from bright, yet it was wonderful the way the Lord provided for His own wurk. This, too, in spite

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of great opposition by the Hindus, Mohammedans and Arya Samaj people who put forth every effort to lead our pupils away and into their newly .opened schools. The wlmber of people reached by our workers each week has averaged a few over 700. About thirty-five new pupils have been enrolled in the day-schools since July 1st.

We have had trials also through loss of our faithful helpers, some through illness, one by reason of advancing age, while another was obliged to move away with her husband from the city. Those who are with us have been loyal and faithful. The work is not easy and there are many hard things fOor them to do. Weare trying to in­crease our work among the Mohammedans, and gaining access to their homes and then holding their interest is sometimes difficult, but the Bible Women are doing faith­ful work. It is important that we should work among them-they are putting forth their best efforts against us, ptoselyting amongst non-Christians and trying to win weak and half-hearted Christians over to their faith. One of our workers has been especially successful this year in gain­ing entrance into l\1ohammedan homes.

Three Sunday Schools have been opened in new centres and we plan to open two more new ones.

We find doors open into non-Christian homes today as never before. People show their interest by asking us to open Zenana work in their houses. Only recently one of our young Zenana pupils died, but because of her in­tense interest in the Bible lessons her mother has requested us to continue the regular visits. A daughterrin-Iaw also has become one of the learners.

THE MARY A. MERRIMAN SCHOOL

In spring we had an epidemic of measles in the school of a severe and malignant type, resulting in the death of

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three little ones; otherwise the health of the school has been good. One of our girls who left us for teacher train­ing is back with us as a teacher and is doing good work. Our small graduating class passed their middle examina­tions successfully.

In addition to their 'Ordinary school work (which includes classes in plain sewing), our pupils have made their own garments, hundreds in all, and have had time to sew for soldiers as well. We have such a good Head Mistress, who is not only interested in the academic side of the work but is truly interested in the spiritual welfare of the girls.

The gir Is have a Christian Endeavor Society with senior and junior departments, and have been very active in its diff~rent branches of work. They enjoy their regular Bible study and singing very mnch. These girls are by no means angelic, but they m'e learning to pray, to be honest, upright and obedient and at last to take an open stand for Christ.

In the great evangelistic campaign of last year the girls took a real part, getting up early to go out and sell Scrip­ture portions, going out with older workers for personal work, helping in women's meetings, singing and teaching the Bible and distributing tracts.

Our numbers are practically the same as last year, for, though we have received twenty-seven newgirls,w we have lost almost as many in various ways. Some have married, some have gone from us through death, three are now learning to be trained nurses. Please pray that as these girls grow physically and mentally that there may be a cor­responding growth in their spirits, and that all may truly know and love our Laird Jesus Christ.

Jhansi

JHANSI

Work Opened 1906

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MARY S. ACKERMAN-HOYT AND MARIA ACKERMAN-HOYT HOSPITALS

REPORT By ALICE L. ERNST, l\1.D.

Missionaries.-Dr. Alice L. Ernst. Miss Tena MacLean, Superintendent of Nurses; Miss Ella C. Morrison, Super­intendent of School and Zenana Work; Miss Elizabeth J. l\lcCunn, on furlough.

Assistant Missionaries.-l\1rs. Harriet Ree, Mrs. Josefson. Indian Helpers and Nurses.-I8.

Bible Women and Teachers.-4. Dispensary attendance 'vVard patients Days attendance in wards. Visits in homes. Operations performed

.10,559 593

.10,485 162 897

l\/Ioney received in India: RUPEES Out-practice .. ..... 736-12- 0 \Vard patients .. . . ... .1,979- 0- 0 Confinement and operation fees. . . . . 775- 0- 0 Dispensary fees. . ... . . .. 725- 9- 9 Sale of Nurses' work. . . . . • . . . 44-13- 6 Interest on bank deposits. . .. 00' • 0 781- 4- 0 From the Bible Society for a Bible Woman. .. 105- 0- 0 Paid for special nursing. 308-12- 3 Donations from foreign and Indian friends. .. .1,761- 0-11 Sale of grass, old trees, dead trees, etc. . .. 174- 0- 0

The day-school at our Hospitals has been kept open during the year with an increased attendance and other encouraging improvements. The Bible Woman employed

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in the Dispensary left Jhansi at the beginning of the year and since that time the nurses have taken the evangelistic work by turns, getting near to the women in their presenta­tion of the Gospel.

Three Bible Women have visited the homes of the women, two for the whole year and the third during the last three months. Eighty homes are thus visited regularly and one hundred and fourteen pupils taught to read the Bible for themselves. With each pupil there are about four other women who listen tOt the hymns and Scripture message, so over five hundred are hearing the Gospel in their homes. So eager are the women to be taught that requests for teachers are constantly coming in, sometimes as many as a dozen in one day. Many more Bible Women could be kept busy in this work if funds and workers were available. Never before have the Jhansi people taken such interest in the hymns and preaching, while Bible portions and other Christian literature find eager readers.

Seven Sunday Schools have been in session during the year with an average daily attendance of 450 pupils.

Foul"' villages are visited with more or less regularity, the Gospel taught and the sick treated. Opportunities for this district work abound on every hand, but with our small staff most of our time has to be given to the work nearest at hand, that in the Hospitals.

The year has been one of progress and blessing along many lines-one might almost say along all lines. The people listen with increasing interest to the glad message we have for them, and beg us to come often. How we wish we could mUltiply ourselves! And how we wish that these appeals from these poor shut-in women of India could reach the hearts of many more Christian women in the home­land. India needs, .consecrated workers from Christian lands--doctors and teachers.

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We acknowledge God's great goodness to us during the past year and expect Him to do still greater things during the days to Come. Our God is able-"Lord, increase our faith I"

FATEHPUR

Work Opened 1906 THE LILY LYTLE BROADWELL HOSPITAL

By MINA MACKENZIE, M.D.

Missionaries.-Dr. Mina MacKenzie, Dr. Grace Spencer (on furlough). Miss Margaret J1ooes, Superintendent of Nurses.

Indian Christian H elpers.-Medical assistant, 6 nurses, 2 compounders, 1 Bible Woman.

In-patients ,. Days attend~nce of in-patients. Attendance at dispensaries. New patients in dispensaries. Visits to homes. Surgical operations, major, 131; minor, 577 . total. Inoculations and vaccinations ..

664 8,784

.35,293

.13,379 200 708 359

Sunday Schools Villages regularly ~isited. Villages irr,egularly visited. Village listeners Gospels sold Tracts distributed Baptisms

Money received in India:

Donations from friends, foreign and Indian. From ward patients.

2 25 10

.20,841 711

.10,035 6

RUPEES

.1,771-3-0 180-6-0

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From dispensaries From out-practice Interest on bank deposits.

Total

RUPEES

. 265-7-0

.1,302-0-0 105-0-0

.3,624-0-0

Dr. Spencer being still on furlough, our medical staff was reduced, and! we greatly missed both her work and her generous sympathy and companionship. Our medical assistant left in March and has been replaced by Mrs. Strete, a very capable, helpful woman. Two other work­ers, Mrs. and Mr. Dutt, have been added to our Wayside work. They live at J ahanabad, thirty-five miles from Fatehpur, and have done a great work in the daily dispen­sary there and have carried the Gospel to many surround­ing villages.

Our statistics show a large increase over last year both in the Hospita~ and Dispensary patients. This has been due to the gathering in of patients to the Lily Lytle Broad­well Hospital though our Wayside Dispensary work, espe­cially operative cases which could not be treated elsewhere. This village work now extends from east to west seventy­five miles.

Many of the cases treated in the Hospital have been very interesting ones, and we have had the joy of seeing many serious surgical cases recover and return to their villages with the good news of the Gospel. This has won for us a warm reception in the village evangelism. Were joice that the Master has given some fruit in the six gathered into His Church for baptism, and we look to find more still, hidden as yet to our eyes but known to Him.

The cold season was a busy one. The Memorial Dispen­sary was open daily, the one at Jahanabad was open daily for 11 months, being visited"'week1y from Fatehpur for 9 months. The other two Wayside Dispensaries, at distances

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of 30 arid 40 miles, were visited weekly fot 4 months. \iVhile making these visits we stopped at all the important towns afid viliag€s on th@ way, giving Gospel lessgns, sell­Ing ScriptUre portions, giving tracts and giving medic.ine Wh€fi fiecessary. Our Bible Woman, Eva BaKsh, was a great help in this work, aftd the experience developed ht t ih a wonderful way,

DurIng the week of the Evangeljstic Campaign we visited villages every day. In all bur Wayside work the motor car was of great value, traveiing ov'er 6,000 nilles. Without it the work could not have been done.

The Memorial Dispensary has been moved to the Hos.­pital grounds and rebuilt entirely with money received from out-practice. It Was hnished by Sept~rrtber 1st atld will mean a great saving ot time and str~i1gth, thus enabling Us t6 do more efficient work both there and It'1 the Hospital.

Gifts trom her children have ertabled tiS to build a Dis­pens~ty at Jahanabad in lovitlg memory t),t Aim Murray. The gtotlrtd with a gOod well was given, Gin cortdition that the Dispensary be built within a year.

We are grateful for the etJ.dowfu~ht ot ah6ther bed. It is in memory of Mrs. Charles Parsons, by her daughters.

Pray tor each departttl~Iit ot the work-the Hospital, the Memorial Dispensary, the three Wayside Dispensaries and the village work, that ma.hY souls may be won {()ir His kingdom.

tHE NURSES' TRAINING SCHOOL

REPORT

By MISS MARGARET JONES

At the beglhning of the year we had six nurses in train­ing, and though there have been some changes, the present number is the same. Two passed their final examinations in March and one of these was married, whae the other is

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still with us. Our staff nurse of last year has gone to the Dutchess of Teck Hospital at Patna,and we have heen glad to hear from those in charge that she is doing well there. "vVe have two promising new probationers and expect a third soon, and have also taken one older woman, a widow, to train.

Our nurses took part in the village work during the Evan­gelistic Campaign and did earnest and faithful work. They are very much interested in the National Missionary So­ciety. They 'are also busy knitting for the soldiers Amongst themselves they have shown a loving and helpful spirit throughout the year.

THE WOMAN'S HOME

REPORT

By MISS AMELIA DURRANT

Missionaries.-Miss Ellen H. Todd (absent on furlough), M iss Amelia Durrant.

"0, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His Name together."-Psa. 34 :3.

This is the verse that expresses the feeling of my heart as I try ·to tell a llttle of what God has done for us in our Woman's Home during the past year.

During 1917 over 60 women and 20 children have passed through the Horne. 27 women and 5 children are now with us and 4 other children are in school. There has been real progress among the Christians in their spiritual life. Four who. were not Christians have come out and been baptized. One of them, Mrs. J--, was a Hindu wife, who, because she became a Christian, was obliged to leave her home. She has grown in every way and will be able to take a course in nursing; in this way she can be useful an4 have oppor-

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tunities to witness among her own people for Christ. An­other who was baptized was R--, a young girl who at the age of 12 had been given to the heathen temple gods to a life of evil. A missionary rescued her and sent her to us, and she is now a Christian and I trust will become an earnest worker among her people. She loves our Christian hymns and is so bright and happy.

A third was N--, who has been with us for some time, but being rather dull of comprehension, did not ask for baptism until this year. It is wonderful how God has enlightened her mind. Her spiritual life is very real and the minister who examined her for baptism was quite sur­prised by her prayer and earnestness.

The fourth ·one was L--, a girl who came to us when quite a small child but who had never been baptized. She came of her own accord, asking to take the step. In each of these new Christians we can see the Spirit of God in her daily life and work.

An interesting girl, C--, was sent t0' us by the collector of her town as he found that her father was about to sell her to a Mohammedan. This was not her own father, but her mother's second husband, a wicked man. The poor child has had .a hard, struggle learning to do right, but now we see ~ great change and know that God is go·ing to per­fect His good work in her heart.

Among those who have gone out from us during the year three blind people were sent to a school where they can be taught reading and industries suitable to the blind. An­other has been restored to her husband and five have mar­ried. We hear good reports from all of them. The ones who married are helping their husbands in Sunday School. work and village teaching. One family was so delighted with the son's wife that they wrote asking if we could not give them just such another girl for another son.

Yokohama

There have been no deaths and the health has been excel'"' tionally good throughout the year. We never used so little medicine. For three months I had an assistant in the work but have been alone the rest of the year, except for an In­dian teacher who has been with us for some years and is a great help to us.

The lace industry of the women has brought in 700 rupees. N early all the lace was sold in India this year. Our fields gave us a good harvest and provided the home with wheat, jua, dal and other grains for nearly the whole year. We have had g(}od times during the year~a nappy Christmas and several picnics.

Vve thank the friends who have helped with money, prayer and in other ways, for without this help this work could not have been accomplished. Surely God is abund~ antly answering our prayers.

JAPAN.---" YOKOHAMA DOREMUS SCHOOL

Work Opened 1871 REpORT

By MISS CLARA D. LOOMIS

Missionaries.-Miss Mary E. Tracy (on furlough), Miss Clara D. Loomis, Miss Grace McCloy.

Special Teacher.-Miss E. L. Cummings. Language Student.-Miss Faith Merriman. Japanese T eachers.-Giving full time, 8; giving part

time, 7. Number of grades, 7. Number of students, 160. Baptisms, 22.

Miss Tracy's return was delayed through the year, but the Japanese teachers have been ready to carry their full

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share (),£ work and responsibility for the school. Miss Al­ward of the Bible School has also given invaluable assist­ance in taking over the school accounts and superintending the housekeeping. In the coming of Miss Faith Merriman to prepare for work in the Music Department we have been greatly blessed.

It has been a privilege to welcome our visiting Board members, Miss Van Santyoord and 11rs. Knox, and to meet and entertain our fellow workers under the Woman's Union Missionary Society from China and India as they have passed through Yokohama.

Doremus School has grown in numbers and influence. We had a large entering class in spring and five of the fourteen graduates stayed for advanced work, so the school has been full.

We have had two gatherings with the alumnae, the usual one at Commencement time and another when we had a school celebration for our Missionary Emeritus, Miss Crosby, on the occasion of her receiving a decoration from His Majesty the Emperor in recognition of her forty-six years of service in Japan. This public recognition will do much to widen the influence and reputation of Doremus Schooll, but we rejoice more because it is a recognition of a Christian missionary.

The alumnae have shown ,their loyalty by generous con­tributions given as a tribute to Miss Crosby toward the Building Fund for enlarging the Chapel and adding a gym­nasium. Teachers and students have also begun to lay aside a small sum each month to be used in time as an endow­ment fund for the school.

The special events of the year have been an impressive communion service held in the Chapel on the first Sunday in December, conducted by Dr. Ibuka, the Christmas festival, wh~n a re.Jigious and musical service was followed by a sup-

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-per for the whole school, an open meeting of the Literary Society, which was attended by repre~entatives from odler schools, the annual Commencement in March, followed by Alumnae Day, thfj annual picnic in May and a musicale in June, when every music student took part. In July, I\:1iss McCloy at the Y. W. C. A. Conference at Sendai, and ~..iiss Loomis in a hospital in Tokyo, had special opportunities to

come into close contact with some of our student.; and graduates. In October prizes of Bibles and hymnals were presented to thirtyrtwo girls who had memorized over 100 assigned verses of Scripture during the summer holiday.

Our students and teachers have done their part as usual' in the Church and Sunday School work in the various city churches, and have conducted a neighborhood Sundav School in Doremus Hall with an average attendance of lSI). During Miss Tracy's absence, our school secretary, Mr. Kohno, has taken charge of this Sunday School which reaches poor and neglected waifs of the streets with the Gospel. The Y. W. C. A. of the school has been active, providing good programs with occasional outside speakers for their weekly meetings, sending delegates to the two sum-: mer Conferences, distributing gifts to over 50 poor fam­ilies, helping the Leper Hospital in Tokyo, the Yokohama Blind School, the City Y. W. C. A'J and preparing a Christ­mas box for the relief work of the Smith College Unit in Franceo; Our pupils have also undertaken to help in the care of two French orphans.

Faculty meetings are held twice a month, and in addi­tion a Teachers' Club was formed last February to meet two evenings a week to discuss current events and student problems. A Faculty prayer-meeting is held weekly, and class prayer-meetings by each class in the school.

All connected with the mis_~ion here feel and sympathize deeply with those at home who carry the h:avy responsi-

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bilities ot the work. May this brief outline of what has been acomplished in this little corner of the great field give them fresh courage and joy in knowing that their labor has not been in vain in the Lord.

TliE :BIBLE 'tRAINING SCHOOL AND EVANGELISTIC WORK

Work 0 p.ened 1887

REpORT

By MISS SUSAN A. PRATT

Missionaries.-Miss Susan A. Pratt, Miss Clara Alward. Japanese Teachers.-Regular, 5; special,S.

Students, to June, 50; from September. Out Stations Sunday Schools Factories in which work is carried on .. Number of Baptisms ...

34 7

55 4 9

Our students have done satisfactory work in the clas" room. A series of helpful addresses, with the object of building up the workers, was given by a fine Bible teacher and pastor from Tokyo, and from the beginning of the fall term we have had an unusually good course in child psy·· chology from an expert teacher.

At our weekly report and prayer hour we have had the joy of hearing Miss Van Santvoord, Mrs. Knox and Miss Todd. At these meetings the students report their wort~ of the week, and during the past year we have seen greater results in the established work and much new pioneer work has been reported. The house-to-house visitation has been carried on twice a week in Yokohama and its' suburbs. The factory work shows much encouragement and in one of the factories much greater freedom has been given for tht."' teaching of the Bible.

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At Christmas time eight of our cottage Sunday Schools met here in the Training School for their Christmas cele ... bratioil, while others met in their usual places, or in groups. In IVlay the Bible \Vomen invited their Sunday School pu­pils from the city to hold their Flower Day here. It was a pretty sight, and the 600 children were S'O happy. They sang hymns and had a little service, and at its close the children received flowers to distribute among the sick in homes and hospitals. The offering that day was given to relief work. £arty in September the girls from the hem}' braid factory where our workers do reguiar evangelistic work, C:1ft1e to our lawn and oompound for a happy after­noof}. They had a. little meeting in the Chape1, fol1owed -by games and play-'--=-a rare event to these tired young workers. Two meetings fo~ ladies have been r~gularly carried on in the suburbs of the city. All .the ££teefi members of c),rtf

class are eductaed women, but only four ot the number are Christians, so the teaching has been evartgelistic, with the object of showing them the way to Christ. The Other meeting is for Christians and regular Bible study is given. Another of our student workers teaches a ciass 01 maids who are studying sewing in a night school. Two others go to a hospital each week for a class with nurSes and patients to teach them about our faith. One at our Japanese helpers holds a class for working girls twice a month in the City Y.WC.A.

The work of the Bible Women in the nOh-Christian Yoko­hama Orphanage now presents grave problems, fbr those in charge have recently introduced aficest6r worship and built a shrine in the grounds. The Buddhists also carry on work in a room that has been fitted as a temple. Thus it is difficult to teach the Bible at all freely, yet the children seem to enjoy our Christian S,unday School far more than any other form of worship. The Buddhist priests attended

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our Christmas exercises there and seemed much m­terested.

Our students have worked for the Red Cross, using the summer holiday time to make articles to be sent to France. At Christmas time they sent a box of useful gifts to a Christian Orphanage in the North.

At our Commencement in June we graduated a class of sixteen workers, the largest class in our history. The \Vorkers' Conference followed Commencement and was characterized by a spirit of consecration. At its close ooUr old workers and new graduates became widely scattered in their various fields of service, only nineteen staying in Yoko­hama through the summer for the city work.

Among our students this year are five Koreans, all of whom were teachers in their own country.

Many new fields of service are opening to our trained workers. One of our graduates is now a matron on a ship to look after the welfare of young women emigrants from Japan. She is free to give them religious instruc­tion. Another graduate is matron in a large silk factory.

The month of February and part of March w'ere spent by Miss Alward and l\fiss Kido in an extensive tour in the interest of our work. They visited eight large cities and some towns and gave Bible lessons and addresses in both Christian and non-Christian schools.

Country Stations

Our country stations have had resident Bible Women and have also been visited by us when special meetings were held and home visiting done. They have also been regu­larly visited by pastors from near-by fields. In Kasukabe the local Christians now meet one.-third of the expense of the work. The D. M. S. Chapel at Iwamoto has been en­larged and improved through a special g~ft from friends in

26 Yokohama.

America. The Sunday School work is encouraging, a regu­lar course of instruction being given in our twenty-six coun­try schools. The factory work in the Hiranuma Station has developed. Weare about to begin work there through our Korean students, among a large group of Korean in­dustrial women workers.

We "thank God and take courage" as we· enter into the work of a new year.

Shanghai

CHINA.-SHANGHAI BRIDGMAN MEMORIAL SCHOOL

U70rk Opened 1881

REpORT

By MISS KATHERINE ABBEY

Missionaries.-Miss Anne G. Hall (on furlough), Miss 11arguerite Dodds, Miss Amy R. Holway (arrived at close of year), Miss Katherine Abbey.

Chinese Teachers.-Women, 8; Men, 2 (half time). Students-Primary (4 grades) 83

Intermedialte (3 grades). 54 Normal High School (3 grades) 25

Total Boarding pupils Christians Pupils joining the Church.

.~

162

67 44 7

One of the great joys of the year has been to see the older girls taking their places as leaders in the school Y. W. C. A. The students who were on the Cabinet felt a personal re­sponsibility for each girl in the school who was not a Chris­tian, for those who had never wanted to become Christians and for the cold and half,-hearted believers. They had a personal workers' class and prayed and worked definitely for the students. At ·the dose of the first semester all the boarders had become members of the Association and al­most all expressed their desire to become Christians. Of this latter number (18 boarders and 20 day pupils), some were too. young to understand fully the meaning of the step they wanted! to take and others were prevenrted by their families, but at Easter time seven came into the mem­bership of the Church.

Shanghai

Our teachers were not wholly united at first and there were many petty misunderstandings which hindered them from becoming strong leaders in the school, but as the months went by all came to know each other better. The teachers came to try to see constantly the vision bf what each individual student might become if God's will were accomplished in the school. With our eyes on the bigger plan, we were kept from being discouraged by the little stumbling blocks in the road and were eager to push on toward the goal.

Our goal is first to make Christians of our girls and then send them out as workers for Christ among the Chinese. Our course is planned to prepare the students to bec(lme teachers, for the need for teachers in China is imperative, and the Christian teacher has a field of unmeasured influ­ence.

THE MARGARET WILLIAMSON HOSPITAL

Work Opened 1884

REPORT

By M. EMILY GARNER, :M.D.

1vlissionaries.-Dr. M. Emily Garner, Dr. Julia N. Wood (On furlough since March). Dr. Clara B. Whitmore.

Superintendent of Nurses.-Miss Anna Koch (Until June).

Chinese Assistants and Nurses.-Seventeen. Bible W oman.-One.

Ward and private patients ~ Maternity

Total, in-patients Dispensary attendance. Visits in homes. __ Prescriptions filled. . . . . . . . .

r .".

550 409 959

.44,166 242

. 51A37

Shanghai

Fees Donations on the field.

Total

29

MEXICANS

... $17,833.20 186.00

. .... $18,019.20

Notwithstanding the general unrest in China the work of the Hospital has continued uninterrupted. We· might say it has been an unusually prosperous year, if that term could be used of a hospital, in that we have been able to minister to a larger number of especially needy patients than last year.

During the year Shanghai with the sUIT,ounding country was visited by several scourges, the most virulent 'of which was scarlet fever, closely followed by diphtheria and an in­termingling of the two. Later came typhoid and dysentery. It has been our privilege to help many scores of these suf­ferers as well as others, and we gratefully acknowledge God's goodness to us in keeping us in the measure of health that has been ours.

The summer was an especially trying one and the sick came in large numbers during the intense heat. Though it was hard on the missionaries it was a satisfaction to be able to help the suffering. How we do need a staff large enough to enable our missionaries to take turns at the work during the summer months! Each of the Chinese helpers was enabled to have a short holiday and for this we were glad, as they need rest quite as much as the foreign mis­sionary. Many of them succumb to the heat but our as­sistants are very faithful and stand by the work loyally.

The Dispensary was kept open all summer but for half a day only during July and August. The wards were well filled except when being renovated. The Maternity was unusually well patronized. The increase seems to have been general.

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A large number of patients have shown real inter~st in the Gospel message. Some have confessed Christ who later have gone to their homes to be active workers for His -Kingdom. I will give just one instance to show how the Spirit works in answer to prayer. A woman who was a devout Buddhist came to the Hospital with very bad heart trouble. After a few weeks she grew discouraged and left the Hospital, determined to visit a certain temple where thousands burn incense for their ailments, thus keepil}g the temple coffers well filled. In a short time she returned, begging to be readmitted. She had grown rapidly worse and lost all faith in the idol to which she had prayed. From that time she became aggressively interested in the Gospel. She became greatly improved in health and has recently joined the Church. I passed her home not long since and found her talking to a group of neighbors of her new found joy. She said to me, "I am not going to stop until all my family believe, for truly God is God." One rarely sees a more radiant faith as she gives God all the glory.

MATILDA DOUW FOUNDATION

EVANGELISTIC WORK

Work Opened 1891

REpORT

By MISS MARY J. IRVINE

Missionaries .-11iss Mary J. Irvine, Miss Elizabeth Irvine. Miss Hester Yates (Arrived after the close of the year).

Chinese Bible Women-Seven. Services attended. Sunday lessons taught. Sunday Schools Sunday School pupils.

270 269

2 1,873

Shanghai

Visits in homes. Days itinerating in country Hospital visits made. Tracts and books distributed. Scriptures or portions sold or given. Total contributions (Mexican) Baptisms

31

205 66

1,600 6,663

396 .$204.57

14

This report in order to make the close of the year uni­form with the other departments of our Shanghai work, represents only ten months of the past year.

Work in the Dispensary has been carried on daily by our Bible Women and the best evidence we have of its ef­fectiveness is the increased attenti'On on the part of the hearers. The long waiting-room is crowded daily with peo­ple waiting their turn to see the doctor, and here the Bible Women give the Christian message over and over again. Many listen eagerly to the teaching.

In our ward visiting we have had the joy of seeing real conversions. One educated woman, Mrs. Y.--, had been a teacher in a strict Buddhist school where all are com­pelled to he vegetarians.. While a patient in the hospital, she came into the Light and was baptized. She is only one -the results of the work cannot be tabulated.

We have also worked in the Maternity Hospital. Here the crying babies occupy much of the mothers' attention, so that interruptions and distractions are nUlnef'OUS, yet it is a real field of opportunity. We find Christian literature very useful in this branch of our work, and give and lend tracts and Christian books.

In our home visiting we have tried to build up new in­quirers step by step until they were ready for baptism, and to nourish and strengthen the young and inexperienced Christians.

32 Shanghai

We have carried on local Sunday School work in two centres among children from non-Christian homes. The students from the Bible School take the responsibility of this work. In one of these Sunday Schools, located near the Arsenal, the enrollment is over 160, and the children are very eager and intelligent. Among the older women who come regularly to this Sunday School one has become a believer.

We have made 12 itinerating trips in the country during the year. In one village about 30 miles from Shanghai we found a number of families who were not only glad to receive us but begged us to remain among them to teach them. One family was so eager and sincere in their long­ing to hear and know of the Christian way that they were willing immediately to remove their false gods from the house.

Christian literature is one of our best tools and' through the help. of generous friends we have been able to put into circulation a larger number of books and tracts than usual. There are many requests for the New Testament and for the whole Bible among the think,jng Chinese.

Weare thankful for our little group of earnest Bible Women. God is using their testimony to make Christ known in China.

THE BIBLE SCHOOL

By MISS ELIZABETH IRVINE

God's goodness and mercy have followed us throughout the year. The purpose for which this school is established is gradually dawning on our pupils and some have caught new visions of the possibilities of usefulness which await them. This has made them more enthusiastic and has changed their outlook upon life and its meaning.

Shanghai

Two of the women in our senior class have been teach­ing in the Dispensary two afternoons of each week, and have given satisfaction. These two women have both been instrwnental in leading their own mothers to Christ, and in the family of one of them several other members are inquiririg the way, and will no doubt soon confess Christ openly.

Our students assist in and teach the two Sunday Schools conducted by this branch of the mission.

Our Bible School family has numbered 20, so that all available space has been filled. We are glad to report thaI the health of the school has been very good.

We are still praying for the much-needed Assembly Halt, and for the additional sleeping accommodation, which now seems imperative. Our school motto for the coming year is, "LOOKING UNTO JESUS."

The changes in the missionary staff have been the return of Miss Beach to the work in Cawnpore, of Miss Todd to the Fatehpur work, and of Miss McCunn to the Jhansi. Station. Dr. Spencer is still on furlough and Miss Tracy is stilI in America, but plans to sail for Yokohama on March 5th. Miss White of Calcutta, Miss Webb of Cawnpore, Dr. Wood and Miss Hall of Shanghai, have returned to America on furlough during the year.

Four new missionaries have gone out for us. Miss Faith Merriman sailed in August to join the staff of Doremus

34 Shanghai

School, Yokohama, and Miss Hester Yates, Miss Amy R. Holway and Dr. Clara L. Nutting joined the Shanghai Mis­sion. Miss Yates will be associated with the Misses Irvine in the Evangelistic Department, Miss Holway will teach in Bridgman School, and Dr. Nutting will serve an interne­ship of one year in our Margaret Williamson Hospital.

At the home base, the Society mourns the loss of one of its vice-presidents, Mrs. Frederick G. Burnham, of Morris­town, N. J., who entered into life on March 10, 1917-

Thus has ended the fifty-seventh year of American Wo­man's organized warfare for the Kingdom of God. The Woman's Union Missionary Society, pioneer division of a mighty army, goes forward into the new year to "carryon" its work, until the victory is won and the kingdoms of this world shall have become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.

The Woman's Union Missionary Society of America in account with its Treasurer, for the year ending December 31st, 1917.

DR. Paid on orders of Assistant Treasurers

for General Work ...................... $58,964.53 Paid rent of Safe Deposit Box .... , . . . .. . 10.00 Paid on Taxes and Assessments, Pueblo

lots ................................... 171.54 Balance to 1918, PrincipaL ...... $19,611.51

Less loan to income.... 1,581..11

Audited and round correct

--- 18,030.40

$77,176.47

FRANK H. MARSTON,

Auditor.

CR. Balance from 1916,

Principal .............. 1,883.45 Income ............. " 4,588.37

Legacies: Estate Benj. C. Hardwick (5th

installrment on $2,000 less In-heritance Tax, , . . . . .. ....... 190.00

Estate Martha M. Turner ...... 2,000.00 Estate Martha E. McClean .... 15,407.80

$6,471.82

--- 17,597.80 Gifts and Donations:

For Williamson Hospitail..... 1,200.00 For Broadwell Hospital ........ 1,272.00 For Miss Master's School Fund. 1,665.00 For Genera,1 ·Work ............. 33,864.65

38,001.65 Interest and Dividends .............. . , 12,783.95 Proceeds of Securities, etc., sold. . . .. . . ... 2,321.25

January 12, 1918.

$77.176.47

JOHN MASON KNOX,

Treasurer.

36 Funds

Permanent Funds, December 31, 1917

Interest Only to be Used Williamson Hospital, Shanghai, 68 beds ............................... $39,137.05 Hoyt Hospital, Jhansi, 27 beds....... .... ........... .................... 16,200.00 Broadwell Hospital, Fiitehpur, 23 beds.................................. 14,2:)5.00 Benson Fund, General Work. ... . .. . . . . .. • .... . ... . . .. ... ... • .. ... • •• • .. 5O,COO.OO Jubilee Fund, Missionaries' Salaries ........ ,........................... 30,520.00 Neefus Fund, Bible Readers.... .............. ............ ................ 10,550.00 Lowry Fund, General Work............................. ................. 9,600.00 Avery Fund, Merriman School, Cawnpore.............................. 6,800.00 Broadwell Fund, Broadwell HospitaL.. ••• . . .••••••••• . • . •••••••••••• 6,200.00 Morton Fund, General WorJ<:............. ............................... 5,000.00 Douw Fund, Douw Foundation. ........................... ............ . 4,000.00 Abeel Fund, General Work. .............. .............................. 3,500.00 India Fund, Medical Work, Jhansi..................................... 3,400.00 Knowles Fund, Knowles School, Allahabad........................... 3,000.00 Clarke Fund, 2 Scholarships, Gardner School.. .............. .......... 2,500.00 Torrey Fund, 2 Scholarships, Gardner SchooL......................... 2,500.00 Lowry Fund, 2 Scholarships, Calcutta High School................... 2,400.00 Hal·-ted Fund. Native Worker, India.. ........... ....... .......... ..... 2,000.00 Bradley Fund. 2 Scholarships Yokohama.. ......... ................. 2,000.00 Lowry Fund, Bible 'Woman ............................................. 1,950.00 Miss Masters' School Fund, Work at Jhansi........ ..................... 1,665.00 Nisbet & Spotswood Fund, Bible Reader, Calcutta.................. 1,600.00 Ely Fund, Bible Woman, yokohama.... ............... ................. 1,200.00 Boardman Fund. Scholarshio. Gardner SchooL........................ 1.200 00 McLpod Fund. Williamson Hospital................. ..................... 1,050.00 Vanderburg Fund. Scholarship, Bridgeman School. .................... 1,000.CO Pigeon Fund. Bible Woman, Allahabad............................... 1,000.00 Coles Fund, No.1, Hoyt HospitaL...................................... 1,000.00 Coles Fund, No.2, Medical Work, Cawnpore....... ................... 1,('00.('0 Platt Fund, Scholarship, Gardner SchooL.............................. 1,000.00 ~trong Memorial Fund, General Work.................... ............. 405.CO Barber Fund, Account Scholarship. Gardner SchooL................. 285.00 S. J. Brolldwel1 Memorial. Bro~dwell H()~pital:

27 shares International Nickel Co. stock .......................... . 20 shares American Car & Foundry stock ..••..............••.••.• Cash ................................................................... 270.00

SEMI-PERMANENT FUNDS

December 31, 1917

Principal and Interest to be used for

$228,137.05

Martha E. McClean Fund, Williamson HospitaL ...................... $14.807.80 Shanghai Fund. Williamson HospitaL.................................. 9.453.60 Eliza A. Dean Fund. Dean Memorial Schoo]............................ 2,430.97 ~zra t· Hoyt Fund (pl,?s. interest fro~ July 1. 1914), Hoyt Hospital.. 2,250.40

ueb.o Lots Fun~, ~lIll~mson HospItaL ........................ ,..... 1.925.82 PenSIon Fund, Missionaries.......................................... •••• 1,781.71 Sarah B. Hills Fund. Bible Women, Japan.............................. 1.032.44 S. C. V. Stevens Fund. WiUiamson Hospital...... ••••......••.••••••• 824.24 Margaret Williamson Fund. Williamson HospitaL.................... 416.26 Jla1en or "Louie" Fund, Cawnpore Orphanage.......................... 415.65

Fa dwin Fund, Gardner Memorial School................................ 197.54 rances Wakeman Fund. General ,\\7ork, 6 Mohawk & Malone R. R.

Co. 4% Bands ............ "'," ... , ..... , ................................ .

$35,536.43

Funds 37

Receipts, January 1 to December 31, 1917

For Permanent Funds:

Legacies: Estate Martha E. McClean, to endow bed in William·

son Hospital to be known as the Martha Ely Mc· Clean bed ............................................... .

Gifts and Donations:

To endow bed in Broadwell Hospital ................... . To endow bed in Williamson Hospital in memory of

Lydia I. Greenough ..................................... . To endow bed in Broadwell Hospital to be known as

the Nora R. Nelson bed ............................... .. To establish the Miss Masters School Fund, interest

to be used for work at Jhansi ........................ .. To endow bed in Williamson Hospital .................. . On account of endowment for "In His Name" bed in

Broadwell Hospital .................................... .

For Semi-Permanent Funds:

Legacy:

Estate Martha E. McClean to establish the Martha E. McClean Fund for Williamson Hospital ............. .

For General Work:

Legacies: Estate Benj. C. Hardwick, fifth installment on

$2,000, less inheritance tax ......................... $190 Estate of Martha M. Turner ......................... 2,000

Interest and Dividends ............................... = ,Gifts and Donations ...................................... .

$600.00

600.00

600.00

600.00

1,665.00 600.00

12.00

2.190.00 12,783.95 33,864.65

4,137.00

14,801.80

48,838.60

$68,383.040

38 Disbursements

Disbursements in Detail

January 1, 1917, to December 31. 1917 Allahabad, India:

To suppo!'t of one missionary, mIssIonary assistants, day schools, zenana work, repairs, taxes, etc ............•............

Calcutta, India-Evangelistic Work: To support of one missionary, missionary assistants, native

helpers, day schools, zenana work, conveyance, repairs, taxes, etc. . ...............................................•••....••.........

Calcutta, India-Gardner MeDlDrial School: To support of head mistress, native teachers, pupils, rent, reo

pairs, etc ........................................................... . Calcutta, India-Orphanage:

To support of one missionary, native teachers, children, etc ..... Cawnpore, India-Evangelistic Work:

To support of one missionary,* missionary assistants, native teachers, day schools, zenana work, conveyance, repairs, etc ..

Cawnpore, India-Mary A. Merriman Orphanage: To support of one missionary, * head mistress, native teachers,

children, etc. . ...........................................•.......... Fitehpur, India-Medical Work:

To support of Lily Lytle Broadwell Hospital, two missionaries (doctor and nurse), medical assistant, nurses, drugs, convey­ance, twenty·three* endowed beds, dispensary, village dispen· saries, etc. . ........................................................ .

Fitehpur, India-Rescue Work: To support of two missionaries,* native helpers, girls, ground

rent, etc ....•...............................................•..•..... ]hansi, India:

To support of Mary and Maria Ackerman·Hoyt Hospitals, three missionaries (doctor, nurse and evangelist), two assistants, compounder, twenty· seven endowed beds, dispensary, nurses' training school. . day schools, conveyance, taxes, drugs, in· struments, building servants' quarters, etc ...................... .

Shanghai, China-Medical Work: To support of Margaret Williamson Hospital, five missionaries*

(doctors and nurse), sixty·seven* endowed beds, native helpers, etc. . ................ , .............................•...•..............

Shanghai, China-Educational Work: To support of Bridgman Memorial School, four missionaries,·

native teachers, pupils, day schools, etc ...................•...... Shanghai, China-Evangelistic Work:

To support of three missionaries,*. Bible School, Bible women, itinerating, day school, native teachers, conveyance, literature, etc .................................................................. .

Yokohama, ]apan"-Educational Work: To support of Doremus School, four missionaries,· native teach·

ers, pupils, ground rent; taxes, repairs, etc ...................... . Yokohama, Japan-Evangelistic Work:

To support of Bible Training School, two missionaries, Bible women. students, out-stations, literature .............•.•........

To salaries of nine missionaries while on furlou/Z'h ............... . To traveling expenses of three missionaries to India, two mis­

sionaries to China, one missionary from China, one missionary from India. outfit for three missionaries ..............•..... _ ...

To printing and mailing Missionary Link, leaflets, annual report, pr~ver calendars, etc .....•.........•..........•....•.......••.••••..

To office expenses .................... , ................................ . To freight, deoutation work, postage, stationery, incidental ex·

penses, public meetings, etc .....................•.........•....••.. On account of missionaries' salariest for insurance, etc ......••.•••

Total expenditure CLARA E. MASTERS. ELSIE E. McCARTEE.

$3,793.50

3,200.00

1,790.00

1,894.50

3,047.00

2,786.25

2,939.20

1,180.14

4,794.76

2,818.62

3,238.50

3,543.68

6,891.13

6,205.50 2,761.99

3,091.27

1,204.41 .1.,994.69

7M.75 1,024.64

$58,964.53

Assistant Treasurers. Accounts and vouchers examined and found correct.

FRANK H. MARSTON, Auditor.

·Part of year.

l?eporto/ Alba.ny, Boston and Germant.own Branches 39

ALBANY (N. Y.) BRANCH, 1911

Treasu~r's Report Mrs. J. Townsend Lansing .. Mrs. Edgar C. Leonard .... . Miss· A. R. Spellman ....... . Miss Esther Taylor ........ .. Miss Van Antwerp ......... . Mrs. Wm. J. Walker ...... .. Miss Emily D. Sumner ..... . Mrs. Geo. D. Miller ....... · .. . Miss DeWitt ................. . Mrs. P. K. Dederick ........ . Mrs. W. J. Milne .......... .. Mrs. John D. Parsons ..... . Miss Mary Gibson ........ .. Mrs. Abraham Lansing, in

memory of Susan Ganse· voort, who died Oct. 28, 1874,-by her husband, Peter Gansevoort ........ .

$20 00 Collected by Mrs. McNaugh. 500 ton Miller from Madison 2 00 Ave. Reformed Church, for 100 Bible Reader in Yokohama, 2 00 $60.00; for Hospital assist· 5 00 ant in Shanghai, $60.00 ..

2S 00 Mrs. John S. Newman, for ~ ~ "Egbert's Band,lI. 0 ••••••••

5 00 Collected by Mrs. Robert 5 OJ C. James, Mrs. R. C. 3 00 James, $1.00; Mrs. John

Pladwell, $2.00 ............ . 2 00 Subscriptions to Missionary

2S 00

Link, Miss DeWitt, Mrs. J. E. Wilson, Miss Mary Gibson, (two years), Mrs. G. D. Miller .. · ............. .

120 00

2000

300

250 Rensselaer St. Bible School,

for SchOOl In India ......... SO 00 Total ......................... 362 50 Miss Mary L. Leonard, for

support ot Bible Reader in Japan ..................... . 6000

MARY GIBSON, Treasurer.

BOSTON (MASS.) BRANCH, 1917

To General Work .................................................... $82.00

Special Work.

Allahabad, Salary of W<>rker .................................... 200.00 Calcutta, Support of Ponia........................................ 50.00 Cawnpore, For Orphanage ............................ 0............ 30.00 Flitehpur, Bed in Lily Lytle Broadwell Hospital. ........ ....... 20.00 Japan, For Bible Reader ........................................... 60.00

Zenana Mission ..................................................... ~69.00 Link Subscriptions......... ........................... ............. 1.50

$82.00

360.00 769.00

1.50

Tota1 ........................................................ $1,212.50

MARY E. MAGRATH, Treasurer.

GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA, PA. WILLING AND OBEDIENT BAND

Rev. D. M. Stearns

For the work in Japan ................................................. $2,433.00 For the work in China........................ .. ............... • ... .... 30.00 For the work in India.......................... ............. .•. . ...... 530.00

Total .................... : ................. $2,99300

,

40 Report of Morristown, Newark, N. B. and N. H. Branches

MORRISTOWN (N. J.> BRANCH, 1917 Treasurer's· Report

To General Fund........... .. .. ...... .. .. .. .••. . . .. .. • . . . . . • .. . •. . . . .•• .. . . $105.00 For Mrs. Emerson's salary, Allahabad,

Dr. F. W. Owen ................... $50.CO Miss E. M. Graves ..•...•••••••• $50.00....... ••••.. ••••••• •••••••••••••• 100.00

Special, for Cawnpore, Mrs. Gillespie............................................................. 75.00

Through Miss Hall for Bridgman School, Shanghai. '. Miss Graves ............................................................. 50.00

Total .................................................................... $3.30.00

MISS A. P. HASTINGS, Treasurer.

NEWARK (N. J.) BRANCH Treasurer's Report

Received at Annual Meet· ing ......................... .

Collected by Miss Merry ... . Collected for Miss Abeel .••• Collected by Mrs. Allen .... From Oak Ridge Band for

Rachael ................... . For Miss Roderick's Club,

Mrs. Campbell, $25.00; A Friend, $50.00 ••••••••••••••

$5785 7600 2550

111 00

4000

7500

From Mrs. Allen, for orphan in Calcutta....... .......... 2500

From Mrs. Allen, School in Allah;lbad ................. 50 00

From Mrs. Allen, Hospital at Fatchpur ................ 40 00

Total .................... $5CO 35

(Mrs. R. H.) MARY C. ALLEN, Treasurer.

NEW BRUNSWICK (N. J.) AUXILIARY

Treasurer's Report For support of three girls, Japan ......................................... $120.00 For s~pport of Orphan, Calcutta.......................................... 25.00 Julia N. Crosby Band, support of bed, Jhansi............................ 25.00

Total ............................. ........................... $170.00

ANNA B. COOK, Treasurer.

NEW HAVEN (CONN.) BRANCH Treasurer's Report

Mrs. T. G. Bennett ......... . Mrs. F. B. Dexter ........ .. Mrs. D. C. Eaton .••••••••••• Mrs. Henry Laurens ....... . Miss Rose Munger ......... . Mrs. J. D. Wheeler ......... . Mrs. Eli Whitney ......... . Miss Scranton, lubscription

to Link ................... .

3500 1000 200 200 300

2000 ]0 ()()

.SO

Mrs. F. B. Dexter, for Theo­dosia D. Wheeler Scholar-ship, Calcutta.............. 40 00

Total .................... $122 50

(Mrs. F. B.) THEODOSIA M. DEXTER,

Treasurer.

Report of Princeton Branch 41

PRINCETON (N. J.) BRANCH

Treasurer's Report Mrs. Baskerville .........••• Mrs. Duffield .............. . Miss Helen Duffield ....... . Miss Sarah Duffield ...•.... Miss Elizabeth Duffield ... . Mrs. Edmunds ............. . A Friend .. ~ ................ . Miss Gosman ............. . Mrs. G. M. Harper ........ . Miss I. Harper ............ .. Mrs. Walter Harris ....... . Miss Dorothy Harris ...... .. Miss Helen Harris .....•.... Mrs. Hatfield ............. .. Mrs. John G. Hibben ...... . Miss Elizabeth Howe .•..... Miss Mary Howe .......... .. Mrs. Hubbard •.............. Mr. T. W. Hunt .......... .. Mrs. Lake ............... .. Mrs. Macloskie ............ . Mrs. Marsh ................ . Mrs. John Miller ........... . Mrs. McClenaghan •..•• " ..

$100 500 500 100 100 1 00

.25 lCO 100 100 300 1 00 100 100 100 100 100 100 500 100 100 100 500 100

Mrs. McLanahan .......... .. Mrs. Osgood ................ . Miss Rockwood ........... .. Mrs. Spence ......•.•.•..•.• Mrs. J. Ross Stevenson ... . Mrs. Bayard Stockton ..... . Mrs. Tilton ....... , ........ . Mrs. Warren ••..••••...•... Miss Wikoff .............. .. Miss Willson ............... .

Fiitehpur, India - L. L. Broadwell Hospital,

Mrs. G. M. Harper, $25.00; Mrs. MacInnes, $12.50 .•

Yokohama, J apan-Scholar­ship in Doremus School, Friends in Princeton •••••

500 200 500 100 500 1 ()J 100 100 200 500

$6925

3750

4000

Total ................... $146 75

M. LOUISE WILLSON, Treasurer.

/

OFFICERS OF AUXILIARIES

OF THE

'tlmomants 'tllnton mtsstonar~ $octet12

Boston Branch Pres.-Miss Miriam B. Means.

Vice-Pres.-Miss Mary C. S. May_ Sec.-Miss M. L. Richardson. Treas.-Miss Mary E. Magrath.

Mrf!. Walter Baker Memorial Band

Pres.-Miss M. L. Richardson. ~'ec.-Miss Miriam B. Means. Treas.-Miss Charlotte W. Rogers.

Albany Branch Pres.-Mrs. J. Townsend Lan·

sing. Vice-Pres.-Mrs. J. L. New­man. Treas.-Miss Mary Gibson. Sec.-Miss Anna Taylor.

W. U. M. Soc., Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn

Pres. and Treas.-Mrs. William R. Halsted.

Brooklyn Branch Pres.-Miss E. T. Marston.

Treas.-Miss Mahel Patterson. Sec.-Mrs. F. B. Pierson.

Millstone, N. J., Auxiliary Pres.-Miss M. G. Sutphen. Vice­

pres. ----. Sec. and Treas.­Mrs. P. Eugene Nevius.

Morristown, N. r., Auxiliary Pres.-Miss Frances B. Coursen.

Sec.-Mrs. Wm. DeCamp Johnson. Treas.-Miss A. P. Hastings.

Newark, N. J., Auxiliary Pres.-Miss J. W. Abee1. Vice­

Pres'ts.-Mrs. R. W. Cumming, Mrs. Peter Campbell. Sec.-Treas.-Mrs. R H. Allen.

New Brunswick Auxiliary Pres.-Mrs. John S. Clark. Vice­

Pres'ts.-Mrs. Selah Strong, Mrll. L. G. Slocowitch, Miss Susan S. Warren, Miss Margaret B. Bald­win, Miss Sarah J. Stoddard. Treas.-Miss Annie B. Cook. Reo. Sec -Mrs. G. T. Applegate. Cor. Ses.-Miss Helen H. Janeway.

Princeton, N. J., Auxiliary Pres.-Mrs. Walter B. Harris.

Vice-Pres.-Mrs. John Duffield. Sec.-Mrs. Walter B. Harris. Treas.-Miss M. Louise Willson. Directors-Mrs. John G. Hibben, Miss Helen Duffield.

Baltimore, Md., Branch Sec.-Mrs. Rohert Grosvenor.

Treas.-Miss E. M. Bond.

Philadelphia Branch Pres.-Mrs. W. \"'1. Farr. Sec.­

MI·s. Geo. E Shonmaker, Tre<'.s.­Mrs. Wm. Waterall.

Germantown Auxiliary to Phila­delphia Branch.

Pres.-Mrs. D. E. Crozier. Sec.-1\1:s5 E. A. Wells. Treas.-Miss Mary Halloway.

Lambertville, N. J., Auxiliary to Philadelphia Branch

Pres.-Miss Myra C. Ely. Vice­Pres.-Mrs. L. T. Salmon. Cor.

. Sec.-Mrs. Theo. Studdiford. Rec. Sec.-Mrs. Isaac W. Holcombe. Treas.-Miss

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. "Willing and Obedient" Band.

Rev. D. M. Stearns.

N. B.-U there are errors in this list or if changes occur, notify the Secretary.

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lioston,

Lowell, Hatfield.

MISSION BANDS

MASSACHUSETTS

Mrs. Walter Baker Memorial Band, Emmanuel Church, St. Paul's thurch,

Trinity Church Zenana Band, Y. W. C. Ass'n,

"Real Folks,"

NEW YORK

Bo.toe Dr.

Mr •• Hugh McLeod

Albany, Woman's Miss. Ass'n, Mad. Ave. Ref. Ch. Albany, Br. Rensselaer Mission' Sunday· school

".In Remembrance of Susan Ganesvoort," .. Mr. P. Gansevoort.

"Egbert's" Band, Mrs. John L. Newman. "Ellen's" Band, Miss M. L. Roberts.

Brooklyn, "Pioneer" Band, Mrs. W. 1'. Halsted, Treas. Woman's Guild of Pilgrim Church,

Mrs. Mary L. Tyler, Treas. Woman's Guild for Service, Central Congo Ch .•

Cold Spring, Corona, L. 1., Douglaston, L. l., New York,

Syracuse,

Chatham, Englewood, Scotch Plains, New Brunswick, Trenton,

Mrs. E. M. Van Dyck, Treas. "Hillside" Band,

"Leverich Memorial," Community Church Sunday-school,

Orphanage S. School, Memorial Two Shining Lights, Ladies of Reformed Church,

Sunday-school of Reformed Church,

NEW JERSEY

Miss A. P. Wilson. Mrs. Wm. J. Peck.

Mr. J. J. Wesley. Mr. R. R. Reeder.

Mrs. H. L. Pierson. Mrs. R. Townsend. Mrs. R. Townsend.

Mrs. R. H. Allen. "Oak Ridge" Band, Polygon Society,

Lend a Hand Society, Miss J. N. Crosby Band,

Slackwood S. School, Miss K. A. Janeway, Treas.

Mrs. W. J. Gray. Fanwood and Scotch Plains. Fanwood and Scotch Plains.

Woman's League, Junior League.

Mrs. H. S. Fullerton. Miss Bessie Babcock.

Shippensburg.

Baltimore,

Farmville,

PENNSYL VANIA

Normal School Band.

MARYLAND

Miss A. V. Horton, Treas.

The Medical Mission Band, Mrs. E. P.Wheeler, Treas.

VIRGINIA

Normal Y. W. C. Ass'n, Miss C. M. Conover, Sec'y.

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Byron. Chicago

Hyde Park,

Milwaukee,

Groveland.

Mill. Seminary.

nLINOIS Byron Band, Miss E. C. Knowlton, Treas.

Sunday-school of 2d Presbyterian Church, Mr. C. E. Beverage, Treas.

Bethany Union Church, Miss M. R. Marsh, Treas. Kenwood Union S. S. Mr. M. A. Kimball, Treas.

WISCONSIN

Normal Band,

KANSAS

Miss E. M. Strong.

W. Union Miss. Society, Miss Maude Ball, Treas.

CALIFORNIA

"Tolman" Band, Miss F. A. Madison.

THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH

OF THE

Woman's Union Missionary Society of America

Was Organized in Philadelphia, May 20, 1861

THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH was incorporated by the Court of Common Pleas, of the City of Philadelphia, March 10, 1869. It was empowered to take and hold real and personal estate to the yearly value of five thousand dollars.

FORM OF BEQUEST

I give and bequeath to the "Philadelphia Branch" of the WOMAN'S

UNION MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF A~[ERICA, the sum of

to be applied to the Missionary purposes of said Society.

FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

PHILADELPHIA BRANCH OF THE

Woman's Union Missionary Society

DR. ALICE L. ERNST~S REpORT OF HOSPITAL WORK AT

J HANSI~ INDIA.

Again another year has ,gone, such a full, happy year,

though signs and rUm~rs of'this world-war were not lacking.

God has kept us in health and ,in safety, and has permitted us

to do much in His name.

My colleagues ~n the work were 'Miss McLe.an at the Hospi­

tal, and Miss Morrison in the School and Zenanas. Miss Mc­

Cunn is still on furlough.

The statistics show an encouraging increase in practically

every detail of the 'Y.~rk. At the daily dispensary, 3,720 new

patients were seen, who made 10,559 visits. The number of

new patients at the Hospital was 593, and these made 10,485

days' residence. The visits to the homes of the people num­

bered 162, and the number of operatiDns performed was 892.

The funds obtained in India from various sources, as in­

patients, dispensary patients, fees, donations, etc., were in all

$2,433.75 in gold, as compared with $1,518.04 of last year.

Professional vi;Bits were made to two native States, two <;>f the

patients being Indian princesses .. Through the warm interest

REPORT OF 'fIlE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH. 3

and great generosity of our dear Philadelphia a.nd other friends,

we are now the happy possessors of an automobile, which enables

us to get about more quickly and more comfortably, beside mak­

ing it possible to reach more distant villages, where we preach

the Gospel and treat the sick brought to us. Four such villages

are regularly visited. The people show great eagerness to hear

the message we bring, and take great deEght in the singing.

How one longs for more workers, both American and Indian,

so that still greater numbers of people might learn the plan and

way of salvation! A spirit of inquiry and of progress is abroad,

and the women want to learn. Miss Morrison and her three

Bible women are kept. so busy that they cannot possibly go to

all the homes asking for their teaching. To give the new pupils

a better chance, many of the older pupils must be given up.

The day.:.school at the Hospital is meeting a great need, and

shows improvement in numbers and in scholarship. Two new

Sunday-schools have been added, making seven in all, with an

average attendance of 450.

Our Nurses' Training School has attained a high degree

Of efficiency, owing to Miss McLean's unsparing efforts in its

behalf. The number of nurses is sixteen.

There has been an increasing demand for Ohristian litera­

ture, both Bible portions and tracts.

While thanking the kind Father for what He has permitted

us to do for Him this year, we see very much land still to be

possessed. Will you not join with us in asking Him to send the

needed laborers? May He increase the faith of all His children.

4 REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH.

Miss Bertsch writes from Allahabad of our faithful Zenana

workers there: "Mrs. Wybrow continues as enthusiastic and

thorough as of yore. I wish we could find a few more like her.

Mrs. Banner, too, has been at her post quite regularly. Last

month word came to me that her little girl had diphtheria. They

inocculated her at once, and she soon recovered. Mrs. Banner

lost only a few days, and as her husband was free, he helped."

Miss Todd has returned to her work in Fatehpur, after her

year's furlough, we hope much strengthened for the strenuous

"life in her wonderful rescue home.

We sent all our gif~ in money this year-one hundred

dollars each to Jhansi, Allahabad and Shanghai, since the send­

ing of boxes has become impossible.

Two of our Managers have been taken from us during the

year to join the innumerable company of the redeemed-Mrs.

C. H. Field, who for many years was a faithful member of

our Board, and Mrs. William R .. Nicholson, our Vice-President

representing the Reformed Episcopal Church. "They rest from

their labors, and their works do follow them."

REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH.

OFFICERS FOR 1918.

President, MBS. WILLIAM W. rAnR, 3902 Walnut Street.

Fice-Presidents Presbyterian, Mus. RICHARD H: WALLACE.

Baptist, MRs. C. HOWARD MCCARTER,

5

Reformed Episcopal, MIss HOWARD-SMITH, Methodist, MRs. ABEL STEVENS,

Episcopal, MISS IRELAND.

Treasurer, MRs. 'WILLIAM \YATERALL, 4714 Springfield Avenue .

.Assistant Treasurer, MRS. L. H. LIPMAN, Cynwyd, Pa.

Corresponding Secretary, MRs. GEO. EBETY SHOEMAKER, 3727 Chestnut St.

Recording Secretary, MRS. ABEL STEVENS, 1712 Franklin Street.

MANAGERS AND COLLECTORS

BOARDMAN, MISS M. J ....... 1336 River Boulevard, St. Paul, ~finn. BROWNSON, MRS. :MARCUS A ... 400 South 15th Street. CARR, MRS. WM. WILKINS... 1206 Locust Street. CLARK, MISS LAURA ......... "The Avondale," West Philadelphia. COMEGYS, MISS MARY E. ...... 4205 Walnut Street. F ARR, MRS. WILLIAM W ....... 3902 Walnut Street. How AnD· SMITH, MIss ........ 4052 Chestnut Street. HOWELL, MRs. Z. L ......... 57 West 58th Street, New York. HOLLOWAY, MISS M ......... 104 West Johnson St., Germantown. IRELAND, MISS. . " ...... 3803 Walnut Street. LEBoUTILLIER, MRS. ROBERTS. Wayne, Pa. LIPMAN, MRs. L. H:.. . ..... eynwyd, Pa. MCCARTER, MRS. C. HOWARD ... Narberth, Pa. Ross, MISS EMMA. . .. . ...... 1601 Chestnut Street. SHOEMAKER, MRs. GED. ERETY .. 3727 Chestnut Street. SHOEMAKER, MISS ALICE. .. .. 3727 Chestnut Street. STEVENS, MRs. ABEL. . ..... 1712 Franklin Street. THOMAS, MISS M. A.. . .. .. Asbury Park, N. J. WALLACE, MRS. RICHARD H .... 4244 Chestnut Street. WATERALL, MRs. WILLIAM .... 4714 Springfield Avenue. \VELLS, MISS E. A .. ....... 6364 Germantown Ave. WILSON, MRS. JOSEPH D ...... 4401 Sansom Street.

6 REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH.

HONORARY MEMBERS * Anable, Miss A. M.. . . . . . .. .......... . ........... Philadelphia. Beck, Mrs. Charles F.. . . . . . . .. ..................... "

*Benson, Miss Harriet S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ... ~. . . " *Biddle, Miss Hannah. . . . . . .. ..... ..... . ......... . *Dillaye, Miss H. H.. . .. .. ........... . ............ Ogontz. *Dripps, Mrs. J. F........................ . ......... Germantown. Kelley, Miss Kathleen................ .. . ......... New York.

*Kirkpatrick, Miss Martha M.. . . . . .. . ............... Philadelphia. Latimer, Miss E.... ........... ........ .......... " Morris, Mrs. Maria...... ..... .. . ....... . Munday, Mrs. E. W.. .. . . . . . . ... .. ........ . .... New York.

*Perot, Mrs. Joseph S.. . .. .......... ... ........... Philadelphia. *Rambaut, Mrs. M. L. Bonney ... ........... .... . Hamilton, N. Y.

LIFE MEMBERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH

Addicks, Miss Florence, * Anable, Miss Alma M.,

Anable, Miss Frances A.,

Phila. "

* Anable, Rev. C. W., D.D., cambridge, Mass.

* Anderson, Rev. Thos. S., D.D., New York.

* Andrews, Miss Sarah J., Phila. Appleton, Mrs. James,

* Ashhurst, Mrs. Lewis R., * Ashhurst, Lewis R., *Baldwin, Rev. Stephen L., China, Bayard, Miss A. M., Phila. Bayard, Miss Theodosia, Barclay, Mrs. H. C., Beadle, Mrs. E. R.,

*Benson, Miss Harriet S., *Bennett, Miss Frances E., Bissell, Mrs. Frank, Pittsburgh.

*Boardman, Rev. G. D., D.D., Phila. * Boardman, Mrs. G. Dana, " Boardman, Harriet Holland, " 'Boardman, Miss Mary J.,

St. Paul, Minn. *Boardman, Mary. Bogue, Mrs. E. A., New York City. Bush, Mrs. F. C., " "

* Deceased.

*Brittain, Miss Harriet G., Japan. *Brown, Miss E. N., Phila. Brown, Miss Fanny,

*Brown, Mrs. Susan D., Princeton. Blecker, Miss F. M.,

Roseville, N. J. Browning, Miss Anna L., Phila. Brownson, Rev. Marcus A.., D.D.,

Phila. Brownson, Mrs. Marcus A.,

* Burt, Miss Mary, *Brown, Miss M. Hamilton, " Burt, Mrs. Nathaniel, Burt, Arthur, Beck, Mrs. Charles F., Bush, Mrs. J. C.,

*Carstairs, Mrs.. James, Clapp, Mrs. Wm. S., New York Craig, Mrs. John. Clewell, Mrs. Maria P., G't'n.

*Carey, Mrs. Gertrude F., Phila. Conrad, Mrs. B. W., Cro7..er, Mrs. J. Lewis, Upland, Pa.

*Davidson, Miss S. K.,. Phila. *Davis, Dr. Perry, Providence, R. I. *Dillaye, Miss Harriet A., Phila. Dillaye, Mrs. Sarah Jones,

REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH. 7

Dillaye, Mrs. Sarah Jane, Phila. Dickson, Mrs. H. S., "

*Dripps, Rev. J. Fred.~ G't'n. Davis, Mrs. W. H., Easton, Pa. Dickinson, Miss Annie E., Phila.

*Deal, Mrs. Oharles, De Witt, Rev. John,

Princeton, Dubois, William P.,

N. J. Phila.

Eliot, Mrs. Charles D., Evans, George 0.,

Boston.

Evans, Mrs. George 0., Eames, Mrs. William, Edwards, Miss B. Blair,

Phila.

Pittsburgh. *Espy, Miss Oaroline, Farr, Mrs. William W.,

* Farnum, Elizabeth H., *Foster, ·Mrs. T. S., *Fox, Miss Mary, *Fox, Miss Mary R., *Grant, Miss Elizette M., Green, Rev. Wm. Brenton,

Phila.

Princeton, N. J. Gould, Miss Georgine V., Phila. Gould, Mrs. J. E., Gould, Miss Sarah, Griffith, Rev. T. S., Trenton, N. J.

*Haddock, Mrs. Daniel, Jr., Phila. Hawes, Rev. Edward, " Hawes, Mrs. Edward, Hanna, Mrs. Emily J.,

Plantsville, Conn. *Hamlin, Rev. Oyrus, D.D.,

Constantinople. Harris, Mrs. John, Phila. Henry, Mrs. E. .;r.,. Germantown.

* Hutchinson, Rev. J. M., Phila. * Hyde, Rev. J. G.; Trenton, N. J. * Harley, Mrs. Jacob, Phila. *Henry, Rev. J. Addison, " *Hagar, Mrs., Hallock, Horace, Detroit, Mich. Hill, Miss Emilie B.

*Hollingsworth, Mrs. Elijah, Phila. Hopper, Mrs. H. S. . Holt, Miss Constance B., Phila.

* Deceased.

Horner, Miss Jane W., Phila. *Hurlbut, Miss Kate K.,

Holmesburg, Pa. Hurlbut, Miss Louisa Ireland, Miss Catharine Lindsay,

. Philadelphia. ,*Ijams, Rev. W. E.

Jackson, Miss Mary L., Pittsburgh.

Johnson, Rev. Herrick, D.D., Chicago.

Jones, Mrs. Sarah W., G't'n. Kelley, Mrs. Kathleen, New York.

*Kennard, Rev. J. Spencer, Pittsburgh.

*Kennard, Mrs. J. Spencer, Pittsburgh.

*Kennard, Miss Anna M., Phila. Kirkpatrick, Miss Ella D.,

• Kirkpatrick, Miss Emma E., " *Kirkpatrick, Miss M. M., Knowles, Mr. G. W., Knowles, Mrs. G. ViT., Knowles, William Gray, Phila. Lamson, Mrs. E. E., Windsor, Vt. Lamson, Miss Flora," " LeBoutillier, Roberts, Wayne, Pa. LeBoutillier, Mrs. Roberts,

'Vayne, Pa. Lewis, Miss A. E.,

*Lex, Mrs. Anna F., *Lex, Miss Louisa W., Lippincott, Mrs. Craige,

*Linnard, Mrs. S. B., Love, Mrs., Lowrie, Mrs. Eliza J.,

Phila. Phila.

"

"

" *Lowry, Mrs. A. L., Ludlow, H. S., Troy, N. Y. Moore, Rev. Wm. H., Matlack, Miss Clara. H., McHenry, James, McCullagh, Rev. Archibald,

Phila.

New York. Moxey, Mrs. John G., Milliken, Mrs. M. J., Mitchell, Miss Nellie S.,

Phila.

*Morrison, Mrs. A. M., Orange,N.J.

8 REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH.

Morris, Mrs. M. ~funday, Mrs. E. VV., New York.

*Murray, Rev. C., \VilmingtOIi. Newton, Miss Emily M., Phila.

*Nicholson, Rt. Rev. W. R., *Nicholson, Mrs. W. R., '.l-Nicholson, Miss Elizabeth, *Olden, Chas. S., Princeton, N. J. Pearne, 'Mrs. W. H:, Salem, N. J.

i:'Pechin, Miss Almira, Phila. Pearne, Miss Clara,

*Peters, Miss Anna M., Potts, Miss Lizzie,

*Rambaut, Mrs. Mary L. Bonney, Hamilton, N. Y.

*Raymond, John H., LL.D., . Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

*Remington, Miss C., Phila. Rich, Miss A., Germantown. Ross, James, Phila. Ross, Mrs. James,. " Rowland, Mrs. A. J., Ringgold, Rev. S.,

Clarksville, Tenn. Roberts, Miss A.,

\ Middletown, Del. Runk, Miss E. T. B.,

Lambertville, N. J. Savage, Mrs. W. L. Savage, Miss M. C. Scull, Miss A. M.

*Seddinger. Mrs. J. L. Shields, Miss Elizabeth P. Sharp, Mrs. John Henry, Shoemaker, Mrs. George Erety,

Philadel phia. *Simpson, Mrs. Matthew.

Deceased.

* Smith, Rev. J. Wheaton. *Smith, Mrs. J. "Thea ton.

Stevens, Mrs. J. P., Phila. *Stotesbury Mrs. R. G., ';(oStrond, Miss R. H., *Siter, Mrs., Ed., Savage, Mrs. W. S., Shippen, Mrs. Mary S.,

*Seelye, Dr. T. L., Cleveland, O. Tasker, Thomas, Phila. Thayer, ~frs. Martin, Thomas, Miss Maggie E., Wallace, Mrs. Richard H., Waterall, Mrs. William,

Wynnewood, Pa. *Whitall, Mary C.," " *Willard, John, Troy, N. Y. *'Villard, Mrs. Sarah C.," " *Williams, Dr. E. H., Phila, Whitney, Mrs. E. S.,

Green Bay, Wis. Wilson, Miss E. J., Germantown. 'Vilson, Mrs. W;, Phila. 'Varren, Miss Martha, Williamson, Miss H., Wheeler & Wilson, Messrs., N. Y.

*Watson, Rev. Benj., D.D., Philu. Watson, Miss Rachel, Watson, Thomas, Williams, Dr. Josephus, Wilson, \Villiam, Whitney, :\1iss Helen C., Whitney, Miss Mary D., Whitney, Mrs. 'V. Beaumont, " Woodhull, George, Judge. Woodhull, Miss Clara. Woodhull, Miss Hannah.

N. B.-If errors occur in these lists. or If changes shol)ld be made on account of removal or death. the Secretary would very much ~ppreciate a no!e advising her of the fact.

REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH. 9

TREASURER'S REPORT

PHILADELPHIA BRANCH VVO?£AN'S UNION MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, in account with MARY L. V\7 ATERALL, Treasurer.

Dr.

Balance from 1916 ... To Subscriptions, Donations, Collections. etc..... .,

" Interest from Harriet Holland Fund.. . .... Mary A. Boardman Mrs. Earley Mrs. E. H. Williams Mrs. Agnes W. Leavitt Miss Pechin Miss Elizabeth Schaffer Mrs. Martha T. Carroll Mrs. Daniel Haddock, Jr. Miss S. K. Davidson Miss Harriet S. Benson Miss Anna M. Peters Miss Rachel Wetherill Miss Clara A. Lindsay Mr. Charles G. Sower

" Cash from John Bohlen Trust Fund, Holy Trinity P. E. ChUTch, through ,T. W. Townsend Accounting Warden.

" Interest on Deposits at Provident Life & Trust Co ..... . " Interest on Augusta Tabor Fund... . . .. .. ..... ..

Or.

By Cash to Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnyder, of Shanghai, China. {t Dr. Ernst, Jhansi, India (including special)

Miss Todd, Fatehpur, India... .... .. . ... " Miss Lillie Roderick . .. .. . ........ .

" Bible Reader in Calcutta, in memory of Mrs. Joseph L. Richards........ ....... .. ..

$611 83 543 27 700 00

50 00 55 00 42 00 30 00 11 00

216 00 22 00

250 00 200 00 500 00

90 00 50 00 22 48 31 52

702 64 38 65 31 11

$4,197 50

$700 00 700 00 600 00 280 00

75 00

10 REPORT OF THE PHILADEI..PHIA BRAXCH.

By Cash to Bible Reader in Allahabad, in memory of Mrs. Daniel Haddock, Jr...... ..

Agnes W. Leavitt Scholarship (from Miss Thomas) ........... .

From Lambertville Auxiliary: For education of Sakae Yamazaki,

Yokohama ................... . For Proteba, on the Malvina Kaye Hol­

combe Seholarship, Calcutta... ... . ... For Bible Reader student under Miss Irvine,

Shanghai .. ........ . ........ . Support of Mrs. Agnes Wybrow, Agnes Hurlburt

School.. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ... .. . ...... . Support of Virginia Lindsay, Calcutta, from Miss

Clara A. Lindsay Fund: .. Alice and Pujaran Scholarships, Cawnpore ... From the Misses Comegys, to support of Kalia,

Mary A. Merriman Orphanage... .. Christmas gifts to Jhansi, Allahabad and

Shanghai, in place of boxes.. ..... .. .. Special to Dr. McKenzie (from Miss Howard-

.. Smith) .......................... . Special to Dr. Ernst for Automobile. ..... .. American Sunday-School Union, for use of room. Fidelity Trust Co., for box rental. .. .. . ..... . Stationery, Printing, Reports, Anniversary

Expense, Links, etc.. . .. .. . ......... . Medical Journals for Shanghai and Jhansi .. .

To Balance in Income Account ...... .

80 00

30 00

40 00

30 00

25 00

80 00

20 00 40 00

25 00

300 00

10 00 285 00

5 00 5 00

79 R5 12 50

774 65

$4,197 50

The accounts for the year 1917 audited and found correct, January 8th, 1918.

M. B. NILES,

Certified Public Accoun tan t.

REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH. 11

LIST REPORTED BY MANAGERS AND COLLECTORS

MRs. WILLIAM W. FARR.

Miss Anne Randolph ...... $3 00 Miss A. P . Newbold. .... 2 00 Miss J. Hogan.. .. .. .. I 00. Miss Susan S. Robeson,

1916 and 1917 ..... . Mrs. A. Edwin Taylor ... . Miss Caroline Farr ...... . Mrs. E. K. Goldsborough. Mrs. Wm. Wilkins Carr .. Mrs. Wm. W. Farr ..... . Mrs. C. L. F. Robinson .. Miss Helen C. Bunting ..

2 00 5 00. 3 00. 5 00 5 00

20. 00. I DO. 2 00

$49 00

MRS. GEORGE ERETY SHOEMAKER.

Mrs. Gustavus W. Knowles.$25 00 Mrs. Randolph ......... . A Friend ............. . Mrs. F. W. Morris ..... . Mrs. William H. Morris .. . Miss Ellen Morris. . .. .. Mrs. Chas. Hermon Thomas Miss Anna Morris .... .. Miss Pearsall· (for India) Miss Mary Pearsall. Miss H. W. Pearsall... .. Miss Annie Eleanor IJiiders. Miss Emma B. Liiders .... Mrs. Geo. Erety Shoemaker Miss Alice Shoemaker ..... M~ss Cl~a Young, includ-

mg Lvnk ..... .... . ...

5 DO. I DO 5 DO 5 DO 5 00. 5 DO 5 00

10. 00 5 DO.

10. DO. 10. 0.0. 10 0.0. 5 0.0. 3 DO.

1 50.

$110. 50

MISS CATHARINE LINDSAY IRELAND

Miss Constance B. Holt. . $50. 0.0. Mrs. Alphonso C. Ireland. 5 0.0. Mrs. William M. Wills. 5 DO. Mrs. Charles Watson. . . . 2 00. Miss Elizabeth S. Watson.. 1 DO. Miss Elizabeth S. Demuth. 2 0.0. Miss Godley . . . . . .. .... 1 DO. Miss C. L. Ireland, includ-

ing Link ............... '5 DO. A Friend ........... .. 25

$71 25 MIss ELEANOR HOWARD-SMITH.

Including Special, $10..00., in memory of her mother. . $45 0.0.

MRs. C. HOWARD MCCARTER.

Mrs. Albert W. Margerum. $5 DO Rev. W. H. R. Corlies ... , 5 0.0. In memory of Mrs. Joseph

L. Richards ........... 10. DO.

$20. 0.0. MRS. ABEL STEVENS.

Mrs. Abel Stevens ........ , 10 DO.

MRs. LEwIS H. LIPMAN.

Mrs. Lewis H. Lipman... 5 0.0.

MRs. RICHARD H. WALLACE.

The Misses Potts. . . $2 0.0. Miss A. E. Gourley ....... , 2 DO. Mrs. Richard H. 'Vallace.. 2 0.0.

$6 DO.

12 REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCR.

LIST REPORTED BY MANAGERS AND COLLECTORS-Continued

Miss Emma Ross. . . . . . . . . 5 00

ZENANA SOCIETY OF WAYNE,PA.

Through ,Mrs. Robert Le Boutillier ... $50 00

FROM LAMBERTVILLE AUXILIARY,

Through Mrs. Eva P. Bodine, Treasurer.

For education of Sakae Yamazaki, Yoko-

hama ................ $40 00 Proteba, on the Malvina

Kay Holcombe Scholar-ship; Calcutta ....... 30 00

For Bible Reader Student under Miss Irvine, Shang-hai ................... 25 00

For Zenana Work ........ 10 02

MRS. WILLIAM WATERALL.

Mrs. Albert S. Haeseler. $2 00 Howard L. Waterall... . . . 2 00 Mrs. William Waterall, in-

clUding 3 Links . ... '. . . . 6 50

$10 50

MISS MARY E. COMEGYS.

For support of Kalia, from the Misses Comegys ..... $25 00

From Miss M. E. Comegys, for General Work. 5 00

$30 00

"Anon" ............. 5 00

$105 '02 Anniversary Offering 21 00