liam Taylor, at Bombay, have added Western India to the missionary field of the Methodist Episcopia Church, No statistics "have been published authoritatively, but accounts have appeared in the newspajiers of the re- markable revival at Bombay, Poonah, and vicinity. Six itinerants are describing the Bombay circuit, and they do not consider their work as designed for the English and Eurasian populations alone, but for people in India- European, Eurasian, IMahratta, Hindu, nominally Chris- tian, Pagan, or Mohammedan.
8. Methodism amonrj the Chinese andJapanese.—h\ 1847 the Methodist Episcopal Church opened operations in China, and the field has returned more than it at first promised. The gradual success of the work of this body has been given in the article on China (q. v.). The " parent" body— the Wesleyans— were introduced into this field by the voluntary labors of George Piercy, a preacher, iii 1851. Two years later the Missionary So- ciety of his Church came to his aid by sending two as- sistants. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has
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" Four male and five female missionaries left for India in October last; these are inclniled in the above totals. There are 541 members, Wh\ pvdli.'irKmi'rs, l:Vi non-com- municant adherents (regular altcinlaiils on worship), with 1178 Sabbath-schoiars, and thy 86 native helpers, making a Christian community of 3066 souls under the charge of the India Conference in Oude and Rohilcund, all won for Christ since the Great Rebellion closed. In the 34 Sunday-schools there are 107 ofHcers and teach- ers, 1177 scholars, and 1088 volumes in the libraries; conversions during last year, 56. In the 45 vernacular day-schools for boys there are 1437 pupils; in the 25 Anglo - vernacidar boys' schools, 1968 scholars; in the 46 vernacular day-schools for girls, 915 pupils; in the Anglo-vernacular schools, 142 girls : being a total of 116 schools, 234 teachers, and 4462 scholars, including 138 orphan boys and 142 orphan girls — the entire ex- pense of which, including the two orphanages, was $29,423 for the past year, the whole of which was con- tributed by friends in Iiulia and the Ladies' Missionary Society of the :\[(.thiiilist i;|iiscopal Church, with the American patrons uf the orjihan children."
Medical instruction is allbrded by some of the mis- sionaries, and the natives have by this means been largely interested in Christian work and life. A Bibli- cal institute for the training of native helpers is sup- ported under the name of the " India Conference Theo- logical Seminary." The school was commenced April 15, 1872. The number of j'oung men in attendance has been sixteen, of whom thirteen have received scholar- ships. Three local preachers attended during the " hot- season term." The following is the course of study pursued this first year, viz.: Old-Testament Exegesis; Church Catechism, Nos. 1, 2, and .'i ; Sacred tJeography ; Ecclesiastical History; Compcnd uf TluMilogy (Ilcni- Ilahi ka usul); Hand-book of the IJilile (Miftah ul-Ki- tab) ; Ilomiletics; the Persian and Arabic languages. The Rev. D. W. Thomas, one of the missionaries in In- dia, has given to this institution $20,000, and is now in the United States to increase the endowment, in order to make the school self-supporting.
Very recently the successful labors of the Rev. Wil-
also an interest in this field. The Wesleyans support; at present in the Canton and Wuchang districts 11 mis- sionaries, with 178 members, and 386 children in the schools. Work has recently been commenced by them at Kwang-chi,-with prospects of success. They also sup- port medical institutions. The great coolie traflic moved the estabhshment of a Chinese mission in Australia, and it is prospering. The mission of the Methodist Episco- pal Church in 1872 reported its condition in China to be as follows : Missionaries in the field, 4 ; assistant mission- aries, 2; missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (a body lately formed as auxiliary to the regu- lar Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church), 3; native preachers (past year), 65; adults baptized the past year, 263 ; children baptized the past year, 75 ; total baptisms during the year, 338 ; members "in full connection, 1095; probationers, 710; baptized children, 297 ; total members, probationers, and baptized children, 2102; increase, 192; Sunday-school scholars, 869. A Biblical institute for the training of native help- ers is supported. A Christian native teacher is em- ployed, and each American missionary devotes part of one day every week to giving instruction in some spe- cial part in the course of study. There is a press con- nected with the mission, and last year one million and a half of pages of tracts were printed and distributed. The property of the mission is valued at $50,000. The mission has also two boarding-schools, one for boys and another for girls ; a day-school, with 75 scholars ; and a foundling asylum, with" 30 inmates. The Woman's For- eign Missionary Society has greatly aided the work in these parts within the" past two years by the employ- ment of deaconesses.