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Woman s Foreign Missionary Society

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BEING THE SIXTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL

REPORT OF THE SOCIETY

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Organized 1869

Incorporated 1884

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

GO YE!These in the name of Jesus

Against the dark gods stand.

They gird the earth with valor;

They heed the King's command.— Vachel Lindsay.

Scripture: Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to

every creature. — Mark 16:15.

Hymn: "Tell the blessed tidings." Methodist Hymnal, 445.

Prayer: "Almighty God and Heavenly Father, Creator and Pre-

server and the helper of all who are willing to trust themselvesto Thee; we pray to Thee for all mankind and for everynation upon earth. Shed abroad Thy glorious light whichThou hast sent into the world through Jesus Christ ourSaviour, who is the light of the world. Grant that Thychildren may carry Thy light and truth to those who are in

darkness.

"May our faith be strong in Him who died for us and rose

again, and who commanded His disciples that they should goand teach all nations. Grant, O God, that we may seek to

obey this Thy last command.

"May we never be ashamed to confess our faith in Thee, andby observing Thy commandments may we commend untoothers that gospel of good tidings and great joy which Thoudidst come to bring unto all people through Jesus Christ ourLord. Amen." — Author unknown.

WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETYof the

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

OFFICERS

President

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

Vice-Presidents

Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, 45 Prospect St., Madison, N. J.

Mrs. Charles L. Mead, 3939 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Vice-Presidents-at-Large

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

Mrs. W. C. Hanson, 6029 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.

Recording Secretary

Mrs. H. E. Woolever, 3511 Rodman Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

Treasurer

Mrs. J. Wesley Masland, 6701 North Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Assistant Treasurer

Miss Jean Bothwell

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

ChairmanMrs. Dorr Diefendorf

Secretary

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie, 883 East 19th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Member ex-officio

Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, President

Corresponding Secretaries

Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell, 138 Lincoln St., Melrose, Mass.Mrs. Parris C. Greenly, 93 Linden Ave., Jersey City, N. J.Miss Elizabeth M. Lee. 400 Shady Ave., E. E., Pittsburgh, Pa.Associate: Miss Juliet H. Knox. 7320 Brighton Road, Ben Avon, Pa.Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, American University Campus, Washington, D. C.Mrs. Harvey W. Harmer, 531 Hornor Ave., ClarkslDurg, W. Va.Mrs. Frank E. Baker, 719 Emerson St., Evanston, 111.

Mrs. Otis Moore, Tipton, Iowa, R.F.D. No. 1.

Acting: Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, 607 Wesley Temple Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn.Miss Ella M. Watson, 1701 S. Seventeenth St., Lincoln, Neb.Mrs. J. K. Cecil, 440 Melville Ave., Palo Alto, Calif.

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, 4857 N. E. 8th Ave., Portland, Oregon.

Mrs. J. Wesley Masland, 6701 North Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.,

Treasurer.

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4 Officers and Committees

HOME DEPARTMENT

ChairmanMrs. Charles L. Mead

Secretary

Mrs. F. H. Sheets, 1930 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 111.

Member ex-officio

Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, President

Secretaries of the Home BaseMrs. Harlon W. Packard, 34 Tremont St., Maiden, Mass.Mrs. Berryman H. McCoy, 19 Prospect St., Trenton, N. J.Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, 7730 Union Ave., Elkins Park, Philadelphia, Pa.Mrs. Leo H. Paulger, 2836 Chesapeake St., Washington, D. C.Mrs. Conrad C. Long, 3434 Darwin PL, Cincinnati, Ohio.Mrs. C. N. Timmons, 406 Fourth Ave., Sterling, 111.

Mrs. J. D. Bragg, 3666A Montana St., St. Louis, Mo.Mrs. F. L. Parso, 1441 Fourth Ave., Windom, Minn.Mrs. E. Guy Cutshall, 4926 Madison Ave., Lincoln, Neb.Substitute pro tern: Mrs. John C. Shover, 307 N. 36th Ave., Omaha, Nebr.Mrs. Jerome Seymour, 952 No. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif.

Mrs. C. D. Fletcher, 216 W. First St., So., Ontario, Ore.

SPECIAL SECRETARIESYoung People's Department—Mrs. Albert E. Beebe, 54 Elmwood PL,

Bridgeport, Conn.

Junior Department—Mrs. Carl F. New, 208 Ridgewood Rd., RolandPark, Baltimore, Md.

Student Work—Mrs. H. D. Bollinger, 2425 Park Place, Evanston, 111.

Wesleyan Service Guild—Mrs. Merle N. English, 729 Emerson St.,

Evanston, 111.

THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—1937

The President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, Corre-sponding Secretaries, Secretaries of the Home Base, Secretary of theForeign Department, Secretary of the Home Department, Delegates,Secretaries of the Young People's, Junior and Student Work and of theWesleyan Service Guild.

DELEGATESBranch Names Names

New England Miss Mabel E. Waring Mrs. Wallace DearingNew York Miss Florence M. Calkins Mrs. Phillip S. WattersPhiladelphia Mrs. L. B. Yale Mrs. S. V. HolmesBaltimore Mrs. D. L. Ennis Mrs. Art BrownCincinnati Mrs. John H. Blackburn Mrs. J. R. RowntreeNorthwestern Mrs. Wilbur M. Ale Mrs. J. B. SchaubDes Moines Mrs. W. T. Rogers Mrs. C. R. Cassell

Minneapolis Mrs. Russell Blake Mrs. F. E. MalchowTopeka Mrs. A. E. Kirk Mrs. A. W. SchwartingPacific Mrs. F. P. Flegal Miss Anna Laura WhiteColumbia River Miss Ruth Whipple Mrs. R. F. Pilcher

Officers and Committees

EDITORSWoman's Missionary Friend

Miss Effie A. Merrill, 103 Broad St., Lynn, Mass.

Junior Missionary Friend

Mrs. James H. Lewis, 1930 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IH.

General Literature

Miss Annie G. Bailey, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

PUBLISHERMiss Annie G. Bailey, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

DIRECTOR OF LIBRARY SERVICEMiss Alice I. Hazeltine, 39 Claremont Ave., New York, N. Y.

SECRETARY OF GENERAL OFFICEMiss Ruth Ransom, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

General Counselor—Mr. Fred R. GiUinder, Philadelphia, Pa.Auditor of Accounts of the General Treasurer and of the Treasurer of

Retirement Fund—Mr. John P. Herr, C.P.A., Philadelphia, Pa.

STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1937-1938 fBy-Laws

Miss Annie G. Bailey, Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Mrs. J. VV. Masland, Mrs.L. R. Peel, Mrs. Franklin Reed, Mrs. C. D. Fletcher.

Consultation with the Board of Foreign MissionsMrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. C. L. Mead, Mrs.Franklin Reed, Mrs. Wm. C. Hanson, Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Mrs. J. W.Masland, Miss Ella M. Watson, Mrs. J. D. Bragg.

General OfficeMrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Mrs.Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Mrs. Charles L. Mead, Mrs.Fred A. Victor, Mrs. L. H. Paulger.

International DepartmentMrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. Franklin Reed, Mrs. C. L. Mead, Mrs.H. E. Woolever, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Juliet H. Knox, Mrs.Eugene G. Pflaumer, Mrs. George H. Tomlinson, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe,Mrs. Frank G. Brooks.

InvestmentsThe General Officers and General Counselor.

NominationsMrs. Jerome Seymour, Miss Ella Watson, Mrs. B. H. McCoy, Mrs. C. H.Van Meter. Three delegates to be added at the session of the GeneralExecutive Committee in 1938.

State of the SocietyMrs. J. K. Cecil, Mrs. Frank E. Baker, Mrs. F. L. Parso, Mrs. C. N.Timmons, Mrs. F. J. McConnell.

tNominated with exception of Committee on Nominations by Nominating Committee.


SPECIAL COMMITTEES*Library Service

Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs. B. H. McCoy. Mrs. S. J.Herben, Miss Florence Hooper, Miss Ruth Ransom.

Museum in Tremont Street ChurchMrs. H. W. Packard, Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Miss A. G. Bailey.

Curator of the Museum— Miss Clementina Butler.

World CitizenshipMrs. Geo. H. Tomlinson, 720 Simpson Street, Evanston, 111., Mrs. U. S.

Grant, Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Mrs. Herman Fabry, Mrs. O. R. Aspegren,Mrs. R. A. Page, Mrs. W. C. Hanson. Branch presidents as correspondingmembers.

Leadership TrainingMrs. B. H. McCoy, Mrs. Harry Earl Woolever, Mrs. William C. Hanson,Mrs. A. E. Beebe, Mrs. C. F. New.

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTSEditor Share Plan Letters

Mrs. Harry R. Ferguson, 206 Wollaston Ave., Emsworth, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Transportation AidesMiss Ruth Ransom, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York; Mrs. E. L.

Anderson, 96 Carl St., San Francisco, Calif.; Mrs. Clyde Collison, 1420Spruce St., So. Pasadena, Calif.; Mrs. Samuel D. McKinstry, 3220 Lake-wood Ave., Seattle, Wash.

REPRESENTATIVES ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEESAdvisory Member of the World Service Commission f

Mrs. Thomas Nicholson.

Central Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild*Mrs. Merle N. English, Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Mrs. J. M. Avann, Mrs.F. E. Baker.

Commission on Curriculum*Mrs. James H. Lewis.

Joint Committee on Religious Education**Mrs. Frank E. Baker, Mrs. Merle N. English.

Methodist Joint Committee on Korea, Mexico and Japan**Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Miss Juliet Knox, Mrs. W. S. Mitchell.

Joint Commission with Woman's Home Missionary SocietyfMrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. C. L. Mead, Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Mrs.Franklin Reed, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe.

Missionary Education Movement*Mrs. A. E. Beebe, Mrs. C. F. New.

Committee on Christian Higher Education in India**Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Miss Ruth Ransom.

tNominated by Nominating Committee.•Nominated by Home Department. One member of Leadersliip Training Committee

nominated by Foreign Department.Nominated by Foreign Department.

Officers and Committees 7

Central Committee on United Study of Foreign Missions*Mrs. C. H. Hardie.

Committee on Christian Literature for Women and Children in

Mission Lands**—Miss Clementina Butler.

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

Union College Committees**Eii'ha College—Mrs. J. M. Avann, Mrs. F. J. McConnell, Mrs. J. W. Mas-

land, Mrs. W. S. Mitchell (co-opted).

Ginling College—Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Mrs. F. J. McConnell. Alternate,

Mrs. Albert E. Beebe.

Isabella Thoburn College—Miss Ella M. Watson, Mrs. C. H. Hardie, Mrs.H. E. Woolever, Dr. George Briggs, Mr. Thomas S. Donohugh.Alternate, Mrs. F. A. Victor. Advisory member—Mrs. Ellis Phillips.

West China Union University—-Mrs. Frank E. Baker. Alternate, Mrs. W.E. Scarrit.

Womati's Christian College ofJapan—-Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. Wm. S.

Mitchell, Miss Margaret Forsythe. Alternate, Mrs. F. A. Victor.

Wome?i's Christian College of Madras—^Mrs. Chas. H. Hardie, Miss EmmaDonohugh. Alternate, Mrs. Parris C. Greenly.

St. Christopher's Training College, Madras—Mrs. Parris C. Greenly,Miss Emma Donohugh. Alternate, Mrs. Chas. H. Hardie.

Shantung Christian University—Mrs. J. K. Cecil, Mrs. David Shipley.

Alternate, Mrs. Eric North.

Vellore Medical College—Mrs. Parris C. Greenly, Miss Emma Donohugh.Alternate, Mrs. Chas. H. Hardie.

Yenching College for Women—Mrs. J. K. Cecil, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf,

Board of Trustees—Mrs. J. M. Avann.

Hwa Nan College^—Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs.F. J. McConnell, Mrs. P. C. Greenly, Miss Ruth Ransom, Mrs.L\nn Harold Hough, Mrs. L. R. Peel, Secretary.

Foochow Christian Union Hospital**—^Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. J. M.M. Gray, Mrs. Frank E. Baker. Alternate, Mrs. Frank Home. Trustee at

Large—Dr. Lillian Martin Quimby.

Permanent Committee of Mission Boards Working in the PhilippineIslands**—Mrs. Harvev Harmer, Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf. Alternate, Mrs.C. C. Peale.

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

Rural Missions Co-operating Committee** — Mrs. Franklin Reed.Alternate, Miss Jean Cochrane.

•Nominated by Home Department.••Nominated by Foreign Department.#Hwa Nan not Union College but member of Associated Boardi.


Delegates to Foreign Missions Conference of North America*—Withexpenses from their budgets—Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. Dorr Diefen-dorf, Mrs. C. L. Mead. With expenses from general treasury—Mrs. C. N.Timmons. Alternate, Mrs. A. E. Beebe. With expenses from AnniversaryBudget—Mrs. VV. C. Hanson. Without expenses paid—-Mrs. F. E. Baker,Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Mrs. Frankhn Reed, Mrs. Albert E. Beebe, Mrs.W. H. Dievler, Miss E. Lee, Miss Ruth Ransom.

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

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES

Country CommitteesIndia, Burma, Africa

Miss Watson, Mrs. Van Meter, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Greenly, Mrs.Hardie, Secretary.

ChinaMrs. Gray, Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Cecil, Secretary.

Multi-CountryMiss Kno.x, Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Lee, Mrs. Harmer, Secretary.

College CommitteesIsabella Thobiirn—Miss Watson, Mrs. Masland, Mrs. Hardie, Mrs.

Moore, Mrs. Van Meter, Mrs. Woolever, Secretary.

Hwa Nan—Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs. Diefendorf, Mrs. Gray, Miss Lee, Mrs.Greenly, Mrs. Peel, Secretary. Co-opted: Mrs. Earhart, Miss Condon,Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Mrs. C. C. Peale, Mrs. LeSourd, Miss FlorenceHooper, Mrs. H. G. Campbell.

Ewha-Kwassui—Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Knox, Mrs. Harmer, Mrs. Cecil,

Mrs. Reed.

Policy CommitteesEducational—Miss Watson, Mrs. Masland, Mrs. Woolever, Mrs. Moore,

Mrs. Hardie, Mrs. Van Meter.

Medical—Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs. Gray, Miss Lee, Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Diefen-

dorf, Mrs. Greenly.

Miscellaneous—Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Knox, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Harmer,Mrs. Cecil, Mrs. Reed.

Personnel CommitteesCandidate—Mrs. Diefendorf, Mrs. Hardie, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Moore, Mrs.

Greenly, Miss Lee, Mrs. Bollinger.

Nominations—CDepartment) Mrs. Van Meter, Mrs. Harmer, Miss Knox,Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Hardie.

Scholarships and Fellowships—Miss Watson, Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Cecil, Mrs.Nicholson, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Masland.

•Nominated by Home Department.

Officers and Committees 9

HOME DEPARTMENT COMMITTEESForward Movement

The Home Department and Mrs. Townsend and Mrs. Lindsay.

Seventieth Anniversary—Mrs. C. L. Mead, Chairman, 3939 Warwick Blvd.,

Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. J. D. Bragg, Promotional Director, 3666AMontana St., St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. William C. Hanson, EducationalDirector, 6029 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.: Commissioners—Mrs,Dorr Diefendorf, Mrs. B. H. McCoy, Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Mrs.Jerome Seymour: Advisory Members—Mrs. Thomas Nicholson,Mrs. O. N. Townsend, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, Mrs. F. H. Sheets.

Group LStudent Work

Mrs. Cutshali, Mrs. Bollinger, Mrs. Paulger, Mrs. Sheets, Mrs. Long.

Wesleyan Service GuildMrs. Dievler, Mrs. English, Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Tomlinson.

Young People's WorliMrs. Timmons, Mrs. Beebe, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Bragg, Miss Merrill.

Junior WorkMrs. Parso, Mrs. New, Mrs. McCoy, Mrs. Packard, Mrs. Lewis, MissBailey.

Group H.

LiteratureMrs. Bragg, Mrs. Dievler, Mrs. Paulger, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Beebe, Mrs.New, Miss Bailey, Miss Merrill, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Bollinger.

StewardshipMrs. English, Mrs. Timmons, Mrs. Cutshali, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Tomlinson,Mrs. Hanson, Mrs. Packard.

ExtensionMrs. Seymour, Mrs. McCoy, Mrs. Parso, Mrs. Sheets.

Group HLNegro Work

Mrs. Paulger, Mrs. Bragg, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Cutshali.

BudgetMrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Sheets, Mrs. Parso, Mrs. Timmons, Mrs. English,Mrs. Lewis.

Bi-lingual WorkMrs. Seymour, Mrs. Packard, Mrs. Parso.

World CitizenshipMrs. Bragg, Mrs. Tomlinson, Mrs. Paulger, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Cutshali.

Interdenominational InterestsMrs. McCo>-, Mrs. Bollinger, Mrs. Dievler, Mrs. Beebe, Miss Bailey,

Mrs. New, Airs. Se\'mour.

Circle of RemembranceMiss Merrill. Mrs. Seymour.

10 Field Correspondents and Treasurers

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENTS, FIELD CORRESPONDENTS ANDTREASURERS IN FOREIGN FIELDS

AFRICAOfficial Correspondent— Mrs. Charles H. Hardie.

AngolaField Correspondent—Cilicia Cross, Quessua Girls School, Malange, Angola,

Africa.

Field Treasurer—Violet Crandall, Quessua Girls School, Malange, Angola,Africa.

RhodesiaField Correspondent—Jessie PfafT, Fairfield Girls School, Old Unitali, South

Rhodesia, Africa.

Field Treasurer—Alice Whitney, Nyadiri, Rhodesia, Africa.

Southeast AfricaField Correspondent—Victoria Lang, Inhambane, P. E., East Africa.

Field Treasurer—Victoria Lang, Inhambane, P. E., East Africa.

BURMAOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Otis Moore.Field Correspondent—Grace Stockwell, Thongwa, Burma.Field Treasurer— Hazel Winslow, Rangoon, Burma.

CHINAField Treasurer for all Conferences—Bessie Hollows, 23 Yuen Ming Yuen,

Shanghai.Central China

Official Correspondent—Mrs. Leon Roy Peel.

Field Correspondent—Katherine Boeye, Nanking.

West ChinaOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. F. E. Baker.Field Correspondent-—Pearl B. Fosnot, W. China Union University, Chengtu,

West China.

FoochowOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray.Field Correspondent—Rose Alice Alace, Biblical Institute, Foochow.

HinghwaOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray.Field Correspondent—Sylvia E. Aldrich, Hinghwa, via Foochow.

KiangsiOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Leon Roy Peel.

Field Correspondent—Helen Ferris, Rulison Girls High School, Kiukiang.

North ChinaOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. J. K. Cecil.

Field Correspondent—Pansy Griffin, Alderman School, Changli.

ShantungOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. J. K. Cecil.

Field Correspondent—Frances Wilson, Cheeloo University, Tsinan.

YenpingOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray.Field Correspondent—Gusta A. Robinett, Yenping, Fukien.

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Hwa Nan CollegeOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Leon Roy Peel.

Field Correspondent—Carrie Bartlett.

Secretary of the Board of Directors—E. Pearce Hayes.

INDIA

Field Treasurer for all Conferences and for Isabella Thoburn College— MissEthel Whiting, 151 Dharamtala St., Calcutta, India.

BengalOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Parris C. Greenly.

Field Correspondent—Mildred Pierce, Pakur.

BombayOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Otis Moore.Field Correspondent—May Sutherland, Nagpur.

Central ProvincesOfficial Correspondent-—Mrs. Otis Moore.Field Correspondent—E. Lahuna Clinton, Jubbulpore.

GujaratOfficial Correspondent-—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter.Field Correspondent—Elma Chilson, Godhra.

HyderabadOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter.Field Correspondent—Margaret Morgan, Hyderabad, Deccan.

Indus RiverOfficial Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson.Field Correspondent—Lydia Christenson, 12 Warris Road, Lahore, Punjab.

LucknowOfficial Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson.Field Correspondent—Dr. Mary Shannon, Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow.

North IndiaOfficial Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson.Field Correspondent—Allie Bass, Moradabad.

Northwest IndiaOfficial Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson.Field Correspondent^Gertrude E. Richards, Bulandshahr.

South IndiaOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter.Field Correspondent—Urdell Montgomery, Bangalore.

JAPANOfficial Correspondent^—Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell.Field Treasurer—Caroline Peckham, Kwassui College, Nagasaki.Field Correspondent—Winifred Draper, Yokohama.

KOREAOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell.Field Correspondent—Moneta J. Troxel, Seoul.Field Treasurer—Mr. C. A. Sauer.

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MALAYAOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Harvey Harmer.Field Correspondent—Carrie Kenyon, Singapore, Malaya.Field Treasurer—Thirza Bunce, Ipoh, Malaya.

SUMATRAOfficial Correspondent—Mrs. Harvey Harmer.Field Correspondent—Mrs. i.ydia Oelschlager Aim, Medan, Sumatra.Field Treasurer—June Redinger, Medan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDSOfficial Correspondent-—Mrs. Harvey Harmer.Field Correspondent—Mary Evans, Harris Memorial Training School,

Manila, P. I.

Field Treasurer—Mildred Blakely, Mary J. Johnston Hospital, Manila, P. I.

EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICAOfficial Correspondent—Miss Juliet Knox.

Bulgaria

Field Correspondent—Mellony Turner, Lovetch.Field Treasurer—Esther Carhart, Lovetch.

Italy

Field Correspondent and Treasurer—Artele B. Ruese, Via Savoia 15, Rome(34),

North Africa

Field Correspondent—Ruth S. Wolfe, Algiers.

Field Treasurer—Glora M. Wysner, Les Aiglons, El Biar, Algiers.

LATIN AMERICAOfficial Correspondent, Mexico—Miss Juliet H. Knox.Official Correspondent, S6uth America—Miss Elizabeth M. Lee.

MexicoField Correspondent—Mary N. Pearson, Mexico City, Mexico.Field Treasurer—Mary N. JPearson, Mexico City, Mexico.

Eastern South AmericaField Correspondent for Argentina—Katherine M. Donahue, 1352 Avenida

Pellegrini, Rosario, Argentina.Field Treasurer for Argentina—Olive J. Givin, 1352 Avenida Pellegrini,

Rosario, Argentina.Field Correspondent for Uruguay—Jennie Reid, 2709, 8 de Octubre, Monte-

video, Uruguay.Field Treasurer for Uruguay—Jennie Reid, Instituto Crandon, 2709, 8 de

Octubre, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Peru Mission

Field Correspondent—Gertrude Hanks, Apartado 2144, Lima, Peru.

Field Treasurer—Treva B. Overholt, Apartado 2144, Lima, Peru.

Central EuropeCorrespondent— Mrs. Eugene G. Pflaumer, 2413 N. 52nd Street, Philadel-

phia, Pa.

Ig ieatlj tfl lUiU Immortal

Marjorie Pearl Hughes, India 1922-1936

Laura M. White, China 1891-1937

Mary Peters, China 1894-1937

Emma E. Mitchell, China 1888-1937

Edith M. Crane, China 1904-1937

Laura S. Wright, India 1895-1937

Mildred O. Benson, Africa 1926-1937

Frieda Reiman, China 1918-1937

PROCEEDINGS

General Executive CommitteeWoman's Foreign Missionary Society

Methodist Episcopal Cliurch

Sixty-eighth Annual Session

October 15-21, 1937

On October 12 and 13, preceding the General Executive CommitteeMeeting, representatives of the Board of Foreign Missions, Dr. Ralph E.DifTendorfer, Dr. Thomas S. Donohugh and Dr. Frank E. Cartwright metwith the India, China and Multi-Country Committees for discussion of mutualproblems and programs. Various recommendations were adopted which wereconsidered and acted upon by the Foreign and Home Departments and appearin their minutes. The Branch superintendents of junior work and the Branchmembership secretaries were delegates and during these two days met withthe heads of their respective departments for conference and promotionalplanning.

On October 14, the Foreign and Home Departments met with New YorkBranch which was convening in the First Methodist Episcopal Church,Syracuse, N. Y. In the forenoon, reports and plans for 1938 were given bythe home base and special secretaries, Mrs. Charles L. Mead introducing them.Miss Annie G. Bailey reported the publication office, Miss Effie A. Merrill

the Friend, Mrs. James Lewis the Junior Friend and Mrs. William C. Hanson,educational chairman of the Seventieth Anniversary, spoke on world citizen-

ship. In the afternoon, the Foreign Department appeared and the official

correspondents brought reports from their fields which encircle the globe.

The love feast following was led by Mrs. C. C. Peale. At the conclusion of theafternoon session, the juniors had a party, with the missionaries and secre-

taries of junior work as guests. In the evening occurred the young people's

banquet at which the members of the General Executive Committee wereguests.

Friday, October 15

The General Executive Committee was called to order by Mrs. ThomasNicholson at 2 p.m. in the Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y.

Memorial service for the eight missionaries who, during the year, havepassed through death into Life, followed. The secretary read the names,Marjorie Pearl Hughes, Laura M. White, Mary Peters, Emma E. Mitchell,

Edith M. Crane, Laura S. Wright, Mildred O. Benson and Freida Reiman.After the reading of passages of Scripture, Mrs. J. M. Gray led in prayer.

It was voted that Mrs. Frank G. Brooks be seated in place of Mrs. Otis

Moore and that Mrs. John C. Shover be seated in the place of Mrs. E. GuyCutshall.

Roll call followed to which fifty responded.

Greetings were received from Mrs. Francis J. McConnell, Miss Lulie P.

Hooper, Miss Susan Lodge, Mrs. George A. Wilson, Miss Clementina Butler,

Mrs. Howard LeSourd, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, and Miss Sophia Blackmore. It

was voted that letters be sent to each of these and to Mrs. Charles W. Flint,

to Mrs. A. N. Fisher, former corresponding secretary of Columbia RiverBranch, now ninety-four years old, to Miss May Carnahan, Mrs. E. E. Gaver,Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. E. Guy Cutshall, Mrs. L. L. Townley, Mrs. MaryBrown Townsend, Mrs. Otis Moore and Miss Caroline Peckham.

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A communication from the State Department expressing appreciation of

the letter sent by Mrs. Nicholson regarding our missionaries and work in

China, was read.

Mrs. Nicholson stated that neither Mrs. J. W. Perry, president of theWoman's Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, nor Mrs. J. W.Shell, president of Women's Work of the Methodist Protestant Church couldbe present at this meeting.

The following committees were named:Nominating Committee: Miss Ella Watson, Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, Mrs.

Jerome Seymour, Mrs. J. M. Gray, Mrs. W. M. Ale, Mrs. J. R. Rowntree andMiss Ruth Whipple.

Committee on Memorials: Mrs. John C. Shover, Mrs. L. B. Yale, MissAnna Laura White, and Mrs. F. E. Malchow.

Committee on Resolutions: Mrs. R. I. Pilcher, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, to servewith the recording secretary.

Mrs. B. H. McCoy was named by the Home Department to serve on theNominating committee for 1938. This was approved.

The ad interim actions of the general officers were read by the secretaryand were approved.*

Mrs. E. H. Sheets read the ad interim actions of the Home Departmentwhich were accepted and the actions approved.**

Mrs. F. L. Parso extended an invitation to the General Executive Com-mittee from Minneapolis Branch to hold its annual meeting, 1938, in SiouxFalls, South Dakota. It was voted that we accept with pleasure.

The ad interim actions of the Foreign Department were read by Mrs.Franklin Reed, were accepted and the actions approved.***

Announcements were made. Adjournment.

Saturday, October 16

The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Nicholson at 2 p.m.

Mrs. Carl F. New lead in prayer.The ad interim minutes of the unit meeting were read and actions ap-

proved.****Dr. Alice Appenzeller, president of Ewha College, was introduced. She

spoke of the remarkable development of the college in which 360 girls are nowenrolled and of the need for increased endowment and for new missionarymembers of the staff.

Mrs. H. B. Earhart and Miss Elizabeth Congdon, both of the Hwa NanCommittee, were introduced.

It was voted that Miss Florence Calkins, delegate of New York Branch beexcused and that Mrs. Fred A. Victor be seated in her place.

Miss Annie G. Bailey gave the report of the publication office which wasaccepted

.

Mrs. James H. Lewis reported the Junior Friend.

Adjournment.

Monday, October 18

The General Executive Committee convened at 2 p.m.

Mrs. Parris C. Greenly lead in prayer.The minutes of the two previous sessions of the General Executive Com-

mittee were read and approved.

* See Actions of General Officers.** See Actions of Home Department.

*** See Actions of Foreign Department.*** See Actions of Unit Meeting.

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The report of Miss Clementina Butler, representing the Committee onChristian Literature for Women and Children in Mission Lands, was read byMiss Bailey and was accepted. It was voted that Miss Butler be sent a letter

expressing appreciation of her creative work in this field.

Miss Anna Laura White, President of Kwassui College, was introduced.She spoke briefly of the needs of the college and of the loyalty and faithfulness

of the Japanese Christians.

Recommendations from the committee of International Department wereread and approved.*

Miss Elizabeth M. Lee spoke of her contact this last summer with MissJohansen of the Scandinavian Unit. Mrs. Nicholson reported the splendid workbeing done by various Units of the International Department.

Mrs. J. Wesley Masland, Mrs. Frank L. Wright, Mrs. Adolphus Linfield

and Mrs. George H. Tomlinson asked the privilege of sending "Valorous Ven-tures" to Miss Tomi Furuta of Japan, Miss Ruth Partridge of India, MissEdith DeLima of India and Miss Maria Aguirre of Chile, of whose service andactivities Mrs. Nicholson had spoken.

Mrs. J. D. Bragg suggested that each Branch honor some outstandingmember of the sister Unit by making her either an Anniversary Patron by pay-ment of $1000 or an Anniversary Member by payment of $70.

Mrs. J. Wesley Masland gave the treasurer's report as follows:

October 3, 1936 to October 4, 1937

Receipts from Branches

New England $95,574.35New York 165,504.01Philadelphia 161,786.48Baltimore 38,832.29Cincinnati 184,193.76Northwestern 304,800.77Des Moines 84,801.07

Minneapolis 49,573.46

Topeka 130,062.94

Pacific 88,549.00

Columbia River 34,766.99

1,338,445.12

Receipts from other than Branch sources

Retirement Fund Principal and Income $ 77,979.25

Zenana Paper Fund, Interest 715.87

Interest on Invested Funds 5,405.00

Sale of Properties 8,950.31

Miscellaneous Reports 18,655.77

$ 111,706.20

Total Receipts $1,450,151.32Increase 86,982.51

The report was accepted and our gratitude to God for the advance madewas voiced by Mrs. Chas. L. Mead in prayer.

Mrs. Masland expressed her appreciation of Miss Caroline Peckham, the

assistant treasurer, who had resigned to return to Japan, of Miss Jean Bothwell

who had taken up her duties in the office and of Mrs. Gertrude Tice Sanders

* See Actions of International Department.

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who had served as secretary to the treasurer for twenty years and had come to

Philadelphia, when the office was moved there, to continue in that capacity.

It was voted that a letter of appreciation be sent Mrs. Sanders.It was voted that the appropriation service be held in the next session of

the General Executive Committee.Mrs. McCoy introduced Mrs. Victor, president of New York Branch, and

Mrs. Candace Johnson, general chairman of local arrangements, who in turnintroduced her committee members and helpers.

It was voted that greetings be sent Mrs. Jashwant R. Chitambar of India,

Mrs. J. W. Perry, Mrs. J. W. Shell and Mrs. J. M. Avann.Mrs. Nicholson spoke of our interest in and cooperation with the Million

Unit Fellowship Movement and announced November 9 as the Day of Ex-ploration.

It was voted that Miss Bailey be seated in place of Mrs. Wallace Dearing,delegate of New England Branch, who was unable to attend this meeting dueto the illness of her father.

Adjournment.

Tuesday, October 19

The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Nicholson at 2 p.m.

Prayer was offered by Mrs. Dievler.

Mrs. Merle N. English, secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild and MissHarriet M. Howey from Japan were welcomed.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.Mrs. A. E. Kirk, delegate of Topeka Branch was excused from the session

and Mrs. Wni. C. Hanson was seated in her place.

Minutes of the Foreign Department were read and approved.*It was voted that our representatives on the China Emergency Relief

Committee be elected by the Foreign and Home Departments.The report of the nominating committee was called for. Miss Watson,

chairman, spoke of the requests of Mrs. Lindsay and Mrs. Flint that they benot considered for reelection as vice-presidents. Mrs. Sheets spoke of the effec-

tive work of Mrs. Lindsay through the years and of her knowledge of the Societyand made the request that because of her membership in the General Confer-ence Commission on Woman's Work, her request be not complied with. MissWatson spoke of the sincere regret of the committee that these requests hadbeen made. She expressed heartfelt appreciation of the years of service givento the Society by Mrs. Lindsay stating that she believed it was due to her morethan to any one else that we have a Woman's Foreign Missionary Society to-

day. She then read the report of the nominating committee as follows:

For president, Mrs. Thomas Nicholson; vice-president, Mrs. Dorr Diefen-dorf; vice-president, Mrs. Charles L. Mead; vice-president-at-large, Mrs. Wm.C. Hanson; vice-president-at-large, Mrs. Franklin Reed; recording secretary,

Mrs. Harry Earl Woolever; treasurer, Mrs. J. Wesley Masland; assistant

treasurer. Miss Jean Bothwell.

It was voted that the report of the nominating committee be accepted.Mrs. Nicholson appointed Miss Elizabeth Lee, Mrs. John C. Shover and Mrs.Leo H. Paulger as tellers. Nominations were closed, voting followed and theballots were collected.

Miss Watson read the report of the nominating committee on standingcommittees and on general counselor and auditor of the accounts of the generaltreasurer. It was voted that they be elected as read with the exception thatMrs. Paulger be added to the committee on general office.

Mrs. Masland read from a letter just received from Miss Peckham andMiss Ransom reported on the China missionaries in the war areas.

* See Actions of Foreign Department.

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The tellers reported the election of the officers as nominated.The officers were called to the front while Mrs. Nicholson read the last

verses of Habbakuk and Miss Howey lead in prayer.It was voted that a letter be written by Mrs. Nicholson to Mrs. Lindsay

expressing our love and sincere appreciation of her years of service and our deepregret at losing her from the official ranks. It was voted that a tangible tokenof our appreciation be sent her. Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Mrs. Leon R. Peel and Mrs.A. E. Beebe were appointed by the president to report on what it should be.

The appropriation service followed. The secretary called the roll of theBranches and in turn the corresponding and home base secretaries reported theappropriation assumed by their Branches for the year 1937-1938 as follows:

New England $ 52,000.00New York 164,000.00Philadelphia 160,000.00Baltimore 40,000.00Cincinnati 182,000.00Northwestern 285,000.00Des Moines 85,000.00Minneapolis 47,500.00Topeka 130,000.00Pacific 90,000.00Columbia River 35,570.00

$1,271,070.00

The treasurer announced the total of the appropriations assumed by theBranches. A worshipful consecration service followed, led by Mrs. Nicholson.

Adjournment.

Wednesday, October 20

The meeting of the General Executive Committee was called to order at

2 P.M., Mrs. Nicholson in the chair.

Prayer was offered by Mrs. Paulger.

Mrs. Sheets read the minutes of the Home Department. They wereaccepted and the actions approved.

Minutes of the previous meeting of the General Executive Committeewere read and approved.

The secretary read the letter to Mrs. Lindsay written by Mrs. Nicholsonat the order of the General Executive Committee. It was voted that the general

officers sign the letter as representing the General Executive Committee.It was voted that the letter be referred to the committee previously raised,

Mrs. Sheets, Mrs. Peel and Mrs. Beebe, as to the form in which it should go to

Mrs. Lindsay.It was voted that actions taken by the general officers be approved as

follows:

That Mrs. Avann be invited to come to this General Executive CommitteeMeeting to present the Million Unit Fellowship Movement.

That if the General Conference Commission on Women's Work decides to

meet before another meeting of the General Executive Committee the expensesof our representatives be allowed.

That an official representative from the Woman's Council of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South, and from the Women's Work of the MethodistProtestant Church be invited to attend the mid-year meeting of 1938, enter-

tainment and travel to be at the expense of the Society.

* See Actions of International Department.

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A recommendation from the committee on International Department wasadopted.*

The auditor's report was presented and accepted.Mrs. EngUsh brought greetings from Mrs. W. H. C. Goode, president of

the Woman's Home Missionary Society and made a brief report of the WesleyanService Guild.

The report of the by-laws committee was read by Miss Bailey.* It wasaccepted and the changes in by-laws were approved with the exception of by-law XXIII, 5, On consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions, which wasreferred to the by-laws committee and to the Home Department for furtherstudy.

It was voted that Jean Bothwell, assistant treasurer, as well as ElizabethS. Masland, treasurer, be given authority to sign checks on the general treasuryof the Society.

Mrs. H. D. Bollinger gave a brief report of the student work.Adjournment.

Thursday, October 21

The meeting was called to order at 2 p.m., Mrs. Nicholson in the chair.

Prayer was offered by Mrs. Peel.

Mrs. Sheets read the minutes of the Home Department. They wereaccepted and the actions were approved.**

Mrs. Parso read the tentative program for the joint meeting of GeneralExecutive Committee and Minneapolis Branch.

Mrs. Beebe reported the recommendations of the committee chosen to

suggest a visible token of our love for and appreciation of Mrs. Lindsay, asfollows:

Recommended that the General Executive Committee make Mrs. Lindsaya Seventieth Anniversary Patron: that $1,000 be designated from the amountwhich the budget committee finds it has available to add to the SeventiethAnniversary funds. The recommendation was adopted.

It was voted that Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis be written a letter of apprecia-tion for her offer to the student department to provide two prizes for the best

manuscripts on, "The Sister Colleges as a Factor in Promoting World Peace."The minutes of the previous meeting of the General Executive Committee

were read and approved.Miss Bailey reported by-law XXIII which had been referred to the by-

laws committee and the Home Department. It was voted to accept as read.*

Mrs. Chas. H. Hardie read the minutes of the F"oreign Department.They were accepted and actions approved.***

A telegrarn from Dr. Diffendorfer concerning the China emergenc}' relief

was read. It was voted that we agree to the following name chosen by theBoard of Foreign Missions, "China Emergency Relief Fund of MethodistEpiscopal Church."

Miss Ransom reported that the North American Conference asked for arepresentative from the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society on the Chinaemergency committee with power to act. Mrs. Diefendorf was named withMiss Ransom as alternate.

The annual report of the recording secretary was read and accepted.It was voted that a sum sufificient to raise the endowment of the zenana

paper fund to $24,000 be taken from the royalties account held by the generaltreasurer.

It was voted that $243.10 of this same fund be added to the interest bal-

* See Report of Committee on By-laws.** See Actions of Home Department.

*** See Actions of Foreign Department.

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ance in the zenana paper fund held by the general treasurer, so that $835 maybe forwarded to the treasurer for India for 1938.

It was voted that the total appropriations for the year 1937-1938 be$1,334,770.00.

Mrs. Hardie read the 1937-1938 appropriations from the Foreign Depart-ment, which were approved.**

The report of the resolutions committee was read and accepted.A letter of thanks from the delegates for the opportunity of attending the

meetings of the Foreign and Home Departments was read by the secretary.Mrs. Bragg, representing the world citizenship committee, made a state-

ment after which the following action was taken. It was voted that the matterof having a team or teams representing Christian missions in China and Japango across the country, be deferred until the mid-year meeting.

It was voted that Mrs. Dievler attend the meeting in New York called for

October 22 by the North American Conference and use her discretion in report-ing the same.

It was voted that the following report from a special committee, Mrs.Frank E. Baker, chairman, be accepted and the recommendations adopted.

In response to the proposition from the Board of Foreign Missions thatthere be created a joint personnel committee, we recommend,

(1) That such a committee be created.

(2) That on this joint personnel committee there be three repre-sentatives from the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Mrs. Maslandrepresenting the general officers, Mrs. Hardie representing the generaloffice and the Foreign Department, and Mrs. Dievler representing theHome Department.

(3) That these members of the committee consult as soon as possible

with the three members appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions.This committee shall set up a plan to be presented at the mid-year meeting.

(4) That this committee act as an ad interim and advisory committeeuntil the mid-year meeting.

(5) Looking forward to a future program, we recommend that wegive Miss Ransom permission to take courses in personnel work at Colum-bia University. To cover the expense of these courses, we grant $50.00from the treasury, this amount to be taken from the balance in the HomeDepartment budget.

(6) In order to release part of Miss Ransom's time for study andpersonnel work, we recommend that an assistant in the general office,

preferably a furloughing China missionary, be selected by the general office

committee.(7) That we ask the Branch whose furloughing missionary may be

chosen to continue regular furlough salary until a definite plan is adopted.

(8) That the sum of $300 to supplement the salary provided by theBranch be pro-rated among the Branches to be taken from the foreign

reserve fund.Mrs. Reed reported the Rural Missions Conference which she attended at

Cornell University.

HReports of the promotional and educational work of the Seventieth Anni-versary were made by Mrs. Bragg and Mrs. Hanson.

The minutes of the present meeting were read and approved.Mrs. Nicholson declared the sixty-eighth annual session of the General

Executive Committee adjourned.

Eloise Andrews Woolever, Recording Secretary.

** See Actions of Foreign Department.

IN LANDS AFARAFRICA

MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONSFor present correct addresses of missionaries, see ^'Woman's Missionary Friend"

for Jamiary, May or October.

Angola ConferenceQuESSUA

—

Boarding School—Cilicia L. Cross, Violet B. Crandall, Zella M.Glidden, Ingle A. Johnson*, Alpha J. Miller, Marie Nelson.

Rhodesia Conference

MuTAMBARA—5ocrc/iwg School—Lulu L. Tubbs. Medical—Oril A. Penney,R.N.

Old Umtali—Boarding School—Jessie A. Pfaff, Frances Quinton.* Medical—Irene P. Gugin, R.N.*

Nyadiri—Boarding School—Grace Clark*, Sarah N. King, Ila M. Scovill.*

Medical— Alice E. Whitney, R.N.Umtali—Hostel—Beulah H. Reitz.* Medical—Ona M. Parmenter, R.N.

Southeast Africa Conference

GlKUKi (Inhambane)—Boarding School—Mabel P.Michel, Ruth E. Northcott,Bess L. Phillips.* Medical—Victoria Lang, R.N. Evangelistic Work—Ruth F. Thomas.

NEGRO AFRICA

Angola—Bishop Springer's first Conference after his return to the field,

was held at Quessua. One native woman said in her public testimony that "it

was more like a camp meeting than a Conference." Rev. Herbert Withey wasthere to serve as interpreter, a task which his fifty years on the field, speakingKimbundu from the age of twelve years, well qualified him to do. His recent

death is a sad loss along many lines but especially, perhaps, along this line of

translation. Among the translations which he left are the New Testament,Psalms, Pilgrims Progress, Hymn Book, Ritual and Discipline, and Catechism.

The arrival of the new missionary family, the Dodges, has been a sourceof strength.

A notable advance step was the formation at annual conference, of a HomeMissionary Society for Angola, and the steadily increasing responsibility

which the native pastors and their congregations are assuming.Quoting Bishop Springer

—"Miss Cross, ordained local Elder a year ago,has most ably filled the position of pastor of the Quessua Church. She has also

carried on the Bible school, assisted by Miss Miller and by native ministersand teachers.

Miss Miller has general charge of the girls school, with its 100 boardersand 270 pupils, and teaches classes in Bible. Miss Crandall glories in her workof supervision of the village schools. Miss Nelson assists in the hospital anddispensary and in answering calls out in the villages. Miss Glidden, while pur-suing her study of Portuguese, carries a heavy schedule in the school work.Miss Bessa, teacher in the girls school, answers the calls for an interpreter,

as she has since the days of ^ishop Taylor."The schools (co-educational) supervised by Miss Crandall, number be-

tween thirty-five and forty, with an average of more than twenty pupils each.These relieve the over-crowding of the station schools, and also care for the

* On furlough.

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children living at a distance. Miss Crandall and Miss Glidden have installed

and learned to operate a small printing press, which aids in various ways in thegreater efficiency of Quessua School.

Rhodesia—Bishop Springer commends the Society's work and workershere, as in the other two Conferences, and says: "We have rejoiced to see thework . . . going on so well and efficiently. In some instances, the native girls

have contributed not a little to plans and methods. The increasing ability of

the native girls and women and men has greatly helped, and will be a constantfactor in the future."

The entire Conference has been greatly bereaved in the death of MildredBenson, last July. The influence of her courage and serenity of spirit duringher last illness is commensurate with that which she exerted during her termsof active service. Her passing leaves Rhodesia reduced to six W.F.M.S. mission-aries in the Conference, to carry what twelve were doing as recently as 1929.

Rhodesia's chief reason for thanksgiving this past year seems to have beenthe additional help rendered by Miss Emma Lois Pfaff, sister of Jessie Pfaff,

who returned with her sister last summer, and is employed at the expense of

the school. The shortage of missionaries would otherwise have constituted aneven greater crisis.

The hostel at UmlaU continues, against a background which makes right

living difficult for unprotected girls. There are between six and eight thousandnatives living in Umtali, who face a constant struggle against bad influences.

The Methodist Episcopal Church (native) in Umtali, started in 1900, has todaya constituency of over eight hundred people.

Nyadiri School reports almost four hundred pupils, meeting in two sessions.

Two classes in each section must meet in the assembly hall, without desks.

The crowded condition is appalling, averaging twenty-five pupils in a room12 X 20 feet. The school is nevertheless doing a high quality of work, as testi-

fied to by the new school inspector, who spent two full days there, and ex-

pressed himself as greatly pleased with what he saw. His presence was aninspiration to all.

Portuguese Southeast Africa—Bishop Springer says: "The W.F.M.S.plant at Cikuki is doing magnificent work. The natives have called it 'Jeru-

salem' and no wonder, for it has meant a new heaven on earth for hundreds of

them."One of the brightest spots this year has been the securing through the

Committee on Christian Literature, a grant sufficient to pay for the printing

of the textbook prepared by Miss Victoria Lang, for the training of native

nurses. This nurse training is one of the most efTective pieces of work being

carried on. All of these girls have become tithers, beginning on an allowance

of about twenty-five cents a month. One of the main stresses of the evangelistic

work, has been Stewardship. These nurses who have passed through ourTraining School are "some of them located at far-away places, where they are

breaking down superstition by teaching hygiene, and saving many a motherfrom going to the witch doctor, by being able to give simple remedies to their

babies." Once a year they come back to the hospital for a reunion, when theydiscuss their problems, brush up their technique, and receive spiritual strength

and courage. Health institutes, along with revival campaigns, have been con-

ducted by one of these women, working with her husband.A group of the older school girls, from the Bible school, asked in the

summer to be permitted to go out in twos into the villages to help the people,

—

teaching Bible, sewing, etc. It is this type of work which is being helped,

through the International Department, by the group of Chinese women in the

Missionary Societies of China, who wanted to do something for the people of

Africa.

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Out through the District, it is most encouraging to see the girls, formerlyfrom Hartzell Girls School, now mature women, carrying responsibility in

Christian leadership: teaching Sunday school classes, sitting with the village

elders in judging village problems, leading classes and meetings, going intopioneer territory to carry the message to unevangelized peoples.

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie, Official Correspondeyit.

BURMAMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend"for January, May or October.

Pegu and Thonwa—Evangelistic Work and Vernacular Schools—Grace L.Stockwell.*

Thongwa—Neil Dexter Reid School—Maurine E. Cavett.Rangoon—Burtnese Girls High School—Mrs. M. A. Clare. Chiyiese Girls

School and Evangelistic Work—Hazel Winslow. English Girls High School—Mabel J. Reid*, Elsie M. Power. Evangelistic Work—Amanda Mitzneruntil July; Mrs. M. B. Clare, Stella Ebersole.* Twante Evangelistic Workand School—Amanda Mitzner.

Kalaw—Kingswood School—Roxanna Mellinger, Lela L. Kintner.

Burma ConferenceThough not much is said, Burma has had this year a sense of waiting to

see what may happen, for on April 1, 1937 the connection with India wassevered, and Burma became a separate political unit. The rather complexpolitical situation has so far had no bad effects on economic conditions; mis-sionary holdings are secure and missionary business steady. May the newlylaunched ship of state ride smoothly!

Probably because of its small size and compact arrangement, BurmaConference has maintained a peculiarly close co-operation between the Boardand the Society. Through the years, workers have been interchanged freely,

and every one in either agency has been deeply interested in the welfare of

the other. This year has seen a new evidence of this co-operation. By orderof the Society at home, a balance accumulated on the field over a period of

years is to be used to pay the salary for three years of Mrs. M. A. Clare.The Board cares for the rest of the expense, so that this fine family is backon the field among the Burmans whom they love and who love them. Mrs. Clarewas originally a W. F. M. S. missionary, Elsie K. Burmeister.

Burma Conference is divided on the basis of language, two Burmesedistricts, one Chinese-Indian, one English. The English Church is the motherof all our work in Burma, and the English Girls High School, oldest of ourinstitutions, has been self-supporting from the first. Through the years it hasmaintained a very high standard in scholarship and religious life, and this

year was no exception. The enrollment was the largest in its history, 493; all

but one of its graduates passed the final examinations, and prizes of severalsorts were won in competitions. The new department of home economics,under the only trained teacher of such subjects in Burma, is proving mostsuccessful. The new assembly' hall, erected with funds secured on the field,

will be in use by the end of the year, and will mean much to the life of theschool. Early morning prayers, daily chapel and Scripture classes are trainingthese future leaders in the principles of right living.

Beautiful Kingsivood School, our other institution in the English District,

is a co-operative enterprise of Board and Society, the outgrowth of the home*0n furlough.

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school founded many years ago at Thandaung and moved to this hill stationin 1927. Its admirable situation and equipment, with a fine school spirit, aremaking it for Burma what the hill schools of Landour, Naini Tal, and Dar-jeeling are to India. This year there was an enrollment of 124 boys and girls,

of whom seventy two were boarders. School work goes through the seventhstandard. Outside activities give a varied training, notably a museum to

which the children contribute specimens such as shells, corals, sea-weed,minerals, and flowers. An effort is being made to cultivate on the grounds as

many as possible of the trees native to Burma. Since we have no church of

our own in Kalaw, the pastor of the English Methodist Church ministers to

the school, and many of the children become members of his church—anotherfine bit of co-operation.

On the Pegu-Thongwa Burmese District, Miss Grace Stockwell super-vises the evangelistic work and the village schools. Out of the many possible

places in that great flat rice country, she chooses a few for religious cultivation

each year, and spends in each enough time to make a real impression. Theseason began with a baby show in Thongwa school, with Red Cross exhibits

on display and 600 babies entered. Then came the itinerating with the tent,

literature of all kinds and medicines. At the first two villages, teachers andpupils from Thongwa came out and put on the health pageant which had beena feature of the baby show. At Bogale, the most distant point touched, therewere nineteen baptims. The Day Nursery in the Thongwa church has caredfor seventeen babies while their mothers went out to work. At Zii'elaw a. nev;

school has been opened, with twenty pupils at the start and a growing attend-ance. The two schools on Pegu Circuit are thriving. A new teacher was em-ployed to introduce manual training, physical education, and Boy Scoutwork, and both schools have profited by it. The enrollment at Bolonqinnincreased so much that an addition to the building was necessary. The in-

spector mentions in his report his hope that this school may become the modelfor other rural schools in the district.

In Thongwa, too, we have the Neil Dexter Reid School, which, in combina-tion with the Anglo-Vernacular School for boys, furnishes a center for educationand for training in practical arts. The pastor of the church assists in the care

of the boys and in the farm operations, and Bible women, teachers, andpupils work together in the gardens. Poultry raising and weaving are a

regular part of the program. During the rain}' season there are Friday eveningsings and monthly Literary Society meetings, with debates, plays, and newsreports, and teachers and pupils invited the townspeople to a variety concert.

The thirty-fifth anniversary of the Anglo- Vernacular school was celebrated

with a program at the first day of district conference. Twenty girls and fifteen

boys live in the school, and there are about fifteen day scholars.

In the Rangoon Burmese district our big institution is the Burmese Girls

High School, with 415 pupils, of whom forty eight are boarders. The day school

building being insufficient, part of the hostel is used for the accommodationof day school work, and a building formerh- used as a dormitory serves as a

drill hall. In addition to standing well in government examinations, the

school habitually wins prizes in various competitions such as the drill competi-tions at the Training College, the music competitions, and essay contests.

The girls of the upper standards take an active part in the chapel services andhelp in planning the programs. Morning prayers are held in the prayer room,which is also u.sed as a room for private devotions.

Until the coming of Mrs. Clare, Miss Mitzner had charge of all the Burmeseevangelistic work in Rangoon and Twante and supervised the Twante andTaloketaw schools. The Twante school numbers about 100 and is a primaryand middle school highly commended by the inspector. Weaving is taught

each afternoon. The staff and the Epworth League of the English Church

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have provided a fund to pay fees for children who would otherwise be unableto attend, and the presence of these twenty four children has made it possible

for the school to survive without debt. Government has lately given a super-intendent's grant, however, so that the financial situation will be eased up andthe sacrifice of a portion of the teachers' salaries will not be necessary. TheTaloketaiv school has forty pupils, a good building and a competent teacher.

Under Miss Mitzner's supervision, five Bible women carry on their workin Rangoon and Twante. Particularly effective have been their comfortingministrations to those who have come from the villages to the city on business,

and to the sick in the city hospitals. During the month of April a daily vaca-tion Bible school was conducted in a village near Twante, with an attendanceof thirty.

The return of the Harwoods to the field released our women from all

responsibility for the Chinese Boys School. The Chinese Church, however,was in need, and for a time Miss VVinslow was pastor, until a suitable Chinesepastor could be appointed. Now she is principal of the Chinese Girls School,

with 226 pupils, an institution constantly going forward and constantly raising

its ideals. It is of middle school grade, and sends its graduates for high schoolwork to the Burmese Girls High School. The past year one more teacher wasadded, for English subjects. Every encouragement should be given to this

fine school, for it is a strong influence for Christ in the great Chinese com-munity of Rangoon.

Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, Acting Official Correspondent.

CHINAMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend",

for January, May or October.

Missionaries in the China war zone, unless definitely appointed elsewhere,are listed as at the China station even though they may be away from thestation or out of the country temporarily.

Central China ConferenceChinkiang—Olivet Memorial Girls High School—Mary G. Kesler, Etha M.

Nagler, Faye H. Robinson*, Bernice A. Wheeler.* Evangelistic and DaySchool Work—Clara Belle Smith.

Nanking—Methodist Girls High School—Katherine B. Boeye, Anna LuluGolisch, Jessie L. Wolcott, Bible Teacher Training School—Joy L. Smith.Ginling College—Cora D. Reeves, Harriet M. Whitmer.* Evangelistic andDay School Work—S. Marie Brethorst, Helen M. Galleher.*

WuHU

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Evangelistic and Day School Work—Cora Leona Rahe, Edith R.Youtsey*, Iva M. Williamson.* Wuhii General Hospital—Frances E.Culley, R.N., Florence A. Sayles, R.N.

Shanghai— Field Treasurer—Bessie A. Hollows. Literature—Mary Liu.

West China ConferenceChengtu—Woman's College, West China Union University—Pearl B. Fosnot,

Ovidia Hansing. Chengtu Senior and Junior High School—Mrs. Ola H.Dudley, Grace E. Manly*, Ovidia Hansing. City Evangelistic Work—Grace E. Manly*, Charlotte Trotter, Mary Shearer. School of Midwifery—Marian E. Manly, M.D.* District Educational and Evangelistic Work—Ruth Gabosch.*

Chungking—Dsen Jia Ngai Senior and Junior High School—Gladys E.Harger, Rhoda Burdeshaw, Luella G. Koether.* City Day Schools—Dorothy Jones.* City Evangelistic Work—Mabel E. Allen. District

Evangelistic Work—Annie M. Wells. Medical H^or/fe—Lillian L. Holmes*,Viola L. Miller.* Ptiblic Health Work—AXma E. Eriksen.

•On furlough.

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TzECHOw

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Junior High School—Celia M. Cowan. Fidelia Dewitt Bible

Training School—Lena Nelson.* Religious Educational Work in Cityand District—Orvia A. Proctor. Suiho District—Helen Desjardins,L. Maud Parsons*, Orvia A. Proctor.

Foochow Conference

FoocHOW

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Hwa Nan Missionary Faculty—Elizabeth H. Richey, EdithMcBee, Elsie H. Reik, M. Grace Davis, Ethel Wallace, Marion R. Cole*,Eugenia Savage*, Frances S. Fulton. Girls Jtmior High and Primary—Mary Carleton. Tai Main Hostess and Business Agent—Florence J.Plumb. Mary E. Crook Kindergarten—Myrtle A. Smith. Biblical Insti-

tute—Rose A. Mace. Evangelistic Work—Rose A. Mace. Willis F.

Pierce Memorial Hospital (Magaw Wing)—Margaret Tucker, M.D.,Alice A. Wilcox, R.N., Frieda Staubli*, R.N. Union Kindergarten Train-ing School—^Eunice E. Smith.

FuTSiNG

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Marguerite Stewart Junior High School—-Jennie D. Jones.* PrimaryDay School and Higher Primary—Jennie D. Jones.* Evangelistic Work andStation Class—Edith F. Abel.* Lucie F. Harrison Hospital—Li Bi Cu,M.D. Woolsto7i Memorial Dispensary (Lungtien)—Li Bi Cu, M.D.

Haitang—Kings Heralds Primary School—Carrie M. Bartlett*, Martha L.

McCutcheon. Evangelistic Work and Station Class—Carrie M. Bartlett*,

Martha L. McCutcheon.KuTiEN

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Girls High School—Martha A. Graf*, Maybel Marion Holmes.*MiNTSiNG

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Girls Junior High and Primary School—^Mary M. Mann*, JaneEllen Nevitt. Woman's Training and Day Schools—Edna Jones. Evan-gelistic Work—To be supplied. Nathan Sites Memorial Hospital—To besupplied.

Special Appointment—Nurses Association of China—Cora E. Simpson, R.N.General Secretary Religious Education for China—Roxy Lefforge.

Hinghwa Conference

HiNGHWA

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Hamilton Girls Jligh School—-Ellen H. Suffern.* City Primary—Ellen H. Suffern.* Day Schools— Religious Education and Evangelistic

Work—Pauline E. Westcott. Hinghwa City and District Bible Women—E. Blanche Apple.

Hanking and Hoeh Bing Districts—//aw^ong Girls School—Lilliam GambleLeper Home—City Evangelistic Work—Station Classes—Hankong District

Bible Women—To be supplied.

Sienyu— Frances Nast Gamble Memorial School—Edna F. Merritt*, Sylvia E.Aldrich. Isabel Hart Boarding School, F. Pearl Mason.* West District DaySchool—F. Pearl Mason.* Sienyu Union Hospital—Emma. M. Palm,R.N.

Kiangsi Conference

Kiukiang—Rulison Girls High School—Helen Ferris, Clara M. French*,Laura M. Schleman*, Leona Thomasson, Rose E. Waldron. KnowlesBible Training School—Edith Fredericks, Jenny Lind, Ellen E. Smith*,May Bel Thompson.* Danforth Memorial Hospital—Geneva Miller*,

R.N. Florence Stevenson, R.N. Mollie E. Townsend, R.N. Evangelistic

and Day School Work—Mabel A. Woodruff*, Annie M. Pittman.*Nanchang—Baldwin School—Gertrude M. Cone, Ruth N. Daniels, Elsie

May Danskin*, Myra L. McDade, Theodora Raab, Margaret Seeck.*

Ida Kahn Women's and Children's Hospital—Blanche T. Search.* Evan-gelistic and Day School Work—Blanche T. Search*, Frances E. Woodruff*,Bessie L. Meeker.*

* On furlough.

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North China Conference

Changli—Alderman School—Pansy Pearl Griffin, Jennie B. Bridenbaugh, J.Marguerite Twinem.* District Day Schools—Clara Pearl Dyer. District

Religious Work—Irma Highbaugh, Mabel R. Nowlin* (part time), NewLight School.

Peiping—Mary Porter Camewell School—Henrietta B. Rossiter*, Dora C.Fearon, Vena I. Radley*, Mary Watrous (part time), Marie Adams.City and District Religious Work—L. Maude Wheeler, Elizabeth Hobart,Mary Watrous (part time). Sleeper Davis Hospital—Alice M. Powell,

R.N., Elizabeth M. Carlyle, R.N. Union Bible Training School andGetjeral Board Theological Seminary—L. Maude Wheeler. Yenching Col-

lege—Ruth Stahl. Union Bible Training School—Ellen M. .Studley*,

Principal.

Tientsin—Keen School—Ida F. Frantz, Mary E. Bedell, Myra A. Jaquet,Minta Stahl*, Myra Snow, Emma Wilson. City Religious Work—BirdiceE. Lawrence.* Isabella Fisher Hospital-Isabella Fisher School of Nursing—Maggie May Prentice.*

Special Appointments—Shanghai—China Christian Education—Mabel R.Nowlin*, Ruth Danner.* Tientsin—Secretary of Religious Work forWomen and Children of North China Women's Conference—Ortha Lane.Director of Public Health Nursing for North China Women's Conference—Lora Battin.

Shantung Conference

TsiNAN

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Union Work—Cheeloo University—E. Florence Evans, R.N., Julia E.Morgan, M.D., Frances R. Wilson, R.N., Mary Katherine Russell,

Lois E. Witham, Mollie E. Townsend, R.N.

Yenping Conference

Yenping—Emma Fuller Memorial School—Mary L. Eide. Francesca NastGamble Memorial School, Day School and Kindergarten, Gusta A. Robinett.Evangelistic Work—Mamie F. Glassburner, Trudy Schlaefli.*

CENTRAL CHINA CONFERENCE

Let us look into the constructive and challenging program of CentralChina. In Wuhu General Hospital there are two Society staff nembers. Thishospital is the only modern equipped institution of this nature for a populationof over eight million people. It was established in 1887 and the modernbuilding was built in 1927 with a wing added in 1935. Figures are revealing.There were nine-hundred-thirty major operations within the past year; fifteen

thousand clinical laboratory examinations; twenty-five-thousand out-patientsseen in the clinics; thirty-one-thousand patient-days in a seventy-five bedhospital. A new wing just now completed will increase the capacity to one-hundred-fifty beds. As we work together in this conservative city in CentralChina we are anticipating rural extension, health and medical work, and also

a new social evangelistic center.In another section of the province is the Olivet Memorial Girls School in

Chinkiang, located on a hill overlooking one of China's age-old cities. Ourthoughts linger long over this school, a chosen spot built in memory of abeautiful daughter of the former national president of the Society, Mrs.William Eraser McDowell. This past year the student roll showed a thirtyper cent increase. They represent families of wealth who pay their own tuition,* On furlough.

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and a large group whose scholarships are sustained by the home field. Theactivities are somewhat commensurate with those in America. A Chineseoratorical contest revealed that twenty-two girls had taken part. Two playswere given publicly during the school year. An inspection conducted underthe hygiene department of the New Life Movement revealed that this schoolreceived the prize for cleanliness. During these days when we think in termsof community chests let us take note that the faculty and student group sent

eighty dollars through their local YWCA to the starving victims in Szechuan.Yes, the year has been difficult and strenuous but in the words of the principal,

"God is our Strength and He always lifts us up from all troubles."

The Evangelistic and Day School work was carried on in rural areas as well

as in the cities of Nanking, Chinkiang, and Wuhu. For lack of workers re-

ports come that the evangelist can stay but ten days to two weeks in eachplace. The people are so hungry for new life. They are so willing to receive

the gospel. They need someone to help them solve their daily problems, andas Marie Yu, the district worker says, "May God help us to see the need of

the people, and meet it."

From the Bible Teacher Training School in Nanking we have this report

:

"This is the twenty-fifth year in the life of this school. To date there havebeen three-hundred-sixty-three graduates go out from the school, an averageof almost fifteen for each of the twenty-five years of history. They are serving

the church today under many denominations in all parts of China and Java."Aside from class work and practical experience there have been many

opportunities this year for special spiritual uplift. Retreats have been heldduring the year. One for the faculty and staff members brought them into anew bond of fellowship and unity. Later the whole school had a quiet day in

Twinem Memorial Chapel. The prayer league which meets every evening hascontinued to be a source of power in the spiritual life of the school.

"Again this year the practical work done by the students has been animportant part of their training. The first year students under the direction

of Miss Wang have carried on a flourishing half-day school for the neighborhoodchildren. The Sunday and Thursday appointments have been in charge of MissChen Hwei-en. Our students and teachers are working regularly in twenty-eight centers in the city which number includes seven churches, five schools, themodel prison, one hospital and fourteen homes which are open for neighborhoodmeetings.

"Thirty-two Sunday schools classes are taught each week, sixteen each for

children and adults. Two junior churches are conducted; and 'nwii week-daygame and story hours for children. There are twenty-five meetings conductedeach week for adults in churches, hospital, prison and homes. Through thePractical Work Department there are opportunities each week for contact withabout six hundred women and children."

School work in the Yangtze Valley of Central China has been discontinued.Workers have evacuated under the advise of the Consul and the Bishop. MissMary Kesler has been temporarily assigned as head of the evacuation set-up

with headquarters at Hong Kong. And so with Studdert Kennedy we say:

"So through the clouds of Calvary—there shines

His face, and I believe that evil dies,

And Good lives on, loves on, and conquers all-

All war must end in peace. These clouds are lies.

They cannot last. The blue sky is the Truth."

Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Official Correspondent.

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WEST CHINAChengtu and Chungking Conferences

Some of the good news that is being heralded from West China is the fact

that the Seventh Session of the Eastern Asia Central Conference, held in

Nanking last March, elected a Bishop for the West China Area, who wouldmake his home in the limits of his territory and become for the first time in

the history of Methodism in West China a resident Bishop.The new Bishop is Ralph A. Ward, known widely in this country because

of his services here during Centenary days and as Secretary of World ServiceAgencies in more recent years. Bishop and Mrs. Ward went to China as mis-sionaries in 1909. They have been in Nanking since 1933. Mrs. MildredWorley Ward was born and reared in China and is well acquainted withChinese fibre, as well as Chinese thought. Bishop Ward spent the month of

June in being introduced to the needs and problems of his new Field and in

August severed his connection with the City Missionary Work in Nankingand left for permanent residence in Chengtu. Already communications reveal

the new courage and zest the influence of such a leader is bringing to this far-

removed, in some ways unrelated, territory of West China.Because Szechuan province is so far removed from coastal war activities,

—because it is not easily and readily accessible except by air,—thus far it hasnot heard the bombing planes of the aggressive neighbor. True, they suffer

because they are cut off from Shanghai, the port of entry for commerce andthe source of financial supply. The province is rich in native resources andmost of the actual necessities can be secured if funds are in hand. There is

another way out of West China but it is a long circuitous route.

We are so accustomed to hearing of famine in our Mission lands, of

drought, and flood, that we give little heed to it. West China rarely suffers

from such calamities but this past year there has been unprecedented drouthand starvation in the eastern part of the province particularly and natives bythe hundreds dropped along the wayside roads and in the streets of the cities.

Someone wrote that the streets of Chungking looked like a city of the dead.Rains have now come and with the relief which has been sent, the future looks

more promising.The Government appropriated more than a million dollars, Chinese cur-

rency for this relief. Ten 3'ears ago such an appropriation would not have been.thought of and appeals would have gone out to other countries for help.

Today China is trying to stand on her own feet and has borne the major part

of this relief on her own shoulders. The Central Goverment has been pushingrailroad building in West China in the hope of employing more than a million

men from the famine section.

Roxy Lefforge has made her first visit to West China this last Spring.

They report that her coming was "like a cool breeze on a hot day." Why?Because she (our own missionary, now one of the two General Secretaries of

Religious Education in China for Methodism) "swung into the orbit of ourChristian lives, possessed of a real religious experience, coupled with a multi-

tude of ideas, which gripped because of her sanity and clarity of expression."

The task of religious education in West China was given a great impetus.Dr. Lefforge showed them new ways of attacking their problems; showedthem the significance of the Christian home; she introduced them to newmaterials, stirred them to thinking about their task from a new angle and sent

them home with new determinations as well as new enthusiasm. Dr. Lefforgegave of herself generously to other than Methodist groups and the scheduleshe fulfilled is beyond belief.

Suining has been closed as a residence station for the time being. Whilethe thought of this demanded withdrawal because of lack of funds and per-

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sonnel, grieves our hearts, there are aspects of compensation if such can begained. The plan to continue the evangelistic work, kindergartens and primaryschools in the city and district can be carried on as we continue to give thesupport we have given this last year. The interested patrons and friends in

Suining and the resident teachers are asking that we permit them to continuethe High School for a given period of years at no cost to us. The missionaryhome within the compound will be reserved for the use of the Bishop whensojourning there as well as the supervising Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety missionary.

The resumed Senior High School in Chungking is greatly welcomed andquite popular. More ground is needed but at this time is not available. Moredormitory space must be provided and local funds will make possible this re-

quirement. This High School did its full part in helping in famine relief. Theyoung women of this school planned a program and gave it, printed tickets

and sold them, with little help from their teachers. The>' netted one-thousanddollars (1,000) Mex. which they gladly gave for suffering humanity at their

door.

Dr. Marian Manly has been successful in establishing and maintaining a

Training School for midwives in Chengtu. The school is not large because of

lack of housing facilities. Dr. Manly has ground near the llniversity campuson which she can build new quarters and she hopes, while home on furlough,

to secure sufficient funds to do this. Dr. Pen, graduate of the UniversityMedical School, and Miss Wang, graduate nurse, who has been with Dr. Manlyfrom the beginning, will have charge of the school and service while Dr. Manlyis at home.

Mrs. Frank E. Baker.

FOOGHOW CONFERENCE

FoocHOW City—Willis F. Pierce Hospital—The new building is nearingcompletion. Early in the year we received word: "All the structural concrete

is now poured and we are pushing ahead with the plumbing and steam-heatinginstallation prior to plastering. Our present idea of time schedule is to havethe building entirely completed and ready for occupancy early next Fall.

This, of course, is subject to many contingencies which may cause delay."Regrets are expressed that funds are not sufficiently large to enable the.

staff to enlarge the charity program for the poor of the community. In twelvemonths, 1,151 days of free service were given, in addition to a total of morethan $2,500 unpaid fees, not including free x-rays, free operations and otherfree services. Dr. Lacy writes, "We are anxious to develop our department of

Public Health; to meet the needs in our Christian schools and to co-operatewith our Bible women in the home visitation."

Women's Biblical Institute—"Ten young women were graduated in June,far too few to supply the demand. Last September two graduates were ap-pointed to a small town church—two because there was no pastor and it wasnot a place that one girl could live alone. Within two months they had or-

ganized a probationers' class and classes for illiterates, a girls' club, a youngboys' club, a woman's club, and prayer meeting—none of which was in opera-

tion when they went there. They have quite a large Sunday school and anevening service which they adapted to meet the needs of non-Christians or

luke warm ones. Through this service and personal work among women anumber have accepted Christ and others become more effective Christians."

A Bible Institute conducted by Dr. Sung, the outstanding Chineseevangelist, had to be limited in numbers, the attendance reaching 1,500—all

Church leaders from South China. The Bible women feel that the opportunity

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for evangelistic work is constantly improving. It takes both time and teaching

to make intelligent Christians of women who can not read and who have had notraining when children.

Day Schools—One of the best known news correspondents in China,professedly non-Christian, made the following statement: "I have beengathering materials for an article in a prominent magazine on social institutions

in China. I sought only facts. But as I gathered them I suddenly was sur-

prised to find that behind and at the creative center of practically every socially

creative institution for modern regeneration in China there was the living germof a Christian life." Dr. Ruby Sia adds: "So it is in our rural reconstructionwork, which means a school, a church, public health work and mass education.Wherever we find a model Christian community and trace it to the beginningwe find a living germ of a Christian life—a day school teacher."

FuTsiNG

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Lucie F. Harrison Hospital—^This Hospital is in full swing andthe General Hospital is in running order. They have a fine staff and many im-provements have been made.

Lungtien District—A pastor from Foochow found a great response in

Lungtien District. The people followed him from one Church to another andsent chairs from other villages, begging him to come and preach to them.Miss Bartlett adds: "The way these young people are getting under this workis the most thrilling and encouraging thing I have met in all my missionarylife." The Woolston Memorial Dispensary at Lungtien has been able to get

some government help and the doctor there is to give some time each day in

health service for the government.Primary School and Girls School—The Primary School has been fortunate

in renting an adjoining building for use of the kindergarten. Of the graduatesof the Marguerite Stewart Girls School, 148 have had opportunities for further

stud}-; 18 are college graduates; 13 are doctors; 26 nurses; 12 evangelistic

workers; 55 teachers; 3 kindergarteners; 14 in business; and 39 are now study-ing in higher schools; 163 have married, most of them after one or more yearsof service in some line and some have continued their work in addition to homemaking.

Haitang—The population of the island (160 square miles) is now 100,000—an increased responsibility.

The Junior High School is closed and the appropriation will be used for

scholarship grants for selected girls to attend Junior Middle School at Futsing,and in building up a good six-grade Primary School, with an additional year of

practical training for girls who cannot go on to Middle Schools."The local educational authorities said our schools were good—the

best on the island—and that they only wished our co-operation, that it wouldmake for a better understanding between the Church and the government andthat we could be mutually helpful in the educational work of the island."

KuTiEN—"Rejoice with us! Largely through the influence of PresidentLucy Wang of Hwa Nan College, the government at last consented to register

Uk Hing Junior Middle School. Last term, six of our graduates entered HwaNan Senior Middle. How pleased we are, too, that the government is insisting

that the children have more time to play—and orders that the school be dis-

missed daily at three p. m." Uk Ching Primary School, in the heart of Kutien City, has an enrollment of

about two hundred. More and more the people are sending their children. Butstill many parents consider it wasteful to educate girls, even tho they could well

afford to do so. Just lately, several students have been taken out of the fifth

and sixth grades to be married. We do need to pray for the enlightenment of

these fathers and mothers.""There is more and more an effort on the part of missionaries to help train

leaders, both paid and lay members of the church, not to do so much preaching

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themselves, but rather to work through the nationals. Plans are on foot for anall-Chinese-managed-and-taught long-term training class to be held in one of

the villages in August. As the men have asked for women teachers and evan-gelistic workers to assist, we hope that both men and women lay-members will

be willing to brave traditional segregation of the sexes, and, in coming to takethis course, may learn to work, study and play together."

MiNTSiNG

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Nathan Sites Hospital—A recent visitor to Mintsing says:"For two days I have been at Mintsing revelling in its beauty, wondering at its

opportunity. Dr. Dang (called Cheng in the news everywhere used 'universal

language') is at the Nathan Sites Hospital and is a lovely spirit, gentle andstrong, dependable and eager." Dr. Dang must have help, as this work is tooscattered to be cared for by one doctor, and presents one of our finest oppor-tunities for developing rural work.

Educational Work—Miss Nevitt is working with Miss Edna Jones this

year. The new model home or practice house for the home economics class hasbeen of great interest to visitors and the girls are delighted to move into this

pretty little home (built of mud) and sorry when it comes time to move backto the dormitory. The evangelistic work is marked with deepened interest, andis reaching out to groups who have been shut off by difficulty of access and byfear of bandits. Miss Jones adds: "It is when one has been in communities suchas these for a time that she realizes how we should thank God for our Christianheritage."

Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, Official Correspondent.

HINGHWA CONFERENCEHiNGHWA City—The long prayed for Revival came to Hinghwa. The

Anglican and Methodist Churches joined in inviting Dr. Sung to come for

Union services. The Church which seats 2,500, was filled at every meeting,with people standing. One hundred seventy-eight witnessing bands, five or six

in a Band, were organized, and went out through the city, making a great

impression. No wonder Miss Aldrich feels the need of the interest and prayersof the women here, as she trys to meet this great responsibility of helping

nurture those who accepted Christ and His way of life. There were 1,390

converts.

SiENYU—Word comes that the revival spirit is still continuing in Sienyu,where the village Churches have taken on new life. Miss Merritt is home onfurlough, and Miss Aldrich will take her place until Miss Mason can reach the

field.

Sienyu Christian Union Hospital—This Hospital loses its governmentgrant, owing to war demands. This creates a serious problem, leaving the

hospital almost dependent on fees from patients. The number of in-patients

runs about fifty-three a month, with some 250 to 388 out-patients. At the

invitation of the local government, eleven visits were made during April to the

local prisons and also over 500 inoculations against plague and cholera, typhoid,

small-pox, were made. This latter service was mostly for the school children.

Dr. M. K. Yue is doing a fine piece of work and should have our generoussupport.


KIANGSI CONFERENCELet us consider China in retrospect. On March 24, 1937, the East Asia

Central Conference, which is the all-China Methodist Conference, held their

meeting in Nanking; though few in number, the delegates came from all the

China 2)2)

conferences. It was during these days that the 10th anniversary of the so-

called "Nanking Incident" of 1927 was observed; that terrible night whenmissionaries had been evacuated and some were still in hiding; that terrible

night when people wondered whether this was the end of all the careful build-

ing—and yet just ten years later this group was welcomed in reception notonly by the Christians of Nanking, but by the Mayor and the AmericanConsul, who sat side by side on the platform with our bishops. The CentralUniversity of the Government sang three numbers, the third was the Halle-

lujah Chorus. Yes, ten short years and "What Hath God Wrought!"The next day the group visited the Department of Foreign Affairs and

were received by the Chinese Minister. On Good Friday the Southern Method-ist friends united with our missionary group and heard that wonderful messagewhich came from General Chiang Kai Shek on "My spiritual conception of

Good Friday." This date commensurated almost the tenth year of his Chris-

tian experience during which time he has been a constant reader of the Bible.

He said:

"I have now been a Christian for nearly ten years and during thattime I have been a constant reader of the Bible. Never before has this

sacred book been so interesting to me as during my two weeks' captivityin Sian. This unfortunate affair took place all of a sudden and I foundmyself placed under detention without having a single earthly belonging.From my captors I asked for but one thing, a copy of the Bible. In mysolitude I had ample opportunity for reading and meditation. The great-

ness and love of Christ burst upon me with a new inspiration, increasing

my strength to struggle against evil, to overcome temptation, and touphold righteousness. I am, indeed, grateful to all my fellow Christianswho continually offered prayers on my behalf. I was deeply conscious of

a strong spiritual support for which I extend my hearty thanks to all

Christians, and to which, before you all, today, I testify that the name of

God may be glorified."

During this past year much progress has been made. In connection withthe new rural movement plan originated by Madame Chiang Kai Shek, andthrough the rural reconstruction, progress has been made along the lines of

health, sanitation and education. The help of Christian leaders has con-stantly been sought as plans for this advancement has been made. In thewords of Madam Chiang Kai Shek, "This new life is from within and theright place to begin the regeneration of a nation. In a very large measure this

part of reconstruction is pre-eminently the work of the church. Let us do it

together." Here the work should progress since the New Life Movement wasborn in Kiangsi Province.

The Chairman of the Kiangsi Provincial Government, General HsiungShih-hui, has started a comprehensive program for the improvement of thelife of the women and girls. In the past the Mission or Church has initiated

plans. W'e have come to the period in China when the Government is takingthe responsibility in a large way, but seeks the help of the Church. Twosplendid, well-trained women have been sent out to lead in this provincial work.

Our missionaries and the nationals with ever-increasing strength are help-ing to mold the China of tomorrow through our social evangelistic workers,through the Christian doctors and nurses and the educators. New strengthmust be given to these widely segregated areas in this Province along theYangtze River.

This past year the schools had a larger enrollment; the hospitals hadmore in-patients and did more out-patient work; had wider territorial expan-sion despite the depleted budget from home. Notwithstanding the many

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furloughs and because passports are not available for returning missionariesthe few workers who remained are heroically keeping the work intact as bestthey can.

The Girls School at Nanchang was reported to be opening at Ruling.Rulison Girls High School opened at Kiukiang. District work has beingcarried on in as nearly a normal fashion as could be expected.

Kiukiang District and City are to be made models in the province so theywere busy painting walls, widening and building roads, everywhere givingevidence of the new program.

The men of the Public Health Goverment Bureau asked what termsDanforth Hospital would offer to take care of the maternity cases they wouldsend. Miss Kuon, head of the Woman's New Life Movement, asked if theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society doctor could give some time training

midwives.A Senior II boy passed the Boy Scout examination, and was one of sixteen

in all China to go to Holland for the International Boy Scout meeting. Hiswidowed mother is a district Bible woman.

From the Bible Training School and the High School comes the report

that a long line of girls joined the church when Bishop Hammaker made his

visit to this area.

Buildings in ashes and wrecked interiors can do no harm to a living spirit

and so with these nationals we unite our efforts to bring the Kingdom into this

section of our great world.Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Official Correspondent.

NORTH CHINA CONFERENCE

Tientsin-—Religious Work for Women and Children—The success of thesecond year of the Centralized Religious Work for Women and Children of

North China has exceeded the anticipation of those who conceived the plan.

Miss Ortha Lane is the resourceful Secretary.

Four of the six districts in the Conference are now supervised by Chineseyoung women. Through visits, help in institutes and correspondence, theSecretary encourages the Chinese leaders, and stands by when they are in

difficulty. The objective is to help young women see that rural evangelizationand Christianizing of the home is just as challenging as institutional work.

In two of the centers, Changli and Lanhsien, Parent Education classes

have been emphasized this year. In the villages about Changli there weretwenty-eight different classes in "Parent Education" and "Preparation of

Youth for Home Making." Three paid staff members and eighteen volunteerworkers conducted the classes.

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Conference Public Health Work-—Centralized Public HealthNursing began in North China simultaneously with Religious Work for Womenand Children. Miss Lora Battin, who was then home on furlough and takingPublic Health training in Columbia University, was chosen Secretary. Threewell distributed hospitals,—Sleeper Davis in Peiping, Isabella Fisher in

Tientsin, and the Board of Foreign Missions Hospital in Changli, are the basis

of work. Immediately upon her return to China, Miss Battin made a trip

about the Conference. She found the work already well started in the City of

Peiping. An excellent clinic, houses in the hospital building, is the center fromwhich the work radiates through a Public Health doctor and four nurses.

Isabella Fisher Hospital in Tientsin, the second center, while not so

broadly organized for Public Health Work, is making excellent preparation for

it. Every member of the class graduating from their school of Nursing this

year, received an honor diploma from the Government. Since the majority of

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their hospital patients are admitted through the clinics, they have a Public

Health nurse who does patient follow-up work in the homes. In addition to the

general clinic at the hospital, they have a special Pediatric Clinic, a Man'sClinic, and a neighborhood Clinic at Ai Yu Center in the city, with Healthclasses for mothers.

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Cheeloo University Hospital—Fourteen girls were graduated fromthe School of Nursing this year, for every one of whom a position was waiting.

A well qualified Chinese woman will begin as Superintendent of the School of

Nursing December 1.

The new hospital has fully justified its building. Days' care have beengiven to 41,384 In-Patients, and 84,252 total visits have been made by Out-Patients. When some of the patients began to be fearful of war dangers to thehospital building, many expectant mothers attending the Out-Patient Depart-ment, said, "We are so glad you are not closing the hospital. What would wedo?"

Educational Work—The new Educational project in North China is the"New Light School," which has just concluded its first year. The school,

located at Changii, is modeled after the Danish Folk School for Adults. Thewell trained principal. Miss Liu Yu Cheu, says: "In this kind of a school it is

impossible to find a proper textbook, so we have had to make our own textbookout of our daily life. Our daily living becomes an interesting project."

"The school is divided into many units for experiment in basketry, soap-making, weaving, cookery, making bean milk, sewing and gardening. Eachwoman has a garden plot for experimentation in seed and soil. The care andmanagement of children is perhaps our most important experiment,—

a

schedule for baths, naps, eating, more comfortable and hygienic clothing.

These reforms we have carried out with our five school children. They havegreatly changed in their ways, actions and habits during the year."

They have one model cottage where "the happy spirit of those who live

here is just what the school is aiming at,—a happy Christian home, growing in

knowledge and understanding of the best things of life."

Mrs. J. K. Cecil, Official Correspondent.

YENPING CONFERENCE

Lay Leadership Training is filling a large place in Yenping Conference.The 1937 schedule covered the entire Yenping field with a series of such con-ferences, preparing voluntary lay leaders to carry forward the cause of Christ bygiving them intensive instruction in Bible, Religious Education, Evangelism,Sanitation and Village Reconstruction. These volunteers provide their owntravel and board for a period of ten days.

Dr. Sung conducted a gracious Revival in Yenping, during which the stu-

dents were greatly stirred. "Seventy-two young people between the ages of

sixteen and thirty pledged themselves to live for Christ and to witness for Him,regardless of the vocation in which they might engage." Back of such adecision lie years of Christian teaching, that these same girls might "have aknowledge of the truth which the Holy Spirit can use." Such a sowing mustbring "forth a harvest of changed and radiantly witnessing lives."


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INDIAMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see '^Woman's Missionary Friend"for January, May or October.

Bengal Conference

AsANSOL

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District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Rachel Carr.Calcutta—Girls High School—Irma D. Collins. Evangelistic Work and Day

Schools, Bengali—Katharine M. Kinzly;* Hindustani—Doris I. Welles.*All India Treasurer {Lucknow Conference) Ethel L. Whiting.

Darjeeling—Mt. Herman School—Ruth Field, Hazel O. Wood.Pakur—Santali Work {Evangelistic, Boarding School, Day Schools)—Mildred

L. Pierce, M. Gayle Dawson, Hilda Swan.Special Appointments—Ava Hunt, Lulu A. Boles, Isabella Thoburn College,

Lucknow; Mary F. Carpenter,* Educational Secretary—Pakur—Emma J.Barber, Bangalore.

Bombay Conference

Bombay—W. F. M. S. Agent, General Work and Hostel, Cujerati Day Schoolsand Evangelistic Work—Florence F. Masters*, Mildred G. Drescher.Marathi Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—S. Marie Corner*, Clara E.Kleiner.

PooNA

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Marathi Schools and Evangelistic Work—Emma Stewart ; Anna AgnesAbbott after September, Taylor High School and Anglo-Indian Home—Agnes C. W. Dove.

Talegaon—Girls School—Leola M. Greene*, Clara E. Kleiner until July,Emma Stewart.

Nagpur—District Evangelistic Work—Ada M. Nelson. Mecosa Bagh NormalMiddle and Primary School—May E. Sutherland, Mildred V. Wright.*Mecosa Bagh Hostel—Ada M. Nelson.

PuNTAMBA

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District Evangelistic Work—M. Edna Holder. Girls Hostel—Bernice E. Elliott. Medical Tt^or^—Stella L. Dodd, M.D.

Special Appointments—Marathi Literature—Clara E. Kleiner until Septem-ber, Anna Agnes Abbott.

Central Provinces Conference

Baihar—Primary School and District Day Schools—Katherine Keyhoe. MiddleSchool and Hostel—A-Iarian Warner.

Jagdalpur—District Evangelistic and Educational Work—Helen E. Fehr.Alderman Co-educational School—Local Supply. Girls Hostel and MedicalWork—Mrs. Alma H. Holland.

Jubbulpore— City Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Local Supply. HawaBagh Training College—E. Lahuna Clinton until October, Lucile Colony.Johnson Girls High School—E. Lahuna Clinton, Principal, Faithe Richard-son, Gertrude A. Becker, E. Louise Campbell.*

Khandwa—City and District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—JosephineLiers, Ethel Ruggles. Girls Normal School and Hostel—Local Supply.Girls School and Hostel—Margaret D. Crouse until April, Lydia S. Pool.

Narsinghpur—City and District Evangelistic Work—Local Supply.SiRONCHA

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City and District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Nell F.

Naylor. F. C. Davis School—Nell F. Naylor until August, Lola M. Green.Medical Work—Local Supply.

Special Appointment—Isabella Thoburn College—Margaret Wallace.

*On furlough.

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Gujarat Conference

Baroda—Wehb Memorial Girls School^Principal, Dora L. Nelson. Hostel—Minnie Newton. Mrs. William Butler Memorial Hospital Medical Work—Loal E. Huffman, M.D. Nurses Training School—Mar}' L. Hannafi, R.N.

GoDHRA

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Normal Training and Practicing School—Elma M. Chilson. Hostel—Laura Heist. Village Educational and Evangelistic Work—Laura F. Austin.

Nadiad— Village Educational and Evangelistic Work and City Schools—Elsie

Ross. Village Educational and Evangelistic Work in Vaso, Uttarsanda,

Ramol and Salun Circuits—Grace M. Challis, Fern Carter.*

To Be Appointed—Myrtle L. Precise, R.N., Pearl E. Precise, Florence K.Palmer.

Hyderabad Conference

BiDAR

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Girls Boarding School—Mrs. M. C. Ernsberger, Minnie Huibregtse,Anna Harrod.

Hyderabad—Stanley Girls School—Margaret Morgan, Gladys Webb. Kiikat-

palli Girls Vocational School—Elizabeth J. Wells.

Naranpet and Tandur—District Evangelistic Work and Village Schools-Mildred Simonds.

Vikarabad—Coeducational atid Training Schools—Mabel Morgan, Nellie M.Low*, Katherine Metsku.

Indus River Conference

Ajmere—Boarding School—Caroline C. Nelson*, E. Lavinia Nelson.*HisSAR

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Boarding School—Martha Coy, Ethel Palmer.* District Work-^Lydia D. Christensen, Agnes H. Nilsen.*

Lahore—Lucie Harrison Girls School and District Evangelist—Grace PepperSmith.

Tilaunia—Mary Wilson Sanitarium—Cora I. Kipp, M.D., Helma Fernstrom,R.N., Anna P. Buyers, R.N.

Lucknow Conference

Arrah—Boarding School—Maren Tirsgaard, Ruth Eveland, Irene C. Bear.*District Evangelist—Ruth E. Hyneman.*

Ballia—Primary Education—Nettie A. Bacon, Mabel M. Sheldon.Cawnpore—Girls High School—Jessie A. Bragg*, Adis A. Robbins, Edna M.

Hutchens. Hudson Memorial Girls School—Mary A. Richmond. District

Evangelist—Edna A. Abbott.Gonda—Girls School—Jennie M. Smith.Lucknow—Lai Bagh School—Grace C. Davis*, Mabel C. Lawrence, Kathleen

Clancy*, Emma J. Collins. Isabella Thohurn College—Mary E. Shannon,Principal. Laura V. Williams, Margaret Landrum*, Florence Salzer,

Roxanna H. Oldroyd, Isabella Thoburn, Ava Hunt, Lulu A. Boles*,Margaret Wallace, Ruth C. Manchester, Marjory Dimmitt.

Special Appointment—All India Treasurer—Ethel L. Whiting.

North India Conference

Almora—Girls High School—M. Louise Perrill, Vera A. Parks, Mathilda R.Moses*, Mildred L. Albertson.*

On furlough.

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Bareilly—Girls School—Grace Honnt-ll. Baby Fold—Edna G. Bacon, LucyBeach. Clara A. Swain Hospital—Miriam A. Albertson, M.D., Mildred E.Burton, M.D., Theresa Lorenz, R.N.*, Elnyr Slayton, R.N., MaryGordon, R.N., Janette H. Crawford.* District Evangelist—G. EvelynHadden.

BijNOR

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Girls School—Ruth Cox. District Evangelist—Jessie I. Peters.

BuDAUN

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Girls School—Grace M. Bates. Training School—Ruth Hoath.District Evangelist—Phoebe E. Emery.

Chandag Heights—Leper Work—Mary Reed.DwARAHAT

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Girls School—Charlotte Oram.Moradabad—Girls School—Anna Blackstock. Primary Boys School—Allie M.

Bass. District Evangelist—Eleanor B. Stallard*, Ethel M. Calkins.

Naini Tal— Wellesley Girls High School—Ada Marie Kennard*, Nora B.

Waugh*, Constance R. Blackstock.Pauri—Girls School—Gladys Doyle.Pithoragarh—Girls School—Nellie M. West, Charlotte Westrup. District

Evangelist—Blanch L. McCartney.*Shahjahanpur—Bidwell Memorial Girls School—Yasmin Peters. District

Evangelist—Olive Dunn.SiTAPUR

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Girls School—Edna I. Bradley. Boys School—Lily D. Greene.District Evangelist—Ruth Warrington.*

Northwest India Conference

Agra—District Village Work—Gertrude E. Richards.Aligarh—Louisa Soule Girls School—Ella L. Perry*, Estelle M. Forsyth.

District Evangelist—Ida A. Farmer.Brindaban—Creighton-Freeman Hospital—Rita B. Tower, M.D., Marv A.

Burchard, M.D., Eunice Porter, R.N., Elda M. Barrv, R.N., Hannah C.

Gallagher, R.N.*, Ruth Corpron, R.N.BuLANSHAHR

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District Evangelist—Winnie Gabrielson.Delhi—Girls School—Emma E. Warner. District Evangelist—Ida M. Klinge-

bcrger*, Faithe Clark.Ghaziabad—Boys School—Pearl E. Palmer.Meerut—Girls High School—Laura G. Bobenhouse*, Jean B. Both well*,

Catherine L. Justin, Mary Boyd.* Boys Primary School—Helen S. Buss.

District Evangelist—Annie S. Winslow.Muzaffarnaggar—District Evangelist—(To be supplied).

MuTTRA

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Blackstone Missionary Institute and Girls School—Garnet M.Everly, Letah Doyle, Caroline E. Schaefer.

RooRKEE

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Girls School—Margaret Hermiston.

South India Conference

Bangalore—Baldivin Girls School—Urdell Montgomery. Treasure Chest—Kezia E. Munson.

Belgaum—District Evangelist—Elizabeth M. Beale. Vanita Vidalaya—RettaI. Wilson.

Kolar—Ellen Cowen Thoburn Memorial Hospital Medical Superintendent-Esther Shoemaker, M.D. School of Nursing—Dora C. Saunby, Principal.

Girls Boarding and High School—Alta Griffin.

Madras— Tamil Middle School—Frances Johnson, Joy Comstock.* Evange-

listic Work and City Schools—Ethel W'heelock.

Raichur—Anna Angel Knight Boarding School—Emma Rexroth, JudithErickson.*

Yadgiri—Evangelistic Work—Julia Morrow.* On furlough.

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BENGAL CONFERENCEAsANSOL—Sixty men, women, and children were prepared for baptism

at the District Conference in Gomoh, but only thirteen could attend as theothers were busy in the harvest fields.

The Day Schools are showing increases in attendance and in fees. In oneHindu community which three years ago was opposed to, or ignorant of, any-thing Christian, there are now thirty girls attending school.

Recently an Au.xiliary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society hasbeen organized with eleven members.

Calcutta—Special efforts have been made to reach the people withmagic lantern lectures. Health slides from the Red Cross and the HealthDepartment and religious slides were used.

A special week of evangelism was observed and there was a parade of

about 3,000 Christians. Tracts were distributed, gospel portions sold and theChristian message was proclaimed by singing bands.

Calcutta Girls High School has had a good year. Examination results havebeen gratifying. Some subjects have been correlated, and there is decided im-provement in the use of English.

Darjeeling—The ideal of Mt. Hermon School is to train boys and girls

to have the attitudes of Christ toward life. School life is greatly enriched by avariety of extra-curricular activities.

Pakur—Jidato Middle English School is doing a creative piece of work andprovides man\' opportunities for character-growth through service and sharing.

The women of the District have been active in both Ladies' Aid Workand Missions.

Bengal Conference is affiliated with the International Department andvarious groups have co-operated in sending funds for the partial support of aBible Woman in China.

Miss Pearl Hughes went to India in 1923 and after serving her LordfaithfuUv and lovingly entered into the Life Triumphant on December 28,

1936.

Irma K. Greenly, Official Correspondent.

BOMBAY CONFERENCEBoth missionaries who were in Bombay last year are now on furlough.

Miss Drescher is doing the general work in Miss Masters' place, and MissKleiner has taken over the Marathi schools and evangelistic work. There is

an increasing effort to draw the churches of Bombay into close associationwith the evangelistic work, so that there shall be a definite sense of responsi-bility on the part of church members for the efforts among the poor of their

own city.

Miss Abbott is back in Poena, full of new ideas and new materials for thework in Marathi literature. Most of the money that has formerly been de-voted to salaries of Bible women will now be given to this work, which is

bound to have a wide spread influence in the Marathi area.Miss Dove is relieved that an assistant for the Taylor High School and

Anglo-Indian home has been secured from Australia. But she has new burdensof another kind. One of the older buildings of the school, which had beenused for the nurse's quarters, sick rooms and class rooms, has been condemnedby the municipality and must come down. Miss Dove and the field referencecommittee are making efforts to secure funds for the erection of a building totake its place, and write to us, "What shall we do?" Meanwhile, says MissDove, "We have moved the sick room into the little bedroom between myroom and the staff dining room. God has blessed us with very good health

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during these difficult weeks and months, and thus far there has been noepidemic of any sort."

Doubtless every orphan in the Talegaon school would say the high spotin the year was their visit to Bombay in charge of Miss Stewart at Coronationtime. It was vacation, the girls with homes had gone to them, and the teachershad left their rooms in the Bombay hostel so the girls could use them. Theydid their own cooking, taking the grain from home, and the railroad companyallowed them half fare. Street-cars, busses, airplanes, sail-boats, the park

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all the sights of the big city made this the experience of a life-time to theseunderprivileged girls.

The Normal School at Nagpnr is working under a new syllabus in whichpractical subjects are emphasized. For such subjects as algebra and geometryit substitutes gardening, domestic science, care of children, elementary nurs-ing, civics and village reconstruction. In the last-named is included a generalsurvey of a group of villages, with a detailed study of one and practical worktrying to improve conditions in it. There are compulsory extra-curricularactivities, such as scouting, infant welfare work, adult education, music, art,

dramatics. An improved staff is making the new plan a success.

In Mecosa Bagh, Miss Nelson has cleverly divided the school building into

family apartments, five of them, each with its kitchen, living room and bit of

veranda. Each family does its own buying at the school store, and the planningand cooking of its own meals. Before and after school hours, each family worksat its own industry, one raising cotton and preparing it for spinning, onespinning and weaving bedtape, one spinning and weaving cloth, one spinningand weaving rugs. The fifth makes rope from hemp grown in the school fields.

By enclosing an end of the veranda. Miss Nelson arranged a prayer room large

enough for the whole school if they sit close together on the floor, and it is also

used for individual prayers.

In Indora, where we have had for some years a practical school for NagpurNormal, there is a high school for women, conducted voluntarily by the teachers

of the regular school. Many are learning to read, and there is a class in sewingand in Bible and the care of children. Five thousand people in this village, all

waiting!

Miss Holder and Miss Elliott are working together in Puntamba, leading

the poverty-striken people into a new understanding of God and into better

ways of living. The Board maintains a co-educational school in charge of a

graduate of Edinburgh University and his wife who had extensive experience

in school work in South India. We provide a very simple hostel for the girls,

and spend about Rs 2 a month each for their food. Miss Elliott has beenmaintaining sixty girls on twenty four scholarships, and has been goingthrough the harrowing process of reducing the numbers before coming onfurlough. She is asking for more scholarships, and ought to have them.

Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, Acting Official Correspondent

CENTRAL PROVINCES CONFERENCEIn Baihar, Miss Warner and Miss Keyhoe are doing a really fine piece of

work in the central school and the village schools. Their school has been chosen

as the demonstration center for the new syllabus, and they have discovered

many new methods of making the subjects interesting. Miss Keyhoe is finding

ways of getting the new methods across to the village teachers, even those

who have had meager training, and there is much to encourage in the village

schools. An educational day at district conference included arithmetic, games,

reading with hand puppets by the first class, songs by the nursery class, a

lesson on the fly illustrated with cinema, English dramatization of Little RedRiding Hood, English Conversation about the Three Bears, a puppet show

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of the Fisherman and the Genii, and a dramatization of the Good Samaritanwritten by the sixth class and performed by a group of boys largely non-Christian.

In Jagdalpur, Mrs. Holland is in charge of the girls hostel, so that MissBose can devote herself entirely to the school, which is now co-educational

throughout. Mrs. Holland also takes a hand at the medical work, for whichwe have a volunteer doctor retired from another board. Miss Fehr has chargeof village schools in the district, and is making them a laboratory for the trying

out of new plans. An institute for village leaders held April 26-May 2 was a

real success (See Indian Witness, 6-10-37) and points the way to new methods.The new rooms for the Hawa Bagh Training College in Jubbulpore are in

use, and the high school is thus given some much needed space. The return of

Miss Colony to the Training College will also relieve the personnel situation

by giving Miss Clinton her whole time for the high school. Both schools are

in excellent condition, and continue to grow, in spite of the opening of newschools in the cit>' under non-Christian auspices.

The Normal School in Khandwa thrives under the care of Miss Pila Baksh.The little boys from the boys school are now being cared for in our school, andother combinations with the work of the Board are possible. The work onthe district is absorbing. One whole section of the district has recently becomeaccessible by motor, and here small groups of Christians were found in eighteenvillages, eager for teaching.

Miss Lola Green, who did such fine work in her first term in the village

schools of Jagdalpur, has been appointed to Sironcha, and is delighted to cometo the help of Miss Naylor. Bishop Chitamber made a tour of Sironcha this

year, and was deeply impressed with the opportunities. With the medicalwork which Dr. Ja>'a Luke is doing in co-operation with the government rural

agencies, the devoted service of a number of young Indian men and their

wives, and Miss Green ready to organize and carry on, it looks as if things

were going to happen in Sironcha District.

Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, Acting Official Correspotidcnt.

GUJARAT CONFERENCE

If the church in India can become a literate church, it will have a chance to

advance rapidly. The Indian Christian Association has adopted a slogan:

"Every Christian a reader by 1941," and another: "Everyone teach one."There is a growing interest in the subject both within and without the church.

Dr. Laubach, of Philippine Island fame, has worked out lessons in theGujarat Conference so that the matter of learning to read is shortened, takingless time and effort. It is expected that great advancement in literacy will bemade in this conference as soon as the plan is brought to the people.

Another forward movement in this conference is their consideration of

the separation of the educational and evangelistic work. The matter was re-

ferred to a joint committee on Village Educational Service. It is expected thata plan will be formulated whereby more may be accomplished and the moneyused more efficienth'.

A series of institutes has been held in this conference reaching lay workerswho are not conference members. The discussion groups were ver\- popularand helpful. Such subjects were considered, as: Christian Marriage, Untouch-ability. Village Uplift and Health, Hindu customs which are inclined to stick

to the new church. Adult Education, Religious Education, and ForwardMovement in Evangelism.

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, Official Correspondent.

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HYDERABAD CONFERENCE"Hyderabad Conference contains some of the most important and most

promising work of our church in hulia. Within it, wx' ha\e a Christian com-munity of more than 51,000. The location and related circumstances are pecu-liarly favorable for a successful advance. The territory is more compact thanthat of any other conference. In nearby territories of other missions, where theChristian community is older and where there has been a much larger concen-tration of missionary forces, thousands of members of the middle castes andscores of the higher castes are coming to Christ. Sound missionar>- statesman-ship would dictate at least a doubling and probably a trebling of our forces

in the Hyderabad Conference. We have only five American missionaries of thesociety on the field at the present time and two of these are in very poor health.

. . . We ought to have a half dozen young women of zeal and devotion in theHyderabad Conference now.

"I have no authority to speak of any area but my own, but I feel that thegreatest need of reinforcement in this area is certainly within the HyderabadConference. I hope that the Society will be able to send at least two new mis-sionaries to the Conference this year.

"The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society questionnaire is now beingdiscussed in all stations. It is e.xciting a great deal of interest and is renderinga valuable service in stimulating study." Thus writes Bishop Pickett.

There is need in this Conference for salaries for nationals, otherwise weare spending our money to educate teachers to go into government service.

They are very glad to have our girls and will employ all who are qualified for

their work, but they are needed in our evangelistic work and as vice-principals

of the boarding schools that the}' may later become the principals.

This conference is also planning to separate the evangelistic and educa-tional work, employing a pastor for the church and a teacher for the school.

The pastor's wife will help him with the work of the church; this will do awaywith the old type of Bible woman. The teachers will then be employed by themissionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and supervised bythem, increasing the efficiency of the schools.

The plan is just being developed and much is hoped for the future of ourwork when it is put into operation.

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, Official Correspondent.

Indus River, Lucknow, North India and Northwest India Conferences

When you were a little girl did you ever get a kaleidoscope for Christmas?You will remember as you turned it around and around, how the bits of

coloured glass fell into the most fascinating patterns. In my ofifice files are

many bits of information, more beautiful than any coloured glass. I cannotbring them all to you, but I am hoping to cull out a few here and there andpresent them before you in such a way that you will have a kaleidoscopic

view of these four great conferences of upper India.

Indus River conference has five Woman's Foreign Missionary Society

missionaries on the field. When the Nelson sisters were ready to go on fur-

lough, word came from America that no missionary could be sent for the

Avery Girls School, so the Field Reference Committee requested the Scottish

Mission to supply a missionary from November 1936 to November 1937.

This request was granted and one of their leading educationalists, MissMcNaught, was selected for the place and has given excellent service.

Separate worship for the juniors in the beautiful Garden Chapel at

Lahore has made a great difference in the attitude of the children towards•worship. They love this place of prayer and are growing spiritually in an

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atmosphere of sweet freedom where they may voice their little petitions withoutself-consciousness.

From Hissar school comes this bit, "Looking back over the high lights of

the year we hear our old Mamiji, after a serious illness, saying, 'I cannot die!

I haven't yet won one soul for Christ.' Since then she has laboured hard andfaithfully that she might win at least one. Due to the lack of rain our crops

have been very poor this year and we have seen how our village people suffer

when there is a shortage. One of the men said, 'The hard part of a famine is to

hear the children crying.' " Coloured Bible pictures have been framed andsold in the villages and we are happy to know that these beautiful pictures are

now occupying a prominent place in many homes, both Christian and non-Christian, thus telling the story of Christ in their own peculiar way.

Rajputana is not all desert. "The other day I was especially interested

in visiting a new village. After a period of worship we were telling the people

of the love of Christ for the world and for each individual as well, when a

bright young girl quietly got up from where she was sitting and with a fixed

determination on her face, broke down three shrines saying, 'these are aninsult to the living God, for has He not said, there shall be no other God butme.'

On Batala District there is a little church that is kept clean and tidy bytwo women. One of them was very ill and had suffered many things from the

native doctors. Finally she decided to trust the Great Physician for healing

and was soon well and strong. To show her love and gratitude, she pledgedherself to look after the place of worship and she and a friend have faithfully

performed this service of love ever since. Her witness has had a great effect

upon the people of that village.

LucKNOW CoNFEREN'CE is forging ahead with its educational program,with wonderful Isabella Thohurn College in the lead, followed closely by theLai Bagh High School and also the High School for English speaking girls at

Cawnpore. There has been some curtailment in numbers in the district schools

on account of the shortage of funds, but there has been no letting down in

zeal or standards.The Arrah school is now a co-educational institution. The girls continue

to enjoy their neat little cottages and their family system of living. Theylearn by doing the ordinary housework of an Indian home. The little girls

start out with small tasks, and their responsibilities increase as they growolder, so that they become quite efficient by the time they leave school. Thebo\"s hostel is crowded, and more boys want to come than we have room or

money for. "Fift>-six are here at present though I had thought that fifty mustbe the outside limit; but it is hard to send them awa\' knowing they will nothave a chance to go to school elsewhere. They are a happy, lively group, everbusy and active. They keep their hostel clean and tidy, wielding the broomwith great zest. They also help with the cooking and have nice little gardens."

The exciting topic of conversation at the Hudson Memorial School in

Cawnpore is the new school bus. The Methodist community in Cawnpore is

increasing, the hostel was crowded to the limit, and the only means of trans-

portation for the children who were not luck>' enough to live in the school, wasan anticjuated ox-cart that took two hours to go and come two miles whichmeant that the children could be brought only from one direction. A push-cart was sent out also, but these antiquated modes of transportation fell far

short of meeting the need ; so Government gave half the cost of the new busand the rest was met from school savings of more prosperous days. TheresuJt has been thirty-seven new day scholars. Thirteen of these would havehad to come as borders if we had not had the bus, and the rest could not havecome at all.

Our school at Gonda had no missionary part of the time last year, but the

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Indian staff stepped into the breech and carried on the work efficiently. Thefood arrangements for the boys and girls have been combined, thus creating

a saving of 20%.There are twenty village day schools in the conference. Many factors

enter into the attendance of these children. Most important of all is the

attitude of the parents. If they do not desire a school for the children, herdinggoats or buffalos or pigs, cutting grass for the animals, or caring for the baby,are reasons enough to keep the children home from school. The teacher hashard work to hold the children and get them through the day's work. In spite

of these obstacles, the results are most gratifying. Not only do the children

pass the examinations but there are evidences of good religious training as

well. The District Superintendent was quite surprised to learn that in onevillage the children could sing twenty-five Christian songs from memory.

The work of the village schools and evangelism seem to be so closely re-

lated that it is difficult to separate them. The evangelistic reports give evidenceof the fact that the village schools have played a large part in the evangelistic

returns. The story of un-shepherded Christians is heart-breaking, the oppor-tunities for teaching these neglected Christians, most challenging.

"This year we decided to have a joint Christmas celebration for our five

Brotherhood villages in Simri circuit. We presented it to the largest of thevillages and asked them to be the host, which meant that each of them wouldcontribute to the dinner to be given. We camped the week before in the enter-

taining village, teaching them each night a fuller meaning of Christmas. Aboutnine o'clock on the great day, the guests began to arrive. They came in groupsby villages, each village with its school teacher and children and the leading

men, as many as ten in some cases. They arrived singing Christmas hymnsand waving coloured paper banners that they had made for the occasion. It

was a joyous sight to see these groups arriving from all directions. Then the

fun began ! There were all sorts of competitive sports among the different

schools—three-legged races, sack races, wheel-barrow races, jumping, etc.

How everyone enjoyed it! Village men and women and even the landlords andtheir children, looked on. After the sports were finished, all marched together,

singing as they went, to the open space that we had roped off for the programand dinner. The program was given by the children of the different schools andas the Christmas story was repeated over and over, in drama, in song, in

story, and through the Bible passages, surely no one went away without a

knowledge of what Christmas means and a fuller realization of God's love for

him.

North India Conference is the mother conference of India, so it will beimpossible, in this brief space, to give even a peep into all its activities. Thereare eight schools for girls and W. F. M. S. missionaries are also looking after

primary schools for boys in three different districts. There are at present only

five villages evangelists at work as several are on furlough, which means, in

most cases, that the work is left vacant until their return.

The training schools at Buduan, Moradabad, and Almora, are all doing

good work. Buduan sent out twelve trained teachers this year with the prayer

that they might carry away the best that the school has to offer to share it with

those with whom they come in contact. At Easter time twenty girls from the

Sitapur School became full members of the church, and later in the year, sixteen

girls from Almora, thirteen from Pmiri, and twelve from Buduan, were received

into full membership and are now trying to live up to their vows. In Moradabadthe children got together garments and toys which they distributed to poorer

children. Bareilly has blossomed into a singing school. They have several

really good songsters who are called upon to help out in musical programs in

the church and neighborhood. A group of them were privileged to attend the

Music Conference in Lucknow.

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The Pauri girls are much interested in knitting and embroidery work, andsome of them are becoming so proficient that they are earning their school fees

and have the hope that some day they may become self-supporting. They havea live Epworth League with all four departments in full swing. The older girls

have formed a club, their object being to hold before themselves and the rest of

the school, the ideals of truth, honesty, cleanliness, and industry.

The Almora girls walk the two miles to the leper asylum every two weeksin order to hold services with the inmates. At Christmas time they did withouttheir meat in order to buy some hymn books for the lepers. The village workin these mountain fastnesses is also most interesting. Bible teaching classes

have been organized for the Christian women and examinations are held oncea year. Institutes are also held in each Christian community. A few years agoa person who became a Christian was not allowed to return to his home, butnow many not only return, but are even allowed to eat with the family. All

these things are the "footprints of the Saviour" who changes everything thatHe touches.

In Kichcha, in the Bareilly District, there is an earnest group of Christianswhose pastor and teacher is a dear little widow, and she is doing a fine piece of

work too. I nder her leadership they have just completed a small, inexpensivebuilding to be used as a church and school house. A widow who is a pastor in

India! What hath God wrought?But the picture of village work is not always a rosy one. From Bijnor

there comes a tale of oppression and injustice. There seems to be no end to theways in which the Christians can be oppressed. In one place the houses areregular firetraps, but they are not allowed to build better and safer houses for

fear that they will feel themselves equal to their masters. Their land is takenaway and owing to bribery and corruption in the law courts, they can get noredress. "Two men were waiting last night. One had been beaten and his oxentaken away from him so that he could not use them in his field. Now there will

be an expensive court case which always goes against the poor man. In anotherplace they are not allowed to dig a well and must go long distances for their

water."But take another peep, and this time it is a village in Garwhal. Nearly the

entire village has accepted Christianity and been baptized. They have built

a small house for the teacher and his wife and are helping in their support. Inanother village ten families from the depressed classes have accepted Chris-tianity' this year.

Sickness claims a heavy toll in the villages each year, especially during therainy season. In one mohulla 100% of the people were found infected withmalaria. It is pitiful to see so many who have been ill for months, and thechildren are the most seriously effected. "There are dozens of children whosespleens are so enlarged that it is a mystery how they breath at all. A doctorfriend went with me to several places and we treated quite a number with in-

jections of quinine. The medical aid, although arranged for by government, is

almost negligible, for, unless bribes are offered, the doctors pay no attentionto the poor."

Northwest India Conference—And now a long turn of our kaleido-

scope and a pattern from Aligarh falls into place. A Christian convert hadarranged a marriage for his daughter but had neglected to inquire as to thereligion of the bridegroom. When the bridal party arrived, it was found thatthe boy's family were not Christians but Sikhs, and they refused to enter thehouse unless the girl's father would slip on his wrist the iron bracelet that all

good Sikhs wear. Telling himself that it was only a form after all, he complied;but he had reckoned without his wife, for as soon as she saw the bracelet, shearose with great dignity and said, "I am a Christian. I married a Christian.If this man had become a Sikh, he is nothing to me or I to him. I have partaken

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of the Cup at the Lord's table. I will never deny Him. Go from my house."The time of decision had come for the husband. He slipped the bracelet fromhis wrist and the guests departed.

The next scene is in Bulandshahr. It was the cold season and the evange-list had gone to examine a village school and just as she reached the village aheavy rain began so the school retreated to a mud hut which was already occu-pied by a buffalo and calf. The woman and children prayed, sang songs, andtold their Bible stories. As no one could work on account of the rain, the hutwas soon crowded with listeners of all descriptions. From one till hve they cameand went, each departing with the assurance that "the teaching was good."

In Delhi the school opened with an enrollment of two hundred five boysand girls. One hundred four of these are boarders and the remainder are dayscholars. The school bus makes four trips in order to bring in on an average,seventy-five children. Twenty-five walk to school. In one day the bus coversforty-two miles and makes it possible for many Christian children in Delhi to

be in school who would otherwise have no opportunity for education or contactswith other Christians.

"The 18th of March I was transferred from Muttra to take over theevangelistic and village educational work of Ghaziabad District. I wonder howElisha felt when Elijah's mantle fell on him. Was it too big? Did he wonder if

he could really wear it? Was he overwhelmed as I was when Miss Livermoreleft me in charge? In my own strength I could do nothing, but this messagekept coming to me—'God has not given us a timid spirit, but a spirit of powerand love and discipline.' It has been the best year of my life and I have had a

chance to get close to the very heart of India."

From Meerid comes this note of triumph. "A spiritual awakening hasbegun among the high schools girls. They are coming to a realization of theinfluence that deceit and cunning have upon their spiritual lives. It has re-

sulted in a desire for a life of real purity and victory. Fathemandi (victory) hasbeen taken as the slogan of the girls who have come out into the new life."

This from the day school at Agra makes us tingle with the realization that

great things are taking place in India. "Many children who have been baptizedwith their parents' consent, have brought their parents and whole families to

Christ. Many shrines have been broken and idol worship abolished through theinfluence of the children. One boy who was converted but not yet baptized,prayed, 'Oh I thank Thee that Thou hast taken away idol worship from myhome. Dear Lord, ma\' idol worship be abolished from my country."

There is music in the air in Muttra. Every girl in the training school is

having lessons on the organ or harmonium and practices daily under super-vision. In addition each girl is learning to play israj or sitar and her daily

progress is carefully watched. All of the girls belong to the girls chorus whichis now doing two part music and meets twice a week for practice. Twenty-fourof the girls sing in our mixed choir. This keeps them so busy that there is notime for mischief, and hostel discipline is no problem.

Miss Ella M. Watson, Official Correspondent.

SOUTH INDIA CONFERENCE

From South India comes this word: "We have just finished a very unusualgroup meeting in Belgaum, which was clarifying to our thinking as well asintensely interesting. Our sympathies and understanding have been greatly

increased.

"Bishop Pickett called the Board of Christian Education to meet at the

same time and place as the Field Reference Committee and the Finance Com-mittee. This made a very representative group. Educational matters and the

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Questionnaire were discussed with all of these members present, for the most of

two days, with shorter sessions later. The qestions of the Questionnairecolored all our thinking—educational, evangelistic and financial. So that at

last we had probed down into the need for, and the policy of, every institution

in South India, those of the Board as well as those of the Society. Groupmeetings beforehand in all the stations had prepared the way for this, so thatit could be done sympathetically and appreciatively. More group meetingswill follow, and by the time we meet for Annual Conference, we should be ableto have read>- a good constructive program. Committees have been appointedto bring in at that time well-thought-out plans for reconstruction and advance."

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, Official CorrespondetU.

JAPANMissionaries and Their Stations

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Womafi's Missionary Friend"for January, May or October.

FuKUOKA

—

Jo Cakko—Yoski Tokunaga Principal, Harriet M. Howey*,Laura M. Chase, Helen Moore, YaelAs Kakizono. Evangelistic Work—Carolyn M. Teague.

Hakodate—lai Jo Gakko—Dora A. Wagner. lai Jo Cakko and Evangelistic

Work—Gertrude M. Bjler.

HiROSAKi

—

Jo Gakko—Lois K. Curtice. Evangelistic Work—Erma M. Taylor.Kagoshima—Evangelistic Work—L. Alice Finlay.KuMAMOTO

—

Evangelistic Work—Mabel Lee.

KusHiKiNO

—

Evangelistic Work—Azalia E. Peet.

Nagasaki—Kwassui Jo Gakko—Anna Laura White* President, Adella M.Ashbaugh, Helen Couch*, Vera J. Fehr, Olive Curry, Olive L Hagen,Caroline S. Peckham. Evangelistic and Social Work—Marian G. Simons.Kindergarten and Evangelistic Work—Mrs. Toshi Sasamori.

S.\PPORO

—

Evangelistic Work—Supervised by Dora A. Wagner (Hakodate).Elizabeth H. Kilburn.

Tokyo—Aoyama Jo Gaknin—Alberta B. Sprowies Dean, Barbara M. Bailey,

Suye Shibata, Chiyo Kobayashi, Mary D. Collins, Janet K. McKelvie.Aoyama Theological School—Alice Cheney. Woman's Chiistian College—

•

Myrtle Z. Pider. Evangelistic and Social Service Work—Mildred A. Paine.

City and District Evangelistic Work and Conference evangelist—TomiFuruta (Supt. of Women Evangelists).

Yokohama—Evangelistic Work—Winifred F. Draper. Literary work with

Kagaica Felloivship—Marion R. Draper.Chosen District—Evangelistic Work—Bertha F. Starkey, Tsuya Kitajima.

JAPANFuKUOKA

—

Jo Cakko—Among Japan missionaries on furlough this year is

Harriet M. Howey, who for nine >ears was principal here, and then, by sheerdetermination and hard work, succeeded in having a Japanese principal putin her place: Miss Yoshi Tokunaga. Last summer Miss Howey's mother andsister visited her for two months and came home with her. The Japanesereception to them was beautiful and generous in every way. The school hastaken on the building project for their new gymnasium with great enthusiasm.The present conditions may delay it for a time but it is hoped that it may be* On furlough.

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ready for use by 1940. The staff was reduced by the resignation and marriageof Eloise Smith. Fortunately Helen Moore, after having served as a contractteacher, returned as a regular missionary and takes her place. Carolyn Teague,in charge of evangelistic work, is happy to be returning from her furlough, in

excellent health. When she left Japan the wife of the Governor and eightwomen friends said to her, "We want to follow your Christ. Go home, buthurry back and teach us more."

Hakodate—Alice Cheney, who for many years was principal of lai JoCakko, has been appointed Dean of Women at the Auyama TheologicalSchool, Tokyo. A Japanese principal takes her place in this Girls High Schoolof 378 pupils. Gertrude Byler and Dora Wagner are our missionary teachersand evangelistic workers. Because of the Skeer bequest some needed repairs

and additions have been made possible.

HiROSAKi

—

Hirosaki Jo Cakko opened early in September with an enroll-

ment of 335. Mr. Muranaka is the new principal, with Lois Curtice, mis-

sionary teacher, and Erma Taylor, evangelistic worker. The tour of HelenKeller in Japan to carry "hope and encouragement," created nmch interest

and enthusiasm and made all feel her real greatness. Our Girls School sharedthe responsibility for her visit to Hirosaki. The School anniversary comes onJune 25, and was celebrated last year with the annual Field Day. June 21

was Graduates' Day, and was followed by a camping trip of a number of theteachers and fifty girls, in the mountains, thirty miles awa}'. Here they lived

the simple life, out of doors as much as possible, with Bible study from 8:30to 10 in the morning, nature study and sports. These close contacts of teachersand pupils in such ideal surroundings are very valuable for teaching the Jesusway of life.

Kagoshima—Alice Finlay writes: "The best thing I have to tell you is

that we were able this year to buy for our kindergarten part of an adjoininglot which we very much needed. We had prayed for it for years. It was truly

marvelous how everything opened up to help us, and it seemed that Godfairly put it into our hands. The manager of the Ice Factory that sold theground is one of our kindergarten fathers and helped us generously. Anotherfather, a prominent doctor whom I had helped in his student days when hesaw the situation freely offered us one-third of the price. We had saved gifts

from different sources, our mothers and teachers worked together and gave anall-day bazaar to which hundreds of our old friends came, and we have paidfor the new ground without having to ask our Society at home for help. I amsure it means health to the children, and it adds greatly to the value of ourkindergarten. If only you could see our seventy-five children when they are

playing there!

Early in August I went to Tokyo for the World Education Conference,one of the biggest and best gatherings ever held in Japan. It was one of therichest experiences, too, of mj' life. One main purpose is to promote inter-

national good-will by personal acquaintance with teachers of other lands.

There were thirty-nine countries represented and 3000 registered members.Our kindergarten opened early in September. I am thankful for the many

openings we have in the homes of our children for telling the wonderful mes-sage of God's love. Yesterday I visited a mother of two little children wherethe father has recently been called to the front. With God's word I was able

to cheer her; and we prayed together that he might come safely home, that

peace might soon be restored."

KusHiKiNO—After searching for a site for the Rural Reconstruction Center,

Azalia Peet found in one corner of a vegetable garden a tumbledown framebuilding, one end of which had been used as a dwelling by farmers for twentyyears, while the other had recently housed a cow, a horse and a pig. It wasbought and in two months was transformed into a clean and sunny glass en-

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closed Japanese home, with soft green mats on the floor and sliding paperscreens between the rooms. The kitchen is a mode! for convenience with its

rows of cupboards and built in tables. The stove is built after the most ap-proved Kushikino pattern by local bricklayers. Miss Peet lives there withtwo Japanese assistants and on Sundays their house is the church and SundaySchool building.

KuMAMOTO—Mabel Lee writes: "Our Kumamoto Kindergarten is alwayslike a bee hive except in August when we take our vacation. In March forty-

five children graduated and proudly began their real school life in primaryschool in April. Si.\t\- other children more than tilled their places.

The Christian work in this land goes on quietly, steadily, against manyopposing influences but the courage of our Japanese leaders never seems to

waver. They know the need of their country is Christ. Please join with us in

prayer for the church in Japan."

Nagasaki—Kwassui celebrated last December the 25th anniversary of

Anna Laura White's going to Japan. There was deep appreciation of her life

of honest devotion to the cause of Christ in Japan, 15 years of which have beengiven to this school.

The enrollment this year was but three short of six hundred, and the newclass seemed unusually fine. The first week in May is observed by the Y.W.C.A.as Labor Week. During this week the two Associations make a study of Laborconditions. Last year they gave special consideration to Industrial Workers,and visited factories to better understand the conditions under which factory

girls live and work. This year the Kural situation was studied. The high school

and Y girls had charge of the chapel services each morning, one girl conductingthe devotions with special prayer for the peasants and their problems, andanother girl presenting for consideration some phase of the situation. Thesehigh school girls asked to be permitted to assist in the daily cleaning of thebuilding thus giving the janitors extra time. They did more than just studyand pra\'—b>' performing disagreeable, menial tasks the}' were the better able

to sympathize with the working people. They also gave money. During theweek they had a collection box out, and were able to send quite a bit to help

a Day Nursery that cares for babies while their mothers are at work in thefields. They are interested in Miss Teague's Rural Work, and are sendingmoney there. To study, pray, work, give—was their program.

At the Melton-Voung Evangelistic and Social Center, Marian Simons hasbeen appointed to succeed Pauline Rowland. During the last nine months thework had been successfulK' administered b\' Mrs. Sasamori. There are twokindergartens with 83 children enrolled; three Sunday Schools with 90 children;

two Clubs composed of children above third \"ear Primary School; a BibleClass for nuises at the Uni\-ersity Hospital with twenty members; a Clinic

held three evenings a week at which 506 patients received treatment last year—an average of thirty each evening. Sunday services for Koreans are also

held here every Sunday. The Dorcas Club with fifty-three members wasorganized b\' Miss Young. Many of these are well-to-do women who take adeep interest in Social Service work and contribute largeK' to the work of theCenter with their time, energy and means. The Government Social ServiceDepartment are interested in the Welfare Work being done at the Melton-Young Home, and are contributing to its support.

S.\PPORC)—The work here is being supervised b>' Dora Wagner, fromHakodate, since Miss Alexander's retirement and during Elizabeth Kilburn'sfurlough.

Tokyo—Aoyama Jo Cakuin—Aoyama Girls School is rejoicing in a gift

for the Pratt Memorial Chapel, long needed and desired. For years they haveworshiped in the g\ninasium, which meant setting up and taking down athousand chairs in the middle of every morning. Over the door in the gym-

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nasium are the words, "Love conquers all," expressing the love of Americanwomen for Japanese women, and as a memorial to the love of Christ. The gift

for the chapel is needed, but it is needed a thousand times more to show that"Love Conquers." This is the Society's largest school for girls.

Recently a party was given for about fifty of the "Mciji Girls." Theywere Meiji girls once when they were students here, and the Emperor Meijiwas on the throne. That was from forty to fifty years ago. Some of them hadnot seen each other in all that time. Program or entertainment was quite outof the question and they reminisced and explained their long historic intermis-

sion. Husbands, children, grandchildren had all happened in between. Theyhad dreamed and visioned these years together as school girls, now they areaccomplished. The years have brought some wealth, some fame, but all of

them prized a radiance over their days that shone from their experience of

Christ as Meiji girls.

The high school seniors have lately been having prayer with the first yearchildren. To hear these little girls, only five years old in their faith, explainingprayer to their little sisters seems so beautiful and natural.

Nine hundred and fifty-eight parents were in attendance at a Parents'

Day meeting and showed a wonderful spirit of co-operation. The schoolopened its own summer camp last summer, the students bearing the higher cost.

Because the Girls School has such a large registration the\' took a larger cutthan the other schools and now are receiving only 48So of their former budgetfrom the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. With the high cost of living

it is difficult to carry on.

The Japan Mission Council "record the retirement of N. Margaret Danielafter thirty-nine years of lovely service and wish her happy joyous years of

Christian usefulness." Recognition was made of twenty-five years of service

on the part of Myrtle Pider, Woman's Christian College of Japan, and WinifredDraper. Last year Elizabeth Alexander retired after thirty-four years devotedto the service of Japanese women and children.

Ai Kei Gakuen—(Garden of Love and Blessing) on September 10threalized the dream of Mildred Anne Paine and Marian Simons and their co-

workers when they dedicated on the site of the former "green scummy pool"the new building, dedicated to the development and care of the most under-privileged group of children in the community, the little direlects of society,

left afloat even at the earliest ages,—the rag picker's children. Its sunny,clean rooms, its provisions for cleanliness and joy, open a new chapter of service

for Ai Kei Gakuen in Nishi Arai. It is named "Hikari no le" which translated

means "The House of Light." The main building is called "The House of

Love."

Yokohama—Winifred Draper writes:—"The children in the Kanagawa

Kindergarten in Yokohama were very much interested when they heard that

those teachers from America were coming and they decided that they wantedto make something to send to the children in America. So two or three of thegirls took some white cloth and dyed some pretty patterns on it with Japanesepaper ribbons. With these they made a small set of Japanese bedclothes—

a

long narrow under-comfortable (like a thin mattress) and a wider thick over-

comfortable. They hemmed a little sheet and basted it on the under-com-fortable—Japanese style and made a little white pillow shaped like a sausage.

It was a very neat little doll's bed about a foot long. It is a bed, because the

Japanese do not use bed steads, but just lay these comfortables on their

matting floors, and in the morning fold them up and put them away in thecloset.

"In Airin Kindergarten we have started regular weekly classes for thegraduates. The children come regularly and seem to enjoy the time in the

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kindergarten very much. The teachers enjoy it too. Sometimes they take thechildren out for nature study, and all have such a good time.

"One sad thing on our district this year is that on account of the cut in

our appropriations we have had to lessen the money given to help our twoYokohama Kindergartens—Airin and Kanagawa—and also have had to lessen

the number of women evangelists in the churches from seven to five. It is toobad, but those five are carrying on nobly. Three are on the district, in Oda-wara, in Oiso, and in Kamakura where the Dai Butsu ('The Big Buddha') is.

These towns are all famous seaside and hot springs resorts. And our churchesare all about 50 years old. In the cit>' of Yokohama Miss Hirano carries onher social evangelistic work in her day nurseries and Widows' Home, and anew graduate. Miss Chiba, has come to our big central church. The other twoworkers in the smaller churches in the city are the two whom we had to stop,

and we are very sorry that the churches cannot have this help when they needit so much. But we are grateful indeed for the way in which you women at

home carry on in spite of all >our difficulties and with the help of your prayersand our prayers we feel sure the work will not suffer but that the work of HisKingdom will be carried on to a great consummation in this land. We askearnestly for your pra>ers."

The English version of Kagawa's book "The Land Flowing with Milkand Honey" has been published. Marion Draper spent much time and effort

in the translation of this story of rural life in Japan. The binding is attractive

and the story is interesting and helps us to understand these people.

Chosen District—The new home purchased by the Japan MethodistChurch as a memorial to Bertha Starkey, has been wonderfully blessed andhas given marvelous new opportunities to serve others in the name of Christ.

A happy family of twelve Japanese girls and young women live in the home,Shion R>o. Eight weekly activities are carried on regularly: An English con-versation class for high school girls who are preparing to go on to college; anEnglish conversation and English hymn study group for high school andcollege graduates who are preparing to become brides; an English conversationclass for business and professional young women who need English in their

work in oftices and schools; a group of business and professional \oung peoplewho study the English Bible and h\mns; ten students from the Imperiall.'niversit\' who study hymns and the life and teachings of Jesus; a group of

Red Cross hospital nurses who stud\' the Life of Jesus; "Zion's Daughter'sCircle" who study the Bible, hand work and cooking, every Saturday after-

noon; a week day religious school of fift\-one children. Plans are under wayto start a kindergarten, also.

Miss Starkey writes that in all the work with these various groups shefeels that they are depending on her and her workers more than ever to bechannels of God's love and power and peace. They are working hard andpra\'ing earnesth' for peace to be made. No matter how low the dark cloudshang the>' believe that behind them God's sunshine of love and peace is shiningand it must break through on Japan and China ere long.

Mrs. Willi.am S. Mitchell, Official Correspondent.

KOREAMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "]Vo»ian's Missionary Friend"for January, May or October

Chemulpo— City and District Day Schools—Margaret I. Hess. Public Healthand Welfare Work—B. Alfreda Kostrup, R.N. Evangelistic Work—Margaret I. Hess.

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Haiju—Evangelistic Work—Jane Barlow, Pearl Lund. City Day Schools—Pearl Lund.

ChiNAN

—

District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Mrs. Alice H. Sharp.HoNGSUNG

—

Evangelistic and Educational Work—Hanna Scharpff.

KoNGju

—

City Schools—Jeanette Oldfather. Evangelistic and District DaySchools—Mrs. Alice H. Sharp. Public Health and Infant Welfare Work—Maren P. Hording, R.N.

Pyengyang—Chung Eui Higher Common School—Ada McQuie*, Esther L.

Hulbert, Helen E. Boyles. City and District Schools—Helen E. Boyles.Blind School and New Jersey Conference Bible Training School—EmilyIrene Haynes. Union Christian Hospital—N. Bernita Block, M.D.*,Naomi Anderson, R.N., Ethel H. Butts, R.N.*, Zola L. Payne, R.N.Evangelistic Work, East and West Districts—Emily Irene Haynes.

Seoul—Ezvha College—Alice R. Appenzeller*, President, L. Catherine Baker,Marion L. Conrow, Ada B. Hall, Jeanette C. Hulbert, Harriet P. Morris,Blanche H. Loucks*, Grace H. Wood, Moneta Troxel, Myrta O. Stover*,Mary E. Young. Ewha High School—Marie E. Church. City and District

Day Schools—Blanche Bair. District Evangelistic Work—Jessie B. Marker.Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital—Elizabeth R. Roberts, R.N.* Social

Evangelistic Center—Elma T. Rosenberger. Methodist Theological Sem-inary—Mrs. Louise O. Morris.

SuwoN

—

Evangelistic and Educational Work—Lula A. Miller.

Wongju—Evangelistic and Social Service Work—Esther J. Laird.

Yengbyen—Evangelistic and Educational Work—Ethel Miller.*

YiCHUN

—

Evangelistic and Educational Work—Gertrude E. Snavely.

KOREA

Chemulpo—In April every year a Woman's Bible Institute, for study andinspiration is held with an attendance of approximately 200, consisting of

Bible women, the circuit women who work with them, and others. During thesummer Miss Hess and her assistant plan the fall and winter work and in thefall a ten-day Normal Training Class prepares the Bible women and circuit

workers to go back to their circuit to teach Bible classes, and put on home pro-

grams wherever they can.

The Public Health Building, which is the center for Miss Kostrup's work,is to have some repairs and additions which will greatly facilitate the work.

Haiju—Jane Barlow gives an interesting glimpse of her evangelistic work:"I spent Christmas in a remote village on the far western coast of this district

and enjoyed every bit of it. Our doctor's wife made me a lovely plum puddingthat tasted just as good in that little mud hut as it would have tasted at home.

I had an interesting experience that evening, as we gathered for a special

session for the night school pupils before the regular time of meeting. Theseboys and girls—a rough lot—had disturbed other meetings earlier that weekbut here they behaved rather well and at the close I went forward with a packetof picture cards and announced that to those who came forward quietly, I

would give one. It was pathetic to see them come, so quietly, scarcely any oneforgetting to bow when he received the coveted picture. It was a beginning in atraining for worship." '

Kongju—Here there is a two year vocational school. It is not co-educa-tional, but there is a boys' and a girls' department. The boys study farming,farm shop, animal husbandry, bees, and forestry, besides a number of regular

high school subjects. The girls take the same high school subjects adapted to

their needs, sewing, weaving and gardening. The school started as a primaryschool thirty years ago. Jeanette Oldfather has been appointed there.

* On furlough.

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Mrs. Sharp has for a number of years had charge of the district day schools

and evangelistic work.Maren Bording was appointed to Kongju for Infant Welfare work in 1923,

a Union work with the Parent Board. The building and W.F.M.S. appropria-tion were soon outgrown. It has had the favor of the people, both Korean andJapanese, including the Government, which has made an annual contribution

since 1930.

In 1932 the Government provincial ofifice was moved from Kongju to

Taiden which is on the main railroad. At that time it had a population of

12,000, now it has 40,000 and is on the way to become a great modern city.

The children of the officials, both Korean and Japanese, had frequented theclinic and as they moved to Taiden the parents urged that work be started in

Taiden of the same type as in Kongju, but there were no funds. For awhilebaby milk was sent to Taiden by public auto. The Government finally offered

the loan of a small building for the project, which has become practically self

supporting. The people in Taiden, Christians and non-Christians, Korean andJapanese alike, who attend the welfare clinic, want a day-nursery school like

that in Kongju, and funds are in hand for its erection.

Pyengyang—Helen Boyles is supervisor of primary schools and kinder-

gartens in Pyengyang City and the five surrounding districts. The largest

primary school is here in the city with seven hundred girls. In the countrytowns and villages they range from small two-teacher schools to schools of fourand five hundred boys and girls.

She introduces us to her splendid Korean co-worker. "Because the babygirl was not wanted, she was named "Sorrowful." Soon after the birth of

Sorrowful, her mother became a Christian and both mother and baby werebaptized and Sorrowful's name was changed to Joy. That was forty years ago.

Educated in Chung Chin primary school, the first institution in North Koreafor the education of girls, and in Soong Eui high school, she has been givingherself all these years in joyous service.

"She brings joy in the home. She is a second wife but the husband couldnot have loved the first wife more. She has no children of her own but gives

herself to the son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren as if they were her ownand they love her as mother and grandmother. Her home is regarded as anexample of peace and harmony.

"As a co-worker she brings joy by her happy countenance and by her effi-

cient help. She has unusual ability in understanding another's mind and themotive of the spoken word and bridges the gap of understanding between theEasterner and VVesterner and saves the missionary from blunders because of

misunderstanding and from ofTense because of language barrier.

"She brings joy to the teachers in the primary schools by giving eachmonth materials in the way of songs, stories and story-sermons, and sugges-

tions from which they may draw for the worship hour. And through these wor-ship services lasting joy is being brought to the children as they are led to aknowledge of our Father.

"She brings joy to the local church, district and national missionarysocieties and the Y.M.C.A. by her efficient help and leadership.

"She brings joy on the street as she pauses to help some country womanfind the right bus or street car and she gives advice to some mother.

"She brings joy by her personal work. As we itinerate our five districts

she pleads with the kindergarten mothers to become Christians as the first step

in becoming good mothers. On the train, in conversation with strangers, there

are opportunities for inviting unbelieving women to 'Come and see if there is

any good thing in this Christian religion.'

"Weak of body but strong of mind and spirit, leaning on the strength of

God given through much prayer, she carries all these burdens of home, church,

54 In Lands Afar

and society. 'I was not originally good,' she says. 'Any goodness found in meis by the grace of God.'

"To me she is a constant marvel, a perfect example of the power of God totransform sorrow into joy and to make the possessor of His joy a great blessingin His service."

The Union Christian Hospital has drawn plans for a splendid new buildingwhich will be a great improvement over the old equipment, if it can be achieved.This is the only Christian hospital in this province and parts of neighboringprovinces. The stafT and employees are all Christian; 25 per cent of their workis charity work and they want to make that their special field. The new build-

ing would have the dispensary on the main floor and the hospital, with capacityfor 100 beds, on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

Chung Eui Girls High School is a busy place with its 400 girls enrolled.

The top floor is used for organ practice, and self help industry; the second for

library and class rooms; the first for offices and class rooms; and the basementfor domestic science and other laboratories. At one end of this building is theHugh Adam Kirk Chapel and at the other is the gymnasium given by thechildren's Thank Ofi^ering.

Seoul—East Gate Hospital is now self-supporting and is doing what oneof the oldest doctors in Korea said to be "the most unique piece of work he hadever heard of." Elizabeth Roberts who has given more than twenty years to

the institution writes, "We are happy that we have reached that stage, wherewe are grown up and self-supporting. We want to belong to your fold as ourbeloved Mother and to follow in the footsteps of those who have gone on. Wehave a heritage that is rich in labor and love, for mankind all over the world.

Last year was the best in the history of the hospital. There were 817 new bornbabies, 1,687 inpatients, and 2,844 new patients in the dispensary."

In 1886, Mrs. Mary Fitch Scranton built a large Korean building for aschool and center of missionary work for women. On May 31 she received herfirst pupil. Queen Min bestowed upon the school the name "Ewha Haktang,"meaning "Pear Flower." In 1899 a new school and dormitory building waserected to replace the old Korean building. In 1904, Lulu E. Frey foundedEwha High School, Ewha College, in 1910, and Ewha Kindergarten TrainingSchool, in 1914. The new high school building was completed in 1915. MissAppenzeller became principal of Ewha Haktang in 1922. In 1929, the schools

were separated and Marie Church became principal of the high school. WhenEwha College moved to their lovely new buildings, Frey Hall, the first college

building, was given over to the high school, and changes were made so that the

enrollment of 400 students in eight classes was increased to 600 students in

twelve classes. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary the Governor Generaland other high officials expressed their approval of this splendid institution

with their presence. Students flock for admission,—345 applicants of whomonly 110 could be accepted. Another teacher is desperately needed.

The Seoul Child Welfare and Public Health Work is directed by ElmaRosenberger. There are four Child Welfare Clinics which she supervises. Anew building for a day nursery was built last year on East Gate Hospital

property, and this whole plant is rapidly becoming a great Public HealthCenter. Expansion is already necessary adequately to house and direct the

work.

A typical case of the consecrated work of our evangelistic workers is that

of Jessie Marker who took a circuit which some thought could not be continued

but would have to be united with another. She spent two months of hard workon it herself and has a new Bible woman there, and also a preacher and his

little family who goes at a great sacrifice but is an evangelist and is stirring upthe little churches on the circuit.

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SuwoN—The school for girls in Suwon City has an enrollment of nearly400 and is the only registered private school in all that large area. The Japanesesuperintendent of schools is not only generous in his praise but has brought it

to the attention of the Educational Department in Seoul. The school housewas built when education for girls was unpopular, so for this and for financial

reasons the rooms are small and quite inadequate for the present need andopportunity. When the school was registered two class rooms of regulationsize were added, each seating 80 students. A Korean style building houses thefirst grade, thus making in all three large class rooms. The immediate, imper-ative need has been for three additional rooms which could be supplied bynothing less than a miracle. There is much wealth in Suwon City but until

recently it had not been released for the school. Through prayer a modernmiracle has been performed this past year. Some of the non-Christian com-munity, becoming interested in the need for class rooms, have erected a splen-

did brick building with three rooms, each large enough to seat 80 girls.

The only son of a wealthy man has built a much needed long wall made of

cement blocks, at a cost of YSOO; another will pay for the removal of a partition

to make an extra class room and enlarge the crowded office. There will thenbe room for the six grades. One of these gentlemen will have the old nativebuilding torn down and will contribute a new building to be used for music,cooking, ail kinds of handwork, and exercise on stormy days. The school hasbeen presented with a siren and radio-victrola, by a former graduate and herhusband, and another will install a telephone.

This is a fine reward for the thirty devoted years which Lula Miller hasgiven to Suwon City and District. On June 28, the 35th anniversary of theschool, the new building was opened and a very lovely memorial stone monu-ment was unveiled in honor of her long connection with the school as super-intendent.

W'oNju—Esther Laird has returned from furlough taking with her somegoats for the kindergarten children at the Center.

An interesting special feature of the work here is a class at the Silk Schoolnear Wonju. Girls came here from different parts of Korea, study silk culture afew months, and go out as leaders of teachers to the small villages. At therequest of the Government ofifice, for a week, during their free time, they weretaught sewing, cooking hygiene and religion. They were much interested in

Bible Study.Yengbyen—Our Yengbyen Girls School greatly needs a missionary

teacher. There is excellent Korean leadership and support and they are veryeager for our co-operation. Wealthy Korean Christians are greatly interested

in the continuance of the school.

YiCHUN—When Gertrude Suavely returned from furlough she foundeighty-five school girls and forty-five kindergarten children lined up at thestation to welcome her. She writes of the primary schools

—"I feel that, unregis-

tered though they be, they are one of the best channels through which to doChristian work. One of our best class leaders was led to Christ by her daughterwho became a Christian after coming into our schools."

Mrs. William S. Mitchell, Official Correspondent.

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MALAYA CONFERENCEMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see ''Woman's Missionary Friend"for January, May or October

Ipoh—Anglo-Chinese Girls School—Ruth Harvey, Gazelle Traeger.Kuala Lumpur—Methodist Girls School—Mabel Marsh, Dorothy Stevenson.

Holt Hall—Emma Olson.Malacca—Suydam Girls School—Marion Royce. Shellabear Hall—Mary

Olson, Eva Sadler.*

Penang—Lindsay Girls School—C. Lois Rea, Geraldine Johnson. WinchellHome—Lydia Urech, Norma Craven.*

Singapore—Methodist Girls School—Lila M. Corbett. Ni^td Home—MinnieL. Rank. Fairfield Girls School—Carrie Kenyon, Martha Gertsch.Eveland Seminary—Eva Nelson, C. Ethel Jackson.

SiTiAWAN

—

Methodist Girls School—Mechteld D. Dirksen. ^

Taiping—Lady Treacher Girls School—Delia Olson*, Thirza Bunce. CradonHome—Ada Pugh.There are 4,000,000 people in this little peninsula but it is so cosmopolitan

that it is said one could stand on a street in Singapore and see representativesfrom practically every country and island group in the world. Thousandsof Chinese enter its port every year and it is not unlikely that this will begreatly increased because of conditions in China. The Foochow Chinese havetheir own Church in Singapore and also the Straits Chinese Church. ThisChurch is thronging with young people and is doing a fine work. A ChineseConference has now been organized which will give individual initiative to theChinese. The Tamils form a large part of the population and have their ownChurches up and down the peninsula.

The Methodist Mission has been given subsidies by the British Govern-ment in return for teaching in the schools but there are certain limitations.

Their ruling that foreign teachers retire at the age of forty-five with reassign-

ment from year to year until fifty when they must retire, makes replacementsof missionaries necessary if the work is to be maintained. Many workers havebeen lost by marriage and the age limit. In such large schools—seven of them—there should be two missionaries but this has been impossible. Three mis-sionaries must retire from teaching next year. It will be of the greatest im-portance to replace them that the money from the Government be secured to

carry on Boarding Schools, Evangelistic work, up-keep of cars and repairs.

Singapore—Methodist Girls School—Nind Home is literally falling to

pieces and a new building in a different location is to be asked for. There are

over 700 pupils in this school and many have had to be turned awaj'. To meetthis situation afternoon classes are held under the leadership of an entirely

different staff. Miss Corbett is the very competent missionary in charge.Eveland Seminary—This school under Miss Nelson is making splendid

progress. They had only one graduate this year but she is an earnest Christian

and eager to work with kindergarten children.

Fairfield Girls School—Miss Kenyon and Miss Gertsch are missionaries in

charge. Their new buildings are completed—a tiffin shed, latrines, and a build-

ing containing a drill hall and four large class rooms. Government gave$5,000 grant for the building and $600 for equipment. The rest is raised locally.

This school is now a part of the Methodist Girls School.

Taiping—Miss Olson is at home on furlough and the Government allowedMiss Bunce to be in charge for one year since there was no one to send there.

Miss Pugh, as Miss Kenyon rather humorously writes, is transferred to Malacca* On furlough.

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in lieu of a married couple and will take the work carried on by Mr. and Mrs.Blasdell. A beautiful little Church has been built here and the Sunday school

has an enrollment of over one hundred and thirty. The Chinese congregation

is about eighty. The Tamils are mostly workers on estates and the preacher

must go to them because of the distance and the consequent cost of travel.

At an Epworth League dinner over one hundred were present.

Ipoh—Miss Ruth Harvey was sent to Ipoh on her return from furlough.

Miss Traeger is busy at the Hostel and school.

The Ipoh people are delighted over the new Government local normal andthe fact that our school has nine student teachers. Our fine building is nolonger large enough to accommodate all who would enter.

SiTiAW.\N—Miss Dirksen went to South China for a number of months to

study the language so that she might be more efficient among the Chinese in

her station. Mjss Craven was in charge during her absence. She is now back at

work and happy among the children and in her clinic. Two Eveland graduates—Miss Gie Hing and Miss Janet Chen are very successful workers here. MissGie Hing goes out over the District with an evangelistic message to women andchildren. Miss Janet Chen teaches in the day school and is also a teacher of

music, which is of great value. She plans later on to visit her people in Chinaand study music at Hwa Nan.

Malacca—Miss Mary Olson is taking Miss Sadler's place during her

furlough and is working happily with the girls in Shellabear Hall. Miss Roycereports that of the eight girls who passed their Senior in December, five are

teachers and one a nurse. One plans to attend college.

Kuala Lumpur—Miss Marsh and Miss Stevenson are kept busy in this

large school in this beautiful and modern city. The school numbers nearly 700of whom 100 are Malay girls. The Third Annual Conference in Religious

Education for teachers in the day schools and Sunday schools was held here

with an attendance of ninety teachers. The main theme was "CharacterBuilding." There are 17,000 pupils in our day schools, all of whom receive

religious education instruction three times a week.This school gave $400 for work among the Sakais who are the primitive

people of the Peninsula.

Penang—At last Alexandria Home has been sold for over $7,000 Straits.

This will be invested in the new VVinchell Dormitory which will cost about$20,000 Straits. "Stafford" the old missionary home has disappeared andVVinchell Home is nearing completion. The Buddhist Association gave a small

donation. Miss Urech writes that the year has been filled with wonderful ex-

periences of God's saving power. A young couple after a meeting for prayer in

their house gathered in the yard and burned their cards and Mah Jong sets.

The ser\'ice of dedication for their new Chinese Church was very im-pressive. Every member even the poorest gave a month's earning toward thecost of the building. The Church is filled every Sunday.

Miss Geraldine Johnson, the newest missionary, is greatly enjoying herwork and even the climate. She has thirty girls in the Blue Triangle and is

working in the Chinese Church. Miss Lois Rea is abundant in her labors in

this lovely city.

The Methodist Gfrls School in Singapore is planning to build as soon as

funds are in hand. Mr. McKee has given a gift in memory of his daughter andthe British Government will, it is hoped, give part of the cost. The rest will

be raised locally as is usually done in every station. Many of the generousgivers are not Christians but are interested in the educational advantages to

be derived from our schools.

Miss Lucy Wang visited Malaya arousing interest and support for HwaNan College among the Chinese. As a result of her visit it is hoped that gradu-ates of the schools will go to Hwa Nan for more study.

58 In Lands Afar

Teachers imbued with the missionary spirit will find in Malaya a field

that will call forth all the talents they possess and will not only enrich the lives

of the >outh of that land but greatly enrich their own personality.Mrs. C. C. Peale, Official Correspondent.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS CONFERENCEMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend"for January, May or October

LiNGAYEN

—

Mary Brown Townsend Memorial Bible Traijiing School.

Pangasinan District—Leila Dingle. Niieiia Ecija—North Turkic—HazelM. Davis.

Manila—Harris Memorial Training School—Marguerite Decker, PrincipalMary Evans, Marguerite Hewson.* Hugh Wilson Hall—Mildred Blakely.Mary J. Johnston Hospital—Superintendent and Medical Officer—Dr.Bernice Hazen. Principal Nurses Training School—Bertha Odee, BusinessManager; Mary Deam,* Acting Business Manager; Ruth Joyce Atkins.

San Fernando—Pampanga-South Tarlac—Ruth E. Joyce Atkins, MarionWalker.

Bayombong—VVilhelminia Erbst.TuGUEGARO—Armenia Thompson. Supervisor Field Clinics and District

Nurses—Anna Carson.Many interesting events have occurred in these lovely islands during the

last year. The Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church broughtthousands of people from every land and it was claimed that at some of thesessions 100,000 were in attendance and that on the closing night 300,000 werein the monster parade. This might have been discouraging to the Protestantelement but instead it served to make them more determined to present themeek and lowly Jesus to the rank and file of the Filipinos.

Following this great demonstration the all Philippine Islands ChristianConference was held which according to Dr. William Axling was a Conferenceof Christian strategy. He was impressed with the youthfulness of the in-

digenous leadership and by their alertness and eagerness. This conference will

now be called "The Philippine Federation of Evangelical Churches."Another outstanding achievement is the attainment of women suffrage.

The educated Protestant women favored it almost unanimously and some of

the most active leaders were our Methodist women. Added to these have beensuch tragic happenings as the awful flood in the Cagayan Valley, the fire in

the Tondo Section where our Hospital is located, the worst earthquake in

many years and the coming in of hundreds of refugees from China.The Methodist Church is still continuing its constructive work and its

growth is nothing short of marvellous. Its total membership is now 89,224 with238 pastors, a net increase this year of 4,000.

Harris Memorial—Miss Marguerite Decker has been at the head of this

school which opened in 1903 and has graduated 362 young women. Of this

number 75 are under Annual Conference appointment, and an equal numberare pastors' wives. Others are enthusiastically engaged in dormitories, kinder-

gartens and in all Christian work. The plan of co-operation with the Ellin-

wood School, Presbyterian has been continued and also a year's training in the

Mary J. Johnston Hospital. Miss Decker was allowed to remain another yearbut will soon retire from active work. She is greatly beloved by the Filipinos.

Mary J. Johttston Hospital—The Hospital has had a good year and reports

* On furlough.

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that a total of 24,781 people have been cared for. The Masonic Ward hastwenty-five children suffering from diseases of the bones and joints and anout-door porch has been given them by this organization.

The milk station has prepared 6,453 day's feedings for the babies.

The Training School—under Miss Odee reports a graduating class of

fourteen and they are always in demand by the Red Cross, Bureau of PublicHealth and other Hospitals.

The Mary J. Johnson Clinics—Miss Carson who is stationed at Tuguegarohas established a field clinic which is supported by the Hospital. She has hadremarkable success after the opposition from Roman Catholics had been over-come. Her report shows 8,768 persons treated, forty-four deliveries, six tonsil

operations, five trachoma operations.Httgh Wilson Hall—Miss Mildred Blakely on her return from furlough

took over the care of this outstanding dormitory and while the attendance is

not as large as formerly due to the increase in the number of dormitories in

Manila, seventy-nine are enrolled with indications for more. Miss Blakelyfinds that much repair is needed as well as supplies for the Home.

The religious life of the girls has made steady development and the goal of

Perfect Daily Chapel attendance is being held up. Seven denominations arerepresented among the girls.

Mary Brown Townsend Memorial Bible Training School—When MissBlakely came home on furlough Miss Silveria Lucas was appointed actingPrincipal. She was in charge when the flood and typhoon visited Pangasinanand gave her time and strength in rehabilitation. Later she was married toRev. T. A. Cabacungan, a pastor in Hawaii, but completed her year beforefollowing him to his work in those islands. Another national, IVIiss SolemaEdvalin, was appointed and has been very successful. The curriculum has beenrevised and a smaller faculty is carrying the work.

Bayombong—Miss Erbst is working happily with the joung people andtells of Institutes held in spite of floods and typhoons.

Tuguegaro—Miss Thompson sends a very encouraging report of herdormitory and while Catholic opposition has been great she feels that theDormitory has served for a place of sojourn for many people.

The Misses, Dingle, Atkins, Cornelison, and Evans have been busy in

institutes and daily vacation Bible schools attended by hundreds of youngmen and women.

Miss Evans says in her letter that our missionaries have been on the com-mittees of the National Christian Council and have helped with the distribu-

tion of literature and instruction in Institutes. The deaconesses have beenactive in the Evangelistic Services in the different Churches and have taughtclasses and distributed material.

She says, "Our problem now is to maintain the work without curtailing

those parts which are vital for the instruction of lay leaders and full-time

workers on the reduced budget. W'e believe our plan for taking up the cutalloted to the Philippine Islands is the best that can be arranged. This planwill use up all reserve dormitor\- funds and unless we have a good year finan-

cially in the dormitories we shall face the necessity of closing some of them."It is to be hoped that in this, the most rapidly growing mission field in the

world, the need for a nurse and missionaries to take the places of those whomust retire and come come on furlough will be cared for. We do not know whatthe future will hold for these Islands when independence becomes an assuredfact. A strong movement is growing for a union of Evangelical Churches andplans are being formulated h\ progressive Filipinos. All Mission boards work-ing in the Philippines are giving their best thought to the building up of astrong indigenous Church in these beautiful and strategically located islands

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of the Pacific.j^j^g ^ ^ Peale, Official Correspondent.

60 In Lands Afar

SUMATRA MISSION CONFERENCEMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman' s Missionary Friend"~

for January, May or October.

Medan—MetJwdist Girls School—June E. Redinger, Tandjoeng Balai. AsahanDistrict-—Freda P. Chadwick. Kisaran-—Mrs. Lydia Oelschlager Aim.International Department— Elsie Schwab. District Work—Tehing Tinggi.

SUMATRAThe work of this field progressed in the district of Asahan, in the jungles,

villages, and in cosmopolitan Medan. Institutes for women and education in

child feeding have been successful in Asahan, where infant mortality fromberiberi was unbelievably high. Mothers, who have learned, in turn teach otheryoung mothers. In Tandjoeng Balai weekly meetings were held for women andfor girls, besides the regular Sunday school, which was revived, to the joy of thechildren. Many signs of hunger and thirst after righteousness are seen in thepeople of the jungle and compensate for the effort expended and the hardshipsendured. A new jungle station has been opened in Ujung Sipinggan, but theoldest is only fifteen 3'ears old, and one of the most promising has been openedbut four years. The seed, if it is sown, finds good soil in the simple hearts of thejungle people.

Women's work in Medan is in four congregations, each using a different

language. Language barriers retard work for all women in one group. Theoldest congregation is the Chinese, in which are signs of spiritual growth. TheEnglish congregation is composed of the constituencies of the two Englishschools and work is largely among the young people. The Batak congregationis the largest, composed of many mothers who cannot attend services regularly

but are loyal Christians. The youngest congregation is the Malay speakinggroup, Chinese whose ancestors came from China so long ago that they prefer

the Mala>- language. No task of the church is too great for these fine women.The Methodist Girls School moves on successfully. At present the entire

staflF is composed of graduates of this school, and there is a splendid spirit of

co-operation between teachers and pupils. The enrollment for the year was 152,

with an average attendance of 128. A new feature grew out of the need for

more thorough study of good health habits, and a program in health educationis being worked out in all classes. This project makes imperative more spacefor sports. The Friday chapel services and the Sunday school have deepenedand enriched the lives of the girls. Fifty percent of the school is enrolled in the

Sunday school.

In all these lines of endeavor the reward has been rich, but will be richer,

if sources of power are made available through earnest prayer, generous giving

and the sending of missionaries.

Mrs. Harvey Harmer, Official Correspondent.

EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICAMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For present correct addresses of missionaries, see "Woman's Missionary Friend,"

for January, May or October

Bulgaria

LovETCH

—

American Girls School—Mrs. Florence G. Reeves, Esther Carhart,

Mellony F. Turner (part of the year).

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North Africa

Algiers— Van Kirk Home (Les Aiglons)—Ruth S. Wolfe, French StudentWork—Martha D. Whiteley. French Evangelistic Work—Mary Anderson(part of the year).

CoNSTANTiNE

—

Gamble Memorial Home—Emilie R. Loveless. Bradley Memo-rial Evangelistic Center—Nora Webb, E. Gwendoline Narbeth. BoysHome—Eva A. Ostrom.

Il Maten—Glora M. Wysner, Martha Robinson.On Furlough—-L. Frances Van Dyne, Frances Roberds.

BULGARIALast fall at the meeting of the General Executive Committee, our mis-

sionaries asked permission to rebuild the original school building in Lovetchwith the small balance still due from the sale of the Sofia property and fundsto be raised from friends of the school in Bulgaria. This permission was given,and the old building which had been condemned as unsafe, was torn down.This new building enterprise has called forth great loyalty on the part of

teachers, students and friends. The washwomen pledged one day's pay, thecooks and kitchen help two da3's' wages, and the workmen promised to giveseveral days of free work. All the classes of the school, the Y.W.C.A., and thealumnae have worked valiantly so that quite a sum has already been collected

and a good deal of furnishing promised. This loyalty has been most gratifying

to our missionaries as have also the expressions of good will on the part of

Bulgarian friends. One man said that the school had always taken part in thecommunity activities, that it had turned out girls who made fine housewives,and in general helped the country in every way. The new school year openedin September with over two hundred girls enrolled, a larger number than everbefore.

NORTH AFRICAThere have been twenty-nine girls at the Van Kirk Home this year,

seven of whom were taken in during the year, all quite small. All the middlesized girls have gone to a nearbj^ government school for their academic work,five have been trained in all the home making arts—cooking, sewing, takingcare of the younger children, etc. so that the\' will make fine wives and motherswhen Christian husbands can be found for them. Quite a few of the childrennow go home for the summer holidays so that they carry the influence of

Les Aiglons into their own villages. The children all go to Sunday school andall but the littlest ones to church, and in addition they have Bible classes everyThursday morning—the French school holiday. They are all being taught toappreciate what is being done for them by giving of the little they have. AtChristmas time they gladly gave up meat for two meals and their afternoonchocolate for a week to give to the very needy children at the Les Oudhiasdispensary. The older ones also made garments for the babies at II Maten.Miss Wolfe closes her report with a sentence which summarizes the wholework, "We just go on loving, teaching, feeding, clothing, praying for and withHis little ones for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."

The student hostel for young women attending the university has had afine group of young women who have had the advantage of living in a real

Christian home, unlike many of the women who attend the university. Thevarious clubs, especially the English Club, has attracted girls not living in thehostel, and the questions of the day—social, economic and religious—thatinterest students the world around, have been discussed at great length. MissWhiteley has found that many of them are seeking for spiritual reality, and shehas been able to point them to Christ.

Of her work among the French women and girls in Algiers, Miss Andersonhas written: "The inauguration on June 27th of a beautiful new hall on a street

62 In Lands Afar

corner commanding a strategic position—three fourths of the equipment of

which was paid from the result of the bazaar organized by the women them-selves; the deficit in our church budget wiped out by a gift from the funds of

the same little group, carefully guarded from last year's bazaar; piles of little

garments made for needy prospective mothers; twenty-five of our children in

the vacation camp in the Kabyle mountains; two pretty weddings (bothbrides converted in our classes and baptized on confession of faith) such aresome of the outstanding features in the latest record of the P'rench evangelisticwork. But that for which we most praise God is the deepening of spiritual life

in many of our members—women, girls and even children whose faces shine atthe name of Jesus and whose earnest desire is to bring others to Him."

CoNSTANTiNE—Miss Lovelcss has written that they have had a good yearin the Gamble Home. Three of the older girls passed their examinations for

certificates and one who wants to become a teacher, obtained a scholarship tocontinue her studies. Miss Loveless has been devoting a good deal of her timethis year to the older girls who are preparing for various kinds of work whenthey leave the home. One girl has been learning dressmaking and has beenmost useful in making clothes for the home. Three of the older girls are gettingmost valuable experience in helping with the classes at the evangelistic center.

Every class in the evangelistic center has been full this year, and somenew ones have had to be started, so our missionaries have been much en-

couraged as last year the classes were very small due to very active oppositionon the part of the Moslem community'. Fourteen Jewish girls have been comingtwice a week for a class, the first time Jewish girls have ever come to the center.

Twelve children have had their dinner in the house every day—children whogo to school but whose mothers are working and too poor to provide a noonday meal. One day in one of the classes. Miss Webb read the verse "To himthat smite thee on one cheek turn the other also." The girls in the class all

laughed for they thought that was the most ridiculous thing they had everheard. Miss Webb talked to them a little about the verse, and the next weekone girl who had always behaved very badh' said to Miss Webb, "Since youtold us that last week, I haven't hit anyone. I've kept my hands to myself."

Miss Narbeth had a most successful camp for the girls from the GambleHome and Les Aiglons at Sidi Ferruch this summer for six weeks. This beauti-

ful home by the sea given by the Misses Carnahan in memory of their mother,was during all these days filled with happy girls who played, did variouskinds of handwork, studied the Bible and learned day by day what it means to

live a full rich Christian life.

Il Maten—A three fold program has again been carried on in this

isolated mountain station—that of ministering to the physical, mental andspiritual needs of the Kabyle villages. The dispensary which for some yearshas been held weekly has had such large crowds that it has become necessary to

have it twice a week. Men, women and children have come from villages far

and near for healing, and so when the missionaries are able to go to their

villages, they have a point of contact. The school has had an enrollment of

thirt>--two children, and the daily attendance has kept up unusually well.

The missionaries have been especially happy in the fact that all the older girls

returned to school in September, something that has never happened before.

At the close of the school year in June a program was held for the fathers andinvitations were sent also to some of the village chiefs and to the Caid (headnative chief). Thirty-two men came including the Caid and they were all

greatly interested in the program of songs, games, recitations, demonstrationclasses in French, geography and arithmetic. The Caid made a speech thank-ing the mission for the school, the dispensary and the work in the villages, andurged the men to send their girls to school.

Miss Juliet H. Knox, Official Correspondent.

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LATIN AMERICAMISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

For prese?it correct addresses of missionaries see "Woynans Missionary Friend"

for January, May or October

Mexico

Mexico City—Industrial School—Ethel E. Thomas. Evangelistic Work—Mary N. Pearson, Gertrude Arbogast. Bible Training School—Ruth V.Warner.

PuEBLA

—

Hostel—May Bell Seal. Evangelistic Work—Addie C. Dyer.Pachuca—Hostel—Grace A. HoUister (part of the year). Evangelistic Work—

Elsie M. Shepherd.Guanajuato—Hostel—Martha Daniels.

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Evangelistic Work—Mamie Baird.

Panzacola—Evangelistic Work—Jeannette Hoflfman, Hazel McAllister.

Eastern South America

Buenos Aires—Instituto Modelo de Obreras Cristianas—Rhoda C. Edmeston.Religious Educatioji—No appointment.

Montevideo—Instituto Crandon—Jennie Reid, Marion L. Derby, Lena MayHoerner, Bess Hallagan.*

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Colegio Norte Americano—Katherine M. Donahue, Olive I. Givin.

Peru Mission

Lima—Lima High School—Gertrude Hanks, Frances C. Vandegrift, Treva B.Overholt, Mildred C. Williams (C.T.), Ruth Greenwood.*

MEXICOThe plan which was inaugurated last year for the separation of the schools

and hostels has been in effect again this year and has worked most successfully.

The Me.xican directoras have had full financial responsibility for the conduct of

the schools while the Society has contributed toward the support of the hostels.

These hostels have met a real need especially for village girls who still do nothave adequate educational facilities in their own villages. There has been full

freedom for religious training in the hostels as they are considered as homes.One of the missionaries writes: "Our religious life has been wholesome andfree. We are all free to go to church as often as we wish, and nearly all the girls

go regularly. Our normal girls are teachers in the Sunday school and havecharge of the junior church. One is president of the Epworth League. I amproud of our normal girls; they are growing into fine young women who will bea credit to us and to their country. They say they are going to teach in ourschool in return for what the school has done for them. VVe like that spirit."

Our evangelistic work has gone on without interruption. Four of ourmissionaries have been doing rural work—the Misses Shepherd, Baird, Hoff-man, and McAllister, though Miss Shepherd has also been working in thePachuca city church. These rural workers as they have gone about from vil-

lage to village have had many opportunities to teach the women of the villages

better ways of living. They have conducted Sunday schools, daily vacationBible schools, Epworth and Junior Leagues for the young people and children,

had many meetings for women, done much friendly visiting and had done* On furlough.

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much to raise the physical, mental and spiritual standards of the villages wherethey have been working. The church at Cortazar where Miss Baird has beenthe pastor and social worker, has been repaired and rededicated and the con-gregation has been increased by new memh^Ts vho have truly received theHoly Spirit into their hearts.

Miss Mary Pearson has been working in two of the Mexico City churches.She has had classes for both young people and women and has so endearedherself to the people of one church that when they dedicated a new social hall

this year, they put up a tablet in the room in her honorDr. Baez, a hne woman physician, who has been working for our Society

for some years with her headquarters at the Aztecas St. Church in MexicoCity, has ministered to more than 2400 patients. In addition she has visited

eight villages vaccinating children and telling the parents how they shouldcare for their children. Miss Arbogast and some of the Seminary students haveaccompanied the doctor on some of these trips, so that the students could learn

that health and religion go together.

The Bible Training School has had two groups of students—those who aretaking the regular deaconess course, and a larger group who come mostly fromvillage churches who are taking some work by which they may later supportthemselves in one of the government industrial schools, and doing as muchBible study as they are able the remainder of the day. Miss Chagoyan, theprincipal of the school, came to Washington this past summer as the delegateof the Union Women's Societies in Mexico to the W.C.T.U. Convention. TheMexican societies have very recently become affiliated with the International

W.C.Y.U. Miss Chagoyan returned to Mexico with much new inspiration andinformation not only for the cause of temperance but also for her work in theBible Training School.

Miss Juliet H. Knox, Official Correspondent.

SOUTH AMERICAAlthough South America is crying out for evangelistic and social welfare

work of all kinds, financial reductions have forced us to abandon all such workand to confine our activities to education. To-day the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society maintains four of the outstanding Protestant institutions

of South America.

East South America Conference

Buenos Aires—After some years of steadily holding its own against

several odds, the Training School for Christian Workers is enthusiastically

pressing forward, having the largest enrollment in its history. Dr. RhodaEdmeston, directora, sensing the importance of making this school more widelyknown, co-operated with the Union Theological Seminary in holding twosummer schools, one in Mendoza in the foothills of the Andes, and the other in

Bahia Blanca, an important southern city of Argentina. By taking the op-

portunities of these schools into the heart of the country, with courses suited

to both young people and adults, not only were the local churches greatly

stimulated but an impetus was given to pursue Christian training with the re-

sult that more young people have come to Buenos Aires this year for definite

study. Handicapped for trained workers in this highly specialized institution,

the Board of Trustees in Buenos Aires voted to sacrifice at other points in

order to pay the salary of a second North American missionary teacher whowas available in South America. With the aid of this co-worker, Dr. Edmestonhas been able to carry out her dream of starting definite practice work for thestudents. At four points in a suburban circuit of which a student pastor fromthe Seminary has charge, young women from the Training School are getting

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practical experience in guiding various kinds of work in small churches. Thefollowing letter recently came from one of the students:

"I want to say a special word for the blessing it has meant to me to beable to spend three years in your Training School in Buenos Aires. Beforecoming here I studied in Crandon Institute, where I had the joy of meetingmany splendid women from the States. My experiences there have been a doorthrough which I came nearer to God. Although 1 finished my course there someyears ago, still I go back to Crandon as to my home, and feel that the influence

of that school is keeping me at my best.

"Especially I wanted to write you in gratitude for all that this TrainingSchool has brought to my life. This year I finish my training and expect to

return to Uruguay to give my full time to the church. I do not know where myplace will be, but I shall try to help and bless others in His name. I shall neverbe grateful enough for what Miss Edmeston means to us here. A life like hersamong us has meant new power for all our plans and ideals. We in SouthAmerica will never be able to say what the United States has meant to usthrough the sending of missionaries. Maj'be some day people here will learn

how to manage their own affairs, maybe some day they will be able to haveleaders of their own, but we will always need the help and inspiration of lives

like the ones I have met on my way, missionaries who came in His name tobless and serve."

Montevideo—Crandon Institute has over 400 girls from kindergartenthrough high school. Class work has been seriously handicapped by lack of

missionaries and by many changes in the national staflf. Miss Reid, directora,

writes that it is imperative that we send a missionary with training in primaryeducation, not only to help carry on the large classes in the lower grades, butchiefly to train the young graduates who wish to become teachers. If Crandonis to continue to serve the community well, this 7ieed must be met.

The school welcomed Miss Lena May Hoerner as head of the Departmentof Home Economics. A teacher of wide experience, she has been able to carryon this important work with great success, serving not only Crandon but thewhole community through the adult classes offered. Her efficient managementmakes the department self-supporting. Her letters tell of fascinating experi-

ences at an old task in a new land, where "staples like flour and sugar are notstandardized so that you never know whether the next lot will be anythinglike the one you have just learned to use; where the baking powders don't dowhat they say they will do; where the fruits don't have the same amount of

pectin and acid." One of the novelties introduced is food preservation. Suchexcellent results were obtained in canning fruits and vegetables that the goodswere exhibited in a downtown window with much favorable recognition for

Crandon. Behind this process lay days of irritating experiments when theclasses tried to use Uruguayan jars, much cheaper than North American onesbut, alas, not standardized, so that a loss of 36% of products and jars bybreakage was sustained.

The Institute of International Education in New York continues to recog-

nize Crandon's high standards by selecting its graduates as the recipients of

scholarships to colleges in the United States. Magdalena Fernandez, who last

year studied at Tampa University, has been granted another scholarship this

year in Colby College, in Maine. Alcira Lopez, an alumna who has been teach-ing physical education at Crandon, is the second girl to be sent to the TexasState College for special work in this field. Betty Bals, daughter of a prominentUruguayan attorney, has a scholarship at Stoneleigh College in New Hamp-shire. Several other Crandon graduates are regular students at Oberlin andanother, with a M.A. from Wellesley, is teacher of Spanish in the OgontzSchool, Philadelphia.

Crandon girls take an active part in the Epworth League of the English

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and Spanish churches. Many of them are members of the Federation of

Evangelical Youth of Uruguay. Their interest in social welfare work leads

them to contribute to the activities carried on by the Board of Foreign Mis-sions in the Cerro.

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Colegio Norte Americano has finished its second successful yearunder the guidance of the local Board of Trustees who offered to begin to shareresponsibility in 1935. Rev. Julio Sabanes, President of the Board, writes:

"We are deeply thankful to the W.F.M.S. for its co-operation. We know whatit means at this time, when consecrated lives to missionary work are few andeconomic resources limited, to give such valuable aid to I^osario. We assureyou that we are all making a sincere effort to continue the educational enter-

prise that for sixty-two years your Society has been carrying on." The schoolenrollment is 161, the highest since 1927.

The Alumnae and Parent-Teacher Associations are working loyally for theschool, giving substantial fmancial aid. The Alumnae raised $700 last year andthe PTA pays the salary of one teacher and 120 pesos monthly towards main-tenance. A recent graduate received recognition from the "Academia de la

Lengua EspanoV for her meritorious w'ork, and another received the highestgrades of the si.\teen girls who took entrance examinations for the NormalSchool this year.

Miss Donahue, diredora, has carried on without a North American co-

worker, but Miss Olive Givin will return to the field in March, 1938.

Peru Mission

Lima—Lima High School, in spite of a diminishing missionary staff, is

carrying on valiantly in its effort to provide a Christian education for the 504girls enrolled this year. The School has an enviable reputation among Peruvianeducators, one of whom said, "The Lima High School girls carry a stamp. I cantell them every time." When the Rotary Club decided to send two youngwomen to Chile to be trained as social welfare workers, they selected two grad-uates of our school.

Unfortunately the school is losing three teachers who held very responsiblepositions, and replacements for these, or at least two of them, are urgently re-

quested. A teacher of science and another for the primary work must be sent

if the class room teaching is to be adequate. Since this institution has govern-ment recognition it is imperative that the regular quota of missionary teachersbe maintained. Furthermore, it is clearly impossible for personal Christianwork to be done by the small missionary staff remaining and, as one of themhas recently expressed it, "Unless we can keep up the high standard of char-acter building that we have always had, I don't see much reason for our beinghere. And we cannot keep up that standard without missionary teachers."

Missionaries are the more needed because it seems increasingly difficult to find

suitable Protestant teachers who may be employed on the field. Because MissHanks, the principal, must teach every day from 8:30 A.M. till 3 P.M. shecannot be free to do the supervisory work essential to meeting the governmentrequirements. We have planted this great school at Lima as a beacon light for

Christ throughout that country, and we must not fail it now.We give thanks for the evangelistic zeal of our educational workers in

Lima. Since the Society has failed to replace a missionary in this needy field,

our North American teachers are adding to their already overcrowded class-

room schedules the work of Sunday school and Leagues in the three MethodistChurches, and, upon occasion, they even use part of their vacations to go onevangelistic toujs into the hinterland of the high Andes. Miss Hanks recently

traveled 175 miles to Huancayo to help in an Institute for the village people of

the Sierras. These earnest Christians, while their fellow villagers were wasting

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the three-day celebration of Peru's independence in carousal, went apart to

discuss "Living the Life We Profess." As the little missionary group passedthrough the towns and villages, they were met at several corners by men,women and young people of the churches with their meager contributions for

the church work which they wanted to hand personally to the District Super-intendent.

A crying need in our work in this country is a missionary to carry theteaching of Christ to these mountain villages.

Elizabeth M. Lee, Official Correspondent.

COLLEGESWOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Hwa Nan College, Foochow, ChinaMissionary Faculty—Lucv C. Wang, President. Elizabeth H. Richey, Edith

McBee*, Elise H. Reik; U. Grace Davis*, L. Ethel Wallace, Marion R.Cole*, Eugenia Savage*, Frances S. Fulton.

Hwa Nan, the only woman's college in the region of South China affords amost vital force in the uplift and transformation of society through the Chris-tian spirit of self-sacrificing service. Let us vivify the illustrious past of this

institution by recalling outstanding events.

In October 1904, a committee of three was appointed by the ReferenceCommittee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the MethodistEpiscopal Church to investigate the feasibility of founding a woman's college

in Foochow. Then a tentative Board of Directors was appointed with Bishop

J. W. Bashford as president; a tentative constitution was adopted by the Boardof Directors; and the site chosen.

In May 1907, the constitution was revised and adopted by the ExecutiveCommittee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. In the same year, byvote of the Foochow and Hinghwa missionaries, the first regular Board of

Directors was nominated and confirmed by the Board of Trustees.In January 1908, Miss Lydia A. Trimble was appointed president. W'hile

plans were slowly developing for further purchase of land necessary for theerection of the building, we were strengthening our college preparatory depart-ment in small rented quarters. Until 1914, College preparatory courses onlyAvere offered.

In 1911 the corner stone of the first building was laid.

In 1914 the freshman and sophomore years of college work were orfered

and in February of this year we received our first college class of five girls.

Duringthis year we moved into our new buildi ngs, the Marian Payne Hall andCranston Hall.

In 1915 these two beautiful buildings were fully completed.In 1917 four years of college work were offered.

In January, 1921 we graduated our first college class of three girls.

In 1922 a Provisional Charter was granted to Hwa Nan by the Regents of

the University of the State of New York. This Charter being retroactive, thefirst class also received their B. A. degrees through the University of the Stateof New York.

In 1925 Trimble Hall was completed. In the Spring of 1925, Miss Trimbleresigned, and in January 1926, Dr. Ida Belle Lewis was inaugurated as Presi-

dent of Hwa Nan College. In June 1927, Dr. Lewis resigned to turn the institu-

tion over to Chinese leadership.

An Administrative Commission was appointed. The members of theCommission were as follows: Chairman, Shu Kwei Carol Chen; Dean of Col-

*On furlough.

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lege, Lucy C. Wang; Dean of Middle School, Grace Wong; Secretary' of Com-mission, Pearl H. Wong; and Business Manager, Mi Daik Li.

In July 1928, Miss Lucy C. Wang was elected President. On January 18,

1930, Miss Lucy C. Wang was inaugurated as President of the College.

In June 1933, Hwa Nan College was temporarily registered with the Minis-try of Education of China.

On September 21, 1933, an Absolute Charter was granted to Hwa NanCollege by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York,giving the right to grant degrees directly to the graduates of the college withoutreferring the names of graduates to the Board of Regents for their approval.

On Charter Day, September 21, 1935, the new Home Economics PracticeHouse was dedicated as an integral part of the Hwa Nan Program.

In March 1936, Hwa Nan College was granted permanent registration

bv the Ministry of Education of China.On February 7, 1937, accompanied by Mrs. Chen an alumnae of Amoy,

President Wang set sail for a visit to Manila and the South Sea Islands in be-half of the interest of the College. As President Wang said: "It was indeed a

thrilling moment when the steamer pulled into Manila harbor to see nine HwaNan girls, standing at the jetty. There are seventeen graduates and formerstudents here. The Principal of the First Chinese Girls' School in Manila is onefrom the class of 1921. Five are teaching in a Presbyterian Girls School, two in

a Baptist Girls School."Both President Bocobo of the University of the Philippines and President

Wang were delegates at the 1929 Kyoto Conference. He arranged with theDirector of Education for a visit in the many schools of Manila.

On March 4 President Wang left Manila en route to Java. The wife of theChinese Consul General here is a graduate of Hwa Nan. After a visit of threeweeks in this territory she set sail for Malaya where she spent five weeks.Foundation ground was laid in this territory for a future visit. As PresidentWang studied the opportunities in this section of the world she felt it would beof distinct advantage if Hwa Nan graduates could work in these schools andthus help lift the scale of women, strengthen their religious faith, help to estab-

lish deeper ideals and fit them for their place in society.

After five months of glorious contact, renewal of old friends and gatheringnew acquaintances to strengthen Hwa Nan President Wang, as a by-product,brought back in actual cash, $27,1 15.63 in their currency, which is to apply onthe endowment fund of this institution.

On September 17, 1937, the following cablegram was received from Presi-

dent Wang: "College opened regularly seventy percent usual enrollment.

Expecting later additions from war ridden regions. All safety precautionstaken. Calm courage prevails."

In the midst of chaotic conditions with the assurance of Christian stability

this President with her depleted faculty stands at the threshold of a new yearready to assume responsibilities, with a greater desire to make Christ the center

of all the activities, and through the graduates to radiate the spirit of Christian

love, fellowship and service.

Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Official Correspondent.

Kwassui Woman's College, Nagasaki, Japan

Missionary Faculty—Anna Laura White*, President, Adella M. Ashbaugh,Helen Couch*, Vera J. Fehr, Olive Curry, Olive I. Hagen, Caroline S.

Peckham.

As all the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society looks forward to the

70th Anniversary in 1939, Kwassui, the oldest missionary college for women*On furlough.

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in Eastern Asia, is making plans for its 60th birthday on December 1st of thesame year. It is one of the few old schools that can point to a definite dayas the day of its beginning. Since the greatest need of the College is endow-ment the alumnae have begun an intensive drive toward that end. In addi-

tion to Y22,696, raised some years ago for our chapel, the 2150 graduates(college and high school) have raised, during the last fifteen years, Y23,534for endowment. Their hope is to make this Y60,000 by the Sixtieth Anni-versary.

This money cannot come by large gifts. Recently an unsigned letter camewith one yen and the promise to try to save that much every month. Thewriter said, "It is so little I am ashamed to sign my name, but I want to help."

The most joyous event of the year was the gift of a friend of Kwassuifor the initial payment to bind the sale of the adjacent land, former site of

our Methodist Boys School. The Executive Committee of the Board of

Trustees of both schools met in joint session and the payment made and termsagreed upon with mutual joy. Since the land, for nearly fifty years had beenMethodist land both schools rejoiced that it could remain so. The faculties of

both Kwassui College and High School, forty Japanese and six missionaries,

held a celebration on the "new land" the day after the agreement was made.Some time ago the Woman's Peace Society of Japan had a Peace Song

Contest. The prize was won by a girl whose teacher was a Kwassui alumna,in a public school of a city which is one of the great military centers of Japan.

The translation does not do justice to the beauty of the original. The last

verse is:

"The world's a mighty familyWith hands across the seas;

The flame of love within usMust burn and never cease."

The graduates of 1936 who wished positions have all been placed,—^one

in Shanghai, one in Seoul, and some in Manchuria, besides those in Japanproper.

Takae Tagawa who received her A.B. degree at Ohio Wesleyan Universityand her M.A. at Drew Theological School last year, has returned to takecharge of Religious Education in the high school and teach freshman Bible

in the college. Her radiant, joyous personality has made itself felt throughthe whole college. Girls feel so sure of the understanding sympathy of one whohas been like them, a Japanese college girl. To her they bring their problems.From her they catch the flame of her devotion to her Master.

Two other alumnae, Katsue Ueda, with a B.S. degree from the Universityof California, and Yasu Iwasaki, A.B. from Simpson College and M.A. fromNorthwestern University, both are teachers and inspiring big sisters to

Kwassui girls.

There is a great desire to give the opportunity of further study in Americato one girl who is a talented musician, and to another for work in healtheducation, and to a third for work at the Imperial University at Fukuoka, oneof the few universities in Japan open to women.

Mrs. William S. Mitchell, Official Correspondent.

UNION COLLEGESWoman's College, West China Union University, Chengtu, China

Dean—Miss Pearl B. Fosnot.W. F. M. S. Representative on the Faculty—Ovidia Hansing, Ph.D.

Almost fifty percent of the graduates of the University this year are fromthe Woman's College, twenty-six out of fifty-four. This is the largest class

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yet to graduate. Of the twenty-six graduates from the Woman's College,seventeen are Methodists or girls educated in Methodist schools. Five aregraduating in medicine and dentistry, six in science and pharmacy, six in arts

and education. One of the doctors is Agnes Dwan, a nurse trained in ourGamble Memorial Hospital and named for Dr. Agnes Edmonds who earlier

served in that institution. Another doctor is Ruth Dsang, eldest daughter of

the President of the University'.

The Annual .Spring Conference conducted by the Student Christian Move-ment in the college has been declared the BEST ever. It was held in a countryvillage as usual and in addition to the conference discussions these youngpeople went out in groups through the country round-about, armed withposters, charts, a medicine kit, and a victrola. Clinics were held, the live

medical students doing fme work. Much of the discussion of the conference hadto do with the relation of Christian youth to their Nation. The conferencewas ended with an International bonfire. Twelve students represented twelvenations. Each representative of a nation stood before the World of Youth andtold the difiiculties in his country, then stepped near the fire and added his

bundle of fuel to the flames, representing the youth spirit and the courage of

the world. This was specially planned to show the Chinese student that notonly Chinese \'Outh are facing critical difficulties for it is the same in man>'countries around the world and onh' b>' co-operation of Christian forces will

the world be saved from destruction and for the Kingdom of God on earth.

Wallace W'ang, the leader of this group wrote: "One was highly honored to

represent Japan." Miss Fosnot writes that she was thrilled by the hymn of

grace sung before each meal and she translates it for us in these words: "Weunite our hearts in thanks for food that has not come easib-, but has comegrain by grain through the grace of God and by the sweat of our fellowmen.Earnestly we receive it that we may serve others." Fourteen girls and sixteen

boys attended this conference with four full-time leaders and six part-time.

The Woman's College is a very large part of the University, womenstudents being found in all branches of the University. Thirty-five percentof the medical and dental students are women and in recording the activities

on this campus, mention should be made of new building plans and projects

which include the erection of a modern Medical Center. The foundations havebeen laid and the expectation has been to continue with construction workduring the Fall and Winter of 1937-38.

Three hospitals and two dispensaries in the Cit\' of Chengtu have beenaffiliated with the University Medical and Dental Schools. "The full-time

clinical staff consists of eleven foreign and thirteen Chinese doctors, assisted

by a large group of residents, internes, clinicians and administrative personnel.

There are six foreign and twenty-nine full-time graduate nurses and eighty-five

student nurses. The hospital beds number 300; the yearl\- in-patients, 5,718;

the out-patients, 71,334. The fees received average $166,330 Chinese cur-

rency, over ninety-seven percent of all expenditure exclusive of the salaries of

the staff which is contributed by the Missionary Societies.

"Upon this foundation of staff, patients and income from fees, a newMedical Center of 500 beds and out-patient departments for 100,000 patients

a year will be organized. Its purpose will be to bring the several classes of

medical service together in one center; to provide for better medical treatmentof patients and more and more effective co-operation in clinical instruction;

to give to the College of Medicine a clinical hospital adjacent to the college,

designed for clinical instruction of a modern sort, and under its own direction;

to accommodate more adequateK- the increasing numbers of patients, and,

in co-ordination with other hospitals and agencies in the city, provide a com-plete medical service." This medical unit has always been a major project in

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the development of the University and its completion will mean medical educa-tion for the relief of millions of people.

West China Union Theological College opens its door this Fall withDr. George W. Sparling as principal. This College is one of the Association

of four Theological Colleges. The expectation is that all four will follow a

common program of study with differences to meet the varying conditions of

the different parts of the country. One is to be named Canton Union Theologi-cal School; another, Cheeloo School of Theology; the Nanking TheologicalSeminary and the West China Union Theological College. It is hoped thatNanking may help with funds for exchange professorships, fellowships andfor assistance with libraries.

Mrs. Frank E. Baker.

Ginling College, Nanking, China

President—Yi Fang Wu.Methodist Members of Faculty—Cora D. Reeves. Harriet Whitmer.

A year ago Dr. Wu wrote that the enrollment at the opening of Ginling

was the largest in its history, a total of two hundred and sixty. This year,

Dr. Wu wrote, "This would have been the first week of college if things hadbeen normal. But, now because of the emergency conditions, we have not asingle student on the campus."

A year ago we were told of the splendid additions to the faculty, the com-pletion of a faculty house and the dedication of the new infirmary. This yearwe hear of the withdrawal of the missionaries and the scattering of the Chinesefaculty. Air raids and the dropping of bombs have made necessary the buildingof trenches and dug-outs; the clearing of basements for use in air raids, thetraining of servants for fire prevention, the removal of the library pianos andequipment to places of safety. "Added to the duties as President, Dr. Wu is

Executive Secretary of the National Women's Association for the relief to thedefenders—an organization sponsored by Madame Chiang. She receives thejewelry contributed by Chinese women and oversees the making of garmentsand the distribution of food to the wounded soldiers."

A year ago we heard of the Easter service when twenty-one students werebaptized. At the morning service Miss Vautrin recalled the Nanking incident

ten years before when all missionaries were withdrawn from Nanking and it

seemed that mission work was over. These ten years, said Miss Vautrin"have shown that God works differentlv and that man needs stronger faith in

Him."We were told of the loyalty of the alumnae in pledging $30,000 for the

purpose of helping meet the shortage in current budgets of 1935-1938 and of

the Government grant of $12,000. This year we hear there will be no tuition

fees and little help from China.A year ago we heard of the splendid work being done by the alumnae in all

parts of China. The 281 alumnae were found in all types of service, teaching,administrative, social service, and public service work—eleven being doctors.

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek made the following statement: "When we weredesperately in need of college-trained women to actually live in the Com-munist-recovered villages of Kiangsi we appealed to Ginling College. ThePresident, Dr. Wu, in consultation with the other members of the faculty

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has sent us qualified, unselfish, hard-working graduates who are a credit to thatalready famous institution. We now say, 'If Ginling College recommends a

graduate for rural work, don't ask any questions, tell them to send her im-mediately.'

"

This year we are told of Dr. Wu's anxiety for these Ginling girls workingin war-stricken areas. This year instead of a united group on the Gingling

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campus, faculty and students are scattered among various Institutions.

Freshmen have entered Kingnan, Fukien Christian University, Hangchowand two or three Government Institutions. One GinHng unit of thirty-fourstudents and eight faculty members are at Hua Chung College. WuchangMajors are given in sociology, psychology, biology and geography. MissSutherland is directing four music majors. A second unit of approximatelyforty students is in Shanghai—distributed between Saint John's and ShanghaiUniversity. Makeshift accommodations in residences with little furniture areused for lack of dormitory space.

Harriet Whitmer, one of the Society's two missionaries at Ginling is nowat the Woman's College in Tok)o and Cora Reeves is at Szechwan in WestChina.

Ginling has tried to meet the loss of student fees by various adjustments.Salaries have been estimated on the basis of sixty percent of normal salaries for

every member of the faculty carrying definite work at this time and forty

percent for all stafT members on the waiting list until such time as they are

called. Ginling is counting on the continuance of the grants from the co-

operating Boards and agencies. I trust that the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety may be able to restore the cuts made in Ginling appropriations. Sincefifty percent of the support in normal times comes from China, the need for

more help from America is greater than ever before.

A teacher at Ginling writes, "I have been with Ginling through manydark days, but none so dark as these. Is there a future for Ginling in Nankingor is there a future for Nanking? We do not know."

Madame Chiang's words answer this query. "In the matter of education,let us not 'grow weary in well doing' and give up with our work just half com-pleted. The Generalissimo and I both feel that a religious faith is essential to

a well-rounded life. Without it, education is incomplete. The nation is in

great need of leaders, in all walks of life, who have Christian ideals of service

and who live up to them."Ginling must go on, because it is giving its students Christian ideals and is

meeting the needs of the New China. Ginling must be supported and en-

couraged during these dark days!Mrs. Francis J. McConnell.

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

President—Shuming T. Lui.

Dean of Women—Mrs. L. H. L. Yui.Dean of the Medical School—Dr. R. T. Shields.

W. F. M. S. Representatives on Staffs—E. Florence Evans, R.N.; Julia E.

Morgan, M.D.; Mary Katherine Ru.ssell, B.S. ; Mollie E. Townsend, R.N.;Lois Witham, D.Sc; Frances R. Wilson, R.N.

"One thousand six hundred Cheeloo men and women are to be foundtoday serving their people throughout the length and breadth of the land.

Most of them came to Cheeloo from the homes of the great eighty-five per cent

who live close to the good earth. You will find but few of them in the large

cities where material prospects are brightest. The majority have returned to

serve the people whence they came. Cheeloo is rightly proud of its Alumni."Tsinan, a very old, large and important city, is in the heart of Shantung's

thirty-five million people. The land in the Great Yellow River plane is rich,

and the province is capable of great development.Cheeloo is becoming more and more interested in all phases of rural service.

It is one of six institutions in the North China Council on Rural Work, and it

is making its special contribution through the Medical School in Public Health

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lines, and in various phases of woman's work. Mary Katherine Russell, whohas been the foreign leader in this type of work, returned after a furlough, to

Tsinan in the late summer.Dr. R. T. Shields has also returned from furlough and is serving as Dean of

the Medical School until a Chinese Dean can be found.Four of the thirteen students graduated from the Medical course last

June were women.Further expansion in the Hospital plant is becoming quite urgent. The

present bed capacity is 167, whereas the Government has tentatively set 300as the minimum for a University hospital.

Due to a shortage of American trained doctors, the Government hasinitiated a short course of four years. There is also a six year course, andCheeloo, whose course for some years has been a seven year course, has beenasked to cut off one year and has done so.

Women were first admitted in 1923. That year there were twenty-seven.There are now one hundred sixty-nine.

Leonard and Miner Halls have overflowed into a third temporary dormi-tory.

We are asked for three additional women faculty members, one each for

music, home economics, and theology.Mrs. L. H. L. Yui, our charming and able Dean of Women, spent the year

in the West, most of it in the United States, making many new friends for

Cheeloo. She returned to China in the early summer via England.The religious life has taken on new vitality. One of the fine results of the

Autumn Retreat is a Cheeloo Christian Fellowship, crystalizing a desire of

President Liu's for one religious organization for men and women and all

departments of the University. Through the Fellowship the union of theUniversity Church and the Tsinan Union Church was efTected.

Plans made to have Dr. E. Stanley Jones on the campus in September of

this year could not be carried out. But on October 6th a cable from Tsinanreported, "Cheeloo carrying on."

Mrs. J. M. Avann.

Yenching College for Women, Peiping, ChinaPresident—J. Leighton Stuart.

Dean of Women—Miss Ruth Stahl.

W. F. M.S. Representatives on the Faculty—Ruth Stahl, MononaCheny.""

Last year was a welcome contrast to the preceding year in YenchingCollege. There were no student strikes. There was a calmer mood among thestudents in the face of fully realized national dangers.

The enrollment was 248 which is comfortable capacity. The enrollmentfor the second semester was the same as that of the first, which is unusual.Ordinarily, some students finish their course at the end of the first semester.Others leave for personal reasons. At the beginning of the second semester,the places of those who had left were all filled by students who had left theUniversity a year ago because of disturbed political conditions, and who werenot allowed by their families to return to complete their work.

At the close of the college year, 158 rooms had been reserved for the com-ing year by old students, leaving only 90 for new comers.

At graduation time, the women students made a remarkable scholastic

showing. Of the fifteen in all, nine women were elected to the China ScholasticHonor Society, Phi Tau Phi, although only fifty-two of the 144 in the class

*On furlough.

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were women. The President of the University speaks of this as a phenomenonand adds, "It is a wholesome sign of the stirring of new energies in this ancientpeople."

America has contributed three new members to the staff of Women'sCollege during the past year. Miss Mabel A. Wood, on leave of absence fromthe University of Oregon, has been visiting assistant professor in HomeEconomics.

Miss Mary Brandt with special training in Physical Education at Colum-bia University came to take charge of the Department of Physical Educationfor Women.

Dr. M. Elizabeth Jenkins, a graduate from the Women's Medical Collegein Philadelphia with three years' hospital experience in California, is their

new physician. She possesses the fresh enthusiasm of a young doctor, and greatconscientiousness in caring for and following up the ailments of women stu-

dents.The number of women assistants on the University staff was increased

twelve during the past year. The Dean says "I feel that Ycnching is to becongratulated on the calibre of the }oung women who are helping in research,

and as laboratory and teaching assistants in the various departments. Severalwill be made instructors shortly."

The first woman ever to be appointed by a Chinese government to fill

a position in its diplomatic service is Miss Huang An-li, who graduated fromthe Economics Department of Yenching in 1932. After graduation. MissHuang worked for a year as research assistant in that department, before

taking up a position with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanking. Earlythis year she was honored by appointment as Third Secretary to the ChineseEmbassy in London.

Before the opening of the fall semester the Departments of Music andHome Economics received communication from the Ministry of Educationpermitting them to be restored to the status of major departments. This gavegreat encouragement. The National Government invited the Yenching Chorusto attend the National Music Festival held in Nanking, during the year, andprovided the expense of travel. The chorus was enthusiastically received.

Their rendition of the Messiah was broadcast over a nation wide network.A prominent woman of a neighboring Island nation has recently said

"Any nation which tries to invade China, must reckon with Chinese women."The women of Yenching College justify this statement. Yenching has had a

share in fashioning a national spirit which embodies the imperishable ideals

of freedom, truth, brotherhood, righteousness, service and love.

Mrs. J. K. Cecil.

Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, India

Principal—Mary E. Shannon.W. F. M.S. Representatives on the Faculty—Ava F. Hunt, Ruth C.

Manchester, Roxanna H. Oldroyd, Dorothy Speer*, Margaret Wallace,Laura V. Williams, Margaret Landrum*, Florence Salzer, Isabella Tho-burn, Marjorie A. Dimmitt, Lulu A. Boles, Alice Jefferson.

Of the four pioneer women's colleges in America, Smith and Wellesley

opened their college classes in 1875, Bryn Mawr in 1885 and Mt. Holyokein 1888. During this same period of pioneering in the higher education of

women, Isabella Thoburn College was founded in 1886. The biggest event of

the past year was the Jubilee celebration in November, 1936. More than 150alumnae attended. Gifts for the Clotilda Lyon McDowell Memorial Chapelfund which was made a Jubilee project amounted to Rs. 2117. The hope is

*On furlough.

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that the amount collected in India will furnish an organ by the time the chapelis built. Work on the plans and specifications for the chapel has gone on andthere is hope of breaking ground for the building soon.

The Intermediate Teacher's Certificate course—a three year course—hadits beginning with the second half century of the college's life. Ten studentsenrolled.

The largest class of Freshmen in the history of the College was admitted

—

seventy-five. There are now 204 students in the College and ten others who are

doing advance work in the University and living in the dormitories. Thisnumber means that the dormitories are absolutely filled and as growth con-tinues a new unit will be a necessity.

About a half dozen girls entered in the Freshmen class who had never ap-peared outside their homes without the all-enveloping burqa. Probably noneof these girls will follow- the practice after she receives her college degree. Dr.Shannon observes, "It is interesting to see how that degree is becoming a pass-

port to freedom."A Freshman came this year from the borders of Thibet, a Bhotiya with

decidedh' Mongolian features. Her father, who brought her, claimed with thegreatest of pride that she was the first Bhotiya girl to study in College.

The staflF of the College has been strengthened by the addition of Alice

Jefferson, who has gone out to teach music.The College, as is true of every institution in India, is affected by the new

constitution under which the country is governed. The Congress Legislature

took office this year and formed their ministries. Naturally many delicate anddifficult problems face them as they start out on numerous untried paths. Asparticipation of the nationals in Government increases heavier responsibility

rests upon the Christian colleges to send out trained, unselfish Christian lead-

ers.

Perhaps there could be no better closing of this report which seeks to give

a glimpse into the college life than to tell of a project which is engaging the at-

tention of many of the girls—that is teaching the illiterates. A number of

students made it their form of activity during the summer holidays. Twomembers of the staff are studying and experimenting as to the best methods of

bringing the printed page within the understanding of the people. Dr. Shan-non writes, "Just now there is a notice posted on the bulletin board asking for

the signatures of those who want to be trained for this particular service and I

should say there are thirty or forty names already signed up. Christians,

Hindus, Muslims, Parsees." So the modern college students are putting into

practice the college motto adopted so many years ago, "We receive to give."

Eloise Andrews Woolever.

Woman's Christian College of Japan

Tokyo Joshi Daigaku is a project in Christian education and internationalfriendship. It is controlled by a board of trustees in Japan representing six

denominations of America and Canada as well as Japanese Christian bodies.

The institution is recognized by the government as an integral part of its

educational system and enjoys the confidence of the public by reason of its

high standards and intelligent leadership. Its positive Christian charactercommends it to all to whom religion is vital. The major objective of thecollege is educating young women and sending them forth into society dynamicpersonalities, intellectually and spiritually qualified to take responsibility in

home and public life.

The student body drawn from all parts of the Empire consists of approxi-mately 400 women of exceptional ability, originality and initiative. A compe-

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tent faculty carries on its work in five departments consisting of a juniorcollege of three years, a senior college of three years, and three special depart-ments of four years each, namely, English literature, Japanese literature andmathematics. Graduates from the senior college and the special departmentsreceive government teachers licenses. Religious instruction is a part of thecurriculum. This is supplemented by daily chapel services, the college church,Y.W.C.A., devotional periods and discussion groups. Many students helpin the Sunday schools of the city and in social centers.

More than 1,000 graduates have gone forth into Japanese society. Ofthese about 100 are teachers, twenty six are in various forms of social service,

seven are matrons in schools or factories, over 100 are in business, three aretourist guides, fifteen are engaged in research work, forty eight others havepursued their further studies with thirty one going abroad for this purpose,a goodly number have made their place as artists, writers and lecturers. Alarge majority marry soon after graduation setting new standards for homelife. In short, the alumnae of Tokyo Joshi Daigaku are determinative factors

in the educational, social and religious life in the communities to which theygo, real builders of the Kingdom of God in the Japanese Empire.

Florence Hooper.

Ewha College, Seoul, Korea

President—Alice R. Appenzeller.*

Vice President and Acting President—Helen Kim.W. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty and Staff—L. Catherine

Baker, Marion L. Conrow*, Ada B. Hall, Jeannette C. Hulbert*, HarrietP. Morris, Blanche H. Loucks, Grace H. Wood, Moneta Troxel, Myrta O.Stover, Mary E. Young.

Kindergarten Training School—Charlotte Brownlee.

President Alice R. Appenzeller has spent the year in the United States.

The year has brought recuperation and rest and the joy of renewed relation-

ships for herself, and the college, and incidentally some gifts. For her and theCollege, came the distinction of an honorary degree from Boston University

last June, that of Doctor of Pedagogy.

Her able and worthy colleague, the Vice President and Acting President,

Dr. Helen Kim, has proven herself a real leader of Ewha's splendid organiza-

tion. Her report to the board of managers last June is a symposium in whichheads of departments and chairmen of committees take part. Prominent in it

all are the unifying motives and objectives of the whole work. She outlined

problems which she characterizes as "Growing pains," asking all concerned to

face realistically the study of sources of income which must be increased.

The raising of adequate endowment is urged upon Mission boards and co-

operating committee.

The Literary Department graduates of 1937 have all been placed with im-portant tasks to do. The year beginning in April has fifty-nine students. TheDepartment is sponsoring the work of collecting and editing Korean literary

classics, also collecting and arranging Korean folk-songs which have comedown by oral tradition.

The alumnae are to be found among the famous writers of the country; in

places of leadership in the schools of the land; in difificult rural situations as

social workers; they are vitally connected with every forward movement of

society. The department has organized eight research clubs.

*On furlough.

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The Music Department sponsors an All-Korea girls higher common schools

annual contest. The programs reveal earnest and creditable work. They pro-

ceed with poise and dignity, with wholesome rivalry and educational benefit.

"We cannot always win, but it is worth while and we will come again," is thespirit of the contestants.

The students and members of faculty help ten churches with organ play-

ing, choir and Sunday school. They also broadcast at radio stations, and so

reach not only all Korea, but more distant parts.

With legacies left by Laura Ye and Mary Hillman to the Music Depart-ment, a Hammond organ has been installed. It was dedicated last June and is agreat joy and blessing.

A large class was entered in April, making 87 taking the full course.

The Home Economics Department works on this guiding principle; to giveacademic, scientific and technical training that will develop individuals for themaking of Christian homes and society.

Eighty-one have been graduated since the department was established.

More than half are in homes, a few are pursuing further study and twenty-sixare working. One hundred thirty-seven are now enrolled and are workingtoward the ten splendid objectives for an abundant life and worth while serv-

ice.

In the Kindergarten Training School there are eighty students, and six full

time teachers. Twenty college teachers in addition give some time. There arethree practice kindergartens, with five teachers and 161 children enrolled.

An experimental course in cooking children's food was introduced this

year and proved practical and successful.

Two years of service by the Religious Educational Committee with anoffice in Pfeiffer Hall, has proven most helpful. The aim has been to "acquaintthe students with the materials and methods available through church agenciesin Korea, and to link them to the church in sympathy and loyalty." MissBessie Ye, a missionary in Manchuria, and Dr. Auh, Secretary of the Depart-ment of Evangelism of the Korean Methodist Church, were the speakers dur-ing a week of chapel services devoted to Missionary Education. At the con-clusion an offering of Y140 was contributed by our students, all for work in

Manchuria.

Ninety-four students are engaged in some type of Sunday service in thechurches of Seoul. Among other activities are Flood Relief collections, supportof scholarships in India, summer work in three villages under the Rural WorkDepartment of the Y. W., and a daily prayer service for campus servants.

Much attention is being given to the physical fitness of students by thePhysical Education Committee. Rigid physical and health examinations weregiven to 200 entering in April. Myrta Stover, head of the department, has hadto return to the States for health reasons. A young Japanese teacher is carryingon the work.

Happily and uncomplainingly 240 girls and seventeen teachers accept theinconveniences imposed upon them in the dormitory with capacity for but 178.

The Woman's Council of the Southern Methodist Church has appro-priated $7,000 for a Missionary teachers' residence and this has been supple-mented by another $5,000 gift.

We have a wonderful campus and buildings. "But now," in the words of

Moneta Troxel, "comes another stage of our work: the development of equip-ment, faculty and educational technique commensurate with them. And thatis a longer, slower and more important stage, partly because it is never ending.So we would say 'Stand by—forever.' We carry on because we know we worktogether with all you who are concerned that the Kingdom of God shall come."

Mrs. J. M. Avann.

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Woman's Christian College, Madras, India

Principal—Eleanor McDougal.No W. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty.

For the students the year has been one of consolidation rather than newenterprise. However, there have been efforts to establish closer personal rela-

tions with the various congregations and their pastors in the city. There is

much interest throughout the College concerning the Forward Movement in

Evangelism and the kindred movement among the Depressed Classes.

The College has received some unexpected gifts, the most significant beinga "princely" gift of books for the Library from Sir Michael Sadler, and a ClockTower from Mr. Charles McDougal, brother of the principal.

St. Christopher's Training College, Madras, India

Principal—Nora Brockway.No W. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty.

All of the co-operating mission boards should feel the importance of freeing

this, the only Christian College in India which is training women to teach, fromits financial difificulties. It is imperative that the College have a more nearlyadequate staff and new equipment and additional buildings, and an increased

budget.

Vellore Medical College for Women, Vellore, India

Principal—Ida Scudder, M.D.No W. F. M. S. Representatives on the Faculty.

"It has been a year of co-operation and faith, and shoulder to shoulderwork." At the beginning of the year there was a budget deficit of Rs. 44,000but the year closed with a credit balance.

The Endowment Fund is growing steadily. During this past year the

amount of $50,000 has been added through the efforts of Mrs. Henry W. Pea-body and Dr. Carol Jameson and other members of the American Council.Mrs. Peabody is planning to travel throughout India during the coming year in

behalf of the College.Irma K. Greenly, Representative.

AT THE HOME BASEBRANCH OFFICERS

New England Branch

President—Mrs. Howard M. LeSourd, 204 Waverly Ave., Newton, Mass.Corresponding Secretary—^Mrs. Wm. S. Mitchell, 138 Lincoln St., Melrose,

Mass.Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Harlon W. Packard, 34 Tremont St.,

Maiden, Mass.Recording Secretary—Miss Elsie Searle, 5 Bryant Ave., Methuen, Mass.Treasurer—Mrs. L. O. Hartman, 18 Hollls St., Newton, Mass.Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Elmer Leslie, 228 Mason Terrace, Brookline,

Mass.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. Wm. T. Carver, 446 Highland Ave., Win-

chester, Mass.Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. A. G. Boynton, 422 Summer St.,

Stamford, Conn.Membership Secretary—Miss Mabel Waring, 548 Hood St., Fall River, Mass.

New York Branch

President—Mrs. Fred A. Victor, 488 Van Cortlandt Pk. Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Parris C. Greenly, 93 Linden Ave., Jersey

City, N. J.

Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Berryman H. McCoy, 19 Prospect St.,

Trenton, N. J.Statistical Secretary for the Home Base—Mrs. Frank L. Addington, 3916

Glenwood Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.Recording Secretary—Mrs. Lawrence J. Munson, 88 Winthrop Street,

Brooklyn, N. Y.Treasurer—Mrs. Clinton Morris, 9 Sunnyside Ave., Hempstead, N. Y.Receiving Treasurer—Mrs. E. S. Burdick, 159 Passiac St., Hackensack, N.J.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. R. A. Hand, 126 Leslie Ave., Merchantville,

N.J.Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Ellis E. Cook, 1519 New York Ave., Brooklyn,

N. Y.Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. Edward J. Fuller, 67 Hanson

Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.Membership Secretary—Miss Florence M. Calkins, 306 West Ave., Elmira,

N. Y.

Philadelphia Branch

President—Mrs. Edward A. Bleckwell, 214 E. Sedgwick St., Alount Airy,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Corresponding Secretary—Miss Elizabeth M. Lee, 400 Shady Ave., E. E.,

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Associate Corresponding Secretary—Miss Juliet Knox, 7320 Brighton Road,Ben Avon, Pa.

Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Wm. H. Dievler, 7730 Union Ave., ElkinsPark, Philadelphia, Pa.

Recording Secretary—Mrs. William Henry Welsh, 6344 Ross St., German-town, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Treasurer—Mrs. Curtis Sooy, Poute 2, Fox 64A, U'illow Grove, Pa.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. P. A. Croney, 2 Llandaff Road, Upper

Darby, Pa.

Secretary of Literature—Mrs. G. L. R. Thompson, 2.^0.S Madison St., Wil-li ins^tr n, Del.

Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. D. R. Graham, Thompson andHarden Drives, North Hills Estates, Bellevue, R. D., Pa,

Membership Secretary—Mrs. L. B. Yale, North East, Pa.

Baltimore BranchPresident—Mrs. Ross A. Davis, 2500 Allendale Rd., Baltimore, Md.Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. J. M. M. Gray, American University Campus,

Washington, D. C.Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Leo H. Paulger, 2836 Chesapeake St.,

Washington, D. C.Recording Secretary—Mrs. Graham Hartzell, 823 Evesham Ave., Govans,

Baltimore, Md.Treasurer—Mrs. Daniel L. Ennis, 309 Fifth St., S. E., Washington, D. C.Home Administration Treasurer—Mrs. Jas. Andrew, 2824 Maryland Ave.,

Baltin^ore, ATd.

Secretary of Field Support—Miss Lulie P. Hooper, 100 University Parkway,W., Baltimore, Md.

Secretary of Literature—Mrs. J. Stirling Cook, 4801 Crescent Ave., Wash-ington, D. C.

Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. W. C. Lowdermilk, 4721 ColoradoAve., Washington, D. C.

Membership Secretary—Mrs. Eugene Wesley Shaw, U Taylor St., ChevyChase, Md.

Cincinnati Branch

President—Mrs. Clarence D. Laylin, 1972 Indianola Ave., Columbus, Ohio.Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Harvey W. Harmer, 531 Hornor Ave., Clarks-

burg, W. Va.Secretary of Home Base—Mrs. C. C. Long, 3434 Darwin Place, Cincinnati,

Ohio.Recording Secretary—Mrs. James W. Johnson, 1554 Clifton Ave., Columbus,

Ohio.Treasurer—Mrs. Paul H. Seay, 3516 Clarkwood Place, Cincinnati, Ohio.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. E. F. Andree, 328 N. High St., Lancaster,

Ohio.Secretary of Literature—Mrs. W. A. R. Bruehl, Jr., 1037 Redway Ave.,

Cincinnati, Ohio.Serretnrv of C'lristtan Stewardshit^—Mrs. T. H. Sudlow, Thornville, Ohio.Membership Secretary—Mrs. J. H. Blackburn, 1242 Ethel Ave., Lakewood,

Ohio.

Northwestern BranchPresident—Mrs. H. L. Hoskins, 4839 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, III.

Correspondihg Secretarx— Mrs. I-rank E. Baker, 71'' Emerson .St., Evanston,111.

Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. C. N. Timmons, 406 Fourth Ave., Sterling,

111.

Recording Secretary—Mrs. Ross Lake, 741 N. Lotus Ave., Chicago, 111.

Treasurer—Mrs. Edwin A. Starr, Crooks and Starr Rd., Royal Oak, Mich.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. W. H. Wones, c/o State Y.M.C.A., Milwau-

kee, Wis.

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Secretary of Literature—Mrs. F. L. Waggoner, 9541 So. Seeley Ave., Chicago,III.

Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. R. B. Stansell, 1717 W. WisconsinAve., Milwaukee, Wis.

Membership Secretary—Mrs. Wilbur M. Ale, 4075 Columbus Ave., Detroit,Mich.

Des Moines BranchPresident—Mrs. Frank L. Wright, 707 N. Forest Ave., Webster Groves, Mo.Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Otis Moore, Tipton, Iowa, R. F. D.Acting Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, Mount Vernon,

Iowa.Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. J. D. Bragg, 3666A Montana St., St. Louis,

Mo.Recording Secretary—Mrs. Dilman Smith, 1238 29th St., Des Moines, Iowa.Treasurer—Mrs. F. R. Hubbard, 670 44th St., Des Moines, Iowa.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. D. W. Britton, Garden City, Mo.Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Bruce J. Flick, 134644th St., Des Moines, Iowa.Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. H. M. Humphrey, InHianoia, Iowa.Membership Secretary—Mrs. Wm. T. Rogers, 1043 Paseo St., Kansas City,

Mo.

Minneapolis BranchPresident—Mrs. J. Ralph Magee, 1299 Grand Ave., St, Paul, Minn.Corresponding Secretary Emeritus—Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, 25 Seymour Ave.,

S. E., Minneapolis, Minn.Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, 607 Wesley Temple Bldg.,

Minneapolis, Minn.Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. F. L. Parso, \\'inHom, Minn.Recording Secretary—Mrs. S. W. Pinkerton, 71 Otis Lane, St. Paul, Minn.Treasurer—Mrs. C. W. Hall, 3206 Second Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minn.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. B. L. Bummert, 2824 14th Ave., S., Minne-

apolis, Minn.Secretary of Literature-—Mrs. G. A. Geer, Wadena, Minn.Secretary of Christian Stewardship.—Mrs. Y. E. Mikkelson, 264.S Polk St.,

S. E., Minneapolis, Minn.Membership Secretary—Mrs. Russell V. Blake, Blakewood, R.R. 2, Robbins-

dale, Minn.

Topeka BranchActing President—Mrs. Charles L. Mead, 3939 Warwick Blvd., Kansas

City, Mo.Corresponding Secretary—Miss Ella M. Watson, 1701 S. Seventeenth St.,

Lincoln, Neb.Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. E. Guy Cutshall, 4926 Madison Ave.,

Lincoln, Nebr.Substitute pro tern—Mrs. John C. Shover, 307 No. 36th Ave., Omaha, Nebr.Recording Secretary—Mrs. Harry Stanley, 1115 Stanley Blvd., Wichita, Kan.Treasurer—Mrs. B. M. Davies, 314 Greenwood Ave., Topeka, Kan.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. Lydia K. Andrew, 628 S. 27th St., Lincoln,

Neir..Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Claude M. Gray, 302 No. 9th St., Garden City,

Kans.Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. Howard Neal, 1426 N. Topeka,

Wichita, Kans.Membership Secretary—Mrs. Albert E. Kirk, 246 Oliver Ave., Wichita,

Kans.

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Pacific Branch

President—Mrs. George A. Miller, 1215 Pine Ave., San Jose, Calif.

CorrespoTiding Secretary—Mrs. J. K. Cecil, 440 Melville Ave., Palo Alto, Calif.

Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Jerome Seymour, 952 No. Lake Ave.,Pasadena, Calif.

Recording Secretary—Mrs. Fletcher White, 445 Georgina Ave., SantaMonica, Calif.

Treasurer—Mrs. Emory A. Warner, 2237 Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles,Calif.

Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. J. J. Bryant, 1234 Atlantic Ave., LongBeach, Calif.

Secretary of Literature—Mrs. V. A. Stowe, 1860 Midwick Drive, Altadena,Calif.

Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. E. J. Clinton, 258 Sutter St., SanFrancisco, Calif.

Membership Secretary—Mrs. Frank P. Flegal, 363 Santa Clara Ave., Oak-land, Calif.

Columbia River Branch

President—Mrs. M. B. Parounagian, 2545 N.E. 26 St., Portland, Ore.Corresponding Secretary Emeritus—ATrs. A. N. Fisher, 328 Tenth St., Port-

land, Ore.

Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. C. H. Van Meter, 4857 N. E. Sth Ave.,Portland, Ore.

Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. C. D. Fletcher, 216 W. First St., So.,

Ontario, Oregon.Recording Secretary—Mrs. E. T. Warrensford, 154 So. 3rd St., Saint Helena,

Ore.Treasurer—Mrs. Paul Edwards, 5603 16th Ave., N. E., Seattle, Wash.Secretary of Field Support—Mrs. J. W. Bunch, Forest Grove, Ore.

Secretary of Literature—Mrs. W. F. Shaw, Gooding, Idaho.Secretary of Christian Stewardship—Mrs. R. S. Dunn, 2614 N.E. 58th Ave.,

Portland, Oregon.Membership Secretary—Miss Ruth Whipple, Box 279, Vancouver, Wash.

STUDENT WORKGeneral Student SecretaryMrs. H. D. Bollinger

2425 Park Place, Evanston, 111.

Branch Student Secretaries

New England—New York— Mrs. R. C. Osborn, 303 N. Aurora St., Ithaca, N. Y.Philadelphia—Mrs. Homer Renton, 135 So. Beeson Ave., Uniontown, Pa.

Baltimore—Mrs. H. E. Wahrenbrook, 15 Sunny Side Road, Silver Springs,

Md.Cincinnati— Mrs. S. R. Dunham, 3909 Berkley Drive, Toledo, Ohio.Northwestern—Mrs. J. L. Murrell, 1240 Gregory Ave., Wilmette, 111.

Minneapolis—Mrs. C. J. Semans, 713 Fairview, Rapid City, So. Dakota.Des Moines—Mrs. H. L. Fossler, Shellsburg, Iowa.ToPEKA—Mrs. W. J. Poundstone, 1620 Ames Street, Winfield, Kans.Pacific—Mrs. Herman Beimfohr, 1848 Midvale Ave., West Los Angeles, Calif.

Columbia River—Dean Ava Milam, Oregon State Agricultural College,

Corvallis, Ore.

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YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORKSecretary of Young People's Work

Mrs. Albert E. Beebe54 Elmwood Place, Bridgeport, Conn.

Branch Superintendents

New England—Miss Mary C. Stewart, 204 Anthony Street, East Providence,Rhode Island.

New York—Mrs. Ray L. Tucker, 228 Kingsburv Avenue, Elmira, N. Y.Philadelphia—Miss Mary A. Johnson, Room '304, 1701 Arch St., Philadel-

phia, Pa.

Baltimore—Mrs. Foster B. Davis, 513 Walker Ave., Govens, Baltimore, Md.Cincinnati—Mrs. Cyrus C. Dash, 20->l Mars Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio.Northwestern—Mrs. M. O. Robbins, R. R. 1, Box 240 R, Indianapolis, Ind.

Des Moines—Mrs. Emma Amburn Arnold, Chelsea, Iowa.Minneapolis—Mrs. E. E. Whiteside, Beresford, So. Dak.ToPEKA—Mrs. Z. W. Gunckel, 315 E. Thompson St., Sapulpa, Okla.Pacific—Mrs. Arthur Roberts, 304 LaFrance Ave., Alhambra, Calif.

Columbia River—Mrs. Paul H. Ashby, West 224 Fourth St., Spokane, Wash.

JUNIOR WORKSecretary of Junior Work

Mrs. Carl F. New208 Ridgewood Rd., Roland Park, Baltimore, Md.

Branch SuperintendentsNew England—Mrs. Wallace Dearing, 22 Merriam|St.,lDalton, Mass.New York—Mrs. Phillip S. Watters, 34 Park Drive, White Plains, N. Y.Philadelphia—Mrs. S. V. Holmes, 201 Eleventh St., Franklin, Pa.Baltimore—Mrs. Art Brown, 3818 No. Military Rd., Arlington, Va.Cincinn.\ti—Mrs. J. R. Rowntree, 1264 Ashland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.Northwestern—Mrs. J. B. Schaub, 1040 Isabella Street, Wilmette, 111.

Des Moines—Mrs. C. R. Cassell, 1208 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, Iowa.Minneapolis—Mrs. F. E. Malchow, Wilder, Minn.Topeka—Mrs. Lottie B. Spyker, 1107 Clayton St., Denver, Colo.

Pacific—Mrs. F. B. Sheldon, 45 Knowlesway, Stockton, Calif.

Columbia River—Mrs. P. F. Pilcher, 935 Malaga St., Wenatchee, Wash.

LIBRARY SERVICEDirector of Library ServiceMiss Alice I. Hazeltine

39 Claremont Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Branch Directors

New England—Mrs. Elmer Leslie, 228 Mason Terrace, Brookline, Mass.New York—Mrs. Ellis E. Cook, 1519 New York Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.Philadelphi.a—Mrs. C. L. R. Thompson, 2308 Madison St., Wilmington, DelBaltimore—Mrs. Harry A. Allers, 3903 Dorchester Rd., Baltimore, Md.Cincinnati—Mrs. H. G. Trout, 100 Eldon Ave., Columbus, Ohio.Northwestern—Mrs. R. L. Marquis, 3300 Oak Park Ave., Berwyn, 111.

Des Moines—Mrs. J. D. Bragg, 3666A Montana St., St. Louis, Mo.Minneapolis—Mrs. G. A. Geer, Wadena, Minn.Topeka—Mrs. Claude M. Gray, 302 North 9th St., Garden City, Kan.Pacific—Mrs. J. G. Early, 314 So. Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

Columbia River—Mrs. W. F. Shaw, Gooding, Idaho.

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BRANCH ASSIGNMENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGECONFERENCES

GermanEast German, New York Branch.

Swedish

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

Norwegian -Danish

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

located.

MISSIONARIES SUPPORTED BY

YOUNG PEOPLE JUNIORSEXTENSIONMEMBERS

New England

Margaret I. HermistonFaye Robinson

New England

Lois CurticeClara Pearl Dyer

New England

Mildred Burton, M.D.

New York

Li Bi Cu, M.D.A. Edith FredericksZella M. GliddenEmily Irene HaynesMaybel HolmesLula A. MillerAzalia E. PeetAlice M. PowellMabel A. Woodruff

New York

Edna L BradleyLillian L. HolmesHelen G. Moore

New York

Mrs. Alice H. Sharp

Philadelphl\

Martha DanielsJenny LindBlanche SearchAlberta SprowlesMartha Whiteley

Philadelphia

Margaret CrouseAgnes DoveOlive GivenJennie Reid

Philadelphia

Helen CouchRhoda EdmestonGwendoline Narbeth

Baltimore

Frances RoberdsLaura V. Williams

Baltimore

Ruth E. Robinson

Baltimore

Leona Thomasson

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Cincinnati

Charlotte Brown lee

Grace DavisAlice FinlayTrudy Schlaefli

Bertha StarkeyMargaret E. Tucker, M.D.Ethel WheelockRetta Wilson

Cincinnati

Dora FearonJessie MarkerGlora Wysner

Cincinnati

Catherine BakerGrace Hollister

Ruth HynemanLela KintnerGrace Man ley

Bess L. Phillips

Carolyn Teague

NorthwesternAnna Agnes AbbottSylvia E. AldrichCarol ChenMary L. DeamBernice E. Elliott

Ruth GaboschOvidia HansingAva F. HuntMyra A. JaquetAda M. NelsonZola PayneElsie I. ReikEmma StewartBella SinghBeatrice R. TerryMaren TirsgaardLulu TubbsHarriet M. Whitmer

NorthwesternGertrude ArbogastEdna B. BaconIrene BearMaren P. BordingElizabeth HobartBertha Alfrida KostrupMabel MorganCaroline S. PeckmanRachel PengFrances QuintonAdis RotibinsMarion Walker

NorthwesternBernita Block, M.D.Ruth DannerAlice Huang, M.D.Victoria LangTreva OverholtYasmine Peters

Marion Simons

Des MoinesLahuna ClintonJennie JonesKatherine KeyhoeOrtha M. LaneEthel RugglesMildred Simonds

Des MoinesBlanche BairOla DudleyAnna Lulu GolischMary K. MetskerMildred Pierce

Des MoinesJennie BridenbaughStella Dodd, M.D.Jeanette Oldfather

MinneapolisGertrude BeckerRuth Harvey

MinneapolisCilicia CrossWilhelmina Erbst

MinneapolisOna ParmenterJessie Pfaff

TopeKAIrma Collins

Gladys DoyleE. Fern McCaigHarriet P. MorrisElsie May PowerEllen SmithDora A. Wagner

TOPEKABlanche AppleBarbara N. BaileyEva OstromMary Louise Perrill

Myrtle Precise

May E. SutherlandHazel O. Wood

ToPEKAGertrude BylerBlanche McCartneyMildred Blakely

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Pacific

Agnes Dora DunnGrace Pepper SmithAlice WhitneyMiss Tamm (Chinese)

Pacific

Rose WaldronEleanor Stallard

Dora Saunby(part)

Pacific

Marguerite DeckerFrances E. JohnsonDora Saunby

(part)

Columbia River

Bernice Cornelison

Columbia River

Leila Dingle

Columbia River

Mary BedellEdna Holder

TERRITORY EMBRACED IN THE ELEVEN BRANCHES

New England Branch—New England States.

New York Branch—New York and New Jersey.Philadelphia Branch—Pennsylvania and Delaware.Baltimore Branch—Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Caro-

lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the Canal Zone.Cincinnati Branch—Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama

and Mississippi.

Northwestern Branch— Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin.Des Moines Branch—Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana.Minneapolis Branch—Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.ToPEKA Branch—Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New

Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas.Pacific Branch—California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.Columbia River Branch—Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

BRANCH ACTIVITIES 1936-37

The first year of special effort leading up to the celebration of the Seven-tieth Anniversary of the founding of the Society closed with the meeting of theGeneral Executive Committee in Syracuse. The reports from the Brancheswere most encouraging.

The work for the year was under the leadership of the special SeventiethAnniversary Commission, Mrs. C. L. Mead, General Chairman, Mrs. W. C.Hanson, Educational Chairman and Mrs. J. D. Bragg, Promotional Chairman.In all the Branches Seventieth Anniversary Commissioners have been ap-pointed and other district, conference and auxiliary Anni\ersary officers arealready at work.The emphasis for the first year was to be educational and so it has been.

Personal spiritual growth was stressed, also the spiritual growth of auxiliaries

through the organizing and maintaining of Pra>er Circles. Missionar\- in-

formation has been given the members through a study of the field supportof the auxiliary, through the reading of the history of the Society, "ValorousVentures," anid through the program work based on the textbook, "CongoCrosses."

The Branches reported that 4,151 copies of "Valorous Ventures" had beensold this year and 9,764 copies of "Congo Crosses." These figures show thatmuch reading and study were carried on by the auxiliaries for in addition to

these special books for the year the Branch Reports and the Year Book of theSociety, all of which furnish information about the work on the field, had their

usual sales and use in the Branches.Prayer Circles numbering 2,651 were reported by ten Branches and show

that the auxiliaries were not unmindful of their spiritual opportunities andobligations. For the personal spiritual growth of the individual member "MyRecord" had been prepared. More than thirty-six thousand of these little

booklets were sold.

Although the stress was on the educational program for this year thepromotional goals were not overlooked and the following reports from theBranches show encouraging signs of progress. Seventeen thousand two hun-dred nineteen new adult members were enrolled during the year. Six Branchesreported a net gain in adult membership. The total membership is 351,777and the total number of organizations 15,833.

There was a net gain in subscriptions to the Woman's Missionary Friendof one thousand and fifteen. The total subscription list of the Friend is now58,240.

Eight Branches alone reported 580 auxiliaries meeting all goals, a larger

number than met the goals last year.

As to finances, thirty-three one thousand dollar gifts were paid or pledged.

Such a gift makes the donor or the one so honored a Seventieth AnniversaryPatron. Philadelphia Branch has the honor of having paid or pledged its

whole quota of the one thousand dollar gifts in this the first year of effort.

Two hundred sixteen seventy dollar gifts were received and 129 additional

were pledged. This gift makes the giver a Seventieth Anniversary Member.The Sunset Shares came in in. such numbers that no exact report was avail-

able, but at least five thousand were paid. The total receipts for the year were$1,450,151.32. This was a gain of $86,982.51 of which more than one-half

came from Anniversary gifts the rest from a designated bequest to New Eng-land Branch.

Throughout the Branches the Anniversary program has been under-girded with prayer. There have been chosen women who have given them-selves to intercessory prayer. Many "retreats" have been held. There hasbeen careful presentation of all plans through coaching conferences. And

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inspiration and enthusiasm have come in many places among the Branchesfrom the presentation of the beautiful Seventieth Anniversary pageant.

Through all this special effort to meet Anniversary goals the regular workof the Branches has not been neglected. Interest has been sustained in ourstewardship program. Four Branches reported reading courses conductedwith many readers. One thousand and eight magazines were sent by theauxiliaries to missionaries on the field. The Society participated in thirteen

interdenominational summer schools and in thirty-one Methodist summerschools, reporting an attendance at the Methodist schools alone of 3,352.

Seven hundred and fifty-five registered for leadership training coursesand in nine Branches 326 are reported to have received credit for completinga course. Thousands of dollars worth of supplies, medical and for Christmasboxes, were sent to the field without any credit being given in our receipts.

Nine Branches reported new life income gifts received to the total amount of

$37,360.The extension department was expanded this year into the membership

department but with no change in the objectives regarding the extension workitself. Reports show extension members to the number of 28,313, supportingthirty-two missionaries and three Nationals. One hundred and seventy-five

new extension circles have been formed and thirty-two extension circles be-

came auxiliaries. One hundred ninety-nine "comrade churches" reportedmembers secured; $3,036. came in through the little yellow sunshine bags.

The membership secretaries were special guests at the General ExecutiveMeeting in Syracuse and were also delegates.

The student department reported at least one hundred and sixty-five

colleges reached through the work in the Branches. Missionaries met manystudents through house parties, itineraries, chapel services, Y.W.C.A. andWorld Friendship groups and Wesley Foundation forums. A "News Letter"service conducted by the general student secretary has kept the Branchesin close touch with each other and has furnished inspiration and information

to the Branch student secretaries. Literature has been prepared and dis-

tributed and a close contact maintained with the candidate work of the

Society.

The Wesleyan Service Guild reported a membership of 5,213, a net gain

of eight hundred. The number of professional and business women reached

by the Guild is larger than this membership figure would indicate as only

those paying full dues to both the Foreign and Home Missionary Societies

through the Guild were reported. The Guild is at work in fifty-one confer-

ences. There are thirty-six conference Guild secretaries. It is now forming a

closer link with the foreign field by enrolling missionaries as "sister members,"an honor paid the missionaries by Guild members in this country.

The young people's department reports 3080 Standard Bearer and youngwoman's societies with a membership of 42,444. The giving of this departmentwas $84,485. The Thank-Offering went to Hwa Nan College. It has been a

year of special emphasis on preparation for advance. Conference and district

officers have made surveys of their occupied and unoccupied territory. Aspecial program has been developed for young woman's societies and the

success of this program has been most encouraging. House parties and re-

treats for study of methods of advance have been widespread. Three hundredand thirty-two new young people's groups have been organized.

The past year was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the workfor juniors. New organizations were stressed and this department reports

506 new organizations, a net gain of 311. Six hundred and seven children

were made life members and there was a net gain in receipts from this depart-

ment of $4,790. Six hundred and thirty-three "achievement posters" werecompleted which means that African village life was studied and goals were

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met. A leadership training course was taken by 304 junior leaders and 373juniors attended summer schools for juniors. Subscriptions to the Jutiior

Missionary Friend are 28,746. The junior secretaries were special guests at

the General Executive meeting at Syracuse and also delegates.

The publication office has had an extremely busy but successful year.

The books of the office closed with a small but encouraging balance. Thereceipts were $64,502.31. It should be noted that these receipts are not in-

cluded in the receipts of the Society for the >'ear as the funds of the publication

office which includes the receipts from magazine subscriptions and all the out-

put of literature are kept entirely separate from the other funds of the Society.

The general office in New York has had a most trying and busy yearowing to the situation in China, but contact has been kept with the mis-sionaries and their families and the officers of the Society have been keptinformed as to their safety. The general office has shown itself to be a vital

factor in the work of the Society.

The personnel for 1937-38 of the General Executive Committee presentsseveral changes. Mrs. F. F. Lindsay after thirty years of remarkable service

to the Society sent in her resignation as vice-president at large. Mrs. Lindsayfor fourteen years was a member of the secretary of the Foreign Departmentand for fourteen additional years was a vice-president of the Society andchairman of the Home Department. For two years she had been a vice-

president at large. She was a member of the consultation committee with theBoard of Foreign Missions and also of the joint commission with the Woman'sHome Missionary Society. She has contributed almost more than any otherone woman to the efficiency, strategy and spirituality of the Society. Thewomen both on the field and at the home base owe her a great debt of grati-

tude. Mrs. Lindsay continues as a member of the committee studying pro-

posed plans for unification.

Mrs. C. W. Flint, after only one year as vice-president at large, felt

obliged to resign for health reasons. The new vice-presidents at large areMrs. Franklin Reed and Mrs. W. C. Hanson. Miss Jean Bothwell was elected

as assistant treasurer of the Society.

In the Foreign Department the place of Mrs. Franklin Reed who hadbeen secretary of the Department was taken by Mrs. C. H. Hardie. Mrs. Otis

Moore of Des Moines Branch is on an official visit to India. Her place is takentemporarily by Mrs. F. G. Brooks.

In the Home Department, Mrs. C. C. Long is the new home base secre-

tary for Cincinnati Branch, succeeding Mrs. Gaver who had served four years.

Mrs. H. W. Packard takes the place of Mrs. Adolphus Linfield as homebase secretary of New England Branch, Mrs. Linfield had served four years.

The place of Mrs. Cutshall, home base secretary of Topeka Branch who is onleave of absence is being taken by Mrs. J. C. Shover.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society goes forward into the secondyear of preparation for the Seventieth Anniversary with high purpose andwith joyous courage.

Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Secretary of the Home Department.

REPORTSCOMMITTEE ON BY-LAWSAdopted Changes in By-Laws

By-law III. Departments, Section entitled Home Department.Change the first sentence to read, "The Home Department shall consist of

the president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, ex-officio, one vice-

president as chairman, the Branch secretaries of the home base, the secretaryof the young people's department, the secretary of the junior department, thesecretary of student work, the secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, andthe recording secretary of the Department."

By-laiv XX. Funds, Section 7 , second paragraph.Change to read, "Maximum life income gift rates on a single life shall be

as follows:

—

Age Rate Age Rate25to35inc 3% 58 5.2

36 3.1 59 5.2

37 3.2 60 5.3

38 i.i 61 5.4

39 3.4 62 5.4

40 3.5 63 5.5

41 3.6 64 5.642 3.7 65 5.7

43 3.8 66 5.8

44 3.9 67 5.9

45 4.0 68 6.0

46 4.1 69 6.1

47 4.2 70 6.2

48 4.3 71 6.3

49 4.4 72 6.5

50 4.5 73 6.6

51 4.6 74 6.8

52 4.7 75 7.0

53 4.8 76 7.1

54 4.9 77 7.3

55 5.0 78 7.5

56 5.1 79 7.8

57 5.1

For eighty and over the rate is ^%. The rate on two lives payable duringthe joint existence and to the survivor of the two lives shall be determined by a

schedule approved by the General Executive Committee and held in theoffice of the general treasurer."

By-law XII. Expenses.Paragraph 1, delete (b) and insert,

(6) The travel expenses to and from the meeting of the General ExecutiveCommittee incurred by the general officers, the special secretaries,

the recording secretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments, thepublisher, the editors of the Woman's Missionary Friend, the JuniorMissionary Friend and the Executive Daily, the secretaryof thegeneral office, the chairman of the world citizenship committee, theSwedish representative, the Branch corresponding and home basesecretaries, two delegates from each Branch, and the missionaries for

whom it is the first session after their return on furlough, providingthey have served on the field a term of at least four years.

Delete (c) and insert,

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(c) Travel expenses to and from the Mid-Year Meeting, for the generalofficers, the members of the Home and Foreign Departments, thepublisher, the editors of the Woman's Missionary Friend, the JuniorMissiofiary Friend and the secretary of the general office.

Insert (d) and (e) as follows and change present (d) to (f), (e) to (g)and (f) to (h),

{d) Entertainment expenses during the meeting of the General ExecutiveCommittee for the general officers, the special secretaries, recordingsecretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments, the editor of theExecutive Daily, the secretary of the general office and the chair-

man of the world citizenship committee.{e) Entertainment expenses during Mid-Year Meeting, for the general

officers, the special secretaries and the recording secretaries of theHome and Foreign Departments.

Paragraph 2, delete (c) and (d) and insert,

(c) Entertainment expenses at the meeting of the General ExecutiveCommittee and Mid-Year Meeting, of the publisher, the editor of theWoman's Missionary Friend and the Junior Missionary Friend.

Add a third section as follows,

3. Entertainment expenses of the secretary of the general office at

Mid-Year Meeting shall be paid from the funds of that office.

By-laiv XXIII. Committees.Paragraph 1, On Nominations. In twelfth and thirteenth lines delete

"consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions" and "investments."Add a fifth section as follows:

5. On Consultation with the Board of Foreign Missions(a) There shall be a committee on consultation with the Board of Foreign

Missions composed of the general officers, one member from theForeign Department and one member from the Home Department(nominated by the respective departments). This committee shall

have the privilege of co-opting such members of either Department as

may be deemed necessary. The regular meeting shall be held annuallyat the place and preceding the meeting of the General ExecutiveCommittee.

{b) Ad interim joint meetings of Board and Society representatives shall

be held as authorized by the Committee on Consultation with theBoard of Foreign Missions.

By-law XXIII—Committees, Section 3 entitled, On InvestmentsBeginning with tenth line, delete the following sentence

—"When alife income gift lapses and before the net proceeds are paid to the Branchfrom which the donor came, ten percent shall be deducted and retainedfor investment and reinvestment as an additional reserve to protect life

income agreements."

Notice of Proposed Change in Constitution

The committee gives notice of a proposed change in Article II of theConstitution, believing that the purpose as now stated is not adequatelyworded.

ACTIONS OF GENERAL OFFICERSAd Interim, 1936-1937

Acting under authority conferred upon them by the by-laws of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, thegeneral officers of the said Society voted:

To authorize and direct Mrs. J. W. Masland, treasurer of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society- of the Methodist Episcopal Church, resident of

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Philadelphia, Pa., to move the office of the general treasurer from 30 Mary-land Life Building, Baltimore, Md., to 6701 N. Broad St., Oak Lane, Philadel-

phia, Pa., and to change the bank account of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church from the Mercantile Trust Co.,Baltimore, Md., to the Industrial Trust Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

To authorize and direct Evelyn Riley Nicholson, president, and Eloise A.Woolcver, recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of

the Methodist Episcopal Church, to execute a quitclaim deed to the HamburgMethodist Episcopal Church, Hamburg, New York, remising, releasing andquitclaiming all the Society's right, title and interest in the Abbott Homestead,situated on Main Street, in the Village of Hamburg, N. Y., said premises beingmore particularly described in a deed given by Julia C. Abbott to Eliza Thomp-son, dated Oct. 21, 1909, and recorded in the Erie County Clerk's Office in

Liber 1143 of deeds at page 243.

To grant authority to advertise for sale certain land in Wellington, Kansas,deeded to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by Dr. Eliza J. Hyndman.

That the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch surrender their claim to the property bequeathed to the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society and the Bean Hill Methodist Episcopal Church at

Norwichtown, Conn., jointly, under the will of Mrs. Harriet Jane Chapmanof Norwich, Conn., for such a sum as the Bean Hill Church considers equitable,namely, $700.00.

That Miss Bailey be granted permission to draw on the reserve fund to theamount of $5,000 to carry the expenses of the publication office through thesummer months.

That Elizabeth S. Masland, treasurer of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, be and is hereby authorized andempowered to sell, assign, transfer and deliver 1—$250.00 Bond, Dallas Ath-letic Club 5's-44 and one share Dallas Office and Club Building Incorporated,registered in the name of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of theMethodist Episcopal Church, at such price and upon such terms as she shall

deem advisable.'

Eloise A. Woolever, Recording Secretary.

ACTIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEETAKEN ON RECOMMENDATION OF THE

COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENTAd Interim

It was voted: That we recommend that national Units of the W^oman'sForeign Missionary Society in Latin America,

—

1. Study conventions and treaties signed at the Inter-AmericanConference held in Buenos Aires, December 1936, for the maintenance of

peace and convey their reactions and suggestions to us.

Act to aid in public understanding and support that these treaties

may be promptly ratified in the country of the Unit.

2. Consider ways of making conventions 7-11 most effective.

That we recommend that money raised by national Units for foreign mis-

sionary objectives be sent for the present to the central treasurer of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society of that country to be disbursed by herfor Unit objectives as ordered. That the Units interested in work in and byCentral Europe be excepted from this rule, their methods to be directed byMrs. Pflaumer, secretary of work for Central Europe.

That the official correspondents of the Society be requested to suggest tothe committee on International Department the names of nationals who might

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be available as delegates to the General Executive Committee Meeting in

1939.

That the report of the committee on World Federation of MethodistWomen for Christian Service be adopted as follows,—

•

Believing that the time has come for completing the plans outlined in

1929 for the organization of a World Federation of Methodist Women for

Christian Service, we recommend:

(a) That our Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Committee on In-

ternational Department be authorized to take such steps as seemrequisite to the accomplishment of this purpose.

(&) That Mrs. Nicholson be asked to correspond with the International

Department Units now organized in 22 countries asking them tounite with us in forming this World Federation of Methodist Women.

(c) That overtures be made them on the premise that each Unit continueto work under its own constitution and by-laws and under its ownofficers with the aim and purpose of, "Knowing Christ and helping to

make Him known to all nations."{d) In view of the experience of the past eight years, we recommend that

when ten national Units in addition to our own, signify their desire

and purpose to join in such a world organization of Methodist women,a meeting shall be called for the purpose of effecting a permanentorganization.

(e) We feel that this first meeting for organization and cultivation shouldbe held at the time and place of the General Executive CommitteeMeeting in October, 1939, and that the attendance of delegated repre-

sentatives from each International Unit should be urged.

(/) Budget provisions would be necessary immediately for promotionalexpense and to cover travel of officers to the first international meeting.We recommend therefore, that each national Unit be asked to con-tribute to the budget the equivalent of one cent (U.S.) annually for

each paid-up member. On that basis, our own Woman's Foreign Mis-sionary Society adult membership would provide about $2,650 ayear. If the other Units contribute proportionately it would mean,possible from the first, a net annual income to the International

Society budget of more than $3,000.

(g) We recommend that an official invitation be sent to the Woman'sHome Missionary Society, the Woman's Council of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South, and to the missionary organization of the

Methodist Protestant women asking them to cooperate with us in this

effort to establish a World Federation of Methodist Women for

Christian Service.

Annual Meeting, 1937

It was voted: That we confer with Mrs. Pflaumer concerning the paymentof the salary of Mrs. Bozinovitch, informing her that only $78 has been sent

to the general treasurer for this purpose.That, because Hanna Scharpff, missionary in Korea, who has been sup-

ported by the German Unit, is an American citizen and therefore can nolonger be supported by them (due to Nazi laws), we take up this matter withMrs. Pflaumer and that we ask the German women in this country, in lieu of

helping in the support of deaconness work in Germany (as they have done in

the past), to assume Miss Scharpff's salary.That Mrs. Nicholson be asked to write letters of sympathy upon the death

of Frieda Reiman to her parents and to the Swiss Unit.That the annual grant of $200 for promotion and literature be continued to

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Miss Johansen of the Scandinavian Unit for the coming year and that $35 for

the same purpose be sent to Esthonia.That we send $30 to the Christian Women's Federation for Christian

literature in Mexico.That we send Miss Furuta, president of Women's Work in the Japanese

Church a letter of greeting and sincere appreciation of her work and service.

That an amount not exceeding $50 be appropriated from the InternationalDepartment funds for promotional help and literature to be sent at the dis-

cretion of the Committee on International Department to Units needing suchmaterial.

Eloise a. Woolever, Recording Secretary.

{For list of International Department Unit Correspondents see page iji.)


UNIT MEETINGAd Interim

It was voted: That the following message should be sent to Mrs. Wooleverwho is representing the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at the annualmeeting of the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, South; "Our official group in semi-annual business session sendloving greetings and felicitations to Council. Are studying Council's plans.

Many features please us, especially Council's method of combining and pro-

moting home and foreign work. We recommend for Council's considerationBranch system which develops initiative, voluntary service and auxiliary

understanding. We value organization for children and youth and groups for

business and professional women, periodicals for women and children, au-tonomy of women's organization. \Ve invite Council to affiliate with Societythrough International Department with hope of developing later WorldFederation of Methodist Women."

It was voted: That Mrs. Nicholson be authorized to confer with Mrs.Goode as to calling a meeting of the two women's committees of the GeneralConference Commission for March 30-31 in Chicago. That the expenses of

this and other meetings of our committee be paid by the general treasurer.

That we authorize publication in the Friend of the strong points evident in

the work of the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, South and the work of the Methodist Protestant Church.

That we approve in general for the united Methodist Church the plan of a

Woman's Missionary Council.That we urge the continuance of the system of Branch organization with

whatever geographical changes may be necessary.

That we defer action on point of dues or gift membership until a further

study is made.That one of the four special secretaries shall be chosen by the Home

Department to become a regularly co-opted member of the Commission onWomen's Work with expenses paid from the general treasury. She shall havefull part in the discussion and a vote if it is found to be in accord with GeneralConference requirements.

It was voted: That we pay our apportionment, $4,060, toward the expenses

of the Hangchow Conference, this sum to be included in appropriations and the

first payment to be made in 1937-1938.That the report of the committee appointed to consider nomination of a

delegate to the Hangchow Conference be adopted as follows:—That we ap-

prove the nomination of Mrs. Moore as our delegate in accordance with the

action of the Home Department; that if Mrs. Moore be chosen as a delegate to

Hangchow and it is possible for her to go to India also, the additional expense

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of the trip to India and the money needed for Hangchow be prorated to theBranches and be taken from foreign emergency or be raised by special gifts.

That if for an}' reason Mrs. Moore cannot go, we submit as an alternate

nomination the name of Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf.

It was voted: That money especially designated for any institution cannotbe a Seventieth Anniversary gift.

That the expenses of the Seventieth Anniversary educational chairman to

the mid-year meeting and General Executive Committee Meeting be paid asare those of the officers of the Society.

That the Foreign and Home Departments meet October 14-21 in Syracuse,N. Y. in conjunction with the General Executive Committee Meeting.

That a letter to the National Broadcasting Company be sent through theBoard of Foreign Missions expressing our appreciation of the international

broadcast of Stanley Jones.That the recommendations of the committee on International Depart-

ment be adopted.*Eloise a. Woolever, Recording Secretary

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HOME DEPARTMENTAd Interim

It was voted that the plans as presented in the "Annual Message" and theyoung people's and junior material for leaders be approved.

Seventieth Anniversary. That the following Three-Year Plan WorkingOutline be approved: A. Anniversary plans are administered through com-missioners.

1 Seven General Commissioners, who create and administer for the entire

Society.

2 Seven Branch Commissioners to carry out the seven-point plan in eachBranch.

3 Seventy District Commissioners in each Branch who assist and counselthroughout the districts.

4 One Local Commissioner in each adult organization to assist andcounsel in advancing plans.

B. Program. This plan includes a seven-point program as follows:

I. Cooperation between Branches and International Units, looking toward aWorld Federation of Methodist Women. II. Three-point educational pro-gram, known as the Teaching Mission with these objectives:

1 A deepening of personal Christian living.

2 Education of the membership on the work of the Society and thepresent missionary enterprise.

3 Development of trained leaders.

That we do not have a goal poster but an Anniversary publicity posterfor churchwide use.

That we approve a definite plan for memorizing hymns, Scripture, andprayers leading toward a great retreat service in 1939. Suggestions: (a) Choiceof seven hymns through auxiliaries; (b) Promotion of "singing schools or

societies;" (c) Use of the "finishing school" idea; (d) Cultivation and use of

musical leadership in local organizations.To approve holding Seventy Retreats in Branches.To approve placing the "VVork Book" in the hands of officers as far as

possible.

* See actions on International Department.

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That Mrs. Hanson be authorized to prepare a leaflet on the seven-pointcoaching conference and that the method of iiandling be left to the Branches,the price to be printed on the leaflet.

That the expenses of the Anniversary educational chairman to mid-yearand Executive be paid as are those of the officers of the Home Department.

Wesleyan Service Guild. To approve the following recommendations withregard to Guild field representation.

1 That there be representatives of the Wesleyan Service Guild in

dififerent sections of the United States.

2 That these representatives be called Guild regional representatives.

3 That these representatives be responsible for education and promotionamong the Guilds in their region, interpreting the two Societies to the Guildunits and the work of the Guild to the two Societies.

4 That the method of reporting continue the same as heretofore, i.e. unit

to conference, to central committee.5 That the United States be divided into Guild "Regions" geographically,

such as "north-east," "south-east," etc., each region to be composed of several

conferences and the boundaries to be determined according to convenience.6 That these regional representatives be advisory members of the

central committee.7 That the expense for carrying on their work be met by the Guilds

inviting them to their meetings or when they are asked to represent the Guildat the meetings of the two Societies their expenses be provided as are those of

other department representatives.

8 That in those cases where we now have regional representatives ap-pointed by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, we consult with somerepresentatives of the Home Society to see if these would be satisfactory and,if so, ask the Branches to allow the central committee to appoint them asregional representatives of the field.

To approve the plan for sister membership as proposed by the central

committee, i.e. the making of missionaries members of the Guild by Guildmembers here so that there may be built up a fellowship between the mis-

sionaries on the field and the members of the Guild.

Student Work. That the holding of Retreats whether it be on the campusor in house parties be included as a definite part of the student program.

That our major emphasis continue to be on Sister Colleges.

That students be given the opportunity to participate in the SeventiethAnniversary plan by featuring seven dollar gifts for a Sister College.

That up-to-date information on the Sister Colleges be made available in

pamphlet form, the material to be taken from the Year Book.That the "Oriental Bazaar" pamphlet for program use also be made

available.

Young People's Department. To approve the plan of cooperation withthe Board of Education in the Methodist Youth Council (a plan of correlation

in the Methodist Youth Council of the Standard Bearers, Queen Esthers andorganizations under the Board of Education, each organization keeping its

autonomy.)That under leadership training there be a special course for high school

girls to consist of five lessons and a new course for counselors—the price of

each to be fifty cents—this subject to the approval of the leadership training

committee.That the duties to be assigned to the young people's Anniversary com-

missioners be left to the Branches.That the material for the young woman's work go to the Branch young

people's secretary and be channelled by her to the proper person.

Junior Department. That the Thank-Offering objective be a new gym-

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nasium for Happy Hill School at Fukuoka, Japan, and an athletic field for

Kwassui at Nagasaki, and that an appropriate device be chosen by Mrs. New.That "Information for Leaders" be prepared and one copy given free to

each junior organization.

That decision about the preparation of a program for union societies beleft to Mrs. New after consultation with Mrs. Prynn, junior superintendentof the Woman's Home Missionary Society.

That, beginning with October, the Junior Missionary Friend issue tennumbers a year instead of twelve, that there be sixteen pages instead of twelve,

that covers be more attractive, that color appear from time to time and thatbetter type and paper be used.

That the Branches set their own Seventieth Anniversary goals for thejunior department in their respective Branches.

Literature. That programs be authorized for union adult and youngpeople's organizations and that Miss Bailey and Mrs. Beebe be asked to

represent us in the preparation of the same.That a uniform mite-box for all departments be prepared in keeping with

the setting of the study for the year.

That as a publicity feature for the Friend we have a song contest, wordsto direct attention to the value of the magazine.

That we accept the offer of Miss Bailey that the bill for literature sent tothe Woman's Council of the Methodist Church South be paid from the fundsof the publication ofifice.

That the Friendship Week leaflet ordered in October be prepared imme-diately and be made available to the Branches as they may wish; to be underone cover, price approximately three cents a copy.

That the Year Book for 1937-38 be the same size as the one for thepresent year.

That we authorize an order for a printing of the pages in the March"World Outlook" containing an article on the W.F.M.S., these to be appor-tioned to the Branches as publicity material.

That the devotional book be based on a selected theme which will har-monize with the theme for the year and that the working out of the details

be left to Miss Bailey and Mrs. Bragg.That the publication of a promotional leaflet for extension members in

connection with the Anniversary be authorized, this to be supplied to Brancheson their order.

With the aim of creating interest and securing the viewpoint of youngerwomen on the work and value of the W.F.M.S., we recommend that plans bemade for securing manuscripts from women 25-35 years of age on this subject,an award of ten dollars being made for the best one submitted, with a secondand third award of five dollars each.

Stewardship. That the stewardship secretaries recognize their responsi-bility for promoting the use of "My Record" by every member.

That the suggestions in Personal Christian Growth as given in "MyRecord" become the standards for the stewardship department.

That there be special emphasis upon tithing and a culmination in theability to attain the following: "I have surrendered myself, my time, mytalents, my means to the work of the Kingdom subject to the guidance of God."

To recommend the continuance of Prayer Circles.

That the stewardship committee continue to have one column a monthin the Friend.

Leadership Training. I That we accept the offer of Dr. Forsyth andthe Board of Education to collaborate with us in the preparation of certainnew courses, and to handle the accrediting from the Board of Educationoffice. The new courses include:

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1 For officers, a "Work Book" to cost one dollar and to contain: (a) theadult auxiliary course; (b) four informational units for leaders, two of whichshall be arranged as First Series Courses and two purely informational.

2 For auxiliaries and young women, a course to replace the present Aand B, to cost fifty cents.

3 For young people— (a) A series I course for Standard Bearer girls

(a five lesson ten hour course) to cost fifty cents, (b) A series II course for

counselors (ten lesson twenty hour course) to cost fifty cents.

II That the proposed world citizenship committee course be offered

under the caption of a Special Interest Course, that it be offered for generalenrollment, that credit be given only to those who have had credit in anotherW.F.M.S. course, and that it be produced in cooperation between the worldcitizenship committee and the Board of Education. It is understood that theworld citizenship committee in Evanston will assume responsibility for

authorship and content of courses, that the Board of Education will assumepublication, distribution, guidance and issuance of credits. The cost of this

course is to be fifty cents.

III It is restated that the promotion and registration of these coursesbe carried on through the Branches as in previous years. The registration

blanks to be secured from the depots of supplies.

IV All courses offered shall be subject to editorial review by the leader-

ship training committee.Miscellaneous. That the Forward Movement Committee be continued

to become active when needed.That $200 be paid for literature in Sweden and $25 for literature for

Esthonia from the funds of the International Department.That the Home Department of the General Executive Committee cannot

agree to assume responsibility for the support of the "shrine" in TremontStreet Church, nor for the removal of the "shrine" room in event of the sale

of the church, but will remove the museum when such removal is necessary.

That Mrs. Beebe be our coopted member of the committee to studyunification if the W.H.M.S. will approve of having such an additional member.

That special guests be brought to Executive two days early for con-ferences with their respective department heads in order that they may befree to attend to their duties as delegates. In case New York Branch does notagree to entertain them these two extra days that each Branch assume this

expense for its two delegates.

That we pay our apportionment to Hangchow Conference expenses($4080.00) to be included in appropriations, the first payment to be in 1937-38(that is, one-half the amount).

That $25.00 be allowed for publicity for the Hangchow Conference.That we favor the deputation to India in conjunction with the Hangchow

Conference provided the expense be put into appropriations but not underHome Administration.

That we approve the nomination of Mrs. Moore as a delegate to theHangchow Conference.

That through the chairman of the committee on Negro work we send aletter of appreciation to Mrs. Clair for her contribution of the leaflet for theNegro Conferences.

That we recommend that conference treasurers' books be audited annually.That in view of the very full programs of both Board and Society in con-

nection with Million Unit Fellowship and Seventieth Anniversary we limit

our joint program for next year to hearty cooperation with the EducationalDay, Nov. 9, 1937 and the International Tea, Feb. 8, 1938 under the direction

of Mrs. Avann in connection with the Million Unit Fellowship Movement.

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Actions taken at the Annual Meeting, 1937

Sei^entieth Anniversary. That the theme for 1938-39 be "The Kingdom."That the Seventieth Anniversary goals for membership remain the same.That we continue the use of the duplicate membership card.

That we observe Friendship Week, as cultivation week, each Branch to

choose its most suitable time. In this connection we suggest the leaflet, "HighSpots and Snap Shots," as a most valuable tool.

That we recommend the use of the two plans—the Seven Comrade ChurchCircle and the Seven Comrade Circle, and also the League of the Golden Pen,i.e. asking officers to write letters of welcome to new members.

That we adopt the slogan—"More Members Mean More Missionaries."

That each Branch prepare its own report blanks for the membershipsecretaries.

That the chairman of the extension committee of the Home Departmentsend out quarterly suggestion sheets to the Branch membership secretaries,

beginning with the second quarter, expense to be borne by the general treasury.

That Branches plan Seventieth Anniversary membership luncheons orteas, each Branch working out its own plans for them.

That we recommend a tive-year membership survey covering the pastyears of 1932-37, in order to attempt to ascertain why we have lost so manymembers during these years, and making every effort to regain them, using thesymbol of the cross

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and the slogan '"Review Records and Re-member."

Student WorR. i hat Mrs. H. D. Bollinger be nominated as secretary of

student work for next year with a budget of $800.That we accept the offer of Mary Carr Curtis of a twenty-five dollar first

prize and ten dollar second prize for manuscripts on, "The Sister Colleges as aFactor in Promoting World Peace," with the condition that the offer be madeto the Sister Colleges abroad as well as to those here at home.

In order that the auxiliary woman may become more student minded werecommend that Branches urge the appointment of the student contact womanin the auxiliary. Her duty shall be (1) to contact students within her churchwho are away at school and have seasonal parties or teas, emphasizing mission-ary interests during vacation periods, and (2) to promote the April auxiliary

program as planned in "Complete Program Outlines," pages 25-26.Wesleyan Service Guild. That the committee studying plans for the organ-

ization of women in the new Methodist Church be requested to include a groupcomparable to the Wesleyan Service Guild.

That in so far as possible missionaries be assigned as sister members to

units in their own Branches and suggest their being made book friends.

That Mrs. Merle N. English be nominated as secretary of the WesleyanService Guild with a budget of $1,000.

Young People's Work. That Mrs. A. E. Beebe be nominated as secretaryof the young people's department for the coming year with a budget of $500.

That a travel allowance not to exceed $150.00 be allowed Mrs. Beebe for

attending meetings of the National Youth Council.

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That Mrs. Beebe be one of our two representatives on the MissionaryEducation Movement.

That Mrs. Beebe continue to have Mrs. Shipley prepare special plans for

the young woman's societies.

That a limited number of organization plans be made available for five

cents per copy.That the reading circle plan be promoted among the young woman's

groups with the thought that this be carried on through the Standard Bearergroups next year.

That April be "Y. W. emphasis month," that Y. W. groups be encouragedto hold their own rallies and that Branches be asked to emphasize "Y. W."work at the April quarterly.

That home base secretaries call the attention of their treasurers to keeping"the international tax" separate in their reports.

That the Y. W. societies in each Branch be permitted to share in theSisterhood of Service using sister units already assigned to the Branches.

That we appropriate $250 to the budget of the Methodist National YouthCouncil for one year on conditions— (1) That the Youth Council complete its

portion of the estimated budget and that the proposed Youth Secretary project

go forward. (2) That the name of the proposed Youth Secretary be submittedto the W. F. M. S. for approval. (3) That missions shall be a definite part of

the promotional work of the secretary.

That the Branch young people's secretaries serve as delegates at the 1938General Executive Committee Meeting in Sioux Falls, So. Dakota.

Junior Work. That Mrs. Carl F. New be nominated as secretary of thejunior department for the coming year with a budget of $225.00.

That a budget of fifty dollars be again provided from the general treasuryfor the editor of the Junior Friend with which she may purchase books, maga-zines and such other materials as may be helpful in her work.

That Mrs. New be one of our two representatives on the MissionaryEducation Movement.

That Mrs. Lewis be our representative on the curriculum committee.That because of the late date at which the Mid-Year Meeting will take

place the junior department be allowed to get out its literature for 1938-39before mid-year.

That Mrs. Hanson and Mrs. Schaub be appointed to confer with repre-

sentatives of the Board of Education as to the completion of the junior leader-

ship training course and that we recommend to Mrs. Hanson and Mrs. Schaubthat we request that this junior course be financed in the same way as are theother courses.

Realizing that the spiritual salvation of children of America lies in givingthem a world vision which will express itself in the Christian ideal of sharing,

we ask that the women of each auxiliary be urged to accept responsibility for

the missionary education of children in their own church. We ask this with thedefinite goal in mind of requesting each auxiliary to maintain a junior groupreceiving planned missionary education. That each auxiliary place a club of

subscriptions to the Junior Missionary Friend either in their own church or in

a comrade church, thus the junior department will be given a place in theSeventieth Anniversary plans. The responsibility for carrying out this goalrests with the auxiliary president. We also ask that each adult auxiliary invite

the junior leader or her representative to report publicly on the junior work at

least once a year.That the junior leaders' study course be sold for thirty cents and that at

least one copy of this course, "Widening Horizons," be purchased by eachauxiliary for use by the local junior leader or their local Sunday school teachers.

That report blanks be issued by the Society to replace the existing blanks

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and cards. These shall be issued in two forms: one for use by the local leader,

and the other form to be used for district, conference, Branch and national

reports. The money items listed thereon shall agree with those listed on thetreasurer's blanks. That in the new report blanks there be columns listing

only King's Heralds, Little Light Bearers, and correlated members. Assisting

and associate members are to be included under correlated members.Correlated groups shall be understood to mean any group of children not

dehnitely organized into King's Heralds or Little Light Bearers, but who re-

ceive training under our educational program or give money to our Society.

The correlated groups shall not count as King's Heralds, or Little LightBearers organizations. A group must meet regularly and must aim towardmeeting our requirements in order to be listed as a King's Heralds or Little

Light Bearers organization.

In order to give a true picture of the growth and activity of the juniors,

that the total number of new junior organizations in each Branch be reportedto Mrs. VVoolever and the total number of new junior organizations be includedin the leaflet report.

That the Branches accept the plan for underwriting for a year the cost of

the improvement in the Junior Missionary Friend.

That the bill for Miss Howey's attendance at this meeting, as she came at

the request of the junior department, be paid by the general treasurer from theallowance for the expenses of this meeting.

Literature. That $300 be included in the Home Administration budget for

the annual affiliation fee to the Missionary Education Movement.That the annual report of the recording secretary and the treasurer be

printed in leaflet form, the cost to be included in Home Administration budget.That we nominate Miss Effie A. Merrill as editor of the Woman's Mission-

ary Friend with a salary of $1800 and an office budget of $989; Mrs. James H.Lewis as editor of the Junior Missionary Friend with a salary of $600, and MissA. G. Bailey as publisher and editor of literature with a salary of $2400—theseto be paid from the funds of the publication office.

That we grant $225 to Mrs. G. W. Isham from the funds of the publicationoffice for work in connection with the Friend and for research.

That Miss Merrill substitute items of interest from Branch papers andother sources for the page "Among Ourselves."

That we continue the page in the Christian Apologete with Mrs. Schumannas contributor, the expense to be taken from the funds of the publication office.

That the textbook for 1938-39 be the composite one on India (preparedby the Central Committee.)

That the devotion book for 1938-39 be tied up with India, preferablyhaving its contributions by nationals or missionaries of India.

That we recommend a uniform mite-box and that the plan for it be left toMiss Bailey, Mrs. Beebe and Mrs. New.

That we have a uniform policy for the distribution of mite-boxes and thatthe policy be that mite-boxes be distributed by the Branches free for postage.

That the three leading nânuscripts written by young women concerningthe challenge of our Society to modern women be left with Miss Merrill for

publication in the Friend when she sees fit.

That we publish a leaflet recommended by the junior department for Little

Light Bearers, of interest to both mother and child, preparation left to Mrs.New and Miss Bailey.

That the junior department be granted a new Thank-Offêring serviceleaflet. That this department also be granted a sheet of songs, cheers, etc.

That a gift card be available to send for new subscribers to the JuniorFriend.

That we have a uniform Thank-Ofiêring leaflet using a story which Dr. Ida-belle Lewis Main told in her addresses this summer.

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That we adopt Miss Bailey's recommendation for the new form of theWoman's Missionary Friend beginning in January.

Stewardship. That the stewardship reading course be one book listed in

"My Record" or in the stewardship column of the Friend, "The Upper Room,and the entire column in the Friend read monthly.

That each Branch stewardship secretary be asked to join with the steward-ship committee of the Home Department in herself using "My Record," andthat the use of the study unit on worship in the "Work Book" be stressed.

That a sample packet of stewardship material be sent to stewardshipsecretaries by the chairman of the stewardship committee.

That fifteen dollars be allowed (from Home Department budget) for

committee expense.That we ask to be officially represented at the Interdenominational

Stewardship Convention in Philadelphia.That Miss Mabel Nowlin be asked to write the material for the W. F. M. S.

page in The Stewardship Spokesman for January.World Citizemship. That for 1938-39 the same plan be followed as last

year with respect to material in the Friend, that there be a monthly world citi-

zenship column and articles for the April world citizenship number of theFriend.

That delegates to the Cause and Cure of War Conference in Washingtonin January, 1938, be secured by Mrs. Tomlinson and her committee.

That the budget for the world citizenship committee be $150.00 for thecoming year.

That the method of channeling information from this committee throughthe line of presidents be continued but that reports on committee projects comethrough the regular reporting channels.

That the home base secretaries be asked to supply Mrs. Tomlinson withnames and addresses of deans of summer schools or chairman of program com-mittees that the committee may ascertain just what is being done along the line

of citizenship courses and perhaps give some suggestions for the coming summer.That Mrs. Tomlinson be asked to write to the missionaries in Mexico and

South America to advise them of the coming of the Caravan of the MandatesCampaign Committee and to suggest to them that they give any cooperationpossible.

Library Service. That Miss Alice Hazeltine be nominated as Director of

Library Service for the coming year.

That the home base secretaries insert in their Branch papers a request thatmembers who have read and enjoyed a recent novel send it to Branch depots of

supplies. Literature secretaries shall have these books in charge and consult

Miss Ruth Ransom at the general office as to their disposal.

Negro Work. That a leaflet be printed as has been the custom the last

four years.

That Miss Hattie T. Hooks of Des Moines Branch be asked to write theleaflet.

That an outline map of the U.S.A. indicating the areas of our NegroConferences be added to this leaflet, if the expense will not be too great.

Interdenominational Work. That Mrs. C. H. Hardie be nominated as

the Methodist member of the Central Committee on the United Study of

Foreign Missions.That the following delegates be appointed to the Foreign Missions Con-

ference meeting in January in Toronto: With expenses f-rom their budgets—Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs. Diefendorf and Mrs. Mead. With expenses paid by the

general treasurer—Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Mrs. Beebe alternate. With expenses

from Anniversary budget—Mrs. W. C. Hanson. Without expenses—Miss Ran-som, Miss Lee, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Woolever, Mrs. Dievler, Mrs. Reed andMrs. Beebe.

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Mid-Year. That the Mid-Year Meeting be held in Evanston, beginningApril 21.

Finances. That Mrs. A. G. Barber be appointed as secretary-treasurer

of the Circle of Remembrance and the Branches be asked to. pay the usualamounts to Mrs. Barber (five dollars per Branch).

That Miss Ruth Ransom be nominated as secretary of the general office

and that the budget for the general office be $6700.That at her own request we recommend that Miss Jean Bothwell, assis-

tant treasurer, be bonded.That fifty dollars be granted for the Museum for ne.xt year.

That we permit the pastor of Tremont Street Church, Boston, to put anadvertisement in the Friend, asking for contributions to the fund being raised

to save Tremont Street Church.That the Branch treasurers be the second delegate to the meeting of the

General Executive Committee in 1938 at Sioux Falls, So. Dak.That the following budget for Home Administration be approved:

Expenses to General Executive $ 4,000.00Expenses to Mid-Year Meeting 3,000.00Expenses to Interdenominational and Interboard

Meetings 2,000.00Interdenominational and Interboard grants:

Foreign Missions Conference 3,100.00Medical Dept. and Shipping Bureau 400.00Transportation Bureau 100.00Missionary Education Movement 300.00Meth. National Youth Council 250.00

Expenses of general officers 7,050.00Safe Deposit Boxes 131.00Auditing accounts of treasurer 275.00Fidelity bond of treasurer 62.50Legal expenses 550.00

General Office 6,700.00Home Department: Junior work 225.00

Editor Junior Friend for book, magazines, etc. 50.00Young people's work 500.00Student work 800.00VVesleyan Service Guild 1,000.00World Citizenship 150.00Librarv Service 50.00Miscellaneous 150.00

Foreign Department 750.00Special Items:

President's Emergency Fund 100.00Printing Year Book .

.' 700.00Leaflet Report 375.00Share Plan Letters 175.00Museum 50.00Seventieth Anniversary 900.00Safe for general treasurer 250.00Radio broadcast 75.00Hangchow Conference (3^) 2,040.00Fund for Gen'l Executive 1939 2,000.00

Miscellaneous 200.00

Total $38,458.50Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Secretary.

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ACTIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEETAKEN ON RECOMMENDATION OF THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

The following actions of the Foreign Department taken from the close of

the annual meeting of the General Executive Committee, 1936, to the close of

the annual meeting, 1937, were reported to the General Executive Committeeand confirmed by it:

Voted: That the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the MethodistEpiscopal Church acting through its Foreign Department approve the crea-

tion for an indefinite period of a committee of five to seven persons to act asthe committee for legal counsel on property titles in China.

That the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch acting through its Foreign Department authorize and direct Mrs. J. W.Masland, treasurer of the said Society to consult the attorney for the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society when and as it seems wise for her to do so in

matters connected with property titles in China.That permission be granted to rebuild House No. 1 as residence for the

W. F. M.S. staff of Union Christian Hospital in Foochow. Cost not to exceed$6,000 Mex with no debt incurred on the field.

That permission be granted to use rental income from the Jean Adamsproperty in Foochow up to ten months ($3,000 Mex); if and when the $2,500Mex. in realty investment is realized, said amount to be refunded to theJean Adams property fund.

That Hwa Nan remain as an integral part of the Associated Boards andthat we pay 1% of the support received during 1936-37 from sources withinthe United States, this amount totalling $130.

That Hwa Nan assume the balance of the cost of the promotional work,approximately $2,500 on a pro rata basis dependent upon funds secured

through the united efforts of the Associated Boards and the Hwa Nan Boardof Trustees.

That in order to provide funds for carrying on the promotional work, the

Hwa Nan Board of Trustees be asked to advance without interest to the pro-

motional department of the Associated Boards, as and to the extent that it

may be required, up to 2% of the support received during 1936-37 fromAmerican sources for the current work of the institution, such advances to berefunded before the end of the year out of the receipts of the year. Thisamount be not in excess of $260.

That the Hwa Nan Board of Trustees appropriate $60.00 for 1937-38toward the administrative budget of the Associated Boards.

That the urgent current needs for Hwa Nan shall be as listed in last year's

set-up; namely, $6,000.00. This amount to care for necessary equipment,such as pianos for the music department; immediate needs for nutrition andtextile courses; necessary repairs on temporary gymnasium and tennis courts;

equipment for social service center; library books for science and liberal arts.

That there be included in the supplementary list of urgent capital needs

for which funds will be sought during 1937-38 the item of $250,000.00 for

general endowment for Hwa Nan College.

That $30,000.00 (U.S.) be requested for a new building, the same to

house the department of home economis. (Blue prints in hand).That Magaw Hospital be remodeled at the earliest possible date; that

complete data, plans and cost be sent for action of the Foreign Department.

General Actions

Voted: That a committee be appointed to consider the matter of the

Society's nomination of an official delegate to the Hangchow Conference andthe possibility of this delegate's making a deputation to India as suggested

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in the Columbus Minutes. The Committee appointed was: Miss Watsonfrom the India Committee; Mrs. Gray from the China Committee; Miss Knoxfrom the Multi-Country Committee; Mrs. Masland from the general officers

group. Later Mrs. McCoy from the Home Department was added.a. That this committee approve the nomination of Mrs. Otis Moore as

our official delegate to the Hangchow Conference in accordance with action

already taken by the Home Department.b. That if Mrs. Moore be chosen as our delegate to Hangchow and it is

possible for her to go to India also, we recommend that the extra moneyneeded for her stay at Hangchow and the additional expense incurred duringher stay in India be pro-rated to the Branches and be taken from the ForeignEmergency Fund or be raised by special gifts.

c. That if for any reason Mrs. Moore cannot go, we submit as an alternate

nomination for Hangchow the name of Mrs. Diefendorf.

d. The Foreign Department, after the Home Department had adjourned,expressed its approval of having Mrs. Diefendorf, in her capacity as a memberof the Committee for Hangchow, try to have the appropriation asked for fromour Society reduced in case Mrs. Moore is not chosen as a delegate. It wasalso hoped that Mrs. Diefendorf would be able to use her influence in havingour Society's appropriation reduced under any circumstances.

That the Department approve the action of the general treasurer's office

in the matter of bonding the treasurer with the American Mutual Liability

Insurance Company of Boston for $25,000.That the general treasurer be authorized to pay any bills which maj' be

received from the field, relative to the last illness and hospital expenses of

Miss Emma Mitchell.

To ratify the following action of the Home Department:That the General Executive Committee make Mrs. Lindsay a 70th

Anniversary Patron. That $1,000 be designated for this purpose from theamount which the budget committee finds they have available to add to

70th Anniversary funds.That Mrs. Charles H. Hardie be elected secretary of the Foreign Depart-

ment.

China

General

Voted: That for the second six months of 1937 the current work accountin China be paid at 2.66%, and salaries at 2.888. The exchange remainingthereafter, to belong to the Branches making remittances.

That in case land and buildings in China used for missionary residences

are no longer needed for the living quarters of missionaries, the receipts fromrental or sale shall be held in the country by the field treasurer for such pur-poses as the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societ}- shall determine.

That official correspondents of English speaking institutions submit needsfor workers, to the China committee, that they may consider the placing of

evacuated China missionaries.

That in concurrence with request from the field, we recommend thateven though there has been temporary suspension of the work, that appropria-tions of all Branches continue to be sent to the general treasurer as heretoforeauthorized, and that until such a time as emergency funds are available,

Miss Hollows shall draw from these regular funds as needed.That for the first six months of 1938, the current work account in China

be paid at 2.66%, and salaries at 2.888. The exchange remaining thereafter

to belong to the Branches making remittances.

That all China missionaries detained in America because of war condi-tions, be given regular salaries according to the rule of the Society until the

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Mid-Year Meeting; that in cases where employment is desired and can besecured, detained missionaries have our approval to contract for such employ-ment up to or through the summer months of 1938.

Central China

That one hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-one cents accruedinterest from a memorial gift be sent to the held to apply on the upkeep of ourwork under the auspices of Marie Brethorst at Nanking.

That in the case of Miss Annie Pittman called home from China for

family reasons, New York Branch continue for the next six months the stipu-

lated salary after fifteen months furlough, namely $127.50 per quarter.To approve, after consultation with the Branch secretary, the home

coming of Miss Anna L. Golisch, now evacuating in Manila.That in view of the urgent needs for evacuation in Central China, the

home coming expenses of Miss Jessie Wolcott, who came with the consent of

the field, be advanced by Des Moines Branch.

North China

Voted: That there be three alternatives for the disposal of the propertyof the Society at Taian, Shantung Conference.

(a) That we make a gift of the property to Cheeloo University at Tsinan.That the Medical School of the University and the Homes Project at Lunshanshare equally the proceeds or income from the property.

{b) That if a China Property Holding Body is created by the China Cen-tral Conference we ask them to act as our representatives in the disposition of

the property. That the Medical School of Cheeloo University and their

Homes Project at Lunshan shall share equally the proceeds or income of theproperty.

(c) That we make a gift of the property to the North China Woman'sConference.

That these alternatives be presented to Bishop Hammaker for his con-sideration and recommendation.

In keeping with the custom in China immediate neighbors shall havefirst option on the property when olTered for sale or rent.

That the appropriations of the Society for Gamewell School in Peiping

be continued on the basis of 1937, with no change in appropriations.

That the appropriations of the Society for Peiping medical work be con-tinued on the basis of 1937 with no change in appropriations.

That the appropriations of the Society for Isabella Fisher Hospital at

Tientsin be continued on the basis of 1937 with no change in appropriations.

That our property in Taian and our two country school properties berented to the Board of Foreign Missions for the coming year, for the minimumrental of $1.00. The Board to pay the taxes and keep the buildings in goodrepair.

That the Society grant to Miss Hsu Hsin Li a retirement gift of $200 Max.

South China

Voted: That the land at Lungtien bought many years ago for higher

primary school be presented to Lungtien Church as parsonage site as said

land is contiguous with the church property.

That the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch acting under authority conferred upon it by the by-laws of the said

Society does hereby authorize and direct Elizabeth S. Masland, treasurer of

the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,to issue the necessary power or powers of attorney, authorizing Miss Martha


McCutchen, a missionary of said Society, resident of Haitang, to be attorneyfor said Society in all matters pertaining to above mentioned gift.

That the appropriations for leper work in Foochow Conference, be con-

tinued for evangelistic work among the Lepers.That in cooperation with Bishop Hind of the Anglican Church of Foochow,

the London Mission to Lepers, the Chinese Mission to Lepers, and the RotaryClub of Foochow, in their plans for modern work among the lepers at EastGate, Foochow, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society turn over to the

Board of Managers of the Pure Heart Asylum and Bishop Hind of the AnglicanChurch their chapel and the plot of land between the chapel and the leper

village for this work if the scheme comes to fruition.

West China

Voted: That we rent the Gamble Memorial Hospital to the Syracuse in

China Hospital for one year for the nominal sum of $L00.This action to be taken pending further negotiations of union. If union

should be effected within the year this agreement shall be automaticallydissolved.

That Syracuse in China pay taxes and keep the building in repair for oneyear.

That $7,000.00 Mex. of the Stevens Memorial Fund, recalled by thegeneral treasurer with the reserve funds of China, be restored to the Biblical

Institute to which it was given.

That for the present, the Fu Jiang Primary School in Suining be continuedand enlarged to use the school buildings in the compound.

That the Rogers Primary School in Suining City be conducted as abranch of the Fu Jiang Primary School and under its administration.

That the Alta Hudson School in the city be discontinued, and the schoolbuilding with heavy furnishings be rented to the Gin Ih Boys Primary Schoolat the nominal rent of $100 per year. This does not include the teachersresidence. This school agrees to receive only boys in the higher primary grade.

That the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society residence in Suining bereserved for use by visiting missionaries and others in connection with thework.

That for purposes of appropriation and administration Suining City beconsidered a part of Suiho District, not a separate unit as heretofore.

That (a) since it is supposed that the $193.21 voted at the March 1937meeting for repairs of a building in Nanking was not used because of presentconditions, we recommend the transfer of the $193.21, now in the hands of

Miss Marie Brethorst of Nanking, to Suining to apply on repairs of theBrethorst Memorial Kindergarten Building in Suining. {b) If for any reasonthese funds in the hands of Miss Brethorst have been used, we recommendthat $700 Mex. be taken from the Brethorst Memorial Building Fund, now in

the hands of the general treasurer, and be sent to Suining to meet the aboverequest.

That the bill for $639.35 for the road in front of the Woman's Hospital bepresented to Miss Mabel Allen, and that she be asked to pay this bill from thehospital account of $900 Mex. now in her hands, and that the balance of this

account be kept for the care and upkeep of the hospital bungalow on Chung-king Hills.

That in adjusting appropriations we provide 1000 Mex. per year for theFu Jiang Primary School and half of the salary of the principal if she be amember of the woman's conference.

That the balance of items in the high school appropriations in Suiningand in that for city day school and evangelistic work be turned over to theSuiho District.

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That the $400 Mex. in the Tzechow Woman's School balance, now onthe field, be used for painting the woman's school building.

That in view of the fact that several W. F. M. S. residences and schoolbuildings in the West China Conference need repairs and paint, considerablyin excess of repair funds in hand, the following allowances for repairs to bemade from reserve funds now on the field

:

Chengtu residence $1,000 Mex.High school 100 "

Harmony Crossett School 75 "

Chungking City residence 400 "

Dsen Jia NgaiJia Ngai residence and high school 1,000 "

That we approve the plan of the local board of directors to continue thejunior high school in Suining, using for this purpose, with the exception of themissionary residence, the buildings within the W. F. M. S. compound in

Suining.This permission is granted with the understanding that the Society will

have no financial obligation in the undertaking and that those responsiblefor the school will pay the taxes and keep the premises clean and in goodrepair.

The Society suggests that this proposed plan continue in operation for

two years, at the end of which time, if desired by the local board, the requestcan be renewed and such action as is necessary for the continuation of theschool can then be taken by the reference committee on the field and referred

to the Foreign Department for approval.That due to the extenuating circumstances. Dr. Marian Manly, missionary

doctor in Chengtu, now home on furlough, be granted the privilege of securingfunds from individual donors for the erection on land already secured, of abuilding in which will be housed her school of midwifery.

That the Society make an annual contribution of $150 a year as its shareof the maintenance of the Union Theological School recently established in

Chengtu.That we grant the request of the Dsen Jai Njai High School in Chung-

king, to make necessary provision for additional dormitory space, funds beingraised in the field. No debt to be incurred by the Society.

India

General

Voted: That in response to the request from Bombay Conference askingthat Miss Elliott be allowed to solicit funds for scholarships while on furlo,

we call the attention of the missionaries to our rule that they are not allowedto solicit funds for the support of the work in excess of the appropriations.

That in response to an inquiry from Burma, we would state that wequestion the wisdom of the policy of retired workers of any nationality con-

tinuing to live within our W. F. M. S. institutions.

That we record the fact that a letter was read from Bishop Pickett con-

cerning the Sollenberg bequest; but we learn from the secretary of Philadelphia

Branch that these funds are not yet available, so no action can be taken at

this time.

That the general treasurer be permitted to use the $4,261.75 balancenow in the general treasury from the sale of the Basim property to wipe ofT

the items of indebtedness on the two following buildings:


$2,798.44 Mt. Hermon School, Darjeeling (not met by Y. P. T. O.)1,700.00 Lucknow repairs

Since the W. F. M. S. has no appropriation for the Henry Martyn Schoolfor Islamic Studies, and since this question was omitted from the joint agendaof the Board and Society due to lack of time, that Mrs. Hardie be authorizedto send the request received for help for the Henry Martyn School, to Dr.Donohugh, in case he wishes to present the matter to the Board of ForeignMissions.

That we approve the meeting of the field correspondents of India at

Calcutta in February 1937 and commend it as a policy to be continued.That in view of certain difficulties reported from the field in relation to

institutions having their own boards and therefore not within the jurisdiction

of the held reference committee, we suggest the advisability of closer co-

ordination between such boards and the field reference committee concerned.That we approve the recommendation of the field correspondents of

India, that they be allowed to arrange for furloughs for Nationals in full

charge of work, on condition that this does not involve the Society in addi-tional expense.

That we express to the Board of Foreign Missions our regret that we areunable at this time to appropriate $1,000 for Christian Literature in the MassMovement areas of the United Provinces; but we will present the matteragain at the Mid-Year Meeting of the Society.

That if the money is available in the total appropriations to raise the total

for Northwest India Conference to $34,000, such authorization be given.

That the $950 in excess of the amount required for Topeka Branch'spayment to the Woman's Christian College in Tokyo be applied on the pur-chase of a car for Miss Phoebe Emery, India.

Burma

Voted: That the field correspondent for Burma instruct the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society treasurer for Burma to pay the salary for Mrs. M.A. Clare to the Board of Foreign Missions treasurer for Burma for three yearsat the rate of Rs. 2295 per year, beginning upon Mrs. Clare's arrival on thefield, and to forward $360.00 for passage to the treasurer of the Board of

Foreign Missions.

Bombay

Voted: That permission be granted for sale of a small piece of property atTalegaon and that the general treasurer be authorized to issue the necessarypowers of attorney; proceeds of sale to be held in the India treasury.

That in response to the request of the field reference committee of Bom-bay Conference, the erection of a small guest cottage be approved for Puntamba,the cost of $600 to be defrayed from conference funds; no debt to be incurred.

That Miss Dove be given permission to try to secure funds on the field

for the re-building of one of the buildings of the Taylor High School at Poona.In the event that funds are obtained, permission be granted with no expenseto the Society and no debt to be incurred on the field.

That in response to the request of the field reference committee of BombayConference the proceeds of the sale of the small strip of land at Talegaon beallocated to the purchase of a car.

That our approval be given to the purchase from the Board of ForeignMissions of the day school building at Nagpur for one thousand rupees;money now in hand on the field.

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Central Provinces

Voted: That permission be given the Central Provinces Conference tomake the following expenditures from the proceeds of the sale of the I^aipurproperty:

1. Khandwa normal building Rs. 10,0002. Jagdalpur cottages 3,0003. Hawa Bagh Training College 3,0004. Baihar teachers' bath rooms 3005. Compromise, Jubbulpore land case 2,500Cable authorized.

Bengal

Voted: That Northwestern Branch be asked to continue in its appropria-tions a sum equivalent to one half the salary of Beulah Swan.

That the words "the W. F. M. S. not to be responsible for any debt in-

curred" to be added to the action recorded in the minutes of the MuncieMeeting, 1936, pg. 25, in reference to Ushagram.

Hyderabad

Voted: That authorization be given for the erection of a building for

the Godhra Normal School from funds designated for this purpose in a be-quest. This to be without debt to the Society.

Looking toward the improvement of our village schools, that we approvethe separation of primary, educational and evangelistic work in the Gujaratand Hyderabad Conferences; this to include the employment and paymentof the national teachers by the missionaries. (Funds for the support of thepastors are provided by the Board).

That we approve in principle the opening of village schools in HyderabadConference but regret that funds are not available for the purpose at this

time.

That we express regret that funds are not available for motor upkeep in

Ekele and Vikarabad Districts in excess of the present appropriation.That the following reply be sent to the request for salary to be paid

Miss Woodbridge from the young people's Thank-OfTering of 1938: "In viewof the fact that the demands upon the young people's Thank-Offering for

1938 are far in excess of the amount likely to be realized, we deeply regret ourinability to include the salary of Miss Lillian Woodbridge."

That the general treasurer be authorized to pay $500 left by a donor of

Cincinnati Branch in 1919, and held by the general treasurer, to Miss ElizabethWells, of Hyderabad Conference for use in the vocational school.

North India

Voted: That, in response to an official request of the North India ReferenceCommittee for a grant of $500 to re-roof Bareilly Hospital, we approveapplying for this purpose $300.00 already in the hands of the general treasurer

which heretofore has been allocated for building a kitchen at Roorkee Girls

School; the remaining $200.00 to be taken from the proceeds of the sale of theBasim property.

That we refuse the request of Miss Edna Bacon that she be permitted,while home on furlough, to raise salary for Miss Nathaniel.

Northwest India

Voted: That, in case Northwest India Conference decides to open medicalwork in Aligarh, with Dr. Corpron at the head, we approve giving the use of

our vocational school property for as long a time as it may be needed withoutexpense to the Society.


South IndiaVoted: That the field reference committee of South India Conference be

allowed to extend the privilege of membership with vote in the field referencecommittee to a member of the annual conference; this member to be in addi-tion to the bishop.

Notice: This same recommendation to apply in the case of Hyderabad.That the Dhupdhal (Gokak) Girls School be raised to the standard of

middle school vernacular and that it be joined with the Dhupdhal BoysSchool to form a coeducational school. Added expense to be met on the field.

That the Marathi Caste Girls School (Shanti Sadan) at Gulbarga beclosed from the end of the school year, April 1938.

That the Khade Bazaar City Day School (Belgaum) be closed from theend of the school year, April, 1938.

That investigation be made as to the possibility of closing the ShahpurGirls School (of the Belgaum City day schools) by the end of the school year,

April 1938.

That the Watson Marathi Caste Girls School in Belgaum be closedwithin three years.

That we cooperate with the Board of Foreign Missions in the new project

of a Kanarese Training School for V^illage Workers in South India Conference.

Africa

Voted: That permission be granted to the missionaries at Nyadiri to build

an addition to the school building with money already in hand on the field.

That we pay $100 as the share of the W. F. M. S. toward the salary of

Dr. Emory Ross.Rhodesia

Voted: That we approve the use of a legacy of $465 left to the Girls Schoolthrough a friend of Miss Lulu Tubbs, for the purchase of a car; this to be theproperty of the Mutambara Girls School.

Japan

Voted: That permission be granted to Fukuoka Jo Gakko, Fukuoka, Japan,to build a new gymnasium to cost Yen 32,500, Yen 22,500 to be provided bythe Japanese on the field and Yen 10,000 to be paid from the junior Thank-Offering for 1937-38.

That we approve the purchase of Chinzei property in Nagasaki for

Kwassui College, and authorize the down payment of $300, which has beencontributed for this special purpose by private gift; that the balance of thejunior Thank-Offering for 1937-38 remaining from building of the FukuokaGymnasium be given toward the further payment on this property, the re-

mainder of the purchase price to be secured on the field.

That we authorize the proper officers of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety to arrange for the transfer of the missionary residences of AoyamaGakuin, Tokyo, to the School Zaidan Hojin, that their use, management, andupkeep shall remain as heretofore under the Mission.

That in view of the high cost of living and the drop in exchange, one third

the gain made by exchange on salaries be allowed for the coming year to

Japan and Korea on the basis of the regular salary, $1,020.00.That the Multi-Country committee recommends that the Foreign Depart-

ment grant its approval of an emergency action taken in the substitution of

Miss Geneva Speas for Miss Donna May Lewis, voted by ad ifi erim vote, to

be sent to Japan for one year; she to pay her own travel and Pacific Branchher salary.

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That, in view of the possible condemnation of the land on which theFukuoka W. F. M. S. Evangelistic Center is located, because of road building,

we commit the matter of the temporary housing of the kindergarten to thelocal missionaries with the Kyushin members of the finance committee, withpower to use the small sums for this purpose.

Korea

Voted: That in accordance with the request of the field property com-mittee Miss Miller be allowed to sell the former Bible school dormitory prop-erty, Lots No. 136, tsubo 128, and No. 152, tsubo 55, and to use the proceedsto help with the endowment for the Sam II School.

That Lot No. 156, tsubo 357, of Tolmoro School property, ChemulpoDistrict, be sold to the church if they will undertake the purchase, the moneybeing held by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society treasurer on the field

for the present.

That the school building of the Yong Mori School, Seoul District, whichis built on church land, be given to the Korean Methodist Church Zaidan, if

the church will accept full responsibility for the school, thus releasing Miss Hallas founder and principal.

That, at the request of the field treasurer, consent be given to use the$865.42 left on the Freeman gift for East Gate Hospital.

That we regret that it is impossible to grant the request of Mrs. Chafiin

for $2,000 for a building in Manchuria.That we regret that at this time we cannot grant the sum of $3,000 for

the Seoul Public Health Building.

That we approve the erection of a new building at the Seoul Social

Evangelistic Center, Korea, the Southern Methodist women in America havingcontributed $22,500 from the Week of Prayer Fund, the remainder being raised

by the Korean constituency and the sale of the land.

Bulgaria

Voted: That Mrs. Nicholson be asked to reply to the letter received fromRev. Popoff of Lovetch, Bulgaria; to write to Biship Neulson concerning thesituation, to the missionaries at the Lovetch School, and to Miss Knox, official

correspondent.

Malaya

Voted: That for the time being, Catherine Jackson remain in Malaya onretirement furlough and that furlough salary be paid to her there.

That Malaya, in order to release funds needed for support of missionaries,

consider the closing of one station.

Sumatra

Voted: That in response to the request from Sumatra, we pay $123.65,

2/5 of the amount paid for the services of the mission consul, and that thegeneral treasurer, Mrs. Masland, make further study of the total amountinvolved.

That we refer to Mrs. Nicholson, president of the International Depart-ment, the request of the field reference committee in Sumatra, regarding the

salary of Miss Elsa Schwab being paid through the regular channels of the

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society field treasurer.

That the sum of $125.00 be paid for the mission consul fee in Sumatra.To allow the Minneapolis Branch accumulated fund due to exchange to

remain in Sumatra—the use thereof to be left to the discretion of the field

reference committee in consultation with the official correspondent.


Philippine Islands

Voted: That we approve the request for our share of the budget of $1,000.00for the Hterature and publications committee of the National ChristianCouncil ($165.00) for their revolving fund for the production of the literature

on the project basis for specific and immediate use.

That we grant the request of the field reference committee that the un-occupied land at San Fernando be sold, and the proceeds used to buy theVigan site, no debt to the Society to be incurred on the field.

That an appropriation of $250 be allowed for a new dormitory roof andseptic vault for the Tuguegaro Dormitory, to be paid by Cincinnati Branch.

That Lila Corbett be allowed to come on furlough in 1938 in order thatshe may return to the field to serve another term before the age limit placedby Government.

The payment of our contribution toward the Manila budget of thePhilippine Council, for the support of the Rev. E. K. Higdon, 1936-37.

That Mrs. Harmer be chairman of the combined group of the medicaland miscellaneous policy committee for the special study of the Mary J.Johnston Hospital, this group to report at the Mid-Year Meeting.

North Africa

Voted: That Miss Eva Ostrom be permitted to remain another year at theBoys Home in Constantine.

Mexico

Voted: That the money in the hands of Miss Pearson from the sale of theSadi Carno propertv, approximately $900.00 and the amount still to be paid,

$850.00, be held in Mexico to:

(1) pay indemnities still pending, and(2) repairs on the Keen School.

That until action is taken to the contrary, our school buildings in Mexicobe rented to the Mexican directors for the rentals to be decided upon by thefield reference committee. In case any contract shall be terminated, threemonths notice shall be given to the directors.

South America

Voted: That we regret that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society finds

it impossible to increase our appropriation to the Committee on Cooperationin Latin America.

Peru

Voted: That missionary salaries in Peru be paid at the rate of exchange of

the day.That Philadelphia Branch be permitted to put into its appropriations the

salary of Miss Mildred C. Williams, a contract teacher in Peru, beginningJan.'l, 1938.

That the following items be paid by the general treasurer:

Committee on Cooperation in Latin America $700.00Committee on Cooperation in Philippine Islands 715.00Literature for the Philippines 165.00Central Christian Council, Korea 600.00Literature, Korea 100.00Hakodate fire insurance 400.00

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The Hwa Nan Board of Trustees

Voted: That the general treasurer send $200.00 gold now on hand; thesame to apply on expenses of president Wang's trip to the south.

That $200 gold be sent from the Library Fund, the same to apply on theneeds of the library.

That the accrued interest from the Endowment Fund now in the handsof the general treasurer be sent immediately to the tield.

That because of low salary schedule for Nationals that $12,500 of theyoung people's Thank-Offering be set aside on the Endowment Fund, theinterest therefrom to be used in increasing the salary of Nationals on the stafT.

That residue of the Thank-Offering be placed in the Haw Nan special

fund to apply on the necessary building and repair items as proposed in thefuture program of the college.

That as soon as possible, all funds sent from the Society be used for

expenses other than the teachers' salaries.

We wish to go on record as being in favor of the rebuilding of MagawHospital; we would ask that full data be sent to the Board of Trustees for

consideration and action, submitting definite plans and cost of such an enter-

prise. In view of present conditions, however, voted that action be suspendedfor the present.

That we approve the budget of Hwa Nan as stated in the estimatedbudget received from the field, with the following reservations:

(a) Fee allottment{b) Grant from GovernmentThat a study be made of the estimated expenditure of 1937-38, and that

the department supplies, and library be reduced to meet the deficit.

That the junior Thank-Offering of 1938-39 be placed at the disposal of

the college for the betterment of child life.

That the accumulated interest from all invested funds now in the handsof the general treasurer be sent to the field at the current rate of exchange.

That the interest from the endowment fund raised by president Wangbe applied on the current work budget for 1937-38.

That $200 from the Library Service fund be granted to Hwa Nan.

Isabella Thoburn College Committee

Voted: That we approve the erection of the Clotilda Lyon McDowellMemorial Chapel—no debt to be incurred on the field and without cost to theSociety.

Ewha-Kwassui Committee

Voted: That due to extenuating circumstances and in order that KwassuiCollege may conform to the government requirements. Miss Anna LauraWhite, president of Kwassui College and now home on furlough be allowedto make an appeal for funds for endowment for Kwassui College, outside theconstituency of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

That the emergent need at Ewha Collge now is for faculty residences

—

one large residence for six women—one small residence for three women. Thewomen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, are planning to help meetthis need and have already appropriated $7,000 toward the cost of the larger

residence. Sister colleges may assume some smaller items.

Educational Policy Committee

It is the sense of the educational committee that the use of money for

study grants for missionaries on furlough is a wise investment.


It is recommended that the Branches be requested to give a minimumindividual grant of $50 a year at the discretion of the Branch correspondingsecretary.

Medical Policy Committee

That the miscellaneous policy committee and the medical committeestudy the situation at the Mary J. Johnston Hospital in Manila and bring in a

recommendation at the Mid-Year Meeting of 1938.

Miscellaneous Policy Committee

Voted: That word be sent in the official letters to the field that the Societywill assume no financial responsibility for nationals who come to the UnitedStates without the authority of the Foreign Department.

That there is no official relationship between the girl who goes to the field

for a year or two and the Society.

That all items omitted from the 1937 appropriations be reported toMrs. Masland to be restored or adjusted by the general treasurer.

That in response to the request of Sumatra we pay $123.65, 2/5ths of

the amount paid for the services of the mission consul, and that the generaltreasurer make further study of the total amount involved according to the1937 appropriations.

That our share of the salary of the secretary for the Mass Movement workin India ($250) be included in our 1938 appropriations.

That the miscellaneous policy committee and the medical committeestudy the situation at the Mary J. Johnston Hospital in Manila and bring in arecommendation at the Mid-Year Meeting.

Relating to Missionaries

Voted: That the salary released in New England Branch by the resignationof Miss Etta May Gifford be allocated for a religious education director for

Hwa Nan College. A candidate to be found as soon as possible and acceptedthrough ad interim vote if necessary.

That Miss Florence Wilson Smith be accepted by the Society and recom-mended for social and evangelistic work in Hinghwa Conference, China, after

she has had a year's stud\' at the Kennedy School of Missions.That Miss Mary Gordon, a nurse now on the field, be accepted as a mis-

sionary of our Society and that she receive salary as soon as possible.

That Miss Uniola Adams be accepted by the Society and recommendedfor India.

That Afiss Eva Logue be accepted by the Society subject to the approvalof the Branch candidate committee and recommended for India.

That Miss Ruth Corpron be accepted and recommended for NorthwestIndia immediately.

That Miss Esther Carhart be sent as a contract teacher without expense tothe Society.

That Miss Mildred Williams be accepted for Lima High School as a con-tract teacher with no expense to the Society.

That Miss Jeanette Oldfather who has been on the retired list be returnedto Korea this fall and her support be taken by Des Moines Branch.

That Miss Geraldine Johnson who is now in Malaya be supported after

April 1 by Des Moines Branch in the place of Miss Flora Quirin.That Miss Martha Gertsch of Malaya be supported by Cincinnati Branch

after April 1.

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That Miss Marjorie Dimmitt who has been on the detained list be re-

turned to Isabella Thoburn College this fall and her support taken by North-western Branch.

That Miss Lilly Swords be transferred from Bulgaria to Indus River Con-ference and her support taken by New York Branch.

That Miss Helen G. Moore who has been a contract teacher in Japan andis now returning as a missionary be supported by New York Branch.

That New England Branch be allowed to take the support of a doctor in

Tilaunia in place of Dr. Chase and a cable sent.

That while in general it is not our custom to give furniture grants to ournew missionaries nevertheless this may be done at the discretion of the Branches.

That Lillian Canfield be accepted by the Society and that she be assignedto Bombay Conference, India.

That Evelyn Hokenson be accepted by the Society and assigned to Hydera-bad Conference, India.

That Evelyn Hokenson, now a Lutheran, be asked to join the MethodistChurch.

That Viola Weight be accepted by the Society and assigned to SouthAmerica.

That Edith Parks be accepted by the Society and that she be assigned to

Rhodesia, Africa.

That Barbara Belcher be accepted by the Society and that she be assigned

to Northwest India Conference.That Elizabeth Dalbey be accepted by the Society and that she be assigned

to Korea.That we accept Dr. Hazen's resignation from her position at the Mary J.

Johnston Hospital, Manila.That we ask Dr. Hazen to continue as a missionary of the Society. Cable

authorized advising that clipper letter is following.

That a cable be sent to Bishop Badley asking his approval of placing

Miss Harriet Whitmer of Ginling College, temporarily in the English Girls

High School in Rangoon, Burma.

Resignations Accepted

Dr. Freda Haffner, IndiaBertha A. Chase, M.D., India, marriedBertha E. Ramsey, Africa, marriedMay Murphy, South America, family and health reasonsPearl Walrath, Mexico, W. H. M. S. Jan. '37

Beulah M. Swan, India, marriedPauline Place, Japan, marriedDorothea Anderson, IndiaEdith M. Royce, Korea

Retirements

Henrietta P. Robbins, Korea; Phebe C. Wells, China; Bla7iche A. Betz,

Mexico; Maude V. Trissel, Korea; E. Lainnia Nelson, India; Helen C. GilUland,

South America; Dr. Viola Lantz, China; Bernice A. Wheeler, China; LauraTemple, Mexico; Mary F. Carpenter, India; Elizabeth Alexander, Japan;Beatrice Terry, C.T., South America; Ada J. Lauck, India; M. Edith SweeU,

India; 5. Edith Randall, India; Melva A. Livermore, India; Grace L. Dillingham,

Korea; Dr. Anna Wood, India; Eva F. Sprunger, China.

Re Cancellation of Pension Policies

Voted: That Mrs. J. W. Masland, resident of Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist

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Episcopal Church, be duly empowered by this resolution of the Foreign De-partment of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the MethodistEpiscopal Church to surrender the deferred annuity contracts or any of them,in the Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, taken out by the said Society on thelives of the following employees of the said Society, for their cash surrendervalue, to assign said contracts and generally to exercise all other rights undersaid contracts and to execute and deliver in the name of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society and for and in its behalf, all forms of receipt, assignmentand other instruments of writing which may be required by said AssuranceCompany for the purposes aforesaid:

Florence Argus; Dorothea Anderson; Edith M. Royce; Mirtha Shiveley;Sadie M. Smith; Ruth McKinley Wilson; Elsie Banning; Lila K. Engberg;Miriam R. Scholberg; Irma Emily Schlater; Virginia Hayes; TheklaAugusta Hoffman. Carlotta Hoffman; May Murphy; Beulah M. Swan;Ruth Edna Richardson

.

That Mrs. J. W. Masland, resident of Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A., treasurerof the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, be duly empowered by this resolution of the Foreign Department of

the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Churchto surrender the deferred annuity contracts, or any of them, in the Massa-chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Springfield, Mass., taken out by thesaid Society on the lives of the following employees of the said Society for theircash surrender value, to assign said contracts and generally to e.xercise all

other rights under said contracts and to execute and deliver in the name of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society and for and in its behalf, all forms ofreceipt, assignment and other instruments of writing which may be requiredby said Insurance Company for the purposes aforesaid:

Alta M. Tucker; Sigrid C. Bjorklnnd; Margaret C. Wells; Bertha E. Ramsey;Pearl C. Walrath; Pauline Place; Laura E. Bell; Ethel F. McCaig.That Mrs. J. W. Masland, resident of Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A., treasurer

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, be duly empowered by this resolution of the Foreign Department ofthe Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Churchto surrender the retirement life income contracts, or any of them, in theProvident Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia, Pa., taken out bythe said Society on the lives of the following employees of the said Society, fortheir cash surrender value, to assign said contracts and generally to exerciseall other rights under said contracts and to execute and deliver in the name ofthe Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and for and in its behalf, all formsof receipt, assignment and other instruments of writing which may be re-

quired by said Insurance Company for the purposes aforesaid.

Dr. Bertha A. Chase; Dr. A. Evelyn Leadbeater; Nora M. Dillenbeck;Clara A. Caris; EulaUa E. Fox.

Relating to Appropriations, 1938

Voted: That the 1938 appropriations be authorized as follows to be madefrom funds in the hands of the general treasurer.

(a) Zenana Papers from income of the Zenana Paper Fund.{b) Income of the Francesca N. Gamble Fund, Sadie B. Ferguson Fund

and other funds for medical education, for medical scholarships to be paidcandidates for medical missionary service under the Society, as voted by theForeign Department. $450 from this income granted to Miss Virginia Law-rence, Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

(c) Income of the Isabella Thoburn College Endowment for scholarshipsand professorships.

(d) $45,000 retirement allowances.(e) General treasurer's foreign items:

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Africa: Literature under Miss Wrong . . . $100.00Salary Mr. Moriera 100.00Salary Dr. Emory Ross 100.00

China: W. China Union Theological SchoolAssociated Boards for Hwa Nan

150.00

College 60.00National Christian Council in

China 90.00Fukien Bureau of Building Con-

struction 350.00Ifidia: Executive Board of M. E. Church

in Southern Asia 250.00Mass Movement in India 250.00National Christian Council in

India 150.00

Christian Higher Education 300.00Japan: Hakodate Fire Insurance 400.00Korea: Central Council 600.00

Christian Literature 100.00Phil. Ids. Christian Literature

Committee on Cooperation in

165.00

Phil. Ids 715.00Sumatra: Mission Consul 125.00Latin America Committee on Cooperation. . 700.00Taxes as -equired (estimated) 6,500.00

Joint committee on Religious Education in

Foreign Fields 500.00Foreign Treasurer's Expenses 3,200.00Mrs. Moore's trip to the Orient 1,000.00Tulsa Items 2,800.00

Miscellaneous 1,795.00

$20,500.00

Report of Treasurer

From Branches—Receipts, Oct. 3, 1936 to Oct. 4, 1937

New England $95,574.35New York 165,504.01

Philadelphia 161,786.48

Baltimore 38,832.29Cincinnati 184,193.76

Northwestern 304,800.77Des Moines 84,801 .07

Minneapolis 49,573.46Topeka 130,062.94

Pacific 88,549.00

Columbia River 34,766.99 $1,338,445.12

From other than Branch Sources

Retirement Fund Principal and Income. . . . $77,979.25Zenana Paper Fund Income 715.87

Interest on Invested Funds 5,405.00

Sale of properties 8,950"31

Miscellaneous Gifts 18,655.77 111,706.20

$1,450,151.32


General Office CommitteeVoted: That we continue appropriations for missionary travel on the

basis of 1937, with the exception that the travel allowance for Korea be in-

creased from $270 to $300.That missionaries buy one-way tickets only, when leaving the field.

That hereafter the treasurer of each Branch send to Room 710, the full

amount of the travel appropriation for each outgoing missionary, an exceptionto be made in the case of Columbia River Branch.

That each missionary be asked to send to Room 710 and to her Branchcorresponding secretary, the name and correct address of the person to beinformed in case of emergency of any sort.

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie, Secretary Foreign Department.

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TREASURER'S REPORTReport of Mrs. J. VV. Masland, Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary

Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

GENERAL FUND—EXHIBIT AStatement of Receipts for Home Administration, Foreign Administration and

Disbursements on Home and Foreign Administration Accountsfor the year ended October 4, 1937.

Home Administration Receipts

New England Branch $1,596.00New York Branch 4,788.00Philadelphia Branch 4,788.00Baltimore Branch 1,197.00Cincinnati Branch 5,985.00Northwestern Branch 9,177.00Minneapolis Branch 1 ,596.00Topeka Branch 3,500.00Pacific Branch 2,793.00Columbia River Branch 1,197.00 $36,617.00

Home Administration DisbursementsTraveling expenses to General Executive Meeting, October, 1936. $7,361.32Traveling expenses to Mid-Year Meeting of Home and Foreign

Departments and general officers, March, 1937 2,199.58Expenses general officers (clerical help, postage, stationery, office

expenses, etc.) 7,080.71

Expenses general office. New York City, (rent, salaries of secretaryand assistants, office expenses twelve months 6,640.00

Student Work 800.00Seventieth Anniversary Expense 866.00

Home Department:Editor Junior Missionary Friend for books and magazines .... $ 50.00Junior work 225.00Young people's work 500.00Secretary's expenses 12.50

Minutes 22.23

Wesleyan Service Guild 1,000.00

Incidentals 24.00

Foreign Department:Cables, minutes, secretary's expenses $ 263.01Printing and distribution of 1937 appropriations 345.58Transportation Bureau of the M. E. Church 100.00

Foreign Missions Conference 3,100.00Missionary Education Movement 300.00Travel to committees:

Interdenominational and interboard meet-ings $452.55

Union college meetings 224.16Country committees 797.17 1,473.88

Miscellaneous:Share Plan letters $ 175.00

Safe deposit boxes 130.90

World Citizenship Committee 150.00

Auditing accounts of treasurer 275.00

Fidelity bond of treasurer 62.50

Certified copies of wills and legal expenses re bequests, powersof attorney 547.12

Printing Year Book 684.00

Board of Foreign Missions, medical department 400.00

Treasurer's Report 121

Museum grant 50.00Leaflet Report 375.00Associated Boards, for Hwa Nan Administration, two years,

1935-36, and 1936-37 100.00Incidentals 3 1 .2 7

$35,344.60Balance 1,272.40 $36,617.00

Foreign Administration Receipts

New England Branch $ 800.00New York Branch 2,400.00Philadelphia Branch 2,400.00Baltimore Branch 600.00Cincinnati Branch 2,542.88Northwestern Branch 4,600.00Minneapolis Branch 800.00Topeka Branch 2,000.00Pacific Branch 1,743.00Columbia River Branch 600.00

Foreign Administration Disbursements

Taxes on buildings on foreign fields $3,956.48Interest and exchange 6,325.57Fukien Bureau Building Construction 350.00Committee on Co-operation in Latin America 700.00Portuguese East Africa (Sr. Moreira's salary) 100.00Joint Committee on Religious Education in Foreign Fields 500.00China Special Relief through Board of Foreign Missions 500.00Executive Board, M. E. Church in Southern Asia 282.23Property and title expenses 432.36National Christian Councils:

India $384.90Philippine Islands 715.00Korea, Central 816.04

1,915.94Expenses of foreign treasurers $2,391.50Hwa Nan Promotion (Gift) 504.00

$17,958.08Balance 527.80

UNION COLLEGES—EXHIBIT BReceipts

New England Branch $ 700.00New York Branch 680.40Philadelphia Branch 2,203.60Cincinnati Branch 1,724.62Northwestern Branch 2,685.90Minneapolis Branch 35.00Des Moines Branch 4.80Topeka Branch 1,166.20Pacific Branch 1,205.40

Disbursements

West China University $ 686.00Madras College 1 ,000.00St. Christopher's College 500.00Vellore Medical School 250.00Ginling College 1,715.00Woman's Christian College, Japan 4,664.80Yenching College 1,372.00

$10,187.80Balance Oct. 4, 1937 218.12

$18,485.88

$18,485.88

$10,405.92

$10,405.92

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INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT—EXHIBIT GBalance, Oct. 3. 1936 $ 610.79'

ReceiptsPhiladelphia Branch $ 200.00Baltimore Branch 45.00Northwestern Branch 52.77Pacific Branch 50.00

347.77Gifts:Federation of Women's Society, Montevideo $ 20.72Miss Achard for Mrs. Bozinovitch's salary 38.00Miss Achard for Mrs. Bozinovitch 20.00Gift from Mexico for Mrs. Bozinovitch 20.00Gift from Vienna for Bible Woman in Korea 125.00Gift of Elsbeth Hauser for German Work 4.00

227.72

$ 1,186.28Disbursements

Mrs. Bozinovitch's salary $ 78.00Gift of Montevideo to Miss Shoemaker, India 20.721937 appropriation for Esthonia 35.00Incidentals 1.25

Miss Johansen for Scandinavia 200.00"Autorcha" magazine subscriptions for Mexico 30.00To Frau Luise E. Scholz for German N. W. Conf 4.00

368.97

Balance Oct. 4, 1937 $ 817.31

ZENANA PAPER FUND INCOME—EXHIBIT DBalance, October 3, 1936 $ 1,186.89

ReceiptsNet income from securities held by Mrs. J. W. Masland, Treasurer 715.87

$ 1.902.76Disbursements

Draft from India for Zenana Papers (Rs. 3,500) 1,310.86

Balance October 4, 1937 $ 591.90

RETIREMENT FUND PRINCIPAL AND INCOME—EXHIBIT ERETIREMENT FUND PRINCIPAL

Balance (cash and securities) October 3, 1936 $319,430.74Receipts

Gift of Minnie Pahr $ 5.00Gift of A. B. Rollins 3.65Gift of Annie M. Wells 70.77Legacy of Alice Means 313.40

392.82

$319,823.56Disbursements

Transfer of funds for purchases of pensions, according to action ofOctober 19, 1934 $69,504.20

Transfer of funds in excess of endowment for purchase of pensions. 319.3669,823.56

$250,000.00

RETIREMENT FUND INCOMEReceipts

Receipts to October 4, 1937 $62,471.44Deficit 8.257.88

$70,729.32

DisbursementsAllowances paid to retired missionaries $44,887.58Deficit October 3, 1936 25,841.74

$70,729.32

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RECEIPTS ON ACCOUNT OF LAND, BUILDINGS ANDNON-RECURRING ITEMS—EXHIBIT F

Statement of Payments for the year ended October 4, 1937CHINAHwa Nan College

Endowment Interests (to July 1. 1937) $618.00Special gifts through Associated Boards 8.50

$626.52

Foochow Christian Hospital Current WorkPhiladelphia Branch $137.20Northwestern Branch 1,245.00Baltimore Branch 402.50Pacific Branch 13.72Topeka Branch 156.10

1.954.50

Interest on China Invested Funds to July 1, 1937Gertie Brethorst Memorial Kindergarten $ 33.24Jessie B. Joyce Legacy 19.54Lucv Hoag 3.88Bashford Gift for Peking Training School for Preachers' Wives 88.22

144.88INDIABombay—Account of sale of Basim property 4,261.75

KOREAWoman's Christian College of Korea

Receipts

Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church of Canadafor dormitory building $5,000.00

Board of Missions of M. E. Church, South, for faculty residence 7,000.00Income on endowments 5,405.00Weslevan Service Guild

New England Branch $10.00New York Branch 23.00Minneapolis Branch 57.19Cincinnati Branch 109.76Des Moines Branch 45.00Pacific Branch 81.00Columbia River Branch 18.00

343.9517.748.95

East Gate Hospital Interest to July 1. 1937 25.21

$24,761.81

PRAISE OFFERING AND JUNIOR THANK-OFFERING, 1936

EXHIBIT GReceipts to October 3, 1936 $10,879.22

Praise JuniorReceipts to October 4. 1937 Offering Thank-Offering

Northwestern Branch $1,753.48New England Branch $18.55 200.00Philadelphia Branch 31.04 800.00Topeka Branch 1,259.39Minneapolis Branch 382.32Des Moines Branch 125.00

$49.59 $4,520.19 4.569.78Special Gift 456.60

$15,905.60Expenses for "The Twelve," travel, incidentals, and first year salary 15,578.60

Balance $ 327.00

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SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY GIFTS—EXHIBIT HNew England Branch $ 210.00New York Branch 3,520.35Philadelphia Branch 12,239.01Baltimore Branch 324.95Cincinnati Branch 3,550.90Northwestern Branch 12,630.68Des Moines Branch 775.00Minneapolis Branch 1 .647 .50

Topeka Branch 2,000.00Pacific Branch ' 1,582.00Columbia River Branch 440.00

$38,920.39Miscellaneous Gifts 7.50Over-and-above gifts:

Cincinnati Branch $17,500.00Baltimore Branch 1,950.00— 19,450.00

$58,377.89

PENSION PURCHASES—EXHIBIT I

October 4, 1937

ReceiptsNet receipts less expenses to October 4, 1936 $424,981.10From Branches, October 3, 1936 to October 4, 1937:

New England Branch $1 ,800.00New York Branch 8,000.00Philadelphia Branch 6,000.00Baltimore Branch 2,000.00Northwestern Branch 5,000.00Minneapolis Branch 1 ,200.00Cincinnati Branch 6,320.90Des Moines Branch 535.56Topeka Branch 1,200.00Pacific Branch 5,000.00Columbia River Branch 700.00

37,756.46Seventieth Anniversary Sunset Shares 8,807.66

$471,545.22Deficit, October 4, 1937 7o!663.31

$542,208.53

DisbursementsTotal disbursements to October 3, 1936 $475,321.62Premiums paid October 3, 1936 to October 4, 1937 less refunds and cash surrender

values 66,886.91

$542,208.53

EXHIBIT JYOUNG PEOPLE'S THANK-OFFERING

1936-1937Receipts

New England Branch $ 250.00New York Branch 1 ,041 .44

Philadelphia Branch 3,800.00Baltimore Branch 502.74Cincinnati Branch 2,112.88Northwestern Branch 4,237.07Des Moines Branch 1,250.00Minneapolis Branch 200.00Topeka Branch 1 ,000.00Pacific Branch 1,000.00Columbia River Branch 141.58

$15,535.71

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JUNIOR THANK-OFFERING1936-1937

ReceiptsNew England Branch $ 150.00New York Branch 489.23Philadelphia Branch 800.00Baltimore Branch 217.48Cincinnati Branch 836.78Northwestern Branch 1.800.58Des Moines Branch 375.00Minneapolis Branch-. 100.00Topeka Branch 500.00Pacific Branch 200.00Columbia River Branch 85 . 1

5

% 5,554.22

AUDITOR'S CERTIFICATE

Philadelphia, Pa.,

October Twelfth,Nineteen Hundred, Thirty-seven.

Mrs. J. Wesley Masland, Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society

of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dear Madam:We respectfully report that we have audited the books and accounts kept

by you as Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of theMethodist Episcopal Church for the year ended October 4, 1937.

We are pleased to certify that all income receivable has been accounted for

and disbursed in accordance with the statements of Cash Receipts and Dis-bursements and Assets and Liabilities as submitted herewith, and that thestatements submitted show fully and correctly the results from the trans-actions of the year ended October 4, 1937.

Respectfully submitted.

JOHN P. HERR,Certified Public Accountant

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PUBLICATION OFFICEAnnie G. Bailey, Publisher, in Account with theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society, of the

Methodist Episcopal Church

RECEIPTSOctober 1, 1936 to October 1, 1937

Subscriptions to WoTnan's Missionary Friend $33,347.29Subscriptions to Junior Missionary Friend 4,426.54

Literature, Mite Boxes,* General Supplies 19,765.01K. H. Supplies 2,306.77S. B. Supphes 2,046.30L. I.. B. Supplies 275.67

General Executive Report $1,353.34General Treasurer 70th Anniversary Stationery 126.00W. F. M. S. Badges 8.40Twine Sold 4.05Workers Training Course 153.35"Digest" General Executive 125.75Express Rebate 4.45General Treas. on Travel Account Editors & Publ 318.48For Collections on Checks 4.15Sale of Africa Articles 31.50Advertising 155.00General Treas. for "Valorous Ventures" for International Department

Units 29.55Cuts and Electros 20.71

$37,773.83

$24,393.75

$2,334.73

Total Receipts $64,502.31Cash on Hand October 1, 1936 4,839.08

$69,341.39

DISBURSEMENTSOctober 1. 1936 to October 1, 1937

Woman's Missionary Friend

Printing $15,667.64Mailing and Postage 5,194.13Illustrations 216.19Refund on Subscriptions 8.80Bound Volumes 8.25Rent 975.00Clerical Servicesf 3,980.00Editor's Salaryt 1,620.00Editor's Budgetf 940.04Editor's Stationery 27.32Editing "Study" in Friendf 202.56Subscription Cultivation 713.63

$29,553.56

Junior Missionary FriendPrinting $3,390.67Mailing and Postage 422.98Illustrations 247.57Refunds on Subscriptions 6.50Publisher's Banner 6.50

Clerical Servicesf 648.00Rent 275.00Bound Volumes 3.75Editor's Salaryf 540.00Editor's Postage and Supplies 25.00

* Including W. S. G. Adjustment,t Less accepted reductions.

$5,565.97

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LiteraturePrinting Leaflets, Mite Boxes and Supplies $13,955.46Books and Demonstrations for Y. P. D 977.71Cuts and Seals 244.59VVesleyan Service Guild on Mite Boxes 225.00Refunds 26.50Manuscripts 24.00To Africa Missionaries from Sale of Articles 31.50Clerical Services* 2,495.00Rent 850.00Postage and Express 2,291.33Wrapping Paper and Twine 45.66Printing and Distributing General Executive Report 1,308.69Multigraph Supplies and Repairs 166.57Candidate and Missionary Blanks 70.00Binding Reports 2.88

$22,714.89

General Expense of the Publication Office

Publisher's Salary* $2,160.00Stationery and Supplies 372.44Telephone and Telegrams 142.06General Officers Stationery 19.66Auditor 25.00Insurance 1 1 1 .85

Light and Power 73.45Addressograph Supplies and Repairs 232.92Mimeograph paper and supplies 133.35Mrs. Schumann's contribution to "Apologete" & postage 123.44Expense, (including travel paid by general treasurer) Editors and

Publisher to General Executive, and Mid-Year Meetings 592.77General Executive "Digest" 101.23Collection on Checks and Service Charges 31.12

Paid to General Treasurer on Acct. of Loan for Publishing History. . $2,500.00$4,119.29

$6,619.29

Total Disbursements $64,453.71Cash on Hand, October 1. 1937 4,887.68

* Less accepted reductions.

Assets and Liabilities of the Publication Office

October 1, 1937

Deposit State Street Trust $5,000.00Cash on Hand, October 1, 1937 4,887.68Due October 1, 1937 on Unpaid Accounts:

Branches and Boards $7,496.34History 300.00

7,796.34Value of Stock (Estimated) 2,000.00Value of Equipment (Estimated) 2.300.00

),341.39

Total Assets $21,984.02

LiabilitiesDue on Unexpired Subscriptions (Estimated) $10,000.00Balance on Loan from General Treasurer on publication of History. . 291.65

Total Liabilities $10,291.65

Net Assets $11,692.37

* Less accepted reductions.

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BEQUESTS AND LAPSED LIFE INCOME GIFTS1936-1937

New England BranchMary L. Atwood Hartford, Conn $1 ,200.00Emily E. A. Eastman Haverhill, Mass 50.00Grace M. Miller Brookline, Mass 3,000.00Almira E. Pratt Woburn, Mass 6,721.64Sarah Ware Worcester, Mass 190.00

New York Branch

James S. Barnard Rochester, N. Y $ 229.90Sarah Hageman Trenton, N. J 500.00Elizabeth F. Harper Hempstead, N. Y 500.00Mrs. Carlie E. Hodge Buffalo, N. Y 375.00Henrietta S. Powell Canandaigua, N. Y 395.77Augusta B. Skinner Adams, N. Y 50.00Augusta Stephens Round Lake, N. Y 250.00*Mrs. Francelia Allen Peru, N. Y 460.42*Mrs. Josephine H. Bennett Binghamton, N. Y 341.09*Mrs. Belle Borst Stittville. N. Y 541.86*Mrs. Lillian Chapman Westfield, N. Y 60.03*Mrs. Elizabeth Munson Rochester, N. Y 290.25*Mrs. Anna R. Stover North Tonawanda, N. Y 350.33

Philadelphia BranchEmily W. Crouch Bealesville, Pa $ 500.00Mrs. W. W. Emery Erie. Pa 277.11Elizabeth W. Pickop Philadelphia, Pa 6,550.00

Baltimore BranchMiss Fannie Peutz Baltimore, Md $ 101.95Miss Grace Burnett Baltimore, Md 62.71*Miss Sallie Welton Piedmont, West Va 70.14

Cincinnati BranchMrs. Mary A. Cosley Xenia, Ohio $5,000.00Mrs. Virginia Talbott Covington, Ky 3,000.00

*Dr. Kate W. Cory Geneva, Ohio 2,000.00*Mrs. Anna D. Elder Boaz, Alabama 685.00

Northwestern Branch

Jennie Hewes Caldwell Northwestern Br $ 914.50Nettie Hartman Wisconsin Conf 512.74John Kissack Illinois Conf 2,785.56Jennie Kittleson Rock River Conf 150.00Sarah Peters Northwestern Br 122.87Laura Wright Indiana Conf 300.00Phoebe Clark Northwestern Br 498.70Mrs. Hattie Dempsey Illinois Conf 274.79Mrs. Effie Larrabee Northwestern Br 636.00Miss Mary Peters Illinois Conf 4,343.59Miss Mary Peters Northeastern Br 10,237.33Mrs. Rose Rinehart S. Illinois Conf 108.96Mrs. Nelson H. Smith W. Wisconsin Conf 3,405.31Mrs. Sarah Thistlewood S. Illinois Conf 129.00

$11,161.64

$ 4,344.65

$ 7,327.11

$ 234.80

$10,685.00

$24,419.35

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Des Moines Branch

Mrs. W. M. Satchell Eldna. Iowa $ 250.00Mrs. Ida J. Wills Carroll, Iowa 500.00

Topeka Branch

Mrs. Sannie W. Brooks Denver, Colo $ 100.00Mrs. Margaret Clark Colorado Springs, Colo 312.50Mrs. Julia A. Haguewood Hiawatha. Kans 1,520.00Mrs. Florence Tharp Denver, Colo 200.00

*Mrs. Ben H. Blandford Covington, Okla 28.91*Mrs. Julia A. Haguewood Hiawatha, Kans 609.28

Pacific Branch

Mrs. Ainslee & Ellsworth Alhambra, Calif $ 250.00Laura Barr Tucson, Arizona 50.00Emma C. Dickinson Pasadena, Calif 6,468.02Minnie Mendenhall Whittier, Calif 519.00Mrs. L. Shattuck San Francisco, Calif 36.06Mrs. Eliza Stringlield Los Angeles, Calif 667.18Ellen Trulson Long Beach, Calif 500.00*Mr. Mavnard Beadle Sacramento, Calif 29.96*Mrs. Sarah B. Deamud Santa Ana, Calif 603.77*Mrs. Jessie B. Ewer San Diego. Calif 1,013.30*Mrs. Florence Michel Monrovia, Calif 852.08*Mrs. E. A. Thomson Los Angeles, Calif 354.52


Mrs. F. A. Hazeltine Portland, Oregon $ 100.00Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr Portland, Oregon 626.14From McCabe Estate 1,360.00

$ 750.00

$ 2,770.69

11,343.89

$ 2,086.14Total Bequests $47,135.94Total Lapsed Life Income Gifts $27,987.33

' Lapsed Life Income Gifts.

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SUMMARY OF DISBURSEMENTS FOR 1936-1937

ConferencesAfrica $35,670.47Burma 15.993.18China 235,960.79India 413.539.26Japan 106,122.38Korea 72,681.87Malaya 35,326.80Philippine Islands 29,790.39Sumatra Mission 5,867.44Bulgaria 5.809.76Central Europe 1,429.69North Africa 21,070.08Eastern South America 14,677.89Mexico 24,784.88Peru Mission 9,1 84.66Miscellaneous disbursements direct to the field 63,668.33Retirement Fund Endowment and Pension Purchases 36,435.59Retirement Allowances 44.887.58Student aid and aid to missionaries on furlo *4,840.04Administrative expense, education and promotion 87,680.56Miscellaneous (not overhead) 32,966.57International Department 297.77Seventieth Anniversary Gifts 56,294.86

$1,354,980.84

Note: Miscellaneous Disbursements direct to the field include Literary Work,Library Service, Union College Current Expense, Assistance to Branches,Young People's Thank OfTering and Junior Thank Offering.

This statement of disbursements is based on figures submitted byBranch Treasurers. The General Treasurer has merely compiled them.

For Appropriations Summarized by Conferences see

Appropriations Booklet for the Year 1937 - 1938

For List of Real Estate see 1929 Year Book

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INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT UNIT CORRESPONDENTS

Europe and North Africa:

Frau Johannes Lobel—Gyorkony, Tolna Megye, HungaryFrau Irmgard Pratsch—Sofia V, Oborischte 109, BulgariaFrau Giscia Jakob—Budapest VI, Feldsberdosor 5, HungaryMrs. Lydia Wunderlich— Dresden A. Holbeinstrasse 28, GermanySyster Maja Johanson—Betaniastiftelsen, Stockholm, Sverige, SwedenFrau Maria Jacob—Srbobran, JugoslaviaMrs. Alice Sigg—Badenerstrasse 67, Zurich 4, SwitzerlandDeaconess Margot Werwendt—Eesti, Tallinn, Marva Maanti 71-1

Miss Gloria Wysner, II Maten, Kabylia, North Africa

ChinaMiss Ovidia Hansing, Woman's College, West China University, Chengtu,

ChinaMiss Joy L. Smith, American M. E. Mission, Nanking, ChinaMiss Elsie Reik, Hwa Nan College, Foochow, ChinaMiss M. F. Glassburner, American M. E. Mission, Yenping, ChinaMiss Edith Fredericks, 47 Chiao Chang Leo, Kiukiang, ChinaMiss Ortha Lane, American M. E. Mission, Tientsin, China

India

Miss Dora L. Nelson, American M. E. Mission, Baroda Residency, IndiaMiss Ethel Whiting, 151 Dharamtala Street, Calcutta, IndiaMrs. H. E. Dewey, Mount Hermon, Darjeeling, IndiaMiss Isabella Thoburn, Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, India

JapanMiss Alberta Sprowles, 4 Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, Japan

KoreaMiss Moneta Troxel, Ewha College, Seoul, Korea

South AmericaSrta. Peregrina Chavez, Aptdo 1386, Lima, PeruMrs. Agnes L. de Zottele, Casila 67, Santiago, ChileMrs. Minnie R. Gattinoni, Victoria 3745, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaMrs. Sophia P. de Gomez, 8 de Octubre No. 2775, Montevideo, Uruguay

BurmaMiss Hazel B. Winslow, 230 Canal Street, Rangoon, Burma

MexicoSra. Elisa S. de Pascoe, Apartado 115 Bis, Mexico, D.F.

CURRENT WORK APPROPRIATIONSCONFERENCES

AfricaAngola Mission .. $

Newngland

110.00

121.50

New York

$ 442.00995.00

320.00

$

$

$

Phila Bi

131.00 $749.50

165.00

Itimore

153.00

148.00

$

ncinnati

170.00

1,674.00

225.00

Noi

$

$

$

$

$

thwesterr

Rhodesia 1.840.00Southeast Africa 790 00

Asia$

.. $

231.50

191.00

210.00714.00240.00997.50

419.503,055.50

776.00

635.50

$ 1.757.00

$ 1.087.00

3,389.50

5,225.00

497.50419.50

10,159.00

3,540.50

1,076.00

425.50

1,045.50

1,317.00

2,344.00

2,375.00

946.00879.00

3,042.50

3.395.00

2,474.00

255.50889.00

$

$

301.00

235.50

532.00

2,642.0068.50

386.50444.50212.50485.00

646.00

$

$

2,069.00

775.00

274.50

2,429.00

686.50

4,635.00

1,198.50

1,979.50

3,606.50

312.50

2.630.00

652 00ChinaCentral China 5,008.00Foochow 5,662.00Hwa Nan College 2,416.50Hinghwa 3,208.00KiangslNorth China and Cheeloo...West China

7,875.50

8,371.50

8,306.50

1,989.00

TotalsIndiaBengal _BombayCentral Provinces

. $

. $

7,048.00

92.60

463.05542.62713.61

277.83

24.50

223.00545.35

4,273.95986.4771 3.44

$ 24,732.50

$ 3,482.82

3,571.71

480.89

1,935.55

1,048.21

787.43

1,842.00

2,669.75

11,844.30

3,440.53

4,439.88

255.00

$

$

16,600.00

490.50

1.813.89

3,202.65

4,632.66

2,001.40

2,193.24

1,907.00

2,096.00

3,425.60

4,359.66

3,454.45

80.00

$

$

5,417.00

481.18

394.45

1,479.05

1,383.24

1,173.06

196.49

565.26

523.80912.85

169.78

811.29

80.00

$

$

15,122.00

2.239.80

948.65

1,690.05

648.45

2,895.50

1,597.40

1,065.00

4,270.35

8,377.42

4,412.02

3,530.45

137.00

42,837.00

4,125.15

2,891.49

2,082.50Gujarat 2 426.75Hydera badIndus River

2,071.04

2,227.05

Isabella Thoburn College ...

Lucknow701.00

5,819.75

North India 10,992.75

Northwest India 8,449.02

South India 7,415.79

General 610.00

TotalsJapan

Korea Mission BudgetKorea Current Work ..

. $$

$

$

8,856.42

5,407.00$ 35,798.07

$ 8,492.50

2,229.50

9,731.40

$ 11,960.90

$ 1,019.00

469.50247.00

597.00

240.00

2,445.50

1,701.50

1,615.00

410.00

$ 29,657.05

$ 7,940.001,176.00

5,037.20

$

$

8,170.45

1,423.50

$ 31,812.09

$ 12,980.00

1,981.71

23,618.00

$

$

49,812.29

11,322.00

431.20

1,440.60

1,440.60

756.50

577.50

970.20 6,149.50

TotalsMalaya

$

$

6,213.20

2,121.00

2,751.00

1,249.50

549.00

$

$

970.20116.00

344.70

$

$

25,599.71

1,810.00

2,776.50

68.50

178.00

$

$

6,580.702 785 00

Philippine IslandsSumatra Mission

4,834.95

1,832.50

1 136 00

EuropeBulgaria 274.50 54.88

192.00North Africa 1,175.50

85.50

2,088.00

2,652.50

3,347.00

3,966.00

514.50

331.50

487.00

446.00

3,107.50

535.00

2,060.50

343.00

1,474.00Latin America

Eastern South America 1,126.00Mexico 2,393.50Peru Mission 1,128.50

Total Current Work . $ 28,132.02 $ 92,572.47 $ 79,923.25 $ 18.297.73 $ 99,236.80 $130,736.44

SUMMARY APPROPRIATIONS

Missionary Budget $ 15,045.00 $ 41,973.59 $ 41,556.00Current Work 28,132.02 92,572.47 79,923.25Foreign Items 900.00 2,460.00 2,255.00Home Administration 1,732.98 4,615.00 4,230.45International Department 200.00Library Service _... 75.00 100.00Literary Work 100.00 200.00Retirement Fund 800.00 7,500.00 6,000.00Special Travel 500.00 1,582.80Thank Offering. Y. P 250.00 1,200.00 3,800.00Thank Offering, Juniors 150.00 500.00 800.00Union Colleges 700.00 680.00 2,205.00Wesleyan Service Guild 40.00 127.00 22.00Branch Contingent •4.250.00 8,100.00 7,125.50Branch Reserves 3,596.94 10,000.00Miscellaneous General Treasurer

$ 11.690.00 $ 53,665.00

18,297.73 99,236.80

615.00 2,870.00

1.153.75 5,384.20

45.00

150.00

100.00

2.000.00 6,300.00

1,300.00

600.00 2,250.00

300.00 800.00

1 ,760.00

30.00 410.00

2.500.00 8,024.002 518.52

$ 52,000.00 $164,000.00 $160,000.00 $ 40.000.00 $182,000.00

FOR YEAR 1937-38Columbia

Dm Moines Minneapolis Topeka Pacific Rlver

S 104.00 $ 243.00 $ 85.00 $ 458.00

294.50 331.50 585.00 919.50 $ 228.50

71.50 98.00 80.00

$ 470.00 $ 574.50 $ 768.00 5 1.457.50 $ 228.50

$ 789.00 $ 291.00 $ 653.00 $ 637.00

1.248.00 385.00 2.143.00 916.50

3,032.50 823.50 1,343.50 1.777.50 $ 1,036.00

360.50. 480.00 206.00 583.00

290.00 738.50 594.00 691.00 312.00

650.00 1812.00 577.50 1,499.00 41.00

1.652.50 343.00 1,084.50 3,538.00 48.00

1,762.50 2 274.50 884.00 2,184.50 370.50

803.50 181.00 468.50 125.50

$ 9,799.50 $ 6,856.50 $ 7,013.50 $ 11,658.00 $ 1,933.00

$ 468.19 $ 888.37 $ 2,109.80

1,776.74 367.01 943.25

9,275.79 651.70 1,961.95

774.82 86.68 2,149.33

4,133.59 133.77 1,313.20

1,078.98 392.00 3,172.75

247.00 494.00 1,002.00

518.00 278.00 2,809.75

1,754.38 1,094.00 3,339.00

1,307.49 762.16 5,967.12

826.76 52.50 2,555.65

68.00 68.00

$22,161.74 $ 5,268.19

$ 2,228.50 $ 726.00343.00 39.60

1,950.20 931.00

$ 27,391.80

$ 2,720.00

$ 2,293.20 $ 970.60

$ 582.00 $ 2,045.00

591.50 1,072.00

103.00

137.00 165.00

137.50 14.00

343.00 240.00

387.00

1.098.50

3,332.00

3,332.00

649.00

1,587.00

48.00

421.90

$ 1,749.30

1,050.56

1,330.85

849.18

1,441.97

3,653.44

848.00

1,332.55

4,413.45

2,990.15

2,120.48

556.00

$ 22,335.93

$ 1,789.00

. 14.70

2,479.40

$ 2,494.10

$ 924.00

1,737.80

56.00

151.00

500.00

598.20

68.50

68.50

826.00

,132.00

855.00

85.75

634.55

216.09

3,594.92

190.71

68.60

"487.50

720.30941.55

343.00110.00

7,392.97

375.50

"588.00

588.00

222.50

596.00

17.00

60.00

70.00

35.00

79.00

$41,121.44 $18,278.79 $45,833.40 $45,983.33 $11,597.47

Gen'l Treas. Totals

$ 1,896.00

7,887.001,749.50

$ 11,532.50

$ 6,627.50

16,450.50

27,060.00

6,484.50

13,151.00

...„ 27,719.00

27,220.50

24,200.00

5,842.50

889.00

$ 149,017.00

$ 16,213.46

14,855.35

823.20 23,737.3419 195.19

411.60 17,091.88

15,391.88

8,894.26

411.60 21,762.40

411.60 51,559.60

411.60 34,197.55

205.80 26,469.49

170.00 2,134.00

2.845.40 $ 251,502.40

$ 55,404.00

6,215.71

56,227.50

$ 62,443.21

$ 13,030.00

17,338.45

3,548.50

„ 3,598.78

712.00

380.00 13,126.50

8,871.00

15,113.50

3,073.20

BY BRANCHES - YEAR

$ 3,225.40

937-38

$ 614.938.54

$ 37,697.5241.121.44

300.00

500.00

600.00

r,2oo'.'o6

425.005.00

149.00

4,002.04

14,737.50

18,278.79

820.00

1,538.35

1,800.00

200.00200.00100.00

35.00

229.00

6,000.00

3,561.36

$ 66,405.50 $ 24,451.03

45,833.40 45,983.33

2.000.00 1,230.00

3,500.00 2,400.00

50.00

100.00

50.00

1,200.00 5,000.00

I'oob.oo 1,000.00

500.00 200.00

1 190.00 1,200.00

260.00 440.00

5 011.10 5,500.00

3 000.00 2,091.64

17,451.25

11,597.47

615.00

1,153.75

1,350.00

100.00

75.00

76.00

2,500.00

651.53

$ 3,225.40

44.000.00149.36

25,325.24

422,491.66614,938.54

18,780.00

35.053.93

345.00

725.00

600.0088,550.00

4 985.00

16,100.00

5,650.00

10,460.00

2.333.00

66,012.64

32,419.99

25.325.24

$ 86,000.00 $ 47,500.00 $130,000.00 $ 90,000.00 $ 35,570.00 $ 72,700.00 $1,344,770.00

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136 Statistics

SUMMARY OF GENERAL STATISTICS OF FOREIGN CONFERENCESFor the last complete conference year preceding October 1, 1937

Summary|

Evangelistic Work

2EVx:

co

*!-

co

SIM3_o

3

C

V

aco

c

m

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Women in the Church

CONFERENCESV

BV

3nJ

2a,

•a<u

0.

Id

T3V

0,

CQ

3

AfricaAngola 5

7

4

1

7

1

2'

5

2 83710

185615

67

1

437

300028351174

180015874636

36022181

350257145

Total for Africa

Burma.

16

9

13205

141983

9

2

4122

9862

2

5

1

31

5

2

2

5

16

55

76

9637222422421614778

3

315

2

261

89

97

15042823425724518885

14

2

442

2

2

33

41

16

2610713243652432

7009

773

68159045777135234204701157

8023

228

220244534806541665445380

662

32

5675021018443238106

752

61

China34

633468

KiangsiNorth China

10 121

1

1

1

28320

Total for China

IndiaBengalBombayCentral Provinces

82

11

7

1085

69

251814

43

3467

5

446

11

3

8

1 15

31

1

1357

15769168229152106100304266235

65

'

613

'4

1

12

1587

18880196253182121131347304268

20

4

47

447

5

429

744883164103477

19714478

18761

10601484122521483367627911859111115641064

9289

725650

327274571909310444645516193228367949

1776

11018028031129552160402964202

1559

187

1

2

437

641

2

1

101

2

1

7

5

2

2

111485

Hyderabad 5811921113

North IndiaNorthwest India

589285

Total for India 113

24

28

18

4

13

2

9

53

6

7

2

2

1

2

29

2

22 31 1786

216

210

21

11

11

36

46

161

2070

294

245

52

17

190

3220

39

12

36

945

68

105

38487

3492

7010

2748

831

29849

281141

95074

975

6595

1277

114

16365

7231

3325

333

1300

331

56

1083

7

1

4272

73

716

11

1

3

316

3

9

4

154

257

2181

Europe and North Africa28

3 9 7 3

Total for Europe & N.Africa

Latin America

11

1064

3

5

28 3

692

18

52

882024

9

101

1

7

251

422

1627263

3177

103

13962001205

8

29515

156

3

193

8 1 36tEastern South America . . 1 1

Total for Latin America 20

33

6

*39

1 8 1 89 132

72

12 26 5067 2801 466 229

Grand Total 371 172 62 45 93 3835 319 4897 156 1795 114449 140844 9372 10419

tl936 Figures. Detained.

Foreign Statistics 137

SUMMARY OF GENERAL STATISTICS OF FOREIGN CONFERENCESFor the last complete conference year preceding October 1, 1937

Evangelistic Work

Training Classes

a! —^ o

Q

Social Work

Welfare Work

Orphanage;Hostels,Homesand DayNurseries

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1954

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2

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1954

662

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288

20

175296

267

16

12083

3842623

1

408

683

1

396282359

40461277719473

24660

421003

135144

1947

69

7

150

37089

106

1871

3271

3322

17611

80215985

569

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133

62

822

30111

25108

17

'

3

231

68 2529

58203283169

225104

133

30198115

281

1177

641

146

485

335

384

569

200

550

51 211 56

226

13

420

229

14115

79846

21412627

680

680

1006819

28427

93

13012

1504173

53 60

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*250 Personal visits made.

138 Statistics

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONSFor the year ending October 1, 1936

Covering the last complete school year ending within this period

ooXI

1-,

E

2

a3cu

"o

»<

1-

Pupils

Day and Boardingc•o

KT3Crt

a•5u

m

a3

c.2

•n

u"o

aj

JD

E32

Name and Location of Schools

^^l2 ^

B

a

2

E*cPh

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aB

do

£

Si

J3

£

Euo2

i3

o

a3

HoH

Soa•3

BY CONFKRHNCHS

M

1

'3

m

E32;

AFRICABoarding School Quessua,

Angola* 1

1

1

1

1

5

51

1

1

2

1

1

12

2

1

3

1

2

1

4

14

F

M F

F

F

M F

M FM FM FM FM FM FM F

M F

FM F

FM FM FM F

3

2

2

4

2

13

"i1

"i

4

2

2

4

4

14

8

6

7

39

7

16218482

66

7

1518

49567

107

81

81

78

232

112

16

241

679

186160226158945836

918

66

69

186

56

51

47

409

1681864531209

288

17

\t) 244

418

176

109

288

1235

20741543722612511951

1580

83

120445

60280130112

1572

156

120

122

119

91

608

234246

"70

18

199

200

418

176

109

180

1083

3680

255297

9425

526

Nellie Dingley School. Mutambara

Girls Boarding School.Nyadiri,So. Rhodesia

.

8

42Fairfield Girls School.. Old Umtali,

So. Rhodesia

.

Hartzell Girls School. . Inhambano,S. E. A

IC

Total for Africa 50

5858723

26

—BURMA

Day Schools, District . PeguGirls High School .... RangoonEnglish Girls High Sch. Rangoon. . . .

8938

Kingswood School .... Kalaw 356

241

6

Total for Burma Conference. . .

.

CHINACentral China Conference

133

Olivet MemorialHigh School Chinkiang. . .

Day Schools, City. .NankingMethodist GirlsHigh School Nanking

DaySchools, District NankingSecondSt.DaySchoolWuhu

120 101

19310

48123

12010

445

60262 18

130112

722

DaySchools, District Wuhu

Total for Central China128 722

—304 301

—1

1935 Figures




Name and Location op SchoolsBY Conferences

l-s

o

JS

w s c

•o a3 fa

E3

B

t2 2

a;

c

3

Pupils

Day and Boarding

a E

FoocHow ConferenceHwa Nan High

School Foochow.

.

Tai Maiu BoardingSchool Foochow. .

Mary E. CrookKindergarten Foochow.

.

Union KindergartenTraining School. . .Foochow. .

Day Schools, Cityand District Foochow*.

Institutional ChurchSchool Foochow*.

Marguerite StewartSchool Futsing. . .

Day Schools, District Futsing. . .

King's Heralds SchoolHaitang. .

Model Primary andKindergarten Haitang. .

Day Schools, District.Haitang. .

Boarding School Kutien. . .

Model Primary andKindergarten Kutien. . .

Day Schools, District. Kutien. . .

Boarding School Mintsing.

.

Day Schools, Cityand District Mintsing. .

Total for Foochow Conference

Hinghwa ConferenceHamilton Girls

School Hinghwa.

.

Primary School, City.Hinghwa. .

Elizabeth LewisSchool Hinghwa. .

Day Schools, City. . Hinghwa.

.

Fannie Nast GambleMemorial School . .Sienyu. . .

.

Isabel Hart GirlsSchool Sienya ....

Day Schools, District.Sienyu. ...

Total for Hinghwa Conference.

.

Kiangsi ConferenceRulison Fish High

School Kiuldang . .

Anderson Day School. Kiukiang. .

Day Schools, City. . .Kiukiang. .

Day Schools, District.Hwangmei*Day Schools, District. Xo. Kiangsi'Day Schools, District. Xanchang.

.

Day Schools, District.Fu River. .

Day Schools, District. Kan River.Baldwin Girls School. Nanchang .

Total for Kiangsi Conference. .

F

F

M F

F

M F

M F

M FM FM F

M FM FF

M FM FF

FM F

M FM F

FM FM FM FM FM FM FM FM F

10

177

158

110

447

50

175

44

36

340

54

120126

97148

12037835

200

1741

70140

116116

582

30

26

10

338

30

312

37

79

215

112

42

107

323

158

156

400

125

261164100

13214847

19637891

210

2996

85164

153200

166116

30877

44134425714167118336

75

170

48

46

267

1536874

1888755

50

1336

167

11230

3098040

90

2089

* 1935 Figures

140 Statistics



AME AND Location of Schools

BY Conferences

^iii Day a

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North China ConferenceDay Schools, District. Ching Chao.Lang Fang Boarding

School Ching Chao*Holt Boarding School. Lan Hsien*.

.

Day Schools, District . Lan Hsien . .

Gamewell School .... PeipingKindergartens,

District Peiping*. . . .

Day Schools, District.PeipingSchool of Nursing. . . . PeipingAlderman School .... ShanhaikuanBoarding School

District Shanhaikuan*Day Schools, District. ShanhaikuanTaian District SchoolsTaianfu . . .

Keen School Tientsin . . .

Day Schools, Cityand District Tientsin. . .

School of Nursing. . .Tientsin. . .

Boarding School,District Tsun Hwa*

Day Schools, District.Tsun Hwa

.

Total for North ChinaConference

West China ConferenceGirls High School . . . Chengtu . .

Harmony CrossettDay School Chengtu . .

Day Schools, DistrictChengtu. .

Chengtu CityKindergarten Chengtu. .

Dewey School Chengtu . .

Day Schools, City . . . Tzechow.

.

Caldwell Girls SchoolTzechow. .

Kindergarten Tzechow.

.

Girls High School.. . .ChungkingStevens Memorial

School Suining . . .

Day Schools. City . . . Suining . .

.

Day Schools, DistrictSuining. . .

Total for West China Conference

53

37

M F

M FFM FM F

M FM FFF

M FM FM FF

M FF

FM F

M FM F

M FM FM FFM FF

FM FM F

14

IS

100

3832

39241

98

108

42179207

80

31143

1491

182292

2321123

98181

1798

93

3906 110

89

173

58

i06

58

295 67 4796

100

3848

392345

5213026

228

63179207230

8020

73143

132

235349

704241123

5873

106

1642641798





BY Conferences

0)

OOJ3

m 2o 0.

3u Cu

^F

^Z J^

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Pupils

Day and Boarding

0)

•a•I5

Yenping ConferenceFuller Memorial

School Yenping. . . .

Gamble MemorialSchool Yenping . . .

Day Schools, City. . .Hsia-Tao. .

Day Schools, DistrictChanghusanDay Schools, Cityand District Shunchang.

Day Schools, City. . . Yangkow. .

Day Schools, Cityand District Shahsein. . .

Fukien W. M. S.

School Yungan. . .

.

Day Schools, City . . . Yuki

Total for Yenping Conference.

INDIA

Bengal ConferetsiceUshagram Boarding

School Asansol. . . .

Day Schools, DistrictAsansol. . . .

English Girls HighSchool Calcutta. . .

Day Schools, Bengali Calcutta. . .

Day Schools, Hindi. .Calcutta. .

.

English Girls HighSchool Darjeeling

.

Alma J. KeventerSchool Pakur

Jidato, Santali PakurDay Schools, District

Santali PakurVillage Day Schools

Bengali Pakur

Total for Bengal Conference.

Bombay ConferenceDay Schools, MarathiDay Schools, GujaratiGirls Normal School

.

Mecosa BaghDay SchoolsTaylor High School.

.

Day Schools, City. . ,

Hillman MemorialBoarding School. .

,

Boarding SchoolHostel

• Bombay. .

.Bombay. .

, Nagpur. . .

. Nagpur. . .

.Nagpur. . .

, Poona ..... Poona ....

Telegaon.

.

Puntamba.

Total for Bombay Conference. .

M FM FM F

FM F

M F

M FM F

M FM F

M FM FM F

M F

M FM F

M F

M F

M FM FFM FM FFM F

M F

F

120

236

56

403

110

1139038

56171

366

142

1113

65

26254

123114

4

9

680

909 104

20

159

121

27

100

1705569

4170

97102

776

16 191254

19

35520442

136

134238

366

151

2071

19615925138147156181

129

67

32

26

1432

115

76244

33 1198

584

1848

98

89

50

303 463

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS — For th«i year ending October 1, 1936


Namb and Location of Schools

BY Conferences

Z H

Pupils Day and Boarding

uJ!

% X

Central Provinces ConferenceGirls School BaiharAlderman Memorial

School Jagdalpur. . .

Day Schools, District.Jagdalpur. .

.

Johnson Girls HighSchool Jubbulpore.

.

Hawa Bagh TrainingSchool Jubbulpore.

.

Day Schools, City . . .Jubbulpore.

.

Girls School Khandwa. . .

Christian NormalSchool Khandwa . . .

Day Schools, District.Khandwa. . .

Day Schools, Dist Narsingpur .

Frances C. DavisSchool Sironcha. . . .

Day Schools, District.Sironcha. . . .

Total for Central ProvincesConference

Gujarat ConferenceDay Schools, District.AhmedabadDay Schools, District. Baroda. . . .

Webb MemorialGirls School

Day Schools, District. Central. . . .

Day Schools, District.Godhra. . . .

Normal and PracticeSchools Godhra. . . .

Day Schools, District. Kathiawar.

Total to Gujarat Conference. . .

Hyderabad ConferenceGirls Boarding

School BidarDay Schools, District. BidarDay Schools, District. EkeleStanley Girls High

School Hyderabad .

Day Schools, Hindi . . Hyderabad.Day Schools, Telugu . Hyderabad.Kukatpalli Vocational

School Hyderabad.Day Schools, District. Narayanpet*Day Schools, District.TandurMary A. Knotts

School Vikarabad. .

.

Day Schools, District.Vikarabad.. .

Training School Vikarabad..

.

Total for Hyderabad Conference

Indus River ConferenceAvery Girls

Boarding School. . . Ajmer. . .

Day Schools, District.Ajmer. . .

Wilson SanitoriumSchool Tilaunia

.

Girls Boarding School Hissar. . .

Day Schools, District. Hissar. . .

Lucie F. HarrisonBoarding School. . .Lahore. .

Day Schools, District. Lahore. .

Day Schools, District.SindDay Schools, District. Batala*.

.

Day Schools, District.Fazilka. .

Day Schools, District. Multan. .

Day Schools, District. Patiala. .

Total for Indus RiverConference

M F

M FM F

M F

FFF

FM FM F

M FM F

M FM F

M FM FM F

FM F

M FM F

FM FM F

M FM FM F

M FM FM F

M FM F

M FM FM F

M FM F

M FM FM FM F

4727

192035

2115

184

153

203

53108

35

1303957

69657841

134381

4524683

166166355

7

100186

62666

39195

144519

111105

70158101101

94

168

1381951

1

2017

5593

90

24

167108

17110130

367518

14275

1320961

235662841

296381

13331983

420185406

24120203

183759

9

2844

105195

147819

174105

570

158129101

8 1153

* 1935 figures.





BY Conferences

Pupils

Day and Boarding <u O)

Va

§ s Oi Cl,

2^ "53 c

o o •soSi h

ffi •nJ3

m"o.3

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aE ^ ^ u

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1

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5

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1 is

J3

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3

•3

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Lucknow ConferenceDay Schools, District.ArrahSawtelle GirlsSchool Arrah

Day Schools, District. BalliaHudson MemorialSchool Cawnpore. .

,

Girls High School.. . .Cawnpore. .

,

District School, Boys Cawnpore. . .

Day Schools, DistrictGondaChambers Memorial

School GondaChambers Memorial

Training School . . . GondaLai Bagh High SchoolLucknow. . . .

Total for Lucknow Conference . .

North India ConferenceGirls School BareillyWarne Baby Fold . . . BareillyDay Schools. District. BareillyLois L. Parker

Girls School BijnorDay Schools, District. BijnorSigler Girls School. . . BudaunNormal TrainingSchool Budaun

Primary Boys School. BudaunDay Schools, District. BudaunGill Girls School,

Pauri Garhwal ....Day Schools, District.Garhwal. . . .

Girls Boarding SchoolSitapurPrimary Boys School. SitapurDay Schools, District. Hardoi-

SitapurGirls Boarding SchoolPithoragarhChampawat Day

School, Eastern. . . Kumaun. . . .

Day Schools, EasternKumaun. . . .

Wellesley Girls HighSchool Naini Tal . . .

Day Schools, District. Naini Taland Kumaun Districts

Adams Girls School. . Almora. . .

Normal TrainingSchool Almora. . .

GirlsBoardingSchool. Dwarahat. .

.

GirlsBoardingSchool. Moradabad..Normal TrainingSchool Moradabad .

Parker Branch School. Moradabad .

Day Schools, District. Moradabad .

Christian Girls SchoolShahjahanpur

Day Schools, DistrictShahjahanpur

Total for North IndiaConference

36

M F

M FM F

M FM FM FM F

M F

FM F

M FM FM F

M FM FF

FMM F

M FM FM FMM FM F

M FM F

M F

M FM F

M FF

FMM F

M F

M F

10

299

59

31

289

105133

11762793i

75 47 23

137

246 235 77 17

180

319

7415867

124633

532384136

34

79360

22

60

511

53

20

259

37

50

23

240

167133

18916210933

152

17422

25729

319

127158114

15124633

107238153118

34131

15168

98179

23157360

226

231

1156336

118

17170

17545

85

89

12090

173

1505 3647

V'ocational Students.

144 Statistics




BY Conferences

S "•

Pupils

Day and Boarding

>. i*^

c3rt

g b

cu cu

^<u T3S T3

^ HI 2

Northwest India ConferenceLouisa Soule School. . AligarhDay Schools, District.AHgarhDistrict Schools Annupshahr

and BulandshahrButler Memorial

School DelhiDay Schools, District. Delhi. . . .

Central BurgessSchool Ghaziabad

Day Schools, District.GhaziabadPlested Memorial

School Meerut . . .

District Schools Meerut . . .

Boys Primary School.Meerut . . .

Blackstone School , . . Buttra. . .

.

Holman Institute. . .AgraSchool of Nursingand Technicians. . . Brindaban

Day Schools, District. Muttra. . .

Day Schools, DistrictMazaffarnagar

Village Schools,District Roorkee . .

Girls School Roorkee . .

Day Schools, District. Rahtak. .

Total for Northwest IndiaConference

South India ConferenceBaldwin Girls High

School Bangalore,Girls High School .... Belgaum . .

Watson Caste School. Belgaum. .

Sherman BoardingSchool Belgaum.

.

Day Schools, Cityand District Belgaum .

Day SchooIs.District. Gokak. . . .

Boarding School Gulbarga.Marathi Caste School Gulbarga

.

Girls High School. . . . Kolar. . . .

Day Schools, City . . . KolarSchools of Nursingand Compounding . Kolar . . . .

Skidmore Memorial. . Madras. . .

Day Schools, City . . . Madras. . .

Girls Boarding SchoolRaichur. .

Day Schools, District. Raichur. .

Total for South IndiaConference

80

M FM F

M F

M FM F

M FMFM FM FM FM F

M FM F

M FFM F

M FM FF

M F

M FM FM FFM FM F

FM FFM F

15lM F

159

30

45

12

126

254341

10168

18072

5532070110256

164

100

645038

10

148181282442116

592205264

31

62

23

108

40

36145

3030

47

144 114 14184 59

287 196

206 98 20668 41

191 14072 . .60

163 168 176339 250122 99 99203 137 177377 232

21 21 21164 107

100 86

64 6491 81 8938 21

2734 716 2165

130 40 92206 51175 4

45 78 44

382 95181 15 169131 46 125111 5223 66 200116 5

27 26 25196 137 115300107 70 94223 183

2553 478 1207




Name and Location of SchoolsBY Conferences

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Pupils

Day and BoardingeV

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3

c.2

Uo

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a

I

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2

>>

(3

E

1

>>u

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5

V

X

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6

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1

3m

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JAPAN

Japan ConferenceFukuoka Jo Gakko . . Fukuoka. . . .

Yohano KindergartenFukuoka. . . .

lai Jo Gakko Hakodate. . .

Dickerson MemorialKindergarten Hakodate. . .

Pascoe MemorialKindergarten Hakodate. . .

Hirosaki Jo Gakko. . . Hirosaki ....Alexander Memorial

Kindergarten Hirosaki. . . .

Aiko Kindergarten.. Hirosaki. . . .

Kei Ai Kindergarten. Kagoshina. .

King's GloryKindergarten Kumamoto..

YamagaKindergarten Kumamoto..

YatsushiroKindergarten Kumamoto..

Kwassui Jo Gakko. . . Nagasaki . . .

Tamanoi and MigiwaKindergarten Nagasaki . . .

Lee MemorialKindergarten Sendai

Yonezawa Kinder-garten Sendai

Aoyama JoshiSemmonbu Tokyo

Aoyama Jo Gakuin . . TokyoAikei Gakuen Nursery

School and Kinder-garten Tokyo

Airin Kindergarten. .Yokohama. .

Kanagawa Kinder-garten Yokohama . .

Aizawa-NakamuraKindergarten Yokohama. .

Total for Japan Conference

KOREACorea ConferenceDay Schools Chemulpo. . .

Day Schools ChunanEui Chung School . . . HaijuDay Schools Hongsung*.

.

Day Schools KongjuChung Eiu High

School Pyengyang.

.

Blind School Pyengyang. .

Day Schools Pyengyang. .

Day Schools Chinnanpo. .

Day Schools Kang Saw.. .

Day Schools Sari Wan . . .

Day School SeoulEwha High School. . SeoulDay Schools, District.SuwonKindergartens WonjuDay Schools, District. Yengbyen. . .

Day Schools, District. Yi Chun. . . .

Total for Korea Conference. . .

.

2

FM FF

M F

M FF

M FM FM F

M F

M F

M FF

M F

M F

M F

FF

M FM F

M F

M F

2

1

2

i

1

1

1

4

1

1

2

1

1

202

20

3

322

2

2

4

3

3

330

6

3

2

2340

7

2

3

10

347 34742

357

75

60350

402888

63

55

51501

100

28

35

1111030

9131

75

217

20 17042

357 28 83

75

60350 15 95

402888

63

55

51501 46 86

100

28

35

1111030

26 35415

9131

75

217

25

432

97

1

1

12126361

1

6113

M FM FM FM FM F

FFM F

19

2

213

IS491018

212

4636256

1079

138699093

2696 3775

546163390409409

38918

20121599144123212893637232871128157

135

12017

142

"6i

884

22950

255131151

36518

13551068103911199528530013066983

40894

170300

°146.°20107 282

389 "216

49334211196

11243

....140712141330136

1289

M F| . . .

M FM FFFFM F

i

27186

363°32970 324

12 28737i 2548| 85

M F 1

M F . . .

"72589 285

88 4 300j2251 899 6871 1037 497 11555 340 7234

* 1935 figures. " Industrial stiiden ts.

146 Statistics




BY Conferences

PupilsO TO Day and Board^•g

oo

>.>.

w0)

C4

E E

3 )- £u Ph

MCL,

B3

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2 31o

4;

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H

m '4.

MALAYA

Malaya ConferenceMethodist Girls

Schools Singapore. . .

Fairfield Girls School Singapore. . .

Ninde Home Singapore. . .

Lindsay Girls School PenangWinchell Home PenangAnglo-Chinese GirlsSchool (and Hostel) . . IpohLady Treacher Girls

School TaipingContinuation School . TaipingMethodist Girls

School Sitiawan ....

Suydam Girls School. Malacca. . .

.

Shellabear Hall Malacca ....Methodist GirlsSchool Kuola Lumpur

Continuation School. Ipoh

Total for Malaya Conference . .

.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Philippine Islands ConferenceSchool of Nursing . . . Manila

Malos Kindergarten Mulacan. . . .

Harris Kindergarten. ManilaKindergarten Pangasinan .

Kindergarten Zambales. . .

Day Schools, District.Tarlac-Pamp

Total for Philippine IslandsConference

Sumatra Mission ConferenceMethodist GirlsSchool Medan . . .

Home TrainingSchool Landjong,

Balei*

Total for Samatra MissionConference

FM F

FFF

FM F

FM FM FM FM FM F

M F

F

104186

110

58

70

119

713

268315

330

170

129

70100

252

1634

55

22080

110

118

93

120

136

877

103

55

33

36

302

855581

31118

70346

60

243

54360

3769

149

117

8

126

1935 figures.





BY Conferences

O m

PooSi 1

w i2

o a3

aO

C

'I

>

2

Pupils

Day and Boarding

EUROPE ANDNORTH AFRICA

Bxjlgaria ConferenceAmerican School for

Girls Lovetch

.

North African ConferenceII Maten Kabylia.

Total for Europe and NorthAfrican Conferences

LATIN AMERICA

Mexico Conference"Colegio Juarez". . . .Guanajuato."Escuela Maderna".. Mexico City.Industrial School. . . .Mexico City*Aztecas Night School. Mexico City.San Vincente School,

District Mexico City.Ludlow Institute. . . .Pachuca. . . .

fBenito Juarez PueblaDay School. District.Apizaco

Total for Mexico Conference. . .

SOUTH AMERICA

Eastern South AmericaConference

Crandon Institute. .Montevideo."Colegio Norte"Americana RosarioGleason Institute. . . Rosario

Total for Eastern SouthAmerica Conference

North Andes ConferenceLima High School. . .Lima, Peru..

Total for North AndesConference

M FM FM FM F

M F

M FM F

50 US

9°59

127

7029616390

754

11053

°40°73

195

40

235

3319613359

7050732790

1219

1306

4230

*83

1415

11172

35

17

394 105

273

273

153

153

641

426

426

52

22

22

* 1935 Figures.° English, Vocational and Commercial.t Formerly Normal Institute.

148 Statistics

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS—BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOLS


O M

^g

1^ooJ3 >.

C/J ^ ta

H3 ^

E

cM 01

CL,

OJ

2 CD

(i: W J

Pupils

Day and Boarding

BURMACHINA

Central ChinaHitt B. T. S NankingBible Teacliers' Training

School (Union) Nanking

FOOCHOWJewell-Huntley Bible Seminary.FoochowBible Training School KutienBible Training School Mintsing

HiNGHWAJuliet Turner B. T. S Hinghwa

KlANGSIKnowles B. T. S Kiukiang

North ChinatNew Light School ChangliUnion B. T. S PeipingWoman's B. T. S Peiping

West ChinaDeWitt Training School Tzechow

YenpingBible Training School Yenping

Total for China

INDIAGujarat

Nicholson School of Theology. Baroda. .

.

JAPANWoman's Department

Theological School Tokyo

KOREANew Jersey Conference B. T. S. . . PyenyangUnion Theological Seminary. . . .Seoul

Total for Korea

MALAYAEveland Seminary Singapore

PHILIPPINE ISLANDSHarris Memorial B. T. S Manila. . .

Mary Brown TownsendBible Training School Lingayen

Total for Philippine Islands

LATIN AMERICABible Training School Mexico City

Totals for All Fields

1 F

1 M F

1 F1 F1 F

F

F

FM F

25

33

21

31

27

168 168

20

64

21

434

40

18

439

12048

168

IS

51

46

97

118

845

* The Woman's Bible Training School has not been maintained but five pupils have been sent to the BaptistSchool.

t Formerly known as Thompson Bible Training School.

Foreign Statistics

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS—COLLEGES

149


Pupils DayAND Boarding

Woman's Foreign Missionary SocietyWoman's College of South

China, Hwa Nan Foochow, China..Kwassui College Nagasaki, Japan.

Total for W. F. M. S

Union CollegesGinling College Nanking, China*.Yenching College Peiping, China. . .

West China University Chengtu, China. .

Cheeloo University Shantung, China*Medical School for Women Vellore, India*. . .

Isabella Thoburn College Lucknow, India. .

Woman's Christian College Madras, India*. .

St. Christopher's TrainingCollege Vepery, Madras, India*

Woman's Christian College Tokyo, Japan. . . .

Ewha College Seoul, Karca

Total for Union Colleges

.

Grand total for Colleges

.

155

183

20228472747169156

91366278

1411

1572

99 8062 29

161 109

20228 2847 462747199 166156 127

91 75366278 195

1441 637

1602 746

* 1935 Figures.

SUMMARY BY FIELDS

FIELDS

Number of Pupils

Teachers(DAT AND Boardinq)

>> >.

aa J

a bo £ Oh(U

3

> aj -o fe •acS

a.Sf

"m o Mb Z W hj a § s Z 6 ^

— -a

AfricaASL4Burma

5

12

215699258814

2

6

1

1

84

2016

13

4

489519

4

241

3

3

2

9223061

39

668201366213300139

9

19

15

81

1559105710792251

"so

679

918970217122

409

28816933337

50

24120241983

26 1245

158015540246563775115553769125149

19540

141510679281602

608

19921835973135

33029318

59

195

1083

526479416781884

723413002949

195

133470659

26961037302

China'

20792

291JapanKorea 899

713

43

68711634

5520

"87719

497243

8

MalayaSumatra

49Evrope

50 145North Africa 40

24037831

Latin America704795

183

12728

75439425

3831

39

256837501602

23974

718746

679110829841

South America 153

17 'eiBible Training SchoolsColleges

Totals 1116 338 3381 6262 31249 14996 5352 5612 268 3897 67636 11780 35334

150 Statistics

MEDICAL STATISTICS, 1935-1936

NAME AND LOCATIONOF HOSPITAL

OR DISPENSARY

AFRICAMutaiubara, Rhodesia

Riley DispensarytWashburn Memorial (Union) ....

CHINAChungking=Gamble MemorialFoochowfFoochow Christian Union (Magaw

Memorial)Futsing

Lucie F. HarrisonWoolston Memorial Dispensary . .

KiukiangElizabeth S. Danforth Memorial . .

MintsingNathan Sites Memorial

NanchangWomen's and Children's

PeipingSleeper-Davis Memorial

Sienyu"Margaret Eliza Nast Memorial. . .

TientsinIsabella Fisher

WuhutWuhu General HospitalShanhaikuan DispensaryChengtu School of Midwifery . . .

INDIABareilly

Clara A. Swain MemorialBaroda

Mrs. William Butler Memorial. . .

BrindabanCreighton-Freeman

KolarEllen Thoburn Cowen Memorial . .

Sironcha*Clason MemorialTilauniaMary Wilson Sanitorium

DispensariesChampawat

Phulbari HospitalJagdalpur

Ruth Cummins HospitalPakur

Edith Jackson Fisher Memorial.. . .

PithoragarhPuntambaBowen Bruere Memorial

KOREAPyengyangtUnion ChristianSeoul

Lillian Harris MemorialSeoul Child Welfare Union

Chemulpo DispensaryfKongju and Taiden Infant

Welfare CentresPHILIPPINE ISLANDS

ManilaxMary J. Johnston Memorial

MEXICOAztecas Dispensary

Staff

Foreign Indigenous

119

248

26

18

30

49

17

36

593

27

29

21

39

46

123

2385

8

61

2

Hospital

10050

80

65

60

74

70

50

75

80

80

60

104

5131,730

974

2988

1.591473

686

302

885

1,331

467

600

2.070

900

410

715

1272

30

371

26070

20,36

1.493

7,3069,186

13,934

45,077

8,6292,434

6,349

4,999

12,493

12,187

3,877

9,544

27.348

11,966

4.683

10,186

20,104

1.981

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148

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114

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# First and return calls.

t In Union institutions figures under missionary doctors and missionary nurses give W. F. M. S. personnelOther figures (except appropriations) are of hospital as a whole.

t Major and minor operations.° On account of bandit disturbances in the country no out-patient work has been done the past year includ-

ing District Health Work.

Medical Statistics

MEDICAL STATISTICS, 1935-1936

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922 15.516 30568 7,846 53,930 106.953 269.943 376.896 3,616 11.376

* Clason Memorial Hospital was closed in 1936 but a dispensary has been opened in the building which servesas a health center for the district.

x This year extension clinics have been opened in three different centers in Cagayau Valley giving 1909itinerary treatments and 9921 dispensary treatments.= 1935 Figures

152 Directory oj Missionaries

MISSIONARIESOF THE

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society1869-1937

a indicates appointed; 5 sailed; m marriage; 5 self-supporting; X detached service;

R retired; r resigned; dis discontinued; del detained; d deceased; * daughterof missionaries; c. t. contract teacher; married name in italics;

abbreviations indicate Branches.

Aaronson, Hilma A Des M., India, a. 1905, R. 1917Abbott, Anna Agnes N. W., India, a. 1901Abbott, Edna M Cin., India, a. 1915Abel. Edith F Top.. China, a. 1915Abrams, Minnie F Minn., India, a. 1887, R. 1899, d. 1912Adams. Jean Phila., China, a. 1900, s., d. 1929Adams, Lois A Pac, India, S. 1925, m. 1929, EadeAdams, Marie N. W., China, a. 1915Akers, L. Stella. M.D N. E., China, a. 1882. m. 1885, PerkinsAlbertson, Mildred L Top., India, S. 1932Albertson, Millie May Cin., Korea, a. 1907, d. 1918Albertson, Miriam A., M.D Top., India, 5. 1930Albrecht, Helen Ruth Cin., Japan, S. 1921, r. 1931Aldrich, Sylvia E N. W., China, S. 1922Alexander, V. Elizabeth Cin., Japan, a. 1903Allen, Belle J., M.D Cin. and N. E., Japan and India, a. 1888, R. 1917Allen, Mabel Des M., China, a. 1894, R. 1919Allen, Mabel E N. W.. China, S. 1920Ailing, Harriet S N. W., Japan, a. 1894, R. 1912, d. 1916Aim, Mrs. Lydia O (See Oelschlager)Amburn, Emma E Des M., Burma, a. 1918, c. i., miss. 1921, m. 1933, ArnoldAnderson, Dorothea M Des M., India, -S. 1927,* r. 1937Anderson, Edla V N. W., China, S. 1924, d. 1926Anderson, Luella R Cin., Malaysia, a. 1900, R. 1924Anderson, Mary Phila., N. Africa, a. 1911Anderson, Naomi A N. W., Korea, a. 1910, r. 1921, 5. 1928Ankeny, Jessie V Des M., China, a. 1908, m. 1913, LacyAppenzeller, Alice R Phila., Korea, a. 1914*Appenzeller, Ida H N. E., Japan, a. 1917*, m. 1919. CromApple, E. Blanche Top., China, .S. 1923.Arbogast, Gertrude N. W., Mexico, 5. 1930, c. t., miss., 1935Argus, Florence N. Y., India, 5. 1930, del.

Ashbaiigh, Adella M Cin., Japan, a. 1908Ashbrook, Anna Cin., India, a. 1914, r.

Ashwill. Agnes Cin., Burma, a. 1908, R. 1926Atkins, Ruth Joyce Minn., Philippine Islands, 5. 1921Atkins, Ruth Marie N. W., So. America, 5. 1925, m. 1930, SuthersAtkinson, Anna P N. Y., Japan, o. 1882, R. 1927Atkinson. Mary N. Y.. Japan, a. 1888. dis. 1893Ault, Clara V Cin., Africa, a. 1918, m. 1921, GibbsAustin, Laura F Col. R., India, a. 1905.A.yres. Harriet L Cin., Mexico, a. 1886, R. 1931Bachman, Mary V Des M., China, 5. 1923, m. 1930, WinterBacon, Edna G N. W., India, a. 1916Bacon, Nettie A N. Y., India, a. 1913Badley, Mary Esther Cin., India, S. 1927*, m. 1931, BurgoyneBahreuburg, Lyra H Top., China, S. 1919, m. 1926. OakesBailey, Barbara May Top., Japan, 5. 1919Bair. Blanche R Des M., Korea, a. 1914Baird, Mary N. W., Mexico, S. 1926, c. I., miss. 1928Baker, L. Catherine Cin., China, o. 1907, Korea, 1926Baldwin, Virginia E N. E., Burma, S. 1927, m. 1931. KinneyBall, Jennie L N. W.. India, a. 1915, r.

Bangs, Louise N. W., Japan, a. 1911, m. 1925, TrumanBanning, Elsie N N. W., Korea, S. 1929, r. 1937Barber, Emma J N. W., India, a. 1909Barnes, Sylvia M Phila., Malaya, 5. 1925, m. 1928, ThomasBarrow, Mrs. M. M., M.D N. Y., China, a. 1895, m. 1900, KingBarry, Elda M Top., India, 5. 1928Barstow, Clara G Pac, South America, a. 1912. R. 1929Bartlett, Carrie M Des M.. China, a. 1904Bartlett, Myrth Pac, China, S. 1923, R. 1932Bass, AUie M Des M., India, S. 1927Bassett, Bernice C N. W., Japan, 5. 1919, m. 1929, Wyman

Directory of Missionaries 153

Bates, Grace M Des M., India, 5. 1922Bates, Ruth E Des M.. India, a. 1918. d. 1921Battey. C. Frances N. Y. China, a. 1915, r. 1921Battin. Lora I N. W., China. 5. 1920Baucus. Georgiana N. Y., Japan, a. 1890. s., d. 1926Baiigh, Evelyn B Pac. China, a. 1907*. m. 1921, KrauseBaumgardner. Lucy E Des M., Mexico, a. 1900, m. 1903, MorionBeach. Lucv W N. W.. India, S. 1920Beale, Elizabeth M Phila., India, a. 1911Bear. Irene C N. W., India, 5. 1929Beard, Bertha M Des M., China, a. 1902. m. 1903, GassonBeatty. Mabel A N. E., China, a. 1916, d. 1927Beazell. Laura E N. W., Italy, a. 1900, m. 1903. Andrea'Beck, Edna L., M.D Pac. India, a. 1902, m. 1907, KeislerBeck. Rosetta Cin.. India, a. 1914. R. 1930Becker, Gertrude A Minn., India, S. 1920Bedell, Mary E Col. R., China, a. 1917Beesemyer. Gertrude S Pac. India. 5. 1926. m. 1930. ReeceBepgs. Nelle N. W., China, a. 1910, R. 1920, d. 1934Beiler, Mary N. E., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1921, Biddle, d. 1935Beissell. Ina Mae Phila., South America, 5. 1924. m. 1930. CrossBell, Laura E N. W., India. 5. 1929. m. 1937. BeazlyBenard. Helen M Cin.. South America. 5. 1921. d. 1923Bender. Elizabeth R Bait.. Japan, a. 1889. R. 1897Benedict. Ruth E N. Y.. Korea, a. 1910. 7n. 1916. MooreBengel. Margaret Cin.. Korea, a. 1890, m. 1892. JonesBenn. Rachel R.. M.D Phila., China, a. 1890. R. 1911. m. 1924, Dunkle,d. 1927Bennett. Fannie A N. W.. India, a. 1901. R. 1923Bennett. Lorraine N. W.. China. 5. 1926. Burma. 5. 1927. R. 1936Bennett. Lulah Grace Des M.. Mexico. S. 1920. r. 1922Benson. Mildred O Col. R.. Africa. 5. 1926. d. 1937Benthien. Elizabeth M N. W.. India and Mexico, a. 1895. R. 1927, d. 1936Benton, J. Emma N. E., Japan, a. 1882. m. 1885. ElmerBetow, Emma J., M.D Cin., China, a. 1904. R. 1937Betz. Blanche A N. W.. Mexico, a. 1907. R. 1929. S. 1930. R. 1937Beven. Georgia II Pac. Africa, 5. 1922, m. 1928. WilsonBigler. Mary A., M.D Top.. China, S. 1930. dis. 1931Bills. Grace Ida N. W.. India, a. 1906, m. 1909. SchulzBing, Anna V Cin.. Japan, a. 1888. R. 1912, d. 1923Bishop. Beiilah Des M., India. S. 1930Bishop. Francene L Pac. India, a. 1916. in. 1918. Wood, d. 1921Bjorklund. Sigrid C N. E.. China. 5. 1920. R. 1936Black, Gladys H Pac. Philippine Islands. .S. 1925. r. 1935Black. Lillian A Phila.. India, a. 1888. R. 1889Blackburn. Kate B N. W.. Bulgaria, a. 1892. R. 1926. d. 1933Blackmar, Louisa Top.. India, a. 1872. m. 1902. Gilder, d. 1928Blackmore. Sophia Minn.. Malaysia, a. 1887. R. 1923Blackstock. Anna N. W.. India, a. 1913*Blackstock. Constance E Phila., India, a. 1914*. r.. S. 1937Blackstock. Ella M Minn.. Japan, a. 1889. R. 1913. d. 1916Blackstock. Isabella T Phila.. India, a. 1905. m. 1913. BeardsleyBlair. Katherine A. Cin., India, a. 1888. R. 1927. d. 1935Blakely. Mildred M Top.. Philippine Islands, a. 1913Blasdell. Jennie A Cin.. India, a. 1917. del.

Bliss. Lois E N. W., India, 5. 1929, r. 1932, m. 1933. StephensBlock, N. Bernita, M.D N. W.. Korea. 5. 1927Bobb. Mildred H Top.. India, S. 1927. m. 1933, PaulsenBobenhouse. Laura G Des M., India, a. 1897Boddy. Estie T Des M.. China, a. 1907. m. 1921. WareBoddy, Grace Top.. India, a., 1912, d. 1933Bodley. Ellison W Pac. Japan, a. 1915, r. 1927, m. RocheBoeye. Katherine B Des M., China, 5. 1925Boggess, Edith E N. W.. India, a. 1915. m. 1921Boggs, Lucinda N. W., China, a. 1910. R. 1913Bohannon, Ida N. W.. Mexico, a. 1900, R. 1908Boles. Lulu A Top., India, S. 1923Bonafield. Julia Cin.. China, a. 1888Bording, Maren P N. W.. Philippine Islands, a. 1916, Korea, S. 1922Borg. Jennie Top., China, a. 1907, m. 1915, LawrenceBortell. Pearl Phila., South America. S. 1925. c. t., miss. 1929. r. 1931Boss, Harriet N. W.. India, a. 1897, dis. 1898Bothwell, Jean B Top., India, 5. 1922Bowen, Alice Cin.. China. 5. 1922, c. t., miss. 1925. r. 1932Bowen, Mary E N. E., South America, a. 1888, m. 1898, BrownBowne, Ida May N. Y., Italy, a. 1897, m. 1903, Manfre, m. Perry

154 Directory of Missionaries

Boyde. Mary L Phila., India, 5. 1935Boyles, Helen E Cin., Korea, 5. 1926Bradley, Edna I N. Y., India. S. 1929BragK. Jessie A Top.. India, a. 1914Brayton, Margaret N. W.. China. 5. 1922, r. 1933Brethorst, Alice B Minn.. China, a. 1906, det.

Brethorst, Helen G Minn.. India, a. 1915, m. 1919, OmondBrethorst, S. Marie Minn.. China, a. 1913.Brewer. Edna C N.W.. India, a. 1913. R. 1920Bricker. Mary E N. W., India. S. 1923, R. 1936Bridenbaugh. Jennie B Des M., China, a. 1911Bridgewater, Gertrude M Des M., China, a. 1914, m. 1919, RobsonBritt, Edythe M N. Y., India, a. 1914, m. 1918, FellowsBroadbrooks. Edith N. W.. India, a. 1912, m. 1914, KingBrooks. Jessie F Minn, and N. Y., Malaysia, a. 1907, R. 1928Brouse, Louise T N. VV., India, a. 1899, m. 1905, CookBrown, Cora M Top., China, a. 1910, det.

Brown, Edna B N. Y., South America, S. 1920, R. 1927Brown, Maria N. E., China, a. 1871, m. 1874, DavisBrown, Zula F Pac, China, a. 1911, R. 1933Brownlee, Charlotte Cin., Korea, a. 1913Bryan, Mary E., M.D N. Y., India, a. 1891, R. 1897Buck, Lois M Cin., India, a. 1904*. d. 1907Budden, Annie M N. Y., India, o. 1880*. R. 1919, d. 1921Buel, Lora E N. W., Malaya, S. 1927, m. 1930, PeelBugby, Mary Marguerite Cin., India, 5. 1920Bullis, Edith M N. W., Japan, a. 1905. r. 1915Bulow, Agnes Minn., India, a. 1913. d. 1914Bunce. Thirza E N. W., Malaysia, a. 1908Bunger. Frances Col. R., India. S. 1922. R. 1929Burchard. Mary A., M.D N. Y.. India. 5. 1934Burdeshaw, Rhoda A Cin., China, 5. 1922Burman, Matilda C N. W., India, a. 1898, dis. 1903Burmeister, Elsie K Des M., Burma, a. 1914. m. 1919. ClareBurmeister, Margaret J Minn., japan, 5. 1926. r. 1935Burt, Edith N. W., Italy, a. 1906*, r. 1913, m.Burton. Mildred E., M.D N. E., India, -S. 1934Bushnell, Kate C. M.D N. W., China, a. 1879, R. 1882Buss, Helen S N. W., India, 5. 1926Butcher.' Annie N. Y.. India, a. 1894, m. 1896 HewesButterfield, Nellie M Pac, Mexico, .S'. 1922, R. 1930Butts. Ethel H Col. R.. and N. Y.. Korea, 5. 1920Buyers. Anna P Phila.. India. S. 1928Byler, Gertrude M Top., Japan. 5. 1927Calkins. Ethel M Top., India, a. 1915Campbell. Eleanor Louise N. W.. India. 5. 1931Campbell, Letitia A N. E.. China, a. 1875. d. 1878Carhart, Esther N. W.. Bulgaria, 5. 1937Caris. Clara A Cin., China, a. 1914, 5. 1926, det.

Carleton. Mary E.. M.D N. Y., China, a. 1887. d. 1927Carlvle, Elizabeth M Col. R.. China, .S. 1920Carncross. Flora M N. W., China, a. 1908, d. 1925Carpenter, Mary F Phila., India .$. 1923. c. I., miss. 1926, R. 1938Carr. Rachel C N. W., India, a. 1909,Carroll, Mary E N. W., India, a. 1888, d. 1897Carson. .\nna N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1913Carter. Fern N. W., India. .S". 1928, r. 1937Cartwright. Ida May Cin., India, a. 1903, d. 1904Carver, Margaret B Cin., India, o. 1898, m. Ernsberger, Pac. 5. 1927Gary, Mary F Phila., India, a. 1876, m. 1880, Davis, d. 1934Castle, Belle N. W., China, a. 1915, R. 1928Cavett, Maurine E Des M., Burma, .S". 1926Chadwick, Freda P Phila., Netherlands Indies, S. 1920Chaffin, Mrs. Anna B Des M., Korea, a. 1917Challis. Grace M N. W., India, S. 1930Chalmers, Eleanor M N. E., India, a. 1916, r.

Chapin, Jennie M N. E.. South America, a. 1874, R. 1890. d. 1924Chappell, Mary H Cin.. Japan, a. 1912*. r. 1927Charles, Bertha D Cin., Philippine Islands, a. 1912, r. 1934Charter, Mabel Top., India, a. 1913, d. 1917Chase, Bertha A., M.D N. E., India. .S. 1928, m. 1937, WisemanChase, Laura N. E., Japan, a. 1915 c. t., miss. 1920Cheney, Alice Des M., Japan, a. 1914Cheney, Monona L N. W., China, a. 1918, r. 1937Chilson, Elma M Top., India, a. 1911


Chisholm, Emma Mae Bait., China, a. 1904, m. 1906, BrownChristensen, Christine N. Y., India, a. 1894, m. 1896. AsheChristensen. Edith Julia N. W., Burma, 5. 1932, del.

Christensen, Lvdia D Des M., India, a. 1913Christiancy. Mary M.. M.D N. E., India, a. 1884. R. 1891Church, Marie E Col. R., Korea, a. 1915Clancy, Kathleen N. W., India, S. 1932*Clancy, M. Adelaide Pac, India, a. 1909, R, 1934, d. 1936Clark, Elsie G Bait., China, a. 1912, m. 1919, KrugClark. Faith A N. W., India, 5. 1921Clark, Grace Col. R., Africa, a. 1911, Pac, 1925Clark, Jessie E N. W., India, a. 1918, m. 1925, LasherClaussen, Minnie Top., South America, S. 1925, Mexico, 5.1930, </»i. 1931.

m. 1934, TinkerCleary, Mary Cin., Japan 5. 1921, m. 1923. HunterClemens, Mrs. E. J N. W., South America, o. 1879. R. 1884Cliff, Minnie B N. W., Malaysia, a. 1913, R. 1927Cline, Marie Ida Des M., India, 5. 1921, r. 1927Clinton, E. Lahuna Des M., India, a. 1910Clippinger, Frances Top., India, a. 1904, r. 1905, d. 1918Cochran, Ruth E N. W., India, a. 1912, r. 1925Cody. Mary A Minn., P. I. and Malaya, a. 1900, Cin., Japan, a. 1905,

R. 1919Coffin, Sophia J N. Y., Africa, a. 1906, r. 1914Cole, Marion R N. Y., China, 5. 1925Collier, Clara J N. E., China, a. 1895. R. 1919Collins, Emma J Cin., India, S. 1936Collins, Irma D Top.. India, 5. 1925Collins, Mary D Phila., Japan, 5. 1928Collins, Susan Pac, Africa, a. 1901, R. 1922Collins, Ruth H Des M.. India, a. 1894. m. 1899, ThoburnColony, Lucile Des M., India, 5. 1922Combs, Lucinda, M.D Phila., China, a. 1873, m. 1878, StrittmaterComstock, Joy E Phila, India, S. 1923Cone, Gertrude M Cin., China, 5. 1930Cone. Maud E Col. R.. Africa, 5. 1923, r. 1926Conn, Cora Elbertha Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1920. m. 1926, MotzConnor, Lottie M N. W., China, a. 1912, m. 1916. IrwinConnor, Olive B Pac. India, a. 191 1, rf. 1912Conrow, Marian L Top., Korea, 5. 1922Cook, Celinda Phila., Mexico, a. 1903, R. 1907Cook, Rosalie Phila., Mexico, a. 1903, R. 1907Copley, Ruth Elizabeth Top.. Philippine Islands, a. 1918, MexicoS. 1925. r.l932Corbett, Lila M N. W.. Malaysia. S. 1920Corey. Katherine. M.D N. W., China, a. 1884, m. 1888. FordCornelison, Bernice M Col. R., South America, S. 1922, Philippine Islands

S. 1937Corner, Sula Marie Col. R., India, 5. 1924Corpron, Ruth N. W., India, 5, 1937*Couch, Helen Phila., Japan, a. 1916Covington, Lottie V Cin., India, 5. 1926, R. 1926Cowan, Celia M Col. R., China, S. 1920.Cox, Ruth M Top., India, 5. 1921Coy. Martha M Top.. India, S. 1929Crabtree, Margarett M Cin., Philippine Islands, a- 1905, d. 1920Craig, Frances N. W., India, a. 1892, m. 1902, SmithCrandall, Jessie Ruth Pac, Malaysia. S. 1920, R. 1927Crandall, Violet B Pac, Africa, 5. 1929Crane. Edith M N. W., China, a. 1904, R. 1932. d. 1937Craven. Norma N. VV., Malaysia, a. 1917Crawford, Janette H Top., India, 5. 1925Crawford. Mabel L Des M., Philippine Islands, a. 1907. m. 1909, BowtrsCreek, Bertha M N. W., India, a. 1905. China. 1916. R. 1929Crook, Winnie M N. E.. China, a. 1916, r. 1923Crooks, Grace A N. W., China, a. 1904, m. 1912. WetzeonCross, Cilicia L Minn.. Africa, a. 1913Crosthwaite, Isabella N. Y.. China, a. 1892, dis. 1893Croucher, Miranda N. E.. China, a. 1895, m. 1903. PackardCrouse, Margaret D Phila., India, a. 1906Crouse, Sara E. D Phila., India, a. 1913, m. LawrenceCrowell, Bessie F N. E., India, a. 1905, dis. 1912Culley, Frances E N. Y., China, 5. 1924Currier, Grace M Des M., France, 5. 1919, r. 1928Currv-, Olive Phila.. Japan, 5. 1925Curtice, Lois K N. E., Japan, a. 1914Curtis. Martha E Top., India. 5. 1925, r. 1932


Curts, Kate O N. Y., India, a. 1895, d. 1908Cushman, Clara M N. E., China, a. 1878-1909, R. 1924. d. 1928Cutler. Mary M., M.D N. Y., Korea, a. 1892, R. 1935Daily, Rebecca N. W., India, a. 1890, R. 1897Dalrymple, Marion E N. E., India, a. 1918, R. 1933Danforth, Mary A N. E., Japan, a. 1888, R. 1893, d. 1911Daniel, Nell Margaret Des M., Japan, a. 1897Daniels, Martha Phila., Mexico, S. 1924, c. I., miss. 1926Daniels, Ruth Natalie Top., China. 6'. 1920Danner, Ruth M N. W., China, a. 1917Danskin, Elsie M Top., China, 5. 1932Darby, Hawthorne, Al.D N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1925, R. 1934Dart. Jennie M.. M.D N. W.. India, a. 1895, m. 1898, Dease, d. 1925Daubendiek, Letha I Des M., India, 5. 1923. del.

Davis, Mrs. Anna L N. W., China, a. 1892, d. 1904Davis, Dora N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1900, R. 1926Davis, Grace C Cin., India, a. 1908Davis, Hazel N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1919Davis, Joan Des M., India, a. 1902, R. 1931Davis. Lois L Col. R.. lapan, 5. 1923. m. 1933, HuberDavis, Mary Grace Bait.. China, 5. 1926Davison, Mabel W N. Y., Japan, a. 1902*, m. 1907, SmartDawson, M. Gayle N. Y., India, 5. 1935Day, Georgia E Des M.. China, a. 1910, m. 1914. RobertsonDay, Martha E Des M., India, a. 1888, m. 1895, AbbottDeam, Mary L N. \V., Philippine Islands, S. 1919Dean. Flora J Minn.. Malaysia, a. 1917, r. 1923. m. 1924, BarUeltDean. Florence E N. Y., China, 6". 1920, m. 1922 Tebbtitt

Dearmont. Mrs. Ellen H N. W., Italy. S. 1928. r. 1929Dease, Margaret E Bait.. India, a. 1914*, d. 1923Deaver, Ida C Phila., China, a. 1896. m. 1897Deavitt, LaDona N. Y., China, a. 1903, m. 1907. RosenbergDecker. Helen M N. W., China, a. 1899, m. 1904, BeechDecker, Marguerite M Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1905, Pac. 1908DeLine, Sarah M N. W., India, a. 1884, R. 189.S, d. 1928DeMott. Marv Des M., Japan, a. 1891. m. 1892. Doerini;Dennine. Lou B N. W.. South America, a 1873. R. 1890. d 1910Dennis, Viola Belle Cin., India, 5. 1919. m. 1934, WintzDenny, Etta A Top., China, 5. 1921, r. 1932Derby, Marion L N. Y., South America, 5. 1936Desjardins, Helen N. W., China, a. 1918DeVine, Esther 1 Cin., India, a. 1882. m. 1891, WilliamsDevoe, Ella M Col. R., China, a. 1910, r. 1917Dicken, Ethel Mae Cin., Korea, S. 1919, m. 1926, Fills

Dickerson, Augusta Phila., Japan, a. 1888. R. 1925Dickinson, Emma E N. Y., japan, a. 1897, 5., d. 1926Dickinson, Jane M N. E., Malaysia, 5. 1920, r. 1926Diem, Lvdia N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1893. m. 1911. WemJ. d. 19HDillenbeck, Nora M N. Y.. China, a. 1913, r. 1936Dillini;ham. Grace L Pac, Korea, a. 191 1 , R. 1937Dimmitt, Marjorie A N. W.. India. S. 1920Dingle, 1 eila V Col. R.. Philippine Islands, .S. 1928Dirksen. Mechteld D N. Y., Malaya, 5. 1927Dodd, Stella, M.D Des M., India, S. 1921Dorldridce. Eathel V Cin.. Burma. S. 1922. R. 1927Doltz. Henrietta Top.. Philippine Islands. 5. 1931*Donahtie, Julia M.. M.D Cin.. China, a. 1893. R. 1897Donahue, Katherine M Phila.. South America, 5. 1926Donohugh, Emma E Phila.. India, S. 1919, r. 1929Dosch, Laura B Cin., India, a. 1909, d. 1912Dove, Agnes C. W Col. R., India, S. 1920. Phila., .'^'. 1925Downey, Clara A N. Y. India, a. 1884, R. 1894, d. 1896Dovle, Gladys B Top., India, S. 1925Doyle, Letah M Top., India, S. 1926Draper, Frances L.. M.D N. W.. China, a. 1906. d. 191

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Draper, Helen Des M., India. .S. 1926. r. 1932Draper. Winifred F N. Y.. Japan, a. 191 1*

Dreibelbies. Caroline N. Y.. China, a. 1899, R. 1906Dreisbach. Gertrude I Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1906, m. 1912, BaldwinDrescher. Mildred G N. W., India, 5. 1920Drummer, Martha A Pac, Africa, a. 1906, R. 1926, d. 1937Dudley, Hannah . India, a. 1890, R. 1891Dudley, Mrs. Ola Hawkins Des M., China, 5. 1928Dudley, Rose E Col. R.. Philippine Islands, o. 1907. d. 1929Dunmore. Effa M Phila., Mexico, o. 1891. d. 1919


Dunn, Afines Dora Pac, India, S. 1927Dunn, Olive N. W., India. 5. 1921Dunton, Dorothy K Cin., India, ,S'. 1923, r. 1933Duryea, Grace Phila., Mexico. S. 1921, c. I., miss. 1924, r. 1925Dutton, Mrs. May L Cin., India, a. 1911, )-. 1914Dyer. Addie C Cin., Me.xico. a. 1917. c. t., miss. 1921Dver, Clara Pearl N. E.. China, a. 1907Easton. Celesta Pac, India, a. 1894-1906. R. 1922Easton. Sarah A Cin.. India, a. 1878. s., d. 1915Eaton. Marv Jane Cin.. Italy, a. 1917, m. 1930. BlakeEbersole. Stella Minn., Burma, 5. 1921, Cin. S'. 1926Edborg, Vera M Minn.. Netherlands Indies. 5. 1923. m., Oslrom S. 1933Eddy. Mabel L N. W.. India. 5. 1902. R. 1936Eddy, Mrs. S. VV Cin.. India, a. 1902. R. 1926Edmeston. Rhoda C Phila.. South America, 5. 1929Edmonds, .A.gne3 M.. M.D Des M., China, a. 1901, R. 1921Edmunds, Margaret J Cin., Korea, a. 1902, m. 1908, HarrisonEhlv. Emma L N. W.. China, a. 1912. R. 1927, 5. 1930. r. 1931Eichenberger, Emma N. W., China, a. 1910. r. 1919, d. 1933Eide. Mary Louise Des M.. China. S. 1920Ekey, Mary E Cin.. India, o. 1911. r. 1917Elicker, Anna R Des M.. India, a. 1894, m. 1912, GuseElliott, Bernice E N. VV., India, a. 1914Elliott. Margaret Phila.. Mexico, a. 1879. m. 1883. WilsonElliott. Martelle N. Y., India, a. 1897, m. 1904, DavisElliott, Mary E N. Y.. India, a. 1885, m. 1886. Stephens, d. 1893Elliott. Mary J Cin.. Japan, a. 1886, m. 1890, ArmstrongEllis, Ida Minn., Malaysia, a. 1900. N. W. 1904. R. 1908. d. 1914Ellison, Grace F Top., China, a. 1912, m. 1933, FrenchEmerv. Phoebe E Top.. India, a. 1916Emmel, Aetna L Col. R.. India. S. 1919, m. 1922. OlsonEngberg. Mrs. Lila Kehm Minn.. India, 5. 1926. c.l., miss., 1929. iel.

English. Fannie M N. Y., India, a. 1884. d. 1913English, Marguerite G N. E., Korea. 5. 1921. r. 1930Eno, Enola Des M., India, a. 1915, m. 1929, ForsgrenEno. Eula. M.D Des M.. China, 5. 1922, r. 1929Erbst. Wilhelmina Minn.. Philippine Islands, a. 1909Ericson, Judith Top. India, a. 1906Eriksen. Alma A N. W.. China. 5. 1936Ernsberger. Emma, M.D Cin., Korea, a. 1899, R. 1920, d. 1934Ernsberger, I., M.D Cin., India, a. 1888, R. 1900, d. 1930Ernsberger. Mrs. Margaret C. (see Carver)Estey. Ethel M N. Y., Korea, a. 1900, d. 1929Evans. Alice A Des M.. India, a. 1895. R. 1925Evans. E. Florence Pac, China. 5. 1929Evans. Mary A N. E., Philippine Islands, a. 1913Eveland. Ruth Des M.. India. 5. 1925Everding. Emma J Bait.. Japan, a. 1883. d. 1892Everley, Garnet M Top.. India. 5. 1924Ewers. Harriet C N. W.. India, a. 1899. m. 1900. LyonsFales, Cora N. W.. India, a. 1918Falstad. Constance Minn., China, 5. 1921, m. 1923, BrewerFarmer. Ida A. N. Y.. India, a. 1917Fearon. Dora C Cin., China, a. 1912Fearon. Josephine L Cin., China, a. 1911. m. 1914. IVinansFehr. Helen E Cin., India. 5. 1927. N. W., 5. 1934Fehr, Vera J Cin.. Japan, -S. 1919Fenderich, Norma H Phila. India, a. 1903. R. 1914, m. MarlinFeline, Maud Amy Clarissa N. Y., India. 5. 1929. m. 1931, VaneyFernstrom, Helma J N. W., India, S. 1925Ferris, Emma E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1892, Col. R., 1897, m. 1897. Shell-

abear, d. 1923Ferris, Helen Pac, China, S. 1923Ferris. Phoebe A., M.D Col. R., India, a. 1917. R. 1931Field. Nellie H N. E.. Mexico, a. 1887. R. 1888Field. Ruth Col. R.. India, a. 1918Files. Estelle M N. Y., India, a. 1888. R. 1916Filley. Georgia A., M.D N. W., China, a. 1913, r. 1919Finch. Harriet N. E., India, a. 1911. m. RandallFincham, Ella E N. VV.. Bulgaria, a. 1887. R. 1893Finlay, Annette Cin., Philippine Islands. 5. 1920, d. 1929Finlay, L. Alice Cin., Japan, a. 1905Fisher, Elizabeth Bait.. China, a. 1884. m. 1888, BrewsterFisher, Fannie F N. VV., India, a. 1895, R. 1925. S. 1925. R. 1927Fisher. Mrs. Mabel G N. VV.. India, a. 1917. R. 1927


Flessel, Anna M N. Y., China, S. 1923, r. 1930Fonda, Edith L N. W., China, a. 1908, m. 1911. ColeFoote, Rhetta C N. W., Malaya, 5. 1925, m. 1932, SchmuckerForbes, Ella R N. W., Japan, a. 1890, m. 1894, PhillipsForeman, Elizabeth J Bait, China, a. 1917, m. 1921, LewisForster, Miriam N. VV., India, a. 1898, m.Forsyth, Estella M N. W., India, a. 1907Fosnot, Pearl Beatrice Top., China, S. 1921Foster, Carrie Des M., India, a. 1902, R.. d. 1935Foster, Ina Lee Phila, South America, S. 1924, r. 1931Foster, Mary Eva Col. R., Malaya, a. 1893, R. 1895, m. BrownFoster, Mildred N. W.. Italy. 5. 1922. R. 1935Fox, Eulalia E N. W., China, a. 1913, ii. 1936Frantz, Ida F Cin.. China, a. 1914Frazey. H. Laura Top.. China, a. 1908, d. 1932Fredericks, Anna Edith N. Y., China, a. 1915Frees, Mabel A Cin., North Africa, 5. 1930. m. 1935, WarstlerFrench, Anna S N. E., Japan, a. 1889. m. 1895, Freyer, d. 1914French. Clara M N. Y.. China, 5. 1931Fretts, Millicent Phila., Japan, a. 1911, r. 1917Frey, Cecelia M Cin.. China, a. 1891, R. 1894, d. 1926Frey. Lulu E Cin.. Korea, a. 1893, d. 1921Frymoyer, Lucille Des M., Mexico, 5. 1927, m. 1932, DaviesFuller. Edna H Pac. China. 5. 1924. R. 1930Fuller. Delia A Top.. India, a. 1886. d. 1901Fuller. Marjorie A N. \V.. Africa. 5. 1920, r. 1937Gable, Florence L N. W., China, 5. 1920, m. 1921, AtonGabosch, Ruth N. W., China, 5. 1931Gabrielson, Winnie M Top., India, a., 1908 transferred to Swedish Unit, 1935Galbreath, Elizabeth Cin., India, o. 1906. m. 1907Gallagher. Hannah C Cin., India, 5. 1932Galleher, Helen M Cin., China, S. 1924Gallimore, Anna Bait., India, o. 1887. R. 1903Galloway. Helen R Des. M., China. a. 1894. /?. 1919,5. 1922. R. 1924,4.1934Card, Blanche A Top., Japan, 5. 1920. r. 1934Gardner, Minnie Top., Japan, a. 1908. m. FosterGaylord, Edith F Des. M., China and Korea, a. 1913. R. 1934Geiser. Helen M Minn.. South America, o. 1910, m. 1913, MalloughGerrish, Ella M N. E., Japan, a. 1928. del.

Gertsch. Martha Cin.. Malaya, 5. 1935Gheer. Jean M N. Y., Japan, a. 1879, d. 1910Gibson, Clara A Phila., Mexico, 5. 1929, c. t., miss. 1932. r. 1933Gibson. Eugenia N. Y., India, a. 1878. m. 1882, MitchellGifford. Etta Mary N. E.. Bulgaria, 5. 1931, c. t.. miss.. 1933. r. 1937Gilchrist, Ella, M.D N. W., China, a. 1881, d. 1881Gill. Mrs. Mary W. (see Wilson)Gilliland. Helen C Pac, South America, a. 1918*. R. 1937Gilman, Gertrude N. E.. China, a. 1896, R. 1929Gilmore, Erastine B N. E., Mexico, 5. 1920, r. 1925Gimson, Esther, M.D N. W., India, o. 1905. m. 1923. Bare./?. 1927.m. 1928, /?o«#fGivin, Olive I Phila., South America, 5. 1931Gladden, Dora B Minn., Mexico, a. 1910. m. 1923. CarhartGlassburner. Mamie F Des M., China, a. 1904Glenk, Marguerite E N. Y.. China, a. 1898. m. 1905. Burley, d. 1921Glidden. Zella M N. Y.. Africa. S. 1935Gloss, Anna D.. M.D N. W., China, a. 1885. R. 1924, d. 1928Glover. Ella E N. E.. China, a. 1892, R. 1925. d. 1929Godfrey, Annie Louise Col. R., India, a. 1912, R. 1925Goetz, Adeline Minn., China, a. 1900, m. 1901. GuthrieGolisch. Anna Lulu Des M.. China, a. 1908Gongwer, Margaret R Cin., Bulgaria. 5. 1926, c. t., miss. 1929. r. 1935Gooch. Mary Esther N. W., India, 5. 1920, m. 1922. PadrichGoodall, Annie Des M.. India, a. 1911. R. 1926Goodenough, Julia E N. E.. South America, a 1881. m. 1886, HudsonGoodin, Elirabeth S. Des M.. South America, a. 1895, R. 1899. m. HardjGooding, Laura N. W., China. 5. 1923, m. 1930. FloodGoodman. Zora Phila., Japan, 5. 1924, m. 1927. ThompsonGoodwin, Lora C N. W., Japan, a. 1915, d. 1925Goucher, Elizabeth Bait., China, a. 1913, s.. m. 1921, ChapmanGould, Olive Laura Des M., India, 5. 1921, r. 1934, m. 1936, WardGourley. Ina. M.D Des M.. India. 5. 1925, r. 1928Graf. Hedwig Cin.. Africa, a. 1909, r., d. 1919Graf, Martha A Cin.. China. 5. 1922Grandstrand. Pauline Minn.. India, a. 1905. R. 19.34

Gray. Frances N. Y., China, a. 1912. m. 1923. Hayes, d. 1924


Green. Lola M Top., India 5. 1930 i

Greene. Leola Mae N. W., India, 5. 1920Greene. Lily Dexter N. W., India, a. 1894Greene, Lucilla H., M.D N. E.. India, a. 1876. m. Cheney, d. 1878Greene. Nellie R N. E.. China, a. 1886. R. 1890Greenwood, Ruth C Phila.. South America, 5. 1930, det.

Greer. Lillian P Top., China, a. 1917, r. 1935Gregg. Eva A N. W.. China, a. 1912, R. 1934Gregg, Mary E Des M.. India, a. 1899, s.. m. 1912, WilsonGrennan, Elizabeth N. W., Philippine Islands, S. 1921, c. I., miss. 1925,

r. 1932Grey. Ruth Gin., India, 5. 1930*. m. 1934, Garland ,

Griffin, Alta Irene N. W., India, 5. 1921I

Griffin, Helen F Col. R., China, S. 1929, m. 1930, BurnGriffin, Martha A N. W., India, a. 1912, d. 1925Griffin, Pansy Pearl Phila., China, 5. 1920Griffiths, Mary B Des M., Japan, a. 1888, R. 1916, 5. 1920, R. 1925Grove. Mrs. H. L. R N. W., India, a. 1905, s.. R. 1912Grove, Nelda L Top., Korea, 5. 1919, r. 1932 i

Gruenewald, Cornelia H. A Des M., India, a. 1912, R. 1919Guelfi. Cecilia N. W., South America, a. 1878, d. 1886Gugin, Irene P N. Y., Africa, S. 1931Guthapfel, Minerva L Phila., Korea, a. 1903, R. 1912Haberman, Margaret O N. W., Japan, 5. 1920, r. 1922. India, 5. 1926, r. 1934

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Hadden. G. Evelyn Pac, India, a. 1913. I

Haenig, Hulda A N. W., Korea, a. 1910, r. 1922, d. 1927Haffner, Freda, M.D Pac, India, 5. 1935, r. 1937Hagar, Esther May N. Y., South America, S. 1925, r. 1930Hagen, Olive Irene N. W., Japan, S. 1919Hale, Lillian G N. E., China, a. 1888, m. 1894, Scoti. m. WeldayHalfpenny, M. Lillian Pac, China, a. 1914, d. 1929

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Hall. Ada Bearl Cin., Korea, 5. 1921Hall, Dorcas Phila., India, 5. 1922, det.

Hall, E. Bavlie Pac, China, a. 1913, m. 1915, SceatsHall, Emma M N. Y., Italy, a. 1885, N. W., 1886. R. 1900

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Hall. Mrs. Rosetta S., M.D. (See Sherwood) I

Hallagan, Bess N. W., South America, S. 1933Hallman. Sarah B. Bait.. Korea, a. 1907, m. 1912, BeckHalverstadt, Harriet J Top., China, a. 1918, det.

Hamisfar. Florence N., M.D N. W., Japan, a. 1883, dis. 1886Hammond, Alice J N. Y., Korea a. 1900 m. 1903, Sharp. S. 1908Hammond, Rebecca J Cin., South America, a. 1892, R. 1899Hammons, Mabel, M.D Top., China, S. 192 1 , r. 1932Hampton, Mary S N. Y., Japan, a. 1881, R. 1917. d. 1930Hancock. Mrs. Nellie D Bait.. India. 5. 1920, r. 1932Haney, Ida C N. E., India, a. 1912, r. 1919Hanks, E. Gertrude Phila., South America, 5. 1920Hannah, Mary Louise N. E., India, 5. 1924Hansing, Ovidia N. W., China, 5. 1920

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Harb, Mabel E N. W., Malaysia, 5. 1924, m. 1932, KuehnHardie, Eva M Cin., India, a. 1895, R. 1936Hardsaw, Rosa A Top., India, 5. 1922, r. 1934Harger, Gladys B N. W., China, 5. 1919Harmon, Grace N. W., Korea, a. 1911, m. 1914, McCaryHarrington, Susan Col. R., China, a. 1892, m. 1893, Causland, d. 1920Harrington, Sylvia Rhoda N. Y., Korea, a. 1918, r. 1921Harris, Alice C N. E., India, 5. 1920, r. 1929Harris, Lillian, M.D Cin., Korea, a. 1897, d. 1902Harris, Mary W Cin., Korea, a. 1891, m. 1894, FolwellHarris, Nellie M Cin., India, a. 1893, R. 1895Harrod, Anna M N. W., India, 5. 1919,Hart, Mary Ames Pac, India, a. 1904, m. 1907, BriggsHartford, Mabel C N. E. China, a. 1887, R. 1929Hartung, Lois Joy Pac, South America, a. 1911, Mex. 1924, R. 1934Harvey, Emily L N. E., India, a. 1884, R. 1920, d. 1929Harvey, Ruth M Minn., Malaysia, S. 1923Hasler, Abbie C N. W.. India, 5. 1922, m. 1924, ThomasHastings, Mary N. Y., Mexico, a. 1874, d. 1898Hatch, Ella Des M., South America, a. 1915, r. 1919Hatch, Hazel A Top., Korea, 5. 1920, r. 1932Hatfield, Lena, M.D N. W., China, a. 1907, r. 1918, d. 1927Hawkins, Sallie C Top., Philippine Islands, S. 1921, r. 1934Hayes, Virginia Cin., South America, 5. 1923, Philippine Is., 5. 1930,r

1936Haynes, Emily Irene N. Y., Korea, a. 1906


Hazen, Bernice, M.D N. E., Philippine Islands, 5. 1936Heafer, Louise Phila., India, a. 1891, R. 1907Heath, Frances J., M.D N. Y., China, a. 1913, m. 1929, HughsonHeaton, Carrie A N. W., Japan, a. 1893, R. 1929Hebinger, Josephine N. W., India, a. 1892, m. 1894, SnuggsHedrick, M. C N. Y., India, a. 1884, m. 1890, MilesHefty, Lura M Col. R., China, a. 1909, r. 1922, m. 1923, WireHeist, Laura A Col. R., India, 5. 1921Helm, Mabel Cin., Mexico, 5. 1924, m. 1930, SingletonHemenway, Ruth V., M.D N. Y., China, S. 1923Hemingway, Edith A N. E., Malaya, a. 1898, r. 1909Henderson, Lucile Cin., Mexico, 5. 1919, m. 1920Hendrick, Rhoda G.. M.D N. W., India, 5. 1923, r. 1925Henkle, W. Nianette Des M., India, a. 1901, R. 1912, d. 1929Henry, Mary Top., India, a. 1904, dis. 1906Henschen, A. Lillian Pac, India, a. 1914, m. 1917, Hollisler, d. 1933Hepperly, Hattie H Top., India, 5. 1921, m. 1923. DeweyHermiston, Margaret I. W N. E. India, 5. 1919Hess, Margaret I Cin., Korea, a. 1913Hess, Stella A Cin., Africa, a. 1914, R. 1935Hewett, Ella J Phila., Japan, a. 1884. R. 1919. d. 1927Hewett. Lizzie N. W., South America, a. 1886, R. 1914Hewitt, Helen M N. W., Mexico, a. 1904, R. 1919, 5. 1926, R. 1934Hewson, Marguerite E Col. R., Philippine Islands, 5. 1922Higgins, Susan B N. E. Japan, a. 1878, d. 1879Highbaugh, Irma Top., China, a. 1917Hill, Clara M N. E., Mexico, .S". 1921, c. i., miss. 1923, r.

Hill, Katherine Ledyard Phila., India, a. 1905, R. 1915Hillman, Amanda, M.D N. W., Korea, a. 1911, 5., r. 1914Hillman, Mary R Cin., Korea, a. 1900, d. 1928Hilts, Abigail M N. Y., South America, a. 1911, r. 1915, m. KinzleyHilts. Carrie A N. Y., South America, a. 191 1, r. 1919, d. 1927Hitch, Alice E N. W., Japan, a. 1918, r. 1921, ?«. 1923, ArmstrongHitchcock, Frances H Des M., China, a. 1905, m. 1908, Richer, d. 1916Hoag, Lucy, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1872, d. 1909Hoath, Ruth Top.. India, a. 1916Hobart, Elizabeth N. W., China, a. 1915*Hobart, Louise N. W., China, a. 1912*. d. 1934Hoddinott, Lucerne ("in., China, 5. 1921, ?n. 1927, KnowltonHodge, Emma, M.D Phila., India, a. 1895, m. 1899, WorrallHoerner, Lena May Phila., South America, .S. 1937Hoffman, Carlotta E N. W., India, o. 1906, R. 1937Hoffman, Cora E Phila., China, 5. 1928. m. 1932, JohnsonHoffman, Thekla .A Cin., India, 5. 1924, m. 1936, RossHoffmann, Jeanette N. Y., Mexico, .S'. 1929Hoge, Elizabeth Cin., India, a. 1892. R. 1935Holbrook. Ella M Pac, Japan, a. 1900, R. 1906Holbrook, Marv J Cin., Japan, a. 1878, m. 1890, Chappell. d. 1912Holder, Mary Edna Col. R.. India, 5. 1922Holland, Mrs. Alma H Des M., India, a. 1904Holland, Ary J Top.. Malaysia, a. 1905, R. 1919Holland, Harriet A N. W., India, a. 1906, m. 1909, MilhollandHolHster, Alice E N. W., India, a. 1909, m. 1913. GabelHollister. Grace A Cin., Mexico, a. 1905Hollows. Bessie A N. E.. China, 5. 1922Holman, Charlotte T Pac. India, a. 1900Holman, Sarah C Minn., India, a. 1914, i.

Holmberg, Hilda Minn., Malaysia, a. 1913, m. 1922, AllslromHolmes. Ada Col. R.. India, a. 1905, R. 1924Holmes, Lillian L N. Y., China, a. 1911Holmes. Maybel Marion N. Y.. China. 5. 1931Holwav. Ruth N. E.. South America, 5. 1924, m. 1930, BosworthHonneil. Grace L Top., India, S. 1920Honsinger, Welthy B N. Y., China, a. 1906, r. 1921, m. 1924. FisherHopkins. Rhoda Mae Col. R.. Japan, a. 1917, R. 1918Hosford, Ruby C Top., South America, a. 1918, r. 1934,Hostetter, Flossie M Cin., China, a. 1913, r.

Householder, C. Ethel Top. China, a. 1913, r. 1934Howard, Leonora. M.D N. W.. China, a. 1877. m. 1884, KingHoward. Meta, M.D N. W., Korea, a. 1887. R. 1890Howe. Deha A Phila.. China, a. 1879. R. 1882Howe. Gertrude N. W.. China, a. 1872, R. 1917. d. 1929Howey, Harriet M Cin., Japan, a. 1916Hoy. Ellen I Cin.. India, a. 1881, m. 1884, Lawson


Hu. May L Des. M., China, a. 1904, m. 1922, UngHu, King Eng. M.D Phila., China, a. 1895. R. 1929, d. 1929Huelster. Luella Minn., China, a. 1908, m. 1912, BishopHuff, Edyth A Des M., India, 5. 1920. r. 1927, m. 1931. BeaUHuffman, Loal E., M.D Cin., India, a. 191

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Hugoboom, Marion Phila., Mexico, a. 1883, m. 1884Hughes, Jennie V N. Y.. China, a. 1905, r. 1920Hughes, Mary A N. Y., India, o. 1887, R. 1890, m. Ernsberger, d. 1899Hughes. M. Pearl N. W.. India, 5. 1923, d. 1936Huibregtse. Minnie Des M., India, 5. 1931Hulbert, Esther L Cin.. Korea. S. 1923Hulbert, Jeannette C Cin.. Korea, a. 1914Hunt, Ava F N. W., India, a. 1910Hunt, Faith A Minn., China, a. 1914, r. 1932Hunt. Maud Edna N. W.. India, a. 1918. m. 1921. RogersHunter. Alice Cin.. Korea. 5. 1926, r.

Hurlbut. Floy Top., China, o. 1913, r. 1931Huser, Minnie E Cin., China. 5. 1923. m. 1927, LedbeatterHutchens. Edna May N. W.. India. 5. 1921Hyde. Flora A N. W.. China, a. 1912, m. DedrichHyde, Laura, M.D N. Y., India, a. 1883, m. 1886, FooteHyde, Minnie Z N. W., South America, a. 1888, m. 1894. WilsonHyde. Nettie M Des M.. India, a. 1897. m. 1907. Fell

Hyneman. Ruth E Cin.. India, a. 1915Illingworth, Chadotte J Phila., Burma, a. 1898, R. 1925Imhof, Louisa Top., Japan, a. 1889, R. 1924, d. 1925Ingram, Helen Minn., India, a. 1898, s.. r. 1913Irwin, Alice A Cin., South America, 5. 1923, r. 1933Isham, Ida G Pac, India, a. 1912, r. 1919Jackson, C. Ethel N. W., Malaysia, a. 1902Jacobson, Evelyn R Minn., India, 5. 1922, m. 1931, BreamJakobson, Alma Minn.. India, a. 1894, m. 1904, Keventer, d. 1918James, Phoebe Top., Burma, a. 1906, r. 1926Jaquet, Myra A N. W., China, a. 1909Jayne, Ruth E Pac, China. S. 1924. R. 1933Jenkins. Mary E Top.. India. 5. 1921, R. 1923Jewell, Amy L N. Y., Malaysia, .S. 1924, m. 1928, ProcterJewell, Carrie I Cin., China, a. 1884, R. 1913, d. 1919Jewell, Mrs. Charlotte M N. Y., China, a. 1883, R. 1929Johanson, Maria A. J Top., India, a. 1915, r.

Johnson, Anna N. W., China, a. 1894. R.Johnson, Eda Lvdia, D.O Pac, China, a. 1918, R. 1934Johnson, Ella Phila., China, a. 1888, m. 1893, KinnearJohnson, Frances E Pac, India, 5. 1931Johnson, Geraldine Des M.. Malaya. S. 1936Johnson, Ingle A Top.. Africa. S. 1927Johnson, Juliet M Des M., China, 5. 1928, m. 1934, GambleJohnson, Katherine M Bait., Mexico, a. 1912, r. 1931JohnsJon, Marv A Minn., China, 5. 1925, r. 1935Johnston, Ruth H Cin., Malava, 5. 1926, r. 1933Jones, Dorothy N. W., China, a. 1903Jones, Edna Bait., China, a. 1907Jones, Joan Comber N. Y., India, S. 1920, m. 1929, CollinsJones, Jennie D Des M., China, a. 191

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Jones. Laura E.. M.D N. Y.. China. 5. 1919, r. 1931Jonte, Louise M Top., India, 5. 1922, d. 1926Jordan, Ella E N. W., China, a. 1911, R. 1925Justin, Catherine L Top., India, 5. 1923Kahn. Ida. M.D N. \V.. China, a. 1896. d. 1931Kaulbach, Anna L N. Y., Japan, a. 1886, m 1889. WilsonKeckman. Anna N. E.. China, o. 1916. m. 1918, WeigetKeeler, Anna C Cin., India, a. 1892. m. 1899. MawsonKeeney, Dorothea L N. Y., China. 5. 1920, r. 1935Kehm, Alta Minn., India, 5. 1924, m. 1928, HarrisKeister, Ida M Minn., China, 5. 1922, m. 1927, MaderKelley, Luella Bait.. India, a. 1880, dis. 1885Kellogg. Nora Evelyn N. W., China, 5. 1921, d. 1932Kemper Harriet Des M., India, a. 1891, R. 1895Kennard, Ada Marie Pac, India, 5. 1924Kennard, Olive E Pac, India, o. 1914. R. 1934Kennedy. Mary E Des M., India, a. 1891. m. 1894. CoreKenyon. Carrie C Phila.. Malaysia, a. 1917Kerr. Harriet Phila.. India, a. 1881. i. 1886Kesler. Mary G Top . China, o. 1912Keasing. Mae G N. W.. So. America. 5. 1928, R. 1936


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Moots. Mrs. Cornelia N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1900, R. 1902. d. 1929Morehouse. Edith T., M.D N. Y.. India, .S. 1921, r. 1931Morgan, Cora L Top., India, a. 1904, m. 1930. OldhamMorgan, Julia E.. M.D Phila.. China. 5. 1922Morgan. Mabel N. W.. India. 5. 1918, c. t., miss. 1924Morgan, Margaret N. W., India, a. 1910Morris. Harriett Plummer Top.. Korea. 5. 1921


Morris, Mrs. Louise Ogilvy N. Y., Korea, S. 1927Morrow, Julia E Col. R.. India, a. 1913Moses, Mathilde R Top.. India, a. 1916Moss, Loma R Cin., India, 5. 1923, m. 1929, LooseMoyer, Jennie E N. Y., India, a. 1899, R. 1927Mudge, Ada N. E., India, a. 1904*, R. 1909Muir, Winifred N. W., China, a. 1909, r.

Mulliner, Clara N. Y., Mexico, a. 1878, R. 1883, d. 1918Munson, Kezia E N. W., India, a. 1918, c. t.. miss.. 1925Murphy. May Col. R. and Phila., South America. 5. 1922, r. 1937Murray, Helen Grace Phila., Mexico, S. 1919, So. America, 1924. Mexico.1926,

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Oldroyd, Roxanna H Top., India, a. 1909Olson, Delia N. W., Malaysia, o. 1917Olson, Elizabeth Minn., Malaysia, a. 1915, r. 1922, d. 1936Olson, Emma N. W., Malaya, 5. 1932Olson, Mary E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1903Orcutt, Hazel A Cin., Burma, a. 1912, m. 1921. HaydenOrgan, Clara M N. E., India, a. 1900, R. 1916Osburn, Carolyn B ; Pac, India, S. 1928, m. 1930, MondolOstrom, Eva Top., N. Africa, 5. 1927Ostrom, Mrs. Vera E. (See Edborg)Otto, ."Mice M Des M., Japan, a. 1894, m. 1900, SelbyOtto. Violet L Top., India, 5. 1923, m. 1932. WilsonOvenshire, Laura B N. Y.. India, 5. 1922, d. 1925Overholt. Treva B N. W.. South America, S. 1929Overman, L. Belle N. W., Korea, a. 1917, del.

Packer. Josephine R Des M., South America, 5. 1922, r. 1928Paige, Ina N. E., Mexico, 5. 1922, r. 1929Paine. Josephine O Phila., Korea, a. 1892. d. 1909Paine. Mildred A Cin., Japan, .S. 1920, N. Y., .S. 1923Pak, Mrs. Esther K., M.D Phila., Korea, a. 1900, d. 1910Palm, Emma Cin.. China. S. 1922Palmer, Ethel M Pac. India. 5. 1921Palmer, Florence K N. W., India, S. 1930Palmer, Pearl E N. Y.. India, S. 1927


Pardee, Mary E Phila., Japan, a. 1888. d. 1893-Parish, Sarah Rebecca. M.D N. W.. Philippine Islands, a. 1906, R. 1935Parker, Theda A N. Y., Mexico, a. 1889, R. 1894Parkes, Elizabeth Pac, Philippine Islands, a. 1903, /. 1928Parkinson. Plioebe A Col. R.. China, a. 1899. m. 1909. UpperParks, Vera E N. W.. India, 5. 1922Parmenter, Ona M Minn., Africa, 5. 1920Parsons. L. Maud Phila.. China. 5. 1930Patterson. Anna Gail Cin.. India. 5. 1920. del.

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Penner. Eva N Minn.. India. .S 1928. r. 1933Penney. Oril A Pac. Africa. S. 1926Penney. Win logene C Top.. China, a. 1916. South America, .S. 1927. r. 1934Perkins. Fannie A Des M., Burma, a. 1890. R. 1924, d. 1933Perrill. M. Louise Top.. India, a. 1910Perrine. Florence N. W.. India, a. 1888. m. 1894, MansellPerry. Edith Top., Bulgaria, S. 1923. m. MorganPerry. Ella L N. V.. India. 5. 1931Perry, Fern E Top., Bulgaria. S. 1923. d. 1926Perry. Harriet Louise N. E.. Japan. 5. 1922. dft.

Persson. Bertha Top.. China. 5. 1920 r. 1929Peters, Alice N. VV., China, a. 1906, d. 1911Peters, Jessie I N. W.. India, a. 1903Peters, Marv N. W.. China, a. 1894. R. 1926. d. 1937Peters. Sarah N. W.. China, a. 1888, R. 1926, d. 1936Pfaff. Jessie A Minn.. Africa. 5. 1929Phelps. Frances E Des M . Japan, a. 1889, m. 1915. Tackaberry. <i.l923

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Pye. Olive F N. Y., Korea, a. 191 1. r. 1931Pyke, Edith N. W.. China, a. 1916*. m. ThompsonPyke. Mildred N. W.. China, a. 1912*. m. MooneyPyne. Rosa M Des M.. India, a. 1902. m. 1906. Berry, m. 1918

HawthorneQuinton, Frances N. W., Africa, a. 1916Quirin, Flora Des M., India. 5. 1929, del.


Raabe. Rosa M Des M., Korea, a. 1915. r. 1919Radley. Vena I N. Y.. China, 5. 1925Rahe, Cora L N. W., China, a. 1912Ramsey. Bertha E Phila., Africa, 5. 1924, m. 1937, OresekRandall, S. Edith Top., India, a. 1911, R. 1937Rank, Minnie L Minn., Malaysia, a. 1906Ransom, Ruth Phila., South America, 5. 1919, r. 1934Rasmussen, Mrs. Helen E N. Y.. Africa, a. 1900. m. 1905. SpringerRea, Caroline Lois Cin., Malaysia. 5. 1922Rebstock. Thelma A N. Y., India, 5. 1929. r. 1935Reddick, Olive Irene Phila., India, S. 1921. r. 1933Redinger. June E Phila.. Netherlands Indies, S. 1928Reed. Marv Cin., India, a. 1884Reeves. Cora D N. W., China, a. 1917tReeves, Mrs. Florence G N. Y., Bulgaria, 5. 1923. Italy, 5. 1931. Bulgaria, 1935Reid, Jennie Phila., South America, a. 1913Reid. Mabel J Des M., Burma, 5. 1924Reik, Elsie H N. W.. China, 5. 1922Reillv. Marnie B N. W., India, a. 1913. m. 1916, Hill

Reiman, Frieda N. W.. China, a. 1918. d. 1937Reitz. Beulah H Top., Africa, 5. 1922Rexrode, Sadie M. Cin.. Africa, a. 1917, d. 1921Rexroth. Elizabeth Cin.. India, a. 1912. r. 1919Rexroth. Emma K Col. R.. India, a. 1916Reynolds. Elsie M Des M.. India, a. 1906. r. 1931Richards. Emily Cin.. India. 5. 1925. m. 1929. NotUyRichards. Gertrude E Phila.. India, a. 1917Richardson. Faithe Top.. India. 5. 1925Richardson. Fanny E Minn.. Malaysia, a. 1918, r. 1925Richey, Elizabeth H Cin., China, 5. 1919Richmond, Mary A Top., India, a. 1909Riechers, Bertha L Pac, China, a. 1915. r. 1934Rigby. Luella G Des M.. Burma, a. 1900. m. 1909, JonesRigg, Bessie E Des M.. India. 5. 1925, d. 1935Riste, Rose A., M.D Col. R., India, 5. 1922, R. 1929Robbins, Adis N. W., India, .S". 1930Robbing, Emma E., M.D Top., China, a. 1911, r. 1927Robbins, Henrietta P N. Y., Korea, a. 1902, R. 1937Roberds, Frances E Bait., North Africa, 5. 1931Roberts. Elizabeth S Minn.. Korea, a. 1917. transferred to Swedish Unit, 1931Robinett. Gusta N. W.. China. S. 1930Robinson. Alvina Des M.. Burma, a. 1907, r. 1928Robinson, Faye H N. E.. China, a. 1917, det.

Robinson, Flora L Minn., India, a. 1909*. m. 1921, Howells, d. 1926Robinson. Helen E N. Y.. India, a. 1902*, d. 1917Robinson, Martha E Phila.. N. Africa. 5. 1922Robinson, Marv C N. W., China, a. 1884, d. 1906Robinson, Muriel E Cin., India, a. 1914*, r. 1931Robinson. Ruth E Bait.. India, a. 1900*Rockey. Lois Cin.. India, a. 1912*. m. 1921. AtkinsRockwell, Lillie M Bait., India. 5. 1919, r. 1935Rodgers, Anna M Phila., Mexico, a. 1889. m. 1890, FurnessRogers, Hazel T Des M., India, 5. 1919. det.

Rogers, Mavme Marie Cin., Korea, S. 1921, r. 1936Rohde, Eleanora C N. W., Netherlands Indies, 5. 1921, R. 1934Rosenberger, Elma T Cin., Korea, 5. 1921Ross, Elsie M Phila., India, a. 1909Rossiter, Henrietta B Des M., China, a. 1917Rost, Carrie H Top., India, .S. 1926, r.

Rothweiler, Louisa C Cin., Korea, a. 1887, R. 1899, d. 1921Rouse. Willma H Minn.. China, a. 1893, m. 1905, Keene, d 1929Roush, Hannah Elsie N. W., Africa, a. 191 1, m. 1924. BushRowe. Phoebe N. W., India, a. 1881, d. 1898Rowley, Marv L N. W., China, a. 1899, m. 1904. WilsonRovce. Edith M Des M.. Korea. S. 1920. r. 1937Royce. Marian D Cin.. Malaysia. 5. 1924. N. Y., 5. 1931Rover, Mary Ann N. W.. China, a. 1913, r. 1922. m.Rubright. Caroline B Phila., South .America, a. 1913, R. 1928Ruddick. Elizabeth May N. E., India, a. 1901, d. 1915Ruese, Mrs. Artele B Bait., Italy, a. 1918Ruggles. Ethel E Des M., India, o. 1916Rulofson, Gazelle M N. E., Japan, a. 1886, m. 1888, ThomsonRuppel, Leona E Des M., India, S. 1919, det.

Russell, Elizabeth Cin., Japan, a. 1879, R. 1919. d. 1928Russell. Esther A Top.. Mexico. 5. 1922. d. 1923


Russell, Mary K N. W., China. S. 1930Russell, M. Helen Pac, Japan, a. 1895-1907, R. 1931, d. 1934Ruth, E. Naomi Phila. and N. W., Netherlands Indies, a. 1911, m

1924, ShellabearSadler, Eva Phila, Malaya, 6'. 1928 c. t., miss. 1929Salmans, Edith Pac, Mexico, a. 1910, r.

Salmon, Bessie C N. W., Korea, a. 1915, R. 1923Salmon, Lena L N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1910, m. 1915, CarrothersSalzer, Florence Minn.. India. 5. 1920, c. t., miss. 1923Samson, Carrie J Des M., India, a. 1899, m. 1903, Sunder, d. 1921Santee, Helen C Phila., Japan, a. 1908. R. 1914Sauer, Clara N. W.. China, a. 1915, r. 1919Saunby, Dora Pac. India. 5. 1936Savage. Eugenia M Col. R.. China. 5. 1931, det.

Saxe. Agnes E N. Y.. India, a. 1904, R. 1913, d. 1915Sayles, Florence A Col. R... China, a. 1914Schaefer, Carolyn E Minn., India. 5. 1925Scharpff. Hanna N.W., Korea, a. 1910. transferred to Central Europe UnitSchaum, Lvdia L.. M.D Top.. China. 5. 1920, R.Scheldt, Ellen A Top., Pliilippine Islands, .S. 1920, r.

Scheirich, A. Beta Cin.. China. S. 1922. r. 1935Schenck. Linna N. W.. Bulgaria, a. 1884. R. 1892. d. 1898Scherich. Rilla Top., China, 5. 1923. r. 1932. d. 1935Schlaelli. Trudy M Cin., China, 5. 1930Schlater, Irma Pac. India. S. 1931. dis. 1937Schleman. Laura M Cin.. China. 5. 1930. c. t., miss. 1935, del.

Schlemmer, Hildegarde M N. W., India, 5. 1924. R. 1936Scholberg. Miriam R N. Y.. India. 5. 1931*. r. 1936Schoonmaker. Dora E N. W.. Japan, a. 1874. m. 1878, Soper, d. 1935Schreckengast, Joy R Top.. South America, a. 1917, m. 1922, JonesSchroeppel, Marguerite E Des M.. India, a. 1913, m. 1923, JonesScott, Emma, M.D Cin., India, a. 1896, R. 1922Scott, Frances A Cin., India, a. 1889, R. 1921Scovill. Ila M Cin.. Africa. 5. 1925Scranton, Mrs. M. F N. Y.. Korea, a. 1885, d. 1909Seal, Mav Belle Cin.. Mexico. 5. 1922Search. Blanche T Phila.. China, a. 1914Sears. Anna B Cin.. China, a. 1880. d. 1895Secor. Valeria Des M., India, a. 1909. m. CrandallSeeck, Margaret Top., China, a. 1917Seeds, Leonora H Cin.. Japan, a. 1890. R. 1934Seeds, Mabel K N. W.. Japan, a. 1902, R. 1914, d. 1924Seidlmann. Paula Cin., China, a. 1908, m. 1924, SpoerriSellers, Rue A Cin., India, a. 1 889, R. 1929. d. 1930Sheafer. Olga P Cin., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1914, LompreyShannon. Mary E Top., Burma, a. 1909, India, 5. 1925Sharp. Mrs. Alice H. (see Hammond)Sharpe, Mary Western, Africa, a. 1879, dis. 1883Shaw, Alice Fawcett N. Y., India, a. 1910. d. 1911Shaw, Ella C N. W.. China, a. 1887, d. 1933Shawhan, Grace B Top.. China. -S'. 1923. r.

Shearer. Mary C Phila., China, S. 1936Sheldon, Mabel Marie Top.. India. S. 1927Sheldon, Martha A.. M.D N. E.. India, a. 1888. d. 1912Shepherd, Elsie N. W., Mexico, 5. 1928, c. t.. miss. 1933Sherwood, Rosetta, M.D N. Y., Korea, a. 1890. m. 1892, Hall, S. 1897, R. 1935Shields, Wilhelmina N. W.. .Africa. S. 1930*. dd.Shiveley, Mirtha E Cin.. Malaya. 5. 1926. r. 1936Shocklev, Mary E Cin.. China, a. 1895, m. 1904, DrakeShoemaker. Esther, M.D Phila.. India. .S'. 1927Shoub. Hazel M N. W.. China, a. 1917, m. 1922, Brown, d. 1925Shufelt. Edith E Minn., China, S. 1921, r. 1928Shute. Vivian L Minn., India, a. 1915. m. 1920. ThompsonSia, Mabel Des M., China, a. 1902, d. 1903Sia, Ruby Des M., China, a. 1904Siberts, Sara Miriam N. W.. South America. 5. 1920, m. 1920, Morley, d. 1921Siddall, Adelaide N. E.. India, a. 1903, r. 1904Simester, Mary N. E.. China, a. 1905, d. 1913Simonds, Mildred Des M.. India, a. 1906Simons, Marian G N. W., Japan, S. 1930Simons, Maude E Bait., Japan, a. 1889, d. 1898Simpson, Cora E N. \V.. China, a. 1907tSimpson. Mabel E Top., India. .S. 1920, r. 1934Singer, Florence E Phila. , Japan, a. 1893, R. 1914Singh, Lilavati N. W., India, a. 1900. d. 1909


Sinkey, Fern M Cin., China, 5. 1921, del.

Sites. Rutli M Bait., China, a. 1800*, m. 1895, BrownSlate, Anna Ulanche Phila., Japan, a. 1901, r.

Slayton, Elnyr Cin., India, 5. 1936Smith, Ada Cin., Korea, 6. 1921, r.

Smith, Adeline N. W., China, a. 1907,/?. 1910Smith, Alice N. Y., China, .S. 1921, m. 1924, DuffSmith, Alice L N. Y., China, 5. 1924, R. 1934Smith, Clara li Phila., China, a. 1914Smith. Ellen E Top., China. 5. 1922Smith, Eloise G Top., Korea, 5. 19.30*, m. 1937, KorisSmith, Eniih Cin.. N. Africa, a. 1910, R. 1935Smith Eunice E N. Y., China, 5. 1935Smith. Grace Pepper Pac, India, .S. 1919Smith, Jennie Mabel Col. R., India, a. 1915Smith, Joy L Des M.. China, a. 1918Smith, Lida B N. Y., Japan, a. 1885, R. 1912. d. 1926Smith, Madorah E Minn., China, a 1911. r. 1920Smith, Mvrtle A N. W., China, 6\ 1921Smith, Pauline H Top., Japan, 5. 1930*, m. 1934, McAlpineSmith, Ruth B Minn.. China, a. 1910. tn. 1912, tosarSmith. Sa',ie May Pac. Burma, ^" 1921, R. 1935Sua p. Reba N. Y., Japan, a. 1913, m. 1914, RyderSnavelv. Gertrude E Phila.. Korea, a 1906Sriier M\rtle M Pa. India, a. 1921, r. 1926Snow. Mvra N. W., China. S. 1928. c. t., miss.. Col. R., 5. 1935.

Pacific, 1936Snvder. Chestora, M.D Cin., China, a. 1912, m. 1915. HoffmanSoderstrom, Anna N. Y., India, a. 1896, r. 1901, m. PlummerSopor, E. Maud Phila., Japan, a. 1903*, R. 1911Soner. Laura DeWitt Top., India, a. 1917, r. 1932, m. 1934, JamesSouthard. Ada j Des M.. Japan, a. 1900, r. 1905Sparkes, Fannie J N. Y.. India, a. 1870, R. 1891. ^'. 1919Sparr. Julia, M.D N. W.. China, a. 1878. m. 1883. CoffinSpathelf, Rena F N. W.. China. 5. 1925 d. 1931Spaulding, Winifred Top.. Philippine Islands, a. 1903-1910. Mexico 1917, R.

1923Spear. Katherine A Phila.. India, a. 1896. m. 1900. Collier

Speer, Dorothy Bait., India. 5. 1929, del.

Spence, Mattie B N. W., India, a. 1880, m. 1883, PerrieSpencer. Clarissa H Phila.. Japan, a. 1896. r. 1901. d. 1927Spencer, Matilda A Phila., Japan, a. 1878. R. 1920, d. 1933Sprovvles, Alberta B Phila., Japan, a. 1906Sprun?er. Eva F Pac. China. 5. 1919. R. 1937Stahl, C. lo-^ephine N. W.. India, a. 1892, R. 1932, d. 1934Slahl, Minta M Cin., China. 5. 1919. c. t., miss. 1923Stahl, Ruth L Cin.. China, a. 191 7 jStahl, Tirzah M Cin., China, S. 1921, r.

Stallard, Eleanor B Pac, India, 5. 1924Stanton, Alice M N. Y., China, a. 1892, m. 1899, Woo.lruffStarkey, Bertha F Cin., Japan, a. 1910, Korea, .^. 1925Staubli. Frieda Cin., China, 5. 1922Stearns, Mary P N. E., India, a. 1899, m. 1903, BadleySteere, Anna E N. \V.. China, a. 1889, R.. d. 1914Stefanski, Pauline Top., Netherlands Indies, a. 1912, m. 1917, WorthingtonStephens, Grace Bait., India, a. 1892, R. 1919, d. 1936Stephens. Yida W Pac, India, a. 1910*, m. 1913, BatemanSterling, Florence Minn., India, a. 1895, m. 1897, Lenlh. I. 1900Stevenson, Florence E N. E., China. 5. 1936Stevenson, Ida M., M.D Top., China, a. 1890. R.Stewart. Emma N. \V., India. 5. 1927Stewart, Mrs. Mary S., M.D Phila., Korea, a. 1910, r.

Stixrud, Louise Minn.. Philippine Islands, a. 1906, r. 1919, d. 1927Stockwell, Emma Top., India, a. 1901. m. 1904. PriceStockwell, Grace L Des M., Burma, a. 1901Stone, Anna Minn., China, a. 1904, . 1906Stone, Mabel C N. \V., China, a. 1913, r. 1917, m. FarleyStone. Mary. M.D Des M., China, a. 1896. r. 1920Stone. Myrtle M N. Y.. China. 5. 1922. r. 1931Stoufter. Kdilh J Lhi'a., Bi rn^a, 5. 1022. m. 1')30, WhileStout, Winifred N. W., China, a. 1906, m. 1913. PattersonStover, Myrta O Cin.. Korea. 5. 1925Stowe, Genevieve G Col. R., Malava, J>. 1927. m. 1930. JenkinsSlov. Ellen Louise N. W.. Italv. S. 1919, r. 1923Strawick, Gertrude N. W., China, a. 1906, R. 1930


Strever, Frances Top., South America. 5. 1922, d. 1931Strew, Elizabeth M N. Y., China, a. 1904, R. 1925Stryker, Minnie, M.D Phila., China, o. 1908, R. 1931Studley, Ellen M N. W.. China. 5. 1924Stumpf, Susanna M Des M., India, a. 1902, d. 1907Sturtevant, Abby L Minn., Japan, S. 1921, r. 1932Suffern, Ellen H N. W., China, a. 1917, Pac, ,s. 1924Suhr, Laura J Top., India, 5. 1921, d. 1929Sullivan. Lucy W Cin.. India, a. 1888. R. 1923Sutherland. May E Top.. India, a. 1915Sutton, Daisy B Cin., Japan, a. 1908. m. 1910, MillerSutton, Marianne Minn., Malaysia, a. 1907, R. 1913Swain, Clara A., M.D N. E.. India, a. 1869, R. 1896. d. 1910Swan, Beulah M N. W.. India, 5. 1923, m. 1937Swan, Hilda Top., India, a. 1904, R. 1928, 5. 1935Swaney. Mary F Bait., Mexico, a. 1878, Top., South America, a. 1890,

R. 1912, d. 1924Swank, Lottie Agnes N. W , Philippine Islands, S. 1920, m 1921, GoUschalSwearer, Mrs. Lillian M N. Y., Korea, a. 1917, R. 1937Sweet, Mary B Top., Italy, a. 1912. r. 1919Sweet, Mary Edith Des M., India, a. 1917, R. 1936Swift, Edith T N. E., Italy, a. 1902. R. 1914Swords, Lilly Gertrude N. Y., India, 5. 1937Swormstedt, Virginia R Cin., Africa, a. 1903, m. 1907, CoffinTaft, Gertrude, M.D Pac, China, a. 1895, s., R. 1924Tang. Ilien Minn., China, a. .900, d. 1920Taylor. Anna Mabel N. Y., Mexico, a. 191^, r. 1935Tavlor, Erma M Phila., Japan, a. 1913, Des M., 5. 1926Taylor, Mabel Col. R., China, 5 1922, m. 1929, TrialTeague, Carolyn M Cin., Japan, a. 1912Temple, Laura N. Y., Mexico, a. 1903Terrell. Linnie Cin., India, a. 1908, r.

Terry, Edna G., M.D N. E., China, a. 1887, d. 1913Thoburn, Isabella Cin., India, a. 1869, d. 1901Thoburn, Isabella Phila.. India, S. 1927Thomas, Ethel E Top., Mexico, 5. 1919Thomas, Hettie A Cin., Japan, a. 1903, d. 1920Thomas, J. Edna Cin., Phihppine Islands, a. 1914, d. 1918Thomas, Mary M Cin., China, a. 1904, R. 1929Thomas, Ruth F N. W., Africa, a. 1917Thomasson, Leona B Bait., China. 5. 1920, c. t., miss. 1932Thompson, Anna Phila., India, a. 1889, m. 1895, Stephens, d. 1932Thompson, Anna Armenia Top., Philippine Islands, 5. 1920Thompson, Ethel Truesdale N. Y., China. 5. 1921, R. 1932Thompson, Flora Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1916. r. 1917Thompson, May Bel Top., China, a. 1915Thompson. Vera R Bait., India, a. 1913, R. 1923Thurston, Esther V N. E., Japan, 5. 1920. m. 1927, SlosserTinsley, Jennie M N. W., India, a. 1871, m. 1876, Wauah. d. 1928Tippett, Mrs. Susan Bait., China, a. 1901, R. 1909, d. 1929Tirsgaard, Maren M Minn., India, 5. 1924, N. W.. 5. 1927Todd. Althea M N. E.. China, a. 1895Todd, Grace L N. W., China, a. 1897, R. 1898, d. 1909Toll, Kate Evalvn N. W., India, a. 1904, d. 1930Tower, Rita B., M.D N. W., India, .S. 1922Townsend, Mollie E N. Y., China, 5. 1921, c. t.. miss. 1928Tracy, Alethea W N. Y., China, a. 1908, m. 1912, Gill

Traeger, Gazelle Top., Malaysia, 5. 1922Trask, Sigourney, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1874, m. 1885. CowlesTravis, Grace B N. Y., China, a. 1903, tn. 1910, WilliamsTretheway, Lucile D Pac, China, a. 1916, m. 1920. LibbyTrimble, Lydia A Des M., China, o. 1889, R. 1935Trissel, Maude V Des M., Korea, a. 1914. R. 1937Trotter. Charlotte N. W., China, a. 1918Troxel, Moneta J N. W., Korea, S. 1925Truckenmiller, M. Irene Des M., India, 5. 1925, r. 1932Tryon, Elizabeth V Des M., India, a. 1895. r. 1900Tschudy, Marianne H N. W., China, a. 1915, m. 1918, PaddockTubbs. Lulu L N. W.. Africa, a. 1917Tucker. Alta M Top.. India. S. 1932, r. 1936Tucker, Margaret Emeline, M.D Cin.. China. S. 1935Tucker, Grace N. Y., Japan, a. 1890, m. 1896, TagueTunison, Bessie D N. W., India, a. 1914, m. 1918, ShipmanTurner, Elizabeth J Des M.. India, a. 1915. R. 1935Turner, Mrs. Maud Top., India, a. 1905, m. 1909, Nies


Turner, Mellonv F N. Y., Bulparia, 5. 1925Turner, Sarah B Phila., India, a. 1903. m. 1904, ParkerTurney, Mrs. L. M Western, South America, a. 1881, r. 1882Tuttle, Marv B., M.D Top., India, a. 1903, d. 1907Tuttle, Ora M Cin., Korea, a. 1907. d. 1924Twinem, Marguerite Pac, Cliina. 5. 1931Tvler, Gertrude W Des M., China, a. 1909, r. 1930Tyler, Ursula J Cin.. China, a. 1915. (i. 1936Urech, Lydia N. W.. Malaysia, a. 1916, transferred to Central Europe

UnitVail. Olive Top., Malaysia, a. 1913. r. 1027Vance, Mary A Des M.. Japan, a. 1887, m. 1892. Belknaj^, d. 1892Vandegrift. Frances C Phila.. South America. 5. 1919Vanderberg, Annie Minn.. China. 5. 1925. r. 1937Van Dorsten. .'\melia N. W.. Mexico, a. 1889. m. 1894, LawyerVan Dyne, Esther H Bait., North Africa, 5. 1924, r.

Van Dyne. L. Frances Bait.. North Africa. S. 1924Van Fleet. Edna Marie Cin.. Korea, a. 1918, m. 1935, HobbsVan Petten, Mrs. Caroline N. W., Japan, a. 1881. d. 1916Varney. Elizabeth VV Top., China, n. 1898. d. 1918Vickery, Loraine L N. W., In'lia. S. 1922, r. 1926Vickerv, M. Ellen N. W., Italy, a. 1891. R. 1920, d. 1936Voight. Mary N. VV., India, a. 1908, m. 1911. FernllVoigtiander, Gertrude N. W., India, a. 1912. m. 1916, TweedieWaidraan, Isabel N. Y., South America, a. 1896. R. 1905Wagner. Dora .\ Top.. Japan, a. 1913Waldron. Rose E Pac. China. 5. 1922Walker. Jennie C Top.. China, a. 1918, r. 1932Walker. Joyce E N. W.. China, a. 1917* r. 1937Walker. Marion N. W., Philippine Islands, .S. 1930Walker, Susan N. VV., South America, a. 1903, R.Wallace. Lvdia Ethel Bait.. China, a. 1906Wallace, Margaret Minn.. India. -S. 1922Walrath. Pearl C Cin., Mexico, 5. 1932, r. 1937Walsh. Susan J N. W.. India. S. 1919, r. 1925Walter, A. Jeannette Top.. Korea, a. 1911. r. 1933Walton. Ida B Phila.. Mexico, a. 1890. m. 1891. MulteWanzer. Menia H N. E.. China, a. 1911, r. 1925Ware, Lena N. Y., Italy. 5. 1922, r. 1931Warner. Ellen Cin.. India, a. 1880, m. 1885, Fox, d. 1927Warner. Emma E Top.. India. 5. 1919Warner. Marian Des M.. India. 5. 1929Warner. Ruth Virginia Col. R.. South America, a. 1918. Mexico. S. 1929Warner, Susan M N. W., Mexico, a. 1873, m. 1892, Densmore, d. 1914Warrington, Ruth A Top.. India, a. 1915Wasem. Grace Des M.. B irma. 5. 1926. r. 1931Washburn, Orilla F Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1912. m. 1924, JonesWatrous. Mary N. Y.. China, a. 1912

.

Watson. Harriet L N. W., China. S. 1920, R. 1936Watson, Rebecca J Top.. Jaom. a. 1883, R. 1922, d. 1930Watts. Annabelle Cin., India, a. 1917, r.

Waugh, Nora Belle Cin.. India, a. 1904*Weaver, Georgiana N. Y.. Japan, a. 1902, R. 1916Webb, Gladys M. N. W.. India. S. 1930Webb. Nora Top.. N. Africa, a. 1919Webster, .•\lice S N. Y.. South America, S. 1924, m. 1928. GoldschmidtWeiss. E. Ruth Des M.. Japan. .S. 1920, r. 1927. m. LvleWelch, A. Dora Cin., N. Africa, a. 1910, R. 1935Welch, Mildred N. W., China. 5. 1922, r. 1928, m. 1929, CranstonWelles, Doris I Pac, India, 5. 1922Wells. Annie May Des M.. China, a. 1905Wells, Elizabeth J Des M. India., a. 1901Wells, Marcaret C Col R.. Mexico. .5. 1926. Phila. S. 1931, r. 1934Wells, Phebe C N. Y.. China a. 1895Wencke, Doris R N. W., China. 5. 1920, R. 1936Wescott, Ida G N. W., Malaysia, a. 1915, R. 1928West. Esther Irene Cin.. India, S. 1927*, r. 1929West, Nellie Maud Des M., India, 5. 1920Westcott, Pauline E N. W., China, a. 1902Westfall, Georgia Cin., India, 5. 1921, m. 1922Westrup, Charlotte Top., India, 5 . 1927Wheat, Lemira B Top., India, a. 1915, m. 1933, AmermanWheeler, Bernice A N. E.. China. 5. 1920. R.Wheeler, Gertrude V N. E., South America, 5. 1920. r. 1925. m. 1936,

Nutlall


Wheeler, Frances N. W., China, a. 1881*, m. 1892, VerityWheeler, Hettie Ada N. W., Malaysia, a. 1913, m. 1919, HallWheeler, L. Maude N. W., China, a. 1903*Wheelock, Ethel C Cin., India, 5. 192

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Whitcomb, J. Caroline Minn., India, S. 1923, r. 1937White, Anna Laura. Minn., Japan, a. 1911, Pac, >. 1927White, Laura M Phila., China, a. 1891, K. 1934, d. 1937Whiteley, Martha D Phila., North Africa, 5. 1925Whiteley, Miriam F Phila., South America, 5. 1920, R. 1926Whitfield, Mary W Phila., Malaya, 5. 1926, c. /., miss., 1929, m. 1933

MackyWhiting, Ethel L Top., India, a. 1911Whiting, Olive N. Y., Japan, a. 1876, m. 1882, Bishop, d. 1915Whitmer, Harriet M N. W., China, 5. 19241Whitmore, Clara B., M.D Des M., China, 5. 1924, r. 1935Whitney, Alice Pac, Africa, S. 1931Whittaker, M. Lotte Minn., Burma, a. 1904, R. 1912Widdifield, Flora M Cin., India, a. 1896, m. 1898, ChewWidney, Mary C Top., India, a. 1906, tn. 1912, BranchWiegand, Marie N. W., India, a. 1914, m. 1918, BoylesWilcox, Alice A Top., China, S. 1919Wildermuth, Pearl C N. Y., France, 5. 1931, R. 1932Wilk, Helen J N. W., Philippine Islands, S. 1925, R. 1934Wilkinson, Lydia A Des M.,China,a.l892. mA^OS ,Wilkinson,S.\92i,R.\.92<iWilliams, Christiana Minn., China, a. 1901, m. 1902, HallWilliams, Laura V Bait., India, 5. 1928Williams, Mary E Phila., India, a 1900, d. 1910Williamson, Iva M Cin., China, 5. 1921, del.

WilUs, Katharine H Bait., China, a. 1916, r. 1934Wilson. Emma W Top., China, 5. 1924Wilson, Fannie G Cin., Japan, a. 1896, m. 1900. AlexanderWilson, Frances O Des M., China, a. 1889, R. 1915Wilson, Frances R Top., China, a. 1914Wilson, Marv N. W., India, a. 1894, m. 1910, Gill, S. 1917, R. 1935Wilson, Mary E N. Y., Japan, a. 1889, ?«. 1896, BuchananWilson, Minnie E N. W., China, a. 1893, R. 1929Wilson, Nellie A Des. M., India, a. 1913, m. AunerWilson, Retta I Cin., India. 5. 1924Wilson, Ruth McK N. W., South America, 5. 1929, R. 1936Winslow, Annie S Top., India, a. 1901, R. 1913, S. 1930Winslow, Hazel Des M., Burma, 5. 1926Wirz, Frieda Cin., India, S. 1925, r. 1936Wisegarver, Pauline N. W., China, 5. 1922, r. 1927Wisner, Julia E Cin., India, a. 1885, d. 1917Witham, Lois E Top., China, 5. 1920Witt, Helena N. W., China, a. 1903, w.Wolcott, Jessie Louise Des M., China, 5. 1928Wolcott, Ruth F., M.D Des M., China, 5. 1927. r. 1932Wolfe, Elsie I Phila., Mexico, S. 1932, r.

Wolfe, Ruth Phila., N. Africa, .S'. 1935Wood. Mrs. Anna M., M.D Pac, India, 5. 1928, R. 1934Wood Bertha L Phila., South America, a. 1903*, m. 1906, RobbinsWood, Catherine Des M., India, a. 1892, d. 1925Wood, Daisy Dean Des M., India, a. 1909, m. 1919, Van SanlWood, Elizabeth N. W., India, a. 1911, d. 1913Wood, Elsie N. Y., South America, a. 1889*. m. 1915, SchofieldWood, Grace N. Y., Korea, 5. 1929, c. t., miss. 1931Wood, Hazel O Top., India, 5. 1925Wood, Lola N. W., Korea, a. 1914. R. 1930Woodruff, Frances E N. Y., China, S. 1919, c. t.. miss. 1930Woodruff, Jennie G N. W., Africa, 5. 1925, m. 1932, SchamberWoodruff, Mabel A N. Y., China, a. 1910Woodruff, Sadie J N. W., Burma, 5. 1920, r. 1928Woods, Grace M N. W., India, a. 1901, m. 1911, KinghamWoodworth, Kate Phila., Japan, a. 1880, m. 1883, Quinn. d. 1924Woolston, Beulah Bait., China, a. 1871, R. 1879, d. 1886Woolston, Henrietta, M.D Phil., India, a. 1878, dis. 1879Woolston, Sarah N. W., China, a. 1871, R. 1896. d. 1910Wright, Laura S N. W., India, a. 1895, R. 1929, d. 1937Wright. Mildred V D. M., India, 5. 1931Wyatt, Lillian D N. W., Mexico, 5. 1919, m. 1921, BowmanWysner, Glora M Cin.. N. Africa, 5. 1927Wythe, K. Grace Pac, Japan, a. 1909, R. 1931Yates, Elizabeth U N. E., China, o. 1880, R. 1885Veager, Maud N. W.. India, a. 1910, m. 1921, Brooks


Young. Effie G N. E.. China, a. 1892. R. 1929, d. 1936Young, Ethel N. W., Netherlands Indies, a. 1916, r. 1919Young, Mariana Cin., Japan, a. 1897. d. 1932Young, Mary Elizabeth Col. R.. Korea. S. 1919Youtsey, Edith R Top.. China, a. 1912Zentmire. Cora N. W., Africa, a. 1898. m. 1900. Brewster, d. 1901Zolliker, Johanna Z N. Y.. Japan, a. 1913. r. 1914

CONTRACT WORKERSS sailed; m marriage; 'daughter of missionaries; Jdetached service; c. e. contract expired.

Altman, Esther R Cin.. Japan, 5. 1931. c.e.

Appenzeller. Mary Ella Phila.. Korea. 5. 1917,* m. 1920. LacyAshley, Thelma G Pac, Malaya. 5. 1929. c. e.

Atkins. Ruth E Minn.. Malaysia. 5. 1912. c. e.

Bennett. F. Mabelle Bait., Mexico. 5. 1925. c. e.

Blackburn, Frances E Cin., South America. 5. 1922. c. e.

Bolton, Mary Lee Minn.. France, 5. 1918, c. e.

Boyce, Florence Phila., India. S. 1914, c. e.

Brewster. Karis Cin.. China. 5. 1926.* m.Brittain, Blanche F Des M., Japan, 5. 1929. c. e.

Brooks, Alice E Pac, Italy, 5. 1919. m. 1919. Updegraff, d.

Brown. Anna M.. N. W., India, 5. 1917. c. e.

Caldwell, Ruth M N. W.. China, 5. 1922, m. WriiihtChandler, Frances A Cin., South America, S. 1920, c. e.

Chandler. Mary H Cin.. South America, S. 1920. c. e.

Chapman, Irene Minn., Malaysia, S. 1917. c. e.

Chesney, A. Louise Des M.. China. 5. 1922, c. e.

Cnossen. Sadie M N. W.. India, 5. 1927, c. e.

Corbett, Evelyn D Cin.. South America, 5. 1931, c. e.

Courtney, Margaret E Minn.. Italy, 5. 1930, m. 1934, FerrenDavis. Helen T Minn., India. 5. 1923. m. 1926. GravenEdwards, Jessie E N. W., China. 5. 1921. c. e.

Evans. El zabeth Pac. Mexico. 5. 1931. c. e.

Fairchild. Nora M., M.D N. W., India. 5. 1933, c. t.

Finton, Iva M Phila., Mexico. 5. 1917, c. t.

Forsythe, Genevieve Cin.. Mexico, 5. 1924, c. e.

Fredine. Marian C Phila.. South America. 5. 1930 c. *,Fry. Edna E Phila., Mexico. 5. 1916, c. e.

Fulton. Frances China, S. 1935Garden, Frances E Cin.. India. 5. 1924. c. e.

Garrett. Minnie Hester N. Y., China. S. 1919. c. e.

Gibbons, Gertrude L N. E., India. S. 1929. c. e.

Graves. Anna M N. Y.. China. S. 1919, c. e.

Hammond, Dorothy Top., Malaysia, 5. 1920, c. e.

Harper, Florence O Bait.. Mexico. 5. 1918. c. e.

Hartman, Martha Phila.. South America. 5. 1922, c. e.

Hatfield. Mrs. Sarah M Pac, South America. 5. 1918. c. e.

Heath, Neva Minn.. Mexico. 5. 1923. c. e.

Howey, Mary E Cin.. Japan. S. 1927. c. e.

Hoyt, Henna O Cin.. Mexico. 5. 1919, c. e.

Justin. Florence L Top., India, 5. 1923. c. e.

Killheffer, Marie Top.. Japan. S. 1919, c. e.

Knoles, Edith E Pac, South America, 5. 1931, c. e.

Lee. Helen Morris Minn.. Japan. 5. 1931. c. e., m. 1937. DenisonLeonard, Ethel L.. M.D Pac, China, S. 1917 , c. e.

Lewis. Donna May Top.. Japan. 5. 1919. c. e.

Long. Laura V Pac. India. S. 1920, c. e.

Longshore. Lillian Phila., Mexico. 5. 1921. c. e.

Lytton, Ruth Twila Cin., Japan, S. 1918, c. e.

Maclay. Jean R Phila.. Mexico. .S. 1921, c. e.

Maddox. Grace Des M., China, S. 1920. c. e.

Malberg. Mildred A Minn.. Malaysia. 5. 1921. m. 1925, MalmquistMatheson. Margaret Phila., Japan. S. 1916. c. e.

McConnell. Esther M N. Y.. Mexico. S. 1931. c. e.

Meek. Lucile C Phila.. Mexico. 5. 1924, c. e.

Merryman. Florence Phila.. South America, 5. 1933. c. e.

Milam. Ava B Col. R.. China. 5. 1922. c. e.

Milnes. Frances A Pac. China, S. 1924. c. e.

Mitchell. Zoa N. \V.. Mexico. 5. 1924. c. e.

Myers, Miranda M Pac. India. .9. 1915. c. e.

Paulson, Mildred N. W.. Korea. 5. 1931, c. e.

Peterson, Ruth N. W., India, 5. 1915. c. e.

Pike. Isabel K Phila.. Malaysia. S. 1920. r. e.

Plimpton. Margaret N. E.. Japan. S. 1916. m. Beck


Price. Effie C N. W., South America. 5. 1922. c. t.

Raab, Theodora A Pac. China. 5. 1923. c. e.

Raney Salena Cin., Korea. S. 1930, c. e.

Richardson. Ruth E Pac, China, 5. 1931, c. e.

Ritchie, Estelle N. E.. Mexico. 5. 1921. c. e.

Robertson. Winifred Phila.. Mexico. 5. 1925. c. e.

Rodgers, Rosetta B Phila.. Mexico. 5. 1919. c. e.

Rowe, Dorothy N. Y.. China. 5. 1919*. c. e.

Rudisill, Mrs. T. F Top.. Malaysia. 5. 1918, c. e.

Seesholtz, Jessie Phila., Mexico. S. 1915, c. e.

Sewall. Ruth McK N. W., China, 5. 1924, c. e.

Shaver, Icy Virginia N. W., India, 5. 1919, c. e.

Skinner, Geraldine Cin., China, 5. 1920. c. e.

Smith, Jean Gardiner Minn., South America, .S'. 1928, c. e.

Speas, Geneva Pac, Japan, -S". 1937Spencer, Edith A Phila., South America, S. 1917, m. FergusonSpencer, Helen M Des M., China, 5. 1920. c. e.

Stevenson, Dorothy Cin., Malaya, 5. 1936Stevenson, Julia E Cin.. France, 5. 1919, c. e.

Terry, Beatrice C N. W., South America. 5. 1930, f. e.

Tovirnsend. Elinor B Des M.. India, 5. 1921, c. e.

Tucker, Emma Curtiss Top., India, 5. 1932, c. e.

Twitchell, Thera N. Y.. India. 5. 1920, m. LindsayVandertill, Elizabeth N. W.. China, 5. 1920. c. e.

Vaughan. Elizabeth B Col. R., South America, .S. 1918, c. e.

Voke, Rea G Cin.. Malaysia. .9. 1915. m. ShoverWadsworth. Lettie I Minn.. Philippine Islands. 5. 1929. c. e.

Wagy. Ada Minn., Malaysia. i\ 1913. m. 1917. FerretWaldorf Ethel M Top.. South America. 5 1928. m. 1934. Wagner.Webster, Grace Minn.. Malavsia, 5. 1914, m 1917, HornbeckWhite, Laura Phila., Malaysia. 5. 1921, c. e.

Whitford, Marian T N. Y., China. 5. 1920. c. e.

Williams, Mildred C Phila., Peru, 6'. 1937Wilson, Julia N. Y.. China. 5. 1926. c. e.

Winn, Prudence N. E., Mexico, .S. 192 1 , c. rZimmerman, Doris Phila., South America. S. 1930, c. t.

SUMMARYMissionaries in service 493Retired 218Resigned 215Married 341Deceased 247Detained 28Transferred to National Units 4

Missionaries sent out since organization, not including contract workers

Active missionary force November 1, 1937Active 493Detained 28Contract workers 4

Daughters of missionaries since organization 55Self-supporting since organization 11

Now on detached service 6

WORKERS UNDER UNITS OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENTMiss Esther Bjork Kambini, P. E. A.Mrs. Maria Bozinovich Strumitza, YugoslaviaMiss Peregrina Chavez Lima, PeruMiss Winnie M. Gabrielson Bulandshahr, IndiaMiss Agnes Nilsen Hissar, Punjab, IndiaMiss Elizabeth Roberts East Gate Hospital, Seoul. KoreaMiss Hanna Scharpff Hongsung. KoreaMiss Elsie Schwab Tebing Tinggi. Sumatra. D E. I.

Miss Lydia Urech MalayaMiss Bessie Ye Kongiu Ryung, ManchukuoMiss Marian Ye Hsinking. ManchukuoPok Nyo Ye Harbin. ManchukuoTwo deaconesses La Luz. MexicoTwo graduates of Sweet Memorial Among Auracanian Indians, Chile

CONSTITUTIONOF THE

WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THEMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

ARTICLE I—NameThis organization shall be called the Woman's Foreign Missionary

Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ARTICLE II—PurposeThe purpose of this Society is to engage and unite the efforts of Christian

women in sending missionaries to the women in foreign mission fields of theMethodist Episcopal Church, and in supporting them and national Christian

teachers and Bible readers in those fields, and in all forms of work carried

on by the Society; *also to purchase, sell, mortgage, cede, transfer, recuperateand in any other way dispose of, acquire, or affect properties movable or im-movable (real estate) or any other kind, located in the United States of Americaor in any foreign country; to give or take moneys in loan, establish or granteffective rights on real estate, accept legacies, donations, assignments andtransfers of properties; to celebrate contracts for leases and carry out anyother act or contract related to the affairs and operations of the Society.

ARTICLE III—MembershipThe payment of one dollar annually shall constitute membership. The

payment of twenty dollars shall constitute life membership; one hundreddollars a life manager; and three hundred dollars a life patron.

ARTICLE IV—OrganizationThe organization of this Society shall consist of a General Executive

Committee, co-ordinate Branches, district associations, auxiliary societies,

to be constituted and limited as laid down in subsequent articles.

ARTICLE V

—

General Executive Committee

L The management and general administration of the affairs of theSociety shall be vested in a General Executive Committee, consisting of a

president, one or more vice-presidents, recording secretary and treasurer

of the VV'oman's Foreign Missionary Society, the corresponding secretary,

the secretary of the home base, and two delegates from each Branch, thesecretary of the young people's department and the secretary of the juniordepartment, the secretary of student work, recording secretaries of the Foreignand Home Departments, the secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, and suchother persons as the constitution of the said Society shall hereafter from timeto time provide.

2. The president, vice-presidents, recording secretary, treasurer, the

secretary of the young people's department, the secretary of the junior depart-ment, the secretary of student work, and the secretary of the Wesleyan ServiceGuild shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. Thetwo delegates and reserves shall be elected at the Branch annual meetings.

Said Committee shall meet in Boston the third Wednesday in April, 1870.

and annually, or oftener, thereafter at such time and place as the GeneralExecutive Committee shall annually determine.

3. The duties of the General E.xecutive Committee shall be:

(a) To take into consideration the interests and demands of the entire

work of the Society as presented in the reports of its several secretaries and* This provision necessary for legal transfer of real estate in foreign countries.

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in the estimates of the needs of mission fields; to ascertain the financial con-dition of the Society, to appropriate its money in accordance with the purposesand method therein indicated; to devise means for carrying forward thework of the Society; fixing the amounts to be raised, employing new mis-sionaries, designating their fields of labor, examining the reports of thosealready employed, and arranging with the several Branches the work to beundertaken by each.

(b)* To administrate freely the business and properties of the Society;to purchase, sell, mortgage, exchange, grant, transfer, recuperate and in anyother way dispose of, acquire or affect properties movable and immovable(real estate) and of any other kind that the Society now possesses or may in

future acquire, situated in the United States of America or in any foreigncountry, at whatever price, period of time, special agreement, form of payment,cash or time payments, or under any of the other conditions that it may con-sider convenient; to give or take moneys in loan, effect, accept and transfermortgages and every kind of effective rights in connection with properties;celebrate contracts for leases for periods longer than six years, if necessary; tocollect, receive, give receipts and statements of cancellation of all that may beowed to the Society; to accept legacies, donations and the transference of

properties; to settle judicial questions, agree on arbitrators, extend jurisdic-

tions, make payments other than the ordinary administrative payments, makenovations, recognize and acknowledge obligations, make reductions and can-cellation of debts; to confer powers and effect every other act of administra-tion and disposal of properties related to the interests of the Society.

(c) To transact any other business that the interests of the Societymay demand, provided the plans and directions of the Committee shall bein harmony with the provisions of the constitution.

ARTICLE VI

—

Co-ordinate Branches1. Co-ordinate Branches of this Society, on their acceptance of this

relationship under the provisions of the constitution, may be organized in

accordance with the following general plan for districting the territory of theChurch:

NAME STATES INCLUDED HEADQUARTERSNew England Branch . . . .New England States Boston, Mass.New York Branch New York, New Jersey New York, N. Y.Philadelphia Branch Pennsylvania and Delaware.. . .Philadelphia, Pa.Baltimore Branch Maryland, District of Columbia,

Virginia, North and South Car-olina, Georgia and Florida Baltimore, Md.

Cincinnati Branch Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky,Tennessee, Alabama and Mis-sissippi Cincinnati, Ohio

Northwestern Branch .... Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wis-consin Chicago, III.

Des Moines Branch Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas andLouisiana Des Moines, Iowa

Minneapolis Branch Minnesota, North and SouthDakota Minneapolis, Minn.

Topeka Branch Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,Wyoming, Utah, Texas, NewMexico and Oklahoma Topeka, Kans.

Pacific Branch California, Nevada, Arizona andHawaii Los Angeles, Calif.

Columbia River Branch .. Montana, Idaho, Washingtonand Oregon Portland, Ore.

* This provision necessary for legal transfer of real estate in foreign countries.

Constitution 177

This plan, however, may be changed by an affirmative vote of three-

fourths of the members of the General Executive Committee present at anyannual meeting of the same.

2. The officers of each Branch shall consist of a president, vice-president,

corresponding secretary, secretary of the home base, recording secretary,

treasurer and such other officers as shall be necessary for the efficient workof the Branch. These officers and such other persons as the Branch may elect

shall constitute an executive committee for the administration of the affairs

of the Branch, nine of whom sliall be a quorum for the transaction of business.

This committee and an auditor shall be elected at the annual meetingof the Branch, and shall serve until others are chosen in their stead.

3. The executive committee shall hav^e supervision of the work assigned

to the Branch by the General Executive Committee, provide for all theneeds and receive reports from all forms of work carried on by the Societywhich, by the plan of the General Executive Committee, are to be supportedby the Branch.

4. Each Branch shall appoint a standing committee of not less thanfive, of which the Branch corresponding secretary shall be chairman, whoshall investigate the case of any candidate within the limits of the Branch,and shall supply such candidate with blanks for application and health certifi-

cate to be filled out and answered by her, and, when practicable, a personalinterview shall be had with the candidate by two or more of the committeebefore her papers are forwarded to the Foreign Department. The correspond-ing secretary of the Branch presenting missionary candidates shall have a

personal interview with each candidate before her final appointment to a

foreign field.

5. No Branch shall project new work or undertake the support of newmissionaries, e.xcept by the direction or with the approval of the GeneralExecutive Committee.

6. Each Branch may make such by-laws as may be deemed necessaryto its efficiency, not inconsistent with this constitution.

ARTICLE VII

—

District Associations

District associations shall be formed wherever practicable, said asso-

ciations to have supervision of all auxiliaries within their limits.

ARTICLE VIII—AUXILI.A.RY Societies

Any number of persons may form a society, auxiliary to that Branchof the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society within whose territorial limits

they may reside, by electing a president, a treasurer, and such other officers as

may be necessary to the efficient work of the auxiliary.

ARTICLE IX

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Relation to the Missionary Authorities of the Church1. In respect to fields of labor, policies, and standards and qualifications

of missionary candidates, the Society shall work in harmony with the Boardof Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Its appropriationsshall be reported to the Board of foreign Missions at its annual meeting. TheSociety shall have a standing committee which shall meet at stated intervals

with a similar committee from the Board of Foreign Missions for consultationon all matters of mutual interest.

2. The acceptance, assignment, remuneration, and recall of missionaries

of the Society shall be determined by the General Executive Committee of theSociety.

3. All missionaries sent out by the Society shall labor under the direction

of the particular conferences or missions of the Church in which they may beemployed. Tiiey shall be appointed annually by the president of the confer-

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ence or mission, and shall be subject to the same rules of removal that governother missionaries, and they shall be members of the Church and quarterlyconference and the district conferences where they reside.

4. All the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in foreign

lands shall be under the direction of the conferences or missions and their com-mittees in exactly the same manner as the work of the missionaries of the Boardof Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The superintendentor district superintendent shall have the same relation to the work and theperson in charge of it as he would have were it a work in the pastoral chargeof any member of the conference or mission.

5. The funds of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be providedby annual, life, honorary, memorial, and extension memberships; by consti-

tuting life managers and life patrons; by gifts, annuities, bequests, and devises;

by collections from audiences convened in the interests of the Society; and bysuch other methods as the constitution of the Society shall provide. None of

these shall interfere with the contributions of the Church, church schools andEpworth League to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch. The amounts so collected shall be reported to the annual confer-

ence through the preachers in charge, entered among the benevolence collec-

tions and published in the Annual Conference Journal and the General Minutes.

ARTICLE X

—

Change of Constitution

This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the GeneralExecutive Committee by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting,

notice of the proposed change having been given at the previous annualmeeting; but Article IX, embodying paragraphs from the Discipline of theMethodist Episcopal Church, may not be changed by the General ExecutiveCommittee, but shall be changed automatically to correspond with anychanges made in these paragraphs of the Discipline by the General Conferenceof the Methodist Episcopal Church.

BY-LAWSI—Officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society

(a) The general officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary .Society shall

be a president, two vice-presidents in charge of Departments, vicc-presidents-

at-large, recording secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as shall benow or hereafter provided for according to the constitution in Article V.

These officers shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee.In case of the disability or death of the president, the vice-president who

is senior in office shall perform the duties of the president.

In case of the death or resignation of either of the vice-presidents in chargeof Departments in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Com-mittee, a vice-president pro tempore, to serve until the next session of theGeneral Executive Committee, may be appointed by unanimous vote of the

remaining general otTicers on nomination of the Home Department or theForeign Department, according as the vice-president to be chosen is to bethe presiding officer of one or the other Department.

In case of the death or resignation of the recording secretary or treasurer,

the other general officers may, by unanimous vote, choose a successor protempore, to serve until the next session of the General Executive Committee.

In case of a vacancy occurring ad interim in representation on an inter-

denominational board, the chairman of the Department that nominates therepresentative or representatives on the board concerned shall, after con-sultation with the chairman of the nominating committee of her Department,if such committee exists, appoint a representative for the remainder of the year.

(b) There shall be a general counselor and an auditor of the accounts of

the treasurer of the .Society, to be elected annually by the General ExecutiveCommittee.

By-Laws 179

II

—

Duties of Officers

It shall be the duty of the1

.

President (a) to preside at all meetings of this Society and of the GeneralExecutive Committee: (b) with the vice-presidents, vice-presidents-at-

large, recording secretary and treasurer, in the interim of the sessions of

the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the

Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the ForeignDepartment, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unani-mous vote of these officers being necessary to action except in case one or moreof said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States,

be unable to vote; in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall besufficient. In case the vote is not unanimous the matter shall be referred by therecording secretary to the Home and Foreign Departments, voting separately,

a three-fourths vote in each Department, exclusive of the officers, being neces-

sary to pass a measure. No vote of the general officers taken ad interim

shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent

out by the recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society(or, in case jof her disability, by the president) and until the vote itself shall

have been declared by said secretary after examination of the votes returned;(c) with the recording secretary to sign all documents relating to the transfer

of real estate and other legal papers not otherwise provided for, and to makeany affidavit or acknowledgment that may be required or necessary thereto;

(d) with the treasurer to sign all notes and other obligations and evidences of

indebtedness, which from time to time may be issued by the Society, by theauthority of the General Executive Committee, or its duly empowered sub-commit ees, the Foreign and Home Departments.

2. Vice-Presidents (a) to be chairman—one of the Foreign Department, theother of the Home Department; (b) to render assistance when needed; (c) withthe president, vice-presidents-at-large, recording secretary and treasurer,

in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transactbusiness pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the HomeDepartment or the Foreign Department, when such business shall requireimmediate attention, a unanimous vote of these officers being necessary to

action except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness orabsence from the United States, be unable to vote; in which case a unanimousvote of the other officers shall be sufficient. In case the vote is not unanimousthe matter shall be referred by the recording secretary to the Home andForeign Departments, voting separately, a three-fourths vote in each De-partment, exclusive of the officers, being necessary to pass a measure. Novote of the general officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless

the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the recording secretary

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, bythe president) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said

secretary after examination of the votes returned.

3. Recording Secretary (a) to give notice of all meetings of the GeneralExecutive Committee; (b) to keep a full record of all their proceedings;(c) to present a report of the year's work of this Society at its anniversary;(d) to prepare and issue the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Mission-ary Society, including the Minutes of the General Executive Committee; (e) to

prepare and present a Quadrennial Report to the General Conference; (f)

with the president, to sign all documents relating to the transfer of real estate

and other legal papers not otherwise provided for; (g) have custody of the seal

of the corporation; (h) to affix the corporate seal of the Society whenever thecorporate seal is required or should be affixed to any document or instrumentexecuted on behalf of the Society, unless this duty is performed by the treas-

urer; (i) with the president, vice-presidents, v-ice-presidents-at-large, andtreasurer, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee,

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to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either

the Home Department or the F"oreign Department, when such business shall

require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of these officers being necessaryto action, except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness

or absence from the United States, be unable to vote, in which case a unanimousvote of the other officers shall be sufficient. In case the vote is not unanimousthe matter shall be referred by the recording secretary to the Home andForeign Departments, voting separately, a three-fourths vote in each Depart-ment, exclusive of the officers, being necessary to pass a measure. No vote of

the general officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the requestfor such vote shall have been sent out by the recording secretary of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by thepresident) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said secretaryafter examination of the votes returned.

4. Treasurer (a) to receive all money from bequests, gifts, donations, or

legacies made to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and, unless other-

wise specified by the donor, pay the same to the treasurer of the Branchwithin whose bounds the donor resided at the time of death; (b) to receive all

money paid into the General Fund by the several Branches, and disburse thesame, subject to the order of the General Executive Committee; (c) with

the president, to sign all notes and other obligations and evidences of in-

debtedness which from time to time may be issued by the Society, by theauthority of the General Executive Committee, or of its duly empoweredsub-committees, the Foreign and Home Departments; (d) with the presi-

dent, vice-presidents, vice-presidents-at-large, and recording secretary,

in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact

business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the HomeDepartment or the Foreign Department when such business shall require

immediate attention, a unanimous vote of these officers being necessary to

action, except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness orabsence from the United States, be unable to vote, in which case a unanimousvote of the other officers shall be sufficient. In case the vote is not unanimousthe matter shall be referred by the recording secretary to the Home andForeign Departments, voting separately, a three-fourths vote in each Depart-ment, exclusive of the officers, being necessary to pass a measure. No voteof the general officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless therequest for such vote shall have been sent out by the recording secretary

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability,

by the president) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said

secretary after examination of the votes returned; (e) to issue power of

attorney to persons designated by the General Executive Committee or its

duly empowered sub-committees, the Foreign Department or the Home De-partment; (f) to affix the corporate seal of the Society whenever the corporate

seal is required or should be affixed to any document or instrument executedon behalf of the Society, unless this duty is performed by the recordingsecretary; (g) to execute release to executors and trustees through whom this

Society may receive bequests and legacies, and make the required acknowledg-ment or affidavit and affix the corporate seal to said releases, and to performsuch other acts as are required by the Act of Incorporation, and which cannotlegally be executed by Branch treasurers; (h) with the recording secretary

to sign such papers as require the formal written assent of the Society authoriz-

ing appearances in Court to represent the Society or its interests, and to makethe required acknowledgment or affidavit to such papers and affix the cor-

porate seal thereto; (i) forward to foreign treasurers a copy of the appropria-tions for each mission as soon as practicable after the adjournment of the

General Executive Committee.

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Departments

There shall be two Departments of the General Executive Committee:the Foreign and the Home.

When the two Departments meet in joint session matters of mutualresponsibility pertaining to both and not specifically to either may be passedupon for presentation to the General Executive Committee in the same wayand under the same consideration as by vote of either Department actingseparately. Matters pertaining specifically to either Department shall bereferred by the joint session to such Department.

Foreign Department—The Foreign Department shall consist of the presi-

dent of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, ex-officio, one vice-president

as chairman, the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society,

the Branch corresponding secretaries and the recording secretary of theDepartment. In the event of the inability of a corresponding secretary to

attend the meetings of this Department, the executive committee of her

Branch shall have the privilege of sending a substitute with full power.

Duties of Foreign Department— It shall be the duty of this Department to

(a) consider estimates and make appropriations for the foreign work; (b)

conduct the official correspondence with the missionaries and with missionsassigned for such official correspondence; (c) give careful consideration to

the requests of missionaries; (d)' examine the testimonials of missionary can-didates that are presented to it by the Branches, and decide as to their accept-ance as missionaries of the Society; (e) consider all matters that may bebrought before the General Executive Committee relative to nationals of themission fields; (f) consider all foreign field matters requiring attention in theinterim of sessions of the General Executive Committee, and decide on suchaction as shall be ordered by a majority vote of the members of the Depart-ment, if the vote be taken at a regular meeting of the Department, but by a

three-fourths vote of all members if the vote be taken by correspondence exceptin case of the disability or death of one of more members, in which case a three-

fourths vote of the other members shall suffice. If, however, it be desired to

reverse or materially alter by correspondence actions taken when the Depart-ment was in session, a vote of twelve members shall be necessary. No vote of

the Foreign Department taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless therequest for such vote shall have been sent out by the person who, for the timebeing, is the recording secretary of the Foreign Department, and unless thevote itself shall have been declared by said secretary after due examination of

the vote returned to said secretary; (g) present a full written report of its

action during the year to the General Executive Committee for approval andpermanent record; (h) hold semi-annual meeting at such time and place asshall be designated by its chairman and secretary; (i) appoint the official

correspondents and foreign treasurers; (j) present to the General ExecutiveCommittee, through the Branch corresponding secretaries, a statement of theBranch appropriations and furnish a copy of the same in itemized form for

publication; (k) through the official correspondents furnish a report of theforeign work for publication in the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Mis-sionary Society.

Home Department—The Home Department shall consist of the presidentof the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, ex-officio, one vice-president aschairman, the Branch secretaries of the home base, the secretary of the youngpeople's department, the secretary of the junior department, the secretary of

student work, the secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild and the recordingsecretary of the Department. In the event of the inability of a secretary

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of the home base to attend the meetings of this Department, the executivecommittee of her Branch siiall have the privilege of sending a substitute withfull power.

Duties of Home Department— It shall be the dut> of this Department to (a)

superintend all publications, the work of the special secretaries, and all

other interests pertaining to this Department; (b) present to the GeneralExecutive Committee nominations for editors, publisher, and special secre-

taries, and in each case where salaries are paid to designate the amount; (c)

receive and consider all reports of editors, publisher and special secretaries;

(d) have charge of literature for meetings held outside of the country, theexpense therefor to be paid from the General Fund; (e) present a full writtenreport of its action during the year to the General Executive Committee for

approval and permanent record; (f) consider all cases of emergency relating to

the Home Department which may arise in the interim of sessions of theGeneral Executive Committee, and decide on such action as shall be orderedby a majority vote of the members of the Department, if the vote be taken at aregular meeting of the Department, but by a three-fourths vote of all membersif the vote be taken by correspondence. If, however, it be desired to reverse

or materially alter by correspondence actions taken when the Departmentwas in session, a vote of ten members shall be necessary. No vote of theHome Department, taken ad interim, shall be binding or legal unless the re-

quest for such vote shall have been sent out by the person, who, for the timebeing, is the recording secretary of the Home Department, and unless thevote itself shall have been declared by said secretary after due examination of

the votes returned to said secretary; (g) resolve itself into committees on thevarious sections of its work; (h) present to the General Executive Committeethe annual report of the home work, with statistics and receipts by Branches.

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Voting Privileges

The general secretaries, whose duties logically allocate them to theHome Department shall be given the vote in that Department on all questionsexcept those definitely connected with Branch finance.

The recording secretary of each Department shall be given the vote in

the Department of which she is a member, with the exception noted above.

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Delegates

The recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society

shall organize the delegates to the General Executive Committee into aconference, which shall hold at least three sessions for the purpose of nominatingthree delegates to serve on the committee of nominations and consideringmeasures for the promotion of the interests of the work in the Branches. Theyshall attend the public meetings and such sessions of the Foreign and HomeDepartments as may be open to them. When important changes or newby-laws are to come before the General Executive Committee, a copy of thesame shall be presented to the delegates on the day previous.

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General Office at New York

There shall be a general office at New York.The purpose of its maintenance shall be to (a) serve as a bureau of general

information regarding the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societyat home and abroad; (b) serve as a central agency for those interests commonto all Branches which can be more effectively and economically conductedthrough such a center; (c) form the point of contact between the Woman's

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Foreign Missionary Society and other organizations of related interest in theMethodist Episcopal Church and in other denominations; (d) render assistance

to outgoing and returning missionaries; (e) serve in other lines as determinedby the standing committee on general office.

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Secretary of General Office

There shall be a secretary of the general office.

It shall be the duty of the secretary of the general office to express thepurpose of the general office under the direction of the standing committeeon general office.

VIII^Special Secretaries for the General Work

There shall be a secretary of the young people's department, a secretaryof the junior department, a secretary of student work, a secretary of theWesleyan Service Guild, nominated by the Home Department and elected

annually by the General Executive Committee. Field secretaries shall beemployed as required by the Home Department. These secretaries shall sendtheir statistical reports to the Home Department by the day of its openingsession

.

Duties of the Secretary of the Young People's Department— It shall be theduty of the secretary of the young people's department to (a) superintendand devise plans for the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondencewith Branch superintendents of the young people's department; (c) receive

from Branch superintendents an annual statistical report, which shall corre-

spond with the one presented to the Branch annual meeting; (d) prepare theannual report of the department for the General Executive Committee, showingstatistics by Branches; (e) represent the department in significant gatherings;(f) provide material necessary for periodicals and press reports; (g) performsuch other duties as the Home Department may define and the General Ex-ecutive Committee approve.

Duties of the Secretary of the Junior Department— It shall be the duty of thesecretary of the junior department to (a) superintend and devise plans for

the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondence with Branch super-intendents of the junior department; (c) receive from Branch superintendentsan annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented tothe Branch annual meeting; (d) prepare the annual report of the departmentfor the General Executive Committee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) rep-

resent the department in significant gatherings; (f) provide material necessaryfor periodicals and press reports; (g) perform such other duties as the HomeDepartment may define and the General Executive Committee approve.

Duties of the Secretary of Student Work— It shall be the duty of the secre-

tary of student work to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of this

department; (b) conduct correspondence with the Branch student secretaries;

(c) receive from each Branch student secretary an annual statistical reportwhich shall correspond with the one presented to the Branch annual meeting;(d) prepare the annual report of the department for the General ExecutiveCommittee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) represent the Society in

significant gatherings; (f) provide material necessary for periodicals andpress reports; (g) perform such other duties as the Home Department maydefine and the General Executive Committee approve.

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

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Branch Officers

There shall be in each Branch a president, vice-president, correspondingsecretary, secretary of the home base, recording secretary, treasurer, superin-

tendent of the young people's department, superintendent of the juniordepartment, secretary of literature, and such other officers as each Branchshall determine.

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

Branch President to (a) have general supervision of the affairs of theBranch; (b) preside at all meetings of the Branch and of its executive com-mittee; (c) be ex-officio member of all standing committees, with the privilege

of voting.

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

Branch Corresponding Secretary to (a) superintend all interests of theBranch pertaining to the foreign field; (b) conduct the correspondence of theBranch with foreign missionaries and missionary candidates; (c) sign all orderson the Branch treasury, including foreign remittances, in accordance with theappropriations; (d) give to the Branch all foreign communications, plans andbusiness of the Branch essential to the futherance of the work; (e) attend andpresent a report of her work at all Branch annual and quarterly meetings,and submit an annual report for publication in the Branch annual report;

(f) perform such other duties as the Branch may define.

Branch Secretary of the Home Base to (a) superintend all interests of

the Branch pertaining to the home field; (b) conduct the correspondencewith the special secretaries, the conference secretaries, and the Branch super-intendents; (c) serve as an ex-officio member of all Branch standing com-mittees, with privilege of voting; (d) assist in the preparation of the Branchannual report; (e) attend and present a report of the home work at all Branchannual and quarterly meetings, and submit an annual report including statistics

by conferences, for publication in the Branch annual report, and, as required,

for the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society; (f) performsuch other duties as the Branch may define.

Branch Recording Secretary to (a) give notice of all Branch meetings; (b)

keep a full record of all proceedings; (c) furnish reports of quarterly andannual meetings for publication; (d) prepare for the Branch annual report

a summary of the proceedings of the Branch executive committee through-out the year; (e) receive for publication in the Branch annual report the

reports of Branch officers, conference secretaries, special superintendents,and such other material for permanent record as the Branch shall determine.

Branch Treasurer to (a) receive all funds of the Branch; (b) make andpromptly forward the quarterly foreign remittances according to the appro-priations, upon the written order of the Branch corresponding secretary; (c)

disburse other funds under the direction of the Branch executive committee,

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upon the written order of the Branch corresponding secretary; (d) present

full items of receipts and disbursements annually and quarterly to the Branch,and furnish a copy to the Branch corresponding secretary and the secretary

of the 1 ome base; (e) prepare an itemized report for the Branch annualmeeting and for publication in the Branch annual report; and (f) performsuch other duties as each Branch may define.

Branch Secretary of Student Work to (a) present to Methodist womenstudents the purposes and current work of the Woman's Foreign Mis-

sionary Soiety, and interest them in personal service for the Society after

leaving college; (b) in each student center of the Branch, secure a student

center chairman who, with a committee that she shall choose, shall

work out plans for the promotion of missionary interest among students;

(c) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from the student center

chairman; (d) keep in touch with prospective candidates in co-operation with

the Branch corresponding secretary; (e) make an annual report to the

secretary of the home base of the Branch, sending duplicate to the general

student secretary, and provide material for press reports; (f) be ex-offlcio

member of the Branch candidate committee.

Branch Secretary of Literature to (a) advance the interests and increase

the sale of the literature and publications; (b) have charge, in connectionwith the Branch committee on literature and the agent of supplies, of

exhibition and sale of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society publications

at the various public gatherings and conventions throughout the Branch,the expense to be borne by the Branch within whose bounds such meeting is

held; (c) present quarterly and annual reports to the secretary of the homebase, and to the quarterly and annual meetings of the Branch; (d) encouragethe organization of mission study circles to study the textbook of the united

study course.

Branch Superintendent of the Young People's Department to (a) superin-

tend and devise plans in her department, under the leadership of the secretary

of the young people's department, and in co-operation with the secretary of

the home liase and conference secretaries; (b) conduct correspondence withant receive reports from conference superintendents, and report quarterlyand annually to the secretary of the home base; (c) send to the secretary of

the young people's department an annual statistical report, which shall

correspond with the one presented at the annual meeting; (d) attend andpresent reports at the Branch annual and quarterly meetings; (e) performsuch other duties as the Branch may require.

Branch Superintendent of the Junior Department to (a) superintend anddevise plans in her department, under the leadership of the secretary of thejunior department, and in co-operation with the secretary of the home baseand conference secretaries; (b) conduct correspondence with and receivereports from conference superintendents, and report quarterly and annuallyto the secretary of the home base; (c) send to the secretary of the juniordepartment an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the onepresented at the annual meeting; (d) attend and present reports at the Branchannual and quarterly meetings; (e) perform such other duties as the Branchmay require.

Branch Secretary of Field Support to (a) stimulate interest in the supportof orphans, Bible women, assistants and other forms of special work, underthe direction of the corresponding secretary; (b) keep an accurate record of

objects supported and patrons giving support; (c) conduct correspondencewith patrons and forward to them communications received from the mission-aries concerning the work; (d) present reports at Branch annual and quarterlymeetings; (e) perform such other duties as the Branch may require.

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Branch Membership Secretary to, (a) have general supervision of the pro-motion of adult membership throughout the Branch; (b) develop plans tointerest shut-ins and others who cannot reasonably be included in the usualwork of the Society, by enlisting them as extension members, either as a partof the auxiliary or in unorganized churches; (c) prepare extension groups for

organization as auxiliaries as rapidly as possible; (d) conduct correspondenceand receive reports from district membership secretaries; (e) report in Marchand September to the secretary of the home base and to the committee of theHome Department on extension work; (f) prepare plans and reports for presen-

tation at Branch meetings and for publication.

Branch Secretary of Christian Steivardship to (a) develop plans for pro-

moting the work of this department by distribution of literature, correspond-ence and public presentations; (b) conduct correspondence with and receive

reports from conference secretaries of stewardship; (c) prepare plans andreports for presentation at Branch meetings and for publication; (d) report

to secretary of home base and committee of the Home Department onstewardship.

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Branch Finance Committee

There shall be a Branch finance committee composed of at least five

members, including the following: president, corresponding secretary, homebase secretary and treasurer. One of the duties of this committee shall be to

recommend at the beginning of each year, an appropriation for Branch homeadministration of sufficient size to provide for the home administration budgetof the Branch.

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Depots of Supplies

Each Branch shall maintain a depot of supplies for the circulation andsale of literature and other helps, which shall be under the direction of a

Branch committee. The chairman of this committee shall report annuallyto the Home Department through the Branch secretary of the home base.

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Missionary Candidates

1. Each person who offers herself as a missionary candidate shall declare

her belief that she is (a) divinely called to the work of a foreign missionary;(b) actuated only by a desire to work in accordance with the will of God;(c) that she intends to make foreign missionary work the service of her effective

years.

2. The preferred age of a candidate shall be twenty-three to thirty years.

3. She shall be a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

4. The candidate shall fill out required application blanks and presentthem to the corresponding secretary of the Branch in whose territory sheresides. These application papers shall be presented by the correspondingsecretary to the Branch standing committee on candidates, by which com-mittee the case shall be investigated and reported, through the correspondingsecretary, to the Foreign Department, where it shall be again consideredand passed upon.

5. In case a candidate shall not have been sent out within two yearsfrom date of her acceptance, the question of her acceptance must be againpresented to the Foreign Department before final appointment.

6. Applicants who are on the mission field or who do not reside in the

United States of America shall present to the Foreign Department such cre-

dentials as are required of other candidates.

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XIII—Missionaries

1. On acceptance by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society eachmissionary shall (a) be under the control of the General Executive Committee,directly amenable to the corresponding secretary of the Branch supportingher; (b) enter into the following contract by and with the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society through the corresponding secretary of the Branch sup-porting her. This contract shall be signed in duplicate for file by the mission-

ary and the corresponding secretary of the Branch supporting her; (c) this

relation shall be sustained for a period of not longer than five years.

CONTRACT"I agree to render five years' continuous service from this date

as a missionary of the Woman's F"oreign Missionary Society of theMethodist Episcopal Church, and to conform to the rules and regu-

lations of the said Society as they now exist or shall hereafter bemodified during my term of service.

"Failure to keep the above contract shall render me liable to therepayment to the Society of expense incurred by it for my outfit

and passage.Date Signed"We agree to compensate

for the above described services by paying the traveling expenses of a

round trip from her home to her field of labor; salary at the rate of

$ per year, from the date of her arrival at her field of

labor until the date of her departure therefrom; and home salary,

after the completion of five years' service on the field, at the rate

and for the period prescribed by the by-laws of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society.

Date Signed Cor. Sec'y.

of the Branch.On behalf of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church."

(c) consider the regulations of the Society named in the constitutionand by-laws as binding as the terms of the contract, and failure to conformto them on the part of the missionary shall release the Society from all financial

liability; (d) devote her entire time and attention to her work; (e) serve for

five years as the first term and six years for each succeeding term except in

Malaysia; F^hilippine Islands; Netherlands Indies; Chengtu and Chungking,China; Angola and Rhodesia, Africa; North Andes and Eastern South America,where all terms shall be five years.

No missionary supported by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societyshall adopt any child as her own, nor bring foreign-born girls or helpers to this

country except upon the recommendation of the field reference committeeof the conference in which they reside and with the permission of the ForeignDepartment of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

At the close of a missionary's first term of service, the question of herreturn to the field shall be as carefully considered by the Foreign Departmentas was her original acceptance for service. It shall, however, not be necessaryfor her to present new papers, except a medical certificate.

2. Classificatioft of Missionaries

For purposes of administration missionaries shall be classified as follows:

active, furloughed, detained, self-supporting, on detached service, retired,

resigned, discontinued, married, deceased.

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(a) Active missionaries are those engaged in specific work assigned themon the field.

(b) Furloughed missionaries are those who have received permissionfrom the Society for temporary absence from the mission field.

(c) Detained missionaries are those who for reasons satisfactory to theForeign Department have remained away from the field longer than twoyears, but expect to return at some future time. This relation shall be sus-

tained for a period of not longer than five years.

(d) Self-supporting missionaries are those who serve without salary; butif regularly accepted by the Foreign Department they shall have the same stand-ing as those who receive salary and shall be amenable to the same regulations.

(e) Missionaries on detached service are regularly accepted missionariesof the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society who are assigned to union in-

stitutions or union work in which the Society is participating. They retain

all the rights and privileges of regular missionaries except that from their

retirement allowance shall be deducted any retirement allowance that theymay receive through the union agencies with which they have been connected.

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

(g) Resigned missionaries are those have been accorded the privilege

of withdrawing from service as missionaries of the Society.

(h) Discontinued missionaries are those who have been deemed by a

three-fourths vote of the Foreign Department unfit for continuance in theservice.

3. In Active Sendee

(a) Outfit and Furniture—The Society shall provide each missionary,when beginning service, with $200 for personal outfit, and shall provide afurniture allowance of $100. Furniture and medical outfit provided by theSociety shall be the property of the Society and subject to its disposition.

(b) Salary—The salaries of missionaries shall include all expenses hithertoclassed as incidentals and shall be $800 in all India Conferences and MexicoConference; $900 in all China Conferences and in Burma, Malaya, NetherlandsIndies and Philippine Islands Conferences; $950 in Africa (except NorthAfrica); $1,000 in Europe, North Africa, Japan, Korea and South AmericaConferences. The value of the salary on the field shall be based on the parof exchange between U. S. gold and the currency of the country concerned,any exchange loss to be made up by the Society and any gain to belong to it.*

The first year's work of a new missionary shall be so planned by the mis-sion that the major part of her time shall be given to the study of the language.

(c) Finance—Each missionary shall (1) incur no expense which has notbeen authorized by the General Executive Committee; (2) apply to privatesources for financial aid only by authority from the Foreign Department of

the General Executive Committee; (3) keep an itemized account of receipts

and disbursements, also of all donations, fees, and other sums received for

the support of the work, and report the same in her annual financial statementto the conference treasurer; (4) present estimates and all other matter requir-

ing the action of the General Executive Committee through the field reference

committee of the conference in which her work is located; (5) include in

her estimates for Bible women and zenana workers all expenses of conveyances

Grants to missionaries, in addition to salary, are as follows: for Japan, Korea and Mexico.$200; for Philippine Islands, Malaya. Netherlands Indies, $100; full exchange gain allowedfor Europe.

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and teachers, and in those for scholarships the cost of fuel, light, medicines,

and minor expenses necessary in the maintenance of the school.

(d) Reports and Records—Each missionary shall (1) furnish the official

correspondent with all facts as required; (2) report each quarter to the cor-

responding secretary of the Branch supporting her and to the superintendentof the district in which her work is located; (3) send annual communicationsfor patrons supporting field support to the Branch secretary of field support;

(4) keep a clear record of all field support in her charge, and on her removalor furlough transfer this record to her substitute or successor.

4. Furloughed(a) Each missionary when entering on furlough shall receive such amount

as will presumably cover (1) cost of travel by direct route, and (2) authorizedincidental expenses. Any balance shall be applied on home salary.

(b) The Society shall be liable for travel expenses only to the extentnecessitated by conformity to the regulations of the Foreign Department as

to lines of travel and incidental expenses. If a missionary returns home early

for any other reason than ill health, travel expenses shall be paid only onauthorization by the Foreign Department.

(c) Fifteen months absence from the field shall constitute the regular

furlough. Minor adjustments as to the date for beginning furlough may bemade on the field; but a deviation of more than six months from the regular

time shall be on the authority of the Foreign Department. The missionary's

last furlough before retirement shall be two years in length.

(d) In all cases where the relations of the missionary with the Society are

satisfactory, her home salary for the fifteen months of the regular furloughshall be at the rate of §850 a year; if the Foreign Department sanctions e.xten-

sion of furlough, or if the furlough is the last before retirement, salary for ninemonths, after the first fifteen months, shall be at the rate of $600 a year.

In cases of return before furlough is due, the foregoing shall apply until thenext meeting of the Foreign Department, if salary is needed. Home salary,

except as elsewhere provided, shall begin upon date of leaving work on thefield, and shall continue until return thereto, provided said return is within

two years. In case return is delayed beyond two years, the question of afurther continuation of home salary shall be referred to the Foreign Depart-ment. In the case of a missionary who has completed a full term of service

and does not expect to return to the field, home salary at the rate of $850 a

vear shall be paid for nine months only from the date of leaving work on thefield.

(e) Missionaries indigenous to the field shall receive full salary when onfurlough, in which case no furlough expenses will be paid by the Society.

This provision shall apply only to missionaries in satisfactory relation to theSociety and for the term of furlough authorized by the General ExecutiveCommittee through the Branch supporting the missionary.

(f) In case of emergency demanding immediate return home, the mis-

sionary shall obtain the written approval of the field reference committee,or, where there is no field reference committee, of the bishop and a majorityof the missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in her con-ference, and shall send this statement to her official correspondent and a

copy to her Branch corresponding secretary.

(g) She shall, unless excused by the corresponding secretary of theBranch supporting her, attend the first session of the General Executive Com-mittee held after her return from the foreign field, provided she is returningafter a term of at least four years. Her travel expenses to and from the

place of meeting shall be paid from the same fund as those of members of

that body.(h) For information regarding the return of a missionary after furlough

each member of the field reference committee shall fill out and sign duplicate

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blanks, one of which shall be sent to the official correspondent and one to thecorresponding secretary of the Branch supporting the missionary concerned.The bishop of the Area is requested to send blanks in like manner. Theseblanks shall be prepared and sent before the missionary leaves the field. Toauthorize return to the field there shall be a two-thirds vote of the ForeignDepartment, based upon the information contained in the blanks receivedfrom the field, a new medical certificate, and the recommendation of thecorresponding secretary of the Branch supporting the missionary.

(i) As soon as possible after the granting of a furlough, the missionaryshall be informed by the Foreign Department as to whether or not her returnto the field will be sanctioned, if at the time for return health conditionsbe satisfactory.

5. Retired

(a) The missionary shall be automatically retired at the end of the fur-

lough closing nearest to the day when she reaches the age of sixty-eight years.

In case a previous furlough or return to the field may be arranged in such a wayas to make an additional term possible before retirement, and in case themissionary desires such an arrangement, the matter shall be referred to theForeign Department and each case decided on its merits.

(b) Missionaries may be retired earlier by a three-fourths vote of theForeign Department.6. Resigned

(a) The resignation of a missionary shall cause the obligation of theSociety for salary and traveling expenses to cease. Traveling expenses maybe paid if the Foreign Department so orders, but the decision shall be madefor each case on its merits.

(b) The marriage of a missionary shall be considered a resignation.

7. Discontinued(a) The Foreign Department shall have authority by a three-fourths vote

to sever the relations between a missionary and the Society.

(b) After discontinuance she shall be paid in final settlement a lump sumequal to one-fourth of the annual salary last received by her when a mission-ary; and, if presentation of bills be made within three months after notice

of discontinuance has been given, she shall be paid travel expenses to herhome to the extent provided by by-law XIII, 4 (b).

8. In case a missionary withdraws from the work of the Society or is

recalled, unless she leaves the field within two months after withdrawal, or

after receiving notification of recall, no travel allowance shall be granted her

and her salary shall be discontinued, except by special action of the ForeignDepartment.

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Contract Teachers1. Contract teachers shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal

Church.2. On acceptance by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society each

contract teacher shall (a) be appointed for a term of three years and shall be a

member of the woman's conference; (b) while on the field have the sameprerogatives, privileges and obligations as a missionary, except provision for

language study; (c) enter into the following

CONTRACT"I agree to

render three years' consecutive service as a teacher in the schools of

the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episco-

pal Church and, during my term of service, to be subject to andgoverned by the same rules and regulations as those which governthe regular missionaries of the Society, which rules I have read andunderstand.Date Signed

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"For these services we agree to compensateas follows:

"We agree to pay expenses incurred by her round trip from her

home in America to her field of labor over routes prescribed by the

Society; to provide her with all of whichis subject to the provision that she conform to the rules and regula-

tions which govern the regular missionaries of the Societ\'.

Date Signed Cor. Sec'yof the Branch

On behalf of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church."

(d) In case she has served four or more years receive, for the first three

months after leaving her work on the field, home salary at the rate paid to

missionaries during the first year of furlough.

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National Women WorkersNational women workers shall be eligible to full membership in the

woman's conference and to appointment by the bishop on the following

conditions:

1. They shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church or, in

Japan, of the Japan Methodist Church, or in Korea, of the Korean MethodistChurch, or in Mexico, of the Methodist Church of Mexico, graduates of a

recognized high school, and shall have had two }'ears additional educationaltraining in college, normal, medical, kindergarten, nurse, or Bible training

school.

2. They shall be recommended for such conference membership by the

woman's conference, within whose bounds they are working or residing andby the bishop of the Area or the superintendent of the mission.

3. They shall be eligible to membership in any of the committees of thewoman's conference except that eligibility to membership in the field refer-

ence committee shall be determined by vote of the woman's conference; theyshall be entitled to regular annual vacations, but more extended leave of

absence shall be without salary, and in view of their domicile, they shall notbe entitled to furlough in America, nor to a retirement allowance unless retire-

ment funds are provided on the field. They shall qualify in the languageaccording to a course of study prescribed by the central conferences of their

respective fields, where such e.xist, otherwise by the woman's conference.

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Organization on the Field

1. Woman's Conference—^Working in co-operation with each conference

of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the foreign field there shall be, whereverpracticable, a woman's conference. This woman's conference shall be madeup of the missionaries (including contract teachers) of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society, such wives of missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missionsas are in charge of work for the Society, workers provided for by by-law XIII,and such other women workers as each woman's conference and the central

conference of the field concerned, shall from time to time determine.This conference shall meet annually and elect a president, a vice-president,

secretary, official correspondent and such other otTicers as shall be needed, hearreports, appoint committees, and consult concerning the work in charge of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society within the bounds of the conference.

All important recommendations to the General E.xecutive Committeethrough the Foreign Department shall first be acted upon by the woman'sconference.

This conference may delegate any of its functions to the field referencecommittee or other committees.

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2. Foreign Treasurer—There shall be in each annual conference, mis-sion conference or group of conferences, as the Foreign Department shall

direct, a foreign treasurer for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society,appointed by the Foreign Department.

It shall be the duty of each foreign treasurer to (a) forward receipts im-mediately upon receiving remittances from the Branch treasurers: (b) applythe funds of the Society only for the purpose designated by the GeneralExecutive Committee, and make no disVjursements in excess of the appropria-tions made by the General Executive Committee, nor for objects not includedin the appropriations of that Committee; (c) pay all appropriations, including

salaries and buildings, on the basis of currency of the country at par;(d)

pay money for buildings on order of the building committee in such amountsand at such time as required by the contract; (e) invest, on action of the field

reference committee of the woman's conference, all money sent to thefield for buildings and land, the use of which is temporarily delayed; (f)

forward to the Branch corresponding -ecretary on January first and July first

of each year itemized statements, both in local currency and in U. S. gold, of

balance arising from unused current work appropriations, exchange, or othersource, and hold such funds subject to the order of the corresponding secre-

tary from whose Branch said funds accrue; (g) forward to the general treas-

urer on January first and July first of each year itemized statements, both in

local currency and in U. S. gold, of amounts received and expended for build-

ings and property, taxes and insurance, and such other items as are paid by thegeneral treasurer to the conference concerned; (h) forward estimates ap-proved by the field reference committee and printed according to pre-

scribed form, two copies to each of the general officers, and three copies to

the corresponding secretary of each Branch, to insure arrival on or beforeSeptember first; (i) receive building accounts properly audited, and hold themin custody for the Society.

3. Field Property Committee—There shall be a field property committeein each woman's conference, nominated by the field reference committeeand elected by the woman's conference. The treasurer of the annual con-ference, mission conference or group of conferences shall be ex-officio mem-ber of this committee, without vote except in the conference of which she is

a member.It shall be the duty of the field property committee to (a) have in charge,

under the direction of the Foreign Department of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society, all matters relative to the purchase and sale of property,erection and insurance of buildings, and extensive repairs for which appropria-tions have been made. No building, however financed, shall be erected on theproperty of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society without the approvalof the field property committee and without consultation and mutual agree-

ment with the Foreign Department. After a building has been authorized bythe Foreign Department, the property committee shall appoint a local building

committee, which shall have authority to draw up plans, make contracts,

subject to the approval of the property committee, audit bills, and direct thework; (b) secure safe legal titles to all real estate purchased by the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society. When possible, all deeds shall be made to theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or

to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in trust

for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch; where neither of these is possible, they shall be made in the way that

shall be approved by the field reference committee and the finance committeeof the Board of Foreign Missions of that conference; (c) have all deeds re-

corded in accordance with the laws of the country and preserve all deeds andother legal papers not forwarded to America in the office of the treasurer of

the conference, mission conference or group of conferences whenever it is

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practicable so to do; (d) keep a record of all real estate belonging to theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society; (e) furnish the committee on real

estate with information as required; (f) keep on file all documents giving

power of attorney for the transfer of property within the conference; (g)furnish the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society with a

copy (and a translation when the deeds are not in English) of deeds to all

property acquired by purchase or other means.4. Field Reference Committee—Each woman's conference shall have a

field reference committee to be elected annually by ballot. The Bishop of thearea shall be a member ex-ojficio. Others eligible to membership in the field

reference committee shall be (a) active missionaries of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society; (b) such wives of missionaries of the Board of ForeignMissions as are in charge of work for the Society, and (c) national womenworkers if declared eligible by the woman's conference. This committee shall

consist of not less than six nor more than nine representative members, two-thirds of whom shall be missionaries of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety. The treasurer of the woman's annual conference, mission conferenceor group of conferences shall be, ex-officio, an additional member of this

committee without vote except in the conference of which she is a member.It shall be the duty of the field reference committee to (a) prepare esti-

mates which require ihe action of the General Executive Committee; (b)

consider the furlough of missionaries and forward recommendations concern-ing the individual cases to the Foreign Department; (c) in consultation withthe bishop in charge, approve, and through the chairman and secretary sign

contracts, in accordance with the appropriations and the regulations in force

toi the employment of workers engaged on the field to fill major positions* in

the work of the Society; (d) consider all matters of general interest arising

during the interim of their annual meetings.

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Official Visitors to the Mission Field

1. When in the judgment of the Foreign Department it shall seem de-

sirable that an official visitor be sent to the mission field, a nomination shall

be made by a two-thirds vote of the Foreign Department and presented bythe Foreign Department to the General Executive Committee for action.

2. An official visitor shall (a) acquaint herself with the work in the field

or fields visited; (b) make a report and recommendations. She may be chargedwith some special duty, such as (a) acting as delegate to an assembly or

(b) making a special investigation. In her social contacts she shall be recog-nized as an official representative of the Society. While she is at liberty toexpress her own views and judgments, she shall make it clear to those onthe field that she cannot speak with final authority on matters requiring actionby the Foreign Department or the Society.

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Publication Department1. The periodicals of the W'oman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be

known as the Woman's Missionary Friend and Junior Missionary Friend.

2. The literature of the Society shall include all other publications notspecified in Section 1.

3. The editors and publisher of the periodicals and literature shall beelected annually at the meeting of the General Executive Committee, whentheir reports shall be received, and a copy thereof submitted for publication in

the annual report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.4. The editors and publisher shall be entitled to floor privileges on matters

concerning their work.

• The term major piositions shall be interpreted to include those of conference evangelists,staff members for high schools and hospitals, and the like.

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5. In the interim of the General Executive Committee the managementof the Society's publications shall be under the control of the Home Depart-ment.

6. Sample copies of all publications issued by the Society shall be sent

to the general officers and to the members of the Home Department of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society, and to such other officers and ex-

changes as may be deemed essential to the progress of this department.

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Zenana Paper

1. The Foreign Department shall make appropriations from the incomeof the endowment of the Zenana Paper and shall have general supervision of

the interests of the paper.2. The woman's conference in India shall nominate a committee con-

sisting of five persons—three women and two men—one of whom shall be thepublisher, to supervise the interests of the paper, and arrange with the press-

committee for editing and publishing the Zenana Paper in the various lan-

guages and dialects required, these nominations to be subject to the approvalof the Foreign Department of the General Executive Committee.

3. The editor-in-chief shall send an annual report of the Zenana Paperto the chairman of the Foreign Department with the amount of circulation

and items of interest, in time to be presented to the annual meeting of theGeneral Executive Committee in America.

4. A report of the Zenana Paper shall be published in the annual report

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

5. The treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall bethe treasurer of the Zenana Paper funds, and shall disburse the income of thesame only upon the order of the chairman of the P'oieign Department.

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Funds1. All money raised under the auspices of this Society belongs to the

Woman's Foreign Missionar}' Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, andshall not be diverted to other causes.

2. A reserve fund of $5,000 shall be retained in the treasury of the Society's

publications and shall not be used except for an emergency in the business of

the publication office and with the approval of the general officers andpublisher.

.3. Gifts, bequests, donations and other moneys received from donorsresiding outside the United States shall be paid to the general treasurer andcredited as "received from the Society at large," except where such gifts comefrom foreign conferences regularly affiliated with Branches, in which case theyshall be paid to the treasurer of the Branch concerned.

4. Balances accruing from exchange, surplus from remittances made underappropriation and other sources, shall belong to the Branch supporting the

work, and shall be reported January first and July first of each year, and held

subject to the order of the corresponding secretary in whose Branch they accrue.

5. No college or other endowment funds shall be held or invested on the

foreign field. College endowments shall be held by the general treasurer andinvested under the direction of the committee on investments.

6. A fund for general home administration expense shall be created byannual appropriations paid by Branches into the treasury of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society.

7. Gifts received on the life income plan shall be invested and reinvested

during the lifetime of the donor by the treasurer of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society under the instruction of the committee on investments,

except such portions of said Life Income Gifts as shall be required to purchasefrom life insurance companies approved by the committee on investments,annuity policies to cover the life income payable to the donor.

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Maximum life income gift rates on a single life shall be as follows:

Age Rate Age Rate Age Rate Age Rate25-35 inc. ..3.0% 47 4.2% 59 5.2% 71 6.3%36 3.1% 48 4.3% 60 5.3% 72 6.5%37 3.2% 49 4.4% 61 5.4% 73 6.6%38 3.3% 50 4.5% 62 5.4% 74 6.8%39 3.4% 51 4.6% 63 5.5% 75 7.0%40 3.5% 52 4.7%, 64 5.6% 76 .-...7.1%41 3.6% 53 4.8% 65 5.7% 77 7.3%42 3.7% 54 4.9% 66 5.8% 78 7.5%43 3.8% 55 5.0% 67 5.9% 79 7.8%44 3.9% 56 5.1% 68 6.0%45 4.0% 57 5.1%, 69 6.1%46 4.1% 58 5.2% 70 6.2%

For eighty and over the rate is 8%.The rate on two lives payable during the joint existence and to the

survivor of the two lives shall be determined by a schedule approved by theGeneral Executive Committee and held in the office of the general treasurer.

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Retirement Fund and Pensions

1. There shall be no legal obligation on the part of the Society to payretirement allowance except to such missionaries as it shall, through its

General Executive Committee on recommendation of the Foreign Depart-ment, designate, and only for the period and for the amount designated bythe said General Executive Committee.

2. Except as provided under (4) and (5), no missionary shall be eligible

to retirement allowance who (a) was retired prior to January 1, 1900; (b) is, at

the time of retirement, less than sixty-five years of age; (c) has served less

than twenty-five years on the foreign field including furloughs to a maximumtotal of sixty months.

3. The maximum retirement allowance for missionaries in the service

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society October 1, 1926, who were bornin 1878 or earlier shall be $600 a year. Nothing in this section shall be con-strued as changing or increasing the allowance of any missionary on theretired list October 1, 1926. For missionaries born in 1879 or later the maxi-mum allowance shall be $480 a year. Regular missionaries of the Societywho are indigenous to the field in which they work and who were in service

January 1, 1918, shall receive, if placed on the list of missionaries eligible to

allowance, retirement allowance on the same basis as American and Europeanmissionaries, except in cases where they have been receiving a salary smallerthan that paid to American and European missionaries. In such cases their

allowance shall bear to $600 (if they were born in 1878 or earlier) or to $480(if they were born in 1879 or later), the same ratio as the salary they havereceived when in active service bears to the salary of the American and Euro-pean missionaries in their respective conferences.

4. If a missionary at the time of necessary retirement has not reachedthe age of sixty-five years, or has not served twenty-five years, or has neitherqualification, the Foreign Department may, by a three-fourths vote, recom-mend to the General Executive Committee an allowance according to thefollowing scale:

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(a) For missionaries born prior to Jan. 1, 1879:

Age at Re-tirement Amount of Allowance After Service

25 yrs. 24 yrs. 23 yrs. 22 yrs. 21 yrs. 20 yrs.

55 $390 $374 $359 $343 $328 $31256 407 391 374 358 342 32657 422 405 388 371 354 33858 439 421 404 386 369 35159 460 442 423 405 386 36860 480 461 442 422 403 38461 497 477 457 437 417 39862 520 499 478 458 437 41663 546 524 502 480 459 43764 574 551 528 506 483 46065 600 576 552 528 504 480

(b) For missionaries born after Jan. 1, 1879:

Age at Re-tirement Amount of Allowance after Service

25 yrs. 24 yrs. 23 yrs. 22 yrs. 21 yrs. 20 yrs.

55 $312 $300 $287 $275 $262 $25056 326 313 300 287 274 26157 338 324 311 297 284 27058 351 337 323 309 295 28159 368 353 339 324 309 29560 384 369 353 338 323 30761 398 382 366 350 334 31962 416 399 383 366 349 m63 437 420 402 385 367 35064 460 442 423 405 386 36865 480 461 442 422 403 384

When missionaries have not reached the age of fifty-five and have notserved twenty years, the Foreign Department may recommend for each case,

according to its merits, the allowance to be paid.

5. In exceptional cases where the necessities of the individual require a

larger allowance than is provided for under (3) and (4) the Foreign Depart-ment is empowered to recommend to the General Executive Committee by athree-fourths vote such allowance for her as in the judgment of the Depart-ment shall seem equitable.

6. (a) In case a missionary of the Board of Foreign Missions becomes amissionary of the Society, her retirement allowance from the Society shall bebased on her years of service as a missionary of the Society; and if transfer

is made during her first term on the field, the time spent in language school

shall be counted as a part of her years of service with the Society.

(b) In case a missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societymarries a missionary of the Board of Foreign Missions after a minimum service

of ten years with the said Society, and, after marriage continues in the active

service of the Board of Foreign Missions until she shall have attained the ageof sixty-five years, and shall have served at least twenty-five years on the field,

(including furloughs to a maximum total of sixty months) her retirement al-

lowance as and when a widow, from the Society, shall be based on the years

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of service as a missionary of the Society, and shall bear such proportion to theallowance which would have been paid her had she continued in the service of

the Societv as her actual years of service with the Society bear to twenty-five.*

(c) If a contract teacher having served with the Society, or if a memberof the faculty of a union college under appointment by the union college

committee or a missionary in the Lee Memorial Mission, Calcutta, becomesa missionary of the Society, her years of service as a contract teacher or as anappointee of the union college committee or as a missionary in the LeeMemorial Mission, Calcutta, shall be counted in calculating her retirementallowance.

7. No retirement allowances or special grants to retired missionaries shall

be paid by Branches.8. Retirement allowances shall begin two years after the missionary's

active service on the field ends.

9. There shall be a Retirement Fund for care of retired missionaries con-sisting of gifts solicited for this purpose throughout the Society. Such gifts

as are definitely designated for endowment shah be invested and reinvestedby the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the in-

struction of the committee on investments, the principal being preservedintact and the income only being used to pay retirement allowances or topurchase pensions from insurance companies, approved by the committee oninvestments. Such gifts as are not definitely designated for endowment maybe used for purchases of pensions from insurance companies, approved by thecommittee on investments, or for such other purposes involved in the retire-

ment care of missionaries as by action of the General Executive Committeeshall be authorized from time to time.

10. There shall be inaugurated on January 1, 1927, a plan of purchasingpensions from life insurance companies for missionaries sent out after October1, 1926, and on January 1, 1929, for purchase of pensions for missionarieswho are at that date in active service for the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety, who were born in 1879 or later years and who were sent out prior to

October 1, 1926, such pensions not to exceed $480 a year and to be purchasedin such amounts as shall be necessary to supplement the income from theRetirement Fund Endowment. The life insurance companies from whichsuch pensions may be purchased shall be approved by the committee oninvestments.

11. In case in any year the income from the Retirement Fund Endow-ment plus the proceeds of pension purchases shall not be sufficient to pay to

retired missionaries the allowances above provided, the deficiency shall besupplied by a pro-rata assessment on the Branches; in case in any year theincome from all sources shall exceed the total of allowances to be paid, thesurplus shall be retained in income account and carried forward to succeedingyears.

12. Gifts for endowment, as distinguished from those for pension pur-chases, shall be added to the principal of the Retirement Fund and only theincome from them used.

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Expenses1. From the General Home Administration Fund shall be paid:

(a) Expenses of the general officers and special secretaries of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society; (b) The travel expenses to and from the meetingof the General E.xecutive Committee incurred by the general officers, the spe-

cial secretaries, the recording secretaries of the Home and Foreign Depart-ments, the publisher, the editors of the Woman's Missionary Friend, the

•It is understood that a former missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societywho is the widow of a man who had been retired for disability before the regular age of retire-

ment, shall be considered a special case, and the adjustment of an allowance for her shall bemade by the Society and the Board under their respective rulings for special cases amongretired missionaries.

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Junior Missionary Friend and the Executive Daily, the secretar>- of the generaloffice, the chairman of the world citizenship committee, the Swedish repre-

sentative, the Branch corresponding and home base secretaries, two dele-

gates from each Branch, and the missionaries for whom it is the first session

after their return on furlough, providing they have served on the field a term of

at least four years; (c) Travel expenses to and from the mid-year meeting for

the general officers, the members of the Home and Foreign r3epartments, thepublisher, the editors of the Woman's Missionary Friend, the Junior Mis-sionary Friend and the secretary of the general office; (d) Entertainmentexpenses during the meeting of the General Executive Committee for thegeneral officers, the special secretaries, recording secretaries of the Home andForeign Departments, the editor of the Executive Daily, the secretary of

the general office and the chairman of the world citizenship committee; (e)

Entertainment expenses during mid-year meeting for the general officers, thespecial secretaries and the recording secretaries of the Home and Foreignli)epartments; (f) expense of the general office; (g) cost of literature suppliedfor meetings held outside of this country; (h) and such other expenses of homeand foreign administration as the General Executive Committee shall fromtime to time direct.

2. From the receipts of the publication office shall be paid:

(a) Salaries of the editors and publisher and their assistants; (b) office

expenses of editors and publisher; (c) entertainment expenses at the GeneralExecutive Committee Meeting and mid-year meeting of the publisher, theeditor of the Woinan's Missionary Friend and the Junior Missionary Friend.

3. Entertainment expenses of the secretary of the general office at mid-year meeting shall be paid from the funds of that office.

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Committees1. On Nominations

There shall be a committee on nominations composed of two membersfrom the Foreign Department and two members from the Home Department,these to constitute a standing committee and, when the General ExecutiveCommittee convenes, three delegates shall be added to serve during thesession. Members from the Foreign and Home Departments shall be nominatedby their respective Departments and shall serve two years each, one newmember from each Department being chosen annually. The three delegates

shall be nominated by the delegates' conference as soon as possible after theGeneral Executive Committee convenes. It shall be the duty of this committeeto present nominations for the officers for the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety, the general counselor, auditor of the accounts of the general treasurer,

and standing committees on b>'-laws, general office, state of the Society, andsuch other standing committees as the General Executive Committee shall

from time to time determine.

2. On MemorialsThere shall be a committee on memorials consisting of one member from

the Home Department, one member from the Foreign Department and three

delegates.

3. On Investments

There shall be a committee on investments, to consist of the general

officers, the general counselor, ex-officio, and co-opted members as need shall

arise. The treasurer shall invest all trust, annuity and endowment funds of the

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the direction of this committee.Any Branch which so desires may turn over its Branch trust, life income gift

and endowment funds to the control of this committee on investments. Atthe death of the donor of the life income gift or at the termination of the trust,

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the principal remaining to the credit of the original trust or life income gift

shall be paid to the Branch treasurer by the general treasurer for the use of

the Branch. Branches which prefer to retain control of their invested fundsma>' do so, but shall submit to the committee on investments above created anannual statement of their invested funds and of the securities held therefor.

The committee on investments shall present from time to time to each suchBranch a list of investments suited to the particular Branch, this list to besuggestive only and the Branch to be as free as at present in the matter of

making investments if it so desires.

4. Resolutions

There shall be a committee on resolutions consisting of the recordingsecretary and two delegates.

5. On Consultation li'ith the Board of Foreign Missions(a) There shall be a committee on consultation with the Board of Foreign

Missions composed of the general officers, one member from the Foreign De-partment and one member from the Home Department (nominated by therespective departments). This committee shall have the privilege of cooptingsuch members of either Department as may be deemed necessary. The regular

meeting shall be held annually at the place and preceding the General Execu-tive Committee Meeting.

(b) Ad interim joint meetings of Board and Society representatives shall

be held as authorized by the Committee on Consultation with the Board of

Foreign Missions.

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Order of Business

The following items of business shall be considered at the General Execu-tive Committee meeting:

Calling the roll.

Minutes.Appointment of committees.Reception of memorials, petitions and proposed changes in the consti-

tution.

Reports of the secretaries of the home base.

Reports of special secretaries.

Report of the Home Department.Reports of the corresponding secretaries.

Report of the Foreign Department.Reports of official correspondents.Reports of editors and publisher.

Fixing place of next meeting.Election of president, vice-presidents, recording secretary, treasurer,

special secretaries and other officers.

Election of editors and publisher.

Notice of constitutional amendments.Reports of committees.Miscellaneous business.

Introductions.

All resolutions to be discussed shall be presented in writing. No membershall be granted leave of absence except by vote of the entire body.

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Fiscal YearThe fiscal year of the Society shall begin October first.

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Meetings1. The General Executive Committee shall convene annually not later

than the last week in October, at such place as the said Committee shall elect.

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2. The program for the meeting of the General Executive Committeeshall be arranged by a committee composed of the president of the Societyas chairman, the corresponding secretary, secretary of the home base, and thepresident of the Branch within whose bounds said meeting is to take place.

3. Local arrangements for the entertainment of the General ExecutiveCommittee shall be in the hands of committees appointed by the Branchwithin whose bounds the meeting is to be held.

4. The members of the Foreign Department and of the Home Departmentshall assemble not less than three days before the opening of the GeneralExecutive Committee meeting.

5. The Foreign Department and the Home Department shall hold a mid-year meeting at a time and place agreed upon by themseh'es.

6. A majority of the members of the General Executive Committee shall

constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

XXVn—By-LawsThese by-laws may be changed or amended at any meeting of the General

Executive Committee by a two-thirds vote of the members present andvoting.

CONSTITUTION FOR DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONSARTICLE I—Name

This association shall be called The District Asso-

ciation of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in the

Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ARTICLE II—PurposeThe purpose of this association shall be to unite the auxiliaries of the

district in an earnest effort for the promotion of the work of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society.

ARTICLE III—MembershipAll m'^mbers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in

District shall be considered members of this association.

ARTICLE IV—OfficersThe officers of this association shall be a president, three or more vice-

presidents, a corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, a treasurer, a

counselor for the young people's department, a superintendent of the junior

department, a superintendent of literature, and such other officers as the dis-

trict shall determine, in harmony with the constitution of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society. These officers shall constitute the executive committee to

administer the afTairs of the district.

ARTICLE V—MeetingsThere shall be an annua! meeting of the district association, when re-

ports shall be received from all auxiliaries in the district, missionary intelli-

gence shall be given > and necessary business transacted.

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Change of ConstitutionThis constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General

Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by a three-

fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change hav-ing been given to each Branch by its secretary of the home base before April6rst of that year.

CONSTITUTION FOR AUXILIARY SOCIETIESAuxiliaries are expected to labor in harmony with and under the direc-

tion of the Branch.

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ARTICLE I—NameThis organization shall be called The Woman's Foreign Missionary So-

ciety of . , auxiliary to theBranch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-

copal Church.ARTICLE II—Purpose

The purpose of this society shall be to aid its Branch in interesting

Christian women in the evangelization of women in the foreign mission fields

of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in raising funds for this work.

ARTICLE III—MembershipAny person paying a regular subscription of two cents a week, or one

dollar per year, may become a member of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety. Any person contributing five dollars per quarter for one year, ortwenty dollars at one time, shall be constituted a life member.

ARTICLE IV—FundsAll funds raised under the auspices of this society, contributed or be-

queathed to it, belong to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and shall

not be diverted to other causes, but shall be paid into the Branch treasury.Remittances shall be forwarded quarterly to the conference treasurer,

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Officers and ElectionsThe officers of this society shall be a president, one or more vice-presi-

dents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, acounselor for the >oung people's department and a supervisor of the juniordepartment, who shall constitute an executive committee to administer its

affairs. Managers and superintendents of departments of work may beadded as needed. These officers shall be elected at the annual meeting of thesociety.

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Change of ConstitutionThis constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the Gen-

eral Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by athree-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed changehaving been given to each Branch by its secretary of the home base beforeApril first of that year.

CONSTITUTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES

ARTICLE I—NameThis organization shall be called The Young Woman's Foreign Mission-

ary Society, or The Standard Bearer Society of The Woman's Foreign Mis-sionary Society of the Church,Auxiliary to the Branch of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ARTICLE II—PurposeThe purpose of this organization is to interest young people in foreign

missions and to support the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societyof the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ARTICLE III—MembershipAny person may become a member of the Young Woman's Foreign

Missionary Society by the payment of one dollar a year and a member of theStandard Bearer Society by the payment of sixty cents a year. The payment of

fifteen dollars shall constitute life membership.

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ARTICLE IV—BadgeThe badge of this organization shall be the Church Pennant pin. Mem-

bers paying one dollar per year may wear the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety badge, if preferred.

ARTICLE V—FundsFunds raised under the auspices of this society belong to the Woman's

Foreign Missionary Society, and shall not be diverted to other causes. Re-mittances shall be forwarded quarterly to the district or conference treasurer.

ARTICLE \T

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Officers and ElectionsThe officers of this organization shall be a president, two or more vice-

presidents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer,

who shall be elected at the annual meeting of the organization and constitute

an executive committee to administer the affairs of the same. Superintend-ents of departments may be added as needed.

ARTICLE \TI

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Change of ConstitutionThis constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General

Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by athree-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed changehaving been given at the previous annual meeting.

CONSTITUTION OF THE WESLEYAN SERVICE GUILDARTICLE I—Name

The name of this organization shall be the Wesleyan Service Guild.

ARTICLE II—PurposeThe purpose of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall 'oe to interest business

and professional women in a four-fold program for others as well as for them-selves:

(1) Development of spiritual life.

(2) Opportunities for world service.

(3) Promotion of Christian citizenship and personal service.

(4) Provision for social and recreational activities.

ARTICLE III—Organiz.vtion

Section L The Wesleyan Service Guild shall be auxiliary to the Woman'sForeign Aiissionary Society and to the Woman's Home Missionary Society of

the Methodist Episcopal Church.Sec. 2. There shall be a central committee composed of three members

appointed annually by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and three

members appointed annually by the Woman's Home Missionary Society at

their annual meetings; one of these members shall be the chairman of the Guildcommittee for her organization; and eight or more representatives of business

and professional women shall be selected by the central committee at the

annual meeting of the Wesleyan Service Guild and presented for approvalof the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Home Mission-ary Society. The central committee shall have general supervision of the workof the Wesleyan Service Guild and shall promote its interests.

Sec. 3. The officers of the central committee shall be a chairman, oneor more vice-chairmen, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and atreasurer, and such other officers as the development of the organization mayrequire.

Sec. 4. The central committee shall have four departments: the de-

partment of spiritual service, the department of world service, the departmentof Christian citizenship and personal service, the department of social andrecreational activities. There shall be a department chairman for each de-

partment.

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Sec. 5. There shall be a secretary of the VVesleyan Service Guild elected

annually by vote of the General Executive Committee of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society and of the Board of Managers of the Woman's HomeMissionary Society on nomination of the central committee.

Sec. 6. The secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall act as chairmanof the central committee and shall report semi-annually, by July 10 andJanuary 10, to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and to the Woman'sHome Alissionary Society.

ARTICLE IV—MembershipThe Wesleyan Service Guild welcomes to its membership any business or

professional woman who is in s^'mpathy with the four-fold purpose of the

Guild and who will co-operate in carrying out its program of education andactivities. The annual dues are vS2.50.

Men may become associate members upon payment of the annual dues.

ARTICLE V—FundsSection L The fiscal year of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be from

June first to June first.

Sec. 2. The annual payment of $2.,SO provides for:

Membership dues in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society $1.00Membership dues in the \\'oman's Home Missionary Society. 1.00

Branch contingent fund (W. F. M. S.) 10Conference contingent fund (W. H. M. S.) 10District contingenl; fund (W. F. M. S.) O.S

District contingent fund (W. H. M. S.) 05Wesle>an Service Guild contingent fund, central committee . . .10

Wesleyan Service Guild contingent fund, local unit 10

Total S2.50

which shall be disbursed as follows:

$1.15 to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and$1.15 to the Woman's Home Missionary Society (to be sent through the

regular channels of each Society),

10 cents to the treasurer of the central committee,10 cents to be retained in the treasury of the local unit.

Sec. 3. In the matter of undesignated gifts, the funds of the WesleyanService Guild shall be divided on a basis of 50 per cent for work on the foreign

field and 50 per cent for work in the home field, the funds to be credited andadministered as follows:

50% credited to and administered by the Woman's Foreign Missionary-Society.

45% credited to and administered by the Woman's Home MissionarySociety.

5% credited to and administered by the local unit of the Wesleyan .Serv-

ice Guild for the department of Christian citizenship and personalservice.

ARTICLE VI—MeetingsThe annual meeting of the central committee shall be held in June or as

soon after the close of the fiscal year as is practicable, and other meetings of

the central committee shall be held at the call of the chairman or of five

members of the central committee at such times as are necessary or desirable.

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ARTICLE VII

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Amendments

Amendments not affecting the fundamental meaning of the constitutionmay be made with the approval of the representatives of the two MissionarySocieties on the central committee. All other amendments require the con-currence of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's HomeMissionary Society.

ARTICLE VIII

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^Conference Organization

Section 1. A Wesleyan Service Guild conference secretary, preferablya Guild or ex-Guild member, shall be nominated by the units in each conferencewhere there are three or more units of the Wesleyan Service Guild and thenomination confirmed by the conference secretary and conference treasurer

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and by the conference presidentand the conference secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society.

Sec. 2. The conference Guild secretary shall promote the work of theGuild in her conference, receive reports from the units, assist in the organiza-tion of new units, and shall report semi-annually (December first and Junefirst) to the central committee and to the conference corresponding secretaries

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Home Mission-ary Society. She should familiarize herself with the work of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society,

and attend, as far as possible, the district and conference meetings of theseSocieties, and when practicable, present the interest of the Guild at thesemeetings.

Sec. 3. Where it is impracticable for the units of the Wesleyan ServiceGuild to meet and nominate a Guild conference secretary, the conference corre-

sponding secretaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the

Woman's Home Missionary Society shall upon consultation with the units

nominate a conference Guild secretary, preferably a Guild or ex-Guild member,whose appointment shall be approved by a majority of the Guilds within theconference, and who shall be assisted, whenever necessary, by the conferencecorresponding secretaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society andof the Woman's Home Missionary Society.

ARTICLE IX

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District Organization

Section L A Wesleyan Service Guild district secretary, preferably a

Guild or ex-Guild member, shall be nominated by the units in districts havingthree or more units of the W'esleyan Service Guild; or, in default of a meetingof the units she may be nominated by the district corresponding secretaries

of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's HomeMissionary Society in consultation with the units within the district, and her

election confirmed by a majority of the units.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the district Guild secretary to receive re-

ports from the units, to send, semi-annually, a summarized Guild report

to the conference Guild secretary where such an officer exists, otherwise, to the

corresponding secretary of the central committee, to co-operate in the organiza-

tion of new units, to familiarize herself with the work of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society and of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, whenpracticable to arrange for group or district conferences, and to attend the

district meetings of these Societies, and to present a report of the units of the

Wesleyan Service Guild to each Society.

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CONSTITUTION FOR LOCAL UNIT

ARTICLE I

The local organization shall be designated as a unit of the WesleyanService Guild and shall be subject to the provisions of its constitution.

ARTICLE II

The officers of a local unit shall be: a president, one or more vice-presi-

dents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer. Theyshall be elected at the annual meeting of the unit.

ARTICLE III

A local unit shall have four departments, each of which shall be under thesupervision of a department chairman.

ARTICLE IV

The officers and department chairman shall constitute an executivecommittee.

ARTICLE VThe collection and disbursement of funds of the local unit shall be in

accordance with Article IV and V of the Wesleyan Service Guild constitution.

BY-LAWS FOR LOCAL UNITARTICLE I

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Duties of Officers

Section L The president shall have general supervision of the work of

the unit, shall appoint the department chairmen, and shall preside at themeetings.

Sec. 2. The vice-president shall in the absence of the president assume herduties.

Sec. 3. The recording secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of

each meeting and shall provide notices for the church bulletin and for thepress. She shall also keep an accurate list of the members of the unit, in-

cluding home and business address and telephone.

Sec. 4. The corresponding secretary shall conduct all correspondence of

the unit. This correspondence includes tilling out and sending semi-annuallythe Wesleyan Service Guild report blanks to the district secretaries of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home MissionarySociety and to the district (or conference) secretary of the Wesleyan ServiceGuild where such an officer exists, or to the corresponding secretary of thecentral committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

These blanks must be so sent as to be in the hands of these officials by thefirst day of December and June. She shall notify the three above namedsecretaries of changes of officers in the unit. She shall retain a copy of eachreport as part of the permanent record of the local unit.

Sec. 5. The treasurer shall have charge of all money of the unit. She shall

collect membership dues, and shall keep a book account of all money receivedand disbursed.

All money received by her, except the central committee contingent fundand the five per cent allowed for the department of Christian citizenship andpersonal service of the local unit, and certain specified items of supplies, to-

gether with the Wesleyan Service Guild treasurer's report blanks, must besent so as to be in the hands of the district (or conference) treasurer of theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Home MissionarySocietv bv the first of each month.

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At the same time duplicate reports of each must be sent to the treasurerof the central committee.

Wherever there is a district or conference Guild secretary, the treasurerof the local unit shall send a copy of her reports through these officers to thecentral committee.

Sec. 6. The executive committee shall plan the work of the local unit,

shall approve all askings for missionary projects, presenting these askings for

adoption by the unit, and shall promote the interests of the unit in harmonywith the constitution of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

ARTICLE II

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Departments and Committees

Section 1. The department of spiritual service shall provide for thedevotional service at the meetings of the unit and shall endeavor by everymeans to promote the spiritual welfare of the members.

Sec. 2. The department of world service shall provide for the educa-tional program of the unit in harmony with the program of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society and of the W'oman's Home Missionary Societyand in harmony with the recommendations of the central committee.

Sec. 3. The department of Christian citizenship and personal service

shall seek to align business and professional women with all forward non-partisan movements for civic, moral, industrial, and social betterment.

Sec. 4. The department of social and recreational activities shall providefor the social hour at the meetings and for such other social and recreational

activities as are deemed advisable.

Sec. 5. The chairman of the four departments specified in the constitu-

tion shall work in harmony with the chairman of these departments in thecentral committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

Sec. 6. Standing committees may be appointed as desired, such as

membership, ways and means, music, publicity, etc.

ARTICLE III

Section 1. There shall be at least nine monthly meetings during the year.

Sec. 2. The annual meeting of the local unit shall be held in May at

which time annual reports shall be given by officers and department chairmen,and officers shall be elected for the ensuing year.

NOTE: (1) Reports of the Weslexan Service Guild should not be confusedwith the reports of auxiliaries and young woman's societies of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society and of the Woman's Home .Missionary .Sucitiv

,

but should be reported in a separate column for the Guild under the adult

department of each Society.

(2) For officers and department chairman of the central committee see

current Guild Year Book.

CONSTITUTION FOR KING'S HERALDSARTICLE I—Name

This organization shall be called the King's Heralds of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, and be under the supervision of the auxiliary of the M'oman'sForeign Missionary Society in the said Church, if any exist; otherwise underthe special supervision of the district secretary of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society.

ARTICLE II—ObjectThe object of this organization shall be to promote missionary intelligenf'e

and interest among children and to aid in the work of the Woman's ForeignMissionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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ARTICLE III—MembershipAny child between the ages of six and fourteen may become a King's

Herald by the payment of twenty-five cents a year, the older group from twelveto fourteen to be known as senior King's Heralds. The payment of ten dollars

shall constitute a junior life membership.

ARTICLE IV—OfficersThe officers of this organization shall be a superintendent, president, two

vice-presidents, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer, andagent for the Junior Missionary Friend.

ARTICLE V—MeetingsMeetings of this organization shall be held on the

of each month. The otlficers shall be elected semi-annually at the Septemberand March meetings.

ARTICLE VI—BadgeThe badge of this organization shall be a silver trumpet with "King's

Heralds" in blue lettering.

ARTICLE \'II

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Change of Constitution

This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the GeneralExecutive Committee of the Woman's Foreign iVIissionary Society by athree-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed changehaving been given to each Branch by its secretary of the home base beforeApril first of that year.

PLAN OF WORK FOR LITTLE LIGHT BEARERSChildren under six years of age may be enrolled as Little Light Bearers

by the payment of twenty-five cents annually, receiving the enrollment cardas a certificate of membership.

The payment of ten dollars shall constitute a junior life membership.

DirectionsThe superintendent, elected by the woman's auxiliary, shall have charge

of the work of the Little Light Bearers and plan for the collection of dues,

remitting and reporting quarterly through the regular channels, arrange for

the annual public meeting, keep an accurate record in the Little Light Bearers'

Record Book, and report regularly to the woman's auxiliary.

208 Forms of Will, Devise and Life Income Gifts

FORMS OF WILL, DEVISE AND LIFE INCOME GIFTS

FORM OF BEQUESTI hereby give and bequeath to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society

of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the laws of the Stateof New York, dollars, to be paid to the treas-

urer of said Society, whose receipt shall be sufficient acquittance to my execu-

tors therefor.

FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATEI hereby give and devise to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of

the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the laws of the State of

New York, (describe land, etc., intended to be given to the Society), and to

its successors and assigns forever.

Note.— In each of the above forms, when it is desired to bequeathdirectly to a Branch, the name of the Branch to which the bequest or devise

is made shall be inserted immediately before the words, "Woman's ForeignMissionary Society," whenever such Branch is incorporated. The name of

the State under the laws of which said I^ranch is incorporated shall be in-

serted, instead of the words "New York."Incorporated Branches: New England, under the laws of Massachusetts;

New York, under the laws of New York; Philadelphia, under the laws of

Delaware; Baltimore, under the laws of Mar\ land; Cincinnati, under the lawsof Ohio; Northwestern, under the laws of Illinois; Des Moines, under the lav\s

of Iowa; Minneapolis, under the laws of I\linnesota: Topeka under the laws of

Kansas; Pacific, under the laws of California; Columbia River, under the lawsof Oregon.

FORM OF LIFE INCOME AGREEMENT(a) For the Society as such:

Whereas, of has given,

donated to, and paid into the treasury of the Woman's Foreign MissionarySociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a body corporate (hereinafter

called the Society), the sum of dollars;

Now, therefore, the said Society, in consideration thereof, hereby agrees

to pay to said during natural life the

annual sum of dollars, payable in equalsemi-annual installments from the date hereof; said payments to cease on thedeath of the said and the said sum of

dollars, given and donated by him (or her) as aforesaid, is to be considered as

an executed gift to the said Society, and to belong absolutely to the said

Society, from the date hereof, and without any obligation or liability therefor

on the part of the said Society.

Witness, the corporate seal of the said Society, and the signatures of

and , its president andtreasurer, this day of , 19 ... .

Woman's Foreign Missionary Societyof the Methodist Episcopal Church.By

President

Treasurer,(b) For the Branches:

Same phraseology as (a) except that the "said Branch" is substituted

for "the said Society," and the name of the Branch is inserted before the

name of the Society in the second line, and in the signature lines.

Act of Incorporation 209

LIFE INCOME GIFTS

Where it is practical, instead of making a bequest it is far better to con-vert property into cash and place the same in the treasury of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society at once, on the life income gift plan. By so doingall possibility of litigation is avoided and a fair income is assured. The Woman'sForeign Missionary Society does not spend money so contributed while thegiver liv'es, hut invests it in good securitios in this country and in annuitypolicies with Life Insurance Companies. See page 197.

ACT OF INCORPORATIONState of New York,

1^

City and County of New York.)

We, the undersigned, Caroline R. Wright, Anna A. Harris, Sarah K.Cornell and Harriet B. Skidmore, of the City of New York, and Susan A.Sayre, of the City of Brooklyn, being all citizens of the United States of

America, and citizens of the State of New York, do hereby, pursuant to

and in conformity with the Act of the Legislature of the State of New Yorkpassed on April 12, 1848, entitled "An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent,Charitabb and Missionary Societies," and the several acts of the said Legis-

lature amendatory thereof, associate ourselves together and form a body politic

and corporate, under the name and title of "The Woman's Foreign Mission-ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church," which we certify is thename or title by which said Society shall be known in law. And we do herebyfurther certify that the particular business and object of said Society is to

engage and unite the efforts of Christian women in sending female mission-

aries to women in foreign mission fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church,and in supporting them and native Christian teachers and Bible readers in

those fields.

That the number of managers to manage the business and affairs of said

Society shall be seventeen, and that the names of such managers of said So-

ciety of the first year of its existence are: Lucy A. Alderman, Sarah L. Keen,Ellen T. Cowen, Hannah M. W. Hill, Mary C. Nind, Elizabeth K. Stanley,Harriet M. Shattuck, Isabel Hart, Caroline R. Wright, Harriet B. Skidmore,Rachel L. Goodier, Annie R. Gracey, Harriet D. Fisher, Sarah K. Cornell,

Anna A. Harris, Ordelia M. Hillman and Susan A. Sayre.

210 Certificate of Incorporation

That the place of business or principal office of said Society shall be in

the City and County of New York, in the State of New York.Witness our hand and seal this 20th day of December, A.D., 1884.

[Seal.l

Caroline R. WrightAnna A. HarrisHarriet B. SkidmoreSusan A. SayreSarah K. Cornell

State of New York, \City and County of New York./

On the 20th day of December, 1884, before me personally came andappeared Caroline R. Wright, Anna A. Harris, Harriet B. Skidmore, andSarah K. Cornell, to me known, and to me personally known to be the indi-

viduals described in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and theyseverally duly acknowledged to me that they executed the same.

[Notary's Seal.] Andrew Lemon,Notary Public (58),

New York County,State of New York,"!

County of Kings, [^ss.

City of Brooklyn. J

On the 22d day of December, A.D., 1884, before me came personally

Susan A. Sayre, to me known and known to me to be one of the individuals

described in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and duly acknowl-edged to me that she executed the same.

[Notary's Seal.] F. G. Mintram,Notary Public for Kings County.

State of New York,"!

County of Kings.

I, Rodney Thursby, Clerk of the County of Kings and Clerk of the

Supreme Court of the State of New York, in and for said county (said courtbeing a Court of Records), do hereby certify that F. G. Mintram, whosename is subscribed to the Certificate of Proof, or acknowledgment of the

annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking suchproof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public of the State of New York, in

and for said County of Kings, dwelling in said County, commissioned andsworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And, further, that I am well

acquainted with the handwriting of said Notary, and verily believe the signa-

ture to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executedand acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal

of the said County and Court, this 24th day of December, 1884.

[Seal.] Rodney Thursby, Clerk.

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, DECEMBER 27, 1884

I, the undersigned, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Stateof New York, for the First Judicial District, do hereby approve the withincertificate, and do consent that the same be filed, pursuant to the provisions

of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, entitled, "An Act for

the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and MissionarySocieties," passed April 12, 1848, and the several acts extending and amend-ing said act. Dated New York, December 26, 1884.

Abm. R. Lawrence, J. S. C.

A mended A ct of Incorporation 211

State of New York,City and County of New York ' '

I, James A. Flack, Clerk of the said City and County, and Clerk of theSupreme Court of said State for said County, do certify that I have comparedthe preceding with the original Certificate of Incorporation of the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, on file in

my office, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the wholeof such original. Endorsed, filed and recorded, December 27, 1884, 1 hour,25 minutes.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed

my official seal, this 12th day of November, 1888.

[Seal.] James A. Flack, Clerk.

AMENDED ACT OF INCORPORATIONCHAPTER 213

An Act to Authorize the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Metho-dist Ef iscopal Church to Vest its Management in a General ExecutiveCommittee.Became a law April 12, 1906, with the approval of the Governor.Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, doenact as follows:

Section 1. The Board of Managers of the Woman's Foreign Mission-ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church is abolished.

Sec. 2. The management and general administration of the affairs of

the said Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee, to con-sist of the president, recording secretary, general treasurer, secretary of

German work, secretary of Scandinavian work, and the literature committeeof said Society, together with the corresponding secretary and the two dele-

gates from each co-ordinate Branch of said Society.

Sec. 3. The president, recording secretary, general treasurer, secretaries

of the German and Scandinavian work and the literature committee, nowin office, shall be members of the General Executive Committee, which shall

meet on the third Wednesday in April, in the year nineteen hundred andsix; and, thereafter, such officers and literature committee shall be elected

annually by the General Executive Committee. The corresponding secretaryand two delegates of each co-ordinate Branch shall be elected annually bysuch Branch.

Sec. 4. Meetings of the General Executive Committee shall be heldannualK' or oftener, at such time and place as the General Executive Com-mittee shall appoint, and such place of meeting shall be either within or with-out the State of New York.

Sec. .S. This act shall take effect immediately.

State of New York, "I

Office of the Secretary of State./ '

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office,

and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, andthe whole of said original law.

Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at

the City of Albany, this sixteenth day of April, in the year one thousandnine hundred and six.

Horace G. Tennant,[Seal.] Second Deputy Secretary of State

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ACTION OF 1908

CHAPTER 91

An Act to Amend Chapter Two Hundred and Thirteen of the laws of nine-

teen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act to Authorize the Woman's For-eign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Vest its

Management in a General Executive Committee," relative to the mem-bership and election or appointment of such General Executive Com-mittee.

Became a law April 6, 1908, with the approval of the Governor.Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, doenact as follows:

Section 1. Sections two and three of chapter two hundred and thirteen

of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act to Authorize theWoman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church toVest its Management in a General Executive Committee," are hereby amendedto read, respectively, as follows:

Sec. 2. The management and general administration of the affairs of

the said Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee to consist

of the president, recording secretary, and treasurer of said Society, togetherwith the corresponding secretary of each co-ordinate Branch of the said So-ciety; and one or more delegates to be chosen by such co-ordinate Branches;and such additional or different members as may be now or hereafter providedfor by the constitution of the said Society.

Sec. 3. The president, recording secretary, and treasurer of said

Society shall be members of the General Executive Committee; and hereafter

such officers shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee.The corresponding secretary and one or more delegates of each co-ordinateBranch shall be elected annually by such Branch; and such other members of

such General Executive Committee as shall hereafter be created by the con-

stitution of said Society shall be elected or appointed in the manner whichshall be prescribed by the said constitution.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

State of New York,Office of the Secretary of State.

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office

and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of

the whole of the said original law.

John S. Whalen,Secretary of State.

CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO GENERAL EXECUTIVECOMMITTEE MEETING

Delegates and Special Guests—Delegates are elected by each Branch ac-

cording to its own procedure. The home base secretary should communicatewith them informing them on the following points: (1) election; (2) informationabout place and time of meeting; (3) instruct them to notify hospitality com-mittee of the time of their arrival; (4) general treasurer pays travel bills; (5)

entertaining Branch provides entertainment on the Harvard Plan; othermeals are left to their individual Branches. If they prefer hotel accommoda-tions, they must secure them at their own expense.

Miscellany 213

Delegates arrive the day before the pubhc program begins. Meetings are

provided for on page 184 of this Year Book. They are called together andorganized by the recording secretary.

Special guests come at the invitation of the General Executive Committee.They arrive two days before the public program. The home base secretary

sends them the necessary information.Participants in the Program. Travel expenses of those taking part on the

program of the General Executive Committee shall be paid by the entertaining

Branch, if not already provided for by other funds. Entertainment expensesshall be borne by the entertaining Branch unless otherwise provided for.

MISCELLANYPOSTAGE TO FOREIGN LANDS

Letters—To British Isles, to Mexico and to all countries and places in

South and Central America, except Chile . . . the postage rate is the sameas in the United States. To all other foreign countries the rate is for the first

ounce, five cents, for each additional ounce three cents.

Printed Matter—In general to all foreign countries is one and one-half

cents for each two ounces.Parcel Post— In general the rate is fourteen cents per pound. For further

particulars consult your postmaster.

FOREIGN MONEYIndia—A pice is one-fourth of an anna, or about two-thirds of a cent.

An anna is worth one-sixteenth of a rupee. The rupee varies in value and is

worth about 33 cents.

Korea and Japan—A yen, whether in gold or silver, is one-half the valueof the gold and silver dollar in the United States. There are one hundredsen in the yen.

China—A cash is one mill. The tael is worth in gold about $1.15. TheMexican dollar is also used in China, but varies in value; it averages, however,about one-half the value of the United States gold or silver dollar.

MEMBERSHIPS AND DUES

The payment of one dollar annually constitutes membership in the

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

The payment of one dollar annually constitutes membership in the

Young Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

The payment of $2.50 annually constitutes membership in the WesleyanService Guild.

The payment of sixty cents annually constitutes membership in the

Standard Bearer Society.

There shall be contingent funds from district, conference and Branchfor administration purposes. The amounts shall be decided by each Branch.

The payment of twenty-five cents annually constitutes membership in

King's Heralds Bands.The payment of twenty-five cents annually constitutes membership in

Little Light Bearers Circles.

The payment of one dollar annually constitutes an extension member.The payment of one dollar annually constitutes an honorary member.The payment of three hundred dollars constitutes an honorary life patron.

214 Miscellany

The payment of one hundred dollars constitutes an honorary life man-ager.

The payment of fifty dollars constitutes a senior memorial member.The payment of thirty-five dollars constitutes a young people's memorial

member.The payment of twenty-five dollars constitutes a junior memorial member.The payment of twenty dollars constitutes a life membership in the

auxiliary. This membership is an honorary distinction and does not precludethe payment of annual dues.

The payment of ten dollars constitutes a junior life membership.The payment of fifteen dollars constitutes a Standard Bearer life member-

ship.

The life memberships of Standard Bearers and juniors cover the annualdues to the age limits in each department. Dues may be paid by StandardBearer and junior life members but it is not obligatory.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships in Africa are twenty-seven and one-half to thirty dollars.

Scholarships in China are twenty to one hundred and fifty dollars.

Scholarships in India vary from twenty-five to one hundred dollars.

Scholarships in Malaya are thirty-five to fifty dollars.

Scholarships in the Philippine Islands vary from twenty to si.xty dollars.

In Japan, Korea, North Africa, Mexico, South America and Europethe share plan obtains. \\'ork in individual stations is classified and listed as

follows: educational, evangelistic, medical. Shares are twenty dollars. Patronswill be kept informed concerning shares through station letters, issued quar-terly.

ENDOWMENTSAny individual or Branch desiring to name a building may be given that

privilege on payment of more than one-half of the cost of said building.

A gift of $1,200 mav endow a medical scholarship; a gift of $1,000 mayendow a hospital bed. The difference between the income derived from this

sum and the amount asked for the annual support of a bed is to provide a

proportionate share of the upkeep and running expenses.

A gift of $1,000 may furnish and name the operating room or a ward in

a hospital.

A gift of $1,000 may furnish and name a chapel or library within a school

or other building.

A gift of $500 may furnish and name a classroom, and a gift of $100 a

smaller room in anv Iniildini;.

We call attention to the by-laws requiring that all endowments shall beinvested in the United States of America.

3% interest is paid on endowments for scholarships and other designatedCurrent work items.

Statistics 215

SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Date Place President Secretary Receipts

1870 Boston, Mass M rs. David Patten . .

.

Mrs. W. F. Warren.. S4,546.861871 Chicago, 111 ' Calvin Kingsley .

" W.F.Warren.. 22,397.991872 New York City ... ' D. W. Clark .... " W.F.Warren.. 44,477.461873 Cincinnati, O ' L. D. McCabe... " R. Meredith . . . 54,834.871874 Philadelphia, Pa.. .

' F. G. Hibbard . .

.

I. H. Knowles.

.

64,309.251875 Baltimore, Md ' F.A.Crook " R. R. Battee... 61,492.191876 Washington, D. C.

.

' F. G. Hibbard... " W.F.Warren.. 55,276.061877 Minneapolis, Minn. ' Goodrich " Delia L. William 5 72,464.301878 Boston, Mass ' W.F.Warren... "

J. T. Gracey . .

.

68,063.521879 Chicago, 111 ' S.J.Steele " L.H.Daggett.. 66,843.691880 Columbus, O ' W. F. Warren. . .

"J. T. Gracev . . . 76,276.43

1881 Buffalo, N. Y ' F. G. Hibbard... " MaryC. Nind.. 107,932.541882 Philadelphia, Pa... ' W. F. Warren . . .

"J. T. Gracey... 195,678.50

1883 Des Moines, la.. . .' L. G. Murphy. .

.

"J. T. Gracey... 126,823.33

1884 Baltimore, Md ' W. F. Warren . . ."

J. T. Gracey . . . 143,199.141885 Evanston, 111 ' I. R. Hitt " F. P. Crandon.. 157,442.661886 Providence, R. I. . . W.F.Warren... "

J. H. Knowles.. 167,098.851887 Lincoln, Neb M iss P. L. Elliott "

J. T. Gracey... 191,158.131888 Cincinnati, O M rs. D. W. Clark .... " J. T. Gracey..

.

206,308.691889 Detroit, Mich ' I. N. Danforth .

.

"J. T. Gracey . .

.

226,496.151890 Wilkesbarre, Pa • W.F.Warren... '•

J. T. Gracey . .

.

220,329.961891 Kansas City, Mo. .

.

'J. J. Imhoff " J. T. Gracey'.. . 263,660.69

1892 Springfield, Mass.

.

' W.F.Warren... "J. T. Gracey . .

.

265,242.151893 St. Paul, Minn ' W. Couch "

J. T. Gracey ..

.

277,303.791894 Washington, D.C ' A. H. Eaton .... "

J. T. Gracey ..

.

311,925.961895 St. Louis, Mo M iss E. Pearson "

J. T. Gracey . .

.

289,227.001896 Rochester, N. Y M rs. S. L. Baldwin. . .

"J. T. Gracey... 285,823.94

1897 Denver, Colo ' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

"J. T. Gracey... 313,937.86

1898 Indianapolis, Ind... ' Cyrus D. Foss... '•J. T. Gracey. .. 328,488.75

1899 Cleveland, O ' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

"J. T. Gracey... 360,338.63

1900 Worcester, Mass... ' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

" J. T. Gracey ..

.

414,531.331901 Philadelphia, Pa.. .

' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

"J. T. Gracey ..

.

426,795.281902 Minneapolis, Minn. ' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

"J. T. Gracey . .

.

478,236.031903 Baltimore, Md. . . .

' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

"J. T. Gracey . .

.

491,391.751904 Kansas City, Mo. .

.

' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

"J. H. Knowles.. 534,040.17

1905 New York City . . .' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

" C. S. Nutter ..

.

548,943.551906 Omaha, Neb ' A. W. Patten.... " C. W. Barnes. . 616,456.711907 Springfield, 111 * Cyrus D. Foss... " C. W. Barnes . . 692,490.071908 Cincinnati, O ' Cyrus D. Foss. .

.

" C. W. Barnes. . 673,400.041909 Pittsburgh, Pa • W. F. McDowell

.

•' C. W. Barnes . . 691,961.391910 Boston, Mass ' W. F. McDowell

.

' C. W. Barnes. . 743,990.311911 St. Louis, Mo ' W.F. McDowell. " C. W. Barnes . . 939,257.551912 Baltimore, Md. . . .

' W.F. McDowell. " C. W. Barnes . . 837,224.491913 Topeka, Kan ' W. F. McDowell

.

" C.W.Barnes.. 911.337.431914 Buffalo. N. Y W. F. McDowell

.

" C W. Barnes . . *1,096,228.851915 Los Angeles, Calif.

.

' W.F. McDowell. " C. W. Barnes. . 931,780.671916 Minneapolis, Minn. • W.F. McDowell. * C. W. Barnes. . 1,033,770.651917 Detroit, Mich ' W. F. McDowell

.

" L. L. Townley .

.

1,175,758.901918 Cleveland, O ' W.F. McDowell. " Charles Spaeth. 1,343,930.031919 Boston, Mass ' W. F. McDowell

.

" Charles Spaeth. 2,006,370.661920 Philadelphia, Pa.. .

' W.F. McDowell. " Charles Spaeth. 2,000,631.121921 Wichita. Kan ' W.F. McDowell. " Charles Spaeth. 2,267,767.931922 Baltimore, Md. . . .

' Thomas Nicholsor " Charles Spaeth. 2,255,740.881923 Des Moines, la.. . .

' Thomas Nicholsor " Charles Spaeth. 2,303,225.981924 EastOrange, N. J.

.

' Thomas Nicholsor " Charles Spaeth. 2,263,088.551925 Kansas City, Mo..

.

' Thomas Nicholsor " Charles Spaeth. 2,405,461.081926 Peoria, 111........ .

' Thomas Nicholsor " Charles Spaeth. 2,389,805.281927 Minneapolis, Minn. ' Thomas Nicholsor " Charles Spaeth. 2,465,623.641928 Los Angeles, Calif.

.

' Thomas Nicholsor " Charles Spaeth. 2,415,693.751929 Columbus, Ohio . . .

' Thomas Nicholsor " Frank S. Wallace + 2,795,199.531930 Springfield, Mass.

.

' Thomas Nicholsor " H. E. W'oolever. 2,396,073.771931 Erie, Pa ' Thomas Nicholsor " H. E. Woolever. 2,085,112.231932 Tulsa, Okla ' Thomas Nicholsor " H.E. Woolever. 1,692,327.361933 Chicago, 111 ' Thomas Nicholsor " H. E. Woolever. 1,256,918.671934 Washington, D.C ' Thomas Nicholsor •• H.E. Woolever. 1,326,275.001935 St. Louis. Mo " Thomas Nicholsor1 " H. E. Woolever. 1.407,915.181936 Muncie, Ind ' Thomas Nicholsor " H. E. W'oolever. 1,363,168.811937 Syracuse, N. Y. . .

" Thomas Nicholson " H. E. Woolever 1.450,151.38

Total since organization 858.157.476.28

• S163, 795.00 Bequest and gifts of Mrs. Francesca Nast Gamble.t $274,000.00 Bequest of Miss Emma E. Dickinson.

INDEXPage

Act of Incorporation 209Action of 1908 212Actions of the General Officers. . 91

Actions of the General ExecutiveCommittee on Recommenda-tion of

Home Department 95Foreign Department 104International Department 92Unit Meeting 94

Amended Act of Incorporation .... 211Appointments, Special 6

AppropriationsSummarized by Foreign Con-

ferences (see note) 130Summary by Brandies 132-133

(also appropriationsPamphlet)

Auditor 52

Bequest, Form of 208Bequests and Lapsed Life In-

come Gifts 128BranchAssignment of Foreign Lan-

guage Conferences 84Officers 79Statistics 136, 137Territory 86

By-Laws .

'. 178Report of Committee on 90

Certificate of Incorporation 210CollegesW. F. M. S 67Union 69

CommitteesForeign Department 8

Home Department 9

Special 6

Standing 5

Constitution and By-LawsAuxiliaries 200District Associations 200King's Heralds 206Little Light Bearers, Plan of . . . 207Wesleyan Service Guild 202Woman's Foreign Missionary

Society 175

Young People's Societies 201

Corresponding Secretaries 3

Delegates 4

Depots of Supplies. . .3rd Cover PageDirectory of Missionaries 152Disbursements, Summary of 130

PageEditors 5

Endowments 214Extension Members, missionaries

supported by 84

Field Correspondents and Treas-urers 10


Action of 104Committees 8

Foreign Language Conferences ... 84Foreign Money 213Forms of Will, Devise and Life

Income Gifts 208Forward Movement Slogan and

Plan 2

General Counselor 5

General Executive CommitteeMembers of (1937) 4Minutes (Proceedings) 14

Sessions of •. 215General Fund, Treasurer's Re-

port of 120General Literature

Editor of 5

General Office

Secretary ot 5

General Officers 3

Actions of 91

Home Base, At the 79Report 87

Statistics of 134-135Home Department 4

Actions of 95Committees 9

In Lands Afar 21

Africa 21

Burma 23China 25

Europe and North Africa 60India 36Japan 47Korea 51

Latin America 63

Malaya 56Philippine Islands 58Sumatra 60

In Memoriam 13

International DepartmentActions of 92Committee 5

Unit Correspondents 131

Workers under Units 174

216

Index 217

PageJunior Department

Secretary 4Missionaries Supported by 84Branch Superintendents 83

Junior Missionary FriendEditor 5

Library ServiceDirector of 5

Branch Directors 83Life Income Agreement 208Life Income Gift Rates 195

Memberships and Dues 213Miscellany 213Missionaries

Alphabetical List of 1 52-1 74

And Their StationsAfrica 21

Burma 23China 25

Europe and North Africa .... 60India 36Japan 47Korea 51

Latin America 63Malaya 56Philippine Islands 58Sumatra 60

CollegesW. F. M.S 67Union 69

Contract Workers 173Summary of 174Supported by Young People,

Juniors, Extension Members. 84

Officers 3

OflScial Correspondents, FieldCorrespondents and Treas-urers in Foreign Fields 10

Payments on Land and Buildings

.

123Postage to Foreign Lands 213Proceedings 14

Publication Office, Report of 126Publisher 5

Real Estate, List of

{see 1929 Year Book)Form of Devise 208

Receipts for 1936-1937 16Since Organization 215

Representatives on Boards andCommittees 6

Rules for Payment of ExpensesDelegates and Special Guests. . . 212

PageScholarships 214Secretaries of the Home Base .... 4

Sessions of General ExecutiveCommittee 215

Special Secretaries 4

Statistics

Educational Institutions.. . .138-149Bible Training Schools 148Colleges 149Summary by Fields 149

Foreign Work 132-133Home Base 134-135Medical .150-151Summary of General Statistics

by Conferences 136-137Student Work

Secretary 4

Branch Secretaries 82

Treasurer 2

Reports of 120-125Auditor's Certificate 125

General Fund 1 20International Department. . . 122

Payments on Land and Build-

ings 123

Pension Purchases 124Praise Offering and J. T. O. . . 123

Real Estate {see 1929 Year Book)Retirement Fund Principal

and Income 122

Seventh Anniversary Gifts. . . 124Summary of Appropriations

{see note) 130

Summary of Disbursements. . 130Y. P. and Junior Thank-OfTer-

ings 124Union Colleges 121

Zenana Paper Fund 122

Union Colleges 69

Wesleyan Service GuildChairman of Central Commit-

tee 4Woman's Foreign Missionary

SocietyColleges 67General Executive Committee . . 4Officers 3

Woman's Missionary FriendEditor 5

Yoimg People's DepartmentSecretary 4Missionaries Supported by 84Branch Superintendents 83

THE WOMAN'S FOREIGNMISSIONARY SOCIETY

GENERAL OFFICE

Room 710, 150 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y.

MISS RUTH RANSOM, Office Secretary

PUBLICATION OFFICE

581 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.MISS ANNIE G. BAILEY, Publisher

Send all orders for Periodicals to the Publication Office

Depots of SuppliesNew England Branch

Miss Sigrid C. Bjorklund .... Room 65, 581 Boylston St.,

Boston, Mass.New York Branch

Miss Ella West . . Room 715, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

Philadelphia Branch

Mrs. Ina W. Campbell Room 304, 1701 Arch St.,

Philadelphia, Pa.Baltimore Branch

Mrs. James Andrew .... 903 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.

Cincinnati Branch

Miss Esther R. Altman . Room 303, 420 Plum St., Cincinnati, O.

Northwestern Branch

Miss Marie Winterton .... 740 N. Rush St., Chicago, 111.

Des Moines Branch

Miss Minnie Callison 1306 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines, la.

Minneapolis Branch

Mrs. B. L. Bummert 607 Wesley Temple Bldg.,Minneapolis, Minn.

Topeka Branch

Miss Anna Simpson 502 Sharp Bldg., Lincoln, Neb.

Pacific Branch

Miss Anna McFarland 125 Marchessault St.,

Los Angeles, Calif.


Miss Louise Godfrey . Room 303, Artisans Bldg., Portland, Ore.

Swedish Supplies

Mrs. Charles Carlson . . . 1419 Balmoral St., Chicago, 111.

Affirmation of ^urpose^

BELIEVING Jesus Christ and his gospel to be

the answer to the world's need, the Woman'sForeign Missionary Society reaffirms its pur-

pose: To know him and to make him known; to

aid in making possible the realization of his king-

dom for all peoples and in all areas of life; to

share with womanhood and childhood through

education, social uplift, healing ministries and

evangelism the abundant life in Christ; to enlbt

and maintain trained women as missionaries; to

assist in promotion of the mbsionary spirit

throughout our world parbh; to seek with womenof all lands fellowship and mutual help in the

building of a Christian world order.

year book, woman's foreign missionary society of the methodist episcopal church, being the

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