PRESBYTERIANS. 



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The following is a summary of the Presby- scholars; Persia, (4 stations, 81 ont-stations), 



terian Church in the United States of Araer- 8 American, 87 native minister*, 110 lay 



ica during the year 1880 : agents, 1,321 communicants, 1,909 scholars; 



Synods 38" Syria (5 stations, 43 out-stations), 14 Aim-ri- 



Presbyteries HI can, 21 native ministers, 144 lay agents, 810 



Licentiates.':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: $2 communicants, 4,260 scholars: total, i ->. 



Ministers \ 5,044 American, 230 native ministers. 736 lay agents, 



8SSa:::::::v:/.::::::::::::"v.:: Ill 12,607 communicants, 17,791 scholars. 



Installations 877 1 he Woman 8 Foreign Missionary Society re- 

 Pastoral dissolutions 251 turned its receipts for the year at $127,352. 



ifflS55S!S2d::::::::::::::::: i Jt had 94 missionaries in service, of whom 29 



Ministers deceased 76 were in India, 17 in China, 5 in Japan, 7 in 



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Churches dissolved 43 Mexico, 7 in Brazil and the United States of 



Churches received 3 Colombia, 9 among the Indians in North 



SdSdS eS'nftion: \ \\\\\\\ '. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 26,838 America, and 4 among the Chinese in Calif or- 



Added on certificate 22,148 nia, and conducted in India fifty day-schools and 



Ifflts^^Sd^::::::::::::::::: 5T S six b ar ^g schools, m connection with which 



infants baptized 18,960 one hundred scholarships had been founded. 



Members of Sunday-schools 631,952 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian 



CONTRIBUTIONS. Church in the United States of America met 



Home missions $429,769 at Madison, Wisconsin, May 20th. The Rev. 



Educftio" iS8i0n8 109 066 William M. Paxton, D. D., of New York, was 



Publication ^ .................'..'."...... 27' 688 chosen moderator. Attention was given chief- 

 Church erection 151,815 ly to hearing and considering the reports of 



Frcedmen .:'.'.::'.'.:::'.'.'.'.''..'.'.'.'.:':::; ',497 the boards, and little legislation of importance 



Sustentation .' 2o',849 was enacted. A reform was directed in the 



Con'rega^o S n e aT bly 6 093 Sw administration of the ministerial relief fund by 



Miscellaneous. .'......,.... '. '. .........'.'.. '954^53 ordering that appropriations shall not be made, 



in ordinary cases, to ministers merely because 



' tal $8,361,028 they are poori unlesg they are disab l ed SQ that 



The receipts of the Board of Foreign Mis- they can not sustain themselves by suitable 



sions had been $585,844, and its expenditures employment, nor to widows who have children 



$579,746. The board had paid the debt of able to give them support; and that minis- 



$62,532 with which it had begun the year, and ters who voluntarily and in health leave the 



now returned a balance of $6,098. The wo- ministry for some secular employment and 



men had contributed $176,000, or thirty per after years fail in business and become poor, 



cent, of the whole receipts of the board. The shall be held to have voluntarily relinquished 



following is a summary of the statistics of the by the course they have pursued all claims 



missions : upon the funds of the Board. The Board of 



Indian Tribes (Senecas, Chippewas, Omahas, Publication was admonished in the report of 

 Dakotas, Creeks, Seminoles, Nez-Pe roe's), 11 the committee on its affairs to be vigilant 

 American, 14 native ministers, 30 lay agents, against the issue from its press of publications 

 1,048 communicants, 506 scholars ; Mexico (4 casting the slightest doubt upon the Divine 

 stations and several out-stations), 7 American, authority and plenary inspiration of the Bible, 

 17 native ministers, 17 lay agents, 3,907 com- or upon the divinity and atoning death of 

 municants, 586 scholars; South America (United Jesus Christ, or on the fact of man's utter ruin 

 States of Colombia, Brazil, Chili, 14 stations by sin and his need of redemption. The sub- 

 and several out- stations), 11 American, 5 na- ject of considering a plan to alleviate the evils 

 tive ministers, 31 lay agents, 1,089 communi- arising from the presence of so many unem- 

 cants, 511 scholars; Africa (12 stations, 7 out- ployed ministers in the Church while yet so 

 stations), 7 American, 5 native ministers, 38 many vacant churches existed, was referred to 

 lay agents, 601 communicants, 244 scholars; a special committee to report to the next 

 India (19 stations and 17 out-stations), 30 General Assembly. The professors in the theo- 

 American, 15 native ministers, 204 lay agents, logical seminaries were urged not to commend 

 971 communicants, 7,798 scholars ; Siam and to the young men those religious teachers in 

 Laos (4 stations and 3 out-stations), 7 Amer- Europe who are " disseminating doctrines cal- 

 ican, 2 native ministers, 27 lay agents, 206 culated to undermine the authority of the 

 communicants, 346 scholars ; China (10 stations Holy Scriptures, 1 ' but to expose their fallacies, 

 and several out-stations), 22 American, 51 na- denounce their heresies, and fully and emphati- 

 tive ministers, 101 lay agents, 1,784 communi- cally insist in their instructions on the integrity, 

 cants, 1,096 scholars; Chinese in California inspiration, and authority of the Word of God. 

 (2 stations), 2 American, 1 native, ministers, 8 Resolutions were adopted against reading sec- 

 lay agents, 131 communicants, 190 scholars ; ular papers on Sunday, against the investment 

 Japan (3 stations), 6 American, 12 native min- of money in enterprises to be carried put on 

 isters, 14 lay agents, 739 communicants, 345 Sunday, against the sale of intoxicating li- 



