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BISHOP EDWIN
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LEE,
M.A.,
S.T.B .•
D.O.
MINUTES
of the Thirty-Ninth Session
of the
Malaya Conference
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
held in
Wesley Church
Singapore, Straits Settlements
January 9-15, 1931.
Table of Contents
I. Officers of the Conference
I I.
Boards, Commissions and Committees
Z
Daily Proceedings
4
IV- Disciplinary Questions
19
III.
V.
VI.
Appointments
23
Reports (a). District Superintendents
30
(b). Reports of Standing Committees and Boards
64
(c). Conference Statistician
(d). Conference Treasurer
74
(e). Miscellaneous
VI I.
VI I I.
IX.
Roll of the Dead
84
Conference Sessions
85
Plan of Conference Examiners for the Courses of Study
86
90
X. Conference Chronological Roll
Certificate
This is to certify that this is a complete and correct record
of the proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Session of the Malaya
Annual Conference.
W. A. SCHURR
Secretary.
Officers of the Conference
Presiding Bishop:
EDWIN F. LEE
-Secretary
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W. A.
_Assistant Secretary
S. M.
Statistician
I.
Treasurer
S. M.
SCHURR.
THEVATHASAN
l\10TZ
THEVATHASAN
Registrar
HOBART
Mission Treasurer
J.
_Educational Secretary
G. F
.Secretary Board ot Building and Location
J. F.
F.
AMSTUTZ
PEAT
PYKETT
PEAT
Any of the above officers may be addressed:
4 Fort Canning Road, Singapore, S.S.
B.
l\~AL~YA CONFERENCE,
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1931
Boards, Commissions and Committees
Committee on Education
Secretary of Education, Principal A. C. S. Penang. Principal A. C. S. Sil~ga­
pore, Principal A. C. S. Ipoh, Principal M. B. S. Kuala LUillpur, Princlpat
M. G. S. Singapore, Principal M. G. S. Kuala Lumpur.
])oard of Ministerial Training
Abel Eklund, Cbairman, H. B. Amstutz, Registrar, R. Dean Swift, D. P Coole..
W. A. Schurr, S. 1\1. Thevathasan. j. A. Supramaniam, M. R. Doraisamy, j.
J~
Kingham, Lim Hon.g Ban, C. E. Fang, Li Hok I-liang, Lim Poh Chin.
Mala'),
Tamil
Foochow
Cantonese
Hokkien
Examiners in the Vernacular
. G. F. Pykett, F. H. Sullivan
S. M. Thevathasan. j. J. Kingham
Li Hok Hiang, Mrs. j. M. Hoover
.. Wan Yang Fan
.. Lim Hong Ban, C. E. Fang.
Mission Finance Committee
Ex-offictO:-G. F. PyketJt, j. M. Hoover. W. E. Harley, F. H. Sullivan,
M. Dodsworth, S. S. P.akianat'han, l\lission Treasurer. Secreta1ry of B. B. L.
Mission Correspondent.
Elective...-Chen Su Lan, Khoo Cheng Hoe, D. H. Yap. M. R. Dora1samy
P. W. Tamhyruh.
Conference Stewards
Class A :-j. j. Kovilpillai. Goh Hood Keng. Class B :-J. A. Supramaniam,
P. L. Peach. Class C:-V Samuel, G. F. Pykert.
Committee on Publications and Church Extension
Resident Bisbop, Ex-officio, Chairman.
Treasurer, Ex-officio, Secretary B.B.L.
Malaya ,4fembers: G. F. Pykett, Chen Su Lan, M. Dodsworth, R. Dean
Swift.
(Two members to be named by the Sumatra Mission Conference)
Committee on Conference Relations
R. A. Blasdell, Abel Eklund, H. B. Amstutz, J. A. Supramaniam, J. J.
Kov.i1pitlai, C. E. Fang, Li Hok Hi.rung, Urn Hong Ban, E. S. Lau, J. J. Kingham.
Committee on Public Morals
Goh Hood Keng, V. Samuel. M. R. Dora1isamy, Li Hok Hiang, L. A. Samuel,
Yau Vee San, G. V. Summers, W. A. Schurr, Fred David, D. H. Yap~
])oard of Control for Holding Church and Parsonage Property
For one yea'!': J. A. Supramaniam, S. M. T,hevathasan. For two years:
S. S. Paki:m.athan, C. E. Fang. For tthree years: G<.lh Hood Keng.
Asiatic Sanitorium Committee
Goh Hoc;>d Keng, S. S. Pakianathan, Lim Hong Ban, S. M. Thevathasan.]. A. Supramani.am, M. A. Ramson, Chen Su L<l!n.
Committee on Christian Literature
Secretary ot Christian Literature. W. A. Schurr, S. M. Rajamoney, S. S~
Palcianathan, M. Timothy Huang, S. M. Thevathasan, C. E. Fang,. D. P. Coole,.
G. V. Summers, Fred David, Andrew K. T. Chen, J. J. Kingham.
CoNFERENCE BOARDS AND CoMMITTEES
Committee on the State of the Church
T. W. Bowmar, J. J. Kovilpillai, D. P. Coole, WaJIl Y,ang 'Fa'll, J. S. Arthur,
Fred David, V. Samuel, E. S. Lau, Lim Poh Chin. Y. ]. JesudasoD, C. D.
Patterson.
Committee on District Conference Minutes
C. E. Fang, J. V. Ayaduray, C. D. Patterson, V. Devasahayam, Yap It Tong,
-So A. Phillips.
Committee on Text Books
T W. Bowmar, G. F. Pyket1, Ula Corbett, S. M. Thevathasan, Gazelle
Traeger, W. A. Schurr. Ho Seng Oag, C. D. Patterson.
Board of Control of the Jean Hamilton Theological School
Secretary of Education, H. B. Amstutz, M. Dodsworth, R. Dean Swift, S. M.
") hevathasan (Ministerial): Dr. Chen Su Lan (Lay).
Oldham Hall Committee
\V. E. Horley, j. F. Peat, Edwaa-d S. La'll, H. B. Amstutz, Abel Eklund, J. A.
:Supramaniam.
Committee on Home Missions
Officers: S. S. Pakianathan, President: J. A. P Oswald, Secretary: Or. Ohen
Su Lan, 7":-fasurer.
Elected /vi embers: Lim Hong Ban and J. A. P. Oswald of Penang; Li Hock
Hiang and Li Ko Ding of Ipoh; S. S. Pak,iJanl3Jthan and j. P. Ayatlhura'y of
'Perak Tamil di,strict; S, M. ThevalthaJsaJn ood Lee Tiap of Kuala Lumpur;
M. R. Dorlisamy an.d Chua 10k Han of MaJaJoca; Gdh Hood Keng 'l:n-d Chen
'Su Lan of Singapore; Lim Siew I ng and Sia lew De of Sibu.
Co-op~e.i members: Mns. F. F. Cooray. Mrs. Lim Leng Lee, M,iss Ruth
Harvey.
Commission on Religious Education
At alaYd Members :-For one year: M. DodswOPtlh, S. M. Thevalthasan, Mabel
.Marsh. For two years: Lila Corbett, Ding Guang Deu, G. S. Arumugam. For
three years: Ruth Harvey, W A. Schurr, S. S. Pakianathan.
Triers of Appeals
Tai Poh Ting. Y j. Jesudason, C. D. Patterson, Lim Poh Chin, M. R.
Doraisamy, T W. Bowmar, Yau Vee San.
Special Committees
P:ublishing Minutes
The Conference Secretm y H. B. Amstutz, S. M. Thevathasan,
Tbe C01zjerence Statistician, Paul B. Means.
Directors of the C.Y.M.S. Kuala Lumpur
The Kuala Lumpur District Superintendent, R. Dean Swift, Yau Yee San,
:Secw Leong.
Eveland Seminary Oommittee
Secretary of EdUcation, the Principals Qf the A.c.G.S.-Penang, A.c.G.S.'1I?oh, M.G.S.-:-Kuaia Lumpu~, M. G. S.-Singapore, fH.T.S., Singapore, A.C.S.Smgapore. Edttor oj MalaysIa Message, Mrs. E. S. Lau, Mrs. E. V. Davies.
Commission on Public Worship and Music
H. B. Amstutz, Cbairman: W. A. Schurr, R. Dean Swift, Ula Corbett, Mrs.'
T. \V. Bowmar, Mrs.. D. H. Yap, Timothy M. Huang, M. R. Doraisamy.
Conference Programme
W. E: Borle)', Chairman: H. B. Amstutz, Secretary, Abel Eklund, J. A.
'Supramamam, E. S. Lau.
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MALAYA CoNFERENCE,
1931
Daily Proceedings
Friday, January 9th, 1931.
The 39th session of the Malaya Annual Conference of the'
Methodist Episcopal Church, opened in \Vesley Church, Singapore, S.S.
at 8:30 a.m. January 9th, 1931, Bishop Edwin F Lee presiding.
Communion Service: The Conference opened with.a Communion
Service conducted by Bishop Lee, assisted by the District Superintendents. Rev. G. F Pyketlt,senior m1SlSion~ry, preaohed 1lhe communion.
sermon on the subjec.t "OUf Spiritual Sacrifice." Mr. Verdayne sang.
Roll Call: The former Secretary called the roll of the Conference'
and the following responded:G. F. Pykett
Jap It Tong
W E. Horley
Ang Giok Sui
J. M. Hoover
S. M. Rajamoney
C. D. Patterson
Kong lau Siong
Tai Poh Ting
J. V Ayaduray
Fred David
Y. J. Jesudasen
F. H. Sullivan
S. M. Thevathasan
Ng Khoan Jiu
D. P Coole
H. B. Amstutz
Edward Isaacs
V. Samuel
J. S. Arthur
V. Devasahayam
Channan Singh
J. A. Supramaniam
Goh Hood Keng
S. S. Pakianathan
Timothy 1\'1. Huong
T W. Bowmar
\Van Yang Fan
Y'au Vee San
P. L. Peach
I. S. Motz
Lim Hong Ban
\\1 A. Schurr
Li Hok Hiang
G. V. Summers
Lester Proebstel
R. D. Swift
Chang Cheng Liang
~. E. Fang
M. R. Doraisamy
.E. S. Lau
Moi Poh Peng
M. Dodsworth
Paul S. H. Hang
Abel Eklund
Lee Huong Chiang
J. J. Kovilpillai
Ho Cheuk Lau
S. A. Phillips
J. Milton David
L. A. Samuel
Lim Poh Chin
Conference Secretary: 'Villard A. Schurr was elected Secretary'
and S. M. Thevathasan appointed Assistant Secretary.
Bishop Baker: Bishop Lee broughtt greetings from B'i1shop B,a-ker :and his regrets that he was physically unable to be present at our
Conference due to serious illness. Upon the advice of his doctor and'
fellow bishops, Bishop Baker has returned to America for treatment.
.' Conference Bar: The first four rows and the wings of the churchl
were constituted the Conference Bar.
,.DAILY PROCEEDINGS
Introductions:
duced:-
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The following returned workers were intra-
Miss E. Stella Cass
" Emma Walker
" Ruth Harvey
" Florence Kleinhenn
Rev. Y Jesudason
" Rev. C. D. Patterson
The following new workers were introduced:Rev. & Mrs. ]. ]. Kingham
Mr. & 1\1rs. D. H. Yap.
Mr. Theodore Runyon
:\h. Herbert Kuehn
Mr. Ralph Kesselring
1\1r. Paul Schmucker
Miss Virginia Lake
Miss Marie 1\1essersmith
Greetings: Bishop Lee brought oral greetings from Dr. Leuring,
Bishop & 1\1rs. Oldham, Rev. & Mrs. Cherry, Dr. Shellabear and other
.friends. The Secretary received a letter from Rev. L. A. Chacey.
Memorial Service: A short Memorial Service was held in which
Rev. R. D. Swift offered prayer for those bereaved in our parsonages.
The Secretary was instructed to write a letter expressing the sympathy
and brotherly love of the Conference to Rev. S. S. 1\1arnickam who is
seriously ill.
Programme: The printed programme was made the order of the
Conference; recess to be held from 10:30 to 10:45 a.m. and adjournment at 12 :30.
Paragraph 471: Upon motion of G. F Pykett 'the privileges
under paragraph 471 were extended to the lay workers and others
concerned to participate in the Conference.
Reporters to the General Press: P. B. Means was eIe.ed to
report to the general press and to name his assistants.
Chinese Interpreters: D. H. Yap and C. E. Fang were appointed as Chinese interpreters.
Assistant Statistician:
Statistician.
J.
S. Arthur was named Assistant
Committee on Privileges: J. A. Supramall1iam, C. E. Fang,
R. D. Swift were constituted a Committee on Privileges.
Nominating Committee: H. B. Amstutz, J. J. Kovilpillai, Lim
Hong Ban were appointed to nominate members of Standing Committees
in place of those not able ,to act.
MALAYA CoNFERENCE,
1931
Map: P. L. Peach displayed a large map of Malaysia showing all
of our churches, schools etc. which was made by the boys of the A.C.S.
Penang.
Question 15: The names of F H. Sullivan, Super.intendent lpoh
District W. E. Horlev, Superintendent Singapore District, Marmaduke
Dodswo'rth, Superintendent. Kuala Lumpur District, J. M. Hoover,
Superintendent Sarawak District were called: their characters were
passed and each read his report; M. Dodsworth reading the report of
the Kuala Lumpur District.
Transfer: The transfer of J. J. Kingham from the South India
Conference was announced.
Introduction: Mr. & Mrs. Hayward were introduced and brought
greetings from Mrs. j. H. Lewin.
Report of Secretary of Education: G. F Pykett read the report of the Secretary of Education. See the report.
Announcement:S: Various announcements were made.
Adjournment: The session adjourned, Rev. J. J. Kingham
pronouncing the benediction.
Saturday, January 10th, 1930.
MORNING SESSION.
Devotions: The Conference session opened with devotions led by
Bishop Lee. He spoke on the text, "With a Great Price obtained I this
freedom." Mrs. Kinlock sang.
Minutes: The Minutes of the previous session were approved as
corrected.
Report of Committee on Nominations: Mrs. Summers was
substituted for Mrs. Patterson in the Committee on Fraser's Hill Sanitorium.
Statistician: Statistician stated that the report from Singapore
District had not yet been handed to him. Upon motion of G. F Pykett
tlhe StatiS!tioal Report WalS made the order of the day on Wednesday
immtPiatel y after recess.
Board of Ministerial Training: Upon motion of H. B. Amstutz
the report of the Board of Ministerial Training was made the order of
the day on Monday, immediately following the reading of the Minutes,
and the report of the Committee on Conference Relations to follow.
Resolutions: The Committee on Nominations was -instructed
to select a committee on Resolutions and Memorials. The Committee
on Privileges was constituted the Committee on Resolutions by the Commi ttee on Nominations.
Greetings: . A letter of greeting to the Malaya Annual Conference from the Rt. Rev. B. C. Roberts. M.A., Bishop of Singapore~
was read by Bishop Lee.
• DAILY PROCEEDINGS
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Singapore Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Singapore Y.M.C.A.,
extended to the Conference the privileges of the Singapore Y.M.C.A.
and sent greetings. The Secretary, Mr. Gorden Cranna, was later
"introduced.
Stanley Jones: Bishop Lee announced that Stanley Jones
would be able to spend about a month in evangelistic work in
Malaya in the fall of 1931.
Question 15: The name of G. F. Pykett was called, his
character was passed and he read the report of the Penang District.
Upon motion of W. E. Harley, seconded by P. L. Peach it was
ordered that G. F. Pykett's picture appear at the top of the report
of his district with the statement that he was completing forty years
of active service in the Malaya Mission.
Lantern Slides: Mrs. Lee was extended the privilege of the
floor to speak on the pictures which she took to America to make
stereoptican lectures.
Cemeteries: F. H. Sullivan moved the appointment of a
committee to study and report on the matter of Christians and nonChristians being buried in the cemetery. It was so orderej.
Recess:
Recess was from 10:30 to 10:45.
Report of Mission Institutions: Miss Marsh read the report of
the Methodist Girls Schooe Kuala Lumpur. Miss Jackson read the
report of the Methodist Girls School Singapore. Miss Rank read
the report of the Anglo Chinese Girls' School, Ipoh.
British and Foreign Bible Society: Mr. E. Tipson of the
British and Foreign Bible Society was introduced and addressed the
Conference briefly.
MaJacca District:
Malacca District.
M. Dodsworth read the report of the
Address: Rev. J. J. Kingham addressed the Conference on the
subject "Christian Work Among the Tamils of India." Mrs.
Pedlow sang.
Adjournment: W. E. Harley pronounced the benediction
this being the 37th anniversary of his arrival in Malaya to take up
service in this Conference.
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Sunday, January 11th, 1931.
Conference Service of Worship: The Conference Service of
Worship was held in Wesley Church at 5 :30 p.m. Bishop Lee
preached on the subject "Steadiness in the Midst of Spiritual
Chaos." A large congregation took part in the beautiful service
which had been arranged.
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MALAYA CONFERENCE,
1931
Monday, January 12th, 1931.
MORNING SESSION.
The Conference opened with devotions conducted'
by J. A. Supramaniam who addressed the Conference on the subject
II Grow in Grace."
Mr. J. Baruch sang a Tamil lyric.
Minutes: The Minutes of the previous session were read and
a.pproved as corrected.
Report of Board of Ministerial Training and Conference Relations Committee: D. H. Yap was admitted on trial in studies
of the first year and elected to Deacon's orders under rule
paragraph 179 sec. 4.
Percy Bell was admitted on trial in studies of the first year.
N. G. Manickam was admitted on trial in studies of the first
year.
Theodore Runyan was admitted on trial in studies of the first
year.
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H. F. Kuehn was admitted on trial in studies of the first year
and elected to Deacon's order under the Missionary Rule par.
179 sec. 4.
Devotions:
Greetings: The Hon. Dr. Chen Chang Lock, Chinese Consul
General, ",as introduced and addressed the Conference briefly.
The Hon. Mr. Lester Maynard, American Consul General, was
introduced and addressed the Conference briefly. Mr. Bower,
American Consul, was also introduced and addressed the Conference
briefly.
Recess:
Recess was from 10:30 to 10:45.
Reports of Two Committees: (Continued).
J. Milton David was advanced to studies of the second year,
conditionally, and elected to local Elder's orders under the 'Rule
for India par. 184.
Paul S. H. Hang was admitted to full membership, advanced
to studies of the third year and elected to Deacon's Orders.
Ho Cheuk Lau was admitted to full membership, advanced to
stud'}e:) or the third year and elected to Deacon's Orders.
Lee Huong Chiang was continued on trial in the studies of
the second year.
Joseph Ayaduray was advanced to the studies of the fourth
year.
. Irvin S. Motz was advanced to studies of the fourth year.
Gerald V. Summers was advanced to the studies of the fourth
year, conditionally.
,. DAILY PROCEEDINGS
9
Lloyd A. Chacey was located at his own request. Upon
motion 01 G. V. Summers the Secretary was requested to write
brother Chacey expressing our regret at his inability to return to
Malaya and assuring him of our continued Christian affection.
James S. Arthur was graduated from the course of study and
elected to Elder's Orders.
Goh Hood Keng was continued in studies of the fourth year.
Edward S. Lau was graduated from the Course of study and
electe.d to Elder's Orders.
Raymond Roche was continued in studies of the fourth year.
The informal expression of opinion of the Conference was that a
missionary unable to return to Malaya should make arrangements
for his early transfer to a Conference in the U.S.A.
Channan Singh was graduated from the Course of Study and
allowed to surrender his ministerial office and withdraw from the
Conference.
Wan Yang Fan was graduated from the course of study and
elected to Elder's Orders.
Yau Yee San was graduated from the course of study and
elected to Elder's Orders.
Timothy H uong was elected to Elders Orders.
J. S. Nagle was reinstated as from January, 1931, for the
purpose of transfer within one year, otherwise he is to be located
at his own request, at the next session of this Conference.
A. Devadason, since he had not passed in all required books,
could not be recommended for ordination as local Deacon.
Afternoon Session: Upon motion of G. F. Pykett a session
from 1 :30 to 2 :30 was ordered.
Orders of the day: Upon motion of Abel Eklund, the election
of Finance Committee Members was made the order of the day
immediately after the admission of new members.
Upon motion of S. S. Pakianathan, the election of the committee for the Home Missionary Society was made the order of the
day immediately after completion of the Conference Relations
Report.
Adjournment:
Tai Poh Ting pronounced the benediction.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Chairman: W. E. Horley acted as Chairman of the afternoon
session which he opened with prayer.
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MALAYA CoNFERENCE,
1931
Reports on Mission Institutions and Committees:
Ho Seng Ong reported on the A.C.S., Malacca.
Miss Kenyon reported on A.C.G.S., Penang.
Miss Pugh reported on SheIla bear Hall, Malacca.
Miss Dirksen reported on the Methodist Girls School,
Sitiawan.
Miss Rea reported on the Lady Treacher Girls School,
Taiping.
D. P. Coole reported on A.C.S., Sitiawan.
T. VI. Bowmar reported on the M.B.S., Kuala Lumpur, and
the Continuation School.
P. L. Peach read the report of the Committee on the Text
Books and reported on the A.C.S., Penang.
C. D. Patterson reported on the A.C.S., Seremban.
G. V. Summers reported on the A.C.S., Klang.
Adjournment:
The session adjourned.
Tr:lesday, January 13th, 1931.
Devotions: The Conference session opened with devotions
by Bishop Lee. Bishop Lee spoke on the. text "I came not to
destroy but fulfil." Mr. and Mrs. E. Hale sang a duet.
Minutes:
The Minutes of the previous session were approved
as corrected.
Committee on Conference Relations (concluded): Since the
location of R. H. Silverthorn by the 1926 Conference based on par
185, sec 5 was apparently not in order, he. was reinstated as from
January 1931, in studies of the third year for the purpose of
transfer within one year. The time for the course of study was
extended as provided in par 185, sec 5.
Home Missionary Society:
The election was deferred until
Wednesday.
Districts: Upon recommendation of the Cabinet the number
of districts was changed from six to seven. The Bishop announced
that S. S. Pakianathan is to be the superintendent of the newly
organized Perak Tamil District.
.. DAILY PROCEEDINGS
Question 15: The names of the follow!ng members of
Conference were called, their characters were passed, and those
present gave their reports:-
B. F. West
w. G. Shellabear
Kong Iau Siong
Tai Poh Ting
Y. J. J esudasen
Ng Khoan Jiu
Edward Isaacs
Recess:
V. Samuel
V. Devasahayam
J. A. Supramaniam
S. S. Pakianathan
T W. Bowmar
P. L Peach
Lim Hong Ban
Recess was from 10:30 to 10:45.
Resolutions: A Resolution from Chinese members of Conference on Chinese Pastor's salaries and financial support of the
church was referred to the committee on the State of the Church,
upon motion of Goh Hood Keng.
Singapore District's resolution on Conference Evangelists was
read. Upon motion of D. P. Coole Conference Evangelists are
to be appointed as soon as feasible.
A resolution from Kuala Lumpur District re: the attendan~e of
Methodist pupils in our schools was read. It was agreed that
Pastors and Principals should co-operate to get our Methodist
children and children of old boys into our schools.
Afternoon session:
An afternoon session was ordered from
1 :30 to 2.30.
Christian Literature: P. B. Means read his report as: Secretary
of Christ:an Literature.
Address: J. J. Kingham addressed the Conference on the
subject" Indian's Response to Christ." Mr. R. Lyne sang.
Adjournment:
M. R. Doraisamy pronounced the benediction.
Tuesday Afternoon, January 13th~ 1931.
Chairman: J. M. Hoover acted as chairman of the afternoon
session. Li Hok Hiang led in prayer.
Reports on Mission Institutions: Miss Traeger read the report
on the Suydam Girls School, Malacca. Miss Urech read the report
on Holt Hall, Kuala Lumpur.
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MALAYA CONFERENCE,
1931
Question 15: The names of the following members of the
Conference were called, their characters were passed and those
present made their reports.
Li Hok Hiang
L. Proebstel
R. D. Swift
R. A. Blasdell
Li Ko Ding
Moi Poh Peng
Ng Huat Bi
Abel Eklund
J. J. Kovilpillai
S. A. Phillips
L.A. Samuel
lap It Tong
Ang Giok Sui
S. M. Rajamoney
R. D. Roche
A. McNab
C. D. Patterson
L. A. Chacey
J. V. Ayaduray
Fred David
S. M. Thevathasan
Adjournment: The session adjourned at 2.30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 14th, 1931.
Devotions: The Conference opened with devotions con·
ducted by Andrew K. T. Chen who spoke on the subject "Walking
with God" which was translated by D. H. Yap.
Minutes: The Minutes of the previous session were read
and approved as corrected.
Reception into Membership: Bishop Lee received into full
membership Paul S. H. Hang and Ho Cheuk Lau.
Finance Committee: The following members of the Finance
Committee were elected for 1931 on the first ballot:
Chen Su Lan
M. R. Doraisamy
Khoo Cheng Hoe
P. W. Tambyah
D. H. Yap
Home Missionary Society: S. S. Pakianathan read the report
of the Home Missionary Society. The following ministers were
elected to the managing committee:
Lim Hong Ban
Li Hock Hiang
M. R. Doraisamy
S. S. Pakianathan
Goh Hood Keng
S. M. Thevathasan
Lim Siew Ing
The following laymen were announced as members of the
committee:
J. A. P. Oswald
Chua 10k Han
Li KoDing
Chen Su Lan
J. P. Ayathuray
Sia L~w De
Lee Tiap
• DAILY PROCEEDINGS
Question 36: Upon motion of G. F. Pykett the Conference
.stewards and the Cabinet were given power to apportion to the
Pastoral Charges the amount to be raised for the support of Conference Claimants.
Committee on the State of the Church: T W. Bowmar read
the report of the committee on the state of the church. Upon
motion of Goh Hood Keng it was ordered to be printed in our two
'periodicals.
Introduction: The Rev. Stephen Band, B. A. of the Singapore
Presbyterian Church, was introduced and addressed the Conference
briefly.
Question 15: The names of the following members of Conference were called, their characters were passed, and those present
.made thtir reports:
D. P. Coole
Chang Cneng Liang
H. B. Amstutz
C. E. Fang
J. S. Arthur
E. S. Lau
Goh Hood Keng
Paul S. H. Hang
Lee Huong Chiang
Timothy M. Huong
Wan Yang Fan
Ho Cheuk Lau
I. S. Motz
J. Milton David
W. A. Schurr
Lim Poh Chin
G. V-Summers
Statistical Report: The Statistical Report was given by 1. S.
Motz. Upon motion of F H. Sullivan, a column is to be inserted
to show the amount of a pastor's salary earned in the school.
Upon moiion of T W. Bowmar, the Statistician and District Superintendents are empowered to alter the method of tabulatin,g- statistics.
Upon motion of R. D. Swift column 57 is to be set aside for Mal.
Com. on ReI. Ed. Upon motion of J. J. Kingham, Christian
marriages are to be tabulated. Upon motion of R. D. Swift, a
committee composed of S. M. Thevathasan, 1. S. Motz and R. D.
Swift are to correct any discrepancies in finances. G. F. Pykett
moved a unanimous vote of thanks to the Statistician.
Adjournment: S. M. Thevathasan pronou!1ced the benediction.
EVENING SESSION.
Ordination:-At 5 :00 p.m. Bishop Lee assisted by several
Elders ordained as Deacons:-.D. H. Yap
Ho Cheuk Lau
Paul S. H. Hang
H. F. Kuehn
and as Elders:Wan-Yang Fan
Timothy M. Huang
Yall Vee San
Joseph Milton David
Edward S. Lau
(Local Elder)
James S. Arthur
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MALAYA CoNFERENCE,
1931
Thursday, January 15th, 1931.
Devotions: Bishop Edwin F. Lee led the devotions speaking.
on the text Galatians 1 :18. Mrs. Yap sang.
Minutes: The Minutes were read and approved as corrected.
Question 1 <a) was called. The answer is "Yes."
According to the law of the·
land in which we live. The
Secretary of the Board of
Building and Location of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
is incorporated by Ordinance·
No. 194 in Vol. V. Revised
Sta tutes of the Straits Settlements No. 13 of 1914 in theFederated Malay States.
Question 1 (b) was called. The answer is " None."
was called. J. J. Kingham, South India.
Question 2
was calle-d. R. H. Silverthorn, J. S. Nagle._
Question 3
Question 4
was called. The answer is "None."
Question 5 (a) was called. H. F. Keuhn, Percy Bell,
Theodore Runyan, N. G.
Manickam. D. H. Yap.
Question 5 (b) was called. The answer is " None."
Question 5 ( c) was called. H. F Keuhn, D. H. Yap.
Question 6 (a) was taIled. The answer is "None."
Question 6 (b) was called. Lee Huang Cheong, J. Milton
David.
Question 6 (c) was called. The answer is "None."
Question 6 (d) was called. The answer is "None."
was called. The answer is "N one. "
Question 7
Question 8 (a) was called. Paul S. H. Hang, Ho Cheuk
Lau.
Question 8 (b) was called. The answer is "None."
Question 8 (c) was called. The answer is "N one. "
Question 8 (d) was called. The answer is "None. JI
Question 9 (a> was called. Paul S. H. Hang, Ho Cheuk
Lau.
Question 9 <b > was called. The answer is "N one. "
Question 10
was called. R. D. Roche, Goh Hood
Keng, I. S. Motz, G. V.
Summers, Joseph V. Ayaduray.
Question 11 <a> was called. Edward S. Lau, J. S. Arthur~
Yau Yee San, Wan Yang Fan.
Question 11 (b) was called. The answer is "None. ,;
Question 11 <c ) was called. The answer is "N one. "
Question 11 (d) was called. The answer is "None."
DAILY PROCEEDINGS
(e) was called.
(f) was called.
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
11
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
13
14
15
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
'Question
Question
Question
Questino
Questino
Question
16
was called.
17
was called.
18
was called.
19
was called.
20 (a) was called.
20 (b) was called.
20 (c) was caIled.
21
was called.
22
was called.
23
was called.
24
was called.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(a)
(b)
(c)
was
was
was
was
was
was
was
was
was
called.
called.
called.
called.
caned.
called.
called.
called.
called.
Questino 25
Question 26
was called.
was called.
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
was
was
was
was
was
was
27
28
29
30
31
32
called.
called.
called.
called.
called.
called.
Question 33
was caI1ed.
Question 34
was called.
15
The answer is "None."
The answer is "None."
The answer is "None."
Herbert F. Keuhn, D. H. Yap.
The ans\ver is "None.':
The answer is "None."
The answer is "None.'1
J. Milton David
The answer is "None."
The answer is "None.7:
The answer is "Yes, in open
Conference. "
The answer is " None."
The answer is "None."
L. A. Chacey.
The answer is " I\one."
The answer is " None."
The answer is " None."
Channan Singh.
The answer is " None."
The answer is " None."
The answer is " None."
Channan Singh-grad ua ted
from course of study.
The answer is " None."
Kong Jau Siong, Li Koh Ding,
Ng Huat Bi, Ng Khoon Jiu,
G. F. West.
R. H. Silverthcrn, J. S. Nagle.
(Cabinet appointments).
See the report.
See the report.
See the report.
Total receipts $2,619 (Sts. )
Note: A receipt from the Mission Treasurer shows the accounts are in order and the
money has been turned over
to him.
Upon motion of J. A. Supramaniam the Pastors' Leave
Fund is to be administered by
the
Conference Stewards
upon recommendation of the
Cabinet.
$1,224.36 (Gold) .
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MALAYA CONFERENCE, 19~J
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Question 35 (a) was called.
See Conference Stewards'
Report.
Question 36
was called. $2,268. Note: Upon motion_
of Goh Hood Keng $2,268
was apportioned for support
of Conference claimants.
Question 37
was called. The answer is " None."
Question 38
was called. See list 9f appointments.
Question 39
was called. Wesley Church, Singapore.
Home Missionary Society Constitution: The Home MissionarySociety Constitution was adopted. Executive officers for 1931:
Rev. S. S. Pakianathan President, J. A. P. Oswald, Secretary; Dr.
Chen Su Lan, Treasurer.
1. Organisation: The organisation shall be named theHome Mbsionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Malaya..
2. Membership: The membership shall consist of the subscribers to the Society's Fund.
3. Objects: The object shall be:
(a) To preach the Gospel throughout Malaya.
(b) To strengthen the developing nucleus of our Indigenous
Church.
4. Management: The Society shall be managed by a committee consisting of a layman from each District elected quadrennially by the Lay Conference and the same number of ministerselected quadrennially by the Annual Conference. Vacancies
among laymen shall be filled by the District Conference and those
among ministers by the Annual Conference.
5. Officers: The Committee shall elect quadrennially from
among themselves three executive officers, namely, a President, a
Secretary and a Treasurer.
The officers shall present at each Annual Conference a report
and a BaJance sheet.
The Committee shall meet every year at the seat of the
Annual Conference, when five shall form a quorum.
6. Any alterations to this Constitution shall be recommended
only at the quadrennial meeting by two-thirds majority of the
members of the Managing Committee present and made by the
Annual Conference in the quadrennial session.
Editing Minutes: The Committee on Editing the 1931 Conference Minutes is composed of H. B. Amstutz, P. B. Means, theStatistician.
Recess: Recess was from 10.30 to 10.45.
Reports on Mission Institutions: Goh Hood Keng read the
report on the Committee of Public Morals which was received.
Upon motion of E. S. Lau this report is to be published in the Con-
DAILY PROCEEDINGS
17
ference papers. Upon motion of T W. Bowmar this Committee
is to report next year not later than the third day.
Lester Proebstel read the report on the Anglo Chinese School,
Jpoh, T W. Hinch read the report on the Anglo Chinese School,
Singapore. Clare Norton read the report on the Primary School,
Singapore. L. B. Jenkins read the report on the Middle School,
Singapore. H. B. Amstutz read the report on the Jean Hamilton
Training School. Miss Depler read the report on the Methodist
Girls' School, Klang. W. H. Cordle read the report on the Anglo
Chinese School, Telok Anson. Abel Eklund read the report on
Oldham Hall, Singapore. Miss Corbett read the report on Fairfield Girls School, Singapore. Miss Shively read the report on
Crandon Home, Taiping. P. B. Means read the report on the
Malaysia Message. Ding Guang Deu read the report on the
Southern Bell.
Reports of Committees: V. Samuel read the report of the
Conference Stewards. (see the Report)
Upon motion of P L. Peach, Mrs. Toomey is to receive $15
per month in 1931 and no allowance thereafter. R. D. Swift read
the report of the Malaysia Commission on Religious Education. D.
H. Yap read his report as Secretary for Young Peoples' Work.
Rules.
H. B. Amstutz read the report of the Board of Ministerial
Training to be incorporated in the Minutes:
(1)
That Rule 10 in the Rules of the Ministerial Board be
altered tf) read" Candidates are permitted to take examinations between Conference sessions."
(2) All candidates taking examinations will follow a definite
schedule of study to be set by the Chairman of the Ministerial Board,
as follows: one-third of the year's work to be completed and examinations written on the first Saturday of May, the second third
by the first Saturday of September, and the last third on the two
days immediately preceeding the session of the Annual Conference.
(3) That the Southern Bell be added to the Local Preacher'S
Course in Chinese, in all four years. Examiners to set written work.
(4) That we hold all Chinese candidates in the regular
courses to take the China Christian Advocate and write papers
on it as set by the examiners.
(5) That we add to all the Tamil Courses the South India
Union Church Herald. The subscriptions to begin November 1 st
and end October last. The examiners to set the written work.
Public Worship.
H. n. Amstutz read the report of the Commission of Public
Worship. (see the report)
The Committee on District Conference Minutes reported all
in order.
18
MALAYA CONFERENCE,
1931
Elections: Goh Hood Keng was elected for three years to
the Board of Control for holding Church and Parsonage property.
G. F. Pykett and V Samuel were re-elected for three years as
Conference Stewards. 1. S. Motz was elected Statistician. J. A.
Supramaniam was elected to the Asiatic Sanatorium Committee.
S. M. Thevathasan was re-elected Conference Treasurer.
Programmes: Upon motion of Abel Eklund the Bishop is
to appoint a Committee on Programmes for 1931 Conference.
Official Record: Upon motion of G. F Pykett these Minutes
were made the offIcial record of the 29th session of the Malaya
Annual Conference.
The appointments for 1931 were read by the Bishop.
Adjournment: After singing the hymn" Where He leads me I
will follow" Bishop Lee led in prayer and pronounced the
benediction.
EDWIN F. LEE. C bairmall.
Malaya A nnual Conference.
\V A.. SCHURR, Secretary.
111alaya Anl1ual Conference.
<terttffcate of
~r"itlatton
This is to Certify
that following election by the
tlDala\?a Bnnual (Ionference of the !IDethobist
JEpiscopal (Iburcb
and assisted by several Elders
on Wednesday, January 14, 1931
in Wesley Methoc!ist Church, Singapore, S.S.
I Ordained as Deacons
D. H.
YAP,
Ho CHEUK
PAUL
LAU,
H. F
S. H.
HANG,
KUEHN
The following were Ordained Elders
WAN YANG FAN
JAMES S. ARTHUR
Y AU YEE SAN
TIMOTHY M. H UONG
EDWARD S.LAU
J. MILTON DAVID
Singapore, S.S.
Jan. 17, 1931.
EDWIN F. LEE,
Bishop
Disciplinary Questions
la.-Is tbis Annual Conference /ncorporcded according to tbe Requirement of the Discipline?
Yes. According IO the law of the land in which we live. The Secy. of
the Board of Building and Location of the Methodist Episcopal Church
is incorporated by Ordinance No. 194 in Vol. V, Revised Statutes
of the Straits Settlements, and also by Enactment No. 13 of 1914
in the Federated Malay States.
b.-What officers and persons holding moneys, funds, etc. are bonded~
and in, wbat amounts, according to the requirements of the Discipline?
None.
2.-Who bave been received by Transfer, and from what Conferences?
j. ]. Kingham, Soutlh India.
3.-Who bave been readmitted'!
R. H. Silverthorn, ]. S. Nagle.
4.-Who have been received on Credentials, and' from what Churches?
None.
5.-W bo have been received on trial'!
(a) In Studies of the First Year.
H. F. Kuehn. Percy Bell, Theodore Runyan, N. G. Manickam, D. H. Yap,
(Yap Dji Hian).
(b) In Studies of Third Year under the Seminary Rule.
Note' § 12 (c).
~179,
§2.
None.
(c) Exempt from Course of Study under Seminarry Rule.
§l.
~186.
H. F. Kuehn, D. H. Yap.
6.-W bo have been continued on trial?
(a) In Studies of the First Year.
None.
(b) In Studies of the Second Year.
Lee Huang Chiang, j.
M~lton
David.
(c) In Studies of the Third Year.
None.
(d) In Studies of the Fourth Year.
Note carefully
None.
7.-Wbo bave been Discontinued'!
None.
8.-Wllo have been admitted into Full Membership?
(a) Elected and Ordained Deacons this year.
Paul S. H. Hang, Ho Cheuk Lau.
~185,
§5.
MALAYA CONFERENCE,
1931
(b) Elected and Ordained Deacons previously.
None.
(c) Elected to be Ordained elsewhere.
None.
Cd) Ordained Deacon, having been previously elected by Conference.
None.
·9.-Wbat Members are in Studies of the Third Year?
(a) Adm,itted into Full Membersbip tbis year.
Paul S. H. Halng, Ho Cheuk Lau.
(b) Admitted into Full Membership previously.
None.
JO.-Wbat Members are in Studies of tbe Fourtb Year?
R. D. Roche, Goh Hood Keng, l. S. MOlz, G. V Summers, Joseph V.
Ayaduray.
l],-What Members bave completed tbe Conference of Study?
(a) Elected and Ordained Elders tbis year.
Edward S. La'll, James S. Arthur, Yau Yee San, Wan Yang Fain.
(b) Elected and Ordained Elders previously.
None.
(c) Elected and Ordained Elders under the Seminary Rule.
~182,
§4.
None.
(d) Elected to be ordained elsewbere.
None.
(e) Ordained Eldel', ha'ving been previously Elected by Conference.
None.
(I) Ordained Elder elsewbere under our Election.
~172,
Note carefully
§3.
None.
12.-Wbat otbers bave been elected and ordained Deacons?
(a) As Local Pre,acbers.
~179,
§ l.
None.
(b) Under Missionary Rule.
~179,
§4.
Herbert F. Kuehn, D. H. Yap.
(c) Under the Seminary Rule.
n179, §2.
None.
(d) Elected by this Conference and Ordained elsewhere.
None.
DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS
13.-Wbat others bave been elected and ordained Elders?
(a) As Local Deacons. 1f182, § 1.
None.
(b) Under Missionary Rule.
1f182) §5.
J. M.ilton David.
(c) Elected by this Conference and Ordained elsewbere.
None.
14.-Who bave been left witbout appointment to attend O1le of ourScbools!
None.
15.-Was tbe cbaracter of eacb preacber examined?
Yes, in open Conference.
16.-Who ba've bee'll transferred, and to wbat Conferences',
None.
17.-W bo bave died?
None.
lB.-Who bave been located at their own request!
Lloyd A. Chace),.
19.-Wbo bave been located?
None.
20.-Wbo bave witbdrawn?
(a) From the Ministry.
None.
(b) From tbe Ministry and Membersbip of the Cburch.
None.
(c) By Surrender of tbe Ministerial Office.
~hannalIl
1f173.
Singh.
21.-Wbo have been deprived of tbe Ministerial office'!
None.
22.-Who have been permitted to 'lJ.litbdraw under cbarges or complaints!"
None.
23.-Wbo have been expelled?
None.
24.-What other personal notation sbould be made'!
ChannaiJl Singh-graduated from course of study.
25.-Wbo are tbe Supernumerary Ministers, and for wbat number ot
years consecutively bas each beld this relation'!
None.
26.-Wbo are the Retired Ministers?
Kong fau Siong; Li Koh Ding; Ng Huaif Bi; Ng Klhoan Jiu; B. F. Wes~
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MALAYA CoNFERENCE,
1931
27.-Who have been granted leave of absence?
R. H. Silverthorn ]. S. Nagle:
2B.-Who are the Triers of Appeals?
T. W. Bowmalf, M. R. Doraisamy. Y, ]. Jesudason, Lim Poh Chin,
C. D. Pat-terson, Tai Poh Ting (Chairman) Yau Yee San.
29.-Wbat is the Annual Report of the Conference Board of Home
Missions and Churcb Extension?
See the report.
30.-Wbat is the Annual Report of tbe Conference Board of Foreign
Missions?
None.
31.-What is the Statistical Report!
See the report.
32.-What is the Conference Treasurer's Report?
Total recdpts $2,619 Stra-ivs-accounts in order.
33.-(a) What is the aggregate of the Benevolent Collections ordered by
the General Conference. as reported by the Conference Treasurer?
$112.29 (Gold).
(b) W bat is tbe aggregate of the Benevolent Collections ordered by
tbe Annual Conference,. as reported by tJ:e Conference Treasurer?
81,380.;4 (Gold).
34.-lVhat are the claims on tbe Conference Funds?
~1 . 224.36
(Gold).
35.-(a) Wbat bas been received on these Claims?
January, 1931 from the Book concern $170, from Annual Conference
Benevolences $7;3.54
(b) How bas it been applied?
See Report of Conference Stewards.
36.-Wbat amount bas been appointed to tbe Pastoral Charges within
the Conference, to be raised for tbe Support of Conference Claimants?
$2,268
37.-1 s there a Conference Sustentation Fund
Report.
None.
,B.-Where are the Preacbers Stationed!
See List of Appointments.
J9.-Where shall the next Conference be held!
.:
Wesley,Church. Singapore.
Society~
and what is its
Appointments
IPOH DISTRICT.
F H. Sullivan, District Superintendent, (p.o., /pob, F.MS.)
F H. Sullivan, Pastor.
Ipoh, English Cburch
Percy Bell, Associate Pastor.
Mrs. F. H. Sullivan, Miss Casso
Women's work
Ho Cheuk Lau
Chinese Church
Miss Rank
Women's Work
Mrs. Choy Koh Poey.
Bible Woman ..
Mrs. F. H. Sullivan
District Women's work
Anf!lo-Chinese School and Kampar
F. 1-1. Sullivan, Acting Principal.
Brancl)
Miss E. Stella Cass, Vice-Principal.
S. S. Pakianathan.
Percy Bell.
Ralph Kesselring.
Fred David.
Percy Bell.
H orley Hall .
..
..
Miss Minnie L. Rank, Principal.
Anglo-Chinese Girls' Scbool
Miss Lake.
A nglo-C binese Girls' Boarding
Miss Virginia Lake.
Scbool
Kam Yu Tsuen
Kampar, Cbinese Church
Mrs. T. K. Cheong
Women's work ..
A,tlglo-Cbinese School
•.
. . Cheong Tsun Kong, Headmaster
Pusing, Cbinese Cburch and Vernacular
To be supplied
School ..
To be cupplied
Bruas
......•.
Tronoh, Cbinese Church and Vernacular
Supplied by Lam Hoong Pan
..
Scbool ..
Douglas P Coole
Sitiawan, Resident Missionary ..
Women's Evangelistic Work
Miss Mechteld Dirksen
..
Parish Visitor
Miss Janet Chen
Foochow Church Kampong Koh .. Li Hock I-Hang.
Women's work ..
Mrs. D. P. Coole
Mrs. Ling Ceng Ho
Bible Woman ..
Methodi!t Girls' School
Miss Mechteld Dirksen
Ayer T awar Church and Scbo01 .' Moi Poh Peng, Pasior.
Mrs. Li Luang I ng.
Bible Woman
.
Supplied by Lim Choon Chiu
Sungei Wangi Circuit
Simpang Ampat, Lumut, KamSupplied by Shi Yu Shou
pong Bbaru Circuit
Supplied by, Long Dung Sing.
Tbird Road..
..
Anglo.;Chinese School
Douglas P. Coole; Principal.
D. C. Gong, Vice-Principal.
Tai Poh Ting
Taiping, Cbinese Church ..
Lady Treacher Girls' School
Miss M'i~tha Shively, Acting Principal.
To be supplied
Crandon Home
. Mrs. Se Chi,
Bible W~man
Tanjong Rambutan, Cbine.se Churcb and
Circuit
To be supplied
Teluk Anson, Anfllo-Cbinese School and
Resident Missionary
Ch'arles D. Patterson, Principal.
.J. Milton David
Women's work
Mrs. C. D. Patterson.
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MALAYA CONFERENCE,
1931
KUALA LUMPUR DISTRIOT
M. Dodsworth, District Superintendent, (P.O., Malacca, S.S.)
:Banti'ng, Tamil Cburcb
Bentong, Chinese Church
.Bukit Rotan, Tamil Church
..
Kajang, Cburch and Button Memorial
School
..
..
..
;Klang, Resident Missionary
Anglo-Cbinese School
M etbodist Girls' School
Chinese Circuit
Women's work
Bible Woman
Tamil Circuit
Women's Work
Wesley Church
!Kuala Lumpur, Resident Missionary
Wesley Cburcb
Women' s Work
Hakka, Cantonese Church ..
Women's work
Bible Woman
Hingbua en'cuit
Women's work
Bible Woman
.Holt Hall
Methodist Girls' School
Methodist Boys' School
Continuation School ..
Tamil Church and Circuit ..
Women's work..
..
Port Swettenham, Tamil Church
Continuation School ..
'Sentul, Tamil Church and Circuit
Women's work ..
Supplied by A. Devadason.
Supplied by Lam Thau On
Supplied by K. J. Timothy
Wan Yang Fan
G. V. Summers.
G. V. Summers, Principal.
Miss Hazel M. Depler, Principal
Supplied by Hong Han Keng.
Mrs. Hong Han Keng.
Mrs. G. V. Summers
Mrs. Ceng Ging Bong.
S. W. V. Arumugam
Miss Depler
G. V. Summers, Pastor.
R. Dean Swift.
T. W. Bowmar, Pastor.
T. Runyan, Associate Pastor.
Mrs. T. W. Bo\\"mar.
~liss Sherwood.
Vau Vee San
Mrs. Yau Vee San.
J'Vtiss \-1arsh.
Mrs. Loh E. Koo.
To be supplied
Mrs. T. Runy.an.
Mrs. Ding Peng' Deng.
Miss Marie Messersmith.
M·iss Mabel Marsh, Principal,
Miss Messersniith.
T W. Bowmar, Principal.
S. A. Phillips.
S. M. Thevath.a:san.
T. Runyan.
,\tiss Ruth Sherwood.
D. H. 'Yap, Headmaster.
S. M. Thevathasan, Pastor,
Mrs. R. D. Swift.
L. A. Samuel, Pastor
G. V. Summers, Manager.
S. A. Phillips, Pastor
Mrs. S. A. ~hiHips.
Miss Messersmith.
MALAOOA DISTRIOT
M. Dodsworth, District SuperintendeIllt, (P.O., Malacca, S.s.)
District Interpreter..
Chua 10k Han
Supplied by Lim Keong Eng
Asahan. Chinese Churcb
Chinese, School
. '"
•.
To pe supplied
Bekoh, Chinese Church and School
Supplied by Koh Say Hoa.
lBemban. Chinese Church
Supplied by Lim ,Keong Eng
Supplied by Lim Keong Ena
.Jasin, Chinese Church
ApPOINTMENTS.
Jementah, Cbi,zese Scl;ool .
Malacca, Anglo-Chinese School
..
Chinese Church
Women's work ..
Bible Woman
Malay Hostel
Straits Cbinese Cburch
Women's work ..
Suydam Girls' Scbool
Shellabear Hall
..
..
Tamil.Church and Circuit ..
Bible Woman
..
Parish Visitor
.Mantin, Chinese Cburch ..
Merlimau, Chinese Cburcb ..
Paloh, Cbinese Scbool
Port Dickson Circuit
Segamat Cbi12eSe Circuit
'Seremban, Resident Missionary
Anglo-Cbinese School
Chinese Church
Women's work
Bible Woman
English Church
Women's work
Tamil Church and Circuit
Women's work ..
:Sepang, Chinese Churcb ..
Serom, Chinese Cburch and School
.Sungei Rambei, Cbinese Church ..
Tampin, Cbinese Church and School
Tangka'h, Chinese Cburcb ..
:District Evange1istic Work
Supplied by Lim Geok Hui
Ho Seng Ong, Principal
Supplied by Chua 10k Han
Mrs. Chua 10k Han, Miss Pugh
Mrs. Lim Seng Gu
Mrs. M. Dodsworth
M. Dodsworth, Pastor.
Ho Seng Ong, Associate Prt~acher.
Chong Ah Poon, Associate Pastor.
Miss Traeger
Miss Gazelle Traeger, Principal.
Miss Ada Pugh
J. ]. Kovilpillai, Pastor
Mrs. Mariamah
Mrs. Chua 10k Han
Timothy M. Huang, Pastor.
Supplied by, Lim Keng Leong
To be supplied
Ang Geok Swee.
Yap It Tong
R. A. Blasdell.
R. A. Bla·sdell, Principal.
M. R. Dora1isamy, Vice-Prirzcipal.
J. V. Ayaduray .
.. Timothy M. Huong, Pastor.
.. Mrs. T. M. Huong
Mrs. R. A. Blasdell.
Mrs. Tay Siok Bee
R. A. Blasdell. Pastor.
Mrs. R. A. Blasdell,
M. R. Dora,isamy, Pastor.
]. V Ayaduray, Assistant Pastor.
Mrs. Doraisamy.
Lee Huong Chiang
Supplied by H. T. Huang.
Supplied by, Foo Kee Kwang
Supplied by Wong Eng Leong
Supplied by Lim Keong Eng
Mrs. M. Dodsworth
PERAK TAMIL DISTRICT.
S. S. Pakianathan, District Superin)tendent (P.O., Ipoh, F.M.S.)
'Bagan Datoh
To be supplied
.Batu Gaja·h
Supplied by S. M. Pandi·an .
Bruws, A1Zglo-Chinese Scbool
M. S. Alagaratnam.
Cburch
Supplied by D. J. Ponniah.
Jpoh, Tamil Church
S. S. Pakianatha'll, Pastor.
Fred David, Associate Pastor.
. Mrs. Fred D .. vid.
U' omen's work
Mrs. N. G. Manickam.
N. G. Manickam.
Tamil Settlement
To be supplied
Kuala Kangsar
S. M. Rajamoney .
.Raub (Pa!hang)
Mrs. S. M. t\.ajamoney.
Women's work
Edward Isaac.
:Sitiawan, Tamil
Mrs. Isaac.
Women's work ..
..
.sungei Siput, Anglo-Chinese Scbool
James S. Arthur .
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Tamil Church and Circuit ..
Catechist
..
Taiping, Tamil Cburch and Circuit
Women's work ..
Tanjong Ma.lim
..
..
..
Tanjong Rambutaill, Anglo-Cbinese
School
Tapah ..
..
....
Teluk Anson, Cburcb and Circuit
Catechist
Women's work
Bible Woman
T elugu Circuit
1931
James S. Arthur.
D. Vethamanickam.
Supplied by Charles Appukutti.
To be supplied
... Supplied by Y. Jesudason.
Mrs. P. C. Paul.
Supplied by J. D. Asirva.tham.
J. Milton Da vdd.
T. S. Balasundra:m.
Mrs. J. M. David.
Mrs K. Sundram.
Supplied by Kotish David.
PENANG DISTRICT
G. F. pykett, District Superintendent, (P.O., Penang, S.S.)
Bukit Mertajam, Anglo-Chinese Girls'
Miss Emma E. Walker, Headmistress;
Scbool
Miss Walker.
Women's work ..
Supply, Chan Min Kong,
Kulim, Chinese Churcb
Anglo-Chinese School
Lim Yau Thong.
North Province and Kedah.
Bukit Mertajam Chinese
Supply, Lim Yau Thong
Sungei Patani and Bedollg Chinese Supply, Teoh Kiong Ah.
Anglo-Chinese Scbool ..
Moey Poh Soo.
Tamil Work ..
Y. J. Jesudason.
Sungei Patani Tamil
..
Supply, S. J. Doraisamy.
Parit Bunt3.!r, Anglo-Cbinese School
Mrs. A. E. Keymer, Acting Principal.
Pen'ClIng, Wesley Cburcb (Fit:{gera/d
W. A. Schurr, Pastor
Memorial)
H. F. Kuehn, Associate Pastor.
Women's work ..
Mrs. W. A. Schurr.
Anglo-Chinese School
W. A. Schurr, Acting Principal and'
Manager.
Higber School
W. E. MacDonald, Acting Headmaster.
Herbert F Kuehn.
Middle School
l. S. Motz, Headmaster.
Y. ]. Jesudason.
Primary School
Mrs. W. E. MacDonald, Acting Headmistress.
Continu.ation Scbool
D. D. ChelIiah, Acting Headmaster.
District BrancJ) Schools .•
G. F Pykett, Manager
Anglo-Chinese Girls' Scbool
Miss Lois Rea, Principal.
Miss Rutlh Johnston.
Wincbell Home
Miss Lydia Ureoh.
Alexandra Home
Miss Ruth Johnston.
Mrs. Urn Leng Lee.
Hokkien Chi1lCse Churcb
Lim Hong B3in, Pastor.
Women's work ..
Mrs. Urn Hong Ibn.
Bible Women
Mrs AIflg S~ Inn.
Mrs. Khun Khiem Chi.
Supply. Yong Tiau Kong.
Cantonese Chinese Church
Mrs. G. F. Pyke'tlt.
Women's work
Mrs. Pek Inn Chi.
Bible Woman
v. Samuel, Pastor.
Tamil Church
Mrs. V. Samuel.
Women's work
Mrs. G. F. Pykett.
Miss Johnston.
ApPOINTMENTS.
Dato Kramat Anglo-Chinese
School..
.•
..
:South p.roV'ince and Pemk Ci.rctrit
Bukit Mertajam and Circuit
Women's work ..
Nibong Tebal Tamil
IVomen's work ..
A nglo-Cbinese School
Parit Buntar Tamil ..
Women's work ..
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V. Samuel, Headmaster.
V. Devasllihayam.
Mrs. V. Devasalhayam.
J. A. P. Oswald, supply.
Mrs. J. A. P. Oswald.
J. A. P. Oswllild, Headmaster.
Supply, D. V. Peters.
Mrs. D. D. Chelliah.
(SARA.W AK) DISTRICT
J. M. Hoover, District Superintendent, (p.o., Sibu, Sarawak, Borneo)
District Helpers
:Sibu Bazaar ..
Telephone Road
.Sing Cia Sang
Hinghua Colony
Bukit Lima ..
Ingilo .
.Siong Po
.Sang 0 Chong
Ensurai
A Po ..
Bukit Lan
'Lobaan
Kuai Nga Geng
Tanjong Kunjit
:Sing Nang Chong
Nang Chong
Telak Asan ..
Binatang
'Sarikei ..
Tung Oak Po
~Lu B uok Geng
.
Niek Se Gak ..
-Girls' School and Women's work
Madar and Krupok
Tul"ai
Aup
'BintuJu
"Bible Women..
Wong King Huo
Ling Kai Cheng.
Sing Li Hong .
Dang Song Dong.
Sia leu De.
To be supplied
Ling Sieu Buo
Uk Sing Seng.
To be supplied
To be supplied
Hu Hiong Uong.
Li La Chiang
Lang Cew Sung.
Law Buong Chu.
Ding Hok Ling.
Sing Si Lak.
Hu Baik King.
Law Hung Ang.
Pang Sing Ong.
Ung Ung Sung.
Uong Heng Ang.
Li Ghang Ung.
Di'ng Siew Oha.
:v1rs. J. M. Hoover.
Cheng I ng Uong.
Uong lew Chok.
To be supplied
To be supplied
Mrs. Law HUaJi King.
:\1rs. Uong Uang Ngik.
Mrs. Tiong.
Mrs. Law.
SINGAPORE DISTRICT
W. E. Harley, District
Superintende~t,
District Missionary
District Women's Work ..
Anglo-Chinese School and Branches
Middle School .•
(P.O., Singapore, S.S.)
Abel Eklund
Miss Catherine E. Jackson.
T. W. Hinch, Principal and MatJllger
J. A. Suprama.n~am.
Paul Schmucker.
L. B. Jenkins, Headmaster.
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Primary Scbool ..
Continuation School
Fairfield Girls' Scbool
Foocbow Cburcb
Bible Woman
Hinghua Cburcb
Women's work
Bible Woman
Geytang English Cburch ..
Chinese Services
Women's work ..
Parish Visitor ..
Geylang M etbodist Girls' Scbool
Hakka-Ca1l!onese (Kwantung
Cburch)
Women's work "
Bible Woman "
..
Paya Lebar Churcb and School
Eveland Seminary lor Young Women ..
Metbodist Girls' School
Nind Home ..
Straits Chinese Cburcb (Bickley
Memorial)
Women's work
Bible Woman
Leper Hospital Work
Tamil Church and Circuit
Havelock Road ..
Women's work ..
TeZok Ayer Cbi1leSe Clmrcb
Ut'omen's work
Bible Woman
Parisb Visitor
Oldba11l Hall Boarding Scbool
Wesley Cburcb
IVomen's work ..
Johore Bham, Tamil and English
Senai Circuit, lohore
1931
Miss Clare Norton, Headmistress
E. S. Lau, Headmaster.
Miss Lila Corbett, Principal.
.Chang Cheng Liang, Pastor
Mrs. Chin Hock Teng.
Paul S. H. Hang.
Mrs. Hang
Mrs. Au Seng Ai.
Edward S. Lau
Supplied by Lim Poh Chin.
Paul B. Means.
!\1rs. E. S. Lau .
•I\\rs. Means.
Miss Ang Swee Eng.
Miss Muriel Knutsford. Headmistress
Supplied by Joseph Khoo.
Mrs. W E. Horley
Miss Ashley.
To be supplied
To be supplied
MIss Ruth Harvey, Principal.
Miss Carrie C. Kenyon, Principa,,_
M,iss Thelma A5hley.
Miss Florence KJeinhenn, Principal.
Gah Hood Keng, Pastor.
l\1.rs. J. F Peat. Miss Corbett, Mrs.
Horle\'. Mi9S Kleinhenn.
Mrs. LIm Siok Sin.
:'liss Norton
J. A. Supramaniam, Pastor
L. B. Jenkins.
To be supplied
Mrs. J. A. Supramaniam, Mrs. Jenkin~.
c. E. Fa'ng, Pastor.
Abel Eklund.
,Paul Schmucker.
Mrs. C. E. Fang.
Mrs. Abel Eklund.
Mrs. Tan Ah Mui
Miss Ang Bee Giok.
Abel Eklund, Principal
Hobart B. Amstutz, Pastor
Mrs. Amstutz, Miss Ashley,
Miss Harvev.
Supplied by M. M. Charles
Supplied b3' Fam Cho Phin.
SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS
G. F. Pykett
Secretary 0/ Education ..
..
Secretary of the Building and Location
..
Board
Mission Treasurer ..
Treasu.rer. W.F.M.S.
Editor" Malaysia Message"
Contributing Editors
J.
F. Peat
J. F Peat
Miss Minnie L. Rank
Paul B. Means
D. H. Yap, Miss Ada B3JIls, A. H.
P'TUssner, R. Dean Swift. Ho Seng'
Ong, H. B. Amstuti, J. P Stamer.
ApPOINTMENTS.
Secretary of Cbristian Literature
Secretary of Religious Education
Secretary for Epwortb Leagues and
Young People' s Work
Conference Evangelist
Editor Southern Bell (Chinese edition "Malaysia Message")
Jean Hamilton Tbeological Scbool
II
Wesleyan C baplaincy
Paul B. Means.
R. Dean Swift, (K. L. Wesl~y
Qua.rteriy Conference).
D. H. Yap.
j. Kingham.
J.
II
To preach tbe Conference Sermon
Ding Guang Deu (Andrew Chen).
Hobart B. Am9tutz. Principal.
Abel Eklund. Edward S. Lau,
Ding Guang Deu, Instructors.
W. E. Horlev
Goh Hood Ken-g.
R. D. Swift
Mission Correspondent
Professor in Kennedy Scbool of Missions, Hartford, Conecticut, U.S.A. W G. Shellabear
(All of the above may be addressed c/o Me'thodist Mission, 4 Fort Oanning
Road, SINGAPORE, S.S.)
On Lea7..'c Miss ,'\lary W'hitfield, MlS5 Norma Craven. Miss Jessie Brooks.
Re\'. and Mrs. P. L. Peach, Rev. and Mrs. R. D. Roche, Moiss
Thirza Bunce, Miss Mabel Harb, Miss Mary E. Olson. Miss
Eva l. Nelson, Rev. and Mrs. A McNab, Lester Proebstel, Mi:;5Rhetta Foote. Miss L. Me Laughlin, J. S. Nagle, R. H. Silverthorne. ;\liss Marion Royce, Miss Eva M. Sadler, Miss Della.
Olson.
Reports of District Superintendents
IPOH DISTRICT
Perak with the other parts of Malaya has just closed the
record of one of the most trying years in its brief history. Its
resources in tin and rubber have dropped more than fifty percent
since twenty-nine. Double sailings have been necessary to carry
back to India the thousands of labourers whose silhouettes we all
,associate with rubber shade. The Labour Bureau estimates that
sixty-five thousand have left from the Peninsula and Perak and
the Methodist Church have had their share of these great potential
losses. The stream southwards for Singapore and Hongkong
has been constant but with less volume. Around Kampar alone it
is estimated that five thousand men, mostly Chinese, are out of
work. At our last Quarterly Conference in Pusing four of the ten
men present were without work, and at another Conference one
fdmily with ten children were reported as becoming destitute because
of the father's loss of position. Many of the Chinese mines that
.could just carryon with £200 tin are still running with tin down to
almost ha If that figure but the coolies are given only ten or fifteen
·cents a day besides their rice. Many Europeans have been sent
borne.
The ill wind of sinking demands for our unedible metal
.and gums has however brought considera ble good in its wake.
Many able bodied agricultural coolies have left the mud and slime
{)f the tin palongs and gone out to plant rice and vegetables or
cut firewood with the result that prices of these necessities have
been helpfully tempered. The twenty-two cent French beans of
former days can be bought in the "pasar " now for three or four
cents a kati and bananas at two for a cent are no longer a
luxury to the poor. Eggs not yet of age can be purchased for
three cents or less.
The Public Works Department have taken advantage of the
cheap labour and thousands of the singing wheel barrows have
been rolling bends out of highways, river sand into swampy
places or piling bunds along the banks of run-away streams and
generally tidying up the towns and country sides which were badly
neglected during the prosperity rush years. The great hollo·~v
dam across the Perak River costing about sixteen million dollars
is now completed. The Sultan of Perak is soon to have a
wonderful palace costing about three fourths of a million dollars
and if the Council passes the proposed loan of $20,000 many
more long delayed public works will start operation. The heartenin~ news that the great tin producing contries of the world are
commg to a Restriction. programme has sent up the shar~ in that
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REPORTS
31
industry and brought many hopeful souls to the Kramats (superstitious shrines for the dead, or animated caves etc .. ) where they
are tying stones to strings and praying for luck. The report of
one herd of elephants destroying nine thousand rubber trees twenty
miles from the manse and the slaying of the notorious banished
bandit Lung Weng six miles from Ipoh show how things are up·
this way.
Labour Register
The work of Miss Royce was taken over by Miss Kleinhenn
who has done well in boarding, day and Church School and has
held her own in a Malay class of two. Miss Merten went homein February and Mrs. Cordle who had been unwell fer some months,
returned to America under doctor's orders after Easter. Mr. Bunn
who was carrying two jobs was given a lighter load in Singapore
at holiday time and Mr. Bell took over the Harley Hall for boys.
The two K. men (Kuehn and Kesselring) arrived during the summer
holidays and took up work in the A.C.S. after an extensive course
in Dengue. Solomon Pakianathan was a happy surprise to our
Ipoh Tamil Church and he was soon on the estate trails from
Tanjong Rambutan to Tanjong Malim with Fred David, J.
Appaduray and others as willing and capable assistants. Ho Cheuk
Lau has won the respect and support of the Ipoh Chinese Church
in his first year. The eooles have well proved themselves as
School labourers. Miss Dirksen has ministered to over thirteeJil
hundred sick and disabled kampong folk with a winning zeal and
thoroughness which we trust the W. F M. S. will hear. more about.
Miss Cass who returned from furlough has lifted the mercury of
Church School attendanc'e from fifty to about three times that
number. The Taiping ladies have very faithfully represented our
great Church before all communities in Taiping and their usual
missionary zeal and hospitality is unabated.
Morals in Red
The past year has shown up almost as bad on our moral
Balance Sheet as on our Malayan minerals. Two or three of
our Local Preachers characters were not pased at our recent
District Conference because of known immorality. Several Church
officials have been discontinued because of bigamy. Two of our
teachers are serving long prison sentences because of dishonesty.
Several of our people are now in difficulties because of slack handling
of fees or other funds and hundreds more are'in biting bondage to·
the task masters of Southern India whose tribute ranges from twenty
percent per annum to infinity. Para. 30 of our General Rules
which speaks of borrowing, buying and the probability of paying
needs more than an annual once over in our several congregations.
When we see scores of Christ~ans in our December congregations who have been hibern:lting for a twelve months, and whose'
chief witness to their faith is a carefully kept baptismal certificate
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signed by some ancient pastor, our Christmas cheer is tinged with
a tone of sadness that so manystiII find the affairs of farm, factory,
.or family of more concern than the great invitation to the King's
banqueting hall.
As missionaries we humbly confess our Planifold transgressions of pettiness and impatience, of temper and thoughtlessness.
<of rashness and of our proneness to put our own explanation on
{lur brother's motives, or to blame everything on the climate or
the inter;preter.
~
In spite of all these balances in red the patient Master has
not cast us out and we trust none of us are past praying for.
Such an alI-excelIing love as this is worthy of an all-surrendered
life and thank God the year is still young.
Stock-taking in Stewardship
Several S. O. S. calls' have come from the 4th Quarterly
Conferences to the Finance Committee for help ~o meet deficits
in pastors' salaries. One of the four Churches which owns rubber
lots has been reduced by $30.00 a month in this asset and
Kampong Koh with its portly old poineer trees which used to
give a contribution of as much as a thousand dollars a year, has
not had a dollar this year for its Pastor or a dint in its $8,000.
debt from its ten acres investment. There are still subscriptions
amounting to $2,000. on this project but most of them are either
Gormant or extinct.
Several Treasurers' reports show that even in some of our
()lder and stronger churches the giving per adult member averages
only about $.04 a week and this means that many of our Malayan
Methodists are trying to discharge their annual financial responsibilities to the Almighty by splitting a dollar with him. As the
little eight cent packet of tobacco every second day is an article
-on many Methodist shopping lists this gives the B. A. T or some
similar Company as much of our money every day as the M. E.
,Church benefits in a whole week.
Of the six new private schools in out-stations, one has paid
the salary of a Confere,nce member and the others have averaged
:about twenty doI1ars each per month for the several Pastors of
the towns. The famous film Ben Hur was rented and shown in
Sitiawan and Ipoh for several nights and in spite of badly selected
weather three churches benefited about six hundred dollars besides
'providing high grade entertainment for many outside people.
This experiment is worth trying again where deficits are threatened.
One church which has paid their Pastor in full without School,
Tubber or Mission aid voted to make this year's budget the minimum
for 1931. The Chinese might well learn two very practical
institutions imported by our Tamil brethren, namely the Ingathering
a.nd "Sangapana1)1 "or settlements, for those annual celebrations
take 'up much slack in church support.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS'
REPORTS
33
The Tamil Christians on an estate near Teluk Anson raised
:funds anJ built thems~lves a small prayer h_ouse which is a fine
place of "\vitness to those who build ugly images of clay and slime.
Wesley Church Ipoh has had a new white cement floor, new lights,
rubber matting and panels etc. costing one thousand dollars. About
. eighteen hundred dollars was raised for current expenses and
benevolences. The Tamil circuit have raised nearly three hundred
dollars a month and has two Pastors, fOllr catechists and a Bible
·Woman without Mission help other than the School. One of the
finest public playgrounds in Malaya has been fitted up from public
subscriptions in the cocoanut shade of a two acre block in the
Tamil settlement. It was opened by the Municipal Chairman in
:September.
Education Inventory
Our Methodist Church has during the past year undertaken
the education of 2,735 boys' and girls with Government aid
,besides teaching 870 boys and girls in private or continuation
.schools without any Government help. According to Dr. \Vinstedt's
recent report it costs nearly $78.50 a year to educate a boy or
.girl in the Government Schools and $45.50 in Aided Schools so
that our Perak enrolment in aided Methodist institutions saves the
State $90,000 and the private Schools, granting of course that
many of these hays are what are classed as over age, effect a further
.economy of $67,000.
A decade' ago we had a total enrolment of 32 in our Cambridge classes and all these were boys. This year 129 boys and
.50 girls studied in the Cambridge classes and there have been
similar increases in the Catholic and Government upper classes.
As the popUlation has not doubled during this period, this
quadrupling of students, who look principally to the offices of
Malaya for employment should cause both the Education Depart.ment and the several Missions to take careful soundings if the
.ship of !l!arning is to be kept off the Syrtis.
Sma!] beginnings in Government trade Schools are the programme of the present Director of Education, but is there any sound
reason why our Mission should not bring out a teacher with the
proper training along technical lines and make a delayed start at
Sitiawan, where we have an ideal centre for such development. The
<Government would give us every assistance in such a venture for
they kno,v that the rising tide of education must have other directions than towards the limited number of offices. With the lar~e
place we already have in shaping the destinies of thousands of the
.youth of this new land it is our duty to demonstrate that guiding the
plough is as honourable as pushing the pen, that blue overalls have
as great a capacity for dig'nity as white-arrow collars. vVe must
teach thai laundries are as essential as ledgers and tyre-repairing
:may be as useful as typewriting.
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For the first time in histDry, according to the Principal's.
statement, there has been a goodly number of trained religious.
workers on the Staff of the Ipoh A. C. S. There have been two
members of Conference besides the Principal and four other
missionades, but this is only up to our quota allowed by the·
Government. Mr. Pakianathan has been in charge of the Middle
School chapel and President of the fine Union Epworth League.
Mr. Kuehn has conducted a· probationers class. A fine Health.
programme with high grade hand work exhibits was put on in
connection with Kinta Health Week. This school, for the third
time in succession, won the Chung Tye Phin shield given for sports.
in Southern Perak. The relay team won the mile relay race, at
the M. A. A. meet in Kuala Lumpur. Towkay Foo Nyit Tsa, a
v.ery generous and staunch supporter of the school, donated a largetIffin and sports shed in honour of his wife. This was dedicated
on Sport's Day.
Literature List
The Bible Society has given a small subsidy to our pastor:)
in Braus and Tanjong Rambutan this year for seIling Scriptures
and we have the promise of $20. a month subsidy from the same·
source for Teluk Anson next year.
Chuk Sam of Tanjong
Rambutan has sold about one hundred and fifty Bible portions a
month besides keeping our shelves of tracts well depleted. One
pastor has distributed about $40. worth of free literature from his
own tithe fund. A worker in the Tamil church reports the scatteringof 2,000 tracts and over fifty copies of the Women's Friend per
month. The 'A. C. S. Ipoh has again successfully launched the
Voyager. Several hundred copies of the Malaysia Message and of
the Southern Bell come to Perak per month but we could easily
increase our Christian Literature Circulation by a thousand percent
if our workers would go out with Wesley's saddle bag equipment.
Joseph, our Methodist Colporteur who is employed by the Bible
Society in Ipoh, has sold about thirteen thousand Bibles and portions
this year in our own State, uses a medicine kit.
Returns in Evangelism
Our forty Pastors, Catechists and Missionarie~ with a number
of Christian teachers have given a total of about five thousand
sermons, addresses, and talks to groups ranging from a half dozen
to five hundred souls. One Pastor reported 251 prayer meetings
on his three point circuit for the year. One Chinese Church
reports 29 families who have regular family worship. Several of
our Catechists are known and welcomed by Tamil and Telegu
labourers on twenty or twenty:five different rubber or cocoanut
estates. Circuit rider Isaacs has received ten Hindoos into the
fuller light of Christ during the year. Mr. Ding of Sitiawan has.
baptised fifty-six souls during the year including thirteen adults,
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REPORTS
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;and the Ipoh Tamil circuit has had eighty baptisms including forty
two adults. Fifteen young people from our School group have
been received into Wesley Church Jpoh as probationers, and several
-Europeans have expressed their desire to unite with this Church
after Conference. One mining man who has always been opposed
to his son becoming a Christian has recently been baptised because
of the news concerning the conversion of ·China's President. Two
-of our educated Chinese young men are asking to join the
Theological Schools in Manila and Nanking respectively. Some
-of our more aggressive Pastors have been permitted to preach
in non-Christian vernacular Schools and one of them was asked
to preach in a butcher's club. A high spiritual note sounded
-clearly through the fine atmosphere of mirth at the League
Institute of the Northern District held at Easter time in Ipoh, and
the Chinese Preacher's Summer School developed a deeper feeling
of comradeship among our workers and a keener sense of our
mutual responsibility in making Christ known to Malaya. Meetings
were held in the larger Schools and in most of our Churches to
celebrate the anniversary of Pentecost. Sitiawan reports decisions
for Christ from eleven girls and fifty boys. There were smaller
'ingatherings in some of the other stations.
Prospectus for 1931
We have four church sites in different towns waiting for the
timber and bricks for places of worship and there are three other
-towns where we have Christians trying to hold together by meeting
:in just any kind of a place. If our big objective in Malaya is
to plant the Christian Church here so well that it will be able to
_maintain itself and leaven the whole cummunity in the next few
decades, we believe it is imperative that at least modest chapels
be provided in each of the larger towns, for our growing groups
-of disciples. No shepherd would undertake to build up a flock
without a fold to shelter them in. As one thousand dollars fr0111
. our Church Extension funds will be sufficient to furnish the necessary
incentive and power to construct a chapel in any of these seven
towns-Teluk Anson and Lumut already have about two thousand
-dollars each subscribed for their larger projects-we believe it is
-a modest programme to try and build these seven chapels in the
~next three or four years.
So near as we can determine, Perak
District has so far received only about four thousand dollars fr0111
-the M. P. H. profits since they began to appear eight years ago.
As a single city has received during that time about twenty thousand
. dollars from this common Conference chest we trust that t.he
requests already passed unanimously by our mid-vear Finance
Committee for the approval of the Church Extensio-n Committee
-will soon be a warded.
We do not yet know what the appointments will be for next
,year but jf we have the fine staff which we have been given this
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past year. with seve~al additions, we shall hope that our meagre
harvest of '30 may be much increased. We would not dare to
depend on buildings, or money or men, our preaching, our pro-grammes, our prayers will be powerless unless the baptism of Pentecost be our personal possession.
F H.
SULLIVAN.
District Superintendent.
KUALA LUMPUR DISTRICT
The year Nineteen Thirty saw many changes on the Kuala
Lumpur District. Miss Mabel Marsh was royally welcomed to the
Methodist Girls' School by her old girls and many friends. Mr. and:
Mrs. Thevathason were well received by the Kuala Lumpur Tamil
Church. Mr. Hong Han Keng, an old student of the Jean HamiltonTraining School has revived the Klang Chinese Church. The
Zumsteins left for home the last of July having received a genuineovation from the community and school and were succeeded by
the Summers. Shortly after their arrival Gerald Vernon Junior
appeared on the scene and has been the centre of attraction eversince. The Patterson's arrived in April and were placed on the
staff of the Methodist Boys' School until August. The Runyan's
arrived in September to take the!!" places. Mr. A. Devadason arrived
at Bantirlg: March 1st and has been well received by the people
who want a separate quarterly conference.
We shall not attempt to name every worker on the Distrkt
as strict order have been issued instructing us to be brief. However,.
I want to register my appreciation of the work and co-operation
of every pastor and missionary who have made, possible the thing's
accomplished as mentioned in this report. A fine spirit of co-operation has been shown and although the superintendent has
lived miles a way from the centre of action the work has gone
forward.
Gai11s. Thousands of labourers have been repatriated due
to the slump which has affected many of our churches. Nevertheless there is a gain of nine and a half percent in full membership.
Pastoral spport shows a gain of eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Benevolences have been increased.
The outstanding accomplishment has been the work of the
Klang Chinese Church. Last year this was the problem of thedistrict. The membership had dwindled down to a hand full.
Pastoral support was almost negligible while there was practically
no church organization. Through the devoted effort of the new
pastor thi':) church now leads the District with thirty four children
baptized, thirteen adult baptisms and one hundred and nine full
members on the roll. Many of the lost members have been_
reclaimed and the independent church which took our people has,
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been given up. This goes to prove that the right -man in the right
place thoroughly devoted to the Master can "remove mountains."
ThL5 pastor works ten hours a day. He made five hundred calls
.in two months. The work in Port Swettenham has been revived
.and other outstations visited_
Two new churches have been
<organized. A Tamil church has been started at Port Swettenham
with thirty two full members and twenty two preparatory i members
,received this year. The pastor teaches in the school to help with
'his salary, he, also visits Kuala Kubu twice a month.
An English Church has been organized at Klang. Ten
'students have already joined this church which will meet the need
'of the two schools.
\'etV Buildings and Property. A site has been selected at
Banting and as soon as surveyed will be ready for the church and
parsonage we hope to build there. The Pahang Government has
given us a site in Raub over an acre in extent which is well
situated on the main road. Titles have been prepared for the
l1ew site ~tt Sentul in exchange for our present property, but the
·exchange cannot be made until a new building is in sight.
The new Hakki Cantonese parsonage was bunt this year at
'a cost of five thousand dollars with a debt of one thousand. three
'hundred dollars on it. Five .hundred dollars in subscription was
uncollected in these hard times. This parsonage is one of the finest
1n Malaya. The downstairs was built for Sunday School and church
services which will be much needed as the Pudu section grows.
Estate Work. This has been a discouraging year on the estates.
Salaries have been cut and many of olir Christian labourers
have been rep~triated. Sixty eight Christians left Bukit Rotan
;at one time and a similar situation existed at Seaport Estate on
the Kuala Lumpur circuit. The labourers passed through Port
Swe1~enham at the rate of twelve thousand a month.
The p3stor
at Klang has distributed tracts and sold Bible portions to these
people. The Telegu catechist who worked so faithfully and well
on the Kuala Lumpur circuit, died in October and as yet his place
has not been filled. In the face of discouraging conditions our
pastors and catechists have carried on. Undoubtedly the Kuala
Lumpur District presents an outstanding opportunity for Tamil
work not only on the estates but in the towns as well.
Religious Education. "Charity begins at home," The
Secretary of Religious Education has tried to put this into practice
by emphasizing the programme of Religious Education in Kuala
Lumpur. Three new Sunday Schools have been started and the
iotal Sunday School enrolment shows a marked increase over last
year. A combined Church School has been inaugurated in Kuala
School. This experiment has helped to solve the problem of
Lumpur '.vhich included the Chinese and Methodist Boys' School
Sunday Schools and provides for the girls of the Methodist Girls'
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correlating the Sunday School with the churc~ .. All of th~ special
programmes presented by the Secretary for RelIgIous Ed.uc~tIOn have'
been heartily supported by the churches o~ the ~Istnct.. The
English Sunday School at Pori Swettenham stIlI flourIshes WIth an
average attendance of fifty. The Kuala Lumpur Tamil Chu:ch
School had a most successful Children's Day programme donatmg.
forty dollars to the Religious Education cause. The pastor of
this church has tried to put some of the Religious Education
programmes into force.
The Epworth Leagues have had their problems this year.
The Klang and Kuala Lumpur Tamil Leagues are undergoing
reorganization. The Kuala Lumpur Union Le~gue presented a
splendid report to the Fourth Quarterly Conference. We have been
trying to emphasize the relationship of the Epworth League to the
church by requiring representation and reports in the quarterly
Conference.-" The Epworth League is an organization within the
church under the control and direction of the pastor and quarterly
conference." So reads the discipline. This implies a dual responsibility on the part of both League and Church leaders as well
as the pastor. Our young people give us hope. They are the
church leaders of to-morrow. The church has a responsibility to'
them and they have a responsibility to the church.
Institutions. The English Aided Schools on the Kuala Lumpur
District afford the most immediate opportunity. All the missionary
staff are connected with these schools.
J
The Methodist Boys' School stands "a light upon a hill"
which cannot be hid. All who enter the town of Kuala Lumpur
by car from the South see this great institution in whose halls
eight hundred and thirty two boys study during the morning,
another four hundred in the afternoon. The reputation of the
school is made. Her graduates are scattered all over the Federated
Malay States. This year the physical equipment has been improved
by a new tiffin shed, basketball court and playground apparatus.
Organizations, such as the Junior League and Brotherhood, have
tried to minister to the religious needs of the students. Personal
work has been done by some of the teachers and there is still much
to be d01~e along this line.
The Methodist Girls' School has outgrown the three story
building where so many institutes and other gatherings have met.
Negotiations are now under way for a new site and as soon as
the price of rubber goes up a campaign will be put on for a new
building.
Holt Hall has had its difficulties, but the principal is greatly
encouraged by the spirit shown by the girls now in the school.
Adequate accommodation on a new site will help solve these problems.
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The Anglo Chinese School, Klang, has lost some pupils to the
new Government English School, but still is filled to capacity. A
,decidedly religious emphasis has been made in this school which
'has already brought good results.
The Methodist Girls' School, Klang had a Camhridge class
this year for the first time and aspires to have a Senior class in
1931. This has meant teaching as early as seven o'clock in the
morning. The debt is being paid off gradually.
The Anglo Chinese School, Port Swettenham which was closed
last December was opened in January as a private school by us and
'now has an enrolment of almost one hundred.
The Kajang School though hard pressed financially registers
-one hundred per cent religiously. An evening Bible Class has been
started for the towns people. The splendid influence of the
teacher-preacher, whose sterling Christian character is above re:proach will bear fruit in years to come.
The Cburcbes have all had increased attendance at services
ihis year. Wesley Church, Kuala Lumpur has had one of the best
years in its history, so say the old timers. Congregations have been
large and a church consciousness has been developed due largely
to the efforts of the live Ladies Aid. The organization raised five
hundred dollars which was used to redecorate the church building.
Special emphasis has been placed on the worship service by
'the pastor of the Kuala Lumpur Tamil Church. Several families
'of this church have gone through deep sorrow this year in the
loss of their loved ones. Brother Manickam has lost a son and
one daughter, both of whom were ill only for a few days. As we
'started for conference news came of the serious illness of Brother
Manickam himself.
The Hakka-Cantonese Church services have been crowded
,every Sunday. This organization has a large membership and
-constituency, but like so many churches in large centers lacks
,church spirit.
The Pastor of the Hinghua Church gives up the ministry this
.-year to enter business. This congregation has been greatly strengthened through the efforts of the new Bible Woman.
Sentul has held its own. Services have been well attended
-and an improved spirit shown by the membership. The urgency
for a new building increases every year as the temporary structure
·either has to be repaired or demolished.
The Klang Tamil Church is developing leaders through the
-efforts of the pastor who is utilizing his exhorters to the best
advantage as well as training them for Christian service. This i'5
something which is badly needed in all the churches.
Pahang. This year will go down in history as the first year
in which the Home Missionary Society functioned. Starting
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February first, ninety dollars per month was paid by this society
for work in Pahang.
A start was made at Mentakab by opening a school and~
church. February 26th marked the opening of the Anglo Chinese
School there. The District Officer' was present as well as the'
Inspector of Schools who travelled eighty miles to be present.
An ordained Chinese pastor was placed there. His daughter acted
as teacher in the school. He travelled up and down the Railway
line where Chinese Christians were located; some of whom had'
not seen a pastor for years. As soon as it was known that a
Methodist pastor was placed in Mentakab we received word from
friends who gave names of Christians ip that area. Mr. Ang
held street meetings and distributed tracts. Twenty seven full
members were received and five preparatory members. The school
had a small enrolment due to the slump and opposition on the
part of the non-christian Chinese. The last of September Mr. Ang
was brought to Kuala Lumpur suffering from malignant Malariaand was not expected to live. His daughter was suffering from'
the same malady. Upon the doctors advice he was given three'
months leave which meant that the work in Mentakab was closed
for the time berng. The church work is carried on by the pastor'
in Bentong.
The Tamil work has been faithfully carried out. The pastor
has travelled many miles visiting Christians in far a way places.,
He has had seventeen adult baptisms and admitted eight preparatory
members. Two visits were made to Kuantan in addition to the
month spent there by Mr. Arumugam. About sixty Christians are
to be found in Kuantan and surrounding territory. Although we
would like to place a man there the pastor at Raub can pay
quarterly visits. There are three flourishing Sunday Schools.
Beniong has been hard hit by the slump. The tin mines
ha ve been closed down which has caused real suffering. Our
church members are badly affected, so much so that the pastor
only received his salary for four months of the year. However,
he has' done good work increasing the church attendance and'
improving the Sunday Schools. His maJor task has been selling
Bibles to the Malays. The last four months of the year the British
and Foreign Bible Society have helped finance colportage in Pahang
so that all three of our pastors have sold Bibles. Ninety hundred
and ninety three Tamil, one thousand two hundred and thirty
eight Chinese and one thousand one hundred a.nd twenty six
Malay Bible portions have been sold. In Pahang the distances
are great and the population scattered. Colportage is the stepping
stone to Christianizing the people. Every village and town' has
been visited. One trip was made up into Kelantan where a very
promising town was discovered on the new railway line and the
people were found to be most susceptable to Christianity. Such
IS the !;tory of the first year of Home Missionary Work.
The work
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here is not easy. Distances are great; the one D~strict of Temerloh
is as large as the state of Negri Sembilan. Many places are very
unhealthy. Living is high. Our home missionarie~ have had to
travel much, sleeping in most uncomfortable places and at some
times fac:ng opposition. There are many difficulties but also many
compensations. No other Protestant body has a worker stationed
in Pahang. In every District center some of our Methodists are
found. The country is developing 4H1d with the opening of the
new railway more development will take place. We have set our
hand to the plough and cannot turn back. This first year of
experiment has proved what the Home Missionary Society can do.
This field can never be ministered to unless the Home Missionary
Society supports it. The expense is great. Two congregations have
petitioned asking for help for their pastors. With the decreasing
World Service receipts in America we cannot expect any help
from that source. A parsonage and church are badly needed at
Raub. Vve propose that the Home MISSIOnary Society provide
five hundred dollars; the Committee on Church Extension five
hundred and the remaining thousand can be raised in Pahang.
I cannot close this report without mentioning an urgent need.
There is onlY 'one Bible Woman in the whole District. The Tamil
Bible ~!(Jman in Sentul had to leave for India. The Hakka
Cantonese Church is in dire need of a Cantonese Bible Woman.
This question is brought up at every Quarterly Conference. Half
of that large church is filled with woman every Sunday and noone to teach them. The Klang Chinese Church is asking tor some
one to teach the women. We trust that the Bible Woman's Com·mittee will be able to meet this need.
In closing I desire to thank the pastors, layman and
missionades for their uniform kindness and hearty cooperation ill
the work of the year and pray God that our united efforts may
be lasting for His Kingdom.
M. DODSWORTH.
District Superilltende nt.
MALACCA DISTRICT REPORT
With gratitude to Almighty God for His kind Providence
through which we have been kept during the year, and for His
abundant Grace manifest to us in so many ways, I submit this
my eighth report as superintendent of the Malacc::l District. Has
there been illness? Yes, but the lives of all the pastors and their
families have been spared, for which we give thanks. Have there
been hardships and disappointments? Yes, many, "but the things
which happened unto us have fallen out rather unto the progress
of the ~ospel." In former reports I have analyzed the situation
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by mentioning every charge and every pastor:
To-day I s~all not
attempt anything of that sort, but do d~sIre to ~mphaslze the
most important phases of the work accomphshed dunng the year.
Leadersbip is the essential thing. This year we welcomed
Mr. and Mrs. Ho Seng Dng and Mr. D. H . Yap to Malacca to
.assume places of indigenous leadership in school and church and
they have not disappointed us. Both of them are University
graduates who have studied abroad and bring to the task well
trained minds and new ideas. Mr. Yap. left us in August to return
with his bride whose charming manner and musical talent have
greatly enchanced his usefulness as -pastor of the Straits Chinese
Church. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Patterson came to Seremban the
same month to take the place of Mr. and Mrs. Summers who went
to Klang.
If you desire the names of those responsible for what has
been accomplished you will find them recorded in the minutes of
our conference for 1930 in the apointments for the Malacca
District. Each man has filled his place with honour. Although
the demands of the Kuala Lumpur District have kept me away
from Malacca much of the time our faithful workers have
kept the work going so as to report advances all along the I line.
The work in the outstation churches has been suspervised by Mr.
Chua 10k Han who has looked after the Chinese churches during
my absence. It has been a real pleasure to work with such splendid
folks, all of whom we have come to love and appreciate.
There is one problem of ministerial leadership which needs
solution. Less than half of the pastors in charge of churches
are members of the Annual Conference. This means that the
·churches are manned by Local Preachers most of whom have not
taken any course of study. They have attended the Institute for
Ministerial Training. Five of our Local Preachers were present at
Ipoh Institute and derived much good therefrom. However, these
men in charge of churches must take a regular course of study as
prescribed by the Discipline. In order to meet this need I would
suggest that the Jean Hamilton Training School enrol all Local
Preachers, in charge of churches, in the required course of study.
The examinations can be given at the Institute for Ministerial
Training. We have many men doing good work who are not
eligible for membership in the Annual Conference whose training
should be provided for ..
Church Member~hip. A careful check of membership has been
made and in spite of this there is an 1 8 percent increase in full
membership which is the largest gain in the history of the district.
Adult and infant baptisms show substantial increases while 194
preparatory members have been received. There has been a gain in
every church and circuit except one. The attendance at Church
services has exceeded all previous years. Standards of living have
been raised and the whole religious- atmosphere has been greatly
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43
improved. No record of building and finance has been made, but
constructive, definite religious work has been done.
Finances. The financial problem has been much in evidence
even more than usual. The world wide financial depression which
has hit Malaya so hard has been keenly felt in the churches.
Almost every Quarterly Conference has faced deficits some running
into hundred of dollars. At the beginning of the year four churches
increased the pastor's salary and despite the slump each of these
churches has paid up the increased salary in full. Such times as
these which try the souls of men reveal the stuff our people are
made of. Real sacrifice has been shown in many of the churches~
After facmg a deficit the stewards have gone out twice for special
subscriptions. In one instance a steward who is very poor laid
his last five dollars on the table which brought tears to the eyes
of those present and l"leedless to say in the face of such giving the
deficit was soon raised. The total pastoral support is the same as
last year while the amount raised locally is only three hundred
dollars less. The benevolences are slightly less than the preceding
year.
A crisis has been reached in financing Jhe churches. Our'
chief concern this year has been to see that the preachers were
paid. Our ministers are inadequately supported. None get too
much and some far too little. Two years ago the District was,
receiving four hundred and fifty dollars per month, last yea.r saw a
cut of fifty dollars and this year came another cut of like amount.
Now there are rumours that another cut must come. This seems
impossible. The limit has been reached. We faced the year at
the close of the last Annual Conference with a reduced appropriation. A Special Gift of five hundred dollars gold which has come
four successive years failed to materialize. At times the District
was in debt amounting to six hundred dollars, yet each pastor
received his pay .in full every month. Every possible resource
was exhausted. At the beginning of the year I approached a friend
of our work who has helped in the past and asked him for assistance, but never heard from him. Later in the year when again
approached he produced a letter written in March stating that he
was sending a cheque for one thousand dollars. The cheque wag
never sent because of the slump. Things looked dark indeed.
We appealed to preacher friends at home and now as we come
to the close of the year we can report the District clear of debt due
to the help given by friends at home and in Malaya. It makes us
feel like singing the Doxology.
Colportage. This year a new experiment was attempted
w~i~h has met 'Yith s~ccess e.xceeding all our expectations. The
BntIsh and ForeIgn BIble SocIety have paid the salary and travel
of a Bible Colporteur who has been directly under our charge.
He has acted as pastor at Sungei Rambei, where comfortable
preacher's quarters are provided and has been sucessful in reviving
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this chu{ch. His successful pastoral record has been exceeded by
the record made in selling Bibles. Seven thousand and two hundred
Bible portions have been sold. He acts as colporteur for the
Malacca District travelling throughout the district stimulating the
work in the churches.
'
Chinese Schools. There are six Chinese Schools in the District.
All the teachers are Christians and some are Local Preachers in
,charge of churches. All of these schools are church schools in
which religious instruction is given. The Chinese preachers of the
future will come from these schools.
Woman's WOik hold a large place in the church programme
-of the District. There are two Bible Women, one at Malacca
and the other in Seremban. Both of these women have done
excellent work. The last three months of the year a third worker
has helped in the outstations. The outstations have been visited
regularly three days every week. This work has borne fruit.
The family is the unit of society. Women and children make the
church permanent. Idols have been taken down and family life
made happier through these contacts.
Institutions. The Malacca District contains the smallest
English schools in the Conference outside of Sara wake The total
enrolment of the three day schools will not total that of one
·of our major institutions. The' lack in quantity is made up in
quality. Each school has a Christian staff and programme. In
Seremban a special effort was made to win the boys of the Anglo
Chinese School for Christ. Three preparatory membership classes
were organized resulting in twenty one uniting with the church .
.Special effort was made in the Anglo Chinese School, Malacca
which resulted in sixty boys taking a stand for Christ. The
Suydam Girls' School has put on a religious programme throughout
the year. All three of these schools have had a good year.
The Anglo Chinese School, Malacca staged a successful concert
which netted seven hundred dollars to be used in fitting up two
new class rooms and installing needed sanitary improvements.
The Boy Scouts have had a record year and the whole morale of
the school raised to a high level.
The Anglo Chinese School, Seremban has raised the standard
of work and continues to increase the enrolment despite the slump.
The Suydam Girls' School, Malacca continues popular with
the public. The annual sports maintained the tradition of the
school in every respect. Next year the Cambddge department
will have 22 students which is a great gain.
Sheila bear Hall continues to grow in enrolment and efficiency.
Most of our Christian homes in Malacca are the outcome of the
influence of this institution. Funds are badly' needed.
The Malay Hostel has had one of the best years in its existence
with a full quota of'students.
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45
Young People's Work. Malacca has been fortunate in having
the Secretary for Young Peoples' Work. He has tried to reorganize
the Church Schools with partial success. The Epworth League
has had a flourishing year, which culminated in special Win-myChum services. The Seremban League is being reorganized. The
Southern District Epworth League Institute was held in Malacca at
Easter time and was pronounced by all a great success.
Buildings. The Seremban Tamil parsonage has been completed in fine shape without any debt. A new wing was built on to
the house we acquired from Government which makes this
parsonage one of the most comfortable in Malaya. Much needed
repairs have been made and water laid on to the Malacca Tamil
Parsonage, thanks to the assistance of the Ladies Aid Society.
The people at Bekok, Johore, startled us by producing a
subscription list of six hundred dollars for a new church and
school. Even during these hard times they want to "arise and
build. "
Plans have been passed for the two buildings we had hoped
to erect in Tampin and Segamat but nothing has been done due
to the lack of funds. A church member has offered all the timber
for the Segamat church and we still have hopes of starting this
building soon. Tampin presents a knotty problem, and the urgency
of the need for a new building to house the Chinese Church and
school has been augmented by the reduction of enrolment due to
lack of accomodation.
Nortb lobore continues to present a real challenge to
Methodism. This seems to be the liveliest part of the country.
Railway trains are crowded. New stations have been openeci.
It has all the lure and excitement of a new country. This year
we made a venture of faith and placed a full time pastor in
Segamat and rented a house for twenty five dollars per month.
It has co~t eighty five dollars per month to maintain this work
which has been financed largely through special gifts. I know of
no work anywhere which is more promising. The Elder in Segamat
supervises the two Chinese schools and churches at Jementah and
Paloh anf! covers a large circuit. Over thirty new members have
been received. No other Protestant Body is at work in this field
which is developing very rapidly. As soon as the new church is
built Methodism will be firmly established in this region.
With a conviction that the Malacca District offers one of the
greatest opportunities for the advancement of the Kingdom of
God in Malaya and with faith in God and the people called
Methodists I submit this report.
M. DODSWORTH,
District Superintendent.
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PENANG DISTRICT
REV.
G. F
PYKETT,
District Superintf.lu1ent.
" What Hatb God Wrought" r For forty years, all but a few
weeks, our Mission has been at work in Penang. In January
1891, the arrival of Dr. and Mrs. Floyd, R. C. Ford, A. E. Breece
and G. F. Pykett, put such a force into the staff of the A. C. S.,
Singapore that it became necessary to move out into new fields.
Bishop Thoburn and Dr. Floyd had made a survey of Malaya and
had decided that Penang at the Northern end of the Strait was
a strategic point to occupy and so it has proved. B. F, Balderstone,
a Canadian who had been nearly two years in Singapore, was
appointed by the Mission conference in April to Penang. As soon
as he arrived here he opened up the A. C. S. He was joined a
few months later by the Revd. D. D. Moore who opened English
and Evangelistic work. They were so successful that when I was
appointed to the A. C. S., Penang in 1893 the school had; 173
pupils and was housed in three shop houses in Carnarvon Street.
A Girls' school was being held in the Priory in Northam Road
(now used as a Garage for the Runneymede Hotel). Here the
missionaries lived and the English. Services and Prayer meetings
were held. A small Tamil School had been opened in Dhoby
Ghaut, Dato Kramat and a small Tamil Girls' School was also
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held in Transfer Road. Such were the humble beginnings of our
work in Penang, and from these seedlings have sprung the fulIgrown trees that are now spreading their branches far and wide
and bearing abundant fruit.
The Anglo Chinese Boys' School has grown into one of the largest and most efficient schools in British Malaya with an enrolment
(exclusive of the Continuation School) of 1775. The Girls' School
has grown into the mature and matronly A. C. G. S. with an
enrolment of near 600 and it has developed the Winchell Home
which now houses and cares for over 100 girls all the time.
The Tamil School which is a branch of the A. C. S. has
outgrown its accommodation and cries out for extension. We
had been warned that when the Government schools in Perak
Road near by opened we would find our numbers so reduced that
we might have to close; but far from that we could now double
our numbers if we had the room.
The English Services instead of being held in the rented
home of the missionaries are held now in a splendid building, of
its own, on a most imposing site in the heart of the city and is
as well attended and pastored as any English congregation in the
Malaya Conference. In the same compound we have two homes
of our own for our missionaries, though they are not altogether
paid for. We have also in this part of the town the 'Alexandra
Home which has during the past years provided a home for a large
number of necessitous and unfortunate women.
The Chinese Church which had not yet begun when I arrived
in Penang has developed considerably and though it has not a
Church building of its own, the Hokkien congregation that has
worshipped for some years past in the A. C. S. Hall is one of the
largest in our Conference. It has its own Church home and a site
on which it hopes to erect a much needed building. It has a
humble nest egg of $1667- which it inherited from the sales of
the Ayer Ham house when we were compelled to abandon work
in that place. A Cantonese Service is held in the Church house
and has an average attendance of about 5 o. In the same building
is held a Chinese Kindergarten school in which the numbers have
this year so increased that an additional house has had to be
acquired to accommodate the little folks. This school has done
very fine work and sent some of its graduates into the A. C. S.
The Hokkien church has made some effort at home mission work
in Tanjong Tokong and Jelutong.
These have been much
hindered for want of suitable accommodation.
Penang Island has not been large enough to hold us and'
we have developed work in Bukit Mertajam with a splendid
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A. C. G. S. and a fine Church building for the worship of Chinese
and Tamils and then we pushed into Kedah at Kulim where wehave now a small English School and a Hakka congregation.
This station has on deposit with the Mission Treasurer and a
mortgage with us to the amount of $7,000- for the purpose of
erecting a Church building when the time is opportune. We
have also pushed North into Kedah to Sungei Petani, Bedong
and Alor Star though except for the S. P. Tamil Church these
efforts arc at present not very encouraging.
We have gone further down the line and have school and
church work at Nebong Tebal and Parit Buntar and we may also
claim that we sent the poineers to open work in Taiping, Sitiawan
and Kuala Lumpur.
Our statistics show that we have 11 congreg'ations with a
church enrolment of 970 and 11 church schools with a total
enrolment of 876. We have R schools with an enrolment of
3,828 and property valued at $452,398. Teachers:-European
15; Asiatic 148; Christian Children 375. Total Income $365,255.-.
and this District now has on deposit with the Mission Treasurer
$20,000- and the Treasurer of the W. F. M. S. $4,000- for building
purposes. We may well ask" what hath God wrought?" for it is
He who has given the fruits for the constant procession of
missionaries has not given anyone but myself and wife much
opportunity to see much growth anywhere.
Now to detail: The Anglo Chinese School can best be
reported from the report given by the Principal at the Prize distribution held in December:"The enrolment of the school in all departments has been
1775. There were 652 in the Primary School, 452 in the Middle
School and 661 in the higher school. There have been 72 trained
teachers on the staff, 7 students in training at Raffles College and
6 student teachers in the local Normal Class. Rev. W.A. Schurr
was acting Headmaster of the Middle School until Miss Ruth
Sherwood from the staff of the M. B. S., Kuala Lumpur came to
this permanent post in April. Miss DuMez went on leave in
November.
Religious and Moral instruction has been given throughout
the school and written ~xaminations have been conducted in many
classes with creditable results. The best estimate of this work is
in the transformed and strengthened character of the pupils throughout the schools. There have been many outside speakers in our
Cambridge and 7th standard general assemblies, and these talks and
addresses have been very inspiring and much appreciated by
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the students.
semblies. "
REPORTS
Students have several times taken part in these as··
Religious Instruction. Two very successful chsses were conducted during the year in religious instruction, a class by Rev. G.
F. Pykett and a class by Rev. W. A. Schurr, 2 books were studied.
"The Pupils in the Church School" and the "Principles of
Religious Education." Thirty eight teachers took the first course
and 12 took the second advanced course. The influence of Wesley
Church and of the Sunday School is showing definite results in the
presentation of Christianity to the school.
Scbolastic Work. The School presented 115 Juniors for
Exam. in 1929 and obtained 45 passes and 1 honour; 85 Seniors
with 38 passes and 3 honours.
Athletic and Pbysical work. The Athletic programme of this
school is a full one and when we consider the limited grounds
we have, the results of the year are very creditable. On July
5th our Athletic team again won the Glugor Shield.
Scouts and Cubs. The scout work of this school is of a very
high grade as is indicated by the District Commissioner'S report.
Library. During the year 300 books have been added to our.
higher school libraries and the boys have made very good use of
them.
Health. The School Clinics have been most effectively conducted. During the year the scheme of providing milk especially
to underfed boys was most succeSSfully introduced at the Primary
School where as high as 350 children were taking each a ~
pint of milk.
Penang Continuation Scbools. The Principal of the A. C. S.
has continued to manage this school this year. It has been a
heavy strain but has filled a great need in the city. There are
now 300 pupils in the school and it is the only school of its kind
in Penang. The classes in 1931 will go up through seven. The
teaching has been largely done by fully qualified teachers from
the A. C. S. and by some unqualified teachers.
Bro. P. L. Peach who goes on leave early in 1931 will leave
a big place to fill in the A. C. S., Penang.
A. C. S., Dato Kramat: has had a good year. We have rented
an adjacent house for the Primary classes, which has given the
main building to Stds. I, II and III. A Parents Day was held this
year with exhibition of work when a grogramme also was given.
A. C. G. S" Bukit Mertajam has had an enrolment of 215, but
the slump has brought it down somewhat as it is considered that
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girls' education is one ··of the first economies that can be made in
the home.
This school has not had a single trained teacher and
·only two have recently joined the Normal Class. This school
has a great future. before it, as girls come for over forty miles
to this school, as it is the only girl's school in Provo Wellesley.
It recently came to my knowledge that Government does not have
"a single girls' school in the whole Peninsula.
A. C. 5., Nebong Tebal. This school also has done excellent
·work in every department and has made two innovations this year
(1) Sports Day, when 160 pupils out of an enrolment of 220
took pan. The whole cost of the day was met by the generosity
-of people of the town. (2) Parents Day, when an exhibition of
"handwork and art was shown. This work was very good indeed
and the Government Art Mistress has spoken very highly of the
great improvement in this school.
A. C. S. Parit Bzmtar. Rev. I. S. Motz as Principal has
·done an excellent year's work. This School is much handicapped
by insufficient and unsuitable accommodation. A shop house has
been rented for some years for the Primary; but even then, the
four highest classes have to occupy two rooms. This should not
be as it is impossible to do the best work under such unfavourable
-conditions.
A. C. 5., K ulhn. A small school has been started here with
Mr. Lim Yiaw Tong in charge. A plank and and attap building
has been erected for its accommodation which is now fully
,occupied.
A. C. S., Bendong. This school has had about 50 pupils but
has had many ups and downs during the year and difficulty in
its finances. It has been suggested that it be moved, in 1931, to
-Sungei Petani or else disbanded.
A. C. G.S., Penang. Has had an enrolment of 590 and an
average attendance of 557 and have had more applications than
it could accommodate. Continuation Classes have also been
.conducted. About $4,000- have been raised towards the cost of
an extension to the School building. Hygiene has been carefully
taught. For the first two terms of the year Miss Sadler gave
·demonstrations in aid and care of the sick in the upper class.
Parents Day and Exhibition of art and work was held. The
work shown was of high order and most of the exhibits were of
-practical value.
The Library has been considerably augmented during the
year and has been much appreciated in the higher classes and down
to Std. III a special effort has been made ,to interest the girls in
-outside reading.
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SUPERINTENDENTS'
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51'
At the commencement of second Term a creditable presentation of Henry V was given by the Cambridge Classes and in Oct.
the girls below Std. IV gave a Children's Musical.
Music is now taught at regular periods and Miss Mah Lia has
given much of her time to this work.
The whole tone of the school is of a higher grade than at any
period of its history, and its staff has worked most harmoniously.
The Chapel gatherings have been well sustained and outside
speakers have helped to keep up interest. There is a very healthy
tone in these gatherings.
Winchell H011'!e, Penang: The average enrolment of one
hundred girls has equalled the capacity of this boarding school this
year. Under the efficient management of Miss Sadler for the first
eight months, much progress was made spiritually and scholastically.
The group system carried on after her departure until an acting
Superintendent was employed in October.
Alexandra H011u, Penang: Fourteen destitute women have
been provided for during the year. Madame Lim Leng Lee has
been an efficient and sympathetic matron.
Two significant stories have come to our attention recently.
When the Dorcas Society of the Hokkien Church was holding its
sale of work, an elderly blind woman from the Home tottered up
to Mrs. Pykett and presented a mite box, saying that she wanted
it to be used' for her Church. Mrs. Pykett asked how she happened
to have anything to give. Her reply was something like this.
"Our matron gives us some money for breakfasts, about three
cents a day. Some days I do not want coffee or bread; then I call
save it for my little. box. If I had had it longer, it would have
been more."
Some of the embroidered articles on sale that day had been
done by a woman who has only one arm. How she can do such
beautiful work handicapped as she is, is more than we can
understalld.
We pray the coming years may bring increased opportunity
for service among those who need such help as the home can give.
Church Work. Wesley Church, Fitzgerald Memorial, has kept
up to its usual high standard and has done splendid work amongst
the various classes that attended for worship. The congregations
this year have been well maintained and throughout the year have
been larger than in any year in its history. The Thursday evening
Vesper Service has been fairly well attended and Rev. and Mrs.
Schurr have put in much prayerful and careful work and they
are now beginning to see some fruits of their labours.
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The Sunday Schools of the A. C. S. and A. C. G. S., which
-really belong to this Church, have been well maintained ~nd have
done splendid work and form a very good link and many points of
contact between the pupils of the schools and Church life. The
Church has been much indebted to Mr. S. Duncan as organist and
Mr. Loa; Chee Eng as Choirmaster. The Union Epworth League
has had its ups and downs and though at the beginning of the year
had barely an existence it has during the year recuperated and done
much better work. This has been due to the efforts of Miss
Sherwood and N. G. Manikam.
Tamil Cburch, Penang: has now about $4,500 in hand for its
long and· much needed new building, but I am afraid that it is
still a long way off the accomplishments of its desires. Jt added
£325- this year through the efforts of the Ladies' Aid and Thanksgiving S(~rvice. The Sunday School has been well maintained by
-the help of Miss Johnston, Mrs. Appaduray, Mrs. Pykett and Mr.
Paranjothy, the Superintendent.
The outdoor Sunday School work in Patani Road amongst
coolie children has been continued. This work has been carried on
by Mrs. Pykett and Mr. Manikam and a Christmas treat to over 40
children was given.
Cbinese Cbu.rcb. Penang. Rev. Lim Hong Ban has been pastor
of this Churc.h and also has had some oversight of the Chinese
Churches in Kedah and P. \711
The main Church in town has
maintained its numbers in spite of the slump. Recently Bro. Lim
had a very serious accident \vhen a Pinang tree fell on him wounding
his head and shoulder; but for the intervention of Providence
he would have been killed. All has congregation and friends are
grateful to Almighty God for his marvellous escape.
Tbe Sunday School has been well maintained under the
superintendency of Mr. Khoo Cheng Hoe and has had a good year,
but it seems a pity that this Church cannot link up its young people
with the Epworth League and so with the Church and thus lead
them into full membership.
Tbe Cantonese Church has kept on growing and done
very good work both amongst men and women, but does not make
much headway with the young people. This Church had hoped
to develop a home Mission in P. W. near Butterworth, but most
of the Cantonese who had come there have left during the year,
but weekly visits by the Pastor, Mrs. Pykett and the Bible woman
ha ve been made.
Bukit Mertajam Cbinese Cburcb: This has been pastored by
Mr. Lim Yiaw Tong, of the A. C. S., Kulim.
He comes to B. M.
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53
on Friday evenings and stays over Sunday. The attendance has
not been too encouraging.
The Tamil Churcb, with Rev. Devasahayam as pastor has
done as well as usual in spite of the great numbers of coolies that
ha ve gone from this district back to India. This circuit has been
badly hit in this way. Mr. Devasahayam has helped in Sungei
Petani and Alor star and has visited many estates whilst carrying
out his duties as Inspector of Tamil Schools. This appointment
provides a good part of his salary. This Church raised over $100at its Thankgiving Service and there is now a fund of $772towards a new parsonage.
Kulim Hakka Cbil'tcse: Mr. Chan Tat Poh had to leave for
health reasons and returned to China. His brother Mr. Chan Fui
Khim, filled in for two or three months, when Mr. Chan Min Kong
was engaged on probation.
The people of this District have
always been very transitory and not at all settled. Kulim is <TlOW
a large growing town.
l\'ebong Tmnil Cburcb. There has not for years been -any
strong membership in this place as most of the members have
lived on the estates, some miles a way, and now that so many of
these have returned to India the numbers have fallen still lower.
The congregations have been but poorly maintained. We tried to
administer to them the Holy Communion once a month. The
Sunday School has been well-maintained with an enrolment of
of over 100.
Pari! Buntar Tamil CbUTCb. Mr. Devamony the Catechist left
in May for India and his place has not been fi-lled. Most of the
neighbouring estates have been depleted by returns to India, and
so this work has almost come to a standstill. Whatever Church
work has been done, has been carried on by a voluntary worker~
Mr. D. V.. Peters a member of the A. C. S. staff. He has done
good Chur'ch work and has tried his best in spite of much discouragenlent to revive the English Sunday School and Epworth
League, and it now looks as if these would flourish again.
Sungci Petani Tamil has been pastored again this year by
Mr. S. J. Doraisamy and has held its own in spite of depressions.
I would like every Church Treasurer within our Conference to
see the report and statement of finances for the year that Mr.
Doraisamy sent in before his departure on 4 months' leave to
India.
The Su.ngei Petani Cbinese Cburcb has just a name to live
and that is all. Bedong is even worse. In the latter place the
people who used to attend our Services have gone to the R. C. 's or
the Gospel Hall where they think they can get more than we are
able to give them.
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On the whole this District has now on deposit with the
Mission Treasurer about $20,000- for building purposes and
the W. F M. S. some $4,000- with its Treasurer for a similar
purpose. The A. C. S. Union has this year acquired from the
Mission for $25,000- the premises it has occupied in Woodhouse
for some years, and thus has now its own home. The Union has
well maintained its relation with the school and the community.
It has this year instituted a Provident Fund for its members who
are mostly old boys and teachers of the -A. C. S.
General. The Penang District, has much to be thankful
for during the past year. Most of the missionary staff has enjoyed
good health and none has been laid aside at all seriously. All
have united their efforts for the good of the Work, the welfare
of the people and pupils under them, and have sought the Glory
-of God and the Salvation of the people of the Community.
The D. S. has had a pretty full year as Manager of
six Branch Schools widely apart and as Educational Secretary,
whose work has been much increased this year and has called for
yet more time and attention. One man CJn do but little at three
full time jobs, and if one ge~s more than its just share the other
two must get less. I attribute most of the shortcomings of the
District to the inability of the D. S. to be in more than one place
at the same time and to his having limited resources and energy.
I heartily appreciate the unfailing, loyal co-operation and sympathy
of all the missionary force of the District and the devotion of
all/our Asiatic workers and the people's of all the towns and
villages of the Penang District.
t
Lastly, but most of all, we render our sincerest thanks Jnd
homage to the Great Captain of our salvation, who has sustained
us in times of physical and mental depression and weakness, and
who has over and over again overruled our mistakes ~!nd
shortcomings.
To Him be the glory for ever and ever-Amen.
G. F PYKETT.
D istrid Supe rilltelldent.
SINGAPORE DISTRICT
We were glad to welcome back from furlough the Mi'sses
Jackson and Harvey and also to welcome a new worker in the
person of Mr. P. Schmucker. We bade farewell to Miss Mary Olson
who went on furlough. The health of all our missionaries and
workers has been good with the exception of Bro. J. Supramaniam,
who has suffered severely from malaria.
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55
I.
Evangelism
During the year special evangelistic services have been held
in the upper classes of the Anglo Chinese School a~d in the
Methodist Girls' School and the response was splendId. Also
revival services were conducted in the Continuation School, the
Straits Chinese Church, the Hinghwa and Foochow Churches, and
at the Teluk Ayer and Geylang Churches. The Holy Spirit blessed
the messages from the very beginning of these services. Men and
women were stirred, as well as boys and girls, to yield themselves
to the living Christ; also many church members made a fresh
consecration of their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Open-Air Meetings have been held twice a week in Teluk
Ayer and in the People's Park. Thousands have heard the Gospel
Message; thousands of tracts have been distributed and hundreds of
portions sold. Quite a number have attended the church services
and decisions have been made for Christ.
II. The Churches
Wesley Cburcb is the Mother of our churches in Malaya, for
it is the church founded by Bishops Thoburn and Oldham in 1885
and the text of the first sermon preached to the congregation was:
"Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord."
Let the Methodist Church still take this as its motto. This church
draws a cosmopolitan congregation of English-speaking Asiatics,
as well as Europeans, Anglo-Indians and Americans.
I have noticed at its services Americans and English, Anglo
Indians, Irish, Scotch, Germans, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Bataks,
Indians, Ceylonese and Sikhs but" all are one in Christ Jesus."
Its Junior and Senior ChOIrs are excellent and the worship
services are of a high order. Bro. and Sister Amstutz are always
like Martha of old, cumbered with much serving. The pastor's
sermons are thoughtful, instructive and spiritual. It has maintained
an excellent Sunday School of over 250 children.
Financially, in spite of the slump, the church has raised nearly
;;5,000 toward self-support, but the upkeep of the church h1B
and payment of interest on its debt has meant a debt of $940 on
(he year's working. There has been this deficit for several years.
The Ladies Aid raised $1,587 bv a Bazaar and church dinner.
$1,000 of this went toward the church hall debt. The church has
raised for all purposes during the year nearly $10,000. Mr. T. "V.
Hinch's services as Treasurer have been invaluable. The members
and friends of the church have subscribed splendidly. Miss Ashley
has entered into the work splendidly and the young people of the
church greatly love her. Mrs. Horley has been a great help in the
Ladies Aid and Miss Norton and Miss McLaughlin in the S.S.
Straits Cbinese Bickley Memorial Cburcb. The splendid new
buildings of this church were opened at last Conference session
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and dedicated by Bishop Lee to the Glory of God and the Serv.ice
of mankind and in memory of Bishop Bickley before a congregatlOn
of nearly 1,000 people.
The pastor, Bro. Goh Hood Keng, was however unable to be
present, being ill in hospital, but God has raised him up and he
is now in full and useful work again, and has greatly assisted
the Superintendent in the series of special services which have
been held in the churches and schools -Fifty-two adults have been
baptised this year and 74 received on probation.
Miss Corbett has trained an exceI1ent choir. Mrs.Peat has
done splendid work in the Sunday School and one cannot
speak too highly of her services. Bro. Choo Beng Lim hJ.s made
an exceptionally fine Sunday School Superintendent.
The local church;s part of the debt on the building has been
met by them. The thanks of this Conference are due to the
Bickley family for their help towards this $100,000 scheme. The
church has raised $15,463 during the year for all purposes. This
amount includes $5,841 collected for the buildings.
The Epworth League is flourishing. During the year it has
held 10 Morning Watch Services, 17 Cottage Meetings, and a
series of Social Purity Meetings and one Anti-liquor meeting.
Bro. Chew Hock Hin has been transferred by his firm to
Batavia and he is doing good work there amongst "old boys"
who were in our Oldham Hall and the Anglo Chinese School.
Bro. Peat reported that there were nearly 200 present at a service
he attended in Batavia.
Telok Aye!' Church. Bro. Fang was transferred to this charge
at last Conference and he has tackled with energy a very hard
situation. The congregations have increased and at the weeknight service there is an attendance of over 60 persons. Weekly
open-air meetings have been organised and Bro. Means has started
preach in Hokkien at these services. Six adults have been
baptized and one was a convert from these open-air services.
He has won two of his friends also.
A weekly service has been started at Bukit Ho Swee, off
Havelock Road, one of the filthiest slums I have ever seen in
Malaya, and there is an attendance of over 20 people.
There were 8 decisions from idolatry and sin and a large
number of cold dead Christians came to the altar for cleansing
and power. Mr. and Mrs. Eklund. and Mr. and Mrs. Means have
been a splendid help to this church ..
The Epworth League put on a very fine pageant and concert
for the purpose or raising funds, raising nearly $200.
'The Christmas service was crowded. The church raised
$1,174 for self-support being an increase on this item of $14-8
over the previous year.
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The receipts from rents were $2,001.00 which were nearly
:all used up for rates and interest, leaving only a small sum to
:apply on the extinction of the building debt itself which amounts
to about $10,000.
The children's playground was in such a deplorable condition,
owing to the broke-down fences that it became the rendezvous
·of " sam-sengs " and scoundrels who stole nearly all the playground
apparatus. I asked Mr. Aw Boon Haw, of " Tiger Balm" fame.
to assist me and he generously repaired the fence at a cost of $400.
The playground is now kept locked, except for certain hours,
when it is opened for the children to play in.
Tamil Church. This church has been seriouly handicapped
because of the continued illness of Bro. Supramaniam from malaria.
The work has been maintained at the Alexandra Brick Works and
:at HaveJock Road.
Financially the church has done weIl and raised $2,184
towards self-support. It also received $1,255 from rents. Owing
to the repair not much could be paid on the building debt.
The attendance at the Sunday services ranged from 60 to
100. There have been 5 adult baptisms in the church and circuit.
Geylal1g Churcb. Bro. E. S. Lau was transferred to this church
last year. The Chinese services have been conducted by local
preachers during the year. English services were started on Sunday
mornings by Mr. Lau and there is now an attendance of 53 and
in November a series of special services were held and a number
·came out for Christ. Two of these have been baptized and 6 have
joined the church as probationary members.
The Sunday School has an average of 70 in attendance. The
Epworth League has worked hard to make the English services a
success and in other good works. Mrs. Lim Poh Chin has been of
.great assbtance to the Chinese congregation. Her daughter's death
was deeply deplored by us all. Miss Ang Swee Eng has dlOne
useful work as the Parish Visitor.
During the year I have acted as Manager of the Gaylang
Methodist Girls' School. This school, under the head-mistress,
Miss Knutsford, has done excellent work and has an enrolment of
208 pupils. The building is far too small, and is hampered with
a building debt of $7,000 towards which we have paid off $1,000
this year.
The church has raised $832.00 for self-support but it also has
.a building debt of S3,000 which hampers their progress. Bro. Lau
has had to teach in the Continuation School to get pa:t of his
:support. The property is attractive and it will in the future become
an import.ant centre of our work.
Conto11ese-Hakka Cburcb. Mr. Fam Cho Phin is the pastor.
"This church is growing gradually in numbers, usefulness and
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spirituality. Mr. Yim Feng Fatt, an "old boy" of the A. C. S.
and who was converted in the, school chapel services, has rendered
splendid help in the Sunday School and church. Every Sunday
morning he takes all the children into a separate room and holds.
a children's service. His spiritual influence is incalculable. The
church has raised $1,033 this year whereas last year it only raised
$485.00.
Miss Ashley and Mrs. Horley have. worked very faithfully in.
this church and in the Sunday School.
Foocbow Church. Bro. Chang Cheng Lian is the pastor. As.
a result of the special services 37 probationary members have
been enrolled and they have been placed in a special class to study
the Probationer's Manual in Chinese. During the year a Rickshaw
Men's Mission Hall was opened under local preacher, John Ho.
lt is a hostel where 40 men live and it is also a night school
and a mission hall. Miss McLaughlin continued in her faithful work
in this church and her going home on furlough leaves a hard place
to fill.
The Hin'gbwa Cburcb. A series of revival services were held
in this congregation and several made the great decision for Christ,
whilst a number of church members also were greatly moved,
some shedding tears and confessing their sins kneeling at the
communion rails.
A probationer's class has been started by the pastor, Mr.
Paul Hang, who is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ to his people.
The church, in spite of the slump, made an effort to end the year
free of debt. They succeeded in raising $386 by special offerin~s
and thus ended the year with a credit balance. They raised $1,307
for all purposes.
The Bible Woman reports that 15 persons and three whole
families were brought to Christ. She says: "They all' were nonThey were
Christians and had never heard the Gospel before.
very strict idolaters and jf they did not go to the Temple on
festival days they felt uneasy. One day I went to their homes and
preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They were very happy to·
receive Christ and to follow Him. After praying they gave up
their idol-worship and followed Christ and now they accompany
me to church and are being instructed in the teachings of Christ. 11
The Gospel of Christ is still the power of God unto salvation to
everyone that believeth.
One Qf the exhorters said: "I helped to introduce J)1en who
had not heard the Gospel of God to the church progressive.'"
We wani: more introducers of their friends to Jesus and to belong
to the Cburcb Progressive. When I was in Paris I saw the Church
of the Hoiy Invalids. I pray God that our church will not be the·
church of holy invalids who can only sing "Art thou weary, art
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thou languid?" but be the church progressive. So many are
willing to serve only in an advisory capacity.
Se11ai lUission Hall, lobore. This congregation of small land·
holders has felt the slump very badly with pineapples at 40 cents
a hundred and rubber down to zero. Eleven have moved away
elsewhere. There still remains a Christian community of 45 adults
and 23 children; 4 adults were baptised this year. They have raised
$324.00 towards self-support.
III. Schools
Tbe Anglo Cbinese Scbool. under Mr. T W. Hinch, has had
a successful year spiritually, scholastically and financially. In the
Chapel Services there has been a very earnest spirit of enquiry
and responsiveness which culminated in a week of Special Services
when many made a full surrender to Christ. As far as possible
these' boys have been got to attend the different Sunday Schools
.and probationer's classes.
The educational progress of the school has beea well maintained and they have led the Singapore schools in Cambridge results and
the competitive examinations for local scholarships. Financially
the school has done splendidly. It commenced the year with a
-debt of $"13,687 and finished with a debt of $3,907 This has been
due to the fine way that Mr. Hinch has managed the finances of the
institution, and also to the very able efforts of the boys themselves
in collecting funds and organising a very successful school concert.
An " old boy", Mr. Cheong Koon Seng, gave $1,500 towards
the extinction of the building debt on Cairnhill School. Mr. Jenkins
has been the headmaster of the Middle School and the general tone
and discipline of the school, as well as the fine spirit of co-operation
and class work, have been of a high standard.
Miss Norton's work in the Primary School has, as usual, been
-of a very high order and her efficient work and methods have laid
solid foundations for future success.
We are sorry we are going to lose a very valued worker in the
person of Miss McLaughlin. Her very sound class work and general
influence in the Secondary School have been a source of great
.strength.
Mr. Hinch has a very fine staff of Asiatic masters and to their
loyal co-operation and splendid work a great share of the success
of the school is due. Mr. Schmucker joined the staff in August.
.Mr. Bunn was transferred to the school after the summer holidays.
Oldbam Hall. Under the able management of Mr. and Mrs.
Eklund this school has maintained its high reputation. In spite
of the f!lct that two sets of boys early in the year left the institution
and rented houses for themselves outside, the numbers have kept
'.up to about the same as last year.
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The Hall needs more boarders to make it self-supporting,
for at present its overhead expenses are a little too heavy and the
institution is therefore not paying' its way. $4,000 was spent on
new apparatus which expenditure should be spread over several
years.
Methodist Girls' Scbool. Miss Jackson took charge of this.
institution in March last and Miss Ashley has had charge of Short
Street School.
The spiritual tone of the school is of a high order and a
series of special services resulted in 35 taking a definite stand for
Christ fr(1m the Cambridge ,and upper classes. The Girls' Life
Brigade is another "High Spot." Under Miss Duncan and her
helpers 60 girls have joined this splendid association which aims
at the spiritual, mental and physical well-being of its members.
Their cO]uurs sent out from England were dedicated in Wesley
Church by the Brigade Chaplain al1d the girls looked fine in their
uniforms. 60 members of the Boys' Brigade also paraded to church
that afternoon and joined in a very inspiring service. It is a
distinctively Christian organization and a weekly religious service
is held. Miss Balls has also ably assisted in the work of the school.
The work of Miss Ashley at Short Street is deserving, of the
highest praise. I am sorry to, say that the school is hampered by
a long-sta nding debt upon its running expenses anci this should be
remedied at once by making the expenditure fit in to the income.
There should be no debts in any of our schools.
Fairfield Girls' Scbool. Miss Corbett, assisted by Mrs. Jenkins,
has done excellent work in this institution. Over $1,000 was
raised the other day at a School Bazaar.
Mi.~:; Norton's 'Work among the Leper Women and Children
has been truly Christ..;like and our hearts have been touched by
the faith and devotion of these stricken ones to whom she ministers.
Tbe Eveland Seminar)) was adapted as a Hostel for Raffles
College students but in the middle of the year several of the
students tried to get the Government to open a hostel at Raffles
College saying that our rules were too strict. The Government's.
answer was to put the whole lot into the Convent.
The District Superintendent has also been the Chaplain of His
Majesty's Forces at the Royal Army, Navy and Air Bases. Mrs.
Horley has done a piece of fine work amongst the soldiers' wives.
which has been greatly appreciated. Weekly services have been
held and several tea parties held for these women and their children.
Nind Home. The approaching departure of Miss Foote, after'
five years' effective service, will be a great l~s to this Home, for
the children love her and her influence has been great iIlt their lives.
All but two have been ·won for Christ. They gave a farewell the
other evening and the whole of the girls wept piteously. I have"
never seen such a farewell gathering.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS'
REPORTS
61
The Home has a credit of $800 and the old debt has been
wiped out. There is now only one class of boarders which is
a good thing for the 1st and :2nd class system is not an incentive
to either a good school spirit or a Christian spJrit. A measure of
self-government has been introduced and the girls have risen to
their responsibility.
Mr. and Mrs. Cherry of Elm Park Church, Penn., have again
remembered all the children of the Singapore cRurches and the
leper women and children. We tender them our thanks for the
toys and presents which they sent.
May God bless the work of all the workers. Statistics must
fail to record the work done.
w~ E. HORlEY.
District Superintendent.
SIBU DISTRICT
This has been a busy year. I have taught English in the Sibu
school every morning from eight to eleven except when I was out
in the District. Besides, I read t.he whole of the New Testament in
Foochow Chinese character, and studied Mandarin.
I made two complete rounds of the District, holding quarterly
conferences, visiting, baptising, receiving new members, holding
Communion services and dedicating new chapels. I dedicated four
new chapels, baptised 194 adults, 334 children and received 305
new members. Nine-tenths of these are our natural increase, boys
and girls from our schools and Christian families. They are all
assets, not liabilities, the result of careful, hard work on the part
of the preachers in charge.
At District Conference 13 took the examination for Exhorters
and 7 for Local Preachers.
I visited the different points (about 30) several times on
special work, such as with the doctor vaccinating, inspecting
schools, dropping in when I was not expected etc.,
I made a two weeks' trip to the north, visiting Bintulu., Mirl.
Lawas and Limbang. At Bintulu we have a colony and have built a
very nice chapel. Up-country from Bintulu is fine country and
almost uuinhabited except for a few Dyaks. In a few years there
will be· thousands of Chinese in this peaceful, fertile dver valley.
What a change from China! No bandit~, no wars, no taxes, land
free and abundant, and whatever you get is yours. It is not so in
China!
.
We are in Bintulu on the .ground. Miri is the centre of the
Sarawak oil-fields. I was there seventeen years ago and saw the
first shipment of oil made. There was but one well at that time.
Now there are hundreds that produce more than 2000· tons a· day.
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I had never been to Lawas and Limbang before, but found
them to be most delightful places, beautiful country, fine soil and
everything that gnes to make a wonderful country except the men
to develop it. The only people to do it are Chinese, and if I
were a young man nothing would please me better than to move in
with a bunch of farmers and begin a work that would grow to great
proportions in a few years.
While you' are on the main job,-6ther things keep happening
on their own. Here is one of the side-plays to this kind of work.
When I came here 28 years ago, near the first church I built I
found a house that was only a roof-the roof set right on the ground
like a te!it. In this I found an old man and two small boys. I
made the old man the cook for the school, and put the bays III school.
The older boy soon took care of the place for me and was my
right-hand man. When he got through our school one of our
well-to-do men furnished money for him to go to school in China.
He graduated from the Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, and is
now Professor of Mathematics in Union College Foochow. The
younger boy also went to school in China and worked up to a responsible position in the Peking Post Office. He has now been
sent to Sin Kiang, the most distant province. in ·China, to organize
·the postal facilities there. As far as we know there is not a single
missionary in that vast province, a~d he is perhaps the first Christian
to go to Jive there. Pray for Do. Song and Sin Kiang. They are
earnest Christian boys and will be about their Master's business.
We had a most helpful Preachers' Institute in August. It was
especially appreciated by our preachers because they never get away
from their work, norha ve .chances to hear and see as people do who
live on the main line. J hope it can be repeated this year.
The work is growing, and, as I have often said, our greatest
concern is to keep up with the expansion. It is marvellous how the
settlements grow! Somebody, for some reason, moves to a place
miles from -anywhere. Somebody follows him and then somebody
else tol1ows him. One of them is a Christian and holds meetings
in his house. I hear about it and visit them. We select a suitable
site for church and school. The land is always donated, cleared and
planted by the settlers, but in these beginnings, money to build must
. come from outside. We look the country over, see where the roads
wiJ] likely run, and locate our building accordingly .
.In the October number of the Malaysia Message I wrote about
a trip in the headwaters of the Binatang river, visiting the Somlenberger chapel at Madar and the un-named one at. Tulai. From
there I' took a short cut for home right through the wilds. The
GoveJ:nment is now making a twelye- foot road following that very
.; rouie. Thecllapels at Mador and Tulai are right on the highway,
.and the next time I visit them I hope to ride a bicycle;,it will take
hours instead of days!
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63
To the south of Mador is the newest kind of country, but the
highway will go through it, so we are building a chapel w~ere the
Binatang road wilt meet the new road at a place called Krupok. I
could tell you of Asek and Slalu and Repok, also of Zion-the only
way to get there was a jungle path, then a row up a little stream
only about six feet wide but deep and swift. It took hours, but now
the Government is building a road along our trail. The last time
I was there the chapel was so crowded that the people hung on with
one hand and foot like on a crowded street car. We took in 23
new members.
At Engkilo one of our members has given three acres of rubber
in good condition, ,and a house that can be used as a school. This
was much needed and the gift is much appreciated.
Here is an extract from the report of the Secretary for Chinese
affairs who came round some time ago on a tour of inspection.
" A general survey of the present conditions among the Foochow
colonies in the Rejang can scarcely be written without admiration
for the work completed and enthusiasm for the future."
The Girls' School is still our prize exhibit. One hundred and
twenty are on roll. The attendance is exceptional-sofuetimes there
is not one absent. The work has been broadened and the teaching
staff greatly strengthened. A Kindergarten entertainment partly
in Mandarin, greatly pleased the Chinese. Our building has reached
its capacity and we must have a new building to take care of this
most important work.
Our mothers are coming from this school-they are being
taught not only how to cook and sew and sweep, but to make a
home attractive and comfortable-not only what is in books, but
they are being rooted and grounded in the Faith.
We have no debts.
About the same time the Foochows went into Sibu, a company
of Cantonese with a large capital took up land just above Sibu on
the Rejang. They planted a pepper garden and employed about
300 labourers.
The company failed and the labourers took up the
concession and divided the garden but want of capital and leadership soon dissipated their resources and the whole scheme fell
through. A few of the better class stuck to it. The land was
well drained, the soil good and the location fine. For years they
have struggled on. Years ago the Rajah asked me to open work
among them but for lack of money and more es.pecially because
of the language difficulty I got nothing done. During the year
I was invited to look their settlement over and was surprised to
find them in such a prosperous and contented conditon. Some of
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the gar~ens were good and there is no doubt but that the settlement
js permanent and will grow. They are urging me to take these
.schools over and since all our schools are teaching Mandarin the
language difficulty passes out. I have promised to get them a
teacher. This puts the future of this people in our hands. All that
is needed is $10 a month to supplement their budget and give us
.a hold.
]. M. HOOVER,
District Superintendent.
Reports of Standing Committees and Boards
1931.
The following Objectives for 1931 were adopted by the
Malaysia Commission on Religious Education and presented to the
Annual Conference, which also adopted them.
1. That the whole Conference support the Family Worship
League movement, which was so successfully launched
last year.
2.. That the Secretaries organize work in Parent Education
as soon as possible in the various churches and stations.
3. That the Secretaries secure and distripute promotion
literature covering the teaching and living of Christian
Ideals and the better organisation of church schools,
Epworth Leagues, etc.
4. That all organized churches in the Conference should
have church schools, and that our larger church schools
assume the responsibility of opening new church schools
in out-stations.
5. That well planned steps be taken to increase the number
of Epworth League Chapters and to revive the inactive
Chapters.
6. That our church schools press for self-support in the
matter of providing adequate graded literature for pupils
and teachers.
7. That all possible be done to bring about a deeper
evangelistic passion in all our church school officers and
teachers.
8. That the administrators of day school Sunday schools
and pastors of churches in stations where such Sunday
schools exist co-operate to provide a church service
suited to young people in close proximity to, immediately
following the adjournment of, the Sunday Schools.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONS FOR
P. L.
PEACH.
Cbair1n;an.
REPORTS OF CoMMITTEES
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HOME J\lISSIONARY SOCIETY \VORK IN PAHANG
In the last Annual Conference Pahang was declared the Home
Missionary Society field. The first Missionaries were Rev. S. M.
Rajamoney of Raub, Rev. Ang Giok Sui of Mentakab, and Mr.
Lam Thau Onn of Bentong who did work among the Tamils, the
Chinese, and the Malays. They were financed with the help of a
Mission Grant, money received from Dr. W- G. Shellabear and
the Home Missionary Society's monthly grant of $90- beginning
from February last.
The progress of the work was reported by the District
Superintendent, Rev. M. Dodsworth in his report to the Conference.
Against the claim of $1,000- for last year, the Home
Missionary Society began last January with $524- secured from
Conference Benevolences and with pledges amounting to $75which was realised early last year. So, the Society's resources
were $59:'1- in cash and pledges.
Sometime in September, the credit balance was only $.10But to the appeal sent out to the Churches, Epworth Leagues, and
Sunday Schools there was willing response. Further, in the absence
of Dr. Chen Su Lan, the Treasurer, the Chairman and the Secretary
-So S. Pa.kianathan and J. A. P. Oswald-secured some financial
help by seeing individuals in various places. The result was that
the society closed the year ending 31 st December 1930 with a
,credit balance of $173-.
The Society begins the 2nd year with $173- on hand, and
.$531- secured from Conference Benevolences-with a total of
$704- cash. In addition, the Society has secured pledges of special
gifts to the extent of $367- which will be increased to $400- before
the month ends. It will be in a position to meet this year*s salary
.claim and to give a building grant of $500- towards the erection
c{)f a parsonage providing a hall in which to hold services in Raub.
The Society recommends the following:( 1)
That the Bishop and the Cabinet permit it to share
ihe responsibility in all the phases of work in Pahang-in Tamil,
Chinese, and Malay work. This alone will appeal to all of our
ChlJrches and institutions, and secure their financial help, prayer,
and continued interest.
(2) That pastors, Epworth Leagues, and Sunday Schools set
apart one SUJ.1day in the year to bring the Society's work in Pahang
to the notice of their constituency and secure funds.
(3)
That the following Constitution be adopted:-
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HOME IVlISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE MALAYA CoNFERENCE OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
C onstituti01t
Organisation: The organisation shall be named the Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Malaya.
2.
M embersbip: The membership shall consist of the sub'scribers to the Society's Fund.
-3. Objects: The object shall be:
(a) To preach the gospel throughout Malaya.
(b) To strengthen the nucleus of our developing
Indigenous Church.
The Society shall be managed by a
4. Management:
committee consisting of a layman from each District elected
quadrennially by the Lay Conference and the same nUllJber of
ministers elected quadrennially by the Annual Conference.
Vacancies among laymen shall be filled by tpe District Conferences
and those among ministers by the Annual Conference.
5. Officers.: The Committee shall elect quadrennially fronl
among themselves three executive officers, namely, a President,.
a Secretary and a Treasurer.
The officers shall present at each Annual Conference a report
and a Balance Sheet.
The Committee shall meet every year at the seat of the Annual
Conference, when five shall form a quorum.
6. A 11)' Alterations to this Constitution shall be recommended
only at the quadrennial meeting by two-thirds majority of the'
members of the Managing Committee present, and made by the
Annual Conference in the quadrennial session.
S. S. PAKIANATHAN,
Chairma1't_
1.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF EDI)CATlON.
A Census of the schools has been taken, on which I hope the:
Secretary of Religious Education will report and give his impressions.
of the religious status of the work being done in all our schools,
and will no doubt make some comparison with the results of the
census taken a few years ago. Through his efforts a good deal
more Religious literature has found its way into all our schools~
The results of which are not as yet very apparent, but we trust~
will become more and more so as the seed sown comes to fruition ..
I have .visited most of our major institutions and tried to help
the heads with some advice and information. The school in each~
centre, and indeed, 'every individual school, has its own problems.
which can only be work~d out by a head who has been long enough.
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3n charge to know all the intricacies. With the hearty cooperation of our School Heads, I have been able to complete a
Handbook for Teachers, which it is hoped, when in print, may
l1elp as a guide to many of our staff to betterl understanding of
the working of our school system-if we can lay claim to any
system any more than the Education Department can. It does
not pretend to explain every difficulty nor does it lay down any
rules as to how each individual school is to be managed. That
must be left to the Manager of each individual school, for as I have
.said each has its own peculiar difficulties which require separate
treatment, and I think each manager whilst following the broadlines
of our so-called system must work out his own salvation in his
own schoo1. For years most of the Heads of our Schools have
girded at restrictions imposed on them with regard to religious
instruction and vocational training, but I have not seen nor heard
of any continuation school which is free from Government Control
a vailing itself to any extent of their opportunities. Surely here is
the oportunity for us to lay down schemes, whereby we can embark
on more rational lines our ideas of what we think is the 20urse of
,diucation we should impart to the pupils of our continuation schools
.and so show Government what can be done along such lines, for
we must always lead the way in these things and lay down our
own curriculum. V\'e cannot do this so well in the grant-in-aid
::schools, but what is to hinder us doing it in our own schools.
It is rumoured that there will be some drastic changes in
Educational policy next year. So we must be on the qui vive for
whatever they may be. There are rumours also that a circular has
:been passed round within the Department relative to the number
I()f missionary teachers that will be allowed to anyone school.
As far as I have heard we shall be able to more than double the
number we have, if we can get them, but we have been reminded
that these must be approved by the Department before leaving
U. S. A. We have often failed, in the past to do this.
The fact that Government is starting afternoon schools in
.Singapore was, to me, somewhat of a surprise. The regulations
they have adopted for their schools will necessitate our modifying
:and amending our directions regarding our Continuation Schools.
Our policy of these schools need very careful consideration
for they are much in the eye of the public who are putting their
-own constructions on our methods, and these are rather critical and
often not to our credit. We have come under this scrutiny
.as we have been the only body that has ventured on such schools
and now at last Government is following our lead but in a way
that will make comparisons more or less odious if we are not
.careful.
G. F.
PYKETT.
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CoMMITTEE ON UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS
During the year the Revised Ust of Text Books for our schools
was prepared after opinions from Inspectors and Principals were
obtained. There have been requests for a list of one book only
for each subject, making real uniformity. Your committee does
not feel that rigid uniformity can be got nor would it be advisable,
some choice should be left. We strongly suggest that if possible
new texts be lined out in say two schools under careful observation
before being put in the list. We understand that this list is now
in use in several government schools.
Constructive suggestions are cordially invited from anyone.
These should be sent to the chairman before Ma v 1st. The 1931
list will be sent out by June 1st
P L.
PE.\CH,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE O~ CHRISTIAl': LITERATURE.
The Committee on Christian Literature makes the following
recommenda tions:
(1)
That the Christian Literature sales-room keep in stock
a supply of Chinese hymn books in the various dialects and that theChinese churches be informed of this source of supply.
(2) That $200 be appropriated for a Malay supplement
to the Malaysia Message.
(3) That there be a grant of $300 for the purpose of
publishing Malay tracts and pamphlets as required.
(4) That the Committee on Christian Literature present
inexpensive kit bags to all pastors for use in distributing hand-bills
and Christian literature.
(5) That a summary of the Conference report including the·
important resolutions be printed in the Malaysia Message and
Southern Bell and that this summary be reprinted in pamphlet form.'
for free distribution including a report in Tamil.
(6) That the Secretary of the Committee on Christian
Literature be authorised to purcha-se a portable cinema projector
(standard film size) costing not more than $400 and that this.
projector be available for loan to the various schools, churches.
and mission institutions of our Conference in order to promote the
sales of Christian Literature.
B. P.
MEANS,
Chairman.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
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•
A;,\1ENDME~TS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
THE MALAYSIA C01\'I.:\1ISSION ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.
Moved that the Constitution of the Malaysia Commission on
.Religious Education be amended as follows:
By the addition of Clause IX, Amendments: The Constitution may be amended at any regular meeting of the
Commission by a two thi.rds vote of all members present
and voting, subject to the approval of the Malaya Annual
Conference and the Sumatra Mission Conference.'
,b. By inserting in Clause III, para. 1, after the words "as
the Executive Officer of the Commission," the following
words: "the Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young
People's Work, and the Secretary for Elementary work"
and changing the word Ii member" following to
" members."
c. By adding the following to Clause IV: "It also may have
a Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young People'S
Work and a Secretary for Elementary work, both of w'hom
shall be appointed by the Bishop and both of whom shall
be ex-officio members of their respective standing
committees. "
,d. By changing Clause V, para (3) to read: "Executive
Committee composed of the Executive Secretary, the
Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young People's Work
and the Secretary for Elementary Work, ex-officio, and
seven elected members, five from Malaya and two from
Sumatra. Anyone of the ex-officio members and four of
the elected members of the Executive Committee shall
constitute a quorum.
a.
REPORT OF THE COM.MITTEE ON THE
STATE OF THE CHURCH.
The Committee recommends that the Commitiee on
Christian Literature prepare pamphlets setting forth as clearly as
possible the following:
(a) The duty of every Christian to give a proportionate
share of his income to further Christian work: the value
of the every-member, canvas: the dependence of the
establishment of an indigenous church OIi the receipt
of sufficient local income to maintain same.
(b) The duty of Christians to refrain from gambling, and
taking part in sweepstakes, lotteries, games of chance,
etc.
(c) The proper observance of Sunday. We deprecate the
tendency on the part a portion of our constituency to
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do unnecessary buying and selling on the Lord's Day.
We would call upon our membership to discountenance
secular amusements and refrain from all unnecessary
travelling on Sunday: we would export all to be loyal
to the church, attending its services regularly and
encouraging others to "do so.
(d) The substance of the .General Rules of the Church,
emphasizing the cardinal virtues and making definitely
clear to our constituency the principles for which we
stand and the goal towards which we are working.
2. We record our deep appreciation of the work of the
Malaysia Commission on Religious Education in its campaign for
worship in the home, and trust that it will continue its efforts in
this direction.
3. \Ve recommend that the work of the Scripture Union bf"
encouraged, and suggest that in every station some one of our
workers head up this programme for daily Bible Reading.
4. That at least a week be set aside in every station each
year for special evangelistic services and that all possible assistance
be given to the committees which may be chosen to arrange for
the meetings to be conducted by Dr. Stanley Jones.
5. That the following recommendations be observed in
connection with the renting of Church Halls to non-Christian groups:(a) The function must be non-political.
(b)
No reflection on Christian principles may be expressed.
(c) The pastor should obtain the approval of the Board of
Stewards in each instance before permitting nonChristian groups to occupy any Church Hall.
6. That a systematic effort be made to keep in touch with
the former students who professed Christianity while in schooL
We fear that many of them have no definite church affiliation.
7. We record our appreciation of the work done by the
Board of Ministerial Training, and trust that no effort will be spared
to make the pastorate an increasingly important factor in our
general mission programme. Our educational programme should
not overshadow the Church Programme, but the former should be
regarded as preparing the ground for the building of a strong
indigenous church. We commtMld every endeavour to place the
ministry in its true perspective, and to increase its influence, in order
that it may be able to cope with the lJ;'lost important phase of our
work-to gather all of Christ's followers into a strong organization
and to enlist them in willing and sacrificial service in the task of
bringing in the Kingdom of God.
8. We urge the cultivation of a dynamic type of Christianity.
The type of nominal Christian found in some communities is of
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\doubtful value to the cause. \Ve need those who have had a
personal experience of Christ.
9. Relative to the two matters tnat have been referred to
this Committee from the Singapore District Conference the
following recommendations are made:
(a) That the Bishop appoint a special committee to study
the salary problem of the Chinese pastors, said committee to report its findings to the Finance Committee
at the Midyear Session.
(b) That the matter of Tamil Ingathering Services be
discussed at the next session of the School of Ministerial
Training for Tamil pastors.
T W.
BOWMAR.
Cbairman.
COM:\lITIEE ON PUBLIC MORALS.
We believe that Government took a step in the right direction
closing down the houses of ill fame in Malaya. It is our
conviction that the state should not license or control vice. To
regulate vice gives to the people a false sense of security, thus
.making it a snare and a delusion as well as a menace to public
morals.
jn
We deplore the fact that there is a good deal of loose thinking
and talking about marriage and divorce. We do well to bear in
mind that, from the Christian viewpoint, marriage is a divine
institutioil, and that it is essentially a religious contract. The
.marriage bond is a sacred tie and cannot be set aside or severed
by a mere wish or whim. We would urge our young people to
seek the advice of their parents and pastor " before entering upon
a relationship so vital to the mlintenance of the home, the State
and the Church."
Your Committee views with deep concern the great increase
of amusements in our midst. We realize that amusements have
a place in the life of our young people, but we would beseech them
"to make their amusements the subject of careful thought and
frequent prayer, to study the subject of amusements in the light of
their tendencies, and to be scrupulously careful in this matter to
set no injurious example." Let us avoid "the taking of such
diversions as cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus."
We look with disfavour upon the" mui-tsai " system which
is really a form of slavery.. We therefore ask our people to obstain
-from this evil and to seek its abolition by all lawful means.
It is encouraging to note that many toddy shops on the
Tubber estates were closed last year. In several cases the labourers
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themselves, who once clamoured for toddy shops, now request
the managers to close them down.
GOH
HOOD
KENG,
Chairman.
BOARD OF CONFERENCE STEWARDS.
Monthly allowances for 1931
Mrs. Deng Peng Deng
Mrs. Toomey
Rev. Ng Huat Bi
Rev. Li Koh Ding
Miss Abraham
Rev. Kong Iau Siong
Rev. Ng Khoan Jiu
$20.00
15.00
23.00
30.00
15.00
43.00
33.00
(REV.)
V.
SAMUEL,
Cbairmal1.
CoMMITIEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
We extend our sincere sympathy to Brother Abel Eklund,
Douglas P. Coole, and M. Timothy Huang, and their families, in
the loss of their fathers during the past year. May God sustain
them in 1heir times of testing.
It is with real regret that we learn of the illness of Bishop
James C. Baker, which necessitated his cancelling his visit to our
Conference. We trust his return to the United States for medical
treatment will result in an early recovery of his health. It is our
earnest hope that arrangem~nts may be completed whereby he
may be permitted to attend the next session of our Conference.
We record our delight in the steady advance in the development of an indigenous church in Malaya. Among the outstanding
evidences of this are the appointment of a National District
Superintendent at this Conference session and the commendable
support given by the local churches to the Home Mission work
in Pahang.
The gratitude of the Conference is due to Rev. P. L. Peach,
principal of the Anglo-Chinese School, Penang, and those of his
staff and students who prepared the large map of Malaysia which
so graphically brought before us the area in which our work is
being carried on.
The Conference records its thanks for the very helpful visit
of the Rev. S. S. Ding, Secretary of Relig-ious Education of the
Fukien Area, China, to practically all the Chinese churches of the
Conference and the two Schools of Ministerial Training.
We express our joy in the anticipated coming of Dr. Stanley
Jones to Malaya in 1931 for a tour of evangelism. It is sincerely
hoped that nothing may prevent the arangements to this end and
pray that great spiritual good may attend his coming.
.
.....
Report I.
Statistical Report
' . ....
the Malaya
0
~DDual
Coafenace for the Year Ending 3lat Decembe., 1930.
SUNDAY
SOHooLI
NAME
Ftn.L )bJlB••SHIP
01'
CHARGE
..,f
a• ',a
..
f:;!
j
a
.. II
:l~
,gil
a
II
.Il
o
5
1
tpn1l District.
1200
87]
2680
840
Ipoh, Chin_
..
Engl"h ..
Tamil
.•
Kampar. Chine"
Pusiug Chi~,e . .
..
..
••
2
80 ;
.. 1
3110
]5
:']0
..
'1
709
:Sungel'Siput, TlJmi/ • •
••
740
SitlawBD, Ayer Tawar, Chitlu,
1860
" .Kampong Koh
If
660
,. BimpangAmpat~Lumut
900
"
Bungei Wangi,
"
624
II
Third Road,
"
]210
"Tamll
.•
••
600
Tanjong Bamhutan, Ohin," ••
600
Tronoh, Cllineu .•
,900
Talplng, Ch,_
480
..
Tamil..
••
Telok Anson, Chi_ .•
1620
" T/Ullil & reJU(/N
1: 00
1171
2600
840
150
694
740
760
420
276
822
710
360
360
8
7
2:0
8
4
..)
60
26 "
120
"
240
180 1
2401
3001
5
1
1
40
88
3
3
II
3
720
240
120
240
144
410
300
240
240
300 ,4~0
200 280
95
58
480 1140
6
tl
]:\
9
3
1
2
2
15
2
14
15
4
15
15 18
53 241
8
3
10 10
2
13 17
28 35
4 15
8
11 13
5 18
5
5
7
1
25
43 .
7
5
13
12
11
10
9
10
5
17
4
3
5
6
19 20 21
75
48
235
64
35
85
90
215
30
32
46
59
83
]0
3
3
42
34
6
]0
7
I
80
18
4
6
2
]5
5 615
1
23
2
3
36
3
1
4
1
1
1
291
48
10
12
88
6
1
1
2
40
6
13
7
23
2
8
1
]
4
2
1
l'
1
3
9\
3
2
1
1
6
4
2
9
28
27
12
93
72
30
97
25 140
16
17 125
43
16
35
35
Totals 1930 ••
Totals 1929 ••
Increase ••
Decrease ••
29
28
54 53
36
244 229 312
120 100 25
40 35 11
52 40 12
20
9
70 81
305 240 119
40 36 11
15 15
8
47 40 18
31 24 12
]2
10
30 25
04 52
37 22
1
1
1
]
1
5
2
17
1
2
]
1
3
3
]3
25
241
i
147
2
65
99'
22
3
11
]6
12
1
3
6
5
7!
II
16
1
IS
o
18
50
25
40
15
640 212
463 190
177 22
77 355
76 281
1 lU
Kuala Lumpur Dillt~ct.
.~
:..
__ :IIl'll'I
5
5
50
10
150
60
20
20
50
10
150
60
20
20
J4entokab
Port Swettenham,
Raub, Tamil Circuit
liIentul, Tamil
515 235 280 180
947 240 707 120
800
300 180
]450 580 920 300
2685 1080 1605 240
900
900 ,.
1700 505 1195 860
1392 360 103:! 240
2251
2251 600
500 360 140 10C
645 250 395 180
14]8 10441 374 208
643
••
643 180
22
22
Totals 1930
Totals 1929
Increase
Decrease
15346 46041] 0742 S88
14659 4788 987]2568
68i
871 820
]84 ..
3i9
262
97
350
262
9i
40
15
40
645 240
4
10
10
Bentong, Cllilltst
Bukit notan. ra",i/ .•
Knjnng. ChillUIl
Klang,
" ••
,
Talnil Cireu" ••
Killlla Lumpur, Engi"h
"
HakluJ·Ctmttmtse
"
Hinghua Chinu,
II
TalllU Circuit ••
8
1
8
]
5
5
g
~~~6~
14
2271
. 40
382
665
5
8
"I
288
708
305
97 ....
1615
]05
8
]3 1111
11 1015]
7
2
963
4
7
2
1
5
3
13
1
3
34
4
4
21
2
7
9
8
2
18
1
5
96
65
31
7
1
4
18
8
20
4
10
5
6'
4
9
2
10
15
40
825
10
2°1
76
1350 540
1000
8821 10iO
106
860 821)
756 4110
984 600
9IU
.,
1410
210
1050
660 360
240
25
"
Tamil Circuit
Mantin, Chine.e
Herlimau, ChiM"
••
P. Panjyg & P.Dickson,Chi
Segamat
,e,
Sepang,
-Serembnn, Chinese
Englial, ••
Tamil eiroN;t
."
. Seroml Chine"
Bungel Bambei, Circuit
Sungei Bahru
Tampin,
Tangkah,
180
4
"
25
471
"
76 60
810 240
]000
2751 240
106
5401180
276 66
834 200
910 180
]410 240
210
1050 860
300 180
215 120
120
8
1
25 ..•
25
85
25
10
28
8
]0
28
8
15
25
20
60
30
8
7
4
58
70
115 a12
260 755
70
99
72
67
15
999
905
94
12
145 443
29
]0
2
2
3
5
4
4
2
4
3
5
2
J
]
10
11
10
10
8
121
2
2
15
25
20
50
30
8
'i
9
30
3
11
i
3
1
6
3
4
1
3
7
8
5
9
30
151
o
8
4
ti
6
1
9
4
5
3
1
5
3
17
2
3
7
1~1 ~9 203~1
21
2
8
5 10
16 38
39 100
9 12
7 ]2
12
10 16
30 30
22
31
6 26
4
8
i
20
13
25
25
35]
1
10
]0
20
10
9
22
8
5
Malacca District.
Aaaban, C/liMII
Bekok, Chinese .•
Bemban,
.Jasin,
"
.Jementah,
Chin,,'
Kuala PUah
"
Paloh
I.
J4alaceu,
'I
Strait, Clmlue
27
76
59
109
101
65
42
204
14
32
49\
70
5
4
5
2'
1
8
53
6
32
75
36
10
25
5
5
24
20
3
16
3
2
2
13
3
8
8
2
40
24
67
69
16
12 ..
8
811
1
2
U6
5
39
37
28
37
115
111
30
56
24
4
25
6
9
9
4
8
3
4
2
]
1
5
8
15
5
8
2
8
2
9
7
1\
2
3
8
2
1
4
]8
80
5S
22
21
]5
3
4
2
8
3
1l!
1
1
4
7
15
2
2
3
7
1
13
2
1
1
]2
24
8
1
2
1
1
2
2
3
1
1
2
]
2
3
4
1
1
]
12
6
3
1
19
1
1
21 428
3"
]
4
"5 326
466 754
20
25
10
115
30
25 ]5
65 45
195 ]6ti
2ii 20
:W 1/i
.38 33
28
511 48
40 30 2
60 501 17
175 ]05110
313 30 27
~7
21 ••
35 251 "
I'
1] Itl3\
5
2
1
5
1
6
3
9'
40
]8
25
32
15
67
32
]
2
100 170
345 112
970 074 803 ]63
868 665 696 274
102 109 107
III
1
1]
2
7
20
47
1
7
545
508
37
73
6
4
8
2
1
2
1
161210
14 137
2
]~gl :: J
2
8
3
2
9
14
6
5
11
40
8
12
11
]2
7
80 26
32 15
56 46
100 100
6
80 66
30
140 90 45 112
'6r,00' 48 71
45
9
242 110 65
20 16
72 44
44 39
5
44 30 10 21
1
2
1
1
2
1
]
1
22
]7
7
16
31
52
88
5
66
12
8
2
6~1
1
1
14
17
II
21
3
]41
20
7
0
1
I
2
15
30
65
121'
2ii
::
53
I
1--~--~--~-7--~--~--r-~~---4--~~--~~--,------+--7-----~--~--~~~~-------·-.----~--r--r-.------
14i99 3095111042306
14709 323011389] 830
90 465
476
285 "
Totals 1930
Totals 1929
Increase ••
Decrea~e ••
429
479
429
479
5
50
50
5
]0
10
20
10
10
20
99
86
61
25
89
10
126
63
63
191 364
154 389
40
58
84
24
9t6'
~~~
29
al) 68
50 107
20
11 165
1 17Q
391
5
481
48~
51
105~
25
28
fl9
78
3
9
1
7
1
4
16~.
817 364
76 623
• ~239 ~~8 ~:~ l~g' '-fJ
11H.i'i."1---.
16
18
11
••
••
64
Penang District.
252
400
117
Bukit Mertajam, Chine"
Kulim, Chine.1l
..
Nebonlt Tebal, Ta~il •.
Pnrit Huntar, Tam.' ••
Pellang, Cllinue, Conion_
,."
"
Engliah
Tamil,.
:~g
••
Pro;'. Wellesley, Kedah, TlJmi/
Sung('i Putani. Chinue
"
1801
4u
11;
72
:g~
161
370
33 I
Tamil
780
37
::g
835
10
10
20
334 ••
~
14
Ig
l~g l~g
8
4]0
::;
6~'1
'1
10
10
20
2
2
8
3
2
3
g~: 1:~ 1280
1~: 550 ~g70 ig70
1280
Hokien
..
3IJ0
•
'.
2
1
11
2 ,•
3
0)3'
10!
131
3
11
6
4,
6
1~64
7
19
~5
~:\
1231
10
i~
1~]~
~~
1~
13
29
61
3]
42
11 23
0) 1 8
2 : ; .• -\ ••
3
1, •
:11
2
4
'I'
?"
n(-I
-21: :
42 116
IIi 69 7
1i2 40' 30
20 15
250 205 20il
255 186 150
~\3 26~
10
15
6" 41 a~!
72
i~
'''\
::
21
50
~~2 .~
18
85
1111
90
~~--~--~~--~---+--~'--+---T--~----~~--~-----+--+------T--------------~~'--'-----'--~-7--'---+--
Totals 1930 ..
Totals 1929 , .
Increase .•
Decrease ••
35~" 3]~" 13
350
215
135
6230 1674 44842002
7346 2166 5180 712
.• 1290
1116 492 696. ,
46
a6
10
215 ••
135 ..
19
22
27
13
5
46 HI
58 142
74
62
12
12
25
35
516
470
40
51
39
12
56
14
42
13
H
5
10
i3
70
262
264
3
2
11
11
65~ 1.5.37 20~
108
321 486
73
77
8i61669
11001489 7.5,
..
18
224 .,
9
4
....
12 328
8
..
Sarawak District.
Bibu
Bukit Lima
Asan ,
tling Cbu An
Hinghua
X\vong Hua
Enlurai
Da Pho
Ne Se Akak
Labaan
Nang Chong .,
Bing Nanl[ Cheng
Kni N~a Geng
Berekot
..
Tuna Po
Lollok Geng , •
Tiena Siang Dio
"Talljollg Kunyit
Bukit Lltn
BiDatang
Bin~ulu
"
....
Hador
Pulai
Krupok
4
720
65
84
240
200
720
65
84
240 "
200 "
440\
420
]50
240
470
420
460 1
440 ..
"2
420 .•
150
3
240
470
420
460
]80
320
360
340
60
120
420
120
96
180
320
360
1
3401
l~gll
420
~20
:~61
"
2
5
1
"
2
:: i ::
..
Slngapore District.
(Jantonese, CI,i~8Il
Foochow,
Geylang,
llinghull,
..
Johor Bharu, Tamil
Payalebar
Bonei, Chinese
Straits,
..
Tamil Church "
'l'eluk Ayer, CI.inu,
Wellley Church
Totals 1930
TotslslD29
Inl!rease .,
Decreale. '
5925
5157
768
2
3
.. ... _"J"
- . . . . - _ -__
Totals 1930
Totals 1929
JncrE'8se
Decrease
2
4
2
2
,.
..
::"I"I::
:: I
I
12
6
I ..
..
..
1260
1560
1269
1675
300\ 960 .•
480, 1080 360
600 659 480
365 1310
J089
3540
963
2375
720
319
3540 5,10
240 723 480
400 1975 720
..
..
5
1
..
31
\
..
3
8
2
2
25
14
4
15
2
22
12
8
2
9
81
39
25
7/j
4
20
30
20
10
32
4
13
12
7
18
24
228
8
15
6
9
18 10
8
9
14
6
2
8
0
7'
5
12 _20
6
11
2
9
1
132
45
26
16
129
]
100
212
113
91
31
72
75
36
14
6
49
9
2
9
]0
6
1
611
47
33
69
2
2
42
54
30.
]04'
11
5
8
8
1
'~I .~~
18
18
262
5]
262
51
6
9
6
2
6
2
947
161..
17 15732
16 15911
12
••
5
17
74
85
90
71
19
11
2
15
15
]8
17
12
]8
7
5
2
4
I)
27
5
3
5
18
4
8
2
15
6
30
1
6
17
94
5 40
30 .
198
20
20
3 49
20
1 14
]
95
4 12
132
7
2 15
25
2 H
~
_•• __ .2 __ -.20
liii
30
20
30;,
30
138 267
137 363
1
96
81
i6
5
20
115
194
46
305
13S
77
70
126
74
262
1638
1334
3~4
68
19
49
44
105
49
7 537
13 4i!1
!i
4
2
762
173
200 170
35 25
2
2
]
1
1
1
8
5
]]0
120
a5
1
4
4
4
5
25
60 240
70
80
30
10
20
5
6
100
8
25
20
11
36
48
40
114
00
70
50
2
35
20
1
2
30
20
1
3
92
4f
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
25
20
30
20
---l-l-;r --
2
4'
54..
a9
8
229 ~-3
171
58
8
26
14
3
]
3i:
40
]
1
,;: ,:: ':211 ,:::: l
1009
149
8
3
3
1
2
2
~~I ig
-14-9-4-9--:!-':0-1C-11-\6:---9-3-'~:;---17~-54-+--- 10;~~09 -. 8~
112
105
72
155
73
164
]
1
00
10
16
.
711
73, • ..
3 " I.. ..
,•
68 ., 1 "
191 " . .
7
2U!
20
8
20
12
25
12
3
334 -';94--;;~liI3-;;-0252
214 .. 243
82
305' 117
6
22
8
3
32
]6
43
24
2
8'
4
6
4
20. ,
24
52
H 72
49 18
25. ,
7
6
6 !t2,
5
5
9
6
71 291
1
4
,-=62:..:7..;..i;.-=12~0:...:0_i___'_50.:..7-'-7.;_12..;..40-0~-1-:01-1 ~ -'-' ~T' -'c1~50~8~-_-2=r__-=2+_--4i - _6 _____4-=;-.=.:12:.;-.
19948 43051564349801
1471 52521580449801
2,
201
25
;)
]0
69
53
7
12
5
2
16
5
97
2 1082
6;;
3 131
5
3
10
15
30
24
2
4
6
34 5959
40 5197
., I 762
6
...."
4
47
24
74
18
9
18
36
342
62
122
423
120
96
'I
8
19
l!
322
. - - - - - -------_c _ _ _ _ ,. ____ ...
5925
5157
768
11
45
9
'7,;1
8
iJ
761
883 . 663 127 290 1
121 46"
..
..
..
38,214
82
84
68
62 21
50 1
68] 00
226 253
105
121 253
31
108
.:"~ jL~ ,:: '"
27 11
1]0
104 411113
20
]50 100 5
50
170
2 13
.,
:n
2
2i6 ]75 1 95
40
139
-177 --~~-1-8-1::';11::'---'18=":4"::2; 926i-~.:...4::.:71S:.=.2-'5:.:9T-~-;-~642
18 126
lSI
5
361
11
2
95
16
43
1180 94711156 262
162
520
21 ••
8
885
248
Conference Totals.
Ipoh
District
K. Lumpur"
MaIacea
"
Peuang
"
1Iarawak
~iDgapore
..
Conference Totall 1930 , •
Conference Total. 1929 , •
Increase
Decreale
7004
15346
14799
6280
5925
9948
37401:1,2611769
460410742 888
8695 111042306
1674 448 2002
5925 ,.
4305 1564 4980
92521801860159
9i84 061168449
....
582 2593 8290
127
359
429
350
12]
359
429
350
71
73
15
13N5
IJ
1386 1838
1162
30
73
605
.,
176
43
171
96
99
46
834
74
112
68
86
22
194
90
820
562 1002 942
529 687 365
33 815 ,.
.,
423
660
160
498
312
364
141
360
i8
77
72
58
25
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318 191
6892
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I"
4
4
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Increase
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Totals 1930
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Conference Totals.
J3 64830
10 67700
19 611)00
2 28000
)3 4il00
5312000
Ipob
District
K. Lumpur"
Malncc:L
Penang
Barllwuk
..
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Conference Tota1B 1930 ••
Conferl'nce TotalB 1929 ..
1 n~rease
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26950 2726
11 44400 4676
7 21000 1873
433
3 42500
4 26500
6 91750 6767
206
286
12323
500
2300
225
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2178
1751
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29586
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Indebtrdnel l
Jl:XPENDITUB£
NAME AND LOCATION
OF SCHOOl,.
I
Ipoh J)1atrict.
lpoh, A. C. School
•.
..
"
A. C. C. School. .
..
.,
A. C. GirZ,' School
..
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" Girls Bordin.g Schoo
"
Horley Hall
Kampar,.J.. C. 8chool
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.,
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PUling, Chil1,.e
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SitiauMn II. C. School
••
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A. C. Girls School ••
" Ayer Tawar Chillue" ••
..
SU"gti Wangi
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II. C. S. (BrllAs)
••
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.... 161 515139~1l10 52 15 3312162 UO 18 435300 180000 27640 3S001M81; ]3354 15210 95001 12735 22590720500 "96S 2246R5
.... 17 50 20'1 .. 56 33 293 ..
. . . . 80300
..
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., 32244 ..
4ji94
2860 30254
", 68 .. . . . . 88 41 5
..
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..
..
4887..
3012
16858....
.. ~1 112
Total~ 1930
TotnlB 1929
Increase "
Decrea8e ..
..
..
::
15000
..
..
1500..
..
..
d
..
.. 11163"1"
lU68 . .
6600
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..
..
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1
Kuala Lumpur District.
Knjang, (ChiM8')
..
..
Khng, (AlIglo.ChifllJ!8 Sellool) ..
Klang (Continuation St'hool) ..
,.
(ftltlltodi.,/ Gi,.Is' .~(1IO<1i1 ••
K. L.,(ltIe!hodu! Boya' School) ..
K. 1,./ (Continuation Scbool) ..
F
(ll.thodi8t Gtrz,' Bohooll ..
.
Holt Hall
..
Mentakab (Anglo·Cbine8e
School)
..
..
..
..
Port 8wettenbam (Continu·
ation School)
•• . • "
Totals 193U
Total8 1929
Inr.reaBe
Decrease
..
..
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H~~
1
1
3 ..
"I ..
M 1 17 .. ..:'1 64:
119
M..
3 .. .. , ... , ..
1
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1
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39
39
42
42
36
38
1
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1
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1
1
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30
31i
..
55 250~ 54 8-J] 10 284400
.. 222..
.. .. 29600
2
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..
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314~~;;U-00
9
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bool ..
2391..
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34350 18600
\
19~
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32.1.16
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60 545
48552
2858
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76995
4818
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3300
175
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489 •. 210 3 53000
..
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158. . 53 1 11000 10000 3000 60C 3671 • .
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1
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260
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197
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350
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2 ...13
:!533
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4551
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588
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873 19281
.. 26754 4022 2527
3142-1
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,
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Kalacca, District.
. . I.... .. ~Ili, ~9" .' .'
.. 1
Aeahan, ChifUlse
••
]
Bekoh
"
••
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...• 1
'Halaeea. An.glo·CllifUlle Bchool. 1
Hos/~1
"
Malay
..
"
S"llla6'(I" Hall
.•
Suydam Gir'" SC'IOO~.
"
Palob. Chinllse
••
•.
Beremban, Anglo,C'lille.e Schoo,
.. Extms;o" Sdwol oj A
Berom, ClUnIlst
••
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.•
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Total 1930
Total 19211
InereA8" •.
DeeroA8o ..
40 MF ..
'2 . . . . . . ..
40 MF
1 . . . . . . ..
..
_
1 . . . . . . ..
46 l\I_~
1~ .. .. 18
61 i32\ '86 :: .
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1 -10 1.1
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108 :: : ::
1 . . . . .. ..
1 -Ii M!
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1 40 ~1!' 2 12 . . . . 36 80i i44. 7!!1.· ..
138 M
4 .. .. . . . .
75 ' 25 1" I •. i
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3 ... .
1 40 MF
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II 65000,
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8000
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300
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6500
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796
1300
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700
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796
1300
30376
1500
103;10
1370
796
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29926
1438
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24121
525
22707
3675
1787 \
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Bukit Merta.iam A. C. Girls'
Scbool
........ 1
Datokramat A. C. School . . ]
Kulim A. C. School • .
.• 1
Nebong Tebal A. C. School •• ]
Parit Buntar A. C. Behool .. 1
'"
Tamil School .• 1
I II
Continuation
Bchooi
..
..
..
.. 1
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.• 3
J
t.:ontinuatlon Sebool •. J
..
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15
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13
REPORTS OF CoMMITrEES
"
We extend a most hearty welcome to the following new
missionaries who have appeared in our midst: Mr. and Mrs. T.
Runyan, Miss Virginia Lake, Miss Marie Messersmith, Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Kingham, and Messrs. H. F Kuehn, R. Kesselring, and P.
Schmucker; and to the following who have returned from furlough:
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Patterson, and the Misses Cass, Kleinhenn,
Walker, Harvey and Jackson.
The visiting members of Conference desire to express our
deep appreciation to our hosts and hostesses for all their courtesies,
and efforts to make us comfortable. Also to those who arranged
such a helpful and inspiring programme.
The Conference is deeply endebted to the Pastor and the
officers of Wesley Church for the use of their buildings for the
meetings of the session. We appreciate greatly the splendid music
that was afforded in the various meetings of the Conference, and
express our thanks to those concerned.
We welcome with grateful hearts the return of Bishop and
Mrs. Lee from America to their appointed field of labour. The
kindly and statesmanlike manner in which this Conference has
been conducted has been most helpful and greatly appreciated.
We pledge to Bishop Lee our loyalty and co-operation.
j. M. HOOVER,
Chairman.
COMMISSION ON PUBLIC \VORSHIP AND MUSIC.
1.
We shall endeavour to help the pastors of the various
churches with their worship programmes, by sending out mimeographed suggestions and forms.
2. Suggestions of suitable music, such as doxologies
responses, new hymns with new tunes, etc. will be mimeographed
and sent to all the pastors and churches.
3. We suggest that the Ministerial schools study this problem
of worship for the Chinese churc.hes.
4. A contest wiII be arranged with the help of the Malaysia
Message and the Southern Bell to encourage the local writing of
hymns in either English, Chinese or Tamil, in an effort to produce
good indigenous music.
a.
We suggest to the Editor of the Malaysia Message to
ha ve a cut made of the prize missionary hymn of
1930 and that it be printed in the magazines of
our Conference.
HOBART
B.
AMSTUTZ,
Chairman.
74
MALAYA CoNFERENCE,
1931
Miscellaneous
JEAN HAMILTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL
This has been the best year that the School has enjoyed
since the change in teaching was made in 1928. The co-operation
of the Conference was splendid as well, as that of the Commissi?n
{)n Studies for the General Conference through Dr. Allan MacRossle.
The Courses offered by the School fo~r Extension work have
not really been a success thus far. We have quite a number
registered but only one who has completed a full course. We feel
that many more of our ministers should avail themselves of these
courses and also that the school principals should advise their
teachers to make them, especially the teachers who teach Religious
Education courses. The principal of the school will also be very
happy to assist any who have col1ege degrees to enroll in the
courses offered by the General Conference Commission on Courses
of .Study.
But the major work of this School has been in connection
with the schools of Ministerial Training held this year. We were
invited to hold a school in the Sibu, Sarawak, district, last year by
Rev. J. M. Hoover, which was accepted. I wrote to Dr. MacRossie
about our new plans for 1930 and he was able to send me $400
gold for our schools this year, an increase of $100 gold over last
year. The extra hundred dollars to be used for the Sibu School.
You have no doubt read in the Malaysia Message a fairly full
report of the three schools held. The first was at Sibu. Through
the' fine c'o-operation of the Commission on Religious Education
for Malaya we were able to secure the services of Rev. Ding Sieng
Sing of the Fukien area in China. He was in Malaya for two
months and proved to be of wonderful help and inspiration. Rev.
Ding SiengSing and our own Rev. Ding Guang Deu, who has
helped us the preyious two years, went with me to Borneo and we
enjoyed a great two weeks. There were 42 registered for the
school although many more came.
On the basis of the Sibu experience we decided to make a
,change in our Malaya school, dividing it into two, one for the
:Chinese and one for the Tamils, holding them at different times.
Thus only the Chinese met in Ipoh, in August-Sept. There 22 men
and 20 Bible women registered. In addition to the two teachers
who helped me in Borneo we had the help of Rev. F. H. Sullivan
and Rev. 'P. B. Means. Having these schools for one racial group
only has greatly improved the morale and interest by the students
in these schools.
In December! immediately after the school holidays began,
we held the TamIl school in Kuala Lumpur. The staff at this
school was made up of the fo11owing, the writer, Rev. S. S. Pakianathan, who has now assisted as teacher with three schools and
75
I\lISCELLA~EOLJS REPORTS
Rev. R. D. Swift. Again at this school one noticed a much greater
esprit de corps than before and we enjoyed a very happy session
together. It was possible in each of these three schools to get
much group discussion started and every man took part. Th~re
were 16 men registered, in fact almost every man eligible in our
conference was present. This was true of the other schools as
well. I would also like to add that every district superintendent
ga ve his best support to these schools.
The school library, which is now housed, in a room back
of the Mission Treasurer's Office, '·has been used more than ever
before by men and women all over Malaya. I would like to make
this library still more valuable by encouraging many more to make
use of it. Several hundred books were loaned out this year.
HOBART
B.
AMSTUTZ,
Principal.
THE MALAYS!.\. MESSAGE.
The Malaysia Message was published eleven times during the
year 193 o. Twice the Message appeared as a twenty page edition,
')nce as a twentyfour page edition, six times as a twentyeight page
edition and twice as a thirtytwo page edition.
Beginning wi.th the April number from eight to ten pages
have been d~voted to advertisements ,l.'hich have greatly increased
the income of the magazine. The circulation has increased from
1,750 copies at the beginning of the year to 2,700 copies at the
present time. This increase is largely accounted for by the increase
in school subscriptions which are offered at a spetial rate to school
pupils of 50 cents a year. Inasmuch as the net cost of each
subscription is 51.50 per year the large increase in the school
subscriptIOns has required a larger income to finance the Malaysia
Message budget. This increased cost has been met largely by the
income from advertisements which have amounted to $1,500 a
year. The income from subscriptions has been $1,400. We may
expect a regular income of about $200 a month from our advertisements if business conditions are at all normal during the ye:u 1931
Of the 2,700 copies printed each month,
1,444 go to school pupils in Malay
193"
"
"
Sumatra
205
"
foreign subscribers
365
"
subscribers in Malaya
55"
"
"
the D. E. I.
50
"
our advertisers
40
"
book-stalls
230 are free or for exchange
During the year our policy has been to give the Malaysia
Message as much local colour and to make it as representative
of Malaysia as poss~ble. We are very grateful to each of our
16
MALAYA CoNFERENCE,
------------------------
1931
----------------------~
associate editors for the splendid co-operation in editing the
magazine. We also wish to express our appreciation to the various
pastors, teachers and missionaries who have contributed articles
during the year. Dr. Chen Su Lan contributed a series of articles
on opium reform and prostitution in Malaya. Dr. John Warneck,
the Ephorus of the Rhenish mission in Sumatra has very kindly
given us permission to publish a series 'of articles on the history
of the Batak mission in Sumatra. These articles have been translated from the German by the editor from Dr. Warneck~s book.
Dr. W. T Cherry has been contributing a series of American News
letters, a page which has been a very welcome addition and has
helped to keep us informed of the activities of the older generation
of missicnaries. Mrs. Means has been of ' great assistance in acting
as circulation manager and assistant editor, re-editing articles,
reading proofs, drawing designs for cover pages etc.
Those schools which have been most successful in securing
school subscriptions deserve honourable mention.
Anglo Chinese School, Singapore
Anglo Chinese School, Seremban
Anglo Chinese School; Sitiawan
Methodist Schoo], Palembang
Methodist Boys School, Siantar (Sumatra)
Anglo Chinese School, Malacca
Fairfield Girls' School, Singapore
Lady Treacher Girls' School, Taiping
All of these schools have a percentage of 60 or more of
the pupils above 5th standard subscribing to the Malaysia Message.
They have set aside a chapel hour for a Malaysia Message talk
and then inaugurated an intensive campaign, usually by staging
a contest between the upper standards, in order to determine which
class could secure the largest percentage of subcriptions.
We still have on our list some four mission schools which
receive no school subscriptions. We also feel that the number
of subscriptions for Malaya, viz: 365, is very inadequate. We
believe that the pastors of our churches, school principals and
missionaries by a little extra effort could easily double the number
of subscribers in Malaya during the coming year.
We feel very grateful to (lur Heavenly Father for allowing
us to work in the literature programme this year. We believe
that in the complex racial and language problems of Malaya the
distribution of Christian litierature is one of the great and open
fields for the extension of the' Kingdom of God. That the
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Malaysia Message may become a more effective and influential
jnterpreter of the Christian Message to our conglomerate population
·of Malaysia is our ardent prayer for the coming year.
PAUL B. MEANS.
Editor.
REPORT OF THE SOUTHERN BELL MAGAZINE.
The Southern Bell Magazine has been published bi-monthly
in Chinese characters for two years. During these years of the
magazines' existence difficulties have arisen in the editing and
publishing which could be removed if the editor could live closer
to the publishers.
The form of our magazine has been changed slightly, this
year; smaller type has been used thus making room for more
material. A department of current events has been added which
b greatly appreciated by our rural readers. A book review section
has also been added to help our readers in selecting good reading
material. We are hoping next year to institute a travelling
library which with the co-operation of the Committee on Christian
Literature will be of service to our constituents.
Our subscription list shows a gain over last year. Sumatjra
is taking more than eighty copies per issue and more are distributed
in China. We have not been able to print many extra copies for
sale as our funds have been limited due to subscribers not paying
their subscriptions on time.
During the last half of this year copies of the magazine have
been sent to leaders of the government in Nanking and also to
the Chinese Consulates in Malaya. Some of the most important
dub reading rooms in Malaya also receive the magazine. We
trust in this way that the Christian message may be read by means
-of our organ by many influential Chinese in Malaya and China.
We feel that this past year our readers have enjoyed the
magazine more than previously and that it is doing the work it
set out to do in an increasing way.
In conclusion I wish to thank the following gentlemen who
have helped make the work easier for me, Rev. C. E. Fang for
reading the proofs, Rev. Paul Hang for managing the business and
also those of our friends who sent in articles to be published.
To Rev. Air. Means for his co-operation through the Committee
on Christian Literature and to Reverends Amstutz, Coole and Swift
for their kindly encouragement.
DING GUNG DEU,
(Andrew eben)
Editor.
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THE MALASIA CoMMISSION ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.
The year 1930 has not been a year of conspicuous advance
in Religious Education. There has not been the flare of launchinga new organisation, nor the appearance of new literature in largequantities. The year is characterised more by foundation work
which is not seen by those who pass by.
It is a pleasure to report that a large number of the churches
in the Conference co-operated heartily in the Family WorshipLeague movement authorised at the last session of this Confer~nce.
Approximately 400 families and 300 individuals have enrolled as
charter members of the Family WorsI:!ip League in Malaya.
Doubtless there are many others among our Methodist memberswho observe regular family or private devotions but who have not
been enrolled.
Children's Day was observed by many of the chur.::hes and:
church schools, giving suitable programmes and thereby emphasising the responsibility of the church for its children. Churches or
church schools contributed Children's Day offerings totalling $263
toward the budget of the Malaysia Commission on Religious
Education.
An achievement of the year that will certainly bear increasingfruit with the passing of the years is the two months visit of the
Rev. S. S. Ding, Secretary of Religious education in the Fukien Area,
China. Through the co-operation of the Dean of the Schools of
Ministerial Training this visit was made financially possible and its
value enhanced by placing Rev. Ding on the faculty of the Schools
of Ministerial Training where he was able to discuss with the
Chinese pastors of the Conference the programme of religious
education in the local churches and the relation of the minister
to that programme. Unquestionably these discussions, based upon
Rev. Ding's experience in China and his personal observations for
several weeks in the various churches of our Conference, have donemuch to stimulate the thought of our preachers on this vital subject.
While Rev. Ding of China was in Malaya he suggested that
the Commission on Religious Education get into communication
with the National Christian Council of China concerning the Five
Year Movement. The suggestion has been acted upon and the
Committee on Christian Literature now has in stock a fair quantity
of the literature-all in Chinese character-published for that
movement. This literature widely distributed among our Chinese
Christians should prove of very great value. Splendid posters,
suggestions for daily worship, helps for parents in the deligent
training of their children, and pamphlets +>n personal evangelism
are among the many good things this programme offers to the
Christian church.
The introduction of the Standard Leadership Training Curriculum in several of our stations is very encouraging. Eleven day
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schools have offered one or more of the approved courses and 178
teachers have availed themselves of the opportunity to study them.
We strongly urge that all the schools of the Conference offer
classes in these approved courses, and suggest that when such
classes are being organised they be well advertised and opened to
people outside the school staff who are competent to do the
.standard of work done by the teachers who will be members of
the class.
We helieve the conference-wide Church school competition,
launched the first of May, 1930, has done much to increase the
number in attendance and the weekly offerings in those church
.schools which entered the competition. It is significant that a
number of these schools maintained an average attendance of more
than 90 per cent of their enrolment and an average of five cents
()r more per pupil in the weekly collections. Although the Conference church school enrolment has increased only 88, the average
attendance has increased 575 and the annual expense increased
$833. One church school increased its enrolment more than 300
per cent and another more than 200 per cent during the last three
quarters of the year.
Several day school Sunday Schools have made definite steps
toward closer relationship with the churches of their respective
towns. We acknowledge with gratitude the organisation of 21
new church schools during the year, but in the same breath must
deplore the closing of 16. This is a nett gain of 5, making the
total in the Conference now 108. There is ample scope for still
further expansion, in the organising of church schools in churches
which do not yet have a churcq school and in the establishing of
branch church schools by some of the larger existing ones.
The central Curriculum Committee met for two days early
in the year and did some very constructive planning for an indigenous curriculum of religious education in our day schools. Three
sub-committees which are to specialize in the development of the
curriculurr. for the lower, elementary, middle and higher elementary
departments of the schools respectively have been appointed.
In this connection we record with very great pleasure the deep
gratitude we owe to Dr. George H. Betts, professor of Religious
Education in Northwestern University, who spent a day in discussing
general and specific problems in connection with curriculum construction with approximately 20 members of our curriculum committees on 30th December last.
We commend to the Conference the Epworth League Topic
Book published in 1930. We feel that a real advance is marked
by the many topics appearing in this series which bear directly
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upon the religious, moral, and social problems of young people
in Malaya. We venture to suggest that our church Ieade'rs encourage the use of this series of topics and give constructive help
in the use of the, new methods suggested therein.
Religious Education in the Metho.dist Church in Malaya has
been rendered no finer service during the year. or during the past
several years, than that given by Dr. Wade Crawford Barclay in
the publishing of his Survey and Programme, Religious Educatiol'f of
the Methodist Episcopal Cburch in Malaya. In this volume are
brought together the opinions and observations of many persons,
gathered through questionnaires, group discussions and personal
observations and conversations, and all checked by careful study on
the part of one trained through long experience to see significant
factors in situations often overlooked by those in close contact
with those same situations for a long time. Then with amazing
clearness of analysis the religious educational needs of the present
situation are brought to light; educational principles underlying a
programme of religious education for Malaya are suscinctly stated;
and finally an unusually suggestive outline of a possible programme
of Christian religious' education in Malaya of such scope as almost
to baffle the uninitiated is tentatively stated.
Studies have been initiated during the past year which are
intended to uncover basic problems and needs pertinent to the
curriculum builders and to the planning of the general programme.
Among these studies are the religious census of 17,000 students in
our English schools; the Every Church Member Census now being
taken; and the effort to get a number of our representative
Christians to write anonymously their religious autobiographies.
The one outstanding ad vance during the year in strengthening
our field organisation has been the appointment of Mr. D. H. Yap
as Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young People's Work. The
way in which the Epworth Leagues of the Conference are looking
increasingly to Mr. Yap as the leader in that field is one of the
encouraging aspects of his contacts.
I wish to record my regret that lack of funds has limited our
work somewhat this past year and made it impossible for me to
make some trips which I h~d hoped to make. Likewise I would
express my deep appreciation for the cordial reception of our work
throughout the Conference and for the splendid co-operation of a
large number of people in our schools and churches, on committees
and off, to whom is due the credit for whatever advance has been
made in work of religious education in Malaya. Our sincere
purpose has been, and always will be, gladly and humbly to serve
the Master.
R. D.
SWIFT,
Secretary~
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YOCl'.'G
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\\'ORK.
I returned to Malaya last January after the close of Conference
when I was appointed to the pastorate of the Straits Chinese
Methodist Episcopal Church at Malacca, besides being appointed
Secretary for Young People's Work under the Malaysia Commission
on Religious Education. The church work at Malacca during the
past year, being my first pastoral charge, occupied my time and
thought, which prevented me from giving more attention to the
Young People's Work.
Aims of tbe Programme for Young People's Work: In connection
with the Young People's Work, no great programme has been
launched last year. It was a ,year of observation and preparation
for both intensive and extensive programme to be undertaken this
year and subsequently. The aims of the work are to suggest and
provide \vays and means and help and guide young people in
the development of Christian character and to enable Christian
young people to know, appreciate and understand what it means
and involves to be Christians and become members of the Christian
Church; to lead and attract non-ChristiaIl; young people to become
Christians as well as to become definitely and openly members of
the Christian Church.
Visits to tbe Day Scbools and Cbapel Talks: Even though no
great programme has been undertaken during the past year,
contacts with the students land young people in the schools have
been maintained in a number :of schools to which visits were made,
and invitations: received from the Principals to deliver chapel
addresses- Invitations to speak at various school chapels have
been always accepted and much appreciated in the interest of
Religious Education and Young People's Work, whereby
opportunities are given for presenting Christian ideals and the
Christian way of life as exemplified in the life and teaching of
the Master.
Conference and Teacbers' Classes: In the schools, besides
speaking to students at chapel and Sunday School, informal and
individual conferences have been held with a good number of
students and several school principals and various teachers of
the upper standards relative to Religious Education programme in
the schools and religious instruction in their respective classes.
At Malacca, the Secretary has conducted two classes for teachers
at the Anglo-Chinese School and Suydam Girls' School, respectively, during the year. Lectures and discussions at both schools
have dealt with Child Psychology in relation to Religious Education.
Interest has been shown in these classe~ by regular attendance and
participation in the discussions, though the teachers are not so
keen about doing written work. Training classes for teachers is
greatly needed, and the work of Religious Education can profit
much from them.
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Tbe Ep'Wortb League: The work of the Eporth League ill
Malaya and in Sumatra has been carried on as in former years.
The increase in League membership has not been large during the
past year, but stress has been laid not so much upon number as
upon the quality of membership enrolled. Wherever League
TIlcmbers have been less strictly enrolled, or without serving any
period of probation; and wherever LeagUe Officers have been re·cruited from a non-Christian group (which is contrary to the
General Constitution). some unfortunate incident has arisen in the
particular league or local chapter guilty of such carelessness. In
.conferences with League Officers and the two District League
-Cabinets the fact has been emphasized -tbat Epworth League
chapters are under the supervision of the pastor and the Quarterly
'Conference of the church where the chapter exists and with which
;it is, or should be, closely connected. On the other hand, pastors
are kindly solicited not to exercise arbitrary powers in controlling
tOr curtailing the activity of the local League.
In connection with the Devotional meetings, an attempt has
'been made to create interest among Leaguers in the use of the
Discussion method in addition to the customary procedure of getting one leader or speaker who delivers a speech or sermon. To
this end the Epworth League Topic Book has been edited by the
.executive officers of the Commission on Religious Education suitable for use along the line of the Discussion method. The aim in
this additional procedure is to afford the young people opportunities in meetings to express themselves on vital subjects. of every-day living; and thus to interchange ideas and crystalize Christian
'opinion that will, it is hoped, become influential and determinative
'in conduct and behaviour.
Ejyu;ortb League Institutes: Two successful and worth while
Jnstitutes were held last 'year, attended by about five hundred
Leaguers and young people of Malaya. The Secretary had a part
in the making of programme and arrangement for the Southern
District Epworth League Institute held at Malacca, April 19th to
'23rd; delivered three special addresses, taught one class of more
than seventy Leaguers on Christian Worship and led discussions on
various Epworth League matters. At the Northern District In'stitute held at Ipoh, he spoke at the concluding meeting on the
"Objectives of Christian Enterprise in Malaya." These addresses
a.re incidentally mentioned here to show personal contacts with the
Leaguers and young people of the churches in val iousparts of
:Malaya.
Visits to Sumatra: In July, in the place of the Secretary of
Religious Education, the writer went to Tebing Tinggi (East
Coast), tn speak on the subject of Religious Education and Young
'People's Work at the North Sumatra Teachers' and Preachers' In:stitute. At this Institute two sen;nons were preached and three
.addresses made in the Malay language. There was most intelligent
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and pertinent discussion following the addresses on the subject of
Religious Education, Sunday School and Young People's Work All
were keenly interested in the work of the Church (Sunday) school
and young people's group. In a manner suited to their needs the
Battak Gurus (Teachers) and Panditas (Ministers) had conducted
Perkoempoelan Doli-Doli (Young people's meetings) for their
young people and children in which they all participated in playing
games, sbging and speaking.
While in Medan the opportunity was also utilized to observe
several classes of religious instruction at the Methodist Boys' School
and the Methodist Girls' School. Later a joint meeting of the
teachers of both schools was heU, at which were discllssed various
methods of religious instruction.
In November a second visit was paid to Medan; this time upon
special invitation of the Medan Epworth League in connection
with their Win-My-Chum meetings. Mrs. Yap was also invited
to go and to participate in the concert, which preceded the special
series of meetings. Following the series of special meetings
an English-speaking church was organized with about twenty
full members and a dozen preparatory members.
Chapel
talks at both schools and observations of religious instruction were
a.gain made.
D. H. YAP
Secretary tor Young People's Work.
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Roll of the Dead
Name.
Age.
Lau Seng Chong
Place of
Death.
China
Date of
Death.
May 20, 1902
Job Gnanasihamoney
Denis M. Toomey
. Samuel Abraham
191Q
43
58
China
,Deng Ping Deng
H. Lewin
E S. Baird
59
Feb. 17,1916
19 18
Malacca
U. S. A.
Burr ]. Baughman
J.
Singapore
Hongkong
England
Oct.
B'irth Admitted Joined M'alaya
Place. on TJ,"i,al. Co n f erence.
China
1899
J8gg
India
1909
1909
Cork, Ir'd
1914
19 14
Jaffna
1900
1900
1909
1909
1908
19 14
188,
1923
1920
1924
192 0
192 3
April 1.1, 1924
England
Conference Sessions
Place.
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Secretary.
M. Thoburn I B. F. West
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do.
j. M. Thoburn I W. H. B. Urch
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do.
j. M. Thoburn I B. F. West
3
do.
4 1896 I Feb. 14-19
J. M. Thoburn I W. G. Shellabear
5 18971 Feb. 1(}-15
Penang
J. M. Thoburn J F. H. Morgan
C. D. Foss
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]. M. Thoburn
F. H. Morgan
6 118gB Feb. 15-17
Penang
J. M. Thoburn F. H. Morgan
7 1899 Feb. 9-14
8 11900 Feb. 17-22
j. M. Thoburn I F. H. Morgan
Singapore
do.
F. W. Warne
I H. L. E. Luering
9 19o1 Feb. 21-27
10 I 1902 Feb. 21-27
do.
F. W. Warne
I j. R. Denyes.--i11903 Feb-:-II"::"'16 ..
do.
F W. Warne
J. R. Denyes
12 1904 Feb. 24-29
do.
j. M. Thoburn
W T. Cherry
13 1905 Feb. 15-20
Kuala Lumpur
W. F Oldham
W. T. Cherry
14 1906 Jan. 29-Feb. 2 Singapore
W. F. Oldham
W. G. Shellabear
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1W. F. Oldham I W. G. Shellabear
16 1907 Dec. 13-18
Singapore
W. F Oldham I W. G. Sheila bear'
17 1909 Feb, 5- 9
do.
W. F Oldham I G. C. Cobb
18 1910 Feb. 5-10
do.
W F Oldham I G. C. Cobb
W. F. McDowell
19 191 I Feb. II-IR
do.
t W: F. Oldham W. E. Horley
20 1912 Feb. 15-20
I Kuala Lumpur
W. F. Oldham
A. J. Amery
21 /1913 I Feb. 13-19
I Smgapore
j. E. Robmson
W. E. Horley
22 1914 Jan. 1(}-16
do.
J. E. Robinson
R. L. Archer
2311915 Feb. 14-20
do.
W. P. Eveland 1 R. L. Archer
1
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do.
W. P Eveland
L. Oechsli
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L. Oechsli
I \ William Burt I
26 1918 Feb. 14-20
do.
I j. E. Robinson I T. C. Maxwell
I Homer C. Stuntz I
do,
27 1919 I Feb. 7-12
R. H. Sil verthorn
J. W. Robinson
28 1920 Feb. 19-23
do.
j. W. Robinson
R. H. Silverthorn.
do.
29 1921 Feb. 1(}-17
G. H. Bickley
P. L. Peach
30 1922 I Jan. 6-11
do.
G. H. Bickley
T. R. Jones
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do.
G. H. Bickley
Abel Eklund
32 1924 Jan. 6-11
Abel Eklund
G. H. Bickley
do.
Titus Lowe
Abel Eklund
33 1925 Jan. 6-12
I do.
34 1926 Jan. 2-1
Abel Eklund
I Titus Lowe
Ilpoh
Titus Lowe
Lester Proebstel
35 1927 I Feb. 2-1
Singapore
Lester Proebstel
TItus Lowe
do.
36 11927 IDee. 14- 18
Lester Proebstel
37 1929 Jan. 2 - 7
Edwin F. Lee
do.
I Lester Proebstel
38 I 1930 I Jan. 2 - 7
Edwin F. Lee
do.
I W. A. Schurr
do.
Edwin F. Lee
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The Plan of the Conference Examinations
The complete Courses of Study for the Conference Examinations for Travelling Preachers, Local Preachers and Exhorters,
in English, Tamil and Chinese, have been printed in a separate
pamphlet which may be obtained from ~he Conference Registrar.
These Courses wi1l stand for this quadrennium and went into force
beginning in May 193 o. Credit will be given during this quadrennium for books found in these courses only.
The courses of study for missionaries in Malay, Hokien, Foo.chow, Cantonese and Tamil are also be printed in this pamphlet.
The names of the examiners and the, books they will examine
in will be found immediately following. No examiners have been
assigned for the Local Preachers and Exhorters courses. These will
be assigned by the Chairman of the Board of Examiners upon call.
The District Superintendents are asked to notify the registrar some
time before the Fourth Quarterly Conferences so that arrangements
.can 'be made to set the needed examinations. Attention is called
Qn page 9 of these Minutes to the recent action taken; by the Board
of Ministerial Training and approved by the Annual Conference.
The plan of examinations is subject to revision every year
due to changes in personnel, and these changes will be noted each
year in the Annual Conference Minutes. The Courses will stand,
as noted above for four years.
For any further information and for all questions in regard to
any of these courses, apply to Rev. H. B. Amstutz, registrar.
COURSE OF STUDY FOR. CHINESE TRAVELLING PREACHERS
ASSIGNMENTS TO EXAMINERS
Examiner.
Lim Poh Chin.
Year.
Admission on Trial.
First Year.
Second Year.
Third Year.
Fourth Year.
Subject.
John Wesley.
Bible Biography.
Sermon.
God and Man.
Pioneers of the Cross.
\Vesley's Sermons.
An I ntroduction to the Study of the
New Testamen t.
Sermon.
Discipline.
Wesley's Sermons.
Homiletical Lectures.
The Spirit.
Reconstruction according to Jesus
Christ.
Philosophy of Christianity.
The Foundations of Religion.
COURSES OF STUDY.
Lim Hong Ban.
C. E. Fang.
Li Hock Hiang.
8'1
Admission on Trial. Discipline.
The Divine Model of the Priestly
Life.
Sermon.
Source and Development of ChineseFirst Year.
Literature.
Human Behaviour.
Modern Democracies.
Introduction to the Old Testament.
Second Year.
Sermon.
The Origin and Growth of Hebrew
Religion.
The Protestant Missions in China.
The Prophets of Israel.
Third Year.
The Church and Industrial Reconstruction.
Introduction to New Testament
Fourth Year.
Times.
Biography of James W. Bashford.
The Passion for Souls.
Admission on Trial. Chinese History.
Sermon.
Lectures on the Geography of the
World.
Discipline.
First Year.
The Minister and His Parish.
Evangelism.
Church History.
Second Year.
Pastoral Theology.
Sermon.
Methods of Institutional Church Work.
Third Year.
Church History.
Lives of Prominent Chinese Pastors..
The Meaning of Faith.
Fourth Year.
Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
History of the World.
Admission on Trial. An Outline of Christian Theology.
Sermon.
Lectures on the Geography of China.
First Year.
New Testament History.
Second Year.
The Pupil and the Teacher.
The New Convention Normal Manual
for Sunday School Workers.
Sermon.
Life of Martin Luther.
Third Year.
A Theology for the Social Order.
Comparative Religions.
Historical Geography of Palestine.
Fourth Year.
Christian Education and the Na'1:ionai
Consciousness in China.
Agricultural Community.
Short Christian Biographies.
COURSE OF STUDY IN ENGLISH FOR TRAVELLING PREACHERS
ASSIGN MENT TO
Examiner.
Abel Eklund.
EXAMINERS
Year.
Subject.
Admission on Trial. History of American Methodism.
First Year.
Psychology of Religious ExpeJ1ience.
Second Year.
Collateral Reading, subjects 1-6.
Special Homiletical Work.
Third Year.
Religious Values.
Fourth Year.
Collateral Reading, subjects 1-6.
Special Homiletical Work.
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Admission on Trial. Sermon.
Collateral Reading, subjects I-cf.
First Year.
Special Homiletical Work.
The Church in History.
Second Year.
Collateral Reading, subjects 1-5.
Third Year.
SpeCial Homiletical Work.
Theism.
Fourth YeaT.
Admission on Trial. Doctrine and Discipline.
R. Dean Swift.
Sermon.
First Year.
The Work of Preaching.
Purpose in Teaching Religion.
Second Y ~ar.
Method in Teaching Religion.
Fourth Year.
Jeremiah.
Special Homiletical Work.
Admission on Trial. Bible Biography.
D. P Coole.
First Year.
Evangelism.
Special Homiletical Work.
Second Year.
The Pastoral Office.
Third Year.
The Abingdon Bible Commentary.
Fourth Year.
The Individual and the Social Order.
Special Homiletical Work.
W. A. Schurr.
Admmssion on Trial. Plain Account of Chnstian Perfection.
Selections from the Writings of John
Wesley.
First Year.
The Art of Writing English.
Second Year.
The Abingdon Bible Commel1Jtary.
Special Homiletical Work.
Third Year.
New Studies in Mystical Religion.
Special Homiletical Work.
Fourth Year.
System of Christian Doctrine.
:S. M. Thevathasan. Admission on Trial. English History.
First Year.
Special Homiletical Work.
Third Year.
Religions of Mankind.
Special Homiletical Work.
J. J. Kingham.
Admission on Trial. Sermon.
First Year.
New Testament History.
Second Year.
Special Homiletical Work.
Third Year.
Paul and His Epistles.
H. B. Amstutz.
COURSE OF STUDY FOR TAMIL TRAVELLING PREACHERS
ASSIGNMENT TO EXAMI:-iERS
Examiner.
Year.
Subject.
J. A. Supramaniam. Admission on Trial. Discipline.
Preacher's Manual.
First Year.
Homiletics.
Church History.
Written sennon.
Second Year.
Church History.
Homiletics.
T1hird Year.
Church History.
Collateral reading 1-3.
Church History.
Fourth Year.
Collateral'readill4 1-3.
COURSE OF STUDY.
J.
89
Admission on Trial. History of India.
Tamil Grammar.
First Year.
Commentary on St. John.
Tamil Grammar.
Commentary on 1st Cor.
Second Year.
Prayer.
Collateral reading 1-3.
Commentary on Ephesians.
Third Year.
Test of Religions.
Fourth Year.
KuraI.
Exegesis-Romans.
Written sermon.
M. R. Doraisamy. Admission on Trial. History of Methodism.
Collateral reading 1-3.
First Year.
Bible Dictionary.
Theology.
Second Year.
Bible Dictionary.
Theology.
Third Year.
Bible Dictionary.
Theology.
Written sermon.
Bible Dictionary.
Fourth Year.
Theology.
·S. M. Thevathasan. Admission on Trial. Methodism Catechism.
Sinless Incarnation.
First Year.
Studies in the Teachings of Christ.
Exegesis-Luke.
Collateral reading 1-3.
Second Year.
Introduction to the Old Testament.
Written sermon.
The Lord's Supper.
Third Year.
The True Way.
Commentary on Philippians.
Fourth Year.
Commentary on Hebrews.
J. Kingham.
Conf~ren~e
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IB94 HORLEY, W. E.
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1905 KONG IAU SIONG
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Malaya
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