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Board of Foreign MissionsOF TH E

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

OF

NORTH AMERICA.

PRESENTED TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN M AY, 1878.

G e o r g e S . F e r g u s o n , P r i n t e r , P h i l a .

®hf[ goard of ^or^jn JHissionsFOR 1877-8.

MEMBERS.REV. FRANCIS CHURCH,

“ W . W . BARR, D. D.,“ J. B. W HITTEN,“ JAMES CROWE,“ S G. FITZGERALD,

W IL LIA M GETTY, THOMAS STINSON,JOHN ALEXAN D ER , ROBERT T. ELLIOTT.

OFFICERS.President:

REY. W . W . BARR, D. D.,705 South 16th St., Philadelphia.

Recording Secretary:REY. J. B. W H ITTEN,

Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.

Corresponding Secretary:REY. J. B. DALES, D. D.,

1628 Filbert St., Philadelphia.

Treasurer iW IL LIA M GETTY.

605 South Second St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Stated meeting on the Second Monday of each month, at 3 P.M.

JttisanmB and Jftisstmtarits.

Rev. James S. Barr,Miss E. G. Gordon,Miss Elizabeth McCahan, Rev. Samuel Martin.* Rev. J. P. McKee,Miss Bliza Calhoun,Miss C. E. Wilson.Rev. A . Gordon,Rev. E. P. Swift,Rev. T. L. Scott

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Gardaspnrl Jhelum.

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Rev. Gulian Lansing, D. D., Rev. Andrew Watson? D .D ,* Miss Eliza F. Johnstdn,* Miss Maggie A. Smith,Miss Anna Y . Thompson. Rev. S. C. Ewing,Rev. John Giffen,Mrs. M. E. Giff n.fMiss Theresa M. Campbell*Miss Mary A. Frazier.Rev. A. M. Nichol,Rev. William Harvey,Rev. John Hogg, D. D.,Rev. J. R. Alexander,David R. Johnston, M. D.,* Miss M. J. McKown,Miss M. G.Lockhart,*

Cairo.

Alexandria.

Mon sura.Sinoris, (Fayoum.)

V Osiout.

Rev. J. C. Nevin,Chinese.

Los Angeles, Cai.

* N o w i n t h i s c o u n t r y .t In connection with the Associate Reformed Synod of the South.

NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORTOF

St ht l o u r d of .¿for t i p jptissioit«.

To t h e G e n e r a l A s s e m b l y o f t h e U n i t e d P r e s b y t e r i a n C h u r c h :

In offering their Nineteenth Annual Report the Board are able to say that no one of its members, or of the missionaries under its care, has been cut off by death during the year. Fifteen meetings of the Board have been held for the transaction of business, and word has been received that in every one of our missions, and in their principal stations, there have been conversions to Christ and additions to the native churches. While, however, this statement is gratefully made, the Board are pained to have to say that, with the fields whiter for the harvest than perhaps ever before, and the laborers in some por­tions o f it fewer, yet not a single new missionary has been sent forth to the work, and in scarcely any month has the Treasurer been able to meet the demands upon him for indebtedness, or for current expenses.

To the detail o f its mingled joys and sorrows in these thing?, the Board most earnestly ask the attention of the Assembly.

The total amount received during the year ending April 30th, 1878, was $47,551.01, and was as follows, viz.:

I . FUNDS,

Presbyteries..............Sabbath schools.......Missionary societies

$29,826.73 1,370.95

. 4,290.20

. 7,421.37

. 4,154.37 487.39

IndividualsLegacies....Investments

Total, $47,551.01

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Compared with the previous year, there was a decrease as follows:

Presbyteries............................................................................$10,827.75Sabbath schools.................................................................... 917.57Missionary societies............................................................... 2,210.65Individuals............................................................................. 5,204.20Legacies.............................. 2,217.41Investments........................................................................... 5,087.11

Making the large sum of $26,464.69

The appropriations for the year, as made by the General Assembly, were $62,530. The amount received was $47,551, leaving a deficiency of $14,979.

Orders were granted in favor of the India Mission to theamount o f .............................................................................. $21,600

To the mission in Egypt......................................................... 30,000

Making a total of §51,600The amount paid to India was.....................................$15,628

Egypt “ ..................................... 25,436 $41,064

Leaving an indebtedness of $10,536

The sale of property in India not needed for mission purposes enabled that mission to meet a large portion of the expense provided for in the estimates. This was an unexpected source of income, and does not relieve the church from the responsi­bility of providing the full amount of the appropriation made by the General Assembly.

The mission in Egypt was also favored by unexpected contri­butions, and at the first o f January, 1878, reported having spent $2,518 less than the estimate. This is a gratifying state­ment, and, taken in connection with the favorable turn of events in India, should make the church exceedingly thankful that the Lord has provided the means for carrying on his work, even while the church at home was failing to raise the money appropriated by the General Assembly.

As the financial year of the missions in India and Egypt closes on the 31st o f December, and that of the General A s­sembly on the 30th of April, four months later, it is not known definitely what our present indebtedness is to these two mis sions. The lowest amount would probably be about $5,000.

M ISSIONARIES.

In their sense of the great need of the mission in Egypt, the Board last fall re-appointed Dr. D. R. Johnston to it; but we

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regret to say that he has not been able to resume the work. Very anxiously, also, have the Board desired that Rev. D. Strang should return; but various circumstances have con­strained him to remain as yet in this country.

Dr. J. F. Patterson has been endeavoring during the year to recruit the shattered health with which he returned to us a year since; but not succeeding as he desired, he has at length tendered his resignation, and the Board have been constrained to accept it. Rev. Samuel Martin and family have been mate­rially benefitted by their rest, and after a season they expect to return to the India field, where it is felt he is very greatly needed. Miss Campbell has been sojourning among her friends, and it is hoped with benefit to her health and strength.

Last September Mrs. Watson, of the mission in Egypt, re­turned to this country with the children of the family, and has found a season of rest and change of great service. Rev. Dr. Watson has also just reached our shores, and, after a few months, will return with his family to his work in the fall. Miss Lock­hart, it grieves us to say, has been so prostrated by long-continued illness that she has at length been forced to leave the work, much as she loved it and was loved in it, and just reaching her friends here will anxiously wait the developments of Providence. Miss Johnston also, after an absence o f about nine years, and much needing a change, has returned, and it is hoped will be able, after a short season, to resume her work with increased strength and usefulness.

It may seem that the number of persons absent from their fields o f labor is large. But the Board wish to have it under­stood that it has never been our policy to encourage frequent returns of missionaries to this country, or favor long absences from the mission work. Rather it has ever been felt that noth­ing but necessity, under a deep conviction of duty, should have any one feel at liberty to withdraw from the work, and that then every effort should be made to return to it at the earliest day possible.

MISSION CHANGES.

Two eventful ones have been made during the year:—First. In Syria. As directed by the last General Assembly,

the Board took steps for the transfer of this mission to the care of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and as the result report: (1) That all the joint property o f the mission— the property that was built by funds in common from both the Irish Presbyterian Church and ours— is to remain in the occupancy of the Irish brethren, with a right for us to re­

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turn and resume labors with them in it ii at any time hereafter it shall be deemed best- This arrangement was made accord­ing to stipulations that were formally agreed upon by the joint mission, and ratified by the respective Assemblies in 1860. (2) The buildings in Bludan, being the exclusive property of our United Presbyterian Church, were purchased by the Board of the Irish Church from us for the sum of ¿6675, and the pro­per conveyance of all our right and title to them was made and forwarded to them. (3) In regard to the missionaries, the Rev. John Crawford, having spent his entire missionary life of twenty years in that field, and seen no reason to doubt the continued interest and usefulness of his labors in this mission, preferred, after much anxious thought, to remain in it. He was accordingly transferred from the charge of our Board to that of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, with earnest ex­pressions o f our affection and confidence as a man o f tried and devoted worth. Miss Mary A . Frazier, who had entered there upon the work of preparing for labor in the field that had been consecrated with the toils and the dust of her lamented father, yielded to the recommendation of the Board and of friends, and deciding to continue in our service, was thence removed to the mission in Egypt, where she is engaged with every promise o f success in the great work.

The Board cannot dismiss this subject of the Syrian mission without expressing the deep interest which our whole church should’ ever feel in it as one of the oldest and the longest contin­ued thus far of all our foreign missions. Most gratefully, also, would the Board record its sense o f the distinguished Christian courtesy and the honorable bearing that have marked the course of the Committee or Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland in all their proceedings with us in the transfer of this mission and property.

Second. In regard to the mission in China, the Board have to report that, as the last Assembly also directed, the mission which had been carried on for more than seventeen years in Canton has been transferred to the Pacific coast. With marked care and fidelity, the Rev. J. C. Nevin disposed o f the mission property to a German Missionary Society, and without any loss on the amount o f money expended on it. Removing, then, with his family to our own shores, he, with a view of commenc­ing operations among the Chinese in California, was directed to explore the field, and on consultation with the Presbytery of San Francisco, fix upon a proper location. With entire un­animity Los Angeles was selected— a place containing a popu-

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lation of about 20,000 inhabitants, and a large number of the Chinese people. With great courtesy and kindness, the Board o f Foreign Missions o f the Presbyterian Church proposed to relinquish that point to us, if we would occupy it. Accord- ingly, purchasing the mission premises at what was considered a reasonable rate, viz.: $1,390, Mr. Nevin took up his residence there with his family, and is now entering upon the work— a work which ought to be regarded with very great interest. It is on our own shores. It is for a people many of whom may

. Return to China, and who can be the means o f untold good if they are only made to find Jesus Christ here, and then go back with their hearts all aglow with His love, and their tongues ready to tell o f Him and the riches of His grace to their benighted countrymen in the great Empire of China.

The Board cannot close this statement without most earn­estly commending this mission to the Chinese to the smpathy, the prayers and the increased liberality o f our people for its support. One of the ablest of missionaries has left the field which had become, as he believed, so inviting in Canton, to take charge of this in California, and he ought to be thoroughly sustained. The mission is more expensive in California than in China, and should be promptly and fully provided for.

OUR HELPERS.

The past year has witnessed many signal interpositions of God, and of the friends that He raised up to aid this great cause.

A b r o a d . — His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh made his usual, most generous and timely contribution of one thou­sand pounds for the fourteenth time annually to the mission in Egypt. This munificent gift brought gladness to the heart of every member o f the mission, and very materially helped carry on the good work o f the Lord in that land.

With a truly noble Christian spirit, and in the exercise of a very wise and able statesmanship, the Hon. C. L. Vivian, Her Britannic Majesty’s Agent and Consul General at Cairo, inter- .posed his offices with the Government o f Egypt, and was largely instrumental with others in obtaining from the Khedive a right for the members of our native churches, specially at Moteah and Koos, to own sites, build themselves church edi­fices, and carry on the worship of God in their own way. The greatest good has resulted in various ways from the official acts o f this eminent and worthy man.

During the past year, also, the students of the Divinity Hall

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o f the United Presbyterian Church in Scotland have raised, by their special solicitations, the generous sum of ¿£1,374 14s Id., about $6,872, and transmitted it to the Rev. Dr. Hogg, of the mission in Egypt, to aid in the erection of suitable buildings for the Training School and College at Osiout. This was a most munificent contribution, and calls for devout thanksgiving to God and to the young men who so nobly raised it.

The British and Foreign and the American Bible Societies, the Turkish Mission Aid ¡Society and the Paisley Ladies’ Mis­sionary Society, have shown their usual liberality.

A t H ome, also, much has been done. In numerous instances generous men and women of God have come forward, and in times of pressing need have given aid that was so much desired. Some of these have given the contribution that, at the moment, well-nigh or entirely bridged over what had seemed an impass­able gulf. Would that there were many such friends each year. What a debt of gratitude the church would owe them!

The following with others may be specially mentioned:Daniel Wilson.......................................................... $100Mrs. Marla Rich............................................................... 100A friend, for the support of two female missionaries

in India........................................................................... 2,128, gold.A . M. Stewart, Esq., for the support of missionary in

Egypt.............................................................................. 600Adam Turner.................................................................... 100Hugh Elliott.................. 500Mrs. I. W . Grier............................................................... 100Mrs. J. A . Sawyer............................................................ 200Rev. R. W. and Mrs. French......................................... 100A friend in Philadelphia................................................. 1,050A friend in Monmouth....................... 100Col. John McFarland, interest on $4,000..........'........... 240

The Board cannot refrain from making special mention of W i l l i a m G i b z o n , M. D., o f Jamestown, Pa. With an enlarged Christian spirit and an anxious concern for the enlightening of the blinded millions of the Arabic speaking populations of the East, through the simple word of God, he has set apart a valua­ble property in the city o f Erie, Fa , and with the requisite written instruments, proposes to make over its avails to be per­petually used under the direction and oversight of the Board in scattering abroad the Scriptures in the Arabic tongue in the East. The Board have accepted the trust as it is to be executed, and ere long the work will be in active operation. Such large- hearted and munificent liberality cannot be too highly com­mended. A ll praise to the rich grace of God that has brought it about, and never should our United Presbyterian Church

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cease to regard with affection and honor the man who has thus proved himself, in one of the best of senses, a benefactor of his race and a helper of the cause of Christ.

With a far reaching regard to the best interests of the mis­sion cause in India in having a native ministry trained for the service of the gospel in that dark land, W i l l i a m R e e d , Esq., of Sewickley, Pa., also has made very generous proffers o f aid in founding and properly sustaining a Theological School in the mission for this purpose. Already the work is thoroughly be­gun, and the happiest results are being already realized.

The Associate Reformed Synod of the South have gene­rously continued the support of Mrs. Rev. John Giffen in Egypt, and some of its Sabbath schools have liberally contri­buted in aid of the mission schools.

In several instances individuals and associations or societies have undertaken the support of a missionary or native teacher, and thus have rendered important service by relieving the Board o f that amount of expense, and, at the same time, have been happily brought into immediate and interesting contact with the persons for whom the contributions were made. For all this the Board is grateful, and would always commend work like this, rather than that of taking up, as is so often asked, a native scholar to be supported— an act that cannot but be objection­able, because: It causes separate accounts to be kept; it tends to have an injurious effect upon the person receiving aid by exciting in him a spirit o f vanity or of self importance, and su­periority over the other scholars; it is often also impossible to foresee how a native child may turn ou t; and if it should be unfortunate, as is always so fearfully possible, the effect is discouraging— perhaps the missionaries are blamed, and the donors feel that they have given and labored in vain.

SABBATH SCHOOLS.

It is specially gratifying that a conisderable number of the Sabbath schools of our church are engaged in this work, and it is confidently believed that if an effort for it was carefully and perseveringly made on the part of parents and teachers, all the children of our church might be actively at work in helping have the gospel preached in all the world. Very easily, and with the happiest effect, a school might take up a native teacher, or a boys’ school or girls’ school, and undertake to raise the money required from the Board to sustain them.

SOCIETIES.

In various ways the principle of combining effort on behalf of this cause is being happily brought into exercise. In some

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instances the children of a family or neighborhood have formed themselves into a society, where they seek information at each jneeting on the subject of missions, and raise what they can for this cause. Of most special interest is it also, that there is a steadily increasing disposition among the women of our church to realize mors and more the privilege and the duty o f putting forth efforts to evangelize and elevate their many sisters who are wretched and miserable in all the darkness and degreda- tion o f their heathenism. In many churches, women feeling this, have organized themselves into societies, which hold regu­lar meetings, have correspondence with foreign missionaries, appoint committees to prepare for each meeting matter that will tend to inform and interest the members on the subject of missions, and to excite prayer and offerings jon its behalf. Great good is being thus done to the individuals themselves and to the cause they seek to promote. In some instances the la­dies o f the different congregations in a Presbytery hold a meet­ing of delegates for conference from their different societies about the time the Presbytery convenes in a particular place, and have much done to awaken interest and draw forth prayer and liberality on behalf of this great work.

Very efficiently also has the Women’s Missionary Society, which owes so much for its origin and efficiency to the Presi­dent, Mrs. S. R. F. Hanna, been engaged in this service. From the Assembly it has the liberty of dividing its funds be­tween the different Boards of the Church. We gratefully men­tion that a good proportion of its contributions has come into our treasury, and most heartily should the Board and the Assem­bly bid it and all the missionary organizations of our church God-speed in all proper efforts to raise funds and awaken in­terest in the mission cause.

Proposing, as these societies do, to interest the women of our church in missions, and recognizing the fact, as it is hoped they all ever will, that there must be entire unity in our foreign, as well as our home work, and that that unity can really exist only by there being but one Mission Board, the women of our church can attain great efficiency and usefulness in this work. The Board of Foreign Missions, as chartered by the Church and State, is entrusted with all the responsibilities of this work in the intervals of the meetings of the Assembly, and is, and of necessity must be. the only power that can originate new missions, send out new missionaries, and authorize the erection o f new buildings and the incurring o f new expenses; but with this power in its hands, and always acting only as it

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is authorized by the Assembly, and always sustained by the ac­tive co operation and help of all the churches and all the mis­sionary societies, this Board will ever be able in the future, as it has been in the past, to go forward and undertake and ac­complish much to the glory of God. Any other course will have a sad liability to divide the counsels of the friends o f mis­sions, to produce alienations, and more or less to divert to new or unauthorized objects the funds which the church has sol­emnly pledged herself to give for the support of her mission­aries and their work. With one Board for missionary work, with one object in view, and with one general course to pursue in accomplishing it, there can be no doubt of its being seen in the years to come, as in the years gone by, that God, even our own God, will bless us, that Ilis way may be made known on earth, and His saving health among all nations.

In connection with this, the Board respectfully ask that the Assembly will re issue its instructions that nothing invoking new expense, or that will require contributions for it, shall be undertaken in the foreign field, or have appeals made to individuals or the churches for funds on its behalf, without its having been carefully considered and agreed upon in the particular mission that has or will have the charge of it, and that it shall be included in the estimates which are always sub­mitted by the mission to the Board for approval, and are au­thorized by the Assembly.

NEW M ISSIONARIES.

From various causes each of our missions is in a condition at this time which painfully calls for reinforcements. The field is becoming really larger and more urgent every year, though technically in the same bounds. New demands for earnest and able laborers are constantly arising. The devoted and useful men in the field are threatened with breaking down. Several are already here on furlough, and others will ere long have to be. What can be more natural or necessary than that there should be new persons on the field studying the language and learning how to do the work when they shall formally undertake it? Most fortunately and significantly there are now men of a promising character that are willing to respond to any cry of the church, “ Whom shall we send?” writh the word, “ Here are we— send us.’ ’ Will the Assembly appoint them, or authorize the Board to so— with the assurance that the means for send­ing them out and sustaining them when they reach the fields shall be regularly furnished?

In connection w’ith this, also, the Board are impressed with the

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idea from intimations from various parts of the church, and from many important interests involved, that the Assembly might give, with very happy effect, some general deliverance upon the subject of missionaries returning to this country, the frequency of it, and the length of time to be spent in their ab­sence from the work for which, by their training, they have become fitted, and where they are so much needed. On an av­erage, for all the fields we occupy, no missionary can visit this country and return to his post without an expense to the Board of from $300 to $800, and this besides our paying each re­turned married missionary a salary of $1,000 a year, and each single female missionary $800 a year while at home. The Board deeply feel the importance and the delicacy of this sul> ject, and commend it to the earnest attention of the Assembly.

BEQUESTS.

In His good providence, God has signally shown His kind­ness to us in moving increasing numbers of His people to re member this cause in their Wills. Funds of very great moment have thus come in most opportunely from time to time, and we heartily commend to every one who has been made to rejoice in the Christian hope, and to whom God has given the means, the question, Ought I not remember in my Will, and act liberally for Him who did such great things fo r me, and by whose grace 1 am what I am?

As, however, there may be contingencies in the carrying out of wills— either through their not being signed a sufficient length of time before the death of the testator, or through some de­fect in the will itself, or in the protracted and expensive litiga­tions which interested parties-may make— the question may well be asked, \^ould it not be well for every one to make his offering to this cause while living, either by direct donations, or in making over his property to the Board, or to some one in trust for it— the interest or income of it to return, in whole or in part, to him during his lifetime, if it is desired, and then, at his death, the principal to be wholly the Boards for its great and sacred uses?

MISSIONS.As already stated, and according to the action of the last

Assembly, the missions in Syria and China have been trans­ferred. Our present missions in the order of their formation; are:

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1. E G Y P T .

This mission was begun in the year 1854. It has five principal stations at which missionaries are located, and thirty eight places where religious 'services are held on the Sabbath, five of which were opened during the past year. It has five regularly organized churches. The whole number of missionaries in this field are eight male and fourteen female; to­tal, twenty-two. Native ordained, 4; pastors, 3; school teachers, 56; licentiates, 7; students of theology, 11. The total number of agents, foreign and native, 113. Average attendance on the Sabbath, 1,646. The whole number of Sabbath schools, 32; teachers, 92; Sabbath school scholars, 1,162. The whole number of converts 856. Increase during the year— by profes sion, 125; certificate, 9; total, 134. Decrease by death, 10; re­moval, 30; suspension, 22; total, 62— making the actual in­crease, 72. Infants baptized, 110; adults (Moslems), 3. In day schools— boys, 993; girls, 568; total, 1,561. In boarding schools (girls), 51; training school (boys) 75. The contribu­tions of the native congregations amounted to $5,058, or nearly six dollars per member.

REPORT OF THE A L E X A N D R IA STATION FOR 1877.Alexandria is located on the Mediterranean, and is the business metropolis o f Egypt.

It is connected with the Nile by the Mahmoodeh Canal, which is forty miles in length. A system o f railways connects it with the most important cities and towns in both Lower and Upper Egypt, aud with all the other mission centres. From the latest pub­lished statistics, it appears that the population is 300,000. A large proportion o f the resi­dents are Europeans. Among the natives the Moslems are much more numerous than the Christians. The Coptic population is comparatively small, but is gradually increas­ing. Mission work was begun by our church in this place in the year 1857. This is also the mission centre for a large portion o f the Delta.

MISSION A ll Y L A B O R E R S .The Rev. S. C. Ewing and wife have continued here all the year.

The Rev. John Giffen and wife remained until the last of June, when, in compliance with the appointment of the Missionary Asso­ciation, they removed to Osiout. Miss Mary A. Frazier was trans­ferred from the Damascus Mission, and arrived in this place on the 25th of November.

N A T IV E LA B O R E R S.The native laborers have been: a licentiate two and a half months;

a student of theology seven months; a Bible woman; a colporteur; two assistants in the book department and the secular work of the station; two book-binders, and seven teachers in the schools.

C O N G R E G A T IO N , PU BLIC W O R SH IP , ETC.The services on Sabbath morning are still held in the Scotch

Church, for which a moderate rent is paid. The average attend­ance of natives at these services has been forty-five. The afternoon services have been continued in the Mission House throughout the year. The attendance has averaged thirty-eight. The meeting in Carmooze—one of the suburbs—was also continued in the afternoon.

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until the last of October. A t this time the student of theology, who had assisted in conducting the Sabbath services, removed to Cairo, to resume his studies, and it was not possible for the missionary alone to continue the two services in the afternoon. The average of the attendance at this place was nine.

Two members have been received on examination and one on cer­tificate. Four members removed to other places. Four infants were baptized.

The sum of eighty-three dollars was contributed for the support of the poor, and to pay a part of the salary of the student of theology while he labored in this place. Contributions for other purposes are not reported.

The Sabbath school meets in the mission premises in the after­noon.

The average attendance has been twenty-six.During a good part of the year, meetings for prayer, and for the

reading and study of the Scriptures, were held two nights each week in the mission house, and two nights also in Carmooze. The attend­ance was not large at either place.

The want of a church building that would be entirely under our own control, or a mission hall large enough to accommodate our au­diences, is still deeply felt both by the natives and by the missiona­ries.

B IB L E W O UK AM ONG T H E N A T IV E W O M E N .

Mrs. Melaik has continued to labor as Bible woman. The average number of families visited per month was twenty three. Twenty women are learning to read the Scriptures. The missionary ladies also give as much time as they can to this work.

C O LPO R TE U RIN G IN T H E D E L T A .

There has been more encouragement in this work this year than during any previous one. In this way we have disseminated 407 co­pies of Bibles, Testaments, and portions of the Scriptures, and 679 re­ligious books, and many dark places have been visited.

In a few places the colporteur has latterly found some willing to meet with him at night for the reading and the study of the Scrip­tures. The seed thus sown will yet bring forth fruit, and he thatsoweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

BOOK D E P A R T M E N T .

The general book department still has its centre at this place, and it requires a good deal of time and attention. A summary of sales and receipts will appear with the statistical table.

The sales of this station, in the book shop and by the colporteur, during the twelve months ending with November 30th, are as follows:

602 copies of Scriptures, and portions of Scriptures, for $298.001260 volumes of religious books for 138.001719 volumes of educational and miscellaneous books for 429.00

3581 volumes for $865.00PU B L ISH IN G D E P A R T M E N T .

An edition of 7,000 copies o f a small Arabic Reader has been printed, but not by our own pres3, as it was closed at the beginning of the year, and has since been sold.

The "binding of some editions of our publications is not yet com­plete. and this work has been continued during the year.

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B O YS ’ SCHOOL.

This school continued in two departments until the close of the summer term. After the removal of Mr. GifFen, it was impossible for the remaining missionary to give much attention to the advanced department, while it remained in the house that had been rented for it, and it was thought best to reunite the two departments, and have both in the mission premises.

W hile the school remained divided, the attendance in the advanced department was thirty-two, and that of the primary was thirty. Since the reunion the average attendance has been sixty-seven.

Some improvement has been made in the rooms occupied by this school, and two small rooms additional have been appropriated to it, and about seventy boys can now be accommodated. During the year ninety-six pupils were enrolled. Of these seventy-one were Chris­tians, o f different sects; seventeen were Moslems, and four were Jews.

The studies of the advanced class are reading, writing, grammar and composition in English and in French, and geography, arithme­tic and grammar in the Arabic.

g i r l s ’ s c h o o l .This school remained under the direction of the mission family un­

til the arrival of Miss Frazier, and since that time it has been under her care.

The three assistant teachers mentioned in the previous report all remained until the close o f the summer term. One of these did not give entire satisfaction, and she has not been employed since the re­opening of the school on the 1st of October.

The other two have labored faithfully all the year, and have been earnest and happy in their work. One of the teachers in the boys’ school gives half of his time to this school. The average attend­ance of pupils has been one hundred and fifteen. The highest monthly enrolment was one hundred and forty-two, and the lowest was eighty. There were one hundred and twenty-eight in attend­ance at the close of the year. Of these, forty-seven were from families belonging to the Greek Church, but generally o f Syrian nationality. Thirty-seven were Moslems, twenty-six were Copts, eleven were Jewesses, three were Maronites, two were Roman Catholics, and two were Protestants.

The studies of the advanced class are writing, arithmetic, geogra­phy and grammar in the Arabic, and reading and writing in English. At least twelve of the pupils are above the age at which girls here are usually taken away from school. Some of the parents o f these girls are at times disposed to follow the custom of the place in this respect, but the girls plead very earnestly to be allowed to remain, and the parents yield. The latter cannot fail to see the good the school is doing their daughters, in so many ways, and that is no doubt the reason that they are not beyond persuasion in this matter.

One of the Moslem girls, who is a member of the advanced clase, has repeatedly expressed a strong desire to become a Christian, and the portions of Scripture that more plainly direct the mind to the Saviour, seem always to claim her full attention. Some of the other girls also manifest a good deal of interest in the religious instruction that is given. The missionary ladies have many urgent invitations from the girls and from their relatives to visit them in their houses, but other duties prevent them from accepting many of these invita­tions. The school, in this way, opens a wide door for missionary work in the homes of the people, and it is a matter of deep regret

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that we do not have more laborers for this interesting part o f our ■work.

The Ladies’ Association, of Paisley, Scotland, still manifest a deep interest in this school, and their contributions during the year amounted to £55 sterling—$266.46 (gold).t The two schools continue to meet together in the morning for re­

ligious exercises and a short Scripture lesson.The missionary laborers at this station are now reduced to a mini­

mum, and the work is increasing. It is impossible to meet the de­mands that are made upon us. Our efforts are also greatly crippled by the want of suitable buildings and arrangements for carrying on the work. S. C. E aving.

CAIRO.Mission established 1854. Missionaries—Rev. Drs. Lansing and Watson and their

’wives, Misses E. F. Johnston, M A. Smith and A Y. Thompson; one ordained native; teachers and helpers, 14; communicants, 76; sales o f Scriptures and religious and edu­cational books during the year, 4,627 volumes, for 61.295.

The missionary laborers at this station have been the same as re­ported last year, and the work pursued has been for the most part the same, with continued tokens of the Divine presence and bless­ing, and increased success. The health of the workers has gen­erally been such that they have been enabled uninterruptedly to dis­charge their duties, and for this we desire to record our thanks to him in whose hand are our times, and who possesses all our ways. The only breaks have been that Dr. Lansing was absent three and a half months, from the middle of April to the first of August, to attend the Presbyterian Council in Edinburgh, and ou August 11th Mrs. Watson left for America, a measure rendered necessary by the state o f her own and the children’s health, and to visit her aged and infirm parents.

D IV IN E SER V IC E S.The usual services have been sustained in the mission-house, v iz .:

Sabbath school from 8 to 9 o ’clock A . m ., on Sabbath mornings, Arabic services at 9 A . m ., and 4 p. m ., and English service at 11, with the exception of a vacation of four months in the latter during the summer. Also during the year a Sabbath school and service have been held in the afternoon in Haret es Sakeen, and a prayer-meeting for women by Miss Thompson in Boulak. Besides these services on the Sabbath, a weekly prayer-meeting has been held in the mission chapel, three weekly eight-meetings in Haret es Sakeen and Boulak, each for ten months; a nightly meeting for eight months in the house of Yakoob Werd, one of the elders; a weekly prayer-meeting for women in the mission-house, conducted by Miss Johnston ; another in Haret es Sakeen, by Miss Smith, and" a third in the Oolalie, by Miss Thompson—these three for ten months of the year.

Theattendance at all these meetings except one has shown a steady and in .some instances large increase over former years. That in the chapel Sabbath mornings, and in Haret es Sakeen in the afternoon, have been especially encouraging, the former averaging 160; and the latter 90. In the latter place a chapel is much needed, and in the former their chapel which was entered a little more than a year and a half ago has, at least on the men’s side of the curtain, become too strait for the audience.

An Italian service has also been held in one of the rooms o f the mission-house, the larger part of the year, nightly, and the remainder

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twice a week, the attendance being about a dozen. It is presided over by a barber, whose services are entirely voluntary.

The communion has been celebrated three times during the year. Fourteen new members have been received on confession of their faith and four on certificate, and five infants and one adult have been ■baptized. This latter case deserves more particular mention. Hith­erto our converts have, for the most part, been from the different lapsed churches, chiefly the Coptic, Greek, Abyssinian and Arme­nian. It has been thought by some that the conversion of these nominal Christians is an easier matter than the con version of hea­then or Mohammedans. Without entering at length into the ques­tion, it is enough to say that while there are certain advantages in the first approach to men who have a profession of Christianity, on the other hand there are very serious drawbacks in dealing with a people who have and rest in a form of godliness while denying the power thereof—who are clouds without water, carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit twice dead, plucked up by the roots, and whom, after having tasted of the heavenly gift, etc., it seems almost impossible to renew again to repentance. We have long prayed that God would open the door to the Mohammedans, •convinced that once opened it would be a wide and effectual door. In speaking to them personally, we have felt that, could the political bar to their conversion be once removed, the'r moral attitude is one to secure a success among them exceeding anything that we have been favored with among the Christian sects, and, therefore, we have earnestly longed for one Mohammedan convert of a position to secure •a fair and square issue on the question of toleration, and at the same time of a force of conviction to endure the test, if needs be, even to the death. We have hitherto had but few Moslem converts, and they have been such as have not brought up the question at issue.

Ahmed Fahmy, the one whom we have now received, is of a re­spectable Moslem family, his father being a man of wealth and posi­tion, and the family connection large and influential. Three of the five sons were educated in our mission sehool. Ahmed, besides, took ■a pretty thorough course of instruction in the Azhar—the great Mo­hammedan University here—but for the past two years had had partial employment with us in the school and teaching the young ladies Arabic. After being led to doubt the truth of Islam, he chiefly carried on his studies in private, though his frequent questions showed that his mind was at work. Still it was to us all a surprise when we received from him a letter announcing himself a Christian, and giving the history and reasons of his change. Knowing that he could not in safety profess Christianity in his father's house, he came to our house on the 12th of November, and on the 25th was baptized. Never had so touching a scene been witnessed in our little congrega­tion here. A ll felt that he had given up all and much for Christ, and that he was sincere. As his defection from the religion of his fathers was already well known, there was no little excitement and stir in the city. His relatives and many of his Moslem friends called on him and did all they could by arguments, entreaties, tears and threats to induce liim to recant his new faith. A.t length, on December 20th, when we had begun to flatter ourselves that the battle had been fought, he was kidnapped just beside the mission-house at sunset, being seized and thrust into a close carriage and carried away. The American and English Consuls-General immediately and earn­estly interceded with the government of His Highness, the Khedive, in his behalf, and obtained assurances that Ahmed was safe in his father’s house. He remained there under the strict surveillance of

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hia relations for nearly five weeks, during which time, by alternate kindness and threats, he was so pressed to return to the faith of Islam that at length he feigned to yield, though it was understood by his friends that he was still in heart a Christian. The story is a long and thrillingly interesting one, but in a merely synoptical report we cannot enter into details except further to say that on January 16th he escaped from his father’s house and again took refuge with us. The government now assured the Consuls that orders had been given to its officials and to the relatives that no harm should be done him, and that should the threats of assassination which had been freely vented by them be executed, they would be held responsible; but at the same time we were informed that they “ could not assure his safety, as they could not send with him a company of soldiers when­ever lie should go out into the streets.” This, together with their failure to punish those guilty of his abduction and forcible retention in his father’s house, and also to secure his rights, such as the resto­ration of his books and clothes, and other developments which we cannot mention, made him feel that it would not be safe to venture out into the streets alone, and at length, unnerved by five months’ confinement with us and in his father’s house, under circumstances of peculiar trial, he was glad to accept the kind offer of the Earl of Aberdeen to take him to Scotland, faraway from his persecutors, and also to give him an opportunity to pursue his studies and preparation for future usefulness at St. Andrew’s University. He sailed from Alexandria on March 24th, and, much endeared to us by all our in­tercourse with him, he has gone accompanied with our hearts’ affec­tions and prayers on his behalf. Though this case has not secured all that could be desired on the question of religious toleration, we feel that it is a great advance on the past.

First. It may be considered as settled that under the rule o f His Highness, the Khedive, it is not possible that a man should be judi­cially executed on account of a change of his religious faith, according to the old law of Islam.. Secondly. The fanaticism of many of the common people, and the

feelings of family and caste pride, are yet so strong that even the government is still unable to take the strong position on the side of toleration that would secure for converts from Islam perfect safety.

W e cannot pass on without expressing our deep obligations to our American and the English Consuls-General for their hearty and effec­tive efforts in securing in this and other cases the rights of Protes­tantism in this land. As an American mission we feel it our duty especially to mention the kind offices of the British government, through Lord Derby, the Foreign Minister, the Hon. C. Vivian, Her Majesty’s Agent and Consul-General here, and the British branch of the Evangelical Alliance. W e are besides indebted to the Hon. E. E. Farman, U. S. Agent and Consul-General here, and Mr. Camanos, Consul for Cairo, for aid in securing from His Highness, the Khe­dive, the gift of an acre and a quarter of land near Old Cairo, for a cemetery for our community. The position is a very eligible one, and a wall is now being built around the ground, chiefly at the ex­pense of the native church and residents. So long as our Protestants were dependent upon the priests of the sects they had left for burial, we were forced to acknowledge that a great obstacle existed to the spread of our faith, and many of them often remarked that we needed a cemetery even more than a church building. This need is now supplied.

W e have not been in a pecuniary position until lately to resume work upon the new mission premises. At the’beginning of the year

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the congregation resolved that the overplus o f their offerings, aft or deducting congregational expenses and part o f the salai’y of the evan­gelist in the suburb of Boulak, should be devoted to the building of the church over the present chapel and adjoining rooms. With these we are happy to say that the walls have gone up half way to comple­tion. The sum of money realized from the congregation for the year was $1,381, and from the schools $1,973. These figures are most gra­tifying. In them we have taken special pains to exclude donations from travellers and others interested in our work in this land, and we think they furnish a strong enforcement of the axiom that “ those who help themselves deserve to be helped.” One thing, at least, de­serves to be remarked, v iz .: that so fast as wre have been enabled to enlarge our premises they have been fully occupied, and now our boys’ and gil ls’ day and boarding schools and chapel are all full to the doors. The most of our people are poor. One of them alone would be called well-to-do, and he the past year made one donation to the mission of $500. We "have the present year purified the -church-roll of those who have died, dropped out, removed or been suspended, and the net membership is seventy-six. This gives $18.17 as the per capita annual contribution. Dr. Lansing has still acted as pastor of the church; but it is much to be regretted that it cannot enjoy the full services of one who is not at the same time burdened with the duties of theological professor, architect and superintendent -of building operations and other miscellaneous matters.

SCHOOLS.The boys’ school during the year has been under the direction of

Dr. Watson, who has daily given two lessons in it besides having the general oversight. When we mention that besides he 1ms been gen­eral treasurer for the whole Egyptian mission, and special treasurer for Cairo, has taken his turn in the Sabbath morning Arabic and English services, conducted the services on Sabbath afternoons at Haret es Sakeen, besides conducting much of the year three nightly week meetings, having charge of the book department, and during the theological term giving a lecture daily to the class, it will be seen how much a reinforcement of our Cairo mission force is needed. The boys’ school alone should have the whole time and strength of •one man. The number of pupils enrolled during the year was 278 ; average monthly roll, 130. Of these there were Copts, 151; Muslims, 78; Protestants, 11; mixed, 38.

The studies pursued during the year were algebra, geometry, astro­nomy, natural philosophy and logic, together with the English and French languages and the common branches of education.

Concerning the girls’ boarding and day schools in the mission- liouse, Miss Johnston reports as follows:

g i r l s ’ b o a r d i n g -s c h o o l , C AIR O .“ During the year 1877, the number enrolled in the school was 123,

o f whom twenty-six were boarders. The average monthly enrolment was eighty. A large number of those who came in between the first •of the year and the summer vacation were Europeans of different na­tionalities, whose chief aim was to learn languages, and caring nothing for our religious instruction. As we make no attempt to -compete with French and Italian schools in the matter of languages, we lost almost all that class of pupils after a few months’ trial, and •on reopening in September, we only had forty-six enrolled, the num­ber increasing to sixty-one at the end of the year, twenty-two o f whom were boarders. Although a relief to us in some respects, it is

perhaps to be regretted that we have not the means for carrying on a school in such a manner as to reach a class who, otherwise, are apt to remain as ignorant of the true way of salvation as any of the Copts, Another reason for the falling off of this class of girls is our lack o f suitable school-rooms, a want which we hope will one day be sup­plied. W e have been using the church for recitations and other school-work, and this helps to supply the need. Our mission-house certainly is doing good service, every available corner of it having been filled from the first day it was fit for use at all.

“ The branches taught in the school are the same as heretofore, the instruction, both religious and secular, being given almost entirely in Arabic, although other languages are taught. In September, as Miss Smith’s work in the other part of the city was growing and needed her time, she asked to be relieved of her duties here in the afternoon, since which time Miss Thompson and myself have had the work of the boarding-school with the help of the assistant teachers. Since October Dr. Watson has relieved us of the opening exercises in the- morning, giving thatlesson to the boysand girls together in the church.

“ A t the close of the school year—the middle of July—we held our usual public examination. The girls generally did well, and gave satisfaction to both parents and teachers. It was interesting to see the fathers of girls who live in other towns at a distance from Cairo, coming in a day or two before the examination to be present at its exercises, and take their daughters home. It is encouraging to see the interest the parents take in the studies and conduct of their girls, and as gratifying, among some discouragements that we meet with, to know that we have won the confidence of the patrons of the school.

“ W e find our greatest success in the boarding department, our boarders staying with us longer and showing more improvement in their general conduct than the girls who come only by day. W e have learned, as a great many wiser people before us, that to keep young minds in the right way, both minds and hands should be em­ployed. The girls attend to all the housework, and do it quite well, though we do feel that a constant watchfulness on our part is the price o f neatness. But in a family of twenty-five or more people, where there is baking, washing and ironing, sweeping and dusting, cooking, sewing and studying, Satan does not find much ‘ mischief for idle hands.’

“ The Wednesday afternoon prayer-meetings were continued until the very warm weather, and resumed after the summer vacation with an attendance of from three to eight women, and a good number o f the larger school girls.

“ The Sabbath school has been composed mostly of our boarders and day scholars, with (except during the cold and short winter days) from five to fifteen women, making altogether an attendance of from thirty-five to fifty. This Sabbath school meets, after the lesson, in the church, with that of the boys, and Dr. Lansing gives a short address to all before the church service begins.

“ The Thursday evtning prayer-meeting has been continued, the girls taking part in it as heretofore. Both of the teachers, the matron and all the large girls, except two, who have been in school only a few months, are church members, one of the girls having made a public profession of her faith at our last communion. These all, like true teachers and older sisters, have a care over the younger members of the family, and so help to lighten our labors.

“ We, and most of the girls also, feel that our Sabbaths are our best days. They are kept busy all morning in Sabbath school and church, and in the afternoon in reading, learning verses, and going;

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over the morning's sermon, upon which some of them take notes, and in the evening either Dr. Lansing or Dr. Watson comes over to conduct prayers and make some remark upon the question for the evening—one from the Shorter Catechism with its proofs. After prayers each of us takes her class to her room or somewhere alone, and has a lesson in the Catechism and a little familiar talk, and we can close the day feeling that, with our work indoors and out, if some good is not done, it is is surely not for want of opportunity.

“ Among those in attendance the last year the religions represented were—Protestant, 24; Coptic, oo; Catholic, 26 : Jewish, 10 ; Moslem,9. W e have had ten girls from distant towns, Alexandria, Deman- hoor, Benha, Mahalla. Sinoris and Roda. Total expenditures, in­cluding repairs and furniture, 43,997, T. P. Receipts, including donations, 26,945, T. P. W e have received help from the Ladies’ Societies of St. Clairsville, O., and Argyle, N. Y ., and one of our boarders is partly supported by the Sabbath schools of the South. W e have also had some donations from travellers.

“ E l iz a F . J o h n s t o n .“ Cairo, March 16£/i, 1878.”Miss Smith reports as follows on the school in Haret es Sakeen :

R E P O R T OF T H E W O R K IK H A R E T ES SA K E E N FOR TH E Y E A R 1877.“ The school has continued to increase, and the girls have been

more regular in their attendance than ever before. The enrolment for the year was more than 200, of whom more than 100 were Moham­medans, four Catholic, the remainder being Copts. The average monthly enrolment, 107.

“ A small tuition fee was asked of those who were able to pay, which during the year has amounted to $22. More large girls have been in attendance than in any former year, and many of our Mohammedan girls are from high families, two or three being daughters of pasha«. This is a new feature in the school, as heretofore our Mohammedan girls were generally of the lower classes; but now may be seen sitting on the same seat a pasha’s or some great man's daughter, and perhaps on either side o f her girls so poor that they scarcely have food enough to keep soul and body together. The people often say we know your sehool to be of good repute, and therefore we wish our girls to be trained in it. Mohammedan ladies have said to me, ‘ Before we sent our girls to your school we went to.see it, and to see what sort of a character the sitt was, and now we are satisfied and glad to have them with y ou ’—very complimentary, certainly; but it shows how we were watched, and how, by long experience, the natives learn to trust us.

“ The girls have been more studious than in previous years, owing partly, no doubt, to the increased care and painstaking of the teach­ers. A seriousness pervades the school, especially during the past three months, and I feel that some are searching for the truth. One of the large girls joined the church a few months ago, and is now giving great satisfaction as a teacher part o f the day in the school, and part in giving lessons to women in their houses. The head teacher, Latefa, deserves credit, as also the other three teachers, two o f whom act as Bible women in the afternoon. The teachers are all members of the church, and I think are trying to lead the souls in their care to Jesus by their example as well as by precept.

“ t h e s a b b a t h s c h o o l is conducted in the P. M., at which time from fifty to sixty-five girls are present, also a number of women, which within the past six

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months lias increased to from fifteen to twenty-eight. Some of the large girls as well as the teachers have classes in the Sabbath school.

“ For the past three months we have had a class of boys in connec­tion with it, which numbers from twenty to twenty-five. W e have a system of giving Scripture cards for attendance, and for learning verses: for every ten verses of Scripture learned a card is given, and a certain number of cards buys a Bible, Testament or Catechism. In this way even the poorest are able to supply themselves with the word of God. A collection is taken up, which only amounts to a few piasters, but we hope in tbis way they will learn to give cheer­fully and with joy to the Lord's cause, immediately after Sabbath school a curtain is put up as a screen for the women and girls, and the men come in, which altogether makes quite a large congregation. Then Dr. Watson gives us an earnest gospel sermon, in such plain, simple language that even the poor ignorant women can understand it all, and sometimes in my visits among them speak of something the minister has said on the previous Sabbath. Dr. Watson has prayer-meeting in this school-house three nights in the week, but he will doubtless mention this in his report.

“ T H E FR A YE II-M E E T IN G is very well attended, our large room beingalmost always well filled. A ll the larger girls who wish attend, and their number is often fifty or sixty, and from twenty to twenty-eight women are present. I am often astonished at the marked attention and deep interest manifested in these meetings, and feel that the Spirit is at work among U 9 , and that God’s word,although spoken by a stammering tongue, shall not return unto him void ; but it shall accomplish that which he pleases, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto he hath sent it.

“ B IB L E W O R K AMONG T H E W OM EN . t; Miriam, one of our teachers, has given lessons to eighteen women

during the year, and one o f them has expressed a desire to connect with the church, and seems really to have been converted. This teacher has been kept from her work a good deal of the time on ac­count of the illness of her mother, but I think she has done what she could. Not only does she teach them, but she prays with and for them, and is anxious for the conversion of their souls. The other teacher, Gimeana, has only been teaching for a few months, and teaches women. Before the 30th of October I visited daily from four to six houses, especially houses of sickness and houses of mourning; but about that time, as a thank-offering (on account of the conversion of my Mohammedan teacher, which was in answer to prayer) I began a class for poor women, in wThich they could learn to read and sew. The class has gradually increased from three to twenty-three. It is held two days in the week, and has taken much of my time from house visiting; but I feel sure that more can be accomplished in this way than in visiting them in their homes. The women, after being present at the opening o f the school, when a Bible lesson is given, sew for an hour on garments which they make up for themselves and their children. After the sewing each one receives a card for attend­ance. With these cards they buy the garments they have made, each garment being valued at a certain nember of cards. After dis­tributing the cards, I give each one a lesson, and then read and explain a portion of Scripture, and close with prayer. These are all very poor women, most o f them widows, and they have in this way clothed themselves this winter. I could have a larger class, as others would come, but I am not able to receive them. Some of them are

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learning to read very fast, and I hope in this way we may be able to raise up Bible women or teachers for the women. The women by being in this class learn to sew, to read, and have an opportunity to hear the gospel without household cares, making of coffee, etc., to distract their attention, as is often the case when visited in their houses.

“ God has blessed me most abundantly in every department of my work during the past vear, and for which I am sincerely thankful.

“ M. A. 8-tfrrn.”Miss Thompson’s report of the work in Boulak and Oolalie is as

follows :MISS TH O M PSO N S R E P O R T .

u During the first part of the year I spent most of my time in the boarding-school, in connection with Miss Johnston ; but at the close of summer our work was so arranged that I have been able to spend nearly the whole forenoon in going among the houses, reading to some persons, hearing others read, or helping them in commencing to learn. By referring to my note-book I see that since the end of October I have visited seventy-nine different houses, making in all two hundred and twelve visits, besides my work in Boulak and the Oolalie on Sabbaths.

“ From the beginning o f the year there was a blind girl, a former pupil in the boarding-school, engaged in giving lessons to twenty- three women who were partly under Mrs. Lansing’s supervision; but this teacher did not give satisfaction to any one, and was dis­missed in the summer. A girl was sent afterwards from the school to teach those who were not far advanced, and eleven pupils have been visited by her five days in the week since the middle o f No­vember. A boy from the school has been giving lesssns to four women in one house since December. After asking many persons to take work as a Bible woman, we have at length secured the services of a former assistant in the Esbikieh school. She commenced work this month, and bids fair to do well.

“ Since October I have gone once a week to Boulak, to places which are too far away to be often visited by the other missionaries, and where there are no Bible women. Two women were reading in the gospel when I began giving them lessons, and four commenced at the alphabet, but one o f these grew weary and stopped studying. A fifth, the mother of a family, commenced in January, and with the help o f her son at night, she finished the “ Primer ” in a short time, and is now reading in Matthew. I have never known any one among the women to make such progress as she has made. She told me recently that she fasts twice a week, praying that Jesus will give her understanding, so that she may learn how to read. She commenced to attend church more than a year ago, when her son was absent, he having run away some time before when his father punished him. She asked the prayers of the congregation, and so Sabbath after Sab­bath passed, until at length God’s own time came, and the boy was brought home. He is now in the school, an energetic, industrious lad, and recently I engaged him to hear the lessons of two o f my pupils.

“ After the conversion of Mr. Ahmed, I changed some of my former ideas about God’s willingness to change the hearts of Moslems, and so commenced teaching a class for men in the afternoon. Three of these seemed to do well for a tim e; but the doorkeeper of the boys’ school, a Christian, could not leave his work to come to me. How­ever, he still continues his lessons, with a boy to teach him. One of the others, who commenced also at the alphabet, has advanced so as

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to be able to read a little in the gospel. A new one began not long ago, but he has not made much progress yet. However, the pupil who has given me the most encouragement is an old man from Sou­dan, who is a strict Mohammedan, and had never read the Bible, al­though when I asked him to do so, he could repeat passages from the Koran to prove that he should. He can now read very well, and there has scarcely been a day since last November that he has not come for a lesson. It is calculated to fill a person’s soul with thanks to see how this poor old man reads the New Testament. He has read as far as Philippians.

“ During the year, with the exception of the summer vacation, I have continued going to the house of the person in the Oolalie men­tioned last year, and the Sabbath afternoon audiences remained at the former number—three or four women, and the same number of children. In Boulak the Sabbath school was continued on Sabbath afternoons, with numbers varying from six to eleven women, and several boys. Five of the latter are learning the Shorter and Brown’s Catechisms. One learned the former in four Sabbaths, and two of the larger ones lead in prayer when called upon, as do also some of the women, four of them being church members, two of whom pro­fessed their faith during the year. A. Y . T h o m p s o n .

“ Cairo, March 16th, 1878.”

BOOK D E P A R T M E N T ._ The book department has been kept open the whole year, and, be­

sides, two colporteurs have been employed in the city and environs, one of whom has carried only Scriptures. The proceeds of sales for the civil year ending December 31st were $1,393. For the book year ending December 1st, the proceeds and details are as follow s: American Bible Society Scriptures, vols., - - 753 at $213British and Foreign do., - - - - 765 at 219Religious books, - - - - - - 945 at 194Educational and scientific, - 2164 at 634Stationery, . . . - 45

Totals, vols., 4,627 at $1295W e have above spoken of the acquisition of a cemetery the past

year. Another great need is a secular agent for the Protestant Church for all Egypt. According to the law of the land, inheritances must be administered by the different sects for their adherents, and other secular work, such as the securing of licenses to build churches, pass­ports for leaving the country, etc. Though the Protestant sect in the Turkish Empire was acknowledged by firman from the Sultan Abd el Medjid as possessing equal rights with the other sects, these rights have never been formally recognized in Egypt until lately, and many annoyances have in consequence resulted. After more than two years o f earnest negotiation, the acknowledgment has been made, and as our missionaries do not wish to mix secular with our spiritual functions, the churches throughout the country have been called upon to elect a man as secular agent of the Protestant sect in Egypt. The vote resulted in the election of Girgis Barsoom Effendi, of Suft, and we trust that he will speedily be fully installed in his office.

TH E O LO G ICA L CLASS.In accordance with the decision of the Missionary Association at

its last annual meeting, the senior theological class has held its session at Cairo this year. It has consisted of two students from Koos, Mu-

lianna Barakat, of one of the earliest families adhering to our mission at Damascus, and a graduate of the College in Beirut; Wasif Nakhley, who has for several years done effective service as an evangelist in Suft, and who, it was thought, would be much profited by a term or two o f theological study preparatory to his settlement as pastor of that church ; and Ahmed, the Muslim convert above mentioned, who wras most happy to avail himself of the opportunities for increasing his knowledge of the Christian system afforded by the class.

The duration of the session has been five months, and in this timeT in the Departments of Hermeneutics and Hebrew, Dr. Lansing has given lectures on the principles and rules o f Interpretation, and the history and genuineness of the Pentateuch. In Hebrew the class has read the whole of the book of Genesis, the first twenty chapters of Exodus, and nine chapters of Job.

Dr. Watson, in his Department of Systematic Theology, has pro­ceeded to the person and offices of Christ, and has, besides, given lec­tures on the philosophy o f the plan of salvation, pursuing the subject to the giving of the Law. The students have preached during the session twice, and also read an essay each on subjects assigned them by the Professors, and they have occasionally officiated at evening meetings, these various exercises being criticised by the Professors.

W e cannot close this account of the Cairo mission for the past year without recording our sense of gratitude to the great Head of the church for all the tokens o f his gracious presence and blessing given us. He has enabled us, as true and living yoke-fellows, to labor to­gether in the gospel, though, on account of the abundance of the labor demanded of us we have at times been faint in the way, we have still felt it a privilege to work in so good a cause. The measure of success granted is a pledge of still greater success in the future, and for these things we “ thank God and take courage,” trusting that we may still be supported by his grace, and by the prayers and efforts of his people in other lands. [Signed] G. L ansing .

A . W a t s o n .

REPORT OF FAYOUM STATION FOIi 1877-’78.Missionaries, Rev. W . Harvey and wife.After laboring for nearly ten years in the Fayoum, they went to the

United States, expecting to return to their work in the following year; but they wrere detained a year longer because of lack of funds in the treasury. On the 9th of May they arrived in Alexandria, and proceeded at once to their old station. But entering the country in the heat of summer, their child wTas taken so ill that the family was obliged to seek medical aid and the advantages o f the sanitarium in Ramleh. while the missionary himself spent between two and three months of the summer preaching and directing the work in the pro­vince o f the Fayoum.

A t the meeting of the Missionary Association, held at Ramleh on the 29th o f July, Rev. W . Harvey was requested to labor in the pro­vinces o f the Fayoum, Keneh and Esneh, until the annual meeting, to be held in Osiout on the 22d o f March, 1878. In accordance with this appointment he spent about five months in the latter provinces, visiting the infant churches and gathering the nuclei of others. For particulars see report of Koos an d stations south.

r e l i g i o u s s e r v i c e s .The regular Sabbath services and the night meetings were sus­

tained during the year, v iz .: two on the Lord’s day, one four nights

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In the week daring one-half of the year, and five the other half, Saturday night being specially set apart for prayer. The average attendance at the Sabbath morning service was 61 men, 38 women, 43 boys, and 12 girls—total, 154. And p . m. ft was 53 men, 17 women, 33 boys, and 7 girls—total, 110. And the average attendance at the night meetings was 29 men, 5 women, 5 boys, and 2 girls—total, 41. Seventeen of the members of the congregation volunteered to visit certain parts of the town in theiutervalof the morning and afternoon service, to read the Scriptures to those who might listen, and induce them to attend the church.

Monthly meetings were held to hear reports from these volunteers, and to give the pastor an opportunity of encouraging them to dili­gence and perseverance in this good work. The pastor accompanied by an elder visited all the families of the congregation in Sinoris three times during the year, notice being given on the Lord’s day of the families to be visited. We believe that this systematic visitation o f the families has been a means of spiritual profit to the people.

W O R K AM ONG T H E W O M E N .The Bible woman continued her work during the year with evident

profit to the women, and pleasure and encouragement to herself. She was assisted during the vacation of the Osiout College by one o f the students whose home is in Sinoris. The number of women who took lessons was twenty-two.

The pastor held a special meeting for women every, Thursday, which was attended by from twelve to twenty women, besides all the girls of the school. Some of the women attended this meeting regu­larly without being absent a day, and their faithfulness had its own reward in the evident progress they made.

One of the elders taught a class of seventeen women on Sabbath morning while the Sabbath school was in session. This was ako a valuable means of profit to those who, a few years ago, were entirely neglected and considered incapable of learning.

SABBATH SCHOOL.The average attendance at this school was 49 men, 17 women, and

18 boys—total, 84. The lessons during the year were from the Old Testament, and the pastor spent one night every week in order to prepare the teachers for instructing their classes on Sabbath morning. Members received on profession of their faith since last report, 20 ; present membership, 134; baptisms, infants, 22.

C O N TRIBU TION S B Y C O N G R E G A T IO N .Tithes and offerings........................................................................ $290.00Sabbath collections.......................................................................... 61.00Sabbath school collections............................................................. 11.00Special collections........................................................................... 36.00

$398.90Expenditure.

Part of pastor’s salary.................................................................... $240.00For the poor.................................................................................... 37.00To the Moteah church building................................................. 33.00Evangelistic work............................ 23.00Congregational expenditures........................................................ 15.00To students in college..................................................................... 14.00To balance........................................................................................ 36.00

$398.00

M.-llOOLN.Girls’ School.—This was conducted during the year by blind Roda,

assisted by some of the boys from the boys’ school, who gave lessons in writing and arithmetic. The average attendance was 16. Three of the former pupils of this school are in the girls’ boarding-school in Cairo and one of them in Osiout.

Boys'1 School.—Average attendance for tbe year was 57. The pas­tor of the congregation gave a Bible lesson daily, and opened the school with prayer. The studies were reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, algebra, geography and English.

Seven boys and one girl from Sinoris went to the higher schools in Osiout, for which they were in some measure prepared by their at­tendance for several years here. Hence the importance of encourag­ing the local primary schools in w hich the elementary branches are taught students preparatory to entering the training college, instead, o f crowding the latter with pupils from a distance who have not mas­tered the lower studies of a common school.

The tuition fees were S44.00, which is $9.00 more than the previous year.

O U T -S T A T IO X S .Suft.—Wasif Nakhley, evangelist, labored here until the open­

ing of the theological class in Cairo in October. Since that time the Sabbath services have been conducted either by him o.v one of the students, who went there on Saturday and returned to the class on Monday. Revs. Lansing, Harvey and Shenudy visited this place several times during the year. The Lord’s Supper was dispensed twice and three added to the church.

Considerable progress has been made in building their church and school rooms during the last year, and it is hoped that during the present year they will have them roofed and occupied.

.Boda.—̂ Ghabral Yooseph spentabout three months here, after which he returned to his work in Sanhoor. The lack of one who could in­struct the people and conduct their meetings is painfully apparent in the coldness or lukewarmness which characterize the few members here. It is very necessary that one be located either in this town or in Tamieh, so as to carry on the work in both places.

Sanhoor.—The wrork in this place has been very encouraging du­ring the year. Seven persons were added to the three who formerly made a profession of their faith.

Ghabral Yooseph, after spending about three months in Roda, returned to this place, where he has taught the children by day and conducted meetings by night. W e hope that by the blessing of God on the means of grace employed this town will soon become a centre of light and blessing to the towns and villages around it.

Medeenet.—After the boys’ and girls’ schools had been closed for some time, a few of the people began to feel their value by their loss, and requested Mr. Harvey to send them a teacher, they pledging themselves to pay his salary as well as the other expenses of the school. Accordingly a teacher was sent, and a school supported by the natives, though not Protestant, was opened, with the understand­ing that we superintend it and teach what we choose.

A school for girls was also opened here, the parents of the children assuming the expenses, and the teacher, one formerly employed by us. I f they only persevere in sustaining these two schools, it will be a very important step for the worldly-minded inhabitants of Medeenet.

During the time Mr. Harvey spent in the Fayoum, last sum­mer, he visited this place once a week, and conducted divine service.

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May the seed sown in former years bring forth fruit in answer to the prayers offered for this very object.

Books sold, 733 vols., at $156.00.A t the close of the annual statement read by Rev. Shenudy at the

meeting of the congregation (from which the items of the above re­port are chiefly taken) he says: “ Rev. Harvey and family returned to this place on the 17th of May, after an absence of two years. W e were exceedingly glad to see him and his family safe and well, and to have him unite with us again in the great work for which he •came to this land. It is our duty to mention also that our place of worship was completed by its being furnished with seats, tne iron ends of which, besides a large bell and lamps for the church, were brought by Rev. Harvey from America. Truly, we are all indebted to him very much for his efforts to provide us with these useful things. May the Lord reward, assist and prosper him in all his ways.” It should be added that this expression of gratitude on the part of the native pastor on behalf of the congregation is especially due to the friends who contributed towards the building and furnish­ing of the Sinoris church. An elder was ordained on the 19th of March. Dr. Lansing moderated on the occasion. Rev. S. Robson, formerly of the Damascus mission, being present, took part in the exercises.

The congregation, with a pastor, two elders and two deacons, is now furnished with Christ's gifts to his church, which by his bless­ing should promote their edification, and make them the means of ■communicating to others the blessings of the gospel which they enjoy. W m. H a r v e y .

OSIOUT.M ission Cir c u it .—150 miles in length. Population, 1,700,000.C e n t r a l St a t io n .— Osiout (or Assiout, Siout, etc.), capital o f the Thebaid, situated

nearly midway between Cairo and Luxor, at the terminus o f the Upper Egypt Railway. Population about 3U.0U0. Mission established in 1865. Missionaries—Revs John Hogg, D. I ) , J. R. Alexander, John Giffen, and their wives, and Misses M. J. McKown and M. G. Lockhart. Native agents, seventeen in number, viz.: Mr. Ibrahim Yusef, licentiate, eight male and four female teachers, two Bible women, a shopman and a colporteur.

O u t-s t a t io n s -T w enty-four in number. Sixteen o f these lie within a radius o f fr o m 8 to 9j miles from Osiout. The remaining eight are from 180 to 300 miles distant from the central station. Native agents, thirty-five in number, viz : Rev. Tadrus Yusef and Girgis Rufae-1, pastors, five licentiates, fourteen school teachers, six catechists and helpers, five theological students during six months and three colporteurs.

T H IR T E E N T H A X X U A L R E P O R T .Summary.

New stations opened last year........................ 5Religious services held at 25 stations ...................... 9,144Average attendance at Sabbath forenoon services..................... 97oIncrease of do. do. in that of 1876....... 284Added by profession last year........................................................ 83Present membership, 81st March, 1878........................................ 588Baptisms (including 3 adults)........................................................ 79Sabbath schools..;........................................ 20Teachers and officers in do............................................................. 52Average attendance at do............................................................... 679

do. do. 25 nightly meetings............................... 463Contributions of native members.................................................. $3,040Pupils in 21 native congregational schools.................................. 670Female pupils in mission boarding-school.................................. 25Students in Theological Seminary, junior class......................... 7

do. Training College........................................................ 80Adult females taught at home........................................................ 352Whole number under almost daily instruction........................... 1,592

Sales in Bookshop and by Colportage from Dec. ls£, 1876, to Nov. 30th, 1»77:

Scriptures..................................... vl,490 volumes............. $294.50 (gold.)Religious literature.....................-.2,316 do................... 309.00 uEducational, etc............................ 938 do................... 312.50 “

Total, 4,744 vols. $946.00 (gold.)

Increase of sales of former year, 1,460 vols................... £212.00 “

T R A IN IN G IN STITU TIO N S.1. The Training College and Mission Seminary.

The following is the report o f the work o f the past year in the academical or collegiate department of the missionary institution:

I. REPORT OF OSIOUT TRA IN IN G COLLEGE. {March 22d, 1877—March 22d, 1878.)

B O A RD OF D IR E CTO RS.Revs. Dr. Hogg, J. Giffen and J. R. Alexander.

SU M M A RY .•Pupils enrolled during the j ear............... 96Average monthly attendance................... 80Receiving aid from Pressly Fund—in

full, 14; in part, 12..................................... 26Supporting them selves.............................. 60Paying tuition.............................................. 20

Cost for support of one student per month 82Villages and towns represented................ 16Pupils who became church members 10

do. graduated this year................ 10Teachers......................................................... 7Literary societies (one English)................ 4

This department of the educational work o f Osiout station was re­opened on the 4th day of July. The Rev. John Giffen, having been transferred to Osiout by order of the Association, engaged with Dr. Hogg and J. R. Alexander in the work of the school from its open­ing. Two of our teachers having left us at the close of last year, we employed the native preacher three hours each day, and engaged two of our last year’s graduates as regular teachers. W e have thus had the assistance of but four native teachers. Also, Mrs. Alexander has taught a class, beginning in English.

During the year there have been 96 students in attendance—the monthly average being 80.

In all the classes there has been commendable progress by nearly all the students, some having shown themselves real students in all that makes up a student’s character. The preparatory classes in ge­ography, map-drawing and Bible history have given great pleasure to their teachers. (The same can well be said of the graduating class in regard to their studies in logic, moral and natural philosophy. Four, at least, of the members of this class are as promising students as ever passed through my hands.—J. H .)

The school has been opened each morning by prayer and a half- hour’s lesson in the Book of Proverbs. The following half hour was devoted to the study of Bible history. During this lesson the school was divided into three sections, one studying the Pentateuch, ano­ther the History of the Kings of Israel and Judah, and a third the History of the New Testament, together with a general introduction to the study of the Bible. The Sabbath and nightly services were, o f course, attended by all the students. They have also sustained a students’ prayer meeting and a Sabbath school. Quite a number have taken part in the congregational evangelistic work, and gone from place to place on the Sabbath, bearing the word of life.

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This year ten young men have completed the course of study, and, after a satisfactory examination, received the institution’s diploma. Their names are as follows: •

1. Abi9khairoon Yoosef, from the Fayoum.2. Ateeya Soos, from ISTaklialeh.3. Benyameen Fam, do. do.4. Marcus Shenoodeh, do. do.5. Abd Es Seyyid Moosa, from the Fayoum.6. Aweda Abd Esh Shaheed, from Moteah.7. Shehata Aweda, do. do.8. Boolos Abd Esh Shaheed, do. do.9. Tadrus Habl, from Osiout.10. Butrus Ekhnookh, do. do.Six of these young men made application to Presbytery to be re­

ceived as students of theology, but, on account of their youth and in­experience, it was thought best for them to delay for a time. The whole ten have been sent to different towns and villages to conduct or open schools, and so, if the Lord wills, to begin a work for his name’s glory.

During the year ten of the students were received into the mem­bership of the Protestant church of Egypt. Among these was Mo­hammad Mohammad, a Moslem. He is a native of the district of the Fayoum, and was brought up under the influence of Rev. W ; Harvey and family. Four years ago he, with several others from his village, came to our school. He has long felt convinced of the truth of the Christian religion and the falsity of Islam; but he never could bring himself to make a profession of his faith in Christ as hia Saviour. However, after earnestly thinking and praying for some time, he was led to ask for admission into the church of Christ, and in January (in the presence of over 400 spectators) he was baptized in the name of thè Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

As usual, there has been a public examination of all the classes at the close of each term. At the close of the year, besides the regular examinations, some of which were held before the Presbytery of Egypt and the Missionary Association, the junior and afterwards the senior classes gave interesting entertainments, showing their progress in literary attainments. Many o f the enlightened citizens o f Osiout and vicinity were present at these closing exercises, and as they seemed much interested, and expressed themselves as well pleased, we hope that ere long our school may make itself to be a ne­cessity to even these people.

A t a meeting of the Board o f Directors it was agreed to extend the course of study to eight years, instead of six, making the preparatory and academical courses each to cover four years. Also, in order to accommodate the boys who help in the harvest and those who work as evangelists, it was determined to re-open the preparatory depart­ment after a vacation of only one month, and to delay opening the academical department until the beginning of August.

Mention was made in our last report of Dr. Johnston’s efforts in America and Dr. Hogg’s in Scotland to secure funds for the erection of a new school building Dr. Johnston reports $10,000 as subscribed or in the hands of the Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions. Dr. Hogg reports the following sums received for the same purpose:In 1874.—From C. Arbuthnot, Esq., Pittsburgh................. $500

“ J. M. Stewart, Esq., Indiana...................... 100Total from America, $600-

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From Scotland, England and Ireland:It) 1874.—From sundry friends............................................. SVouIn 1876. do. do.........................:............................. 760

“ “ United Presbyterian students, Scotland . 5,0o0Total from Scotland, etc.. $7,110

$7,710N. B.—I would suggest that the Board consult with Dr. Watson

about the statement Dr. Hogg here makes in regard to the money of the present college that is in the mission treasury. Mr. GifFen, our present Treasurer, says that the sum contributed by the United Pres­byterian students, Scotland, is not in the mission treasury. 1 do not have time to write to Dr. Hogg before sending this. The sum from the students has of course been reported, and I think is invested; but this statement seems to imply that the mission is indebted to this extent to the funds of the college. I may, however, not understand Dr. H ogg’s statement as he intends it should be understood. Per­haps he only means that the sum is not in the hands of himself or any other individual.—S. C. E w i n g .

(This sum, together with the interest received thereon up to the present time, is now in the mission treasury. The above does not include $2,500 donated by the General Assembljr, and remitted, along with some $500, direct to the mission treasurer. —J. H.)

The selection and purchase of a site for building should next en­gage our attention.

T H E MISSION SE M IN A R Y .“ The Mission Association, having at its last annual meeting, in view of the impracticability of transferring one o f the Cairo mission­aries to Osiout every winter, in order to assist in conducting this in­stitution, resolved to divide it into two sections, junior and senior, the former to be taught in Osiout, and the latter in Cairo, we can only subjoin here the report of

T H E OSIOUT, OR JU N IO R D IV ISIO N .(October 16th, lf>77, to April 30th. 1878)

Students of Firxt Year.1. Ibrahim Antonius, from the town of Moteab.2. Hanna Grace, do. do.3. Tadrus Hanna, do. Osiout.4. Mikhail Mizzeeki, do. Jawily.o. Hanna Bishai, do. Nakhaleh.6. Matta Mikhail, ;do. do.7. Boolos Mikhail, do. NT egad eh.This class has met with Dr. Hogg five hours daily, four in the

forenoon and one or more in the evening, after the close o f the nightly meeting. A ll the students were present at the opening of the session, and none have been absent from a single recitation with­out a special and sufficient reason. They have all worked harfi.

The studies of the session have included (1) a daily lesson in moral science along with the graduating class in the training college. In this the principal textbooks have been “ Alexander’s Moral Science,” “ McCosh’s Method of Divine Government” (book thirdijand Prof. Calderwood’s admirable “ Hand-Book of Moral Philosophy;” (2) another in the Evidences of Christianity, including Inspiration, the Canon, etc., in which we had the help of Alexander’s small work (which has been translated into Arabic), and some notes in manu­script gathered from the works of Westcott, Bannerman,'Angus, etc.;

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{3) a third on Introduction to the Study of the Gospels, including a Study of the lsraelitish Economy, i. e., an attempt to ascertain the main functions which this economy was meant to fulfil as prepara­tory for Christ and prophetic of him (chiefly from Garbett’s u Divine Plan of Revelation’ ’ and Turner’s “ Studies, Biblical and Oriental” ) , the connection between the Old and New Testaments (from Maclear’s Class-Book of New Testament History, translated in manuscript), the Life of Christ (from the late Mr. Calhoun’s most valuable “ Har­mony of the Gospels,” in Arabic), and the biographies of the four evangelists and distinctive characteristics of their gospels (Westcott and E. A . Thomson); (4) a fourth in the Elements of the Hebrew Language, including exercises in reading and writing. The first twenty chapters of the book of Genesis have been read and carefully analyzed, special attention being called to the laws of inflection or vowel change in the hope of laying the foundation of accurate scho­larship in what, to our students, ought to be a language of easy acqui­sition.

The subjects of study in the evening have been of a kind to interest others besides the members of the Theological class. On Monday evenings Mohammedanism versus Christianity has been the subject of a weekly lecture all throughout the session. On the three following evenings, after the close of the nightly service, “ the Atonement” has been our theme, and Dr. Smeaton’s masterly volumes our text­book. At,these meetings the class has formed a small proportion of the audience, and it was pleasing to see others besides them taking pretty full notes as we went along.

Two hours every Friday forenoon were devoted to giving homiletical hints and criticising exercises prepared by the class. Besides these weekly exerqises each student wrote, committed and delivered a popular discourse atone of the evening meetings during the course of the session. They also conducted a literary society amongst them­selves, and along with their teacher took a leading part in the work of the Osiout Evangelistic Society, whose members (two-thirds of whom belong to the Training College and Mission Seminary) made during nine months 135 visits to 22 towns and villages outside of Osi­out, and held 56 meetings in ten different districts within the town. The following is a list of the towns, etc., visited, and the number of visits made to each: Maasera (about six miles distant from Osiout), 25 visits; Jawily (12 m.), 11; Manfaloot (18 m.), 15; Shutb (5 m.) 10; Mooshi (8 m.), 9 ; Bagore (10 m), 7 ; Wasta (3 m.l, 7 ; Deyr (6 m.), 6 ; Beni Adel (18 m.), 6; Benoob (8 m.), 5 ; Dronka (3 m.) 5; Reefa (5 m.), 5; Zerabi (18 m .), 4 ; Azzieh (15 m.), 4; Weladieh (2 m.), 3 ; Se- nabo (30 m.), 3 ; Hammam (9 m.), 2; Moteah (10 m.), 2; Coosieh (28 m.), 2 ; Mair (30 m.) 2; Howatka (13 m.), 1 ; Ghanayim (25 m .), 1. As a fruit of these labors three new stations have been opened, viz.: Maasera, Manfaloot and Beni Adel. Other places, where the preachers met with much ill-usage at first, now welcome them gladly. Thus, whijle preachers are being prepared for the field, the field is being pre­pared l'or them.

The following is Miss McKown’s report:2. T H E BOARDING- SCHOOL FOR G IR LS.

Superintendent.—M. J. McKown.Teachers.

Miss McKown, nine months, five to seven hours daily.Mrs. Hogg, five and a half months, one to three hours daily.Miss Lockhart, three months, two hours daily.

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Mrs. Giffen, five months, two and a half hours daily.Mrs. Alexander, four months, one hour daily.Two native assistants, five months, and afterwards only six.

Studies.Arabic.—Old and New Testament Church History, Grammar,

Arithmetic, Geography, Reading, Writing, Composition and Cate- ■chisms.

English.—Reading and Writing. Sewing, Knitting, Needle work ^nd House-work. An average of twenty classes per day.

Summary.Total enrolment for tlie year.................... 62A verage month 1 y enrolment ........ 49Boarders enrolled ....................................... 25Average monthly enrolment ........ 22Number who supported themselves.. 20Supported by individuals or societies 3Supported by Mission treasury................. 2♦Average monthly expense, 1 boarder. 54 00

Day scholars enrolled................................. 37Average monthly enrolm ent................... 37Paying tuition...'.......................................... 2«Monthly fee, 15 and 25 centsTowns represented including O siout 11Daughters o f Protestant parents, board­

ers ........................................................... 23Do , d.ty scholars........................................ 14Daughters o f O ptic parents, boarders.... 2

* Incorrectly reported last year at «2.50. I Do., day scholars......................................... 211By comparing the above summary with that contained in the last

report, it will be seen that the school has made progress in several re­spects, especially in regard to numbers and self-support. We have also had larger pupils, and, therefore, more advanced studies, while each year we are able to note an improvement in habits of study and general deportment.

In addition to the ordinary lessons in the school-rooms, the girls have met in the church in the morning, in company with the stu­dents from the Training College, for prayer and various exercises. These exercises were conducted by Dr. Hogg, and were very benefi­cial to the girls. They have also shared with the students in the lessons in vocal music given by Dr. Hogg once a week in the church, and they can now sing almost any tune at sight.

E X A M IN A T IO N S .Since writing the last report we have held two public examinations

of the school, specimens of plain and ornamental neede-work being exhibited at the same time. Hitherto we had not attempted anything o f the kind, and we felt somewhat anxious about the result o f sucli an innovation on the habits of seclusion so rigidly enforced on the females of the East. The first examination proved a success, but we had not ventured to invite any visitors outside of those immediately connected with the school. The second and more public one was a much severer ordeal for the girls. The graduating class from the Col­lege and the advanced girls were examined the same day in the church, the two classes alternating. The audience filled the church, and in­cluded the members of the Missionarjr Association and the Presbytery, together with a large number of the most prominent men of the town, Copts and Mohammedans. The girls acquitted themselves very well, and the natives expressed themselves as delighted with their deportment, and surprised at the attainments they had made.

TE A C H Eli S A N D N EEDS.All of the missionary ladies connected with the station have been

engaged in the school, more or less, during the year, but not all at one time. Mrs. Hogg continued to devote three hours a day to the school until November, but latterly her other duties have increased so much that she has not been able to spare more than one or two

hours. Miss Lockhart was taken ill about the end of March (1877) r since which time she has not been able for any work whatever in the boarding-school. Mrs. Giffen and Mrs. Alexander began teaching in August and Septeml>er respectively. Mrs. Giffen, having made rapid progress in the Arabic, was able to take advanced classes. As Mrs. Alexander had also a class in the Training College, she could only spare us one hour a day. In October we were obliged to send one of our native assistants to supply a vacant place in Miss Lockhart’s school. Hitherto we have failed in all our attempts to secure an educated native woman to act as matron.

The day-school, which is supported by one of the members o f the Osiout congregation, has been increasing in numbers very rapidly this winter, and has now a daily attendance of over one hundred pupils. Hitherto Miss Lockhart has had the superintendance of it, but on account of her health she has been advised to return to America for a time, and the school is now left in my care. A young man, a member of the congregation, has offered to open a new school for girls in a very needy part of the town, and pay all its expenses, if we can supply the teachers and superintend it. My own time is already fully occupied with teaching, superintending accounts, etc., in the boarding-school; and from the steady growth of the school since it was first opened, and especially the interest awakened the past year by means of the examinations, we confidently expect a large addition co the number of our pupils the ensuing year.

In view, therefore, of the immediate demand for more laborers, 1 beg to urge the members of the Association to increase the estimates for this work, so as to allow us to procure native teachers from Syria and Lowqr Egypt for the present year; and I also respectfully request them to ask the Mission Board to send out, as soon as possible, at least one new missionary lady for the wrork in Osiout.

E XPE N SE S A N D R E C E IP T S.The whole expenses for the year, including cost of twenty iron bed­

steads, salary of writing-master, board, etc., was S615.50; receipts for boarding and tuition and contributions, §249.50; whole amount charged to mission treasury, $366.00. One pupil was entirely sup­ported by the Sabbath school of the First Church, Monmouth, Ills. Another was partially supported by ladies of the Associate Reformed Church of the South, per Mrs. Giffen. AVe are also indebted to a con­gregation near Monmouth, Ills., (name unknown) for a contribution of $25, forwarded by the late Rev. G. D. Henderson.

SAB B ATH E X E R C ISE S.The Sabbath school connected with our boarding school was con­

tinued thr’oughout the year. The boarders and all the day scholars attended it regularly, the latter remaining for the church service. I have also conducted a Bible class in the afternoon for the teachers and large girls, and a lesson and social talks on personal religion with the younger ones in the evening. Two of the boarders united with the church during the year ; and since August last a number of the large girls have conducted a weekly prayer-meeting by them­selves. M. J. M cK ow x.

The following is Miss Lockhart's report of tlie Congregational Girls’ School:

The number of pupils enrolled this year was 209. The average daily attendance was 65. The school is composed chiefly of Coptic girls. Six pupils from this school entered the boarding-school during the year. Fifty-three of the pupils nowin school use the New Testament

«8 a text-book. The first class have read as far as the Epistles to the •Corinthians. There are two blind girls in school, who use the em­bossed type prepared in London. Two of the scholars died during my absence in the summer, one a tall, mild-faced girl, of perhaps twelve years. I went to see the mother after my return. She was inconsolable in her grief, and kept wailing, “ It is because of my sin, my sin, she was taken away !” I could learn nothing which showed she had taken aught to heart of the instruction received in the school. It was a lesson which I reminded the teachers we should not forget, and which should prompt us always to be faithful in personal deal­ings with the souls of those committed to our care. The attendance at Sabbath school this winter has been better than ever before, about two-thirds of the number who attend through the week coming with unusual regularity

They have done commendably in memorizing Brown's and the Shorter Catechism, and I trust the learning of those doctrines may prove the foundation of a living faith.

I was notable, on account of ill health, to return to Osiout until December 1st, and have regretted much that I was able to attend to so few of the many, many calls which have been made upon me. This school is under the care of Mr. Wasif El Ivhayat, a mem­ber of the Osiout church. He lias assumed its expenses as a part of his efforts in furtherance of the evangelistic and missionary work of the Osiout congregation. (Signed) M. G . L o c k h a r t .

N A T IV E COXG IIEO ATION S A X D MliS'JON STATIONS.It will be seen from the general summary prefixed to this report

that the work of the Lord in the Thebaid continues to enlarge and expand from year to year.

New Mission Stations.Five new preaching stations have been opened this past year, v iz .:

(1) Beyyadieh, on the west bank of the Nile, a few miles below Mel- lawi, where an audience of thirty gives a weekly welcome to the pas­tor of Mellawi, and a little company of ten meet every evening to search the Scriptures together, and learn of them “ the way of God more perfectly.” (2) Maasera, six miles distant from Osiout, and on the opposite side of the Nile, where three young men, after bearing up patiently for years against the current of opposition stirred up by the priests and abetted by their own fathers, who are leading men in the town, have at length mustered courage to initiate an aggressive movement by starting an evening meeting, opening a day school, and asking Presbytery to send them a preacher during the six months’ vacation of the Seminary. (3) Temeh, midway between Nakhaleli andMishta. (4) Diveyr. between Temeh and Zerabi. And (5) Merees, 200 miles further south (between Luxor and Erment)—all of which are nowropen to the preacher, and to some extent supplied with stated preaching.

P R E S E N T R A N G E OF E V A N G E L IST IC IN FLU EN C ES.These five, added to the twenty noted in last report, make a total

of twenty-five spiritual foci or light centres from which now issue those renovating influences which are destined to regenerate Egypt, and prepare it for its high mission to the tribes of Eastern and Cen­tral Africa. A. glance at the “ summary” will show that at each of these preaching stations over 3-50 religious meetings were held on an average during the past year. The total expense to the mission trea­sury of the fifty native laborers who took part with the missionaries (the Rev. W . Harvey in the neigborhood o f Koos and Luxor, and

Dr. Hogg in the province of Osiout) in conducting these meetings was $1,718. Let it be noted, too, that for every three dollars spent by the mission on this work and the agents engaged in it, the native congregations spent five, Osiout giving S I , 071, Moteah, $637, Koos, $353, Nakhaleh, $308‘, and Mellawi, $207.

This steady increase in the number of our out-stations or evangelis­tic centres continues to be a gratifying and hopeful feature of our work in Upper Egypt It is thus that the “ whole Jump” will one day be “ leavened.” During the past two years twelve such centres have been established. This growth, though numerically larger, is relatively smaller than that of the preceding three successive couplets of years. During these the number of out-stations, successfully occu­pied by Christian workers, had doubled every two years. Thus in 1870, when the Theban volunteers began in earnest to “ work in the vineyard,” the number of stations was only two; in 1872 they had in­creased to four; in 1874 to eight, and in 1876 to sixteen. At this rate of progression we ought to have been able to record an addition of sixteen instead of twelve during the past two years, and in point of fact the missing four are actually being occupied, while we pen these lines, by agents of the mission appointed by Presbytery a fortnight ago. W e refer to Manfaloot, Beni Adee, the southern suburb of Osi­out and the town of Girgeh. In this last place four members of the church of Mellawi have recently taken up their abode, and one of them has opened a night meeting in bis house for the study of the Scriptures. Indeed, it may be now said that the whole land is open, and that henceforth stations will increase as fast as we are able to oc­cupy them.

RED RESS OF G R IE V A N C E S .Thanks to the indefatigable efforts of the Hon. C. Vivian, H. B.

M .’s Agent and Consul-General for Egypt, the cases of religious in­tolerance mentioned in so many previous reports, and described some­what in detail in our last report, have been redressed at last. At mid­night on the 8th of June the Governor of Osiout, under the pressure- of stringent orders from the Khedive, told the Sheikhs of Moteah, who had been hurriedly sent for after sunset, that they must there and then declare their willingness to allow the Protestants to build their church on one of the sites selected by them, and after they had made in writing a formal declaration to that effect, the Cadi, by his orders, took them to witness that the site selected was in every way eligible for the purpose intended, and no possible objection could be made to the luilding of a Protestant church in that very spot.

Seven months later a similar issue was obtained in the Koos case. On the 2d of January, 1878, the Deputy-Governor of the Province of Keneh visited Koos, measured oil a plot of ground, and foimally handed it over to the Protestant community in the name oi the K he­dive, with permission to build their church upon it. In this, as in the former case, all local opposition was at last foreclosed, as it ought to have been years ago, by the simple declaration that such was the Khedive’s sovereign will and pleasure.

The third case, that of the bastinadoing of Berais Buktor, of Ne- gadeh, seems to have fallen through chitfly because the Local Tri­bunal took up a wrong issue, viz;.: that of wilful murder, a crime which cannot be proved in this country by any amount oi mere mo­ral evidence. The last official information which we have in regard to this case is contained in a letter from the English Consul-General, dated Alexandria, Oct. 3d, 1877, in which he says: “ As regards the Sheikh of Negadeh, Chtrif Pasha informed me that a judicial inquiry is being held into his conduct by the Local Tribunal, the result o f

which must be awaited, i f the result proved unsatisfactory, he said he should remove the ‘venue’ to Cairo, where he would see that the case was fully and impartially investigated.” Now that we got whaut we wanted in the other two cases, we care not to press this one any more, although it was this last that brought the Evangelical Alli­ance and through them the British Goverment to exert their influ­ence to secure the redress of our other grievance«.

Ill consequence of the happy issue of the Moteah ease, and the hopes held out of a similar issue being obtained in the K o o s cane, it was felt to be very important that one of the members of the mission should spend the months o f winter in the neighborhood of Koos and Negadeh. The Rev. W. Harvey, having recently returned from America and found his old station ac Sinoris occupied by a native pastor, was somewhat freer than the rest of us to accept of this ap­pointment for at least one winter. His visit was very opportune. Would that it could be repeated every winter until at least the Pro­testant communities in Koos and Luxor have pastors of their own.

Although we shall be obliged from want of room to gather up the news of the remaining sevenieen stations into a table of dry statistics, we gladly introduce here in full the report prepared at our request by our brother of his labors during the past winter in the southern and hitherto much-neglected section of the Upper Egypt field. This dis­trict now contains eight mission stations, the principal statistics o.f which may be summarized thus:

STATISTICS OF STATIONS IN T H E P liO V IN (.E < OK K'KN'EIl ANUESNTE II.

1. Koos. 2 AVff<i- a. Co:S- i. l.vx- 5 .Gi or- »1. 7. /•>- 8. K*'itih. xeir. or. iuh 7VY-.-. uunt. mh.

Present membership, 64 ti 5 i f n ; 4 u 4Increase by profession, ■2 1 4 4 1 2Attendance at. Sabbath

services. ±3 IÏ 17 34 20 Udo. at night class, 25 24 s 14 l(i 13 1-2 £

Pupils in day school. Si- s 1£Contributions, ¿353 £144 s4H *12 s i* il

The following is Mr. Harvey >

REPORT OF KOOS AND OUT-STATION S SOUTH TO EHN EH:KOOS.

The congregation in this place enjoyed the services of Butrus a«4 Buktor Dionysius, who taught the boys’ day school and conducted the daily meetings of the congregation from the close o f the •college term in March until October, when they went to Cairo for the pur­pose of prosecuting their theological studies.

Rev. W . Harvey arrived there on the 19th of October, and .after spending a few days, including a. Sabbath, visited the out-stati©.as and other towns south, then n turned to Koos, where he preached -on Sab­bath and conducted daily meetings for two months and a half.

The spiritual condition of the congregation is very low, atid a l­though there are sixty-four members, but few gave evidence o f having the work of the Lord at heart. When the Lord’s Supper was dis­pensed among them in the month of February, only twenty-six of the members took their places at the table. Their lack of spiritual life may be attributed to a variety of causes, among which are the long continued opposition to their obtaining permission to worship in the house they had built for a school and church, the of

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unanimity among themselves, and an unwillingness on the part of all, save a very few, to contribute for the education of their children and the spread of the gospel in the land.

On the 2d of January the Vice-Governor of the Province of Keneh went to Koos, and having called together the chief men of the town, both Muslims and Copts, in their presence, presented to the Protest­ants, in the name of the Khedive, a lot of ground 175 feet by 75. and at the same time gave them permission to build their place of worship thereon without let or hindrance from either party.

This providence seemed to liave the effect of inciting the Protestant community to the exercise of new zeal, so that the attendance of the children in the schools was increased, the night meetings were better attended, and the Sabbath audiences augmented. Contributions to the building fund were solicited, and before the missionary left $400 was subscribed by the natives, and of this $265 was paid. In the meantime the work of building a wall around the lot was begun, and part of the foundation of the church laid. It is hoped that their ef­forts to build a house for the worship of God will be a means of build­ing up their own souls in faith and holiness. When we consider the troubles and trials through which that little flock has passed since Brother Currie labored among them, the wonder is not so much that some have grown cold, but rather that there are so many who con­tinue faithful in giving their testimony to the gospel of Christ.

L U X O Ii, G O O IiXE H A X D E IU IE X T .These places have been reckoned as one charge, having enjoyed

the services of Mr. Theophilos Girgis as stated supply for the year.The brethren in Luxor are in great need of a place of meeting, as

none of their dwelling-houses is adapted to the mixed audiences of men and women and children who now meet together for worship each Lord’s dayr. They realize their necessity, and have begun to raise funds wherewith to buy a plot on which to build a house.

The congregation in Goorneh, which is composed of seventeen per­sons, all members of one family except four, seemed to be growing in grace. Living among the ruins of the ancient city of Thebes, and in the midst of a community who have no sympathy with them, they have few privileges except that of family worship.

The few who have professed their faith in Ennent manifested a good measure of life and zeal. They keep up nightly meetings for their spiritual improvement besides their Sabbath services. Realiz­ing the importance of having an evangelical teacher, who could in­struct their children and also conduct their meetings, they petitioned Presbytery to send them one, they pio uisingto pay his whole salary.

Rev. W . Harvey visited these places twice, and dispensed the two sacraments in each of them.

ESN EH .Esneh is the most southern point at which we have members of

the evangelical church. Here there are four, two of whom made a profession of their faith in November, one last year, and the other eight years ago. The latter, though a sincere and tried Protestant, has done little to recommend the gospel in his towrn, and this riot so much by unchristian conduct as by imprudence. When Rev. W . Harvey visited this place in November, very few persons were dis­posed even to hear the gospel; but a greater number of books were bought than at any former time by the people of E^neh. In the meantime a few friends were advised to open a school for boys, and as one of their number was well qualified for the work, the parents of the children engaged him. One result of this was to break down

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ilie prejudice of ecme,to tLat, when the missionary returned to make a second visit in February, he had an audience of upwards of twenty instead of six, as at first. One of our brethren desired to have his child baptized; but his wife, w ho is a bigoted Copt, fled to a convent, where she concealed herself and child until after tl̂ p missionary leit. A few days after this, when this brother was talking to one of the government scribes about the case, he was violently assaulted by him. Lord Aberdeen happened to be in Esneb at the time, and having been in­formed of the facts in the case, went to the Governor of the province and requested him to use his authority to prevent a similar occur­rence, which the Governor promised to do. •

Nl<:tiA.PE!.\Negadeh, on the west of the Nile, opposite Ivoos, has been notorious

for the opposition of its inhabitants to the gospel. A Roman Catho­lic priest has been located here for thirty-eight years, and, according to his own testimony, the people are worse now than they were when he took up his abode among them. After Rev. W . Harvey returned from visiting tl e out-stations south of lvoos, he had the mission boat lie up in front of IS egadeli, so that the people might have the opportunity of hearing the gospel. Meetings were held every night for five weeks, which, after the first night, were attended by from sixteen to thirty-three persons. So strange was this, in view of the former hos­tility, that even a Coptic priest said: “ It, was a miracle.” One young man was added to the five members in Negadeh who formerly pro­fessed their faith, and the Lord’s Supper was observed in the house of one of them. They requested Presbytery to send them a teacher who could instruct their children and conduct their meetings, they pro­mising to pay part of his salary and provide a house for him and a echool-room for the children.

E i M EREE>.El Merees is a small town between Luxor and Erment, where the

seed of the word had been sown and had taken root, so that, when Mr Harvey went there, he found four men desirous of making a profession of their faith. After hoi ding several meetings and making the usual examination of the candidates, they were admitted to the fellowship of the church, and the two ordinances of the New Testa­ment were observed. One of the four men who form the nucleus of a congregation there is brother of the Aboona or Metropolitan Bishop of Abyssinia.

COSSEIll ON TH E 15ED SEA.A few years ago the Copts of this town sent to Osiout for a Protest­

ant teacher who could instruct their children and conduct meetings for the study of the word of God. Their request wTas granted, and ooth the children and adults enjoyed and profited by this means of improvement. They have, from the first, paid the salary of their teacher without aid from the mission.

As the distance of Cosseir from the Nile Valley is about one hun­dred miles, and the only means of travelling is on camels, it had never been visited by any of our miss-ionaries. In the month of February Mr. Harvey crossed the desert from Koos and spent nine days in Cosseir, preaching and conducting daily meetings. Four men were admitted to the fellowship of the church on profession of their faith, and the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper were dispensed for the first time in that remote place, the inhabitants o f which are cut off, by their isolated position, from the privileges which others enjoy in many parts of Egypt. Two of the four persons having

slaves signed their free “ papers” before they publicly acknowledged the Lord Jesus Christ as their Master.

During the five months Rev. Harvey spent in Upper Egypt he dispensed the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper in eight different places, received on profession their faith fourteen persons, and baptized fourteen infants of memflers in six of the stations visited.

March 13th, 1878. W i t . H a r v e y .It were easy for us to tell in detail the history of the past year’s la­

bors at the remaining eighteen stations. But this report is already too long, and we forbear. A glance at the following summary will show the leading facts of the year at each:STATISTICS OF STATIONS IN T H E PR O V IN C E S OF 3JIN1EH, OSIOUT

A N D SOOHAJ.Present mem- hi crease by A verage at­ Attmdnnce Pupilf in Contributions

hi r.-hip. proftssimi. tendance at s. snvicts.

at nightly meetings.

day school.- to churches and schools.

(1) (Jiganized con­gregationit.

Osiout, 12? 2;-; 206 76 217 5(1,071Nakhalt'h. 5)7 1U '105 25 58 308Moteah, 47 54 21 24 637Mellawi, 27 4 35 31 35 207(2) Mis-'ion

Stations,Minieh, i 8 5uBeyyadieL. 30 10Jawily, 34 10 49 32 19 34Azzieh, 23 62 27 16 32Benoob, p 3 13 6 55 71Maasera, 3 22 5 17Bagore, 23 39 11 9 53Zerabi, 7 7 75 45 14Bedari, 23 30 18 9Temeli,Dweyr,

15 15 926 9 3

Mishta, 3* [ ‘2 61 28 17 30Tahta, 5 11 6 10 28

Respectfully submitted. J o h n H o g g ,J. R . A l e x a n d e r ,J n o . G i f f e n ,

Missionaries at Osiout.Osiout, April 11th, 1878.

a. i n d i a .

This mission was founded in 1855, and has, so far as we are able to state without formal statistics yet for the past year, lour leading stations, viz : Sealkote, Gujranwala, Gurdaspur and Jhelum— with smaller ones, viz : Pusroor* Zafferwal, Remnugger, Kalanoor, Demanugger and Keilu. Be­sides these, there are large numbers o f villages, where relig­ious instruction is mere or less regularly given.

Native.

In this mission the preaching of the word lists been faithfully carried on, the sacraments dispensed, schools, both for boys and girls, kept open, with most satisfactory evidences of progress on the part of the pupils. Itinerant and bazaar preaching have been maintained, and a very gratifying work has been well be­gun in the opening and carrying on, with the most encouraging success, a school of theology for the training of young men for the ministry.

The only statistics we nave received for this mission are as follows: Whole number of communicants, 213; increase byprofession, 40; by certificate, 15; decrease, 54; infant baptisms, 24; adult, 40; scholars in Sabbath schools, 247; teachers 15.

REPORT OF SEALKOTE »STATION FOR 1*77.LA BO RE R S.

Rev. Jas. S. Barr and wife, }Miss E. G. Gordon, ̂American.Miss Lizzie McCalian, }

Kealkote. — Haram-Dad, student of theology,' John Stevenson, assistant,

Mary Ann, female assistant,Jay Gopel Banerji, head master,Rev. George Lawrence,

Pusroor.— Jas. Wallace, assistant, |Chauqutta, assistant at Muralli, |

Zafferwal.—Jsa Bhajar, student of theology, J

The Rev. Samuel Martin departed for America on leave, near the end of February. By direction of the mission, Mr. Barr took charge of the station. In all other respects the laborers are nearly as repor­ted last year. All have enjoyed fair health; Miss McCahan suffered some from weakness of eyes, but a short stay at Dharmsala was sufficient to restore them, and since her return she has been closely engaged in the woik. Miss Gordon, after working all through a very trying hot season, spent a month at Dharmsala with marked benefit. After the session of the seminary closed, Mr. Barr spent six weeks on the Hills. With these exceptions all have been at their posts during the year.

One dear child, Howard Adelfrid Barr, after a short life of twTo months, was taken home to rest. He died at Dharmsala. July IKth, and was buried in the English churchyard.

BAPTISM S— A D U L T S, 23; IX FA NTS, 16.An analysis of the baptisms gives the following results: Three were

aged persons, one a Mohammedan farmer, one a Saiyid, that is, o f a fa­mily claiming direct descent from Mohammed through Aliand Fatimg.. one a poor widow, two were poor boys* the sole support of a widowed mother and their little brothers and sisters, the others were mostly poor people, coming some by families and some individually.

The aged persons baptized were the father of Kaniza, a Christian at Zafferwal, and the father and mother of Bajina, one of the stu­dents stationed at Zafferwal. A ll three were of the Mengh-en wea­ver caste. A ll are near the natural termination of their lives. The first is worthy of more particular notice as an instance of what

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may be done for Christ through the influence of a Christian family. This old man was so bitter when his son became a Christian, that he carried his son’s wife and family with him into Kashmere, lest they might too become Christians. After the family returned to the son, and the wife became a Christian, the old man would not come near them. This continued for some years. When he began to come, the son, his wife, and even the children talked to and read to him and taught him about Christ. During the last hot season he became anx­ious about his soul, and the son walked twenty-eight miles to seek advice. I told him we would first have the Christians come together and make his case a special object of prayer. This was done, and I sent him back with such instructions as seemed suitable for the old man, and also told him to write to me. In two days the letter came. I took two of the students with me and went out that night. I found the old man rejoicing in Christ, and baptized him. The son informed me that when he returned home and told his father the Christians at Sealkote Mere praying for him, he sat silent for some time and then said: u It is true, I believe, send for Sahib, I wish to be baptized.” As we returned home the next night, one of the stu­dents said: “ I am trembling to think how little faith we have in Christ's promises.” I could not answer, for I felt it ;vas too true of all of us.

Almost at the close of the year, Bajina, who is stationed at Zafterwal, came to ask me to go out and baptize Ms father and mother. It had been raining hard, the roads were bad and the river high: I waited two days and then started. After eight hours through mud and water and some difficulty at the river, I reached the place and spent the evening, with all the Christians around me, in a little room filled with smoke from a fire in the corner. The night was cold and damp; the surroundings not the most comfortable, yet we were all happy. Two more were to be formally added to our number in the morning when we met for service. After baptizing them I started for home, and after eight hours’ travelling, arrived safely.

Another scene was on a Sabbath in November, at a village called Muralli. A number of low-caste people, who had been for some time under instruction, were to be baptized. They were from a neighboring village, and the other people of their village were very bitter against them. They knew they would be persecuted for the name of Christ. The hour had been fixed for the service, and as it drew near, they and their wives and children and Christians from other places could be seen gathering towards the tent. It was soon filled. All around the open front of the tent a crowd of Hindoos and Mohammedans was ga­thered. After a plain practical talk on Christian duty, the adults were first baptized, and then the children as they stood ranged by their respective parents. It was touching to see the father of one lit­tle fellow of about two years of age trying to arouse him from his sleep that he might be baptized. At a sign he desisted, and the little fellow was baptized as he lay asleep on the carpet of the tent. They were in all twenty. They have had very much trouble since on account of water, but a little wholesome authority of government will soon make all right.

The Saiyid boy, mentioned above, had been here as an inquirer for some time, and was attending the city school. His relatives, to in­duce him to visit his village, came and told him his mother was very sick and wished to see him. When he arrived he found himself a prisoner. He, however, managed to send a letter, and a Christian visited his village. That night he escaped and was in Sealkote next morning. He has been baptized, and it is hoped he will be firm in

resisting the entreaties of his relatives. It is w ith regret, we have to say, that we doubt not many more might have been gathered in if we had been able to spend more time in the district.

IT IN E R A T IO N .Not more than six weeks have been spent by the missionary in

charge in what might be termed regular itineration. A number of short trips into the district have been made, but more on account of the Christians than for regular preaching, it was thought to be more necessary to look after the instruction and care of these than spend all the time in preaching to the heathen. Still, the assistants have been at work, and something has been done. One reports sixty villages visited, and of these, thirty in Kashmere Territory, He spent some days in Jummoo, the winter capital of the Maharajah. There seems to be an earnest spirit of inquiry abroad, and it would be well if we could do more to meet it than we are able to do just now. W e must have more men, foreign and native, to throw into the work. It is suffering now and will suffer more in the near fu­ture if our present weak-handed policy is to continue.

B A Z A A R P R E A C H IN G .This part of the work has been necessarily much neglected during

the year. Something has been done in the way of visits and familiar talks with people, but very little time could be spared from other du­ties for this.

SCHOOLS.(a) Boys ’ School in city. This school has had an average attendance

of 200. Average for January, 172; for December, 214. Amount of fees, Rupees 168-14-9. Progress, as indicated by monthly ex­aminations, good. The highest average of marks for the year was gained by Charles Scott, a literary student o f Presbytery. The sec­ond teacher was dismissed early in the year and his work provided for in other ways. The instruction in Bible has been carefulljr at­tended to, much of it personally. G. Lawrence assisted during the session of seminary. There have been no baptisms directly from the school. The boy mentioned above was connected with the school du­ring the summer, but cannot be counted as from it. One boy applied for baptism, but was deterred by the opposition of relatives. Several other boys are inquiring, but have not yet been convinced of the im­perative necessity of confessing Christ. Numbers are convinced of the truth of Christianity, yet it is simply a con version of the head and not of the heart. We know the Master’s promised time will soon come and this harvest will be reaped.

{b) Sabbath School. This has been carried on since March in the- church in the city. The attendance consisted of all the school-boys, the Christians and their children. The number has been quite large and the interest manifested good. It was commenced with some doubts as to its practicability, but these were soon set at rest, and it will be continued The object in commencing it was to give some of the younger boys instruction better suited to their years than was afford­ed by having them simply listen to a sermon. The arrangement is one hour for Sabbath school and then a short sermon, the whole ser­vice not taking over an hour and a half. The grextest difficulty met with is the lack of a suificient number of teachers during the time the seminary is not in session.

ic) Girls’’ Schools. Miss Gordon reports as follows: —“ The whole number enrolled during the year was 141, v iz : Sikhs,

23; Mazhabi Sikhs, 19; Mohmmedans, 99. Highest daily attendance.

1:27; Average daily attendance, 86. They are still divided into small schools kept in different places, but we hope, ere long, to bring them together.

“ Our enrolment this year for several reasons is smaller than last year. Some families, on account of famine, have been obliged to leave the place and go elsewhere to obtain a livelihood, and thus some of our most promising little girls have been taken away. (Some, from hatred of the Son o f God, have taken their girls away to read the Koran as soon as they were ready to begin the New Testament. The Koran being in Arabic, they merely learn to repeat it without understanding the meaning.

“ An old man hearing me one day reading, asked if I was reading about Noah. When I answered in the affirmative, he said, ‘ I know it all, but don't understand it. With your permission I wrill rehearse it.’ After listening to the account in Gen. vi. 8, he said he under­stood that, and then rehearsed his Arabic, which neither he nor I understood.

u Many families are very poor, and the mother feels that the girls’ time is lost in school when she is needed to spin the cotton, or fill the bobbins for the web, or go and gather fallen twigs along the roads and hedges for fuel, and which in these days may often be the ‘ sticks’ to bake the last handful of meal in the barrel. And often, to compensate for the loss of the girls’ time, three or four crying babies are put into the girls’ arms by their mothers in the middle of a lesson, just when they are least desired. Some, however, of these poor heathen mothers say tii t learning is not a bad thing, and some even say it is a good thing. We still have a number reading in the New Testament.

“■One large girl, a Mazhabi Sikh, who, two years ago, said it was no use for girls to read, as they were not eligible to office under gov- •ernment, has so changed her mind that she has read the whole of the New Testament, Pilgrim’s Progress, Bible stories, and nearly every thing that we can give her in Punjabi. She is anxious to read the Old Testament also, but as only the Psalms are yet translated into Punjabi, she has commenced learning the Persian character, that she may read more extensively.”

Miss McCahan reports as follows :“ On February 1st I began daily visits to the girls’ school in the

village of Hajepoor. This is the school mentioned in last year’s re­port, which had been almost broken up owing to a quarrel among the villagers. In fact the school had been closed, but was re-opened after a consultation with the chief men of the village, who promised that the quarrel should not any longer interfere with the work of the school. As Miss Gordon’s other schools claimed part of her atten­tion, I undertook the visiting of this one, thinking it would be more likely to revive if some one could visit it daily. I spent from one and a half to two hours each day in school, except during the month of March and part of April, during which time I was obliged to cease all work owing to the weakness of my eyes.

“ But our hopes in regard to the school were not realized, for the people did not fulfil their promises, and it was closed on the last of May.

“ On the 17th of May I opened a school for the children of the the­ological students who were attending the Seminary. There were fourteen enrolled, but owing to the prevalence of fever and ophthalmia among the children, we were obliged to close the school in June. It was my intention to open it again, but I started for the Hills on the

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2$th of June, and when I returned the Seminary was closed, and the children had gone with their parents to their respective stations.

“ I am now visiting the schools daily, not so much as a worker, but in order to learn something about them, with a view to taking charge o f some of them at the beginning of the year.”

ZE N A N A W O R K .Miss Gordon submits the following report:“ One of the women we visit is a Hindoo widow, who keeps images

o f the god Thakur. One of her sons goes to the city every morning with a mark on his forehead, and a bamboo pole on his shoulder, from each end of which is suspended an earthen vessel covered with red cotton cloth, embroidered with white, in which he receives the flour which he begs from door to door as an offering to the gods. This flour, when baked, is offered to the idols, accompanied by the ringing of a little bell, and afterwards eaten by the family. This poor widow, although she acknowledges all we read in the 115th Psalm and other places about idols, yet says she cannot otherwise get bread. We ask her about her hopes for another world. She says she will eat her eer, two pounds of flour, shut her eyes, and her soul will go out and go to its place. She is perfectly unconcerned, and then to avoid further con­versation pretends she does not understand a word we say, and we leave her, sitting in darkness—darkness which can be felt, and in the shadow of death; yet not without hope, for the entrance of God’s word gives light.

“ Among the Mohammedan women whom we visit in the house of Unam Bibivi, we meet with three generations of widows. W e are always made welcome to sit with them, and read the Bible. A ll the female relatives collect to see and hear us.

“ The Hindoo and Sikh women in Sealkote are still shy about ask­ing us into their houses, more so than in some other places. But we frequently talk to them about the Saviour, as we meet them going out to bathe, or when they come out in the streets to look at us.

“ The Mazhabi Sikhs are more accessible than any other class, and some of their larger girls, when invited to come to church, say they might come were it not that their neighbors would reproach them.

“ The people generally call us kings and rulers, because we are white, like the English. W e explain to them particularly that we are entirely separate from the government. We draw no revenue. A ll our money is contributed in a country beyond England, by the followers of Jesus, and sent to us for his name’s sake.’ ’

PUSROOR B R A N C H STATIO N .Native missionary in charge, Rev. George Lawrence. Ordained by

Presbytery December 2Sth, 1877. His report is as follows ;B A Z A A R P R E A C H IN G .

“ In the beginning of the year this partof the work was not so well attended to as it ought to be. On account of my call to the Semi­nary at Sealkote, I thought that I would not be able to see the Chris­tians out in their villages till in September, and, therefore, I had to be generally absent from the station.

“ During the first partof the year all the preaching done in the town was by visiting people at their own places. When my brother Wal­lace came there, he was instructed to work in the same manner. Re­lying on his monthly reports to me, I can say that preaching in the town has been much better than I expected it to be during the year. Wallace used to lend religious books to those who applied for them

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and they generally called to get an explanation of the difficult passages. Most of these readers were Mohammedans. By this means two Mohammedan boys began to entertain doubts concerning their own religion, and there is every probability o f one becoming a Chris­tian soon, but fear is keeping the other back.”

IT IN E R A N T P R E A C H IN G .The neighboring villages have been occasionally visited, and there

is a Mohammedan farmer in a village about one mile from the town who is an enquirer. During my absence Wallace, assisted by Kaka —a Christian of Muralli—visited the heathen principally, and by their joint labors several souls have been brought to Christ, some of whom were taken to Sealkote, where they were baptized. But most of these candidates were baptized in their own villages. No ac­count has been kept o f the number of villages preached in. How­ever, most o f the villages between Pusroor and the Christian villages of Muralli and Shahabdike have been several times preached in.

C H R IS T IA N V IL L A G E S .The great majority of the village Christians have a very good char­

acter. They seem to love their religion, and willingly come together to worship. But in their case there is one great difficulty, viz.: in some of the villages they have no one to instruct them regulai'ly and constantly. Instruction by occasional visits is not enough for them. W e need good men to place among them and instruct them in the evenings, and at such times as they are free from labor. Those sus­pended by Mr. M. have not yet been restored.

I must mention the work at a village called Ban. It is not encour­aging. Many of the Christians have become very indifferent to re­ligious instruction. Their teacher has proved himself very unwor­thy, and when about to be summarily dismissed by Mr. Barr, ab­sconded. This and their extreme poverty during these famine times may be the cause.

SCHOOL.The boys of the Christian vernacular school at Muralli have made

great progress in their studies. Some of them can read the Bible in Urdu quite well, and have a very fair knowledge of the Catechism. Chauqutta, their present teacher, seem? to have been discharging his duty well.

Sealkote, Deo. 31 st, 1877

REPORT OF G U JR A N W A LA STATION.]Foreign Missionaries.— Rev. J. P. McKee and wife, Miss E. Cal­

houn and Miss C. E Wilson.Native Missionaries.—Rev. E. P. Swift, and Sabir Masih, Paul

Nasarali and Jewen Mull, students o f theology, Kishen Chand, Scripture reader.

Since last annual meeting, at which E. P. Swift, at his own re­quest, was transferred from Jhelum to Gujranwala, and J. S. Barr from Gujranwala to Sealkote, no changes have occurred, and all the missionaries have enjoyed moderately good health. A ll the foreign missionaries at this station remained on the plains, at their po3t of duty, through nearly the whole of the hot season except Miss Wilson, who was compelled to seek strength in the Hills some time in July.

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hot season was the threatened famine and the fearful rise in the prices •of breadstuffs. High prices still continue, but all fear of famine has passed away, and, thanks to a*kind Providence, we are all now in the enjoyment of peace, plenty, and a beautiful moderate cold season.

In reviewing the events of the past year, we feel keenly the truth o f the old ballad which says: “ The cup of pleasure ne’er was drunk without some mingling drops of sorrow.” The work in this district, so far as we are able to judge, was never so encouraging, and the lives o f the native Christians have never been so upright and consistent as they have been during the year that has passed. All this gives us great pleasure; but we have to mourn the loss by death of two adults and two children, and the loss by worse than death, apostasy, of one who, at first, gave promise of being both earnest and godly, but has now “ turned a3 a dog to his vomit, or the sow that was washed to her wallowing again in the mire.” Poor boy! his faith proved too weak for the pressure that was brought to bear upon him by his friends. He came once to visit us since his apostasy, and we asked him his reasons for going back to heathenism. He said that his heart had not gone back to heathenism-, he had only gone back in ap­pearance, because he could not bear the tears and threats of his friends, but at heart he was still a follower of Christ. Let that be as it may, his influence is lost to the Christian church, or rather, I should say, is against it. The death of the young and the promising is a great loss and a sore trial to an infant church, but apostasy is most painful and discouraging. And yet, from the experience of all ages, it is a thing we must expect; but it is a thing for which we never are prepared. However, notwithstanding our losses and dis­couragements, we have every reason to be encouraged and to bless Ood for the evidences he has given us of owning our labors.

B A P T ISE S.During the past year we baptized at this station from heathenism

twenty-one, some of them children, and two the children of Christian parents, making in all twenty-three, which is the largest number ever baptized in one year at this place. There is nothing worthy of special mention in any of their cases. They are all from among the working poor, I might say the very poor, and consequently the num­ber of baptisms has not moved us much nearer a self-sustaining chui’ch, a thing which is a matter of regret. Still, there is one cheer­ing feature about the matter—they have all been allowed to remain in their families and at their former work, and this gives more hope of a future self-sustaining church than baptizing the wealthy, if, after their baptism, they are forced to leave their home and friends. W e have noticed that when a convert has been driven from his home and peo­ple, he very often becomes a wanderer, and, not unfrequently, a va­grant. So much so is this the case, in some parts of India, that Eu­ropeans, who do not acquaint themselves with the whole of mission work, look upon the words native Christian and vagrant as nearly synonymous. And this is not to be wondered at, as the independent, quiet, industrious native Christian seldom ever appears before the European, but rather avoids him, while the wandering Christian is constantly turning up in the way of the European, asking for work or charity, which, so far as he is concerned, mean about the same thing. And so, many Europeans have begun to think that these wandering stars are the fruit of missions in India, and consequently we hear so often that missions in India are a failure. And there is no denying the fact that these are a part o f the fruit of mission labor; and, so far as they are the fruit of mission labor, missions are failures.

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But we are glad to be able to say that these form a small part o f the fruit.

B A Z A A R -P R E A C H IN G .Bazaar-preaching has been kept up almost daily during the whole

year, and we can say that the crowds were better behaved and listened better to the preaching than in former years; still we cannot say that we have ever seen any real fruit from that kind o f work. In this, as in every other country, fellows of lewder sort come to street-preach­ing to amuse and to be amused, rather than to hear, and it is our opinion that they do about as much evil as the preaching does good. However, others with more experience differ from this view, and, in deference to their opinions, we keep up constant street-preaching in Gujranwala. One thing street-preaching does do: it makes it known far and wide that there is such a religion as Christianity; but whether it gives a favorable impression in regard to it is to us doubtful.

IT IN E R A T IN G .During the year that has passed we have been out itinerating a

good deal, and visited and preached in many towns and villages in this district, and some in the southwest corner of Sealkote District, and on the whole we met with more encouragement from every class o f the people than we have ever done before, or, perhaps, we would convey the true state of things better by saying that we met with less opposition; for, strange as it may seem, we have never yet met the man who, hearing the gospel of Christ for the first time, considered it glad tidings. A t first it is generally repelled as an enemy. It is a stumbling-block to some, and to others foolishness. And, in our opinion, it is not strange that it is so; for it is not flattering to an in­tellectually proud people to be told that they and their fathers have been in darkness and error for generations, and human nature here, as everywhere else, hates to say, UI am wrong.” So it is safe to Bay that Christianity at first meets with universal opposition. However, in many places which we visited during the past year, we met with positive encouragement; and what gives most encouragement is the fact that where the gospel has been most preached it is best received.

C O N G R E G A T IO N A L P R E A C H IN G .There have been two divine services every Sabbath throughout the

year and a weekly prayer-meeting. The services on the Sabbath are well attended, and we think that there is a decided improvement in the state of religion. The weekly prayer-meeting, though not so well attended as the Sabbath services, has been fairly attended for most part of the year.

B R A N C H STATIO N S.In regard to the branch stations, we cannot say much, as we have

not been long enough at work in them to be able to form any judg­ment. In regard to Ramnuggar, the oldest branch, our opinion is not favorable, but in regard to Emnabad, the new branch, we have high hopes.

S A B B A T H SCHOOL.The Sabbath school at this place, though small, has been both

Erosperous and interesting. Up to a few weeks ago we admitted none ut Christians or the children of Christians, but now we have a class

of educated heathen, and we will form others as fast as we can find suitable teachers.

B O YS’ SCHOOL.In the boys’ school the highest number on roll at any one time

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year was 422; and the average daily attendance, 362. A h an educa­tional institution, this school has accomplished all that could be rea­sonably expected of it. The Government Inspector, in his report, says: “ There is a large number of boys under instruction in the Gujranwala Mission School, and we are glad to see that the instruc­tion given is of a high order. The Rev. J. P. McKee, who has had charge of the school for several years, has a thorough knowledge of practical school administration, and the results of his management have been very beneficial.” And while we are glad that the school as an educational institution has succeeded so well during the past year, we are sorry that it has produced so little spiritual result. There has not been the religious inquiry in the school that was in it in the year 1876, and it seems more difficult to interest the young men in religious things. W e have enquired into the cause of this as carefully as we could, and we find it difficult to explain it even to our­selves, but we think we have found out part of the cause and removed it.

g i r l s ’ s c h o o l s .The girls’ schools at this place have done remarkably well during

the past year. Misses Calhoun and Wilson have labored hard in them and succeeded well. W e think that we can boast of having at Gujranwala the best girls’ schools in the Punjaub.

Miss Calhoun and Miss Wilson report in regard to them as follows:3LISS W IL SO N ’ S R E r O R T FO R 1877.

“ After one year’s study of the written and classic language of the Mohammedans of India, I began regular work in one of the girls’ schools. None but those who have experienced it can understand how great a trial it is to begin a new work among a strange people in a strange tongue, especially in the capacity of an instructor, when you feel your position is that of the pupil.

“ Relying upon Jesus for grace and strength for every time of need, I entered upon the charge of a Mohammedan school containing twelve girls, who were able to read the New Testament. I visited it daily, and spent from two to three hours hearing the Scripture lessons or teaching verses from the Bible, the Ten Commandments or sing­ing. I had worked in this school but about two months when the teacher, who was an old man, took the fever and died. He was well acquainted with the Bible, and encouraged us to teach it. The teacher whom we employed in his place had very little influence with the people, and in consequence many of our best pupils left school, much to our regret. In September this school was united with an adjoining one, and a new one opened, which has proved very encouraging.

“ As I became better acquainted with the work, I visited two schools daily, with a special view to conducting religious exercises in both. One after another school was added, so that now I have charge of the five Mohammedan schools. In these we have had an average daily attendance of 96, and an average monthly enrolment of 125. Lydia, our native helper, assisted me most of the year. She, being well acquainted with the native tongues, as well as an upright Chris­tian, was of great service to me. I went to Dharmsala in July for a six weeks’ rest in the mountains; but in consequence of fever was detained near three months. Miss Calhoun had my work in addition to her own to superintend during this time. Since my return I have

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beginning of the year, and have kept up it and Hindustani the whole year. Although the children are taught to read the Hindustani, yet their native tongue is Punjabi; and there being very little similarity between the two dialects, I had some difficulty in explaining the Scripture, so as to make it intelligible to the children. I am not yet able to do it efficiently. W e are making some progress in our com­munication. Besides keeping in memory many verses of Scripture, the Commandments and Gospel songs, which my co-laborer had taught the children, we have taught some new verses, and the 23d Psalm and part of the 34th. The former they sing nieely to the tune o f ‘ Monora,’ and the latter to ‘ Believe.’ W e regret to say that the Psalms in Urdoo contain so much Arabic that only a few can be used in our work. We hope soon to have a translation by our own breth­ren, which will be adapted to our wants. W e have noticed that the truth has a powerful influence over the women through the medium of the singing. In addition to our city work, we have a Sabbath school for the native and Eurasian Christian children. Rev. McKee superintends it ; Mrs. McKee, Miss Calhoun and myself are the teachers. W e have had twenty-eight pupils this year. My class consists of four young women. A t the first of the year I assigned them seven chapters and six Psalms (in metre) to commit, v iz .: Isaiah 53,54,55; Luke 15 and 16 ; John 14, and Romans 8; and Psalms 19, 20, 27, 31, 50 and 63 (in English), and the daily reading o f the book of Acts. They were examined on the whole at the close of the year. Two of the girls had been sick part of the time, and did not commit quite all that was assigned. The other two recited the whole perfectly. Most of the parents were present at the examination.

“ Although we have not seen any direct fruit from our work of this year, yet we have sown in hope, drawing encouragement from the covenant promise, ‘ My word shall not return unto me void.’

“ Faithfully submitted, C. E. W i l s o n . ”

MISS C A L H O U N ’ S R E P O R T F O R 1877.“ The five schools of which I have the superintendence have been

in operation during the entire year, with the exception of the usual short vacation in the summer.

“ In these schools the average monthly enrolment has been 128, and the average daily attendance 98.

“ W ith gratitude I am this year able to state that I was not obliged by ill health to leave my post of duty, hence spent but twenty days in Dharmsala. Concerning the work I have but little to communi­cate in addition to what has been reported in previous years. Early in the year Miss Wilson took entire charge o f the five Mohammedan schools, which left me 'free to devote my time to the four Hindoo schools, the low-easte school, and the work in families. I find every­where a teachable spirit manifested by the women, and I cannot but feel that the declaration, ‘ Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power,’ is being fulfilled.

“ Five women in the low-caste village have this year received bap­tism, thus forming five more Christian families in the village, as their husbands had all been baptized previously. Our work is con­ducted on the same plan as formerly, v iz .: five days of the week are occupied by regular school duties, Saturday is devoted to general reli­gious exercises for the benefit o f the teachers and advanced scholars o f our sehools, and on Sabbath I have a Bible-class for native Chris­tian women. The examination of the latter class, which was held on the 22d o f December, was, considering the limited knowledge of most of the pupils, highly satisfactory. Those who can read recited

a goodly number of verses, and those who cannot read recited the Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and several verses which they have been taught orally.

“ In addition to our regular monthly examinations, our schools were examined once within the year by the Government School Inspector, who gave us much encouragement by expressing himself highly pleased with what he saw and heard.

“ Our great w ant now is a suitable building for a central school, and we hope the tim e is not far in the future when this w ant w ill be supplied by voluntary contributions from friends of the cause.

“ Respectfully submitted, E l i z a C a l h o i n . ”

JIEPORT FROM G U R D A SP U R STATION FOR 1877.‘ ‘ In view of the great scarcity of funds at the disposal of the

Board of Foreign Missions, we determined at the beginning to get through the year with the least practicable amount of travelling. The expense, therefore, connected with itinerating through the dis­trict for general evangelistic preaching and visiting places where more or less interest was believed to exist, was not incurred. Our work was largely confined to thirty villages which lie around Gur- daspur, within three miles of the mission station. In this I was ac­companied by J. Clement. An occasional visit was made to Kalanaur, sixteen miles west, and to Dinanuggar, eight miles north, occupied re­spectively by Abdullah and Azzis ul Hagg, two of our native helpers. Early in the month of June, at the request of Presbytery, I made ar­rangements to leave Gurdaspur, and take part in the labors of the Theological Seminary at Sealkote, and was there from June 13th until near the close of September. After this I took a month’s rest, until the approach of the cold weather, and returned to Gurdaspur. No­vember and half of December were spent at station work, such as keeping up the Sabbath preaching in English and Hindustani, and instructing those whom I met at home or elsewhere. The last two weeks o f the year were spent in attending, by appointment of Pres­bytery, a Presbyterian Conference and a Sabbath School Union, held at Allahabad, and attending our regular annual Presbytery and Mis­sion Meeting at Gujranwala. I was absent a few days at Zafferwal, in March, and at Jhelum in April, and assisted at the communion in these places.

“ IN O U R V IL L A G E P R E A C H IN G we found very many of the people suffering from fever and other maladies, the previous hot season having been an unusually sickly one. W e took along a supply of medicines, chiefly quinine, to give to the numerous sufferers, in the hope of winning our way to their hearts; and it would be difficult to describe the eagerness with which they crowded around us, and clamored with outstretched hands for quinine, and continued to throng us long after our limited daily sup­ply was exhausted. Many said they were cured, and seemed thankful, but others were detected carrying the quinine away by stealth,; after which we adopted the practice of placing it on their tongues. W e gene­rally had good audiences, who gave our message a quiet and respectful hearing. Little more than this can be said o f this particular branch of work. In one small village the head man seemed deeply inter­ested. Sick people often came to our residence for medicine, where we improved the opportunity o f speaking a word to them.

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pitched on the mission premises, and used for this purpose uutil blown down and mutilated in a storm two months ago. Since that we meet in the stable, which we have fitted up for a temporary home; but strangers do not come to it as readily as to the tent. There are three government schools less than two hundred yards from our mission premises, where hundreds o f boys receive a secular education; but the Bible is excluded. About twenty o f the more advanced students were in the habit o f coming to hear the Gospel at the tent on Sabbath at the beginning of the year. W e felt that this was a precious opportunity for preaching a series of discourses in proof that Jesus ‘ is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.’ W e think we never had more serious and attentive listeners. But about the end of March they suddenly and entirely ceased to come. Some secret pressure was brought to bear upon them by the enemies of of Christ, which made them afraid to come openly. Still we hope the word found its way to some of their hearts, and that it will yield fruit in time to come. One of the students confessed privately after­wards that Jesus is the Son of God, and the Saviour who was to come. This is the hardest doctrine for these people to receive, just as it was for the Jews.

“ Another student came at night, and said that they were all in darkness. He wished to know the Christian religion more fully, and plainly acknowledged that there was no other way of salvation. During the last two months of the year scarcely any one from out­side found us on Sabbath.

“ But we hope for a better state of things as soon as we are able to erect our much-needed place of worship in the bazaar.

“ About the 1st of April the head man of a group of villages six miles east requested me to start a boys’ school in their midst. W ith this in view I visited them and preached to a large gathering. They agreed to have the Bible taught, prayers ottered, the Gospel preached, and immoral books excluded, if I would visit the school once or twice a month. Believing that such a school would afford a good opportu­nity of regularly preaching and teaching the word of life, and that the outlay of money and the demand upon my time would always be very small, I opened the school with thirty-eight boys on the roll, and introduced Luke’s Gospel as the principal text-book. The monthly expense to the mission is $1.50, which is given on condition that the villagers provide and keep up a school-room and give $1.00 a month. Just before the end of the year our teacher, a nominal Christian, left us for higher pay, and the continuation of the school is a question not just now fully settled.

“ Z E N A N A W O R K , in which Mrs. Johnson is engaged, has been regularly carried on since the 1st o f February. The plan adopted is to visit families where it becomes known that some of the females are suffering from illness. By personally ministering to the sick, and showing them how to help one another in sickness, as well as by giving medicines, a friendly acquaintance is formed and the way opened up for reading the Bible. A t these Bible-readings the neighboring women readily gather in and listen to the simplest lessons from the Word of God. Anything above these they have not the capacity to understand. The city of Gurdaspur itself does not thus far appear to afford the best opening for such work, although something has been done in it also. It is the home of many educated native gentlemen, who would be glad to have their wives and daughters educated if the Bible were excluded. They would even like them taught Christian morality,

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as one o f them expressed himself, if they would not be taught to be­lieve on Jesus Christ. Some of the villages, however, lying around Gurdaspur are more accessible. To five of these regular visits have been made in rotation during most of the year. In one of them a girls’ school, with eleven pupils, has been opened within two months under what appears to be very favorable circumstances. But, as it has not been long in existence, and the time has not arrived when I can personally visit it, further notice is deferred until next year.

“ BU T W H A T A R E OUR E N C O U R A G E M EN TS V is the question in which all contributors are most deeply interested. I f we look only at the number of additions to the church, our encour­agements in the Gurdaspur district are nothing at all, since we have baptized none during the year. And yet we do not remember o f ever feeling as much encouraged as at this time. W hy this is so we may not be able to make very clear to others. Gurdaspur is yet a compar­atively new field. When Sealkote and Gujran wala were new, there was very little to show for our work ;*but during 1877, which was the twenty-third year of our work at Sealkote, forty persons were bap­tized in that district, including children. The number received at Gujranwala in its fifteenth year, though not so great, is still very cheering. Jhelum, a new station, shows, I believe, only two addi­tions during 1877.

“ Thug the districts which have been longest under cultivation are yielding the most abundant fruit; and by comparing this new dis­trict with what the others were when they were new, we believe we have good grounds for encouragement. The general character of Mohammedan opposition is growing less bigoted and more rational. Their religion seems to be relaxing its hold, and some points are now readily conceded to the Christians which they used to oppose in the most bigoted manner. The fact, too, that some have bought copies o f the Scriptures, and are known to be reading them, is encouraging; -also the manner in which many expressed themselves when talked to in private. W e can recall about twenty instances during the year of individuals who, having lost confidence in their former faith, ex­pressed their belief of the Christian religion with more or less distinct­ness. These and other similar indications powerfully lead us to hope that the day is near when we who have sown in tears shall reap in joy. O Lord, ‘ let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children : and let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon u s: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.’ A n d r e w G o r d o n .”

R E P O R T or JH ELU 3I ST A T IO N .“ The work this year has been, on the whole, more encouraging

to us than it was during our first year’s stay in Jhelum. For this there may be several reasons assigned, one of which, doubtless, is that we are better qualified for our work than we were at that time, and another that we have become better acquainted with the people. There are some indications, also, that the Spirit of God is at work, as the people are losing their bitterness, and listen with some degree of interest as we unfold to them the plan of salvation.

“ Our native helpers are three, viz.: Mulvie Mohammed Alim, Mirza and George Peters. The latter has been with me but a short time, and gives promise of being very useful.

“ S TA TIO N W O R K .“ The work of the station is the usual routine, viz.: bazaar preach­

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in the station we have conducted two services on the Sabbath, one in English, the other in Hindustani. Both services have been well attended, and we are touch encouraged to persevere. During the year I bought a shop in the city, in which we have been holding our meetings, with the exception of the English service, which we hold in the largest room of our house. This building is small, and some­times we can scarcely accommodate all with seats. I hope the time may soon come when we will have a larger.

“ SCHOOLS.“ During the year we opened a school for the children of the native

Christians. So soon as it became known, others asked if they could send also. W e told them they could, with the understanding that their children should study the Scripture. One man said the Bible was a good book, and he did not think that his children could receive any harm from it. The school has been doing very well. The at­tendance I believe is about twenty at the present.

“ W e have as yet no girls’ school, and hence are compelled to carry on a one-sided work. W e hope the Board may soon see their way clear to send us out a lady missionary, as we cannot hope for success so long as the women remain in darkness.

u DISTRICT WORK.“ W e have not been in the district much during this year on account

of sickness. However, our helpers have been out, and report favor­ably of the manner in which they were received, and also of the in­terest manifested in the word preached.

“ b a p t is m s .“ But one has been baptized during the year. He is an old man,

and was a follower of Nonak. He is still with us, and I think he is a true child of God. We have had many inquirers, but they, as yet, have not had grace given them to renounce all and follow Christ. W e labor in hope that the harvest will soon come, and that we shalL be permitted to reap abundantly. God alone can open the heart. The promise is, ‘Ask, and ye shall receive.’ Pray for us.

“ During the hot season, I spent about two months in the Hills, on account of ill health, and I still continue to have the ague every few weeks; but I trust that God in his good providence will give me strength, that I may labor more efficiently in this part of his vine­yard. Respectfully submitted, T : L . S c o t t . ”

This report of the labors of the missionaries in this mission is most respectfully submitted by the Committee on Reports.

J. P . M c K e e .

RECAPITULATION.

Missions, India and Egypt; stations, 44; foreign missionaries,: 11, native ordained ministers, 6: licentiates, 8; native laborerSy 154; total laborers, 174; communicants— Egypt. 856; India, 213; total, 1,069; increase— Egypt, 126; India, 40; total, 166; scholars in Sabbath schools— Eg>pt, 1,162; India, 247; total, 1,409; teachers and officers— India, 15; Egypt, 92; total, 107^ scholars in Egypt— in day schools, 1,404; in boarding schools, 51; in training school, 75; in Theological Seminary, 11; females

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taught at home, 476; total, 2,017, contributions of native mem­bers in Egypt, $5,058.

SPECIAL TH AN KS.

The Board gratefully acknowledge, on behalf of the Assem­bly and of our church at large, the kindness and good offices of the Hon. E. E. Fairman, United States Agent and Consul- General in Egypt, and of Mr. Camanos, United States Consul at Cairo, in helping our missionaries in Egypt obtain from the Egyptian Government, free o f expense, the ground for a very desirable and pleasant cemetery near Old Cairo. It was a fa­vor most gratefully felt by our brethren, and that cannot be too highly appreciated by our church.

During the past year, also, the British branch of the Evan­gelical Alliance rendered most important service to. our mis­sion in Egypt by effectually using its influence and its power on behalf of religious freedom and right, especially in Upper Egypt. Its action largely resulted in our native breth­ren securing sites for houses of worship and a right to build them, and is most gratefully felt.

THE BOARD.

The terms of John Alexander, Jos. D. McKee and Rev. S. G. Fitzgerald expire at this meeting.

J. B. D a l e s , Cor. Sec.Philadelphia, May lsi, 1878.

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ACTIO N OF T H E G E N ER AL ASSE M B LY .The Assembly appointed as the Committee on the Report of

the Board of Foreign Missions, Revs. W. G. Moorehead, D. D., J. N. Dick, D. D., W. T. Campbell and Messrs T. J. Gillespie, and J. T. Kelley. After much consideration this Committee presented a report which received special attention, and after some amendments was adopted as follows:

The Committee, to whom the report of the Board of Foreign Mis­sions and other papers relating to the same general subject were re­ferred, beg leave to offer the following:

The important work entrusted to this Board has been faithfully and earnestly prosecuted during the past year, as their very full and satisfactory report, in the hands of the members of the Assembly, shows.

In pursuance of the directions of the last General Assembly, the Board made the transfer of our Mission in Syria to the Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian Church, the Rev. John Crawford remaining under the new management, Miss Frazier being removed to Egypt, and that of China to California.

The various papers and recommendations referred have been care­fully considered by your Committee, and while not presuming that the action suggested with respect to these grave and solemn matters is the wisest in the premises, the Committee have agreed to present the appended resolutions:

Itesolved, 1. That it is with profound gratitude and joy we record the goodness o f the Lord in preserving the lives of our missionaries, and in good degree their health also, and in giving manifold and pre­cious evidences of the divine approval and blessing upon their labors.

2. That the Assembly express their high appreciation of the effi­cient and timely aid which the various societies, missionary organi­zations and individuals, both at home and abroad, have so generously rendered our foreign work.

3. That the Assembly, recognizing the importance of the results achieved by the W omen’s Missionary Societies, reappoint the com­mittee o f previous years (substituting the names of Mrs. John A Gor­don and Mrs. B. F. Leitch, instead of Miss Eliza Frazier and Mrs. Scott, formerly Miss Bell, owing to the ill health of the one and the removal of the other), to continue the work o f organizing such Socie­ties, and invite the Christian women of our whole church to under­take, among the objects o f their activity in furtherance of our work at home and abroad, the support of female missionaries and teachers, and the erection of buildings for girls’ schools in the respective fields of Egypt and India.

4. That, in order to secure unity o f purpose and action in all our operations, the Assembly direct that no work in behalf of the Foreign Mission cause be undertaken by W omen’s Missionary Socie­ties, or any other society, apart from and independent of the Board of Foreign Missions, and that such work shall be taken up only when asked for by the missions in the foreign field and sanctioned by the Board.

5. That, in view of the great need o f immediate reinforcements in India and Egypt, the Board be authorized to send out one new male missionary and two new female missionaries to each of those missions as soon as practicable.

6. That pastors be earnestly urged to remind their congregations that

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withdrawal from Syria and China means no retrenchment or con­traction of our foreign work, but concentration and greater thorough­ness in the cultivation of the fields presently occupied.

7. That the Board be, and hereby is, directed to place the proceeds resulting from the sale of the Bludan property in Syria, together with the stock of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Bank, Pittsburgh, to the credit of the Investment Fund.

8. That in reply to the petition of Mr. A. B. CaldwTell to be permit­ted to pursue his theological studies under the direction of the Semi­nary in Sealkote, the Assembly is of opinion that he should spend at least one year of theological study in this country, previous to his de­parture for India.

9. That the Mission to the Chinese at Los Angeles be transferred from the care of the Board of Foreign Missions to the Presbytery of San Francisco, subject to the control of the Assembly, so soon as said Presbytery secure an Act of Incorporation, and that the Presbytery be required to report annually to the General Assembly specially as to this Mission.

10. That the money received from the sale of the Mission property in China be invested by the Presbytery of San Francisco, when in­corporated, under the "direction of the Trustees of the General As­sembly, for the exclusive use and benefit o f the Mission to the Chi­nese, no part of the principal to be used except for needed permanent buildings for the use of the Mission, and that the Treasurer of the Presbytery be required to give bonds to the Trustees of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America.

11. That Rev. J. C. Nevin be directed to in vest the funds arising from the sale of the China Mission buildings in such way as the Board of Foreign Missions may direct, until the Presbytery of San Francisco becomes a corporate body and fully prepared to take charge o f said funds.

12. That the appointment of the teacher and the question o f salary be referred to the Presbytery of San Francisco.

13. That the following appropriations to the Foreign Field be made:To E gypt..................................................................................................................... $27,720 00To India....................................................................................................................... 22,500 00To send out new Missionaries........................................................................... 3 .000 00To return any now in this country to their fields............................... 1,500 00To support Missionaries’ children in this country and Scotland.. 1,500 00To refund money borrowed by the Board................................................... 5 ,000 00To the Chinese Mission in California............................................................ 1,600 00To Miscellaneous..................................................................................................... 1 ,500 00

Total....................................................................................................$t>4,320 00

14, That the Board be instructed to prepare such rules and regula­tions in reference to the furloughs of missionaries as may be just to them and to the church at large, and report the same to the next General Assembly.

15. That the Board be directed to publish 3,000 copies of the A n ­nual Report, and that all pastors be urged to diffuse the information contained in it among their people.

STATISTICS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.r ® r t2a.e T e a r E3aa.d.iaa.g- J a n u a r y 1 s t , 1 8 7 8 ,

H a m * o r St a t io n s ,

EGYPT.Alexandria..............

Scotch Church....Mission House....Carmoo*...............

Mansurs..................Cairo.........................

Haret Es Sakieen.Boolak...................Sinoris...................Madenet................Sanhoor................Roda......................Tamieh..................Suft.......................Minieh..................Beyyidieh.............Melfawi.................Jawily...................Azzieh...................Benoob..................Maasara................

Osiout.......................Mote ah..................Bagore...................Nakhayleh...........2erabi....................Bedarl...................Temeh...................

Missionaries and Assistants.F o r e ig n .

18541857

18661854

1868;18661876187318751873187618771872187418751875 1877 1865 186»1873 18691876 18731877

N a t i v e .

Churches.

| S « «W) Ö

Increase Decrease.

14 17 1868 34 2 1453{S i ....

3 6 is 21 6 ....24 31 186S 7# 165 14 4

801 20

4 5 1872 6!» 153 10 13 3 2 151 1 It 21 7 11 1 12 in

4 102 2 3fi 63 31 1 1

30i 3 27 35 4 21 2 34 49 102 2 23 R21 2 8 13 31 1 a 22 3

20 29 1870 1?9 206 23 91 2 1871 47 53 R2 3 23 392 3 1871 97 105 10 1Ï 1 ...... 7 75 71 1 ..... 23 80-1 1

....15 ..... ....

Ba’tisms

24

26

Pupils Under Instruction.

22 96"7 125 184

100 10722

14 84 ” 89.... 15 50

18 12...... 10

"*8 71 "2850

"ë " 2 7 " ‘355 42 19

36 166 55.... 17

’l4 168 21712 44 243 31 9

15 79 5852 1434 9

9

178 ......

26

T o t a l .

115

122

178

Property and Funds.

IS l §'3CO

v.2ok

0 j 12 0 .s i | l

■gs of « d »̂ 3 50> u•£ © aÿ.oMrs

83

921381

384

207343271

*107*163753

808

496

2221973

72

80

15000

45000

24

9290

6783

16118166

1024

. A

Dweyr...................Mishteh................Tahtah..................Kooh................Negadeh...............Cosselr..................L urcor.................Gooroeh...............Meree*...................Erment................ .Esneh.................. .,

(Itineracy).............. .

Total for Egypt INDIA.

Sealkote..................Fasroor................Zafiurwall...........

Gujranwala............Ramnuggur.........

Gurdaspur...............Kalanaur .Dinanuggur........

Jhelum..................Keilu....................

Total for India.

T o t a l ..................

187718751874 18G618761875 1873 187318771876 1876

1855

18551875 1866 18631876 1872 1876 1878 1874 1876

i !12

12 26

61 12 " "V " 5Ó3

171088

3171035

31783 30

‘>a1 1 5 11 1 10 102 2 64 43 2 1 6 01 53 88

6 12 1 21 1 5 17 4 1 8 8 g 144

1 1 18 34 3 19 4T16 20 2 2 124 20 46 8 1 2 2 181 1 4 10 2 1 12 12 12 1 151 1 2 2

8 14 22 4 7 96 129 845 1646 125 22 10 54 22 3 110 1142 1424 51 75 11 993 5G8 1561 5044 2899 60000 322 23722

1 2 31

52

83

1856 135 225 23 11 1 14 23 18 101)1 1

3001..... 11 265 141 466 80 2500 90 86681 1 i

1 2 3 1 7 11 1863 50 300 17 ,3 24 1 17 0 67 70S 3 455 254 708 50 125 2019 7000 746 83901 11 1 2 3 10

1 1I 1

1 1 1 10 1 11 1

4 4 8 2 21 31 211 525 40 11 6 31 15 41 25 327 1014 14

25

720 1 Q -. 1117.1 50 205 2019 9500 836 1705812 18 30 G 7 117 160 1056 2171 163 33 1G 85 37 44 135 1409j2438 51 75 1713 " I

9G3j2735 5094j3104 2019 C9500 1159 40780

BOOK DEPARTMENT IN EGYPT.Sales during the twelve months ending November 30, 1877:

Scriptures............................................................................................. Vols., 3,909Religious Books...................................................................................Vols, 5,020Educational a n d Miscellaneous Books.......................................... Vols., 5,674

?1,128.00733.00

1,654.00Total.. 14,603 $3,515.00

N. B.—The American Bible Society allowed for work and expenses in disseminatingthe Scriptures and by percentage on purchases the sum of....................................$1,248.00

The British and Foreign Bible Society lia3 allowed in grants and by percentage» onpurchases the sum of................. 762.00Total................................................................................................................................. «2,010.00

DETAILED STATEMENT OP TREASURER.Receipts.

FROM P R E S B Y T E R IE S .Albany............................................. $ 658 14Allegheny....................................... 2,577 78Argyle.............................................. 1,180 17Beaver Valley................................ 961 93Big Spring...................................... 516 25Bloom ington.................................. 326 toBoston.............................................. 134 ( 0Brookville....................................... 120 00Butler.............................................. 1,075 07Caledonia........................................ 88s 10Cedar Rapids.................................. 93 18•Chartiers.......................................... I,5s8 43C hicago........................................... 311 99Chillieothe...................................... 97 32Cleveland........................................ 99 90C olorado......................................... 5 00Conemaugh..................................... 840 25Delaware......................................... 691 62Des Moines...................................... 232 32Detroit............................................. 247 61Frankfort......................................... 631 82Garnett............................................. 73 92Indiana............................................ 507 78Kansas............................................. 68 15K eokuk............................................ 824 00L ak e ................................................. 657 01Le Claire.......................................... 195 69Mansfield............ 431 58Mercer............................. 591 39

SABBATH

1877.Beaver Bun............................................. $ 6 501st Church, Cincinnati......................... 15 00A class m Princeton S. S...................... 2 00Prosperity, I l ls ....................................... 5 00Mechanicstown..................................... 4 11W. Charlton........................................... 18 00Elizabeth, ►'a......................................... 15 04No. 4 M’Arthur, Logan Co., 0 ............ 4 00Bellefontaine.......................................... 19 00Neshannoek............................................ 3+ 00Steubenville.......................................... 16 16St. Clairsville, 0 ..................................... 15 60Elizabeth, Pa.......................................... 17 16Detroit...................... 66 001st Church, Philadelphia.................... 60 ooSt. Clairsville, O .................................. 14 324th Church, Allegheny, boys’ class... 10 001st Church, Xen ia ................................. 20 00Lexington. 0 .......................................... 5 58Promise City........................................... 4 SONorth Church, Philadelphia.............. 29 29Hopewell, O .......................................... 22 27Spring Hill- In d .................................... 20 00Robinson R un...................................... 12 50Troy, M ich ............................................ 7 75Hamilton, 0 ........................................... 4 00Infant Class Miss. S o c ........................ 3 25Decatur................................................... 4 80Cochranton............................................ 25 00South Buffalo ,................................. 12 53Mr. Prupect............................................ 20 251878.North Church, Philadelphia.- 20 81Balinevitle, O .......................... lo 00 |Providence) R. 1.................................... 28 00 J

Minnesota.......................................Monmouth...................................... 902 70tonnongahela................................... 1,839 61Muskingum.................................... 1,275 00Nebraska.......................................... 245 ( 0Neosho............................................. 30 59New York, 1st................................ 556 18New York, 2 d ................................. 368 00Ohio, 1st........................................... 65t) 49Oregon.............................................. 86 90Philadelphia................................... 1,413 64Princeton................\................. 80 27Rock Island..................................... 540 90San Francisco................................ 67 35Sidney.............................................. ¿34 11Southern Illiuois........................... 244 10Mam ford.......................................... 310 87Steubenville.................................... 962 76Tennessee........................................ 63 90Verm ont.......................................... 57 15W abash............................................ 60 18West Missouri................................. 116 10W estmoreland.............................. 1,057 74Wheeling............................................. 681 36Wisconsin........................................ 71 95Xenia............................................... 1,110 54

Total....................................... 129,826 73

SCHOOLS.

8th Church, Philadelphia.................. 20 00Shiloh...................................................... 17 75Fall Kiver............................................... 40 0010th Church, Philadelphia................. 10 GO2d Church, X en ia ................................ 25 00Mrs. Barber’s class............................... 1 32Hamilton, 0 .......................................... 4 008th Church, Philadelphia....................20 002d “ “ 39 67St Clairsville, 0 .................................... 14 60Spring Hill, Ind ................................... 20 00North buflalo........................................ 40 35A rgy le ....................................................... 50 00Henderson................................................. 24 138th Church, Philadelphia....................... 21 00Garner, Iow a............................................. 8 OoYoungstown, 0 .......................................... 16 00Centre..................................................... 15 004th Church, Philadelphia,..................... 70 00Camp R un................................................. 3 008th Church. Philadelphia..................... 5 OOLisbon..........................................................1 1 00Pratt Kun................................................... 22 00Quaker C ity ............................................. 6 002d Church, Philadelphia.................... 61 00Kyegate.Vt............................................. 10 22Detroit......................................................... 60 002d Xenia ................................................. 18 60Jamestown............................................. 2 00Sugar Creek........................................... 16 00North Argyle.................. 35 00Carmel, Ind.............................................17 10Canonsburg, P a....«............................. 9 00Washington, Pa.................................... 46 68Calcutta, O - ............................... 31 51

Total, $1,370 85

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M ISSIO N ARY SOCIETIES.1877. Shiloh, Ind .......................................

Mansfield, 0 ............................ ............. #22 60............. 60 00

Canonsburg...........-.........................Washington, Pa................................

First Allegheny......................Sixth d o .............................Laeona, Iow a...........................

West Middletown, Pa.....................College Springs................................Spring Hill, Ind...............................

..... 20 60.... 16 oo

Centreview, Iowa................... ............. 18 00 1878.Cadiz, 0 ........... ......................... ............. 20 00Shiloh, Ind.............................. ............. 8 20 Somonauk.........................................Scotch H ill.......................... . ............. 23 00 Scotch Hill........................................ ... 17 25Youngstown, 0 ....................... ............. 17 00 2d Church, Monmouth.................. .... 25 00Kirkwood, Ills......................... ............. 25 00 White Oak Springs.......................... ..... 15 00Kortright Centre, N. Y ......... ............. 23 00 Logan’s Ferry................................... .... 13 00Liberty, 0 ............................... ............. « 00 l.rbana .............................................. ..... 23 00

............. 23 65Des Moines.............................. ............. 15 00 Bloomington, Ind............................ ..... 24 00Logan’s Ferry......................... ............. 11 35 1st Church, Allegheny.................... .... 100 00Monroe, Iow a.......................... 1st Church, Allegheny.................... ..... 80 00Shiloh, Ind .............................. ............. 8 50 Argyle.................................................Yellow C reek......................... ............. 25 00 Prosperity, Ills.................................Spring Hill, In d ...................... ............. 1C 00 Cadiz, O .............................................1st Church, Monmoulh.......... ............. 25 00 New Athens...................................... ..... 20 00Shiloh, In d .............................. ............. 7 16 Cadiz.................................................. ..... 15 00Princeton................................ ............. 15 00 Shiloh, Ind ....................................... ..... 7 65Mansfield................................. ............. 3:2 91 Plain Grove....................................... ..... 20 00West Charlton......................... ............. 24 00 1st Church, X en ia ..........................Cherry Fork............................ ............. 10 00 Cedarville...................................... . ..... 17 11U nionville.............................. ............. 15 00 1st Church, Cedar R ap ids.............

............. 6 00 ..... 25 77West Middleiown................... Clarinda, Iowa................................. ..... 25 00Washington, Pa....................... ............. 27 00 Boys’ Missionary Society, Detroit ..... 14 00Princeton, Ind........................ ............. 24 00 Roney’s Point................................... ..... 15 00Jamestown, O ......................... .............. 12 50 Jlercersburg..................................... ..... 36 606th Church, A llegheny........ ............. 14 85 High R idge...................................... ..... 20 00Wheeling. W. Va.................... .............. 60 00 Laeona, Iowa.................................... ..... 9 00Roney’s Point.......................... South Buffalo.................................. ..... 20 00Centreview............................... Canonsburg ...................................Martin, M ich........................... Pigeon Creek................................... ..... 25 25Shiloh, I n d .............................. ............. 6 20 St. Clairsville, O.............................. ..... 52 00H ookstow n.............................. .............. 40 00 Freeport............................................ ..... 58 25

............. 15 00New Athens, O......................... .............. 32 00 Jamestown....................................... ..... 13 001st Church, Monmouth......... ............. 20 00 Wheeling........................................... ..... 64 002d Church, A llegheny........... .............. 27o 00 Monmouth....................................... ..... 28 06Shiloh, In d ......... .................... .............. 7 35 Centreville....................................... ..... 20 50Commerce, Mich.................... ............... 10 00 Sugar Run, O.................................. ..... 17 00Port Huron.............................. .............. 10 00 Princeton, Ind................................. ..... 20 00Bethel, Mo............................... ............... 1 UO 2d Church, Allegheny................... .....275 00Reynoldsburgh, 0 .................. ............. 33 00 Shiloh, In d ...................................... ..... 7 26Second Monmouth................. .............. 28 90 Somonauk........................................ ..... 25 00Shiloh, In d ............................. Coila, N. Y .........................................Elderton.................................... Shiloh. I n d ..................................... ..... 8 25Harris ville............................... ............. 16 25 West Hebron....................................Hamilton, 0 ............................. Oshkosh........................................... ..... 6 00Centra v ille ................................ .............. 20 00 Albany, Oregon................................ ..... 1 50Kittanning .............................. .............. 35 00 Cherry F ork .....................................Jamestown, O .......................... ............... 12 62 New Athens, O..................................

..... 26 00New Vernon, Pa...................... Centreview........................................Cherry Fork............................. Kansas City.......................................Southfield................................. ............... 16 60 Bethel................................................. ..... 4 62Omaha...................................... Somonauk........................................ ..... 58 00Americus........................... . ... .......... 17 30 New Lisbon, O................................. ..... 8 50Argyle........................................Oshkosh....................................

.............. 80 00 Madison, In d ................................... ..... 10 00Spring Hill, I n d .............................West Newton, Pa.............................

..... 19 00K irk w ood ................................. ............... 17 00 ..... 26 26Troy, M ich ................................ Kirkwood ..........................................Shiloh, Ind ................................ ............. 8 20 1st Church, Monmouth.................. ..... ¿0 00Camp Creek............................. ........... . 8 00 2d do. do ............................. ..... 35 00Hookstown, Pa........................ Olena...................................................Morning Sun............................ ............... 12 00 Fairfield............................................. ..... 12 15Albany ....................................... ...............100 00 Scotch Hill........................................

.......... ... 24 00 .... 19 $0Martin, M ich ........................... . ............. 16 25 East Greenwich................................ ....... 13 00Kortright Centre..................... Martin, M ich .................................... ........ 6 00Sugar Creek ............................. -----------First Monmouth...................... ............... 25 00 Total................................. ..$4,290 20

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D O N A TIO N S.187

A Friend o f Missions........................... $50 00Mrs. B ond............................ :................ 6 35Robt. Stewart Logan’s Ferry Ch 50 00A member o f d o ....................... 25 00James Raitt........................................... 5 00Nannie Magee, Cherry Run cong... 5 00Rev. T. P- Dysart.................................. 5 00Mrs. Sarah Robinson........................... 5 ooRev. R. N. Fee...................................... 20 00A lady friend in Erie, Pa.,forOsiout

Seminary.................... 25 00Mrs. Martha R. D ick .......................... 40 00Mrs Jane Crabb................................... 2 00Mrs. Nancy McDill............................... 200 00Mrs Isabella Collins........................... 5 00Albert C French............................ 10 00James Bruce, Millbrook..................... 50 00Lizzie Mitchell, Spring Hill, Ind 30 00Mrs. D. Findley................................... 10 00Daniel Wilson, St. Louis......................100 00Anonymous........................................... 10 00Misses McCarrell, Ocean Beach 3 80Duncan Sheppard.............................. 3 00Philip Swett........................................ 3 00Mary McCormick.................................. 5 00Mrs. Maria Rich, New Y ork ............... 100 00A member o f 2d Church, Phila.......... 4 00Mrs. M. Blair, for work on Pacific

Coast.................................................... 50 00Kev. D. M. Gordon............................... 10 00Matthew E. C oie ................................... 2!) ooNewton and Malcolm McGiffen 50A Friend, Butler, Pa........................... 4 00A Friend, Waterford, Pa.................... 5 00James A ten........................................... 5 00Samuel L ockhart................................ 5 00Mr. and Mrs Simon Pratt................... 20 00Mrs. A. G. K ing.................................. 5 ooMiss Mary A Frazier............................ 5 00A Friend................................................. oo ooJohn Scott................................................ 10 00Matthew Nichol.................................. 15 00Daniel Robertson................................. 2 00A Friend for the support o f two fe­

male missionaries in India, gold 532 00 Savings o f a deceased daughter o f R.

Irving.................................................. 11 00Mr. McDaniel’ s ch ild ren ................... 1 00A. M. Stewart, for support o f Robert

M cN ichol...................................- .....600 00A Friend. Pittsburgh........................... 5 00Mrs. Jane Morrison, for India........... 50 00Daniel Bowman, for India................. 5 00Louis H enry......................................... 1 25Mary A. McCartney............................... 10 00J. C. McClellane, Freeport, Pa............ 80 00Adam Turner........................................ 100 00A Friend o f Missions........................... 5 00A Friend, Franklinville, N.Y............ 5 00Rev. W. H. McMasters......................... 5 10George W alker...................................... 10 00A Fnend, Yellow Springs, 0 ............. 1 COHugh Elliott, Morning Sun, 0 5f 0 00T. T. S.......................................................50 00J A. Gailey............................................. 25 00J, A. Gailey’s son’s saving bank........ 1 0'»George Walker........................................10 00Daniel Glacken.................................... 2 00Once a U. P ........................................... 5 0oA K. Murray.......................................... 10 00A Friend, Locust Hill, Pa.................. 16 00A Friend o f Missions ................. 5 00Rev. D W. Carson................................ 40 00A. Noble.................................................. 5 00

Mrs. H. Gile........................................... 6 00Rev George Mairs.Argyle................. 40 00I. W. Grier............................................. 100 00Hugh Wallace........................................ 5 00A Friend, Pittsburgh............................ 3 00Rev. R N. Fee...................................... 25 00Mrs. Lydia R. Harris........................... 5 00R. E. Adams.......................................... 5 00A Friend, Palo Alto............................. 11 00Mrs. Rev. John Rippey........................ 10 00Rev. Dr. Patterson................................10 00Eleanor Stininger................................ 10 00AnnaM. Hamilton............................... 5 00Mrs. J. A Sawyer...................................200 00James Bruce........................................... 14 00A Friend................................................. 5 00Martha Blean....................................... 1 COA Friend, Omaha, Neb......................... 50 00

1878.Wm. B urnside...................................... 5 00Charles E. McDill (dec’d ).................... 6 00S. W. French.......................................... 5 00Wm. Cook............................................... 3 00A Friend................................................. 15 00Mrs. G. McFarland............................... 6 00Lizzie Rogers’ savings bank.............. 1 00Ralph M. Dickey, Wheeling............... 15 00Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry......................... 25 00Herman M. Abbey............................... 6 00A Friend lor support o f two female

missionaries in India, from July 1st, 1878, to January 1st, 1879, gold 532 00

Miss McCarrell...................................... 2 80Mrs. Annie M. Winter......................... 2 00Rev J. Anderson.................................. 10 00M. E. Diekey........................................... 15 (0George Walker...................................... 10 00Rev. R. N. Fee...................................... 20 00Hugh G. McQuiston........................... 10 00Annie Miller’s savings bank............. 2 10Adam Turner........................................ 30 GOMaggie I Patton.................................. 3 COMrs. Catharine K yle............................. 5 00A Friend................................................. 26 50Miss Johnston....................................... 4 00T. R. S..................................................... 50 00C. McDermead................................... 1 30Mr. and Mrs. Nelson H all................... 30 00General James A. Ekin...................... 10 00Mrs Jane Y. Cummings..................... 10 00A Friend, Oxford, 0 ............................. 50A. C. R .................................................... 6 00A Friend, Pittsburgh........................... 5 00Rev. R. W. and Mrs. N. P. French ICO 00Albert C. French................................. 25 00A Friend for support o f two female

missionaries in India for 1879,gold ................................................... 1,064 OO

Rev. J. Forsyth. D.D., West Point, N Y ., 25 00Taylorsville, Ills................................... 10 00Rev. J. A. Kennedy............................... « 0 0Mrs Mary Wright................................. 20 (0Miss Belle Munroe................................ 5 COWm. Stevenson..................................... 5 COCharlie A Geary.................................. 3 05Emily M. Lorimer................................ 3 00Miss I P. Rogers.................................... 5 00Mrs. M. Pritz.......................................... 5 00A Friend in Erie, Pa............................. 10 00A Friend in Philada. Presbytery.,.1,050 00Master George C. McKee..................... 1 00A Debtor to Christ............................... 10 00Harry Hervey....................................... 67Pressly Davis Hervey........................ 65

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D O N A T IO » B-ttev. J. Forsyth, X». 1»........................... 25 COA Friend in Pittsburgh......................... 5 OilMrs. Ryan........................... 5 00Margaret McCreighi - ................... 5 00Laura Young......................................... in 00George Hart............................................ 40 00Mrs Agnes Blear................ 5 00A Friend....................................................is 00Mrs. Hester L. R ichie............................ 18 00A. Friend, Palo Alto......................... 12 00Malinda Wright.................................... 4 00A Friend.................................................. 5 00A Friend, Carrollton, O ,............... 2 00T. R. Gilkinson...................................... 100S. McClanahan...................................... 2 00Libbie Peacock..................................... 2 00Professor Wm. McKee.......................... 50 00T. F. Moss............................................... 25 00A Lady, New Wilmington, Pa........... 5 00T. M. English........................................ 10 ooA Friend................................................ 5 00Robert O’Brien...................................... 20 00M. Shil&nd............................................. 5 00

■{Continued).Mrs. J. E. Craig................................... 30 0«Miss L. C. Ewing................................ 6 tORev. W. Wishart. IX D ...................... .r>Rev. D. M. Thorn.............................. 8 00A Friend, Monmouth, 111«:............... 100 00Mary McCormick................................ 5 00A Mother and Daughter, Pittsburgh 20 00B. Wallace...................................... 60 00A Friend o f Missions........................ 10 00John Ritchey..................................... & 0£Thomas C. Johnston........................ 5 00W. D. Robertson............................... 20 00D. Miller........................................ 26 00M. M., New Brighton..................... 1 00A Friend, Monmouth................... 5 00A Member o f Logan’s Ferry Church 6 00James Thorn, for roofless churches 26 00W. P., Albany..................................... 5 00John Moorehead, for India........... 15 i 0M. E. Beaver....................................... 5 00

Total. ¿7.42! 37

L E 0A C IE S .fisiAte oi'iMis. MaryTi'hoinpson ¿25 00

Wm. McFarland ...... 500 00“ Nancy McGiffen.............. 60 00

Guienne Morrison 1,000 00John Gealy....................... 135 00Jeannette Murray 140 25James Hill, Argyle l,ooo 00Robt. Ferguson................. 50000Jeannette Bine................. 25 12

Estate ai' George uardii;*.-:............. uh) ih.'Sarah Robertson.............. 50 00

“ Jas. Scott............................. 8 00'* Jennie J. Gladstone 25 00“ Samuel Palmer.................. 2S5 00

Raffertv............................. 100 00David Hamil.................... 210 00

Tota’ .............. .*4.164 »7

SU M M A RY.Presbyteries.........................................................................................................$29,826 7iSabbath Gchools............................................................................................... 1,370 95Missionary Societies....................................................................................... 4,290 20Donations......................................................................................................... 7,421 37Legacies............................................................................................................. 4,154 37Interest.............................................................................................................. 487 39

Total Receipts... Balance o f

TiXPENDI'J'URKR.

$47,551 OJ 97 39

£<17,5453 90

By PLyiiients to Egyptian Mission................................................. $25.433 r :India M inion ......................................................................... 15,628 00

“ Syrian Mission.......................... ,........................................... 1,231 96” “ Missionaries in this eountry............................ - ............... 1,815 6?.

Children’ o f Missionaries...................................................... 712 50Interest .............................................. 18 50Salaries and contingent expenses...................................... 1,218 8S

“ Travelling expenses o f returning missionaries.................................... 1,153 rc“ Allowance to Mrs. Joanna Frazier....................................... 60 00!i Mrs. Boggs’ legacy returned.......................................................................... 2* 0 oo“ Mrs. Prather’s “ “ 53 75

Balance April 30th, 1878-

Total.................

$47,529 00 119 90

............................... m ,6iS 90Wm. G e t ty , Treasurer.

LIST OF FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.

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M ISSION IN T R IN ID A D —1848.Mimo/iant*. Entered. Removed.

Hev. Joseph Banks. 184S 1853David Gordon, 1848 184 .Mrs. Gordon, “Miss Margaret A. Beveridge. “ •’Mr. G. Kerr, 1814 iS4;-Rev. John Scott, 181?, 184<Mr. Andrew Thompson, 1847 184(-Rev. W. H. Andrew, 1851 185Mrs. Andrew, “Miss McCall.

M ISSION IN SY R IA —1843.Kev. James Barnett, 1845 1855J. G. Paulding, M. D., “ 1856Rev. G Lansing, 185:Mrs. Maria G. Lansing;Rev. James A. Frazier. ±85;Mrs. Elizabeth Frazier.Mrs. Joanna Frazier, 1854Miss Sarah B. Dales, 185- 1880Rev. John Crawford, 1857 1S7VMiss Mary B. CrawfordA lex. Hattie, M. D., 1857 1860J. F. Patterson. M. D., 1872 187VMrs. Isabella Patterson. “ “Miss Mary A. Frazier, ' 187t 1877

M ISSION IN IN D IA—1888.Rev. Andrew Gordon, 1855Mrs. Gordon,Miss Elizabeth G. Gordon. “Rev. E. H. Stevenson, 1856 i860Mrs. Stevenson,Rev. R. A. Hill, “ 1863Mrs. Hill,Rev. James S. Barr., 1861Mrs. Mary Barr,M r.J.W . Gordon, 18G6 iS7:Mrs. Eleanor J. Gordon. “Rev. S. Martin. , 1866Mrs. Lydia L. Martin.Rev. J. P. M‘Kee, 1870Mrs. Maggie M‘Kee, “Miss Eliza Calhoun, 1869Miss M. E. Welsh, 1869 1872 .Rev. T. L. Scott, 1874Mrs. Mary Agnes Scoti, “Mjss Cynthia E Wilson, 1875Mies Elizabeth McCahan, “

M ISSION IN EG YP T—1888.Rev. James Barnett, 1555 1875Mrs. Margaret L- Barnett, 1866 “Rev. Thomas McCague, 1855 1861Mrs. M'Cague, “ "Rev. G. Tensing, 1857Mrs. M. G. Lansing, “Miss Sarah B. Dales, 1860Rev. S. C. Ewing, “Mrs. Catharine Ann Ewing, “Miss M. J. McKown, 1860Rev. Andrew Watson, 1861Mrs. Maggie Watson, “

JJiea. April 26,185i>. Dec. 24,1844.

1845. Aug. 4-1877.

July 6, 18« ; . Aug. 30, 1SC£. July 29,1S5Ì.

June 10,187E,

July 5,1865

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Missionaries.Rev. John Hogg,Mrs. Bessie Hogg,Miss Sarah Hart,Rev. Ebenezer Currie,Mrs. Nettie Currie,Rev. Wm. Harvey,Mrs. Henrietta M. Harvev, Rev. B. F. Pinkerton,Mrs. Fidelia Pinkerton Rev. D. Strang,Mrs. Gemella Strang,D. R. Johnston, M. !>.,Mrs. Maggie J. Johnstor Miss Eliza F. Johnston, Miss T. M. Campbell.Miss Anna Y. Thompson Miss >1 aggie A. Smith, Rev. A. H. Rule,Mrs. Jennie M. Rule,Rev. A. M. Nichol,Mrs. Emma C. Nichol. Miss M. G. Lockhart,Rev. John Giflen,Rev. J. R. Alexander Hiss M. E. Galloway.Mifp Mary A. Frazier,

Entered,I860

18611865

1865

i8601866

1.868

;.87C-28711875:¡872

1874.1875

1877

lit•moved.

im187C

»¡ed.

June 28, I860. Oct. 18,1869.

March 9,1866.

1871.

Rev. J. C. Nevin, Amanda S. Kevin,Mrs. Kate Nevin,Rev. Joseph M'Kelvey. Mrs. Adelaide McKelvey Mi=<! M. K. Galbraith.

M ISSIO N IN C H IN A —1859.1*00 3S7Í-

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N o v . 20, 1868 .

A BD RESS OF >ris Rev. James S. Barr,Miss E. G. Gordon,Miss Elizabeth McCahan. Rev. J. P. McKee,Miss Eliza Calhoun,Miss C. E. Wilson,Rev. T. L. Scott,Rev. Andrew Gordon,Rev. Samuel Martin. ''Rev. J. C. Nevin,Rev. G. Lansing, D. D.,Miss M. A . Smith,Rev. Andrew Watson, D. D. Miss E. F. Johnston,*Rev. John Hogg, D. D..Rev. J. R. Alexander,Miss M. J. McKown,Miss M. G. Lockhart,*D. R. Johnston, M. D .,* Rev. William Harvey,Miss Anna Y . Thompson, Rev. A . M. Nichol,Rev. S. C. Ewing,Rev. J. Giffen,Miss Mary A. Frazier,Miss T. M. Campbell,*

N ON ARIES.Sealkote, North India.tl <<

it UGujranwala. il

Jhelum, “ Gurdaspur.New Concord, Ohio. Los Angeles, Cal. Cairo, Egypt.

Sussex, Wisconsin. St. Clairsville, Ohio. Osiout, Egypt.

Barboursville, Va. Mansfield. Ohio.Sinoris, Fayoum, Egypt, Cairo,Monsura, “Alexandria, Egypt.

East Davenport, N. Y .* Now in this country.

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R A T E S OF POSTAGE.

The following are the rates of postage on letters and newspapers, to be pre-poAd in all cases:

Not exceeding % oz. Newspapers. I n d i a , 1» 4E g y p t , 5 2

A ll lettera for Egypt should be addressed to care of American Mission-.

BO A RD Qi' F O itE iG ii j>!I5Si O'JnS.

Letters relating to Missions may be addressed to Key. J. B. Dales. Corresponding Secretary, 1628 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. J

Letters containing remittances of money, or relating to finances, should be addressed to Wm. Getty, Treasurer, f>05 South Second Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

FOlUtt OF BEQUEST.

“ I do give and bequeath the sum of dollars to the Boardof Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church o f North America.”

Or, if the bequest be of real estate, as follows:—“ I do give, devise and bequeath all that” {describing the property,)

a unto the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, to have and to hold, to them and their sue- cessors for ever.”

RESOLUTIONb 01 TH E G E N E R A L ASSEM BLY.

Resolved, That every member of the church should contribute weekly on the Lord’s day as God hath prospered.

Resolved, That all the contributions of churches, Sabbath schools and societies shall be made through the Financial Agents of Presbyteries.

Resolved, That the Financial Agents of Presbyteries be instructed to remit q u a r t e r l y any moneys in their hands for the different Boards of the church.

^ A copy of this lieport will be sent to every pastor. It is hoped that he will read it and have it circulated as widely as pos­sible among his people. It is earnestly desired that every congrega­tion shall have a number of them. They will be sent from this of­fice wherever wished.

| liISAI> ANT> OJ KCVILATE. |

ACT O F INCORPORATION.

A . * A c t t o I n c o r p o r a t e t h e B o a r d o f F o r e ig n M ission * o f t h e U n i t e d P r e s b y t e r i a n C h u r c h o f N o r t h A m e r ic a .

W h e r e a s , The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America have a Board of Foreign Missions composed o f mi­nisters and laymen, members of the said church, the design of which Is the establishing and conducting Christian Missions among the un- JYangelized or pagan nations, and the general diffusion of Christian' ity,

A n d W h e r e a s , the aforesaid Board of f oreign. Missions labors under serious disadvantages as to receiving donations and bequests, and as to the management of funds entrusted to them for the purposes designated in their Constitution, and in accordance with the benevo­lent intentions of those from whom such bequests and donations are received; therefore,

S e c t io n 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of liepresenta tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same:—

That James Prestley, John B . Dales, Francis Church, Thom as B . H anna, Samuel C. H uey, W illiam Getty, Thom as Stinson, and W i l ­liam W . Barr, citizens of the U nited States, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and their successors, are hereby constituted and de­clared to be a body politic and corporate, which shall henceforth be known by the name of the B o a r d o f F o r e i g n M ission s o f t h e U n i t e d P r e s b y t e r i a n C h u r c h o f N o r t h A m e r ic a , and as such shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued in all courts of record and elsewhere, and to purchase and receive, take and hold to them and their successors forever, lands, tenements, heredita­ments, money, goods, and chattels and all kinds of estate which may be devised, bequeathed or given to them, and the same to sell, alien, demise and convey, also to make and use a common Seal, and the same to alter and renew at their pleasure, and also to make such rules, by-laws and ordinances as may be needful for the government of the said Corporation, and not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the U nited States and of this State. Provided always, that the clear and annual income of the real and personal estate held by this Corporation shall not at any time exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars. The corporation or persons above named shall hold their offices for three years from the date of this act, and until their successors are duly qualified to take their places, who shall be chosen at such tim es and in such way and manner as shall be prescribed by the said General Assem bly of the U nited Presbyterian Church of N orth Am erica. The said Board hereby incorporated and their suc­cessors shall be subject to the direction o f said General Assem bly of the U nited Presbyterian Church of N orth A m erica, have full power to manage the funds and property com m itted to their care in such m anner as shall be most advantageous, not being contrary to law.

Jam es K . K e l l y , Speaker of the Souse of Representatives.D. F le m in g , Speaker of the Senate.

Approved the Twelfth day of April. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. A. G . C u r t in .

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