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CONGREGATIONALISTS. 



American Home Missionary Society. The sixty- 

 second annual meeting of the American Uome 

 Missionary Society was held at Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., June 5. The Rev. Dr. Julius 

 H. Seelye presided. The entire resources of 

 the society for the year had been $550,886, 

 and the whole amount paid to missionaries had 

 been $511,641. There were still due to mis- 

 sionaries for labor performed $1,559, and the 

 appropriations already made and daily becom- 

 ing due amounted to $78,395, making the total 

 amount of pledges $79,955. Twenty State or- 

 ganizations of women, with 1,100 local auxil- 

 iaries, were co-operating with the society. 

 Fifteen hundred and eighty-four ministers had 

 been employed during the year, or some part 

 of it, in the supply of 3.084 congregations, of 

 whom five had preached to colored people, and 

 144 hi foreign languages, viz., to Welsh, German, 

 Scandinavian, Bohemian, Spanish, Chinese, In- 

 dian, French, and Mexican congregations. 

 These missionaries reported that 130 churches 

 had been organized, and 59 had become self-sup- 

 porting; that 116 houses of worship had been 

 completed, 15 chapels built, 33 parsonages pro- 

 vided, and 6,310 members had been added on 

 confession of faith during the year. Eighty- 

 seven persons connected with the missionary 

 churches were preparing for the ministry. 

 The number of Sunday-schools under the care 

 of the missionaries was 2,205, and with these 

 were connected about 130,000 pupils. Two 

 hundred and eighty-eight new schools had been 

 organized. The contributions to benevolent 

 objects reported by 786 missionaries amounted 

 to $35,641. 



American Missionary Association, The forty- 

 seventh annual meeting of the American Mis- 

 sionary Association was held in Providence, 

 E. I., beginning October 25. The Rev. Will- 

 iam M. Taylor, D. I)., presided. The total re- 

 ceipts, including the balance from the previous 

 year, had been $328,147, and the expenditures 

 had been $328,788. The whole number of 

 schools sustained by the association was 93, 20 

 of which were normal schools. It was esti- 

 mated that of the 15,000 negro teachers in the 

 South, educating 800,000 pupils, 13,500 had 

 become teachers from missionary schools, and 

 more than 7,000 of them from the schools of 

 this association. The normal schools are situ- 

 ated at Wilmington, N. 0., Charleston and 

 Greenwood, S. C., Atlanta, Macon, Savan- 

 nah, Thomasville, and Mclntosh, Ga., Mobile, 

 Athens, and Marion, Ala., Memphis, Jones- 

 boro', Grand View, and Pleasant Hill, Tenn., 

 Lexington and Williamsburg, Ky., Santee 

 Agency, Neb., and Oahe and Fort Berthold, 

 Dakota. The association provides also the 

 teaching-force at the Ramona Indian school, 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico, and normal depart- 

 ments were connected with six of the colleges. 

 Four new churches had been organized during 

 the year. The following are the statistics of 

 the schools, exclusive of the normal schools, 

 and of church work : 



SCHOOLS. 



There are, in addition, 17 Chinese schools on 

 the Pacific coast, with 39 teachers. 



CHURCH WORK. 



Thirteen woman's State organizations were 

 co-operating with the association. A gift of 

 one million dollars to the work of the associa- 

 tion, from Daniel Hand, of Clinton, Conn., 

 was announced and acknowledged with an ex- 

 pression of thanks. The fitness of the colored 

 people of America to carry on missionary work 

 in Africa was discussed affirmatively by the 

 Rev. Dr. Strieby, secretary of the association, 

 in a paper on "American Freedrnen and Afri- 

 can Colonization." Among the other papers 

 read was one on " The Hopefulness of Indian 

 Missions," by Secretary Beard. 



American Board. The seventy-ninth annual 

 meeting of the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions was held at Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, beginning October 2. The Rev. 

 Richard S. Storrs, D. D., presided, and was re- 

 elected president for the ensuing year. The 

 receipts of the year from gifts had been $394,- 

 568, being $27,610 more than the like receipts 

 of the previous year, and $9,687 more than 

 the average for the past five years. Of this 

 amount $152,510 had been contributed through 

 the four Woman's Boards (Woman's Board of 

 Missions, Woman's Board of the Interior, 

 Woman's Board of the Pacific, and Woman's 

 Board of the Pacific Isles). The receipts from 

 legacies had been $146,353. Adding to these 

 two classes of receipts the income from per- 

 manent funds, $11,258, the total income of the 

 society for the year had been $552,179, or 

 $73,735 more than the total income of the 

 previous year. The sum of $62,500 had been 

 appropriated from the "Swett fund," which 

 had been set apart to meet special calls, chiefly 

 for use in China and Japan, and $51,082 from 

 the " Otis bequest," set apart for new missions, 

 for the work in West Central and East Cen- 

 tral Africa, Hong-Kong, northern Japan, and 

 North Mexico. The total expenditures, in- 

 cluding these appropriations, had been $666,- 



