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THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT<br />
OF THE<br />
ANGLO-INDIAN EVANGELISA TION SOCIETY
REV. JOHN FORDYCE.
4 Anglo-Indian Evangelisation SOciety.<br />
EVANGELISTS IN 1902-1903.<br />
1. Rev. ARNOLD BOYD, M.A., Mussoorie and Lahore, Secretary in India.<br />
2. Rev. ISAAC F. Row, Jubbulpore. A section of the G.I.P. & I.M. Railways.<br />
3. Rev. F. W. ADAMS, Sabarmati, Rajputana, travels between Ajmere and<br />
Band¢ra on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway.<br />
4. Rev. F. W. DUNSTER, Dinapore, travels over a p<strong>ort</strong>ion of the East Indian<br />
Railway.<br />
5. Mr J. M'DoWALL, Podanur, Madras, travels over a p<strong>ort</strong>ion of the Madras<br />
Railway.<br />
6. Mr O. T. STUDD, B. A., Octacamund, Nilgeris, and Travancore.<br />
7. Mr O. W. E. GRANT, Sholapur, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, travel.<br />
over a p<strong>ort</strong>ion of the Railway.<br />
8. Rev. H. RYLANDS BROWN, Darjeeling, travels during the cold season among<br />
the Planters, &c.<br />
9. Rev. JAMES SHAW, Quetta.<br />
10. Rev. A. E. PRANKlmn, Bilaspur, Bengal-Nagpur Railway.<br />
i1. Mr W MALLIS, Coonoor.<br />
12. Rev. A. G. FRASER, D.D., Nagpur, Honorary Evft1Lgelist.<br />
13. Rev. M. B. FULLER, Superintendent of Alliance Mission in the Berar District.<br />
Mr F. and his co-workers give part of their time to work among the<br />
spiritually needy Europeans in their District, Honorary Evangelist.<br />
14. Mr HENRY T. SIJADE, Hubli, Honorary Evangelist.<br />
15. Mr REGINALD A. HTUDD, B.A., Honora?"y Evangelisl.<br />
16. Rev. Dr REVIE, Wardha, Honorary Evangelist.<br />
17. Rev. A. W. BUCKLEY, Umballa, Honora111 Evangeli8t.<br />
18. Rev. J. BEATTIE, Chittoor, Honorary Evangelist.<br />
19. Rev. R. J. WARD, M.A., Madras, Honorary Evangelist.<br />
20. Mr G. T. BRIDGES, Bombay, Honorary Evangelist.<br />
21. Mr JOHN MACGOWAN, Mussoorie and Dehra, Honorary Evangeli8t.<br />
22. Mrs CUMMING, Huhli, Honorary Worker.<br />
Z3, Mrs PRIME, Imperial Post Office, Hyderabad, Deccan, Honot'a'71 Worker,
. .Angld-ltuiian . 'Evangelisation ··.&Jcieiy.<br />
The Rev. Arnold Boyd, our Indian Secretary, has now been about<br />
a year in the country. He filled the position of Pastor of the Union<br />
Church, Mussoorie, with much acceptance during the hot season, and<br />
has discharged the duties of minister of the Presbyterian Church,<br />
Lahore, since the cold season began. He has gained acquaintE:l.nce<br />
with the work of the Society, and has been in correspondence with the
8 Anglo-Indian Evangelisation Society.<br />
agents whom he hopes to be able to visit ere long in their variou8<br />
districts. Lahore will continue to be his headquarters. With his<br />
high qualifications, the Directors. have confidence that he will be able<br />
to organise the work and bring its claims before the larger communities<br />
in India.<br />
Mr C. T. Studd has continued his labours in Ootacamund, and has<br />
latterly spent some months among the planters in Travancore. We<br />
regret that Mr Studd's health has not been so good latterly. He<br />
is specially adapted to carryon the work of an Evangelist among<br />
Planters, and the Directors trust that with re-established health, he<br />
will be increasingly used of God in winning them for Christ.<br />
The Rev. J. R. Hewison was obliged, as was mentioned in last<br />
year's <strong>Rep</strong><strong>ort</strong>, to return to England under medical certificate. We<br />
deeply regret that the hope that his health would be restored, so as to<br />
admit of his return to India, has not been realised. l\Ir Hewison has,<br />
in consequence, been compelled to resign his position 8,8 an Agent of<br />
the Society. He has the prospect of work at home, and we trust his<br />
health will ere long be completely restored. Mr Hewison has been<br />
a devoted Evangelist, and his work in Dharwar and on the<br />
Southern Mahratta Railway has been accompanied by manifest tokens<br />
of the Divine blessing. In Dharwar d:uring his ministry there have<br />
been special seasons when a deep spiritual interest has been awakened,<br />
and -souls have been gathered into the Kingdom. He was successful<br />
in reaching the younger p<strong>ort</strong>ion of the Railway communities through<br />
Sabbath Schools and Classes, and we doubt not there is a harveSt ,yet<br />
to be reaped from the seed sown. The Directors hope to be able to<br />
secure a suitable successor to carryon the work.<br />
The Rev. Isaac F. Row, after a lengthened furlough, has returned<br />
to India. He is to labour on the G.I.P. Railway, with J ubbulpur as his<br />
headquarters. Mr Row's health has been restored by his stay in<br />
England, and now that he has resumej his work as an Evangelist in<br />
India, we trust his labours will be greatly owned and blessed by God<br />
among the Railway men and their families. He has had a gratifying<br />
reception, and began his work cheered by the hearty co-operation of<br />
Missionaries and Railway Officials.<br />
We regret to announce that Rev. J. Parker has had, owing to<br />
failing health, to give up his work on the Southern Mahratta Railwav.<br />
He has found employment among the soldiers in Bellary, and ;e<br />
trust, although he is no longer connected with the Anglo Indian<br />
Evangelisation Society, the Divine blessing will still continue to rest<br />
on his labours. .<br />
Mrs Cumming has continued her devoted work among the Railway<br />
people in HubE, conducting classes and visiting in the homes. There<br />
is a great field for the services of Christian ladies of independent<br />
means in the small Railway communities in India. The Directors feel<br />
thankful that Mrs Cumming has given herself to the work, and that<br />
she has found such opp<strong>ort</strong>unities of usefulness in connection with it<br />
as an Honorary worker.
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which is attended by nearly all the Protestant railway people in the Station. At<br />
Erode I have also cause for praise in the increased attendance and interest taken in<br />
the meetings. There are a few at this Station not connected with the railway, and<br />
with them I have had an attendance here of about f<strong>ort</strong>y, which quite fills the L. M. S.<br />
Chapel in which it is held. . At Mettapaliagam I have also regular services, every<br />
month. This is rather a small station, there being only about half 'a dozen families,<br />
and consequently the audience is small but appreciative. At Podanur I have, of<br />
course, the regular services every Sunday and Tuesday, with the Sabbath School as<br />
well. On Sundays we have generally an attendance of between thirty and f<strong>ort</strong>y."<br />
CO-OPERATION WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.<br />
The Society has continued to work along with the Church of<br />
England on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, several Stations on which<br />
have been regularly visited by Rev. A. E. Pl'ankerd, of Bilaspur.<br />
They have also agreed to give a grant for three years towards the<br />
salary of a Chaplain for Kharagpur, who it:; to be selected by a Joint<br />
Committee of the Church of England and the Anglo-Indian Evangelisation<br />
Society, and to be sent out from home.<br />
THE WORK AT HOME.<br />
Rev. Dr P. R. Mackay, after his return from India, continued for<br />
a time to act as General Secretary at home. The knowledge he had<br />
gained was of much service to the Directors in managing the affairs of<br />
the Society, and in the settlement of questions connected with the<br />
extension of the work and the spheres to be occupied by the evangelists<br />
in India. Dr Mackay also endeavoured to awaken an interest in the<br />
work by preaching in churches and addressing meetings in different<br />
parts of the country. He had the opp<strong>ort</strong>unity in May of addressing<br />
the Assemblies of the Church of Scotland and of the United Free<br />
Church, and both Assemblies passed resolutions, recognising the claims<br />
of our countrymen in India upon the churches at home, and commending<br />
the work of the Anglo-Indian Evangelisation Society to the sympathy<br />
and supp<strong>ort</strong> of their ministers and members. Dr Mackay, having<br />
received a call to become minister of the United Free Church at Wick,<br />
was led to resign the office of General Secretary. In connection with<br />
his resignation the following minute was embodied in the records of<br />
the Society :-<br />
"The Directors, in accepting Dr. Mackay's resignation, offer him their<br />
hearty congratulations in connection with the call he has received to be<br />
minister of the United Free Church at Wick, and trust he will have much<br />
happiness and comf<strong>ort</strong> in his new sphere of labour. They also desire to<br />
express their appreciation of the services he has rendered during the past<br />
four years as General Secretary. By his extensive evangelistic tours, Dr.<br />
Mackay has had manifold opp<strong>ort</strong>unities of preaching the Gospel to our own<br />
countrymen scattered over India, and has been enabled to furnish valuable<br />
information in regard to their spiritual needs. The evangelists labouring in<br />
the field have been stimulated and encouraged through their intercourse with<br />
him, and their number has been largely increased through his eff<strong>ort</strong>s. Dr.<br />
Mackay has given a powerful impulse to the cause of Anglo-Indian Evangelisation,<br />
and has secured for the work of the Society a recognition more<br />
w<strong>ort</strong>hy of its imp<strong>ort</strong>ance both in India and at home. The Directors are<br />
pleased that Dr. Mackay has agreed to retain his conne::tion with the Society<br />
as Joint Hon. Secretary, and that they will thus enjoy the benefit of the<br />
knowledge and expelience he has gained."
14 AngZ;Indian .bvangelisation Society_<br />
Mr Stewart Thompson who has been Organising Secretary, during<br />
-the last four years, has been cordially and unanimously appointed by<br />
·the Directors General Secretary in succession to Rev. Dr. P. R.<br />
Mackay. Mr Stewart Thompson has gained a thorough acquaintance"<br />
with the working of the Society, and has proved a most energetic and<br />
efficient Organising Secretary. His great aim has been to promote the"<br />
spiritual welfare of our own countrymen in India, and his appointment<br />
as General Secretary will give satisfaction to the many friends of the<br />
Society. The Rev. John Forgan continues to act as Hon. Secretary in<br />
conjunction with Rev. Dr. P. R. Mackay.<br />
In connection with the work at home it may be mentioned that,<br />
in addition to the regular <strong>Annual</strong> Meeting, a very successful Public<br />
Meeting was held in Edinburgh in the month of November. This.<br />
meeting, which was of a social character, was organised under theauspices<br />
of the Edinburgh Ladies' Committee. The Very Rev. Dr<br />
Cameron Lees presided, and Rev. J. Cameron, Chaplain of the Church<br />
of Scotland, Rev. W. S. Sutherland, late of Kalimpong, and Rev. J. R.<br />
Hewison, agent of the Society at Dharwar, gave interesting addresses<br />
bearing on the work of the Society.<br />
LANTERN AND CINEMATOGRAPH.<br />
The Society has now a very fine Magic Lantern and Cinematograph,<br />
with some beautiful Indian views and animated pictures. A numberof<br />
successful meetings have already been held at various places. The<br />
General Secretary hopes to be able to arrange for a tour through<br />
England in the autumn, and will be glad to hear from any who can<br />
help to arrange meetings of this kind.<br />
FINANCES.<br />
During the past year there has been much cause for thankfulness.<br />
to God for the way in which He has answered prayer and supplied our<br />
need, but the Directors still find it necessary to make a strong appeal<br />
to the Christian public for continued and increased supp<strong>ort</strong>.<br />
The expenditure of the Society greatly exceeds the normal income,<br />
and the Directors urge those who are interested in India, who have<br />
.re'Jided there or have friends in that country, to become regular<br />
subscribers, so that the work may go on unhindered.<br />
Calls have come from many needy places for men to be sent, and<br />
while it is hoped that one or two more men may be sent out during'<br />
the year, it is quite impossible, owing to lack of funds, to overtake·<br />
the work as it should be done.<br />
During the Financial Year 1901-2 there was a deficit of £724,<br />
14s. 2d. Our Indian Working Fund was completely exhausted, and<br />
the account at the bank was overdrawn .£255, 6s. 6d. This year many<br />
friends of the Society have generously responded to the appeal madeby<br />
the Directors and Mr Reginald A. Studd, and the result has been<br />
that a Special Fund of .£894, Is. lId. (details, see p. 35) has been<br />
raised. Owing, however, to the heavy Bank overdraft with which the<br />
year was commenced, and the normal income being some .£500 less than
Anglo-Indian Evangelisation Society •<br />
. Simla. He discharged the duties of both offices with high efficiency<br />
and devotion for fourteen years, gaining for himself much esteem and<br />
affection as a minister at Simla, where his memory is still cherished,<br />
and. rendering valuable service as an Evangelist in Assam and<br />
throughout India from year to year during the cold season. In 1884:<br />
he left India, and having been appointed Secretary at home, continued<br />
in that position until 1895, when increasing infirmity made it necessary<br />
for him to retire. Both in India and at home Mr Fordyce laboured to<br />
advance the interests of the Society with persistent devotion, and to<br />
the close of his life the work lay very near his he:1rt and had a place<br />
in his prayers. Associated in early life with the Bonars, and enjoying the<br />
friendship of the three brothers, Rev. Drs. James, Andrew, and H oratius,<br />
until their death, Mr Fordyce was deeply imbued with the spirit of that<br />
evangelical revival they did so much to promote. His gracious and<br />
attractive Christian character gained access for him as an Evangelist<br />
among our own countrymen scattered over India, and enabled him to<br />
commend the work of the Society to many at home. He has been<br />
gathered as a shock of corn fully ripe, and the Directors in recalling<br />
his memory desire to render thanks to God for his many years of<br />
Christian service.<br />
Sir ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, K.C.S.I.<br />
During this past year also, a great loss has been sustained through<br />
the death of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, one of the Vice-Presidents of<br />
the Society. Throughout a long Indian career, in which he filled<br />
positions of the highest honour, Sir Alexander Mackenzie maintained<br />
a high Christian character and testimony, and manifested hearty<br />
sympathy with whatever was fitted to advance the kingdom of Christ.<br />
He WaS deeply interested in the work of the Anglo-Iudian Evangelisation<br />
Society, and strongly advocated the need for special provision<br />
being made to meet the religious wants of our own countrymen in<br />
India. Like Sir John Woodburn, whose loss we have also had to<br />
mourn, Sir Alexander Mackenzie belonged to that order of Anglo<br />
Indian Christian Statesmen, who have been at once an ornament to<br />
our eountry, and a source of strength to our Indian Empire.<br />
C. G. MASTER, I.C.S.<br />
In addition to these losses, a further loss has been sustained by<br />
the recent death of Mr C. G. Master, a valued member of our London<br />
Committee. For many years Mr Master regularly attended the<br />
meetings of Committee, and manifested an assiduous interest in the<br />
work of the Society. His excellent Christian character gained .. for<br />
him the esteem of his co· directors, and the sen ice he rendered in the<br />
c')nduct of the Society will be much missed.
Anglo-Indian 'Evangeliaation ,&ciety. 17<br />
ANGLO-INDIAN LADIES' UNION.<br />
Hon. Secretary and Treaaure7'-MRS ADOLPHUS ORR,<br />
12 PEMBRIDGE PLACE, BAYSWATER, LONDON, W<br />
190 2.<br />
IN connection with the Ladies' Union, drawing-room meetings<br />
have been held as usual, which were helpful and encouraging.<br />
Rev. P. R. Mackay, D.D., gave one of the<br />
addresses, and was listened to with great pleasure, as he gave<br />
an account of the work of the Anglo-Indian Evangelisation<br />
Society. This meeting was presided over by Rev. Hugh<br />
Falconer, M.A., B.D., who very kindly gave up some of his<br />
valuable time to be present at the meeting. A special meeting<br />
was held to bid God-speed to R'ev. I. F. Row before his<br />
departure to India, at which three of the Directors of the<br />
Anglo-Indian Evangelisation Society were present, and W.<br />
Coldstl'eam, Esq., B.C.S., very kindly took the chair. Mr Row<br />
expressed his great pleasure at the heartiness of the meeting,<br />
and returned to his labours encouraged and cheered by the<br />
assurance that the prayers and good wishes of so many friends<br />
would follow him. The membership of the Ladies' Union has<br />
had two additions during the year. Bibles and illustrated New<br />
Testaments were sent out to four Schools, at Dharwar, Hu bli,<br />
Bellary, and Arsikiri. These prizes, given out at Christmas<br />
time, are gladly welcomed by the children. May the good<br />
seed find an entrance into many hearts and bring f<strong>ort</strong>h fruit to<br />
the praise and glory of God.<br />
Contributions for the Anglo-Indian Ladies' Union.<br />
Per MRS ADOLPHUS ORR, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, 12 Pembridge Place<br />
Bayswater., Landon, W;-£38, 58.<br />
Lady Aitchison _ £1 1 o Miss Gordon • £0 8 0 Mrs Ross<br />
• £0 6 0<br />
Mrs Arbuthnot 010 o lit'S Hayter • 1 0 0 Lady Russell 010 0<br />
lIiss Anderson o 5 o Mrs Stuart HaJl 1 10Mi'll Bullen Smith - 200<br />
HrsBoawell o 5 o Mrs Inglis •. 0 10 6 Mrs de Smidt • 016<br />
Mrs Brodie •<br />
S 0 o Mrs Stephen Jacob 0 6 0 Mrs Kenneth Stuart S 8 0<br />
Mrs Brownlow o 6 o Mrs Boileau Jones 1 0 0 Miss Stuart o fj 0<br />
Mrs Bishop • o 6 o Mrs J&rdine.. 0 10 0 Miss Amy Stuart _ 060<br />
Miss A. O. Bacon • o 5 o The Dowager Lady Miss Hester Stuart 060<br />
Jlrs Bay Oampbell o 6 o Lawrence, 0.1. 2 10 0 Mrs Murray Thomson 010 0<br />
MrsCooper . o 6 o Mrs Loch . . • 0 10 0 Mrs A. Vanrenen . 110<br />
Mrs Dilw<strong>ort</strong>h o 2 6 Mrs Duncan Mackinnon 1 1 0 Mrs Dunba.r Walker 1 1 0<br />
Donation<br />
o fj o lIrs Parry Nisbet 0 10 0 Mrs Williams. 100<br />
Donation<br />
o Mrs Orr . 1 1 0 Miss Wilson. . • o 7 e<br />
Mrs Godby<br />
o I Mrs P<strong>ort</strong>er 0 fj 0 I Oollections at Drawing-<br />
Millles Gray<br />
o Miss P<strong>ort</strong>er 0 6 0 Room Meetings. 6 10 0<br />
Miu Grant<br />
o Mrs Rind 0 5 0<br />
o 5<br />
010<br />
2 0<br />
o 6
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A P PEN D I X.<br />
Sir ANDREW WINGATE, K.C.I:E., presided -over the <strong>Thirty</strong>-second <strong>Annual</strong><br />
Meeting of the Anglo-Indian Evangelisation Society, held on Friday afternoon,<br />
April 24th, in Exeter Lower Hall, London.<br />
Rev. E. W. REDFERN opened the proceedings with prayer, following which<br />
Rev. JOHN FORGAN, Han. Sec., read Abstracts of the <strong>Rep</strong><strong>ort</strong>.<br />
The Financial Statement was then presented by the General Secretary, Mr W.<br />
ST.BWART THOMPSON.<br />
The CHAIRMAN moved the following resoluti.on :-" That the <strong>Rep</strong><strong>ort</strong>, of which<br />
an abstract has just been read, be adopted as the <strong>Thirty</strong>-second <strong>Rep</strong><strong>ort</strong> of the Anglo- .<br />
Indian Evangelisation Society, and that it be printed and circulated." That there'<br />
was a great need existing in India for this Society, he said, there would be few found<br />
to questiun. The Government of this country, when it sent its sailors and soldiers,<br />
away from the spiritual influences of the home land, felt itself under an obligation to<br />
send with them chaplains; surely it was incumbent upon the general public of these<br />
islands-from which was sent f<strong>ort</strong>h the capital and the workers which carried on the<br />
great industrial enterprises in India, and to which came back so much of the profitsthat<br />
they shoud see to it that their sons, if so isolated as to be unable to help themselves,<br />
at least got a chance of occasionally attending a religious service. These sons,<br />
if they grew up beyond the sound of the Gospel, would assuredly return home with<br />
the religious habits of their childhood and youth sadly weakened; and that again<br />
w-Ould weaken those at home in England. It therefore did seem most essential that<br />
the people of England should lay this matter to their heart, and should recognise that<br />
a great responsibility rested upon them, and that assuredly unless they took up and<br />
fulfilled it there would be something to answer for hereafter. Continuing, Sir Andrew<br />
Wingate remarked that in the parable of the Talents it had always seemed to himself<br />
that the word" usury" came in somewhat strangely. But what did that word usury<br />
mean? Since he had been in India, and had seen the extraordinary results and<br />
success of the missionaries in India, he had come to this conclusion about usury. A<br />
Ip3.n could not give himself, but he could send half-a· sovereign or half-a-crown to that<br />
country, and in the most amazing way it helped to win souls for Jesus Christ. That<br />
created fresh spiritual influences; that again went on in wider circles, till by-and-by<br />
the whole of India would be won for their Lord and Saviour.<br />
Rev. GEORGE HANSON, D.D., in seconding the resolution, menti(:med one or<br />
two reasons why he thought they should most cordially supp<strong>ort</strong> this Mission. And<br />
the first reason, he staled, was this-that from the testimor:y of those who were in<br />
India, or had been there, one of the chief obstacles in the way of the evangelisation<br />
of the Hindus was the attitude of the Anglo-Indians generally towards Christianity .<br />
. It was incumbent upon them that they should introduce into the majority of the<br />
- Anglo-Indians a different spirit towards Hindus; otherwise in their fight with<br />
idolatry they would be hopelessly handicapped. He did feel that they, as Christian<br />
people at home, were bound in the name of Christ to do their very utmost to bring<br />
the Gospel to bear upon those of their own kith and kin in this great c·'untry of India.<br />
Another reason for the supp<strong>ort</strong> of the Society was that he looked upon India as beiJ;lg<br />
'a' most sacred trust given directly to Britain. There was in the fact of India so<br />
q1arvellously coming into the possession of Great Britain, a call upon them to justify<br />
their possession of this territory. I t could not but be felt that all the influence of<br />
Britain involved corresponding responsibility. These possessions were theirs, . not<br />
thro,ngh British pluck and enterprise alone, but by the gift of God; and if by the gift<br />
Qf providence, then surely they were entrusted for great moral and spiritual ends.<br />
And they were false to their duty as a Christian people if they did not set about with<br />
all their might and main winning India to Christ.<br />
The motion was put to the meeting, and carried unanimously.
38 Anglo-Indian Evangelisation Society.<br />
Collected by Rev. O. W. E. SBRAIGUNJ.<br />
Grant, Ronavala District Mrs Mitchell. Rs.I0 0 0<br />
-Rs. 1276, iDa. A. Weddle, Esq.. 5- 0 0<br />
H. E. Lord N<strong>ort</strong>hcote Rs.50 0 0 G. J. Gregory, Esq. 5 0 0<br />
W. Ramsden, Esq. 25 0 0<br />
D. W. Glen, Esq.. . 14 0 0<br />
Do. (collected) 1 0 0<br />
Proceeds of Lantern Ser-<br />
vice at Poona. . 20 0 0<br />
Collected by<br />
Rev. R. Kilgoul', B.D.<br />
Collected by Miss Bowler, DARJBBLING.<br />
Ka}Yan _ 13 6 0<br />
Mrs E. D. Vardon. 10 0 0 Collection in St. Columba's<br />
Mrs F_ J. Lee-Clarke 5 0 0 Church 34 0 6<br />
Mrs E. M. Cooper 5 0 0<br />
Mrs A. Carr-Lyle . 3 0 0<br />
R. Robertson, Esq. 5 0 0<br />
J. Millar, Esq. 5 0 0 Collected by Rev. Arnold<br />
A. W. Childs, Esq. 4 0 0 Boyd, M.A., Lohore-<br />
E. Radford, Esq. 2 0 0 Rs.244, 3a. 3p.<br />
Mrs L. Howieson 0 0<br />
Friends . 3 0 0<br />
Collections Shulapur 151 4 0<br />
Do. Dhond 32 6 0<br />
Do. Raichur. 5 10 0<br />
Contribution from M. E.<br />
Church, Lonavla 920 0 0<br />
Collected by Rev. J. ParkeI'<br />
-Rs. 771. 6a.<br />
Mrs Cormac . 10 0 0<br />
Mrs J. S' Evers 5 0 0<br />
T. R. Cooper, Esq. 5 0 0<br />
Private E. Hoyle 5 0 0<br />
T. Roberts, Esq. 2 0 0<br />
J. Hall, Esq. . 2 0 0<br />
W. E. Beveridge, Esq. 2 0 0<br />
J. M. Ainsley, Esq. 1 0 0<br />
J. Channel, Esq. 1 0 0<br />
Collected in Gooty 15 4 0<br />
Collected in Guntakal 7 0 0<br />
Capitation allowance . it6 2 0<br />
Lieut. Jackson 2 0 0<br />
Mrs Hoskins 5 0 0<br />
C. H. Mercik, Esq. 3 0 0<br />
G. B. M'Nair, Esq. 20 0 0<br />
Rev. J. Lamb . 5 0 0<br />
Union Church, Simla 104 15 S<br />
Do. Mussoorie 104 , 0<br />
Collected by Ml" J. M'Dowall<br />
-Rs. 176. 12a.<br />
MADR.AS.<br />
Rev. J. Mackenzie, M.A. 10 o 0<br />
Charles Sowden, Esq. 25 o 0<br />
T. Dinwiddie, Esq. 10 o 0<br />
W. R. Mackay, Esq. 10 o 0<br />
Rev. J. N. Ogilvie, M.A. III o 0<br />
TRICHlNOPOLY.<br />
Major Donaldson,<br />
R.A.M.C. 20 0 0<br />
Collected by J. Shaw -Rs.96.<br />
QUELLA-.<br />
Captain A.M.Anscoinb R8.3 0 0<br />
Khuda Bux, Esq. 1 0 0<br />
T. Roberts, Esq. 5 8 0<br />
M. A. S.. 25 0 0<br />
W. Davis, Esq. 3 0 0<br />
J. D. ., 1 0 0<br />
C. J. Milne, Esq. 1 0 0<br />
Major M'Mahon. . 15 0 0<br />
M. Bhagwan Singh, Esq. 0 8 0<br />
Shamlea Nath, Esq. 0 8 0<br />
A.D.G.R. 10 0 0<br />
S. M'Queen, Esq. 3 0 0<br />
S. E. Blake, Esq. 2 0 0<br />
Chenah. Esq. . . 1 0 0<br />
Collections from Soldiers 25 8 0<br />
Collected by Rev. John<br />
MackenzIe, M.A.-Rs.85.<br />
fuDR,48.<br />
C. Sowden, Esq. .<br />
Rev. H. D. Goldsmith<br />
Collection in Davidson<br />
Street Church .<br />
Rev. John Mackenzie<br />
Collected by<br />
50 0 0<br />
500<br />
20 0 0<br />
1')0 0<br />
Rev. A. E. Prankerd, Raipur<br />
-Rs.70.<br />
Mrs O. R. Prankerd,<br />
Brighton. . 15 0<br />
Rev. A. E. Prankerd 15 0<br />
Church Funds, Raipur 20 0<br />
Dargargah 10 0<br />
Bilaspur 10 0<br />
Collected by Rev. Isaac<br />
F. Row-Rs. 30.<br />
Collected by Rev. H. Rylands GOBICHETTAPALIA.Y.4M.<br />
Brown-Rs. 342, 2a. 3p. James Gibb, Esq. 10 0 0 Rev. H. G. E. St. Dalmas .SO 0<br />
Union Church <strong>Annual</strong><br />
ARKONAM.<br />
Collection, Darjeeling 30 6 3<br />
Rev. H. Rylands Brown 10 0 0 C. A. Melrose, Esq.<br />
J. Fairlie, Esq. 25 0 0<br />
E. E. Glazier, Esq. .200 0 0 EaoDB.<br />
500<br />
Collected by Rev. Ill' Hal"t<br />
Rs.50.<br />
C. Smith, Esq. 50 0 0<br />
F. A. Wearing, Esq. 10 0 0 Colleotion at one Meeting 0 12 0<br />
Collection at Goalunda. 14 12 0 Collected by Hon. Treasurer,<br />
Collection at Metelli, 0 0 POD.UWB.. Bombay-Rs.1485.<br />
Dooars ., 12<br />
Collection a.t Bulla.ba.rl, Union Church 50 0 0 Major G. W. Palin . 60 0 0<br />
Dooars 10 0 0 J. M'D.. . . . 20 0 0 Contribution from Ooty<br />
H. R. B. 10 0 0 CollectedbyMissWagstaff6 0 0 Church 1425 0
INDIAN TREASURER'S BALANCE SHEET<br />
Balance in hand on 1st January 1902<br />
Subscriptions, &c., collected during the year<br />
Drafts on General Treasurer (£1000)<br />
Refunded by Rev. F. W. Adams<br />
Mr O. rr. Studd . 0 0<br />
For the Year ending 31st January 1903.<br />
RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURE.<br />
000 Rs. 667 10 4 Salaries of Agents, Honoraria, etc.<br />
9,132 o<br />
Travelling Expenses of Agents<br />
14,787 12 Q<br />
125 0 0<br />
1,224 0 0<br />
Mr C. T.Studd,Amount paid in May 1900 80 0 0<br />
Rev. J. R. Hewison, Amount Intere!':t 10 8 0<br />
Rs.26,026 15 4<br />
ExamiDed and found correct and sufficiently vouched. E. and O. excepted<br />
A. S. OWEN, Bombay.<br />
Printing and Sundry Expenses<br />
Paid Messrs Wm. Watson & Co., on account<br />
of Rev. J. R. Hewison<br />
Bank Oharges 00<br />
0<br />
Stamps on Drafts<br />
Exchange on Notes and Oheques<br />
Olearing and Railway Charges on l
GENERAL TREASURER'S (HOM£) BALANCE SHEET, 1902-1903.<br />
Balance At 1st April 1902-<br />
Hesars Barcluy & 00.<br />
II. Oontributions in Great Britain<br />
III. Legacy<br />
IV. Oontributions to Specia.l Fund<br />
Interest (Deposit Receipt)<br />
INCOME.<br />
Examined and found correct and sufficiently vouched.<br />
THOS. S. MAItTIN, C.A.,<br />
49 OASTLB SrRBET, EDINBURGH, April 1903.<br />
£0 5 2<br />
1366 4 10<br />
900 0 0<br />
894 1 11<br />
1113 0<br />
£3172 4 11<br />
EXPENDITURE.<br />
I. Debit Balallces-<br />
Commercial B:..nk of Scotland Limited<br />
Indian Working Funds ..<br />
II. Salaries of Agents in India paid to<br />
friends at home, Passages to India,<br />
Furlough Grants, &c., &c.<br />
Indian Bills paid ..<br />
Do. Bank Charges ..<br />
Interest Indian Working Fund ..<br />
III. Interest paid Oommercial Bank of Scotland Ltd ..<br />
IV. Rev. John Fordyce (Pension) ..<br />
V. Paid for Magic Lantern<br />
VI. Home Expenditure-<br />
Salaries and Honoraria<br />
Postages, Carriages, &c. . .<br />
Travelling Expenses, &c. ..<br />
Printing <strong>Rep</strong><strong>ort</strong>, Circulars, &c.<br />
Advertising, Meetings, &c;<br />
VII. Balance of Legacy<br />
VIII. Balance of Special Fund<br />
IX. Indian Working Fund ..<br />
X. Balallces-<br />
Messrs Barclay & 00.<br />
Commercial Bank Ltd.<br />
£.89 4 8<br />
166 110<br />
£472 2 0<br />
1000 0 0<br />
012 0<br />
81311<br />
.. £188 6 8<br />
14 911<br />
14 19 6<br />
4717 3<br />
1817 3<br />
35 5 3<br />
1913 2<br />
E. and O. excepted.<br />
W. STEWART THOMPSON, Trea.wer.<br />
£265 6 6<br />
1481 7 11<br />
014 1<br />
40 0 0<br />
21 8 0<br />
284 10 7<br />
600 0 0<br />
400 0 0<br />
13319<br />
54 18 6<br />
£3172 411
THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT<br />
OF THE<br />
ANGLO-INDIAN EVANGELISA TION SOCIETY
Anglo-Indian Evangeli8ation Society. 19<br />
he felt confident he could heartily commend this Society to the supp<strong>ort</strong> of the<br />
Christian public at home. He sincerely hoped that sufficient supp<strong>ort</strong> would be given<br />
to enable the work of the Society to be extended and increased in those places which<br />
most needed it. In India, as in others of our great dependencies, Scotsmen were<br />
always found at the front in all the walks of life, and therefore they should try to do<br />
:>.11 they could to save them from the terrible temptations to which they were exposed<br />
in a country where so many of our fellow-countrymen laboured, and where so many<br />
were bright witnesses of the power of the Gospel of Christ. (Applause.)<br />
A Collection having been taken in add of the funds of the Society, the Master<br />
of Polwarth intimated that it would be necessary for him to leave the Meeting, and<br />
that his place as Chairman would be taken by Dr MACDONALD, late of Bombay, who<br />
accordingly took the Chair.<br />
The Rev. WALTER Joss seconded the resolution. They had, he said, specially<br />
to do with India, and the work of the Society there amongst members of our own<br />
families. Many of our young men went to India to fill responsible positions, and in<br />
whatever capacity they acted, we at home were far- too apt to be satisfied with the<br />
success of their worldly positions of trust, and to be forgetful of the religious aspect of<br />
the situation. Many of these young men were far removed from systematic Gospel<br />
ordinances, and while there were numerous Missions scattered over the country, these<br />
had their own work to do-work far greater often than they could overtake. Thus<br />
they could not do for those young men what ought to be done, and therefore it was<br />
all the more incumbent upon them at home to do all that in them lay to assist the<br />
eff<strong>ort</strong>s of this Society. If we only really knew the ordinary conduct of the affairs of<br />
The Rev. A. TOMORY moved-" That the Honorary Secretaries and Treasurers,<br />
Lady Collectors, and other helpers be cordially thanked for their labours of love, and<br />
that the Directors and Office-bearers be re-appointed, with power to add to their<br />
number." Mr Tomory, from personal experience, strongly commended the work of<br />
the Anglo-Indian Evangelisation Society, and gave an instance of the warm attachment<br />
of a Scottish colony of jute workers, all Presbyterians, in a locality in the<br />
eastern part of Bengal to a Baptist Missionary, who not only affectionately assisted<br />
them in their troubles, and preached and prayed amongst them, but entered loyally<br />
with them into their athletic sp<strong>ort</strong>s. That, he said, was the kind of man the Society<br />
ought to have in India, and he suggested whether it would not be possible in some<br />
places where they had no Agents of their own, to endeavour to utilise the services of<br />
District Missionaries in their spare time in looking after the spiritual interests of<br />
Europeans. He wanted those at home to think of sllch places as these, and endeavour<br />
to redouble their financial aid, and 50 increase the work of the Society. (Applause.)<br />
life in India, this Society would never need to appeal for money; they would get more<br />
than they required. But, as it was, they should have far more men in connection with<br />
with this work in prop<strong>ort</strong>ion to the amount that was to be done than in this country;<br />
and if we realised, as we ought to do, that Christ was as much a necessity for men<br />
abroad as at home, there would not be any complaint as to the want of workers in<br />
His cause; and if we needed all the helpers we had here, how much more were these<br />
wanted in India? Let our fellow-countrymen in that far-off country have greater<br />
help then, and let it be understood that men were wanted of a very high order of<br />
culture indeed-educated men-and men even superior to themselves, men imbued<br />
with Christ-like sympathy, and men filled with the love of God and the desire to help<br />
in saving souls. (Applause.)<br />
The CHAIRMAN said he did not think he need formally put the resolution, he<br />
would take it for granted that it was carried unanimously. (Applause.)<br />
Miss HaGG seconded the motion, and spoke of personal experiences in Madras,<br />
touching on the strong temptations that were offered to young men on going to India,<br />
and emphasising the great need there was for an extension of the Society's work in<br />
the Far East. Ministers and Missionaries abroad should be kept informed of the<br />
arrival of young-men from home, in order that they might be got hold of before there<br />
was any possibility of their being led astray. If, she said, the temptations were so<br />
strong, as she knew they were in Madras, where there were plenty of churches and<br />
church agencies, what must they be away up in the hills, where so many Europeans<br />
were, far removed from all means of grace? (Applause.)<br />
The CHAIRMAN put the motion, which was adopted unanimously.<br />
The Rev. WM. STEVENSON proposed hearty thanks to all who had spoken, and
MEMORANDA.<br />
I. THE ANNUAL REPORT is sent directly by post to Subscribers,<br />
whose addresses are in the hands of the Secretary. To<br />
others, copies will be sent through Local Secretaries,<br />
Treasurers, or Collectors.<br />
II. DONATIONS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS will be thankfully received by any<br />
of the Treasurers or Collectors; or by Miss FOLEY, 9 Duke<br />
Street, Adelphi, London, W.O.<br />
III. CONTRIBUTIONS may be paid into the Society's Account in the<br />
Commercial Bank, Edinburgh, or to Messrs Barclay & Co.,<br />
1 Pall Mall East, London. The. Secretary, when advis,d<br />
of such payments, will send receipts.<br />
IV It would be well if designations were given, as Mrs or Miss<br />
Rev. or Esq., &C.<br />
V The financial year closes in India 31st Decernber, and a.t NOrM<br />
31st March j and Contributions recei'Ved a.fter that date will<br />
be reckoned as belonging to the following year.<br />
VI. Lady Collectors are requested to send their Collecting Books with<br />
remittances.