IMIAING W Ae Te 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE 
 
 ‘OF THE 
 
 Methodists Episcopal Church. 
 
 LUCKNOW : 
 PRINTED AT THE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, 
 
 1887. 
 
PREFACE, 
 
 THE ‘Conference Manual” is intended to contain in an 
 available form the action of the Conference from year to year 
 on such questions as Temperance, Sunday-schools, Education, ete. ;- 
 the orders of the Finance Committee ; and the instructions of the 
 Missionary Board and General Committee. The last edition was 
 published in 1874: a revised edition has been needed for several 
 
 years and is now presented. It speaks for itself. 
 
 - The catalogue of books published by our Publishing House is 
 emitted as it can be had on application to the Agent. 
 
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CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 I.— HISTORICAL. 
 
 1856 September 23rd, Dr. Butler landed in Calcutta, reached 
 Lucknow November 29th, Bareilly i in December ; Mission established. 
 
 1857 May 18th, outbreak of the mutiny in Bareilly; Nynee Tal 
 occupied. 
 
 1858 September 15th, Lucknow occupied. 2 
 
 1859 First Annual meeting, held at Lucknow in August; Bareilly 
 re-occupied ; Moradabad, Bijnour and Shahjahanpur occupied. 
 
 1860 Budaon occupied. 
 
 1861 Sitapur and Lakhimpur occupied. _ 
 
 1864 Roy Bareilly and Gonda occupied. India Mission Conference 
 organized December 8th, at Lucknow by Bishop Thomson. 
 
 1865 Garhwal (Paori) and Sambhal occupied. 
 
 1866 Barabanki occupied. 
 
 1868 Bahraich occupied. 
 
 1869 Panahpur occupied. 
 
 1870-Bishop Kingsley’s visit. November 20th, Rev. W. Taylor, 
 landed in Bombay. 
 
 1871 Cawnpore and Hardui occupied; Rev. W. Taylor labors in 
 North India. 
 
 1872 Bareilly Theological Seminary established. 
 
 1873 Allahabad occupied. 
 
 1874 Bishop Harris’ visit. East Kumaon (Pithoragarh), and Dwara- 
 hath occupied. Cawnpore Memorial School opened. 
 
 1875 Agra occupied. 
 
 1876 November 9th, Sonth India Conference organized at Bombay 
 by Bishop Andrews. ' | : 
 
 1877 Bishop Andrews’ visit. Centennial School opened at Luck- 
 now. 
 
 1879 Bishop Bowman’s visit. 
 
 1880 Boys’ High School at Nynee Tal opened.’ 
 
 1881 Bishop Merrill’s visit. ‘ Delegated Conference” or Central 
 Committee held in July, at Allahabad. 
 
 1883 Bishop Foster’s visit. 
 
 1885 Bishop Hurst’s visit. First session of Central Conference, 
 at Bareilly. 
 
 1887 Bishop Ninde’s visit. Bengal Conference organized by Bishop 
 Ninde; second session of Central Conference, at Bombay ; Boundary lines 
 arranged as follows :— 
 
2 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 I.—The North India Conference shall consist of the North-West 
 Provinces and Oudh, excepting the Districts of Saharanpur and Dehra 
 - Dun, and the Allahabad English Church. 
 
 Il.—The South India Conference shall consist of Sindh, Grujerat 
 the Bombay Presidency, and a!l of peninsular India south and west of a 
 line drawn from Burhanpur, C. P., to Jabalpur, and including them, 
 thence due east to Bengal and along its south-west border to the Bay 
 of Bengal. 
 
 III.—The Bengal Conference shall consist of Bengal and the portions 
 of India not included by the North and South India Conferences, with 
 Burmah and the Straits’ Settlements. 
 
 Il.—“« RULES OF ORDER.” 
 
 T.—All the business of the Conference, excepting such as may be 
 brought forward by the President, shall be introduced by motion. 
 
 IT.—All questions of order shall be determined by the President, 
 whose decision shall in all cases prevail, unless overruled by an appeal to 
 the Conference: any three members dissenting from the President’s 
 judgment, shall have a right to appeal to the Conference. 
 
 III.—The President shall appoint all Committees not otherwise 
 specially ordered by the Conference. 
 
 | IV.—AIl motions or resolutions introduced by any member of the 
 Conference shall be reduced to writing, if the Secretary or any member 
 request it.. 
 
 V.—-No new motion or resolution shall be entertained till the one 
 under consideration shall be disposed of, which may be by adoption or 
 rejection ; unless one of the following motions should intervene : namely 
 indefinite postponement, postponement till a given time, to lie on the 
 table or to amend: and these motions shall haye precedence in the order 
 in which they are placed. 
 
 V1I.—Every member shall have a right to speak on any motion, but 
 shall not speak more than fifteen minutes at any one time, nor more 
 than once on any one subject until all have spoken, who desire to do so ; 
 unless by special permission of the Conference. 
 
 ViII.—Every member, when he speaks, shall rise from his seat, and 
 respectfully address the chair: and shall not on any occasion use personal 
 reflections or intemperate language. 
 
 V1Ii.— When a member intends to make complaint against another, 
 having a bearing upon his moral character, he shall apprize such brother 
 of his intention, before he brings it into Conference. 
 
 IX.—No member shall absent himself from the services of the Con- 
 ference unless he be sick or unable to attend. 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. ° 3 
 
 X.—It shall be in order for any member of the Conference, when he 
 thinks a question has been sufficiently discussed, to move that the ques- 
 tion be taken without further debate : and if the motion be sustained by 
 two-thirds of the members present and voting, the main question shall 
 then be put without further discussion. 
 
 Il].—COURSES OF STUDY. 
 
 A.—FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARIES, 
 FIRST YEAR. 
 
 Hindustani Grammar (Forbes or Williams.) 
 Mufid-ul-Atfal. (Methodist Publishing House, Lucknow.) 
 Hagaiq-ul-Maujidat. (Methodist Publishing House Lucknow.) 
 Bag-o-Bahar (first Story, omitting the Muqaddama.) 
 . Writing and Translation. English First Reader (C. V. E. Soc.,) 
 the first thirty pages to be translated into Hindustini and written by the 
 candidate in the Persian character and presented for Examination. 
 6. Conversation in Hindustani between the candidate and the 
 
 examiners. 
 
 7. Tobe read: Hunter’s Brief History of the Indian People. 
 
 see OBS 
 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 
 A, Urnpt Lanavaas. 
 
 1. Bég-o-Bahar finished. 
 2. Mirdt-ul-Uris, (Newal Kishore Press.) 
 3 Written sermon in the Persian character. 
 B. Hinpi LANeus@e. 
 1. Hindf first Book (Methodist Publishing House, Lucknow.) 
 2. Srisht ka Varnan (Newal Kishore Press.) 
 3, Dharm Tula (Allahabad Mission Press.) 
 4. Conversation in Hindi between the candidate and the examiners. 
 
 THIRD YEAR. 
 A. Urpnt LAN@guUAGE. 
 
 1. Ikhwan-us-Safa, 
 B. Hinpi Lanevaes. 
 
 1. Grammar (Etherington or Kellogg.) 
 2. Sat Mat Nirupan. 
 
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 3. Translation and Writing. English First Reader (C. V. E. 8.) 
 pp. 30-50, to be translated into Hind{ and written by the candidate in 
 N&gri character and presented for Examination. 
 
 C. EnexisH. 
 Lo be read: Wheeler’s Short History of India. 
 
 FOURTH YEAR, 
 
 Candidates may choose between the courses marked A. and B. The 
 rest marked C. and D., is compulsory. 
 
 A. Hinpi anp Sanskrit Course. 
 
 1, Prem S4gar. 
 2. Ballantyne’s Elementary Sanskrit Grammar. 
 3. Hitopadesh, first Book. 
 B. Persian Course. 
 1. Persian Grammar (Forbes.) 
 2. The Gospel of Matthew. 
 3. Muntakhabat-i-Farsi. 
 
 C. Writine AnD ComposiTIon. 
 An Essay in Hindf or Persian (written in the character.) 
 
 D. Enetrisx. 
 To be read, Robinson’s Hinduism in its Relations to Christianity, 
 
 FIFTH YEAR, 
 
 Candidates have the same option as in the Fourth year, 
 
 A. Sanskrit Coursx. 
 
 1. Grammar (Monier Williams.) 
 2. Hitopadesh, second Book. 
 B. Perstan AND ARABIC CouRSE, 
 1. Gulistén (omitting the’Muqaddama.) 
 2. Arabic Grammar (Forbes or Palmer.) 
 3. Arabic Reader (Forbes.) 
 
 C. WRITING AND TRANSLATION. 
 
 Short English Exercises furnished by the Examiners to be translated 
 jato Sanskrit or Arabic, and written in the character. 
 
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 D, EnGLIisH. 
 To be read: Sell’s Faith of Islam. 
 
 B.—FOR THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE. 
 
 | Sdléna Kanfarans kt Fihrist kt khwdandagt. 
 (Note, Candidates who prefer it, may take the English Course of the Discipline, } 
 FOR ADMISSION ON TRIAL. 
 Dékhila ke waste, 
 
 1, Candidates must be acquainted with the common branches of Vernacular 
 education as Grammar, Geography aud Arithmetic in Urdé or Hindi, | 
 
 2. Ancient History, Aina i Tarifkh-numé, and History of India, Sair i Mutagqadda- 
 min. (Curator’s, Allahabad.) 
 
 3. Rhetoric, Misb4h ul Baldgat, (Methodist Publishing House, Lucknow.) 
 
 4, Geography of Palestine, Jugrafiya i Pik Kitab. (Sikandra Press.) 
 
 6. Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 
 BOOKS TO BE READ, 
 Mutdla karneke liye. 
 Begunéh i Masth. (Hooper: Lahore Tract Depot.) 
 Morris’s Church Polity, Ek Waz, Bishop Morris sahib k4. 
 Political Economy, Risdla i Ilm Intizim i Madan. (Curator’s, Allahabad.) 
 ‘¢The Bible not of Man.”? Baibal insdn ke aql{ z4mog se barhkar hai. 
 
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 FIRST YEAR, 
 
 Pahli Sal. 
 
 1.. Walker’s Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation, Filésafi dar b&b Tadbir i Najat 
 (Lucknow.) Ilmi lldhi k4 Usdl. (N. I. T. 8.) 
 
 2. Muller’s Doctrine of Sin, Haqiqati Gunéh. (Lahore.) 
 
 3. Mitchell’s Letters to Indian Youth, Khutati Jawanan i Hind, (Lodiana Ed.) 
 
 4, Church History, Intikhab Tawarikh i Kalisiya (Caleb: Mission Pvess, 
 Allahabad.) ; 
 
 6. Homiletics, Ilmi Waz. (Lucknow.) 
 
 6. Aisan ul Qisas, (Part of Horne’s Introduction, Lucknow.) 
 
 7, Written Sermon, Tahrirf Waz. 
 
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 TO BE READ, 
 
 Mutdla karne ke waste. 
 
 1. Qurbat i [l4hi y4 Taqdis i Mominfy. (Mission Press, Allahabad, or N, I. T. 8. 
 2. Hayaétul Muttagin. (Lucknow.) 
 8. Tarikh i Muhamwmadi, Life of Mahomed. (Lahoré.) 
 4, Taftisi i Islam. (Methodist Publishing House, Lucknow.) 
 . Collier’s History of England, Inglistan ki Tawdrikh, (Newal Kishore or 
 Government Curator’s, Lahore.) ; 
 
 — 
 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 Disra Sct, 
 
 1 Makhzan Im { Iéhf (Lucknow.) Iléhi Buréhin, Masth kf Oluhiyat o”Insénj 
 k{ Dalilep, (N. I, T.8.) ’ yat o Insaniyat 
 
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 What think ye of Christ, Masfh Ibn Ull&h, (Vaughan: Lodiana.) 
 Tariq ul Hayat. 
 
 Mat Pariksha 2 parts and Sat Mat Nirdpaa. 
 
 Catechism No. III. 
 
 Written Sermon, Tabrirf Waz. 
 
 — —— 
 
 SO m wD 
 
 TO BE READ, 
 
 Mutdla karne ke waste. 
 
 Introduction to the five books of Moses, Miftéh ut Tauret. (Lodiana or Lahore.) 
 Commentary on Genesis, Paiddish kf Tafsir. 
 
 Risala Ilm 1 Tabiat (Lakshmi Shankar’s.) 
 
 : . Flavel’s Fountiin of Life, Chashmae Zindagi, (N. I. T. S.,) or Thomas 6 
 Kempis in Hindf, Kristénir Karan, 
 
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 THIRD YEAR. 
 Tisr dé Sdl. 
 
 1, Réh i Zindagf. (N. I. T. 8.) 
 2. Teg o Sipar. (Lodiana ) 
 3. Bushnell’s Character of Jesus, fs& ki Sfrat, (Lahore.) 
 4, Butler’s Analogy, Millati Tsshbihi. (Methodist Publishing House, Lucknow.) 
 5. The Trinity, Tashrih ul Taslis. (Lucknow,) 
 6. Logic, Kawaif ul Mantiq. 
 7. Niydz Nama, (N,I, T. 8.) 
 8. Tahriri Was. 
 TO BE READ. 
 
 Mutdla karne ke waste. 
 1. Hamérd B4édshah aur Shaf{, Wise’s Christ our Lord and King. (Lucknow.) 
 2. Muajize Haqq 6 Batil, On Miracles. (Lucknow.) 
 3. Misr ki qadim Tawarikh, Ancient Egypt. (Curator’s, Allahabad.) 
 4, Life of Dr. Judson, Daktar Judsan Saiib ki Sarguzasht, (Lahore.) 
 5. Dr. Scott’s Commentary on Luke and John. 
 
 FOURTH YEAR. 
 Chauthe sdl ke ¢mtihdn ke suwdldt. 
 FASL I. 
 Dinddrt aur augdtguedrt ke baydn mep. 
 
 1. Rdhénifzindagi ky4 hai? us ki asliyat bayan karo. 
 
 2. Kyankar maldm hota hai, ki ham meg RGhani zindagi hai? 
 
 8. Waiz ko kis tara malam hota hai, ki Khuda ne mujh ko waz ke kém ke 
 waste talab kiya hai? : 
 
 4, Khbddim ud din ke khass kam baydn karo, aur yih batlao ki is khidmat ke 
 -w4ste kaun kaun se wast chahiyen f 
 
 5, Wub kaun se tarige hain, jin se yih ausaf barhte jate hain ? 
 
 6. Batdo ki logon ke gharoy par ahwal-pursi ke liye jaéné, kaisa zardr hai, aur 
 yih kaho ki tumhari is kim men kis qadr tawajjub hai ? 
 
 7, Yih batdo ki kis tarah parhte likhte ho ? 
 
 8. Jab se tum K4nfarans ki imtihén-bardaéri men ho, tab se tum ne jitni kitaben 
 har s4l dekhi hain un sab ke ném batao? 
 
 . 9, ‘Kutub i Muqaddasa ke parhne meg tumbéré kitna wagt sarf hoté hai aur kis 
 
 tariq se_payhte,ho P 
 
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 FASL 2. 
 Baibal ka imtihdn. 
 
 1, Kis iatibdér se tum Baikal ko Kalaémi [ahi jante ho, aur hin daldil se tum yih 
 r&o rakhte ho ? 
 
 2. Kis dalfl se Majmia i Ahd e Atig ko, jo ham men murawwij hai, muatabar 
 jante ho ? Khulasa bayén karo, 
 
 3. Kis dalil se wuh sab kitaben jo is Majmiga i Ahd i Jadid men dakhil hain, 
 muatabar o sahih jante ho ? mukhtasar baydn karo. 
 
 4, Kis tarah Muhammadiog ke is dawe ko, ki Kutub i Muqaddasa mansikh ho 
 gai hain, galat sdbit karte ho ? 
 
 5. Khurdj i Misr se Yashé ki maut tak, Isrdelfon ki tarfkh ka k'iuldsa batao. 
 
 6. Das firqon ki bagawat ke mutaallig jo kha4ss waqidt hain, unhen baydn karo. 
 
 7. Yahddion ki sélana [den aur niz yih ki kis bat ke waste mugarrar hdi thin, 
 aur kis tarah par ada ki jati thin, batdo. 
 
 8. Khass khdss nabfop ke n4m aur jis zam4ne men unhon ne nabuwaten kin, 
 wuh zam4ne aur niz yih ki wuh nabawaten kis bare men thin bayan karo. 
 
 9. Khudawand Masth kf baton se kuchh ais{ mis4len do jin se zdhir hota hai ki 
 wuh Purane Ahd ke nawishton ko muatabar samajhta tha. 
 
 10. Kaun si pesh-khaburfan Masih se mutaalliq hain, khusdisan us ki 4mad aur 
 sirat aur kim aur maut se P 
 
 11. Masih ki zindagi ke halat kis kis wagt ke malam hain, aur muddat ahd i 
 risdlat kis qadir thi ? 
 
 12, Us ki ristlat ke khdss waqidt aur jahén jahan ki wuh guzre hain, batdo. 
 
 13, Khass khass baten sundarja i Aam4li Rasdl batao. 
 14, Muajiza ky& bai aur muajizon se kyinkar malim hota hai ki Kutub 
 Muqaddasa min-janib Allah hain ? 
 
 FASL 3. 
 Baibal ki talimdt ke baydn men, 
 
 1. Khudé ki wajid Baibal se kis tarah sbit hoti hai ? 
 
 2, Baibal se Taslis ka kya subdt hai yane ki ek Khudd men tin aqném hain ? 
 
 8. Khuda ki sifat batao aur harsifat k4 subGt Pak nawishton se do. a 
 
 4. Khudi ke mujassam hone ké masla jo Kutub i Muqaddasa men pays jata 
 hai, use bay4n karo, aur yih batao ki us talim ko najat ke bandobast se kyé ildga hai ? 
 
 5, Masih ki uldhiyat Kutub i Muqiddasa se sabit karo. , 
 
 6, Baibal ki kaun kaun si 4yat Ulahiyat i Masih ke mukhélif, Musalmén pesh 
 karte hain, aur tum un ke kya wane lete ho? 
 - % Rab i Quds ki aquémiyat k4, aur Uldhiyat k4& aur us ke kim kd, Pik 
 nawishton se subit do. : 
 
 8. Adam ke gunah ka natija us ke aur us ki aul4d ke haqq men kya haa ? 
 
 9, Masih ke kafére aur gunahon ki muafi men kyé jlaga hai 2 ; 
 
 10. Masih ke ji uthne ka subit do, 
 
 11, Masih ki shafaat ki asliyat aur faida, jaise Kutub i Muqaddasa men talim 
 hai, bayan karo. i 
 
 12. Rub ul Quds ki gawahi ki nisbat ky4 talfm o dalil hai ? 
 
 13. Masihi kaméliyat ké masla jo Wesley sahib ne sikhay4 hai use mukhtasaran 
 bayan karo aur Baibal se us ka subut do. 3 
 
 14, Nai paiddish aur kamil pakizagi ke darmiy4n jo farq hai use samjhé do 
 
 15, Is dawe ke bére men ki ‘‘jo kof az sarinau paidd hots hai is taur se 
 nahin girega ki dkhir i kér halak ho jée,” hamarj Kalisiyd ki ky rdée hai? aur s&bit 
 karo ki yih rae Kalam i I]éhi ke bamGjib hai. 
 
 16. Batdo ki Baptismé kais{ ra.m hai, aur kis garaz se hai a i 
 har bat ka subdt do, : : piglet hae ae 
 
 17. Sdabit karo ki bachchon ko Baptisma den4 mundsib hai. 
 
 18, Raibal meg Ashé e Rabbani ki nisbat kaun kaun se mubdware ée 
 
 : : : hain, aur 
 wuh kis garaz se haig, aur Mas{hiog par un && manna kydp farg hai ? ne 
 
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 19, Hinddon ke masle tandsukh, yane kaya palat ko kyipkar galatsdbit karte he 
 20. Jism ke ji uthne ke b&b men, Kutub i Muqaddasa men kyé talim hai? 
 Hawala do. 
 
 FASL 4, 
 
 Kalisiya ke intizdmo tartib ke baydn mest. 
 
 1. Kalisiyé ke tarah tarah ke intizAmét baydn karo. 
 
 2. Methodist Episkopal Kalisiya men Generel Kanfarans aur Annual Kanfarang 
 aur Quartorli K4nfarans ke mutaalliq ky4 ky4 k4m hain ? 3 
 
 3. Kalisiya ke uhdadéron men ‘‘Bishop” aur ‘Presiding Elder” aur ‘Elder’? 
 aur “Dikan” aur ‘‘Prichar in Charj’” aur ‘‘Lokal Prichar’” aur ‘* Stuard” aur 
 “Trasti”? aur ‘* Kilds Lidar’? jo bain, un men har ek ka kitna ikhtiyar haiaur kya kanr 
 mutaalliq hai aur kis ke samhne jawab~dihi hai? 
 
 FASL 5. 
 Tarikh i Kalisiya, 
 
 1. Yahddion ke khass firqe, Masfh ke waqt men kitne the? un &4 baydn karos 
 2. Awail zaménon men jo aziyaten Masihion ne uthai hain, un ka kuchh bayéw 
 aro. 
 
 k 3. Un wasdil k& baydn karo jin ke sabab se ibtidA men Masthi mazhab bahuf 
 phaila, (Mather Sahib ki Taw4rikhi Kalisiya 3r4 Bab, dafa 1, 2, 3, 5 ko dekho, 
 
 4. Gnostikon ki ky4 talim thi aur us se qadim Kalisiya par kya khardb asar 
 para’ (Mather Sahib ki Tawéarikh i Kalfsiya 3r4 Bab dafa 85.) 
 
 "5, Luther Sdhib se ain qubl, Din i fswi kA kyd hal hai? 
 
 6. Bari Islih i Mazhabi to Luther sabib ke waqt men hii, us ka hal batdo, kis 
 sabab se wub isla4h hai thi, aur kaun kaun log us men sharfk i hal the 2 
 
 7. Britdniyé e Uzmwd mec Methodist Kalisiya ke muqarrar hone k& sabab batdo, 
 aur Wesley sahib ki tabrik men khass log kaun the P? 5 
 
 8. Methodist Episkopal Kalisiya kis sabab se aur kis waqt meg aur auwal kahag 
 bani. (Disiplin k4 b&b i auwal dekho.) 
 
 9. Hindd ke wukhtalif firqa aur yih ki wuh kaban se nikle aur un k4& béni aur 
 un ke khass aqide batéo. 
 
 10. Muhammadfon ke din ki ibtida aur Muhaminad Sébib ka kuchh bay4n karo, 
 aur mukbtalif firgon kA aur un ke hadion kA kuchh zikr karo 
 
 11. Sikhon ke mazhab kf ibtida kahan se hai aur use Hindd o Islam ke mazhab 
 se kya ildqa hai? 
 
 12, Brahmo mazhab ka 4g&z o taraqqiaur halat i maujida aur khass aqidoy 
 ka bayan karo, 
 
 Mutdla karne ke liye. 
 
 TArikh i Yusufi, Josephus. (Mission Press, Lucknow.) 
 
 Brahmo Mazhab. (Mission Press, Lucknow.) 
 
 Augustin ke Iqrarat, Augustine’s Confession, (Mirzapore Mission Press.) 
 Hall ul Ashkal. (Mission Press, Lucknow.) 
 
 Jdme ul Fardiz. (Lahore Tract Depot.) 
 
 Miftéh ul Hinid. (Mission Press, Lucknow.) 
 
 FOR LOCAL ORDERS, 
 Un Lokal Pricharon ke imtihdn jo Dikan yd Eldar hond chdhte haty. 
 I, LOCAL DEACONS, 
 
 Lokal Dikan kd imtihan. 
 
 1. The eandidates must pass a satisfactory examination in review of the four 
 years’ course for Local Preachers. 
 
 Sao Make ee vere 
 
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 Jo log Lokal Dfkan hon& chahte haiyp, unheg chér bara? kf khwandagi kf un 
 age mey jo Lokal Pricharon ke waste muqarrar haip, phir mukhtasar imtihdn 
 ena hoga. 
 
 2. HagqiqatiGunah, (Lahore.) 
 3. Ilmi Waz. (Lucknow.) 
 4. Millati Tashbihi, Butler’s Analogy. 
 8. Tahriri Waz, 
 
 TO BE READ. 
 
 Mutdlakié Kitdaben. 
 
 i, Intikhab Tawdrikh i Kalisiy4, Church Histery. (Mission Press, Allahabad.) 
 2, Hayat ul Muttaqin. (Lucknow.) 
 8. Chashmai Zindagi. Flavel’s Fourtain of Life. (N. 1, T. 8.) 
 4. Paiddish ki Tafsir, 
 
 II. LOCAL ELDERS. 
 Lokal Eldar ka imtihén, 
 
 1. Review of the books to be studied and read for Local Deacon’s Orders. 
 
 Jo Kitaben Lokal Dikanon ke imtihan aur mutdla ke waste muqarrar haip, un 
 mep mukhtasar imtihan, 
 
 2. Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation, Filasafi dar bab tadbiri najat. (Lucknow.) 
 Rah i Zindagi. (N. I. T. 8S.) 
 4, Ysé ki Sirat. (Lahore.) 
 5. Teg o Sipar. (Lahore.) 
 6, Rahul Quds ki Talim, Walker’s Doctrine of the Hely Spirit. (Lucknow.) 
 
 Mutdla ké Kitasen. 
 
 Riséla i Ilm i Tabfat, Natural Science. (Curator'’s, Allahabad, Rs, 2-8.) 
 Térikh i Ydsufi, Josephus. (Lucknow.) 
 
 Augustin ke Iqrdérat, Augustine’s Confessions, (Mirzapore.) 
 
 Qurbat i llahi. (N. I. T.S.) 
 
 Masih Ibn Ullah, Vaughan’s ‘‘What think ye of Christ.” (Lodiana.) 
 
 tm Oo BO 
 
 Kitdben jo mauga par dekhne men mufid haty. 
 
 Taqdis ul Lugat. (Lucknow) 
 
 Lugat i Kitéb i Muqaddasa, (N.I.T.S.) 
 
 Kalid ul Kitab. 
 
 Musharrah i Fiqrae Baibal, Annotated Bible. (N, I, T. 8.) 
 
 Paiddish ki Tafsir. 
 
 Khurdéj ki Tafsir, 
 
 Tarjumai Mazdémir ba-sbara tafsir. (N. I. T. S.) 
 
 Yasaiyéh nabi ki kitab kitafsfr. (N. I. T. S.) 
 
 Tafsir Mati o Marqus ki Injil ki. (Lucknow.) 
 
 Injil Mati o Marqus ki Tafsir. (Mission Press, Allahabad.) 
 
 Injfl Lag4 o Yahanna ki Tafsir, (Allahabad.) 
 
 Rasdlog ke Aam4l ki Tafsir, (Allahabad.) 
 
 Rumion ke khatt ki Tafsir. (Allahabad.) . 
 Muk4shafat ki Tafsfr, (Lucknow.) Chand aur khatton ki, aur baz aur Nabion kf 
 
 kitabon ki Tafsir, Mission Presson men ab milti hain. 
 
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 ise (C.)\—LOCAL PREACHERS AND EXHORTERS. 
 DISTRIKT KANFARANS KY FIHRIST I KHWANDAGT. 
 
 (Hind{ khwandagi men bazi kitaben Roman hurdf mep hain.) 
 
 Urpt. 
 Ekzdrtar kaé Pahla Sal. 
 
 . Urdu bakhubilikhna aur parhna. 
 . Shams-ul-Jugréfiya. 
 . Hisadb, Jama,Tafriq,Zarb Taqsim. 
 . Aqdid-Nama, Pahla Hissa. 
 . Charon Injil, aur Aamal. 
 
 Ekzartar ka Disrda Sal. 
 
 . Kitab i Muqaddas k& Ahwal. 
 . Gulshan i Fayuz Sarf o Nahw. 
 . Hiséb, Jama, 
 
 Taqsim Murakkab tak. 
 
 . Disiplin, Pahla Hissa, 
 . Khutut Pulus ke. 
 
 Ekzartar ka Tisra Sal. 
 
 . Aqdid-Nd4ma, Diusra Hissa. 
 . Disiplin, Dusra Hissa. 
 
 . Hagaiq ul Maujudat. 
 
 . Abli Hind ki mukhtasar Tarikh. 
 . Mizan ud Din. 
 
 . Injfil ke béqi Khutut. 
 
 Ekzdrtar ka Chautha Sal. 
 
 . Mdésa k{ Pdnch Kitdbeo. 
 
 . Kbuldsa i Nizam i Shamst. 
 . Tim Ilébi i Aqli. 
 
 . Guldasta i Akhlaq. 
 
 . Hiddyat ul Wajzin. 
 
 Lokal Prichar ka Pahla Sal. 
 
 . Disiplin, Tisrdé Hissa. 
 
 . Miftah ul Kitab, Hissa i Auwal, 
 . Inglistan ki Tawdrikh, 2 dna. 
 
 - Makbzan Jm i lahi, 
 
 . Yashti se Astar tak. 
 
 Murakkab_ se 
 
 C2 bo eS 
 
 or 
 
 oo Orem co toe 
 
 Hinpt, 
 
 Ekzartar ka Pahlé Sal. 
 
 . Hind{bakhubf likhna aur parhna. 
 . Jagat Bhugol, Pahla Hissa. 
 . Hisdb, Jama, Tafriq, Zarb. 
 . Aqaid-Nama, Palla Hissa. 
 . Charog Injil aur Aamal. 
 
 Ekzartar kt Disra Sal, 
 
 . Dharm Pustak kd jItihds, 
 . Vyakaran. 
 . Hisab, Jama, 
 
 Murakkab se 
 Taqsim Murakkab tak. 
 
 . Disiplin, Pahla Hissa. 
 . Khutut, Mukashafat. 
 
 Ekzartar ka Tisra Sal. 
 
 . Aqdid-Nima, Disra Hissa. 
 . Disiplin, Dasré Hissa. 
 
 . Vidyankur. 
 
 . Abli Hind ki Mukhtasar Tarikh. 
 . Dharm Tula, 
 
 . Injil ke bagi Khutut. 
 
 Ekzartar kad Chautha Sal. 
 
 1. Musa ki Panch Kitaben. 
 
 O° no 
 
 Or = oo bor 
 
 . Khagol Viddya. 
 . Gyan Darpan. 
 
 Lokal Prichar ka Pahla Sél, 
 
 . Disiplin, Tisra Hissa. 
 
 . Miftah ul Kitab, Hissa i Auwal. 
 . Inglistan ka Itibas, 2 dna. 
 
 . Sat Mat k& Marg. 
 
 . Yashv se Astar tak, 
 
OUR co LO 
 
 CONFERENCE MANUAL, 11 
 
 Urpt. 
 
 Lokal Prichar kd Disré Sdl. 
 
 . Disiplin, tamam., 
 . Miftéh ul Kitab tamam. 
 . Din i Haqq ki Tahqiq Hintd ki 
 
 babat. 
 
 . Talim i Muhammadi. 
 . Aiytib se leke Gazal ul Gazalat 
 
 tak. 
 
 Lokal Prichar ka Tisrda Sal. 
 
 . Iim i Tabiat, Lakshmf Shankar 
 
 Misr. 
 
 . Tawarikh i Kalfsfya, Caleb ya 
 
 Muir sahib ki. 
 
 . Wesli sahib ka Ahwal. 
 . Tarfq ul Hayat. 
 
 Timi Dahf ka Usul. 
 Yasaiyah se Daniel tak. 
 
 Lokal Prichar ka Chautha Sal. 
 
 Mizin ul Haqq. 
 
 . Miftah ul Asrar. 
 
 Masfhi Kamiliyat. 
 
 . Tasdiq ul Kitab. 
 . Mirat ul Hundd. 
 . Husfa se Malaki tak. 
 
 OorrPote — 
 
 | Hinpt. 
 Lokal Prichar ké Disré Sadi. 
 
 ]. Disiplin, tamam. 
 
 2. Miftah ul Kitab, Disra Hissa, 
 3. Sat Mat Nirdpan Hindd ki babat, 
 4. Satwa Rajas Tamas Sangram. 
 5. Aiyub se Gazal-ul-Gazalaét tak. 
 
 Lokal Prichar ka Tiésrad Sat. 
 
 1, Physical Geography, Hindi, by 
 Lakshmi Shankar Misr. ~ 
 (Sold at Curator’s). 
 
 2. Tawarikh i Kalfsiya, Caleb ki, 
 
 3. Mat Pariksld, Pahlé Hissa, 
 4, Bad Nibdran. 
 5. Yasaiydh se Daniel tak. 
 
 Lokal Prichar ka Chautha Sal. 
 
 . Mat Pariksha, Disra Hissa. 
 . Sat Autar ka Barnan. 
 
 . Tasdiq ul Kitab. 
 
 . Dharmé Dharam Pariksha, 
 . Mirat ul Hund. 
 
 . Husia se Malaki tak. 
 
12 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 IV.—FINANCE COMMITTEE. 
 
 COMPOSITION. 
 
 The Finance Committee is composed as follows :—the Presiding 
 Elders and Conference Treasurer (ea-oficio members), and five elective 
 members, two of whom are tu be Hindustani members of Conference. 
 The five to be elected at each Session of Conference, to begin work 
 at the first meeting of the Finance Committee held after the adjournment 
 of Conference. 
 
 BUSINESS RULES. 
 
 1. The Committee shall do business only in Session convened. 
 
 2. A majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute a 
 quorum. 
 
 3. The Presiding Elders shall have authority to call a Meeting of 
 the Committee during the interim of Conference Sessions. 
 
 4. A copy of the proceedings of such Meeting shall be forwarded 
 to absent members. 
 
 FINANCE COMMITTEE ORDERS. 
 J, Esrimares. 
 
 1. All estimates for buildings, or for enlarging Mission residences, 
 churches or school-houses, must be accompanied by a plan of the building, 
 or enlargement, with estimates of proposed expenditure. 
 
 When Native churehes ask aid for a parsonage or a ebapel the 
 estimate must be aceompanied with plans, also a statement showing the 
 amount required, and the amount that can be raised locally. 
 
 9. All estimates for schools whether of the Parent Society, or of the 
 W. F. M.&., should be presented to the Finance Committee, accompanied 
 with a statement showing the number of schools, number of scholars in 
 attendance in each, the grade of the school, and current monthly expense. 
 
 In estimating for aid for educating Christian boys, a statement 
 showing the number of boys, wken and how taught, and the manner 
 in which is to be expended, must be presented. No more than ls. 2, or 
 Rs. 2-8 will be allowed for each. 
 
 II. Sxuir-Supporr. 
 
 1. In preparing estimates for salaries of Native preachers, the Presid- 
 ing Elders shall, as far as possible, ascertain the number of Christians in 
 each circuit able to earn a livelihood, and their average monthly earnings ; 
 and on the basis of these facts, they shall report to the Finance Committee 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 13 
 
 the amount that each circuit should pay for pastoral support. The sum 
 which the circuit should give, when fixed by the Finance Committee, shall 
 be deducted from the estimates for Native preachers on that circuit. 
 
 2. Wecall the attention of our preachers and people to the importance 
 of this question of self-support, and we urge that stress he laid on this 
 collection above all other collections of the church. 
 
 III. Savuarizs. 
 
 1. The salary of all travelling and local preachers, irrespective of 
 nationality, joining us in India and paid by the Missionary Society, shall 
 be fixed by the Finance Committee, according to the necessities of each 
 case. 
 
 2. The salaries arranged in the appropriations for members of Con- 
 ference and local preachers regularly employed in the ministry include the 
 preachers and their wives ; and both are expected to devote themselves 
 faithfully to the work of God in their charges to the extent of their 
 ability, and the wife of each preacher is expected to pass the course of 
 study arranged for female mission workers. 
 
 - Exceptions may be made in cases of medical workers regularly em- 
 ployed as such. 
 
 8. No appropriation shall be made for any local preacher or ex- 
 horter, who has not been recommended by the District Conference by the 
 renewal of his license, or otherwise. 
 
 4, Rents of Native preachers’ houses shall be included in their salaries, 
 and if at any place the Mission provides the preacher with a house, the 
 rent allowed in the appropriation shall be under the direction of the 
 'Preacher-in-charge for the repairs of the Mission property where the 
 preacher resides. 
 
 5. When the salary of a Native preacher is paid from Mission funds 
 no Quarterly Conference shall have authority to augment that amount either 
 from local funds or from the pastor’s fund. When a circuit pays the 
 salary of a preacher the Quarterly Conference should fix the salary as per 
 Discipline. 
 
 6. Salaries of local preachers or exhorters will not be increased 
 until the amount of increase has been recommended by the Committee on 
 Appointments of the District Conference to which the candidate belongs. 
 
 7. All unexpended salary balances should be returned to the Treasurer 
 at the end of each year, 
 IV. Esmpztoyment oF New Men. 
 
 1. Any Presiding Elder in employing new men as preachers and 
 exhorters from outside his district; must secure the approval of all the 
 Presiding Elders of the Conference. 
 
14 CONIERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 2. In the employment and dismissal of preachers, teachers, or other 
 assistants, either of the Parent Society or of the W. F. M. Society, whose 
 names are on the list of appropriations, the consent of the Preacher-in-charge 
 of the circuit and the Presiding Elder of the district must be secured. 
 
 V. IvT.inERATING. 
 
 1. Missionaries in charge of circuits should, as far as possible, 
 arrange to spend at least two months each year in itinerating work. 
 
 The above was approved by Conference as follows, viz :— 
 
 Resolved,—‘*‘That this Conference heartily approve of a resolution passed in 
 the Conference Finance Committee at its session in July of the 
 past year, relating to itinerating allowances, and suggesting that each 
 member of Conference, not hindered by some special appointment, 
 be requested to spend at least two months of the year in itinerating 
 among the villages.” 
 
 2. An itinerating allowance may be included in the estimates for 
 such circuits, under the charge of Native preachers, as contain a number 
 of out-stations ; and the Preacher-in-charge may pay the actual expense of 
 keeping his horse, or its equivalent while travelling in connection with his 
 work. 
 
 3. When Native preachers or exhorters under the direction of a 
 Preacher-in-charge, are sent on itinerating tours, travelling at their own 
 
 expense, a kuli may be allowed each man while on the tour from the 
 itinerating allowance of the circuit. | 
 
 4, Moving of Native preachers in the Hills. : 
 
 (a) No preacher or helper shall be allowed any thing for 
 carriage of himself. 
 
 (6) Not more than three kulis shall be allowed for the carriage 
 of the wife of any preacher or helper. 
 
 (c) Not more than one kuld shall be allowed for the carriage 
 of any child. 
 
 (d) For all goods of all kinds, not more than 15 kulis shall be 
 allowed, provided that in no case the total number shall 
 exceed 20. 
 
 (ec) Incase of temporary removals from the Hills to the Bhabar, 
 and vice versd, the total number of kulis shall not 
 exeed 10. eavaliais 
 
 f the removal of a preacher or helper trom 
 ih hats Benen to another, the preadine Elder and the 
 Preacher-in-charge, shall after full consideration of the 
 circumstances, determine the number of kulis neces- 
 
 sary under the above limit ; and in no case shall the 
 Preacher-in-charge of the station to which the removal 
 
 takes place allow anything in excess of the amount so 
 determined. | 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL, 15 
 
 VI. TRAVELLING TO THE SANITARIUM. 
 
 ~ The following table shows the comparative cost of travelling from the 
 different stations to each of our Sanitariums, and is adopted by the 
 Finance Committee as a guide in paying expenses to the Hills :.— 
 
 To Naini Tat. To ALMORAH. 
 
 : 
 oM se] d/ 8a) 2 J 
 i ab) = |sa|"2| 2 | ze 
 ane, EI erie) lve 22 5 
 ot oe; Thu” dil Orla © 
 Rs Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. 
 Agra, Fee ce pay | 22 38 70 29 49 
 Bareilly, © | 29 14 23 50 20 35 
 Bijnour, 40) 17 28 60 24 40 
 Bahraich, css e exes 7s 07s 5,90 23 42 73 34 54. 
 Budaon, ov. 15 25 53 yas OL 
 Cawnpore, 48 21 37 67 28 48 
 Gondahss,,” fh, seo re 42 ie 34. 54 
 Lucknow, AT 20 36 66 28 47 
 Moradabad, yy 84 16 26 54. 22 38 
 Sitapur, erimieece eo 21 37 68 28 48 
 Shahjehanpur, ... ...| 32 15 25 52 21 37 
 Roy Bareilly, 66 20 36 81 28 47 
 
 The basis of the above adjustment is as follows, viz:— 
 
 (a) 
 (b) 
 (c) 
 
 (f) 
 
 Intermediate railway fare for the person holding a 
 certificate of sickness from Doctor and Presiding Elder. 
 
 Intermediate railway fare for the children of that person 
 (if a Jady missionary) holding such certificate. 
 
 Third class fare for one servant only for the person holding 
 a certificate, 
 
 One pice per mile for all extra luggage for each adult 
 necessarily travelling and one half pice for each child. 
 
 Six kulis allowed to each lady missionary, or in amount 
 the same to either lady or gentleman, three Kulis to each 
 child over two years of age and under ten, and five kulis 
 to two children. Three kulis for an adult’s luggage, tra- 
 velling on certificate, and one kuli for each child’s 
 
 luggage. 
 
 One third more to be allowed in case of dangerous 
 
 sickness, 
 
16 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 VIII.—TravELuinc tro ConFERENCE. 
 
 No missionaries receiving full salaries except those at Pithoragarh, 
 Paori and those residing east of the Gogra, shall take their own or 
 their Native assistants’ expenses in travelling to Quarterly, District or 
 Annual Conferences from either Mission or Local funds. The missionary 
 residing at Pithoragarh shall not receive more than Rs. 100, and at Paori 
 more than Rs. 75 per annum for such travelling expenses. Preachers 
 residing on the east side of the Gogra river may receive, from their own 
 station, local or itinerating accounts, their travelling expenses to Fyzabad 
 or Byramghat. 
 
 2. Watchmen and gardeners for mission property shall in no 
 
 case be paid from mission or local funds, when the property is occupied 
 by a missionary. 
 
 V.—MISSION BOARD AND GENERAL 
 COMMITTEE ORDERS. 
 
 I. APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCHOOLS. 
 
 “The General Missionary Committee, by resolution, directed us to 
 say to the Conference that no part of the appropriations for Schools shall 
 be used in support of other than Christian schools ; that is, schocls in 
 which the Scriptures are freely read, and prayer freely made by some one 
 authorized to do the same by the mission, or the missionary or Presiding 
 Elder having charge of suchschool or schools.” 
 
 New Yorks, Nov. 15th, 1866. Corresponding Secretary. 
 
 II. On CorRESPONDENCE. 
 
 “Tn regard to the spiritual interests of each station, the Preacher-in- 
 charge should write, either directly to the Corresponding Secretary, or to 
 the Presiding Elder, as he may prefer, judging from existing circum- 
 stances. Asa general rule, it is best for the Preacher-in-charge to report 
 to the Presiding Elder, and the Presiding Elder to report to the Corre- 
 sponding Secretary, quarterly, upon the state of the workin his district. 
 But there will arise a prosperous spiritual state of the Mission, in regard 
 to which the Preacher-in-charge is well informed, and his heart warmed 
 with his work. Then let him write directly for the Church at home, 
 through the Corresponding Secretary, who will give it publicity as he may 
 judge best.” 
 
 - 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 17 
 
 “‘ Official correspondence is never regarded as private. But matters 
 personal and of a private nature, may be marked private, and held to be 
 confidential.” 
 
 New Yorn, May 21st, 1865. Cor, Sec. 
 
 “Hach Presiding Elder is the evrrespondent for kis own District 
 interests ; and the Principals of the Orphanages should keep us advised 
 in regard to these Institutions ; and the Superintendent of the Press 
 should keep us advised of our publication interests.” 
 
 Nuw Yors, Nov. 29th, 1866. Cor. Kee. 
 
 “It has occurred:to the Sceretaries to suggest to you the manner 
 of your correspondence with this office, that it may be prompt and 
 certain, viz :— 
 
 1. ‘We request that the President of your Conference for the time 
 being be charged with the correspondence touching all matters in which 
 the whole Conference has a common interest, except in relation to such 
 matters as the Conference may think it best to refer to a special Com- 
 mittee ; this duty to remain with the President for the Conference year 
 following the adjournment of the Conference at which he presides, and 
 until the meeting of the succeeding Session of the Conference.” 
 
 2. ‘When a Bishop of the Church shall preside, we request that the 
 Conference designate some one of its members as correspondent for the 
 Conference for the year commencing with that Session, who shall be 
 charged with the same duties as those indicated in the preceding item for 
 the President of the Conference when he shall be chosen from among 
 your own number.” 
 
 3. ‘When matters are referred by the Conference to a special Com- 
 mittee, with authority to act for the Conference in the intervals of its 
 Sessions, then we request that the Chairman of the Committee be charged 
 with the duty of corresponding with this office in relation to the particular 
 matters referred to the Committee.” 
 
 4, ‘We request that each Presiding Elder be charged with the cor- 
 respondence concerning matters within his own district, both spiritual and 
 temporal, during the time of his office.” 
 
 d. “Hach individual missionary or member of the Mission is at full 
 liberty to correspond with the home authorities in regard to his private 
 personal matters or affairs, as he may judge proper. We desire of him also 
 as well as of the Presiding Elder, spirited accounts of the particular work 
 committed to his charge. We desire this for the information of this office 
 as well as for the Church, when it may be deemed profitable to publish it 
 to the Church.” 
 
18 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 6. ‘Allow me to add, that it is most desirable that we have early 
 and full information of your Conference proceedings. To this end act 
 promptly and transmit by the most expeditious route at least a careful digest 
 of your transastions.” 
 
 New York, Dec. 16th, 1868. Cor, Sec. 
 
 III. ArpropRIATIONS FOR UNNAMED HELPERS. 
 
 ‘‘The General Missionary Committee passed the following Resolution 
 and directed that it be communicated to your Conference, viz:— 
 Resolved—‘ That every appropriation made to a place or to an office or par- 
 ticular work, as to a helper, or exhorter, etc., no person being 
 named in the appropriation the use of such appropriation shall be 
 contingent upon the employment of a suitable person as contem- 
 plated in each place, to be puid according to the time appointee serves 
 in view of the appropriation .”’ 
 
 New York, Nov. 15th, 1866. Cor. Sec. 
 
 ITV. On Disrrisution or APPROPRIATIONS BY THE GENERAL 
 Misstonary ComMITTER. 
 
 ‘‘ With regard to Rules for the administration of your Mission 
 Finances, I can only say :— 
 
 1. ‘We furnish you with a copy of the appropriations by the 
 General Mission Committee.” 
 
 2. ‘When the appropriations are distributed by the General Mission 
 Committee, the Treasurer is the representative of the Board to see that the 
 appropriations are applied as detailed by the Committee.” 
 
 3. ‘When the appropriations are not distributed in detail by the 
 General Mission Committee, but are distributed by the Conference (as last 
 year), then the Treasurer will pay according to the distribution made by 
 the Conference, and not allow transfers of funds in the intervals of the 
 Conferences, so as to interfere with the distribution made by the Confer- 
 ence. These are General Rules to be applied by the Conference and 
 Treasurer, as the cases arise. These remarks are rather explanatory than 
 additional or different from those made on the same subject by me, in my 
 letter of June 20, 1868.” 
 
 New York, Sept. 2nd, 1868, Cor. See. 
 
 V. In REGARD To ADvancina Money or BorrowiNG WHEN THE 
 REMITTANCE DOES Not ARRIVE. 
 
 “The Treasurer may not advance any moneys in the interval of Con- 
 ferences, on any requisition by any member of the Mission for any account 
 unless it be an emergency seriously affecting the health or life of some 
 one in the service of the Mission. Of this the Treasurer must judge and 
 take the responsibility, and look to the Conference and Board for justi- 
 fication. We think the Board will be generous as well as just in such cases.” 
 
 New York, May 21st, 1865. Cor. Sec. 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. (9 
 
 ‘And now, my dear brother, allow me to say to you as Treasurer, 
 and to request you to make known to the brethren, that the Board cannot 
 consent to what seems to be a practice to some extent among youin India, 
 to your borrowing money and charging the interests on the same in your 
 quarterly accounts, and among ordinary expenses. No other Mission is 
 allowed to do so. Unless it be a necessity to preserve health or life, or valu- 
 able property, and under circumstances that do not admit of delay to the 
 Board, no member must borrow money on Mission account, expecting the 
 Board to pay the same with interest.” 
 
 New York, Oct. 21st, 1874. Cor. Sec. 
 
 ‘« But if a remittance should accidentally be a few days behind, please 
 don’t borrow money at such exorbitant rates of interest, unless it be a 
 necessity rather than a convenience thatt he Missionaries be paid in full 
 for the whole quarter on the day it begins.” 
 
 New York, Dec. 30th, 1867. Cor. Sec. 
 
 VI. ON tHE UNAUTHORIZED CoNTRACTING oF DestTs BY THE MISSION. 
 
 ‘Tt is the opinion of the Committee that neither the Mission nor 
 any member thereof, ought to contract debts which they expect the 
 Missionary Society to pay, without having first obtained the consent of 
 the Board. Such a course cannot be allowed with any safety to, or cer- 
 tainty of, a successful administration of the affairs of the Society, and it 
 should cease at once for ever. The Board adopted the following Resolution 
 V1Z :— 
 
 Resolved —‘* That the Board desires and expects the Mission in India to keep 
 its expenditures within the appropriations made by the General Mis- 
 sionary Committee, and as made; and that hereafter no debt be made 
 on Mission account without the Board having first given its assent.” 
 
 New Yorn, Aug. 16th, 1866. Cor, Sec. 
 
 VII. Drarrs on THE Mission TREASURY BY WHOM TO BE DRAWN. 
 
 ‘‘That there may be no uncertainty in this matter, I have consulted 
 the Bishop, and am instructed to say, the President of your Conference 
 will draw the drafts, as President, on the Treasurer, to the order of the 
 Presiding Elders respectively.” ; 
 
 New York, Nov. 10th, 1865. Cor. Sec. 
 
 VIII. Senpina Monty To THE UNITED States FROM INDIA. 
 
 “The Board grants to the Missionaries the privilege of remitting 
 through their Treasurer to the United States, at the rate of forty-five cents 
 to the rupee, on all bona fide current expenses such as Books, - Periodicals, 
 Life Insurance and additional amounts needed for families in America.” 
 
 “The rule for allowance for families at home is as follows, viz :—‘In 
 the case of a missionary whose family is in the United States, while the 
 missionary remains in India, an allowance of $600 may be drawn in 
 America for the wife there, and may be reckoned as half of the mission- 
 ary’s salary and $100 may be drawn there for each child at home.” 
 
20 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 IX. Locau Revenues. 
 
 “« These shall be solicited and collected by the Preacher-in-charge of the 
 station, aided by the assistant missionaries or missionaries and the Presiding 
 Kilder, as far as practicable. An exact account shall be kept in the records 
 of the station, of the revenues received and what disposition is made of them, 
 and a quarterly report shall be made of the same to the Presiding Elder, 
 on his quarterly visit. The revenues received and the manner of using 
 them, if used, shall be reported to the Conference at its next ensuing 
 Session by the Presiding Elder, and be audited by a Committee ‘appvuint- 
 ed by the Conference for this purpose.* In case of funds arising outside 
 of our Mission limits, they shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Mission 
 as common funds to meet the regular demand on the Mission Treasury ; 
 unless the donors shall make special designation in which case the 
 expressed wishes of the donors shall be respected. 
 
 Nore.—‘‘ Rents of Mission property are included in local revenues, and belong 
 
 to the Mission Treasurer for common purposes, unless the Conference, as a Confer- 
 
 ence, shall have expressly and specifically appropriated them, or any portion of 
 them in advance.”’ 
 
 New Yorr, May 21st, 1865. Cor. Sec. 
 TX. ReEwatine To Mission PRoPERTY. 
 
 Renting of.— Mission property may be temporarily rented by the 
 Preacher-in-charge and the Presiding Elder jointly ; provided no contract 
 for renting shall extend the time beyond the next ensuing Session of the 
 Conference. ‘This is to give the Conference the opportunity to dispose of 
 the use of the common property as it may think best for the interests of 
 the Mission. The rents in these cases are returnable to the Treasurer as 
 common funds: the receipts to be reported io the Conference, as a 
 branch of local revenue, as provided in the minute on local revenue.” 
 
 Repairs and Supervision of.—-‘* Mission property is under the im- 
 mediate supervision of the Preacher-in-charge where it is situated. If he 
 finds occasion urgent, he should report to his Presiding Hlder for advice 
 ‘or aid. If repairs are necessary to preserve the property, local contri- 
 butions should be had for it if practicable; if not, then the Treasurer of the 
 Mission must be applied to, if the emergency be such that repairs cannot 
 be postponed until Conference meets. The Conference may protect the 
 property without waiting for the authority of the Board, if its condition 
 is such as does not admit of waiting.” 
 
 Sale of.—‘* No Mission property (real estate) may be sold without 
 the knowledge and approbation, first, of the Conference assembled, second 
 of the Board.” 
 
 * The Conference, deeming it impracticable to audit all Station Accounts during 
 its Session, has ordered that each Presiding Elder shall audit the books of all the 
 Preachers-in-charge on his district, ana report the balances in hand to the Con- 
 ference, 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 21 
 
 X. Cnoice or Mission RESIDENCES. 
 
 ‘The right of choice of Mission residences shall be in the order of 
 the list of names of missionaries on the minutes of the appointments ; 
 provided no missionary being in possession at the time the appointments 
 are made, shall be required to vacate under the application of this rule. 
 Nevertheless, in case of appointment of two or more missionaries to one 
 station, they may distribute the dwellings among themselves, if they can 
 cordially agree so to do.” 
 
 New Yorn, May 21st, 1865. Cor. Sec. 
 XI. RELATING To THE RETURN Home oF MIssIONARIES. 
 
 “ At the late Annual Meeting of the Bishops in New York, they 
 took action on several points in regard to Foreign Missions, and to the 
 administration of the same: and among other things they passed the 
 following Resolutions, which they sent to the Secretaries, viz :— 
 
 Resolved—‘* That no missionary in a foreign field be allowed to return 
 home witbout the consent of the two Bishops having charge of such 
 
 Mission, and at least one of their colleagues, obtained previous to 
 such return.” 
 
 New Yorks, Dec., 13th, 1866. Cor. Sec. 
 
 XIT. REPAIRING To THE SANITARIUM. 
 
 “The Committee” recommend the Board to approve of any member 
 of the India Mission Conference repairing to the Sanitarium on account 
 of ill health in the interval of the Conference Sessions, when advised so 
 to do by his physician, approved by the Presiding Elder, and that he may 
 report the actual travelling expenses, to and from the Sanitarium, to his 
 Conference at its next Session, for audit and payment out of the Contin- 
 gent Fund of the Conference.” 
 
 Adopted by the Board, May 15th, 1866. Cor. Sec. 
 
 “In a letter from Bro. Waugh the question is asked—‘ Whether 
 under warrant of the Board to pay strictly personal travelling expenses in 
 going to the Sanitarium on account of ill health, the wives of missionaries 
 are includéd :’ I answer, Yes, if they repair to the Sanitarium on account 
 of ill health, and under medical advice. We consider the wives of mis- 
 sionaries as missionaries.” 
 
 New York, Dec. 13th, 1866. Cor. Sec. 
 
 XIII, Support of WIDowWs AND CHILDREN OF NaTIvE 
 CoNFERENCE MEMBERS. 
 
 “The attention of the Committee was called to the case of the 
 widows and children of deceased Native preachers, and especially to the 
 provision that should be made for their support. The rade for the present 
 
 * On India and Turkey, 
 
22 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 will be as follows, viz :—The Conference may allow to the widow and 
 children of a deceased Native member of the Conference, should their 
 necessities require it, a sum equal to that by which the salary of the 
 preacher while living was augmented on their account.” 
 
 New York, Nov, 19th, 1868. Asst. Cor. See. 
 
 oa 
 
 VI.—FINANCES OF THE W. F. M. SOCIETY. 
 
 1, The President of the Conference will at the close of the Conference 
 Session, give to each Presiding Elder quarterly orders on the Treasurer 
 of the Mission, for the entire amount appropriated by the General Executive 
 Committee of the W. F. M. Society for his district. 
 
 2. Hach Presiding Elder may draw on the Treasurer of the Mission 
 quarterly, for each circuit or work in accordance with the list of 
 appropriations, and up to the amount of the order of the President of the 
 Conference and no more, 
 
 3. The Treasurer of the Mission shall pay to the various persons in 
 charge of work, on the orders of the Presiding Elders, the amount called 
 for by the President’s drafts, and no more; unless specially ordered by the 
 proper authorities of the W. F. M. Society in America. 
 
 4, The Treasurer of the W. F. M. Society connected with the North 
 India Conference, shall sell all bills, deposit and hold all moneys of the 
 Woman’s Society, and shall pay quarterly to the Treasurer of the Mission, 
 on his order, the amounts required by the orders of the Presiding Elders 
 for that quarter; the Treasurer of the Mission giving a receipt for the 
 same: and the Treasurer of the W. I’. M. Society shall pay no moneys, 
 except on such orders, unless specially ordered to do so, in emergencies, by 
 the proper authorities in America. Hmergencies of sickness, destruction 
 of property, etc., etc., should be met by Presiding Elders and the Treasurers 
 in the same way as such emergencies are usually met in the Mission. 
 
 5. Neither the Presiding Elder, nor the Treasurers, shall have 
 authority to increase or diminish any appropriation made by the General 
 Executive Committee of the W. I’. M. Society; and all unexpended 
 salaries, or portions of such, shall be returned by the Presiding Elders to 
 the Treasurer of the W. F. M. Society in India at the end of each year. 
 
 6. The accounts of the Presiding Elders, and of both Treasurers, 
 with the W. F. M. Society, shall be audited annually by the Conference 
 Auditing Committee; the same as in case of the Parent Society’s accounts. 
 —(Passed at a joint session of the Finance Committees at a meeting held 
 at Moradabad, January 1887, Bishop Ninde presiding). 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL, 23 
 
 W. F. M. SOCIETY PROPERTY. 
 
 The following Resolution was adopted at the Conference of 1878 viz:— 
 
 Resolved—‘‘ That the Presiding Elders be requested to see the property be- 
 
 longing to the Woman’s Missionary Society, be deeded as per General 
 Conference Resolution.” 
 
 That all real estate of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society in 
 India, is held in trust by the agents of the Missionary Society of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, according to the order of the General 
 Conference of 1872 :— 
 
 Resolved 2.—‘' That we recommend that all real estate in foreign lands be- 
 longing to this Society, be held for it by the Missionary Society of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, in trust.’”’—Journal, 1872, p, 295. 
 
 VII.—BOARDS OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 1. The “Finance Committee” shall constitute the ‘‘ Conference 
 Board of Trustees,” and, as such, shall have charge of all deeds of 
 Mission property, and shall hold, and invest, and control the income of 
 all endowments connected with this Conference, except those of the 
 ‘¢ Theological Seminary and Normal High School;” the “ Memorial School,” 
 Cawnpore; and the “ Cawnpore Girls’ School;” and others having separate 
 Boards of Trustees. 
 
 2. The Board of Trustees of the Theological Seminary and Normal 
 High School shall consist of the Principal of that Institution, six members 
 of this Conference and three laymen—three to be elected by ballot for one 
 year, three for two years, and three for three years, and hereafter three 
 shall be elected by ballot annually. 
 
 3. The Memorial School, Cawnpore, and the Cawnpore Girls’ School 
 are under the administration of a Joint Board of Trustees. This Joint 
 Board of Trustees is composed of eight members, four laymen and four 
 ministers ; two laymen and two ministers from the North India, and two 
 ministers and two laymen from the South India, Conference, 
 
 The Presiding Elder of the Oudh District shall be ex-officio member 
 of the Joint Board of Trustees. 
 
 The Principal of the Memorial School, Cawnpore, and the Superinten- 
 dent of the Cawnpore Girls’ School to be ea-officio members of the Joint 
 Board of Trustees, with equal powers with other members except that they 
 shall have no voice in nomination of Principal or Superintendent. 
 
 4, The Board of Trustees of the Centennial High School, Lucknow, 
 shall consist of the Principal of that institution, six members of this 
 Conference and three laymen. Of the nine elective Members of the Board 
 of Trustees three shall retire annually, and their successors shall be elected 
 at its regular session by said Conference. The election of members of the 
 Board shall be by ballot. Five members shall constitute a quorum. 
 (Vide Articles of Incorporation.) 
 
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 5. The Goucher Schcol Committee shall constitute a Board of 
 Trustees for the Central High School, Moradabad. 
 
 6. These several Boards of Trustees shall act for Conference in 
 holding the endowments, directing the investments, appropriating the 
 income, and holding and transferring all property of their respective 
 institutions. They shall also arrange rates of board and tuition, and 
 estimate and order the amount necessary to meet the current expenses of 
 their several institutions, and when any aid is required from the Finance 
 Committee shall apply for the same. 
 
 7. These several Boards of Trustees shall annually report to the 
 Conference the condition of the endowments, the investments made, and 
 the general financial condition of the institutions under their charge. 
 
 8. They shall sanction the course of study proposed by the Hiduca- 
 tional managers of the schools, and may, when they deem it advisable, 
 indicate to the President of the Conference their wishes concerning the 
 appointments to their respective schools. 
 
 9. Hach of these Boards of Trustees shall hold its annual meeting 
 during the session of the North India Conference, at which time it may 
 appoint an Executive Committee to act for it during the ensuing year, 
 and may form Bye-Laws regulating its meetings, arranging its work, 
 and defining the duties of its Executive Committee. 
 
 10. Six members of a Board shall constitute a quorum. 
 
 11. These rules may be changed only by order of Conference. 
 
 VilL—ON EDUCATION, 
 
 EDUCATIONAL BOARD. 
 
 In accordance with Discipline, Article 254, section four, an Educational 
 Society of the North India Conference auxiliary to the Board of Education 
 of the Methodist Tpiscopal Church, was organized at the session held in 
 January, 1883. This Society is known as the Board of Hducation of the 
 North India Conference, composed of the Presiding Elders and two 
 elective members, the latter to serve three years each. This -Board 
 annually elects from among its members three officers, viz :—President, 
 Secretary, and Treasurer, to serve one year. 
 
 CHILDREN’S DAY. 
 
 At the Conference Session held in January, 1883, the following 
 
 resolutions were adopted, vez :— 
 
 1. That asa Conference we do our part in making the observance 
 of “ Children’s Day” universal throughout Methodism, and that we unite 
 with the South India Conference in observing this day on the first Sabbath 
 
 of March each year.* 
 * Afterwards changed to the second Sabbath of March, 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL, 25 
 
 2. That each pastor take a collection on “Children’s Day” and 
 forward the same to the Treasurer of the Conference Educational Society: 
 and that for the present such sums be appropriated to the educating 
 Christian children in the Central Boarding Schools of each District, in 
 accordance with the communication received from the Corresponding 
 Secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and the practice in other foreign Mission fields of our Church. 
 
 At the Conference Session held in January, 1885, the Board reported 
 as follows—report adopted : 
 
 “In seventeen places Children’s Day was observed and eollections 
 taken, amounting in all to Rs. 264 with Chandausi to be heard from. 
 Owing to indefiniteness of instructions given to him at last Conference, 
 the Treasurer of the Board has not felt at liberty to expend any of this 
 money ; and it is now available for the purpose for which it was collected, 
 viz: the education of Native preacher’s sons. The Missionary Society has 
 made an appropriation of Rs. 500 for the same purpose which is now 
 available. Your Board request that they be authorized to expend the 
 above mentioned sums under the following regulations, viz :—~ 
 
 * Applications for assistance from this fund are to be made by the 
 parent or guardian of the proposed beneficiary to the Treasurer of the 
 Board, stating (a) the name, age and present attainments of the boy : (6) 
 father’s name, amount of pay, number of children, number of years in 
 Mission service. All such applications are to have the written endorse- 
 ‘ment of the Presiding Elder of the District and the Preacher-in- 
 charge of the station in which the parent or guardian of the applicant 
 resides.” 
 
 TUITION IN BOARDING SCHOOLS FOR BOYS & GIRLS. 
 
 Parents whose income from all sources— 
 
 Is Rs. Gorless ... ... ... should pay Rs. 0 2 0 per Mensem. 
 Over Rs. 6 and under Rs. 10 ... Rs. 0 8 O A 
 Over Rs. 10 and under Rs. 15 ... A Rs. 1 0 O and clothes. 
 Over Rs. 15 and under Rs. 20 ... - Rs. 1 8 0 as 
 Over Rs. 20 and under Rs. 25 ... 45 Rs. 2 0 0 Me 
 Is Rs. 25 and over, Ana ss Rs. 2 8 0 es 
 
 The amount fixed for persons receiving small salaries may be paid 
 by work of the pupils, if the parents cannot pay. 
 The Conference adopted the following resolution in 1882, wiz :— 
 
 Resolved— That the Finance Committee be requested in making estimates 
 and re-distributing the appropriations, to give precedence in all 
 school work to schools for Christians and schools for pronounced 
 enquirers,”” 
 
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 _ The following was adopted by the Conference in 1887, wiz :— 
 
 Liesolved—‘‘ That the Conference desires, that the Principals of the schools 
 named below, prepare and furnish to us at each Annual Conference 
 through the Board of Education, an annual report in writing including 
 statement of their finances: The Theological Seminary and Normal 
 School, Bareilly ; The Centennial High School, Lucknow ; The Memo- 
 rial School, Cawnpore; Boys’ High School, Naini Tal; The Girls’ 
 High School, Naini Tal; The Cawnpore Girls’ High School; The 
 Woman’s College and High School, Lucknow ; The Goucher Central 
 Sehool, Moradabad.” 
 
 IX.—ON PUBLISHING. 
 
 As provided for in the constitution of the Central Conference, an 
 Editor of Books is elected every two years. His duties are to 
 receive all books and tracts from the hands of the translators and 
 authors, decide upon their fitness for publication, forward to the Press 
 all that are approved, and return to the authors or translators all that 
 are deemed unsuitable. 
 
 The following recommendations relative to the distribution of the 
 publications of our Press have been sanctioned by the Conference, viz :-— 
 
 1. The principal stations of our Mission shall be constituted sub- 
 depots for the publications of our Press. 
 
 2. Whenever a new publication is ready, the Superintendent of the 
 Press shall send a suitable supply to each of these sub-depéts, stating the 
 price of the books, as determined by the Superintendent of the Press and 
 the Committee. 
 
 3. The Preachers-in-charge of the various stations shall make annual 
 returus for receipts from sales to the Superintendent of the Press. 
 
 For duties of the Agents of the Publishing Houses and the Book 
 Committees vide Central Conference Minutes for 1887, (Pp. 25-27). 
 
 Besides the publications of our own Press, the following are the 
 “most available sources for publications required in our work, either for 
 Colportage or for Schools, wz :— 
 
 (a) The North India Bible Society, Allahabad. 
 
 (5) North India Tract Society, Allahabad. 
 
 (c) Lodiana Mission Press, Lodiana, 
 
 (d) Panjab Religious Book Society, Lahore. 
 
 (ec) Calcutta School Book and Vernacular Literature Society. No. 
 9, Government Place. 
 
 (f) Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta. No, 21, Lower Circular Road. 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL ~ 27. 
 
 (y) Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society. Depository, No. 1, Hare 
 Street. 
 
 (h) Calcutta Christian Tract and Book Soceity. Depository, No. 1. 
 Hare Street. 
 
 (¢) Government Curator’s Depot for the N. W, P. Address 
 ‘‘ Curator of Government Books, Allahabad. 
 
 The dep6t contains Educational works and books in English suit- 
 able for prizes; also Maps and School Books in Persian, Urdu and 
 Hindi, such as are used in the Government Schools. Sundry Law Books 
 and documents are available here. 
 
 Catalogues can be procured on application, to the Secretary or Super- 
 
 intendent for noting the publications obtainabie, from all these sources, 
 
 Cre 
 
 X —COLPORTAGE. 
 
 The rules of the North India Bible Soceity on the subject of colport- 
 age with list of prices may be obtained on application to the Hon’able G. 
 E. Knox, Secretary, Allahabad. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 Colportage Work can be carried on with comparatively little trouble ;— 
 1,—By having the Colporteurs report regulurly once a montii. 
 fe UA them keep a correct written account of all publications 
 sold. 
 3.—These written lists of sules will furnish data from which to compile the 
 tubular statement required by the Conference each year, 
 
 x1 LHEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, BAREILLY: 
 
 1. Candidates for admission into the Theological Seminary, who 
 are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, must bring « recommen- 
 dation from some District Conference, or from a Quarterly Conference 
 when no District Conference exists where the candidate resides. Appli- 
 cants from other Churches must bring suitable recommendations from 
 proper authorities. 
 
 2. Candidates for admission to the regular course of study must 
 produce a certificate that they have passed the Middle Class (or 3rd class) 
 Anglo Vernacular Departmental Examination, or the Middle Class Ver- 
 nacular [xamination, or that they have received an equivalent education 
 in some Institution of learning in the country, 
 
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 3. Exceptions may be made in the case of persons who have not 
 had an opportunity to secure the required training, but who give special 
 promise of usefulness in the ministry. Such candidates shall pass an 
 examination in the Urdu and Hindi, equivalent to the Middle school 
 departmental examination of the North-Western Provinces; Euclid, and 
 Mensuration excepted. The examination will be conducted on the plan of 
 the Government examination. Where bovks are not substituted, the 
 Government course will be the basis of examination. Candidates must 
 write the Persian or Hindi character well. 
 
 4, Candidates who enter under rule 2nd shall receive the regular 
 Diploma of the institution on completing the course of study, 
 
 Those who enter as exceptions, 7. ¢ under rule 3rd, may receive the 
 regular Diploma on completing the course if their standing in the studies 
 is exceptionally good, otherwise they shall receive a Certificate of grad- 
 uation duly signed by the officers of the Institution, 
 
 The regular course of study requires three years for its completion. 
 
 JUNIOR YEAR. 
 
 Exegesis—Old Testament as far as Psalms. 
 Sacred Geography. 
 
 Biblical Archeology. 
 
 Natural Theology. 
 
 Systematic Theology. 
 
 Moral Science. 
 
 Hindu Mythology. 
 
 MIDDLE YEAR. 
 
 Exegesis—Old Testament, Psalms and Prophecies. 
 Kcclesiastical History. 
 
 Systematic Theology. 
 
 Logic and Rhetorie. 
 
 Homileties. 
 
 Hindu Philosophy. 
 
 SENIOR YEAR. 
 
 1. Exegesis—New Testament. 
 
 2. Polemical Theology. (a) The Mohammedan controversy; (b) The 
 Hindu controversy ; (c) Brahmoism and Ariya Dharm. 
 
 3. Practical Theology. (a) Constitution and Polity of the Christian 
 Church ; (b) Pastoral and Evangelistic work. 
 
 4, Mohammedan Philosophy and Religion. 
 5. Hindu and Mohammedan sects. 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL, 29 
 
 Exercises in sermonizing and public speaking, and reading of the 
 Sacred Scriptures throughout the course. 
 
 Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit continued throughout the course for 
 classes that may be formed in these languages. 
 
 Classes in Greek and Hebrew are formed for students who may be 
 thought competent to take these languages. 
 
 XII.— CONFERENCE MINUTES AND 
 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 T.--ON POLYGAMY. 
 (Adopted at the 4th Session of Conference, Jan, 1868.) 
 
 The Committee to whom was referred the Memorial of the Moradabad 
 District Conference on the subject of Polygamy, beg leave to present the 
 following Report:— 
 
 ‘When our Saviour began his ministry, he at once set up a more per- 
 fect standard of morality than that which had existed among the Jews, 
 not only denouncing many popular traditions, but even going so far as to 
 change both the letter and spirit of some of the laws of Muses. Among the 
 most important of the reforms which he instituted, was a re-statement of 
 the law of marriage, in which he reminded the Jews of the sacred charac- 
 ter of the institution as first appointed in Hiden, admitted the temporary 
 suspension of some of its obligations on account of the ‘hardness of 
 heart’ of the people, and clearly and emphatically recalled them to the 
 observance of its duties as laid down in the days of man’s purity. As 
 God had created ‘a male’ and ‘a female,’ so the Saviour taught that 
 ‘they twain’ should be ‘one flesh.’ This is clearly the definition of 
 Christian marriage. Polygamy is wholly inconsistent with such an 
 institution. Mohammedan marriage may admit of it, as may that of 
 Hindus or Jews, but to speak of a Christian polygamist, is to use con- 
 tradictory terms. 
 
 ‘Tt cannot be denied that plausible reasons have been adduced to 
 show, that while polygamy should not permanently be retained in the 
 Church, yet in cases where converts have been entangled in this way 
 before conversion, no interference should be made with their social rela- 
 tions. Among the most prominent arguments advanced in defence of 
 this position are the following wiz :— 
 
 1, “It is alleged that we have the sanction of the Apostles for this 
 course, they having merely limited the privileges of the polygamist, by 
 excluding him from certain positions. But it is by no means clear that 
 the Apostles ever followed such a policy. It is true that Paul instructed 
 both Timothy and Titus to appoint as deacons and elders only those who 
 were ‘the husbands of one wife ;’? but we may well question whether the 
 
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 reference here is to polygamy at all. It is well known that divorces for 
 frivolous causes had become very frequent in all parts of the Roman 
 empire at the beginning of our era, that polygamy had ceased to exist 
 among the Jews, that it had not become at all common among any class 
 of the Romans, and that it was comparatively limited among the Greeks. 
 Is it not reasonable, then, to suppose that the apostle cautions his bre- 
 thren against appointing men who had successively miarried and divorced a 
 number of wives, thus making themselves obnoxious to the numerous 
 friends of the divorced parties ? ‘This supposition becomes almost a cer- 
 tainty, when we notice that alike caution is given in the case of women, 
 that they should be ‘the wife of one husband,’ for surely no one will for a 
 moment claim that polyandry existed in the early Church. It is well 
 known that this was the universal interpretation of the primitive Church, 
 and that the Greek Church adheres to it in a most literal sense to the 
 present day. 
 
 2, “Jt is constantly urged that many holy men mentioned in the Old 
 Testament had a plurality of wives, and yet God approved of their lives 
 in a special manner. The same argument was long used to defend slavery 
 in America, and is still used by the Mormons in Utah. Its fallacy is so 
 transparent, that a child need not be deceived by it. The question is 
 simply thus:—-Were the holy men referred to Christians, or were they not? 
 That they were good men, according to the light they had, no one can 
 doubt; but if the best of them were living among us now we would simply 
 call them Jews, and refuse them the privileges of the Church. 
 
 3. ‘ But it is claimed that the heathen are as ignorant and hard- 
 hearted as the Jews and patriarchs, and alike allowance should be 
 made for them. This is very true, so far as their condition is con- 
 cerned ; and if we have no better light to offer them, and if there is no 
 fuller measure of the Spirit to soften their hearts, than was enjoyed 
 before the day of Pentecost, then the conclusion is valid. Butit must 
 be remembered that the question deals, not with the depraved heathen 
 but with Christian Converts, the least of whom enjoys privileges which 
 far transcend those of the highly-favored John the Baptist. 
 
 4. ‘“Itis often urged that a separation inflicts great injustice on 
 the wives who are put away. J inancially there can be none, as the 
 convert is required to support them comfortably. As to marital rights, 
 it is begging the whole question to raise such an objection. It might, 
 with infinitely more reason, be urged that it it wronging the woman to 
 allow her to be kept in a state of concubinage. Better far that she be 
 allowed to contract an honorable Christian marriage, and escape from 
 a life in which she can never know what domestic happiness is. 
 
 5, ‘It is further urged that many painful separations must occur, 
 and that to avoid this temporary polygamy should be tolerated. 
 
 ‘“‘Tf all claimed here were admitted, it is only what might be urged 
 in multitudes of cases to justify men in delaying their conversion, How 
 
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 many happy families are forever broken up by simply preaching the 
 truth? All this has been foretold by our Saviour, and is inseparable 
 from the faithful preaching of truths which admit of no compromise. 
 
 “But it will be found that these separations are usually less painful 
 than is commonly supposed. Nothing can be more absurd than to 
 suppose that an affection can exist in a polygamist’s family, similar to 
 that which we see in Christian households. The husband nearly always 
 has one favorite only, while to the vast majority of the women, separa- 
 tion will be hailed as freedom from slavery. Among the lower classes 
 this is especially true. Nine-tenths of them would rejoice to be freed 
 from their masters, if a chance of honorabie wedlock were offered them. 
 
 ‘“‘ Having noticed these objections, it remains to show a few weighty 
 reasons for adhering to the practice which has generally prevailed in the 
 most successful Protestant Missions : 
 
 1. “If polygamy is tolerated to any extent in the Church, it will 
 gain a foothold among us which will not be easily relinquished. The 
 ‘twin relics of barbarism,’ Polygamy and Slavery, are both alike in 
 holding tenaciously to any concession made to them. The early 
 Churches in America simply tolerated slavery, hoping that it would not 
 outlive a single generation; but they were destined goon to find it 
 their master. If we allow polygamy a place among us, there is reason 
 to fear that it will long remain a source of trouble and weakness to an 
 infant Church which can ill afford to contend with such an element. 
 
 2. ‘‘A compromise of principle invariably paralyzes the Church, 
 and unfits her for the earnest struggle in which she is engaged. To con- 
 fess for a moment that we quail before the consequences of our own 
 preaching, is to deny our confidence in it. The moment we lower the 
 high standard left in our hands, we lose that moral power which ever 
 marks the vigorous advance of Christianity. 
 
 3. ‘ More especially do we need to insist on the Christian rule of 
 monogamy, because it is important at the outset to give our people a 
 correct idea of the sanctity of the marriage relation. To allow the 
 slightest deviation from the strict law of Christian marriage, will lead 
 them to confound principle and policy, to look on an institution as old 
 and as hallowed as the bowers of Eden, as simply a conventional 
 arrangement to be modified at pleasure. The grand center around 
 which all the social excellencies of a Christian community crystalize is 
 the family ; and if we would organize a community in India worthy of 
 the name of Christian, we must guard against the slightest infringe- 
 ment of it rights and privileges. 
 
 “ The re-adjustment of the relations of a polygamist’s family must 
 necessarily involve many very perplexing questions which cannot be 
 reached by any definite rules. Yet a general policy should be laid 
 down, and such regulations adopted as may meet the difficulty as far 
 ~as possible, The general object being to substitute Christian for 
 
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 heathen marriage, the arrangement which most satisfactorily effects 
 this’ should be adopted. In deciding such cases we recommend that 
 the following rules be observed, viz :— 
 
 1. “ Where a convert is to select his wife from among two or more 
 of his previous partners, all other claims being equal, the first wife shall 
 be allowed the preference. 
 
 2. ‘*In cases where the marriage in in childhood has been prac- 
 tically involuntary on the part of both parties, resulting in. unhappiness, . 
 and leading to other alliances, the preference allowed to the first 
 marriage may be materially modified. 
 
 3. “In all cases where all the parties involved amicably consent to 
 any definite arrangement for separation, thier wishes shall be allowed. 
 
 4, ‘The question shall always be considered in its relation to the 
 interests, wishes, and feelings of all the parties, the man in every case 
 being put on a par with the woman. 
 
 5. ‘The convert in every case shall be required to contribute for 
 the support of his former wives, in such amount as the Committee called 
 in his case may decide, so long as they may remain unmarried. 
 
 6. ‘*To avoid abuses, no such convert shall be admitted to baptism 
 until his choice of a wife has been ratified by a Committee of five 
 members of the Church, appointed by the Preacher-in-charge, and con- 
 firmed by a Quarterly Conference, subject to the veto of the President 
 of the Quarterly Conference. 
 
 7. ‘The same Committee shall sanction all arrangements made for 
 the disposition of the children of parties involved.” 
 
 II],—On Temperance. 
 
 Whereas, we, being a company of professedly holy men engaged in 
 a holy cause, and desiring to “cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the 
 flesh and spirit,” we look upon the use of tobacco as a filthy, expensive, 
 useless, and injurious habit : and the use of intoxicating liquor asa 
 beverage, as physically and morally wrong, opposed by science, reason, 
 and the Word of God, therefore, resolved :— 
 
 1. ‘That we discountenance by our example and practice, and 
 express our opinion and cast our influence against the use of tobacco, 
 in any of its forms. 
 
 9. ‘That whenever we administer the Sacrament of the Lord’s 
 Supper to our congregations we will when possible, use unfermented 
 wine, and when done in the presence of non-christians we will explain 
 its signification. 
 
 8 «That as we read our General Rules we impress upon our 
 membership that clause in which itis written that ‘ it is expected that 
 all who continue with us should avoid drunkenness, buying and selling 
 
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 spirituous liquors, or drinking them, unless in cases of extreme necessity, 
 and that for its violation any member can be expelled.—(1879.) 
 
 4, ‘That we are in hearty sympathy with the existing Temper- 
 ance Associations in India, and that we will organize Total Abstinence 
 Societies in each of our Stations, and strive to impress upon the minds 
 of all, whether members of the Church or not, the importance of taking 
 an active part in this cause.—(1866.) 
 
 ToBACcco. 
 
 The resolution concerning the use of tobacco was taken up. 
 After discussion and amendment the following substitute was 
 adopted :— 
 
 Resolved —“ That Principals, Teachers and Boards of Trustees of our educa- 
 tional institutions shall use all proper means to prevent students in 
 their charge from forming or continuing in the injurious habit of 
 using tobacco : that lessons showing the injuriousness of the use of 
 tobacco be introduced into our text books so far as may seem 
 advisable, and that in no case shall a Principal or Manager of an 
 educational institution pay a scholarship to any student who uses 
 tobacco,”’—(Conference session, January, 1885.) 
 
 III.—On Sraristics. 
 
 Resolved—1. That October 31st, be agreed upon when all the 
 statistics be made up for the year. 
 
 2. ‘That the President of the Conference be requested to appoint 
 the Statistical Committee for the ensuing year at the same time that 
 he appoints Committees for examination. 
 
 3. ‘ That it be the duty of this Committee to send out Conference 
 Statistical blanks early in October, and to receive the same back, duly 
 filled, as soon after the 31st of October as possible, and immediately 
 to perfect and prepare for Conference the Annual Returns. 
 
 4, ‘Special attention is needed on the part of the Presiding 
 Elders and the Preachers-in-charge to paragraph 104 of the Discipline, 
 
 because on the accuracy of the records depends the accuracy of the 
 statistical returns. 
 
 5. “That a list of all property belonging to the Mission be made 
 by the Preacher-in-charge of each circuit with the Presiding Elder : 
 
 and that the list be entered in columns prepared for the same in the 
 Church Record. 
 
 6. ‘School houses used for religious worship to be reported in the 
 column of Churches as heretofore. 
 
 7. ‘The column near the end of the table of ‘ General Statistics,’ 
 headed ‘Contributions from Churches’ is meant to be a re-statement 
 of the sum of all money ‘collected in India’ from or by the Church 
 proper, so as to show the total amounts of the gifts of Natives from 
 
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 those of Europeans. It includes money given for the Pastor, for ‘the 
 Annual Missionary Society, for Children’s Day, for Sacramental Col- 
 lections, and for local work. It does not include grant-in-aid nor 
 school fees, nor money which is the proceeds of an endowment, nor 
 rent. 
 
 8. “We recommend that the columns of ‘Current Expenses’ 
 and ‘For Local Work’ be made one, and that the space thus left be 
 used for Children’s Day Collection. The heading ‘Adult accessions 
 during the year’ has no reference to removal from one station to another, 
 but is meant to show the additions from the outside to the number of 
 our Methodist Episcopal community.’’—(1884-1887.) 
 
 1V.—Sprrcian Report on Extension ofr THE WoRrRK. 
 
 Resolved.—1 ‘That the Presiding Elders are hereby recommended 
 to organize in connection with our Church any persons who may desire 
 our pastoral oversight, whether said persons live within the present 
 limits of our Mission field or not, provided that in so doing they assume 
 no financial liabilities and provided further that the persons wishing 
 to unite with us have been converted under our ministry. 
 
 2. “That they be further recommended to watch closely for special 
 indications of Providence, as to where our efforts should be directed, 
 and to recognize the conversion of souls as an infallible token that 
 God accepts our labors in any specified place. 
 
 V. 
 
 Resolved.— That we will receive no person on trial into this Con- 
 ference until he has been tested for at least four years as a local preach- 
 er in our regular work, and has passed the entire course of study arranged 
 for local preachers.” —(1879.) 
 
 VI. 
 
 Resolved.—‘ That as a Conference we urgently recommend our mis- 
 sionaries not to employ Christians who wander about without recom- 
 mendations or letters from the Preachers-in-charge of our stations.” 
 
 (1881.) 
 VII.—Sunpay-ScnHoo.s. 
 1. That for the more efficient use of our Hindustani brethren in 
 the work, each missionary hold a weekly teachers’ meeting. 
 
 2. That a uniform attendance roll be adopted and kept in each 
 Sunday-school and that the Publishing Committee be authorized to 
 publish the same. 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 85. 
 
 3. That we endeavor to enlist the services of all our Christians 
 and the attendance of all our Christian children in our Sunday-schools. 
 
 4, That wherever it is practicable a weekly collection be taken 
 in our Sunday-schools to purchase requisites for making our schools 
 more attractive and efficient.— (1874.) 
 
 VITI.—Parsonace Furniturr, Etc. 
 
 The Committee on parsonage furniture, etc., beg leave to recom- 
 mend :— 
 
 1. That in furnishing parsonages only the heavier articles of 
 furniture, including matting for floors, punka fixtures and chicks be 
 furnished at the expense of the Mission, and that purchases of the 
 same be made by the Preacher-in-charge and the Presiding Elder of 
 the District conjointly. 
 
 9. That only such servants as are required for the proper care of 
 Mission property be paid from Mission funds,—(187 3.) 
 
 IX.— Boys’ OrnPHANAGE. 
 Resolved.—“ That the Superintendent of the Boys’ Orphanage be 
 granted permission to gather into the school of that institution promis- 
 
 ing but poor Christian boys as circumstances may permit, to be 
 educated and supported by scholarships.—”(1874.) 
 
 Mii oUNDRY Usb hu Ere Mas. 
 
 1. The address of the Mission Board and New York Book 
 Rooms, is “No. 805, Boadway, New York.” 
 
 2. Communications intended for the General Missionary Com- 
 mittee should not be dispatched later than the 25th of September. 
 This is the last “ safe date,” as the Committee meets from the Ist to the 
 15th of November. An earlier mail than September 25th is better 
 than this date, as it involves risk. 
 
 3. The official year of the Indian Government begins April Ist. 
 
 4, Applications for ‘‘ Grants-in-aid 4 should be sent at least by the 
 Ist of October. ‘It is necessary that applications for new Grants-in- 
 aid be registered in the Director’s office before the preparation of the 
 Budget-Estimates in October,” (Grant-in-aid Rules.) And yet grants 
 have been allowed for buildings and for teachers on applications sent in 
 
 any time before the Ist of April. 
 
36 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 5. For full information on all Postal Matters, Time Tables, 
 Money Orders, Telegraph Department, etc., get the “JZndian Postal 
 Guide,” procurable at all the principal post offices in India. 
 
 6. Members or probationers in the Church going from one station 
 to another without certificates from the Preacher-in-Charge where their 
 names are recorded, should not be counted in the station to which they 
 go; nor should their names be recorded on the Church books there. It 
 is feared some of us have not been sufficiently carefully in this matter. 
 
 7. Very great care should be taken in recommending young men 
 to our Theological School. No young man has any business there who 
 has not given satisfactory evidence of genuine conversion, and of having 
 received a Divine call to the work of the ministry. 
 
 8. It is expected that any brother proposing to make changes of 
 any kind in Mission buildings, either adding to or taking down any 
 part of such buildings, will consult his Presiding Elder before com- 
 mencing the work, and that he will not proceed without his sanction. 
 
 9. In 1886 the Corresponding Secretaries sent an urgent request 
 that each missionary send them a quarterly letter, giving special atten- 
 tion to encouraging incidents connected with the growth of his work, 
 calculated to stimulate the Home Church to larger giving and a deeper 
 interest in the work of God among the heathen. 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 37 
 
 XIV.—STATION ACCOUNTS. 
 
 In order to have uniformity in Mission Accounts the following plan of 
 took-keeping was adopted at the Conference of 1878, and again approved 
 at the Conference of 1874 :— 
 
 DAY BOOK. 
 January, 1873. 
 
 Dr Cr, 
 Amount brought forward... | 390} 0} 0} 450} 0} O 
 TUESDAY 21s¢. 
 
 BUILDING AND REPAIRS. 
 
 By 16,000 Bricks for servants’ eet ma ee 50] 0] 0 
 poe he 060 Bamboos, ; eee ahs 20| O| O 
 Pe Laborers, is oat we ons coe 15} 0} 0 
 
 To Cash from P. Elder, — se. an soe ees | LOG OF O 
 
 ITINERATING. 
 By trip to B., ae eee Be 5| ol 0 
 To Cash for quarter from P, E., ais Ae sate leaes BON ONO ole 
 22nd. 
 Crty ScHOOL. 
 
 By Salary of Teacher dismissed, as ane i 18} 0] O 
 , Four new benches, .... oe $e ae 0| 0 
 
 To.sale of old benches, ... OM, ue aa 12) 0] 0 
 
 28th, 
 NaTIVE PREACHERS’ SaLARIES, 
 By Salary of A. B. Res can Rr. BE 16] o| oO 
 
 LIST OF ACCOUNTS. 
 
 Salaries of Missionary and Helpers, 
 Anglo- Vernacular Schools. 
 Vernacular Schools. 
 
 Building and Repairs. 
 
 Local Accounts. 
 
 Woman’s Missionary Society, 
 Itinerating, 
 
 North India Bible Society. 
 
 Mission Press, 
 
 Quarterly Balance Sheet, 
 
ayey CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 LEDGER AND 
 
 Buildings and Repairs of the Station in account with 
 
 Br, 
 
 January. To Cash for quarter from sa Elder, 1 1501 o| 0 
 February. ,, Sale of old timbers, are 50! ol 0 
 _ March. ‘ £3 est te Fund from P, B, tue Ss 100! ol o 
 ” ” , aS cage ays 351 01 9 
 | POCA Ray LeU | 335 eS; 7 
 April. To Cash for quarter from P, E,, ... ee ED UT rn eaore ph i; . 
 Motel Rae BAe et “150! of o 
 July. To Balance, ante {oo)  otemee “0 em 
 = » Cash for three quarters from P. i epee 150} oO} 0 
 Quarterly Balance Sheet of the Station, 1873. 
 Dr, 
 First QUARTER. i Ra: {A.P.|, ne. torte 
 To Cash from Presiding Elder, ... sion soe, | 3,500 | OF O 
 , Subscriptions and Donations, ae cas ae 35 | 0} O} 
 »» School Fees, es we me - 15 | O} 0} 3,550 | 0} 0 
 Total Re,,, re 3,550. 0 6 
 SECOND QUARTER. ees Wie. 
 To Balance, vee ay 625 | 0} O 
 , Cash from P. E., 0] 0 
 » Subscriptions and Donations, .. 0} 0 
 »» School fees, 0} 0/8,620 | 0} 0 
 Total, Rs. | 4245 lo] 0 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 39 
 
 BALANCE SHEET. 
 
 The Missionary Socrety of the M. HE. Church, U, S. A. 
 
 January, By bricks, bamboos and labor on servants’ houses | 1 85] ol 0 
 March. », New roof on stable, = ee a 250! ol 0 
 Total Rs. oes 335! O| O 
 
 April, By balance brought down, as Bi 35] 01 0 
 a id Labor.2.3 ee Ae Seat aU 441 01 0 
 
 x » Balance, eC ae ‘0: 71\ ol 0 
 Quarterly Balance Sheet of the Station, 1873. 
 ay, 
 
 FIRST QUARTER. 
 
 By Anglo-Vernacular School 
 Building Account... 
 Itinerating, 
 Local Account 
 », Salaries of He!pers 
 
 : Missionary 
 
 Balance, 
 ‘Potala hss 20 
 SECOND QUARTER. 
 
 By Anglo-Vernacular School, 
 
 » Building Account, ae de 
 » Local Account, .. ee ie a 
 », salaries of Helpers, 
 us dy Missionary, 
 », Wernacular Schools, 
 » Balance, , ; 
 Total Rs. 
 
 Le 
 
40 
 
 CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 STATIONS OCCUPIED BYxTHE MISSION; 
 
 Name of 
 Station, 
 
 Lucknow, 
 Barabanki, 
 Unao, 
 Sitapur, 
 Hardui, 
 Lakhimpur, 
 Panahpur, 
 Rai Bareli, 
 Sultanpur, 
 Pertabgarh, 
 Bahraich, 
 Gonda, 
 Fyzabad, 
 Moradabad, 
 Amroha, 
 Sambhal, 
 Chandausi, 
 Hasanpur, 
 Dhanaura, 
 Babjoi, 
 Babukhera, 
 Daura, 
 
 Joa, 
 Naraivya, 
 
 Raipur, 
 
 eS cc RE AT SS RS PR AAS SR RSS SRR AEC ES NEE AM AA IEA ERE 
 
 District. 
 
 Lucknow, 
 Barabanki, 
 Unao, 
 Sitapur, 
 Hardoi, 
 Kheri, 
 
 Do. 
 Rae Bareli, 
 
 Sultanpur, 
 
 Pertabgarh, 
 
 Bahraich, 
 Gonda, 
 Fyzabad, 
 
 Moradabad, 
 
 Do., 
 Do., 
 Dav, 
 Do., 
 Do,; 
 Do., 
 Do., 
 Do., 
 
 POPULATION OF 
 City. District. | Province. 
 261,303 696,824 824 |) 
 15,133 | 1,026,788 
 9,509 | 899,069 
 18,544 | 958,251 
 10,626 | 987,630 | | 4 
 = 
 | 
 7,526 | 831,922 | | 
 L Yon} 
 (AA) 
 und, 1,000 b= 
 16,269 | 951,905 || & 
 Pp 
 9,374 | 957,912 || ° 
 11,826 | 847,047 
 21,998 | 878,048 
 13,743 | 1,270,926 
 71,405 | 1,081,419 
 67,387 | 1,155,173 |} 
 36,145 
 35,169 
 97,521 
 9,142 
 a 
 5,204 | 2 
 GM 
 =| 
 2,724 S 
 re 
 und. 1,000 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. J 
 
 af 
 Ban 
 Bos 
 6 2 =|Area, efc. 
 by -¥a) 
 aS 
 ‘Soe sere 
 704 |) 
 o 
 980} | °g 
 Qe 
 514|| 83 
 rs 
 495 | (ants 
 t& oO 
 oe 
 a 
 427 a 
 978|\ ~% 
 ie 
 Pate oA 
 25 
 fee: 
 547 2 
 oe 
 561|| 20 
 AS 
 589 | | wAe 
 Pans 
 9 o 
 320 oe 
 442) | St 
 nN 
 640] 
 506 |, 
 3! 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 4] 
 
 STATIONS OCCUPIED BY THE MISSION. 
 
 S820 
 Naierot) Sth: es, POPULATION OF BS Ek: Avex 
 tion. Dg ie Fe) SPT S CLMR HE HEE Mir ere 
 City. District. |Province.|9 Ss 5 
 a Aas. - el AION © SM Raliai Retlacliee Ike (<i al = t nee 
 Rasulpur, Moradabad, fund. 1,000 ) 3 
 CS 
 Shabpur, Do, Do. ee 
 o 
 Sharifpur, Do, Do, 8 
 a 
 Bareilly, Bareilly, 103,164 | 1,030,936 or Wane 
 3s 
 Aonla, Do. 13,018 @ 
 — a 
 Khera Bajhera,} Do. und, 1,000 ‘9 = 
 ot 
 Fatehgunj West} Do, Do. ab sa 
 wy 
 Shajahanpur, | Shahjahanpur, 69,892 856,946 2 490 > 
 S 
 A 
 Jalalabad, Do, 8,025 z E 
 Bijnour, Bijnour, 15,147 | 721,450 || 3 386 || 4 
 a a 
 Najibabad, Do. 17,750 = 
 o 
 Mandawar, Do, 7,125 iS 
 3s 
 Budaon, Budaon, 31,043 | 906,451 462 | |. 
 Vv 
 Bilsi, Do. 6,115 a 
 Kakrala, Do. 5,810 2 
 io) 
 Bisauli, Do. 4,465 = 
 Pilibhit, Pilibhit, 29,840 451,601 329 | J 
 Nynee Tal,* | Kumaon, 6,576 | 493,641 82 |*In Sept. 
 1880, 
 Dwarahath, Do, und, 1,000 : 10,054. 
 Pithoragarh, Do, 255 3 
 =) 
 Paori, Gurhwal, und.1,000 | 345,629 || 62 
 Tarai, ove 206,993 220 
 Cawnpore, Cawnpore, 151,444 | 1,181,396 498 
 Agra, Agra, 160,203 | 974,656 526 
 Allahabad, Allahabad, 150,338 | 1,474,106 520 
 Muthra, Muthra, 55,016 671,690 462 
 
 — Beli atte Sa : 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 
 
 OTHER STATIONS AND DISTRICTS. 
 
 P. a6 
 s OPULATION OF eee 
 
 Name of Sta- Bn ose} See jaa Ae 
 
 Boe District, SHE 2 
 ry >as Ete. 
 City. Distriet. } Province. |% ge 
 IAs 
 
 Dehra Bun, Dehra Dun, 18,959 144,070 120 
 Saharanpur, Saharanpur, 59.194 979,544 440 
 Muzaffarnagar, | Muzaffarnagar, 15,089 758,444 | 457 
 Meerut, Meernt, 99,565. |. 1,813,137 | 551 
 Bulandshahr, —|Bulandshahr, 175863.1 924899 452 
 Aligarh, Aligarh, 62,443 | 1,021,187 522 
 
 Etah, Etah, 8,044 756,523 435 
 Farukhabed, Farukhabad, 74,872 907,608 528 
 Mainputi, Mainpuri, 22,736 801,216 472 
 Ktawah, Etawah, 38791 122-3715 426 
 Fatehpur, Fatehpur, 21,328 683,745 | 417 
 Jaunpur, Jaunprr, 42,845, [1,209,663 778 
 Hamirpur, Hamirpur, 7,155 507,337 221 
 
 Binda, Banda, 28,97 t 698,608 221 
 Gorakhpur, Gorakbpnr, 571,922 "| 2,617,120 569 
 
 Basti, Basti, 11,592 | 1,630,612 592 
 Azamgarh, Azamgarh, 18,528 | 1,604,654 747 
 Ghazipur, Ghazipur, 43,232 | 1,014,099 688 
 
 Ballia, Ballia, 15,32) 924.763 808 
 Benares, Benares, 208,083 892,684 894 
 Mirzapur, Mirz.ipur, 85,362 | 1,136,796 217 
 Jalann, Orai, 7,738 | - 418,142 283 
 Jhansi, Jhansi, 2473-1 Sob 227 212 
 Lalitpur, Lalitpur, 10,684 249,088 127 
 
 Total Oudh, 11,397,741 24,246 
 Total N. W.P. 32,750,128 81,865 
 
 Grand Total 
 NORV CR haut 
 Vudh,* 
 
 eee 
 
 os 
 
 44,107,869 | se | 106,111- 
 
 Novrsa.—The Mohamedans in Oudh amount to 19°59 per cent. of the population; 
 in the North West Provinces to 13°72 per cent, The bighest proportion of Moham- 
 edans 1s found in the Rohilkund Division, where they exceed 23 per cent. of the 
 population. The Tarai has a larger proportion of Mohamedans than any other 
 District, viz., 86 per cent. Moradabad District comes néxt with 33 per‘ cent. Vide 
 Census Report for 1881, p. 60. 
 
 *As large as Olio, Indiana, and Kentucky. 
 
CONFERENCE MANUAL. 43 
 
 STATISTICAL SUMMARIES. 
 
 Full Prob, | Adults. (Children. Schools, ‘Scholars. Schools.|Scholarse 
 1864 117 92 62 53 + t 9 397 
 1865 157 168 47 ‘BS Sgr t 12 459 
 1866 1964 =. 161 57 45] - + ti 22 632 
 1867 338 212 160 119 62 2692 26 752 
 1868 377 288 173.4 116 50 3906 31 860 
 1869 468 303 277 201| 106] 4250 34| 1116 
 1870 541 526 269 202 117 4309 35 1177 
 1871 687 556 133 160 + 7 45 1927 
 1872 793 557 128 156 155 5427 76 3536 
 1873 | 876 691 235 235 190 6836 104 4549 
 1874 1145 778 259 261 204 7577 126 5438 
 1875 1283 865 183 198 217 8093 1353 6751 
 1876*| 498} 157 168 207 194 | 7411 133 6509 
 1877 1298 970 307 365 178) 6575 137 6049 
 1878 1468 1058 O57 532 195 | 5097 164] 6907 
 1879 1532 1115 175 835 208 7196 182 7382 
 1880 1686 1178 199 256 344 8338 229 8952 
 1881 1954 1190 325 263 272 9217 281 | 13111 
 1882 1990 1571 499 406 330 | 10715 344 | 15397 
 
 1883 2224 2176 565 604 397 12109 430 | 17366 
 
 1884 9988 2285 347 288 409 | 12119 479 | 18069 
 1885 | 9693 | 2655 585 431 420 | 13787 519 | 19973 
 1886 3124 3147 1103 669 440 | 14509 567 | 22061 
 
 18871 3191 2899 832 600 449 | 18847 594 | 28910 
 
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