NI ‘ Ba Te (@B/| [\S ; : SEN Vo $8) ey FS gag MANUAL — thd PDE bre eve WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY Ss OO a | I IT Piece | NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE : | [Péthodi sf Episcopal ee | IN SOUTHERN ASIA. 7 ge FOI i TION IO OI I S| ¢ eo) ue Ler nar gS om oA NS et IND a SE LUCKNOW: METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. : 1898- / ~S AR) SS Ly OE i EEO Sie aa I IOI tte es IC Raa” | I St ae i MANUAL riiiiti TEE ie — WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOGIETY OF THE NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE OF THE [Feéthedist Kpiscopal Church ERE SOUTHERN ASIA. —rit UO: cote LUCKNOW: METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1898. i \ Ps ‘ ay ery f Hi Pata ed INDEX. Accounrs— Auditing Accounts... Rules for keeping Accounts Aera Mepicat ScHoor | APPROPRIATIONS— Balances of Parbincineicns | AssISTANTs— Course of Study From other Missions Holidays Salary y Total Abstinence Transfer AUXILIARIES— Bye-Laws ote Collections 29, Constitutions Barertty Mepicat TRAINING hcagn | Bexeatt Coursn or Stupy— For Missionaries and Assistants Yor Bible-readers i BisLE-READERS— Course of Study Conveyance Examinations Hours for Work Salary ebe 32 34-35 29 31 10,11 7,8 9,10 CO we oon 2 ite 21,2 19,22 19 18 18 18 ll Boarpine ScHooLs— ‘ Basis for estimates ae | A Course of Bible Study ... Education of Christian Girls Endowment Fees AS Free Boarders Grinding ie ee ae Travelling expenses BuiLbINc— Estimates ... git} New buildings Bye-Laws oF AUXILIARIES CANDIDATES — | For Muttra Training School “i | Yor Bareilly Medical Training Class, CERTIFICATES OF EXAMINATION A § CoMMITTERS—~ | Finance and Reference Committee ... Board of Education and Examinaticn, Committee on Zanana Paper i CoNstITUTION— Of Woman's Missionary Society _... Of Auxiliaries ed ‘eu ContincENt Funp bs sted Covrses or Stupy— For Missionaries and Assistants .., For Deaconnesses ae For Bible-readers As For City and Village Schools Bible Study for Boarding Schools .... Day Scuoors we San Zo 27,28 33 25 26 95 an ee 26 2,31,83-85 10,11 16,17 19,22 23-24 27 28 26 lil D#AcONESSES— Course of Study re Pos © 16-17 Examination a ee 15 Rules a af fo 13-16 DoNATIONS a: ae oD | Kpirina CoMMITTER see i; 30 Epiror oF ZANANA Parer | Ba 39 | ENDowMENTS i bd 25,33 | EstimaarEs— | Yor Buildings ie 33 For Education of Chnstiag girls .... 33 For Evangelistic and Mela work _... od For eingice Committee... ae 34 For Repairs sie vee 33 | For Schools as oh 30 | EvanGeuistic Work— In villages sate oh 36 . In melas ... Uy. it 36 | EXaMINATIONS— | OF Missionaries and Assistants mat 7,12-13 Of Deaconesses ah Ae 15 Of Bible-readers eee Spe 18 Bvard of Examination ... Fp 12 Rules of examination ... wae 12,13 | Fees— Scale of Fees for Boarding Schools ... 26 For Teaching English in Zananas ... 37 | Frxaxces te vs 30-35 | Funps of Woman’s Forricen MistGaabe | Sociery ... See ane 30-35 _ Furniture ror Lapizs’ Homes Ap 33 | Home ror Homeiuss womurx Ae 3 iV Lavy Miss10oNARIES— Appointments Pe Examinations am. Incurring debt ee Official Relation ees Requests for money... Locxnow Hiau Schoor— Scholarships ih MARBIAGES (EARLY) Li! Mepicat MissioNARIEs © ns Mepicat AssIsTtANTs Lis Mepican StupENtTs— Agra Medical School ... Bareilly Medical Training Class MELA Work .. sags MIpDLE ScHooLs i Mutrra TRAmninGe ScHooL OFFICIAL RBLATION OF Lapby ARIES | : i - ORDER orf Busrnegs ay: ORPHANAGES ite PreRsoNAL TEACHER-— For Married Missionary Ladies Mission- For Assistants a PRAYER FOR THE WORK at RAD ESTATE ai REPAIRS fits i. Reports aa ae Russ oF ORDER ey SALARIES— Of Deaconesses ARS Of Assistants ee 7,12, 13 39 33 29,30 14 7,8,33 Of Bible-readers Oe vet 18 Of Teachers 19 Of Preachers and Exhorters’ Wives 18,32 SeHOLARSHIPS— In Orphanages te a 25 In Boarding Schools... y? 25 In Muttra Training School dts 29 In Agra Medical School 29 : In Bareilly Medical Training Class . 29 | ScHooLts— | Day Schools Bae ae 26 Orphanages ne See 25,26 Boarding Schools oe a: 25,26 Middle Schools ; ANF 25,26 Muttra Training School. ye 28 | Agra Medical School ea Pees eae 29 Scuoon Insrectressrs ar a 29 STATISTICS me me 38-40 | Sratistican YEAR re *: 34 SuRPLUS FunDs es or”: 31-32 TEACHERS— Assistant Teachers in Schools ie 9 Kmployment and Dismissal of Teach- Orestes 225 Ri 9 Teachers of small Schools Se 19 TemMpPrERANcE Worx— Instruction of children... ee 36 Total abstinence of Assistants ae 8 TRANSFERS OF AgsISTANTS ey A 9,10 ZANANA PAPER rer piles 34 ‘7 ra MANUAL i Se i WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE, The Moman’s Missionary Society in Jndia was organized January 18th, 1871. CONSTITUTION. (As amended by the Central Conference of 1899.) Arricte I.—The Association shall be called the ‘Woman’s Missionary Conference of the North India Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of India _ and Malaysia. | Arricte II.—This Conference shall be associated with and aid the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in carrying out its _ plans, and shall collect funds in this country to help forward the work of educating and saving the women _ of India. 3 Articte III1,—The Annual Meeting of this Conference. shall be held at the same time and place as the North India Conference, at which time reports of work shall be made, officers for ensuing year elected, and counsel taken with reference to the work of women. within the bounds of this Conference. ArticL—E IV.—The wives of the members and pro- > bationers of the North India Annual Conference, the missionaries appointed by the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the .Methodist Episcopal Church, . Deaconesses and workers formally elected by the North India Annual Conference and assistants while in charge of work, shall constitute the membership of this body ; provided that all such members shall be subject, and only such women workers entitled, to appointment by the Bishop in the Annual Conference list of appointments, Articte. V.—The Officers of the Conference ghall consist of a President; two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, an Assistant Secretary and a Statistical Secretary, to be elected annually from among its members. Articte VI.—A Committee of Reference and Finance shall be elected annually, to which all special matters shall be referred for decision, and which shall meet to consider estimates for the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society work, at the same time and place with the Finance Committee of the Annual Conference, This Committee shall be composed of the Official Cor- respondent, Treasurer and five other members of the Conference who are in charge of work of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, all of whom shall be elect- ed annually by ballot. during the Conference Session, except the Treasurer, who is appointed by the General Executive Committee of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 8 ArticueE VIL.—Any number of women contributing not less than five rupees may form a Society, auxiliary to this Woman’s Missionary Conference, by electing officers and arranging plans for meetings and work. ArtickE VII1,—EHach Auxiliary Society may appro- priate its own funds for Mission work, and report both _work and funds to the Annual Meeting of this Confer- ence. | Articte IX.—This Woman’s Missionary Conference shall work under the direction of the North India Annual Conference, receiving its sanction to estimates, plans of work, etc. Articte X.—This Constitution may be changed or amended at any meeting of the Central Conference, RULES OF ORDER. 1. Each meeting of the Society shall open and close with religious services, 2. All business, excepting such as may be brought forward by the Presiient, shall be introduced by motion, 3. All resolutions to be discussed shall be pre- sented in writing, if the Secretary or any member request it. 4, All members in speaking shall respectfully address the Chair. | 5. No member shall leave the room without pers mission from the Chair. 6. The President shall appoint all committees not otherwise specia‘ly ordered by the meeting 7. It shall be in order for any member, when she thinks a question has been sufficiently discussed, to move that the question be taken without further debate: and if the motion be sustained by two thirds of the members present voting, the main question shall then be put without further discussion. 4 ORDER OF BUSINESS. Calling the Roll. Reports of Auxiliaries, Reports of Districts. Communications, Report of Examining Committee. Reports of Editing ae Statistical Committee, Report of Reference and Finance Committee. Unfinished Business. Election of Standing Committees. Miscellaneous Business, CONSTITUTION FOR AUXILIARIES. Articte ].—This Association shall be called the Woman’s Missionary Society of , auxiliary to the Woman’s Missionary Conference of the North India Conference. ArtTicLE 2.—Tha object of this Association shall be touid the Woman’s Missionary Society in interest- ing Christian women in the evangelization of heathen women, and in raising funds for this work. ARTICLE 3.—The payment of eight annas annually by Native Christian Women, and one rupee by HEuro- pean Women, shall constitute memoership, and, in auxiliaries organized in our English work, any person contributing Rs. 2-8 per quarter forone year, or ten rupees at one time, shall be constituted a life member. ArricLE 4,—The officers of the Auxiliary shall be a President, three or more Vice-Presidents, a Record- : ing Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, and Treasurer, _ who together shall constitute ai Executive Committee — to administer the affairs of the Auxiliary, 5 ArtioLE 6.—Meetings of the Auxiliary for business and communication of intelligence shall be held on the——of each month. The anniversary meeting saall be held early in the month of November, when the Annual Report of the Secretary and Treasurer shall be read, and the officers for the ensuing year elected. ArttcLe 6.—This Constitution and the accompany- ing Bye-Laws, may be changed or amended at any regular meeting of this Society, by a two-thirds vote of the members present, notice of such intention having been given at a previous meeting. {All auxiliaries shall report their annual collections at their respective District Conferences, such reports to be sent by the several District Conference Secretaries to the Annual Conference. | BYE=-LAWS. 1. It shall be the duty of the President to pre- side in all meetings of the Society, and to supervise its general interests 2. It shall be the duty of the Vice-Presidents to perform the duties of the President, in the absence of that officer, and to aid in devising means for the effi- ciency of the Society. 3. Itshall be the duty of the Recording Secre- tary to keep a record of the proceedings of the Society, and provide the pastor with notices of the meetings. 4. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to conduct the correspondence of the Society. 5. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to collect the dues of members, and to hold in trust the funds of the Society, keeping a book of accounts. ‘ 6. OFFICIAL RELATION OF LADY MISSIONARIES, 1, Jn general.—The position of a lady ‘missionary placed in charge of work in connection with any of our circuits or stations, is the same as that of a second missionary or junior preacher, to whom special work is assigned. . 2. In particular.—The general plans of work, such as establishing new schools, employing and dis- missing head teachers, arsanging terms of tuition, board, ete , and preparing a course of study, when these matters are not fixed by Trustees or by an Educational Committee, selecting classes of people among whom Zenana work may most successfully be carried on, arranging dispensaries, and deciding the proportion, of medical work to be given to natives and Europeans, Christians and non-Christians, etc, etc, all such general plans shall be arranged by the lady in charge of the special department’ of work, after free consultation with the Preacher-in-Charge and with his consent, In all cases the lady missionary may advise also with the Presiding Elder of the district, and in differences of opinion. secure his decision. 3. The lady missionary in. charge of work has full liberty to do the work assigned her in her own way, and to carry out the internal arrangements of her department in the manner which she deems best adapted to secure success. 4. The relation of the Presiding Elder to the work under the charge of a lady. is the same ag it would be were it in charge of a member of Conference ;_ he having a general advisory supervision, auditing the accounts, (when not done by Trustees) making sugges- tions, etc., exactly as with all the other work of his— District. ~ 7 5, Lady missionaries in caarge of work and all missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety are appointed by the President of Conference, at the same time and in the same manner as the appoint- ments of Conference are made. 6. All new buildings and extensive repairs or changes shall receive the sanction of both the Preacher- in-charge and Presiding Elder, even though no appro- priation of money be asked. 7. Missionaries of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society are expected to attend the Annual Confer- ence of their Mission that they may confer with other members of the Mission upon all topics connected with their own department. They will be expected to devote. their time and attention to their legitimate work, as all their temporal necessities will be provided for by the Society. 8. They are expected to study tne Vernacular and pass in the Course of Study: if any one is unable or unwilling to do so, it shall be considered a sufficient reason for requesting the General Executive Committee of the W F M.S. to recall her, unless she show super- ior general efficiency and adaptability to the work. 9. Missionaries who are not d:awinga salary, and are directly engaged in the work of the W. F. M.S, are entitled to the services of a personal teacher. RULES RELATING TO ASSISTANTS. The following rules for the employment of Assis- tant Missionaries have been adopted :— 1. Young ladies assisting in mission work shall receive the increase of salary for each examination given, only on having a corresponding number of years of experience and satisfactory adaptability to the work, 8 2, Salaries shall be paid according to the follow- ing scale ; during the first year of probation from Rs. 25: to Rs. 45 per mensem shall be given. After Ist year’s examination Rs, 45 per mensem. 39 2nd +) 99 { 99 50 29 99 79 ord 39 ba 99 5D 99 99 93) 4th 99 99 7° 99 60 39 99 3. Furniture, conveyance for work and munshi, un- til the course of study shall have been completed, shall be supplied by the mission. 4. Assistants not residing in the mission homes, shall receive not more than Rs. 30 per mensem with conveyance, and not more than Rs. 40 without con- veyance, except in cases approved by the Reference Committee. But in case of such Assistants as have al- ready resided five years or more in the Mission Homes, special action may be taken by the Reference Com- mittee. 5. The board of Assistants is fixed at Rs. 25 per mensem including all servants, except ayahs and punkhawalas. 6. All persons who take up work in our mission, must pledge themselves to abstain from all use of wine or other intoxicating liquors, during cheir time of ser- vice with us, whether in our homes or when visiting friends in the stations where they are working. 7, Assistants are allowed annually six weeks of boli- day with salary. Medical Assistants come under all rules applying to other Assistants, unless in case of special action. 3 8. In case any Assistant voluntarily leaves the work before the end of the year, for any cause save illness. or other reason satisfactory to the Superintendent, she shall be required to refund her travelling expenses. 9 9, Assistants coming to us from other Missions shall furnish certificates of standing and examinations, and their salaries will be regulated thereby according to our scale. 10. In employing or dismissing an Assistant, the Missionary with whom she would be or is associated and the Presiding Elder of that District, shall be a Committee to act in reference to it. But when the Assistant is to be a member of one of the Ladies’ Homes, all the resident missionaries of the Home shall be allowed a vote. 11. The following has been adcpted by the General _ Executive Committee :— Resolved, that assistant teachers in schools under the supervision of Missionaries of the W. F. M.S. be under the direction and employment of said Missionaries, who shall be responsible for the work and expenditure of such assistants. _ 12. Inthe employment and dismissal of Preachers and Teachers or other assistants, either of the Parent Society or our own, whose names appear on our lists of _ appropriations, the con-ent of the Preacher-in-Charge of the Circuit and the Presiding Elder of the District must be secured, 13. Assistants may be transferred by the Presiding _ Elder with the consent of the Lady in charge of the ' department in which they are employed. 14. When these Assistants, being members of our Church, have, by several years of faithful service, come to be received as belonging permanently to our body of workers, they may, on the recommendation of the Ladies’ Society, when such exists, or by a Quarterly Conference, be formally recognized by the Conference: and appointed as are Lady Missionaries. 10 15. Incase of a transfer of an Assistant, from one Conference to another, a written permission shall be -secured signed by the Preacher-in-Charge and Presiding Elder with whom the person may be employed, when, according to the conditions in Rule 10 the engagement ‘may be completed. —<— ‘COURSE OF STUDY FOR MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS. First Thin: Forbes’ Hindustani Grammar to Prosody, with the Ist and 2nd Urdu or Hindi Books. The four Gospels in Roman-Urdu, with writing and spelling. Written translation in Roman-Urdu, of English Ist book (Nesfield’s). Conversation in Hindustani. Writing in the character from | the First Urdu Book. (Last four pages). Required to be read :—Hunter’s Short History of the Indian People. Spconp YEAR, Mirat-ul-Urus, (through the letter from Asgari’s father) ; Dharm Tula. ae Arithmetic, (through Fractions). Written translation in Roman-Urdn of the English Second Book (Nesfield’s) Writing in the character from the First Hindi Book: (Last four pag s). Required to be read:—Wilkins’ Hindu Mythology. (Rs. 7, The Methodist Publishing House, Lucknow.) TuHirRD YEAR. Mumuksh Britant. Remainder of Mirdt-ul- Uris. Forbes’ Persian Grammar with exercises, 11 Arithmetic ‘through Square Root ) Required to be Laie Hinduism in its relation to Christianity (Robson’s, Rs. 4-4, Thacker Spink & Co., Calcutta). FourtH YzarR. Gutka, Part II (Poetry optional). Gulistan, 2 Boo«s. Intikhab-i-Dilchasp. An Essay in Hindustani, not less than two pages of foolscap, nor more than four. Recommended to be read :—Sell’s Islam ; Forman’s Arya Somaj fequired to be read :—Religious Reforms (Four parts), Popular Hinduism Philosophie Hiuduism, Vedic Hin- duism, Modern Elective Systems, (24 Annas each, Methodist Publishing House, Lucknow). BENGALI COURSE OF STUDY FOR MISSION- ARIES AND ASSISTANTS. First YEAR. lst and 2nd Readers, (C. V. E. 8.) Translation of English Ist Reader. (C. V. B.S.) . Rouse’s Bengali Grammar. Four Gospels in ‘Bengali. Conversation in Bengali. fo be read :—Hunter’s Indian History. SEconD YBAR. Translation of 2nd English Reader. (C. V. HE. 8.) Psalms Bodhodoi - Bostan Bichar. Lo be read ;—Wilkins’ Hindu Mythology. 12 EXAMINATION REGULATIONS. The examinations of Missionaries and Assistants shall be conducted by the Board of Education and Ex- amination, consisting of fourteen members, one of whom shall be chairman and another registrar. The Board shall te continued for a term of four years, subject to re-appointments, vacancies to be filled at each session of the Annual Conference. The chairman shall assign to each examiner the book or subjects in which she is to examine, for which she shall send to the chairman printed or written ques- tions, at least ten in number, two weeks before the time of examination, In making out these papers, examiners should allow the candidates to read at least three passages They have also the right to question in Grammar throughout the four years’ course. These examinations will be held during the third week in December, in locations convenient to the students and under the personal supervision of some member of the Board delegated by the chairman. The examinations shall be given in writing and in ‘the presence of witnesses. The papers shall be sent to the examiners to whom they respectively belong and shall be graded on a scale of 100, one mark to be subtracted fora mistake in the meaning of a single word and five marks, for a real mis-translation of a sentence; miniumm number of marks required 65. The examiners shall re- port results to the registrar. The member of the board, Supervising the examinations, shall require candidates of the first and second years to write in the character from dictation —(Sce Course). , The supervisor shall test the students of the first and second year in conversation and pronunciation and | Bes shall ask all candidates whether the required books have been read. These results should be sent abt once to the registrar. No candidate who has failed in any part of one examination shall be allowed to present herself for the next until she has passed in the previous subjects. An Entrance certificate shall be accepted as an equi- valent to a first year’s examination, and an F. A. certificate to a second year’s, with the exception in both cases of Forbes’ Grammar. Those who receive certificates of examination are expected to pay for them. RULES RELATING TO DEACONESSES. (Adopted by the Central Conference at Poona in 1896.) 1. Where clearly indicated by Providence, with ‘the consent of the Conference Board and of the Presid- ing Elder, Deaconess Homes may be established, the object of such institutions being to promote the work of Deaconesses as recognized by th» Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to provide homes for them, to furnish them with necessary support. instruction and training and, as far as practicable, to provide for such forms of Christian charity as may be developed in the prosecution of their work. 2. The Superintendents of Deaconess flomes shall be appointed by the Annual Conference. 3. The duties of the Central Conference Board of Deaconesses shall be to maintain uniformity of rules and customs relating to Deaconesses and Deaconess Homes in the different Annual and Mission Conferences of India and Malaysia; and all questions of common interest sball be referred to this Board for decision. 4, Provision shall be made for a Superintendent 14 ofa Deaconess Horne to be a member of the Annual Conference Board of Deaconesses 5. The Annual Conference Board of Deaconesses shall require to have submitted to them a certificate of health from a physician in the case of each candidate before she is received as a full deaconess, 6. Only‘those legally recommended by the Quar- terly Ccnference and accepted by the Annual Con- ference Board shall be recoguized as deaconesses, or receive the designation. 7. As far as possible, candidates are required to take a course of study in a training school; but, when this is not possible, an examination in ays course of study laid down by the Central Conference shall be required by the Board of Deaconesses before candidates are admitted as probationers. 8 When asister who shall have devoted her life to this work, in connection with a Deaconess Home, is laid aside from active work by the infirmities of age, she shall be entitled to a continued residence in the Home, or else receive an equivalent provision in money, and be permitted to reside elsewhere. 9. Deaconesses shall wear a simple uniform, not only for protection and recognition, but also for econo- my of time and money, and Conference Boards of Dea- conesses snall require this purpose to be kept in view by -all deaconesses. The same uniform shail be adopted by all Deaconess Homes. 10. Deaconesses shall receive an allowance of Rs, 30 a month, and probationary deaconesses, Rs. 15 a month, with munshi or pundiét for four years, except when said probationer has had experience in work and has already passed the four years’ course of study in the Vernacular. 11. Biblé-women who devote their entire timé to 15 Christian work, and whose gifts, graces and usefulness. have been proved by past service, may be recognized and set apart as deaconesses on election by the Board of Deaconesses of their Conference. 12, All candidates for admission into Deaconess. Homes shall be received on three months’ trial, after which a written application shail be presented to the Conference Board of Deaconesses, who may admit such as probationary deaconesses whose age is not less than twenty, nor more than forty years. 13. Those admitted into a Deaconess Home shall consent to abide by the decisions of the Superintendent in all matters, and cheerfully give all their time to. the work assigned them. 14. No deaconess or probationer shall solicit money unless duly authorized, and all donations and money received for services rendered shall be paid mto the treasury of the Hone to be applied to its expenses. 15. The . position of associate deaconess shall be allowed to those who for any reason cannot meet all the requirements of the rules fixed by the Discipline and the Conference Board of Deaconesses, and shall be permitted to wear the prescribed uniform while living in the Home. 16. The following three years’ course of study is compulsory for all deaconesses, except in cases of persons who have takenacourse which the Board of Dea- conesses consider an equivalent. We recommend that the Bible be studied in the order adopted in “ Bible studies,” by Dr, A. E, Dunning, which book is added to the present course, } 16 COURSE OF STUDIES FOR DEACONESSES. First Year, I. The Old Testament asa preparation for the Chris- sian Church. 1. The divine religion given to man. 2. The development of the divine religion in the life of the chosen people. 3. Lives of the chief founders of the Old Testa- ment Church:—Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and Moses. II. The Old Testament as a preparation for Chriss. 1. Sacrifices. 2. Types. 3. Kingdom. 4. Prophets. 5. Lives ofthe chief prophets of the Old Testa- ment Church:—Samuel, David, Elijah, Danigl. To be read :-—Pentateuch, historical books and Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. Other Studies :—Catechism No. 2, Binney’s Theo- logical Compend, Vernacular according to Mission course. . _ Sgconp YBAR. I. The New Testament as a manifestation of Christ. 1. Facts in the life of Christ and the order in which they should be at 2. Doctrines of Christ. 3. Life of Christ and of the twelve Apostles. 17 II. The New Testament asa revelation of Christian doctrine. 1. Relation of the facts to the doctrine. 2. Study of Christ as Teacher. To be read:—The Four Gospels, the Messianic Psalms, Isaiah and Minor Prophets, Hurlbut’s Outline Normal Studies. Other Studies :—Smith’s Smaller History of the ‘Bible, Vernacular according to the second year’s Mis-~ gion course, THIRD YRAR, I. The New Testament as the revelation of the Chris- tian Church. 1. Its essential elements. 2. Its history in the New Testament. 3. The progress of doctrine in the New Testament 4, The doctrines in the Acts and Epistles, II. Life of Paul. To be read ;—Acts, the Epistles, Revelation. Other Studies :—The Discipline, Hurst’s Church History. FOR THOSE PREPARING TO BECOME TRAINED NURSES, First Y5AR. Bible course (as in first year above.) Discipline, Catechism No, 2, Physiology (Hutchinson.) Sruconp YEar. Nursing Manual ; Practical training i in hospitals as far as possible. 1s Course recommended to be read by ali the classes.—- How to Study the Bible (Moody) ; The Christian’s- Secret of a Happy Life, (H. Whitall Smith); Life of Elizabeth Fry ; LifeofSister Dora; Life of Christ, (Geikie); Deaconesses, Ancient and Modern, (Wheeler); History of India, (Hunter); Hindu Mythology, (Wilkins). RULES RELATING TO BIBLE READERS. 1. Annual examinations in the Bible Reader’s Course of Study shall be held at the District Conferences, 2. Passing the examinations in this course of study, or unusual efficiency in the candidate, shall be the standard for the increase of pay. The scale of salary for Bible-readers taking the advarced course is from Rs. 4 to Rs. 8, and for those taking the elementary Course, from Rs. 2-8 to Rs. 4. 83. Girls or women who bave passed a part or the whole of the Bible-reader’s course of study, shall not be allowed the increase of salary until they shall have given such a number of years of satisfactory work as corresponds with the number of exaininations given. 4, Bible-reader’s are required to give five hours cf work daily for full salary and are allowed one month of vacation with salary during the year, 5. Dispensary Assistants should be required to pass the same course of study as other Bible-readers, 6, All preachers and exhorters, whose wives are on the list cf preachersin our Hstimates, shall have their salaries fixed by the Finance Committee, which salary shall include both man and wife, but, if deemed ex- pedient, when the wife is working under the direction of the Woman’s Society, such portion of the salary fixed as the Finance Committees may approve, may be paid from the fund of the Woman’s Missionary Society. 19 7, Conveyance may be given for Zanana work, as the Presiding Elder and Superintendent of the work may deem necessary, but the payment shall be in ac- cordance with exact expenditure, and not an approximate monthly allowance. 8. The salaries of teachers for small schools of the Goucher and Frey School grade, shall be fixed by the Preacher-in-Charge and the Presiding Elder conjointly, and this salary shall include the man and wife, work _ being arranged for both. But a portion of this amount, for the woman’s work, may be paid from the funds of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, if so approv- ed by the Ladies’ Finance Committee. 9. Teachers of this grade cf school shall be paid a salary ranging from Rs, 2 to Rs, 5 when a man lives in | his own mohalla or village, and the man only is em- ployed; and from Rs. 5 to Rs. 8, when the man and his wife are both employed. i 10. There shall be no special grant, above the fixed salaries, for dais er other personal servants. 11. Whereas itis desirable for the permanent success of our work in India that such work become as far and as early as possible self-sustaining and self-controlled ; therefore :— Resolved, that the Missionaries should endeavor to keep this end in view in all arrangements with their employes, and encourage Christian teachers and Bible- _ readers to work voluntarily, or at such low rates as the income of their husbands will admit. COURSE OFSTU DY FOR BIBLE READERS First YEar. 1. Dharm Tula (Hindi). > Arithmetic: Addition and Subtraction. = (ed 2 4. ore wefotS = 20 Muqaddas Kitab kA Ahwaél, Parts If and Il (Urdé, Hindi or Roman.) Dictation in Roman-Urdu and in Hindi o Urdu. Grammar (for hill districts.) Seconp YEaR. Mumuksh Brittant. Talim-un-Nisan. Baibal Bar-Haqq. Arithmetic: Multiplication and Division. Dictation in Roman-Urdt and in Hiudi or Urdu. Grammar (for hill districts). Toirp YEaR. Jugrafiva-i-Pak Kitab, (Roman-Urdu, Frank- lin’s.) Mizaén-ul-haqq. Temperance Catechism in Roman-Urdu. Dictation in Roman-Urdu and in Hindi or Urdu. FourtH YEaR. Sat Mat Nirtpen. Khawaif-us-Sahaif (omitting the Tatimma.) Dictation in Roman-Urdu and in Hindi or Urdu. Essay. ELEMENTARY Course oF STUDY FOR VILLAGB BIBLE- WOMEN WHO HAVE NOT BEEN EDUCATED IN BoarpDING ScHootLs. First Year. First and second books in Urdu or Hindi, Dictation, words of one syllable in Urdu or Hindi. Counting and writing numbers to 100, 21 ‘Che Lord’s Prayer, Ten Commandments, (abbreviat- “ed), The Apostles Creed; Small Catechism (Butcher’s). On completion of these studies, Bible-women who work the required time may receive Rs, 2-8 per mensem, Seconp YEar. The Gospels of Matthew and Johnin Urdu or Hindi. Writing from copy in Urdu or Hindf. Reading and writing numbers to 10,000. Ten Commandments (complete), Mudge’s Catechism (complete.) On the completioa of these studies Bible-women who work the required time may receive Rs. € per mensem. THtrRD YEAR, The Gospel of Luke and the Actsin Urduor Hindf, First and Second Books in a second Language (Roman- Urdu if possible). | Temperance Catechism. Dictation from Luke’ Gospel in Urdu or Hindi. Dictation in Roman Urdu. Addition to thousands, Catechism (Badley’s). BENGALI COURSE OF STUDY FOR BIBLE READERS. First YEAR, lst and 2nd Readers, C. V. E. S. Aurunodoi (Peep of Day). John’s Gospel, Lennie’s Elements of Grammar. (Bengalf with Urda). f 29 SEcoND YEAR. Dharam Pustak-Itihas, Bodhodoi. Bengali Arithmetic, through four simple rules. ALTERNATE CouRSE OF STODY FOR THE HILLS WHEN DESIRED. First YEAR. Dharam Tula, Zanana Reading Book in Hindi. Dharm Pustak ka Itihas. Seconp YEAR, Mumuksh Brittént, Baibal Bar-Haqq. Hindi Arithmetic, through four simple rules. THirp YEAR. Scriptural Geography in Hindi, Mat Parikshé, Yatra Swapn Udai. FourtH YEAR, Sat Mat Nirapan. Isaiah and Psalms in Hindi. | FOR SCHOOL INSPECTRESSES' TEST. For Inspectresses of the lower grade, the course of study for Bible-readers, with the addition of Compound Numbers and Fractions, and Geography with maps. For the Inspectresses of the upper grade, the course of study for the middle class in our Vernacular schools. 23 UNIFORM COURSE OF STUDY FOR CITY AND VILLAGE SCHOOLS. Cuass VII. B. First Book. (Uvrdu.) Do. (Hindi.) Writing easy words, ‘Counting and writing figures to 100, and easy Addition. Mudge’s Catechism, first half. Crass VII. ‘Second Book. (Urdi.) Do. (Hindi.) Dictation from Reading Books, Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication te 10, Mudge’s Catechism, (complete). Crass VI, Third Book. (Urdt.) Do. (Hindi.) Persian Reader. . Dictation from Reading Books. Multiplication and Division. Map of District. ‘Badley’s Catechism, 33 Lessons. Crass VY. Natural History. First Book, Roman. Urdii Grammar, Part I. Natural History, Hindi Grammar, Persian Reader. Dictation. ‘ Simple and Compound Rules of Arithmetic (rules learned by heart.) 24. Geography of N.-W. P. and Oudh. Badley’s Catechism. : Matthew’s Gospel, 7 Ghapiecs Crass IV. Leading Book—-Poetry. (Urdu) Book of letters. Urdi Grammar, Part IL Hindi Belecipas: Hindi Grammar. Persian Reader. Dictation and Letter-writing. Arithmetic, Simple and Compound Proportion and Dis- count. History of India, (M. P. House.) First Geography. Mark’s Gospel, (complete.) Crass IIT. Natural Science and Village Sanitation, and Book of Letters. Orda Grammar. Persian Grammar. : Selections and Grammar. (Hzinds3.) Vulgar and Decimal Fraewons, Compound Interest and Square-root. Composition. (Inshd o oie History of India. First Geography. Acts of the Apostles. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, Suwalat i Ilm i ahi, Parts Ist and 2nd. Bhajans, Berean Lessons ; 8. 8. Tickets. 25 ORPHANAGES AND BOARDING | SCHOOLS. The two orphanages established at Bareilly and Pauri having increased their accommodation, no new orphanage shall be established in our Mission. Only children have ing no responsible guardians shall be admitted to those institutions, : In time of famine or other distress, when children, having no responsible guardians, are placed in the board- ing schools, they shall be, as soon as practicable, remov- ed to the orphanages. In stations where we have orphanages and boarding schools for Christian girls, surplus funds from local sources may be invested for the endowment of such in- stitutions. The Conference recommend, as a basis for estimating, Rs. 4 monthly for orphans in the plains, and Rs. 5 for those in the hills, this amount to include whatever may be required for ordinary repairs ; from this all sums re- ceived from Government for the support of orphans are to be deducted, and separate estimates made for the Educational department, deducting Grant-in-aid. For Girls’ Boarding Schools, Ks 2-8 in the plains and Rs. 3 in the hillsis fixed as the amount to be estimated for each girl. Girls who go out from these schools shall receive no aid whatever from the Mission in the way of marriage outfit. Our Boarding schools shall not admit as free boarders girls who can attend day schools until they have passed the VIth class examination. Grinding shall be considered a requirement in district boarding schools. Where the number in the middle section of these school is less than eight, which is required by the grant- 26° in-aid rules, the girls of such classes shall be sent to Moradabad, Bareilly, Lucknow or Pauri and the Upper Primary shall be made the hightest standard of such ‘schools. Travelling expenses of pupils going home for vacation shall be paid by the persons taking pupils out. No girl shall be received into any Boarding school, without bringing a certidcate from the school which she dJast attended. Day schools, rather than boarding schools, should be established in the remote stations, especially those to which a Missionary of the Parent Board is. not regularly appointed, : In the High School in Lucknow, no scholarship shall be allowed, except to gir!s who have passed the Upper Pri- mary examinations in the Boarding schools. Christian parents are requested to send their children to school in the immediate district in which they reside, and to continue them in the said schools throughout the year. The different stations of our mission being now provided with Boarding schools, only girls from the Bareilly Dis- trict shall hereafter, be received into the Boarding Department of the Orphanage. (Action of Finance Com- mittee, 1887.) TUITION IN BOARDING SCHOOLS. The following scale of fees for our Boarding schools was adopted by the Central Conference of 1898. Where the monthly income is from Rs. 7 to 8 clothing only. 39 9? 99 995 8 10 39 and As. 4 3 Me ‘5 odgd ced 2M daa )s oc oe aS 99 ? 29 29 12—15 39 29 99 12 oo) 2) ” 9 15—18 ” > Re. 1-0-0 3? 39 99 99 18—20 9 39°89 1-8-0 9 29 39 99 20—25 39 9 Rs. 3-0-0 33 ) Sy aE se a a 27 Above Rs. 30 a fee of Rs. 3, or whatever may be the actual expenses of board, in addition to clothes, Where there are more than one bvarder in any of our institutions supported by the same person, the charge for each pupil after the first shall be two-thirds of what. it would have been had she been the only boarder from that family. No other reducticn shall be made except on the recommendation of the Presiding Elder, and on the concurrence of the Reference Committee, and these shall be made only so far as, in the judgment of the Referenca Committee, the financial condition of the institution will admit and the necessities of the case require. But in no case shall the manager or principal make any reduc~ tion on his own responsibility. If parents are unable to pay the fees, pupils may be allowed to give an equivalent in work, Girls ghall attend the Boarding School of the District in which they live, or, in case they desire toattend another school, they shall pay full fees in that school. COURSE OF BIBLE STUDY FOR BOARD- ING SCHOOLS. First year.—Mudge’s Catechism. Second year.—Badley’s Catechism. Third year.—Scripture History from the Creation to the entrance into Canaan, studied from the text, and the Gospel of Matthew. Fourth year.—Joshua, Judges, Ruth,. I Samuel, and Gospel of Mark. Fifth year.—1I Samuel, Kings to the Captivity, Gospel of Luke. Stxth year.—Restoration and Prophecies concerning Israel and Christ. Gospel of John. 28 Seventh year,—Life of Christ and Acta, Eighth year.— Romans, Hebrews and John with Old ‘Testment allusions. Where a class cannot complete the whole of the studies of the Scripture Course, the Superintendent of the school may abridge the books required, so as to bring them with- in the ability of the classes, but the outline should not be abridged, RULES RELATING TO CANDIDATES FOR THE MUTTRA TRAINING SCHOOL. &esolved,—That pupils in our orphanages and boarding schools, both English and Native, be required to spend one year or at least six months, ¢f possible, in the Muttra Training School, before being employed as mission workers, QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION. 1, The Candidate must be not less than sixteen years of age, 2. She must furnish ahealth certificate from a lady physician. 3. An applicant for the Vernacular Course must have passed the Upper Primary examination as taken by our Conference Committee of examiners; for the English Course she must have passed the VII Standard examina- tion or its equivalent. 4, She must have manifested steadfast Christian char- acter and a desire to be useful. Candidates for the full course, from within the bounds of the North India Conference, must be recommended by the missionary ladies of the station, and tbe Quar- terly Conference of the Church, to which they belong, to the Woman’s District Conference. Candidates from other missions, or from Conferences 29 of our own church, should make their application to the Reference Committee of the North India Conference. Arrangements shall be made for a shorter course for those women who can not take the full course of study, and such women may be admitted on terms agreed upon by the ladies of the station from which they come, and the Superintendent of the training school. Ladies sending women who are already in mission employ, for the short course, may be allowed to use the salary of those women, or such part of it as may be necessary, for their expenses while in the school, MEDICAL STUDENTS. Pupils wishing to join the Training Class of the Bareilly Bospital, shall bring their scholarships of Rs. 5 per mensem with them, shall reside in the hospital premises and be under the direct control of the physi- cians in charge. Each candidate shall be at least sixteen years of age, shall have a knowletge of reading and writing in at least one vernacular, and, if possible, a knowledge of the Romian character and shall bring with her a recommendation for diligence and obedience, from the proper authorities. Girls may be sent to the Agra Medical School on Dufferin Scholarships, but, in case any are sent on Mission scholarships, they shall be required to sign an agreement in which they promise to refund the amount of such scholarships REPORTS. The following items are included among the “ Bye- Laws of the General Executive Committee” :— 1. Missionaries are reguired to send annual and quarterly reports to the Corresponding Secretary having 80 charge of their work, and the action of the General Executive Committee will be communicated to the missionary through that Secretary or the correspondent appointed for their field by said Committee, and no other instructions are to be considered as official. 2, They are especially requested to include in their reports all items, anecdotes, and incidents of interest, ina manner suitable for publication in the Woman’s Missionary Friend. The following is the action of the General Executive Committee at the session of 1879. Resolved,—That the ladies in each mission having work under the Society are requested to designate one of their number each year to prepare a summarized report ; and that the other ladies be requested to pro- vide the one so designated with the necessary particulars of their own work before the 10th of January, so that she may prepare and mail her summarized report by the 1st February at the latest. Resolved,—That each lady appointed to prepare a summarized report send the same to the Corresponding Secretary chosen by the Executive Committee as the Correspondent of the Mission for which the report is made. In the North India Conference this ‘‘summarized report’ is the one prepared by the Editing Committee, and the date fixed as the latest for receiving manuscripts by that Committee is the 15th of December. WITH REGARD TO FINANCES. The following has been adopted by the General Ex cutive Committee. Resolved,—That the funds of the W. F. M. 8. be entire ly under the control of the General Executive Committee, to be used only for the purposes designated at the jl (General Executive Committee Meeting. If any surplus fund remain in the foreign treasuries from unused appropriations, exchange, or any other sources, they must be reported to the Branches from whose monies they accrue, to be apportioned by the General Executive Committee, or by the Committee of Reference, for the work already in hand, Resolved,—That Contingent Money shall be used for emergencies arising in work, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, with the consent of the Committee of Reference, all new work to be subject to the approval of the Parent Board; whenever the amount called for shall exceed that of the Contingent fund allowed by Branch receiving de- mand, the Corresponding Secretary shall consult the Committee of Reference, who shall have power to direct the sum to be supplied from the Contingent fund of other Branches. ktesolved,—That we request our Missionary treasurers: to forward their estimates, properly approved, to the Corresponding Secretary of the N. Y. Branch, that she may present them to the authorities of the Parent Board for their action, on or before the middle of April. ftesolved,— That when requisitions are made upon the General Executive Committee for money for build- ing purposes, a statement shall be made of the whole amount that will probably be required for the purpose named, | The following are taken from the Bye-laws of the General Executive Committee : 1. Missionaries shall incur no expense during the year to be met by this Society, for which the estimate has not previously been submitted to and approved by the General Executive Committee at its annual meeting 32 2, ‘They shall credit to the Society all donations re- ceived for the support of their work, and annually report the same with their financial statement. 3. A medical Missionary shall be accountable to the Branch from which she is sent. She shall keep an itemized account of receipts and disbursements of all. fees received for medical service; such receipts may be nsed for necessary expenses in her medical work, any surplus being credited to her Branch. 4. All real estate of the W. F. M.S. in India is held in trust by the Agents of the Mission Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, according to the order of the General Conference of 1872. The usual Committee for auditing the Station and Treasurer’s accounts shall also audit the accounts con- nected with the work of the Woman’s Missionary Society. The money belonging te the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society shall be held by the Treasurer of the Conference, and paid out on the orders of the Presid- ing Elders, the Treasurer furnishing a quarterly state- ment of receipts and payments to the Corresponding Secretary of said Society in this Conference, | From Finance Committee Actton: (1.) Salaries paid to wives of Native members and probationers of the An- nual Conference must be approved by the Finance Com- mittee. (2.) All balance of appropriations in hand at each station shall be returned to the Treasury at the end of the year, and reported to the Finance Committee. (3.) All drafts on the W. F. M. Society Treasurer for tha North {ndia Conference hall be signed by the Presi- dent of the Conference, as is done in the case of the Parent Society drafts. 99 od J (4.) Salaries of Assistan‘s shall be drawn only from the time, and for the time, that such Assistants are ac- tually employed, (5.) With the estimates for the areced of Christian girls, a statement shall be presented to the Finance Com- mittee giving number and circumstances of such girls. (6.) . With the estimates for Schools, a statement shall be presented to the Finance Committee giving growing number and grade of schools, attendance and monthly expenditure. (7.) With the estimates for buildings, plans and de- tailed estimates shall be presented to the Finance Com- mittee. (8.) The estimates for current and special repairs shall be presented to the Finance Committee as separate items. (9.) When monies are received from any source for the endowment of institutions connected with the W. F. M. 8. work in the North India Conference :— (a.) the Presiding Elder of the District, the Preacher- in-Charge of the Circuit, within whose bounds the in- stitution is located, and the lady Missionary in charge of the institution, shall constitute a Committee to arrange for the investment of the endowment fund. (+) All such investments shall be made in the name of the Conference Board of Trustees. (c) Such funds shall not be drawn from the Treasury until required by said Committee for investment. (Action of Conference Finance Committee accepted by the Ladies’ Finance Committee, 1884.) (10.) It isarranged that an allowance of rupees two hund- red for furniture be paid into the Treasury for each new Missionary, and drawn as needed by the Homes, upon order of three Missionaries of the Society : and if a sur- plus remains at the end of each year, it shall be returned to the Home Treasury. The money may be used for the purchase of needed substantial furniture. . 34 (11.) The Editor of the Zanana Paper is appointed by the Central Conference and the management of the paper is entrusted to a Committee of six persons, includ- ing the Editor, three from the North India Conference and three from the North-West India Conference, ap- pointed by their respective Conferences. (12.) Our statistical year shall end October 31st, to correspond with the Conference statistical year, {For the formation and duties of the Finance and Refer- ence Committee, see Art. VI of Constitution. | (13,) All requests for money from members and auxiliaries of the W. F. M.S, should be made through official chan- nels only. (14.) The estimates shall be prepared at least one month before the meeting of the Finance Committee, and a copy shall be presented both to the Presiding Elder anc to the Ladies’ Finance Committee. The Central Conference of 1898 passed the following rules, relating to accounts. 1. Every Preacher-in-charge, or Presiding Elder, or other Mission worker, who acts as pay-master or handles Mission money, shall keep a set of books consisting of Day Book, Ledger, Pay-Roll Book, Repair Book, and Pastor Fund Book. General Board and W. F. M. §, accounts shall be kept in separate books. 2. All expenditures and receipts shall be entered daily, item by item, in the Day Book, and the proper ledger accounts indicated. At the close of each month the total of each account shall be ascertained and transferred to the Ledger. | 3. All accounts shall be entered from the Day-Book into the Ledger under their respective heads, z.¢., Sals- ries, Itineration, Schools, Rent, Repairs, Local Fund, Pastor Fund; and a balance shall be taken monthly. 4, In the Pay-Roll Book, a correct list of all paid 3D workers shall be kept, and on receiving his monthly pay each worker shall write after his name the amount he received and his signature. After each month’s pay list, the Preacher-in-charge shall certify that each payee with his own hand has entered the amount received and his signature. If payment is made through a second party, the one receiving the pay shall give his own signature and the amount, and the Preacher-in-charge shall note the the fact in his entry. 5. Inthe Repair Book, the items in detail of repairs and new buildings which are too cumbrous for the Day Book shal! be entered, and the totals as paid, transferred to the Day Book. | 6. Under Schools an itemized account of receipts and expenditures for schools, and schools only, shall be kept. If desirable, the separate items may be kept with vouchers in a separate book, and only totals for the individual schools entered in the Day Book. Items of expenditure for periodicals for the Sunday School held in connection with a Day School, may be entered under this head. 7. Under Repairs only items of expense for repairs on existing buildings shall be entered, and these shall not ex- ceed Rs. 200 on any one building without a specific ap- propriation. This account shall not be debited with ex- pense for new buildings or additions to old ones without the order of the Finance Committee. When a new build- ing is ordered by the Finance Committee an account called Building Account shall be opened, and all receipts and expenditures shall be entered in it. Resolutions. (Central Conference 1898.) REGARDING TEMPERANCE Wokrk, Whereas, Intemp2ranee is increasing among the vari- ous classes of India, and whereas, if we are to have an 36 intelligent Church we must educate the children and en- lighten the mothers as to the effects of alcohol. Resolved, that we emphasize the recommendation that the temperance lessons, published in the ‘White Ribbon” be taught in all our mission schools for both boys and girls, and that we recommend that as faras practicable W. C.T. Unions be organizad especially among native women, and Loyal Temperance Legions among the children. REGARDING EvANGELIstic Work. Whereas, special Evangelistic Work for women as _ or- dered by the last Central Conference has been attended with great success, we wish to emphasize and reiterate the report then passed, as follows :— Resolved—1. That every district in the several An- nual Conferences of Southern Asia form a band of three er more women from their most efficient available workers, whose duty it shall be to itinerate, visiting from village to village, and from house to house, especially where there are new converts, 2. That the workers in every station as far as possi- ble plan for a special campaign each year in the villages connected with their station, and that all our workers con sider the demands made upon us to save these women for the honour of Christ’s name, and unite their workers and their prayers for this important work. 9" 3, That the Auxiliary Missionary Societies be requested to devote as far as possible, a part or the whole of the funds raised to the expenses connected with this special work. 4, That we urge the authorities of the Woman’s For- eign Missionary Society in America to send out to each Conference women who are specially fitted for evangelistic work, who can organize and superintend these hands of workers and give all their time to this department of wor 37 MISCELLANEOUS. In consideration of the great success attending work in Hindu melas, it has been suggested that such work form part of the regular work and that estimates to meet the necessary expenses be presented, the money to remain in the Treasury until needed, Persons sending women to the Lucknow Home for Friendless Women, shall arrange with the Superintendent of the Home to pay the amount needed monthly for their support from station funds until notified that the wo- man’s work is sufficient to provide for her needs. All our workers should be instructed in the need of using all possible influence to prevent the marriage of our school girls before the age of sixteen. It has been concluded that where English is taught in the zananas, a fee of not less than Re. 1 per mensem shall be required. Concerning Prayer for the work. We, as a Society, will devote the hour from twelve to one o'clock of each Saturday to special prayer for the blessing. of God upon us, all our helpers, all the Native Christian women, and all the heathen women of India, especially those who come under our influence and in- struction, that they may be speedily enlightened and saved. Should the hour mentioned be found inconvenient, each person will be at liberty to substitute any other hour of the same day, 38 FORM OF GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE W. F. M. S. FOR SOUTHERN ASIA. Adopted by the Central Conference of 1898. NAME OF SraTION, oR District: Workers — 1. No. W. F. M.S, Missionaries* £ 2 ., Associate - uF 3. ° .« Wives of Foriegn _,, 4, 4, 5, , Nativemembersof Confereuce. English Schools— 1. No. Teachers. 2. , Boarders 3. 5, Day pupils. Vernacular Schools — 1, No Assistants. 2. .,, Teachers: 3. ,, Boarders 4, °,, Orphans. ‘B.—5,. Day Scholars. Training School— 1. No. Assistants, 2. ,, Teachers 3, 5, English Students. 4, .,. Native é * Including deaconesses sent out from home or formally elected at home. t+ Including deaconesses taken on in India and those in charge of work and members of the Women’s Conferenee. 39 Evangelistic Schools — 1. No. Teachers, 2. 4, Women taught. Day Schools— 1. No. Schools. 2. , Leachers Goer. s EUDIIAS Sunday Schools— 1. No, Sunday Schools, 2. ,, Teachers. os ),,° cr upils. City and Village Work— No, Assistants. ,, Bible-Readers. | ,, Evangelist Teachers. ., Other workers, ,, Homes visited. 5, Mohallas ,, », Villages ,, » Baptized women and girls. . 5, Baptized during year. 10, 4, Unbaptized women in Christian families. Medical Work— No. Hospital Assistants. » Under Medical training. 5, Hospital patients. » Dispensary _,, eee Out 5) », Prescriptions, CO TO Om ON ee hot A a 40 AMOUNT RECEIVED IN SOUTHERN ASIA FOR THE WORK OF THE W. F, M. 8. Name OF Station or District. Value of W. F. M. S. Property. Receipts — . Grantein-aid. . Donations and Subscriptions. . Tuition and Board, English Schools. wy re » Wernacular Schools. . Local Missionary Society. . Sunday-School Collections. . Sales of Books and Papers. 8. Total received in each Station. 9. Total received in each District. Remarks. ST CU OO DO et a