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Show LECTURE HALL, AHMEDNAGAR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY School conduct some of these schools; young women in the Girls' Boarding School teach in two or three of them. The Sunday school of First Church meets at 9 A.M. It has two sections: the senior department, in which 449 were present; and the junior department, in which 153 were present. There are eleven Christian Endeavor Societies, seven of which are among boys and four among girls. Their total membership is 471. These societies meet for the most part between 11 and 12 o'clock. A class of catechumens for men and boys meets on my veranda at 12.15 P.M. and is attended by a few men and about thirty-five boys. The church service of worship in both the First and Second Churches is held at 5 P.M. After this service, one instructor and several students of the theological seminary, with a company of boys, conduct an evangelistic service for non-Christians at the gate of the mission school, in the heart of the city. During the day some kind of Christian service is held in connection with each mission institution: e. g., at the Hospital for Women and Children, at the Bible Women's Training School, at the Chapin Home for Widows, etc. On this Sunday evening, after dinner, the boys of the mission high school and industrial schools had a musical evening at the house of their principal, Rev. Henry Fairbank, part of which consisted of records of Christian hymns rendered by a phonograph. After dinner in another mission house, there was music for others. At my home the two lady doctors of the hospital and the lady in charge of the Bible Women's Training School were with us for dinner, and our day closed with a family devotional service at which Holmes's "The Chambered Nautilus," Bible verses, and a selection from Tennyson were repeated. Last of all was a joint exercise between two. It consisted of a massage to the present writer by a non-Christian servant and a catechumen's class in which, while I was being massaged, I taught that one candidate for church membership various Christian principles and duties. 21 |