. Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . r member (francs). 28| Circuits 28 Chapels 29 Parsonages 6 Preaching places 203 Sabbath-schools 199 Sabbath scholars Average Increase Per Year. Members and probationers 167 Sabbath-schools 6 Sabbath scholars 482 One thousand two hundred and thirty-seven (20 percent.) had gone to heaven, and many went to liberality increased almost 100 per cent, per member. The conference at La Chaux de Fonds, June 8-12,1893, was held by Bishop Vincent. Special attentionhad been given this year to young peoples organization
. Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . r member (francs). 28| Circuits 28 Chapels 29 Parsonages 6 Preaching places 203 Sabbath-schools 199 Sabbath scholars Average Increase Per Year. Members and probationers 167 Sabbath-schools 6 Sabbath scholars 482 One thousand two hundred and thirty-seven (20 percent.) had gone to heaven, and many went to liberality increased almost 100 per cent, per member. The conference at La Chaux de Fonds, June 8-12,1893, was held by Bishop Vincent. Special attentionhad been given this year to young peoples H. J. Breiter had died April 19. He was appointedPresiding Elder of Zurich District when the SwitzerlandConference was organized, and in 1891 became pastor atBasel. He was chosen to represent his conference inthe General Conferences of 1888 and 1892. At the close of 1893 the Switzerland Conference re-ported: Members, 5,803; probationers, 986; adherents,8,106; average attendance on Sabbath services, 9,240;chapels and churches, 31—valued at 1,152,140 PART VIII. MISSIONS TO INDIA. Ahasuertcs, ... which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia^ over a huiirdred and seven and twenty provinces.—Esther /, /. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea., and from the river unto of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before hint:and his enemies shall lick the dust.—Psalm Ixxii., <?, q. 1. Interesting Antecedents to the Mission. T^HE name India is probably a modification of theSanskrit Sindhu^ the Indus, and was, doubtless,applied not only to the river, but also to the peopleupon its banks. It is a name entirely unknown to thepeople of the countries designated by it, and quite in-definite in its application. Columbus, in his westwardvoyage, at first supposed he had reached India. Whenthis was discovered to be an error, the American Con-tinent was at first called the West Indies, to distinguishit from India proper, which was called East In
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