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204.000. During 1886, 77 new churches were 

 built, and 185 restored, raising the number of 

 new churches, between 1*77 and 1886, to 809, 

 and of restored churches to 2.57:2. Under the 

 Church Buildings Acts 838 new parishes or dis- 

 tricts were constituted be ween 1868 and 1880. 

 The number of permanent mission buildings 

 other than parish and district churches is given 

 as 4.717, with accommodation for 843.272 per- 

 sons. Confirmations were held during 1887 at 

 2,361 centers; the whole number of persons 

 confirmed being 213,638. The voluntary con- 

 tributions toward the maintenance of Church 

 schools between 1884 and 1886 were given as 

 1.755.958 ; the contributions between 

 and 1887 to the "Hospital Sunday" collections 

 as 727.250, the whole number of collections 

 being 33,134. It was claimed that during the 

 twenty-five years, 1860-'84, Churchmen vol- 

 untarily contributed 528,653 for the educa- 

 tion of ministerial candidates, 35.175,000 for 

 church building and restoration, 7,496.478 for 

 home missions, 10,100,000 for foreign mis- 

 sions, 22,421,542 for educational work, main- 

 ly elementary, 3,818.200 for charitable work 

 (distinctively (.'Lurch of England), and 2,103,- 

 364 for clergy charities, making a total of 81,- 

 573.237, Contributions to parochial purposes, 

 unsectarian societies, and middle-class schools 

 are not included in the estimate. 



Millenary Societies. The annual meeting of 

 the Church Missionary Society was held May 

 1. Sir John Kennaway presided. The total 

 receipts of the society for the year had been 

 221,330, but they* had not covered the 

 expenditure, and there remained a debt of 

 9,000 to be cleared off; and to meet the de- 

 mands of various funds, the incomeof the pre- 

 ceding year must be exceeded by 37,000. 

 Forty-three candidates for missionary work, 

 twelve of whom were women, had been re- 

 ceived during the year. A resolution was 

 1 approving the action of the Executive 

 Committee in calling for picked men to work 

 among Mohammedans. 



The income of the Church Zenana Mission- 

 ary Society was returned at 23,268. The so- 

 ciety includes 900 associations and more than 

 o'.'O working parties laboring in support of the 

 mission. From the missions in West Africa, 

 East and Central Africa, Egypt and Arabia. 

 Palestine, Persia and' Bagdad, India, Ceylon, 

 Mauritius, China, Japan, New Zealand, North- 

 west America, and the North Pacific were 

 returned 280 stations, 247 foreign and 265 na- 

 tive ordained missionaries, 62 European and 

 3.534 native lay and female workers, 44.115 

 communicants, and 1,859 schools, with 71,814 

 pupils. The native contributions had amount- 

 ed to 15.142. 



The annual public meeting of the Society for 

 the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 

 was held in London. July 10. The meeting was 

 distinguished by the presence of many of the 

 bishops who had come to attend the Lambeth 

 Conference. The Archbishop of Canterbury 



presided. The secretary's report showed that 

 the number of ordained missionaries, includ- 

 ing nine bishops, on the society's list at that 

 time, was 596, viz., in Asia, 187; in Africa, 

 139; in Australia and the Pacific, 17; in North 

 America. 183; in the West Indies, 33; and in 

 Europe, 37. Of them. 114 were natives labor- 

 ing in Asia, and 19 in Africa. There were 

 also in the various missions of the society about 

 2,000 catechists and lay teachers, mostly na- 

 tives, and luore than 400 students in the soci- 

 ety's colleges. Papers were read and remarks 

 made in reference to various aspects of the 

 missionary work in their several fields of labor 

 by the Bishops of Calcutta (''Provincial and 

 Diocesan Organization in India"), Japan, Ran- 

 goon, North China. Cape Town, Zululand, Equa- 

 torial Africa, Sydney. Frederic-ton, Missouri, 

 North Dakota, and Guiana, and the Archdea- 

 con of Gibraltar. A paper by the Rev. R. R. 

 Winter, of Delhi, on " Woman's Work in Mis- 

 sions," was read by the secretary. 



At a meeting of the Board of Missions of the 

 Province of Canterbury, held July 21, the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, presiding, said that the 

 board did not seek to work as a new missionary 

 society, or wish to collect money ; but that it 

 desired to bring before the Church the neces- 

 sity of doing a great deal more for missions 

 than was being done at present, and to give 

 proper information to the vast numbers of per- 

 sons who knew nothing of the missions or of 

 the immensity of the interests centered in them. 

 Several of the American and colonial bishops 

 spoke of the condition and requirements of 

 missionary interests in different parts of the 

 world, and of the importance of giving greater 

 unity to the missionary work. A resolution 

 was adopted assuring the bishops of the various 

 dioceses and missionary jurisdictions abroad of 

 the desire of the board "to aid them in the 

 work of extending the Master's kingdom." 



Free and Open (hnreh Association. It was re- 

 ported at the annual meeting of this society, in 

 March, that the council had decided to issue an 

 address calling upon the people to defend the 

 Church by uniting in a great effort to get rid 

 of the pew sy-tem. The Bishop of Rochester 

 had written that the church which ''blandly 

 encouraged her wealthy children to build stately 

 churches for their own enjoyment," leaving the 

 poor to worship in a cold school-room, "for- 

 feited her claim to be the church of the nation." 



The Church House. A plan for the establish- 

 ment, in London, by a company, of a "Church 

 House," to serve as an informal "headquarters" 

 for the adherents of the Anglican churches, their 

 societies and associations, and as a place of de- 

 posit for archives, libraries, and collect ions, took 

 form in July. The final report of the Executive 

 Committee, which had been appointed by the 

 movers of the project to consider the subject, 

 was presented to the General Committee June 

 7. A charter of incorporation had been grant- 

 ed for the enterprise on the 23d of February. 

 The receipts in its behalf up to June 30 had 



