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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 





The Church Missionary Society. The an- 

 nual meeting of the Church Missionary Society 

 was held in London, May 30, Sir John Kennaway, 

 Bart., M. P., presiding. The report showed that 

 the total receipts of the society from all sources 

 had been 350,492. The ordinary and appro- 

 priated contributions had produced together the 

 largest amount on record, excluding centenary 

 funds, the sum being 313,000, or 9,000 more 

 than in the previous year. The appropriated con- 

 tributions had increased so rapidly that, after 

 using 82,000 against the expenditure of the past 

 year, 52,000 remained in hand, applicable to the 

 current and future years. The centenary funds 

 amounted altogether to 212,000, and enabled 

 the committee to increase the society's working- 

 capital to 100.000, to wipe off the remaining 

 mortgage on the Church Missionary House, and to 

 add a new building to the Children's Home, as 

 well as to cover a large part of the additional 

 outlay in the missions caused by the increased 

 number of missionaries in the past four years. 

 The actual expenditure of the year had been 

 369,330, while the sums available for meeting 

 it were so far deficient as to leave an adverse bal- 

 ance of 42,883. This had been partly met by 

 applying 10,000 out of centenary funds and a 

 sum of 21,000, known as the Butterly fund, 

 whereby it had been reduced to 11,883. The 

 society had in the mission fields 558 stations, 

 9,156 workers, including 1,176 European mission- 

 aries (excluding medical missionaries), 84 medical 

 missionaries, 7,890 native Christian workers, with 

 76,370 communicants and 281,584 native Chris- 

 tian adherents; while 19,083 persons had been 

 baptized during the year. The society maintained 

 2,337 schools and seminaries, which had been at- 

 tended during the year by 104,755 pupils and 

 seminarists. In connection with the medical 

 work, 11,887 in-patients and 747,839 out-patients 

 had been treated. In China the mission had been 

 spared the loss of European lives, and a few of 

 the missionaries had been allowed to remain at 

 their posts; while at stations from which the 

 missionaries had been temporarily withdrawn, the 

 work had been regularly carried on by Chinese 

 clergy and teachers. In reference to the outbreaks 

 of 1900 in China, the report said that " the Chi- 

 nese nation, as a whole, no more deserves the hard 

 words often spoken of it than do the missionaries. 

 Not only are the people as a rule friendly, but 

 even the officials have repeatedly shown kindness 

 and courtesy to the foreigners, whose high mo- 

 tives they perfectly 'understand, particularly to 

 the ladies. Few missionaries in the disturbed dis- 

 tricts would have escaped the cruel fate decreed 

 by the Empress-Dowager if several of the viceroys 

 and mandarins had not risked their own heads to 

 protect them." The number of Chinese converts 

 had been considerable, including 627 baptized at 

 the Fuh-Kien mission alone. In India the nas- 

 cent churches were being led on to self-support, 

 self-government, and self-extension. There was, 

 however, a marked revival in the zeal of the devo- 

 tees of the old religion, and the weaknesses of 

 native Christians were at times the sorrow of the 

 missionaries. At Khartoum the committee was 

 anxiously awaiting the removal of the prohibi- 

 tion of missionary work. The number of new 

 missionaries, especially of women, showed some 

 falling off. Though clergy were wanted at home, 

 yet, in comparison with the majority of mission 

 stations, the most undermanned parish in Eng- 

 land had a plethora of workers. 



The report of medical work showed that during 

 the year the number of beds in hospitals had in- 

 creased from 1,484 to 1,613; of in-patients, from 



11,400 to 11,887; and of out-patients, from 630,000) 

 to 753,000. A medical training-house for ladies- 

 had been opened at Bermondsey. The income of 

 the auxiliary had risen from 10,600 to 12,930, 

 besides 2,737 brought forward and 3,797 from 

 the Centenary fund. The expenditure had been 

 17,962, but the debt balance was only 484. 



The General Committee of this society, at their 

 meeting on July 9, resolved, in view of the some- 

 what embarrassed financial condition of the so- 

 ciety, to make a scrupulous inquiry, and see 

 whether the present income could be in any way 

 better applied, and also to organize new endeavors 

 to reach the untouched resources of Christian Eng- 

 land. 



The " Propagation Society." The gross in- 

 come of the Society for the Propagation of the 

 Gospel from all sources had been 178,396, show- 

 ing an excess of 42,000 over the total of the 

 previous year; but the regular collections, sub- 

 scriptions, and donations had fallen off by about 

 1,200. The bulk of the gross increase was 

 constituted of special subscriptions for sufferers, 

 by famine in India and for the South African 

 Church, and for the Bicentenary fund. Twenty- 

 six offers had been received from men willing to 

 work abroad, and 5 clergymen and 14 laymen 

 had been accepted; while in the foreign field 45 

 clergymen, many of whom had been educated in 

 the society's local colleges, had been placed on the 

 list of missionaries. 



The society had 761 ordained missionaries, in- 

 cluding 12 bishops, 183 of whom were Asiatics 

 or Africans; about 2,900 lay teachers, 3,200 stu- 

 dents in its colleges, and 38,000 children in its 

 schools in Asia and Africa. 



A meeting for young people held in connection 

 with the bicentenary of the society, March 9, was 

 addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the 

 Rev. Roland Allen, of China, and the Bishop- 

 designate of London. 



At a meeting held in the Guildhall, London, 

 Feb. 12, in celebration of the bicentenary of 

 this society, the lord mayor presided, attending 

 in state, and spoke of the extent of the work of 

 the society. The Archbishop of Canterbury called 

 attention to the agency of missionary enterprise 

 in spreading religion and advancing civilization 

 and commerce, and urged the duty of Englishmen 

 to support it liberally. Lord Hugh Cecil, M. P., 

 referred to the dangers, unknown to it in its early" 

 times, with which it was now beset, through 

 efforts to make it the tool of political ambi- 

 tion. Resolutions were passed, recognizing " with 

 devout and humble thankfulness to Almighty 

 God" the measure of success which had been 

 vouchsafed to the labors of the society, and in- 

 voking the divine blessing to continue the work, 

 in which the society had been instrumental, in 

 bringing about the spiritual federation of the- 

 Anglican communion throughout his Majesty's 

 dominions. 



At the closing meeting of the bicentenary cele- 

 bration, held at Exeter Hall in June,' the pri- 

 mate presiding, it was reported that the society 

 had failed to raise the whole of the proposed 

 amount of 250,000. Up to the present time 

 only a little more than 50,000 had been paid 

 into the fund. Of this sum, 30,000 were being 

 devoted to South Africa. The closing sermons of 

 the celebration were preached in St. Paul's Ca- 

 thedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury and 

 Canon Newbolt, and in Westminster Abbey by 

 Dr. Alexander, Primate of Ireland. 



Other Missionary Societies. The Woman's 

 Mission Association for the Promotion of Female 

 Education in the Missions of the Society for 



