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Number of bishops, 63 ; of bishops-elect, 3, 

 making the total number of clergy of all or- 

 ders, 3,435. Number of missions, additional 

 to the regularly organized parishes, 1,155. 

 Number of baptisms during the year, 47,963 ; 

 of confirmations, 25,903, so far as reported. 

 Number of Sunday-school teachers, 34,041 ; of 

 scholars in Sunday-schools, 299,070. Amount 

 of contributions, so far as they were reported, 

 $7,013,762. 



The periodicals of the Church are : " The 

 American Church Review " (quarterly), New 

 York; "The Churchman" (weekly), New 



York; "The Church Eclectic" (monthly), 

 Utica, New York ; the " Church Monthly Maga- 

 zine" (monthly), New York ; the "Episcopal 

 Register" (weekly), Philadelphia, .\\-\v York, 

 and Baltimore; "The Guardian" (weekly), 

 New York; "The Living Church" (weekly), 

 Chicago, Illinois ; the " Pacific Churchman " 

 (semi-monthly), San Francisco, California ; the 

 4 Parish Visitor " (monthly), New York ; the 

 ' Protestant Episcopal Church News " (week- 

 ly), Baltimore, Maryland ; the " Spirit of Mis- 

 sions" (monthly), New York; the "Southern 

 Churchman " (weekly), Richmond, Virginia ; 

 the " Standard of the Cross " (weekly), Cleve- 

 land, Ohio; "The Standard" (weekly), New 

 York; "The Western Church " (weekly), Mil- 

 waukee, Wisconsin ; " The Young Churchman " 

 (monthly), Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Soci- 

 ety of the Protestant Episcopal Church met in 

 the city of New York in October, in connec- 

 tion with the meeting of the General Conven- 

 tion. The Committee of Domestic Missions re- 

 ported that its receipts for the year had been, 

 for general domestic missions, $105,708 ; des- 

 ignated for work among the colored people of ' 

 the South, $9,663 ; designated for work among 

 the Indians, $28,992 ; special contributions, not 

 at all under the control of the committee, $20,- 

 907 : making in all, $165,273. Its expenditures 

 had been $164,397. The committee employed 

 274 missionaries (including nine bishops) among 

 white people, twenty-four clergymen and twen- 

 ty-two lay-readers and teachers among the col- 

 ored people, one Chinese clergyman among the 

 Chinese, one bishop, twelve white and eleven 

 native clergymen, three teachers, ten native 

 catechists, and twelve women helpers in all, 

 forty-nine laborers among the Indians ; making 

 a total of 370 agents. 



The total receipts of the Foreign Committee 

 for the year had been $162,084, and its ex- 

 penditures $166,670. The treasury was over- 

 drawn on general missionary account to the 

 amount of $15,182. The committee held availa- 

 ble assets to the amount of $82,194. The mis- 

 sions of the Society were in Greece (consisting 

 of a school with one American and eight na- 

 tive teachers and 700 scholars), Africa (Liberia 

 and Cape Palmas), China, Japan, Hayti, and 

 Mexico, and employed forty-six foreign mis- 

 sionaries, clergymen, physicians, and women 

 missionaries, 175 native laborers, of whom 

 twenty-nine were in holy orders, and returned 

 an average attendance of 10,000 persons at 

 divine service, 4,500 communicants, and 2,500 

 pupils in schools. A college had been estab- 

 lished in China, and theological seminaries in 

 Japan and Mexico, besides day and boarding 

 schools in connection with all the missions. 



The report of the committee on the General 

 Theological Seminary showed that an effort to 

 secure an endowment fund of $250,000 had 

 been begun in order to provide suitable sala- 

 ries for the professors and enlarge the educa- 

 tional staff, and $52,000 had already been given 



