ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



the Propagation of the Gospel returned an income 

 of 10,672 and an expenditure of 10,483 for 

 1900. 



The report of the Anglo-Continental Society, 

 made at its annual meeting in June, represented 

 that the number of Old Catholics in Austria had 

 grown steadily during the year, although their 

 priests had been refused recognition by the Gov- 

 ernment, and their meetings had been forbidden 

 by the police. In Italy, while the spurious bishop- 

 elect, the priest Don Miraglia, having obtained 

 episcopal orders from M. Rene Vilatte, whose 

 consecration was not recognized by the Anglican 

 bishops, had assumed to exercise episcopal juris- 

 diction, the work of the real bishop-elect, Count 

 Campello, was going on independently, with head- 

 quarters at Rome. In France, the number of 

 priests who had left the Church of Rome in con- 

 nection with M. Bourrier's movement had risen to 

 about 350. The Bishop of Salisbury, speaking of 

 the relations of the Greek and Anglican churches, 

 said that something had already been attained 

 in regard to burial rights, and arrangements con- 

 cerning baptismal rites might follow; but he did 

 not see any hope of intercommunion in the near 

 future. 



The report of the Jerusalem and the East Mis- 

 sion, made at the annual meeting, June 13, the 

 Bishop of Salisbury presiding, represented that 

 the income for the year ending with the month 

 would be about 4,300, showing that the serious 

 decline of the two previous years had been 

 checked. The necessity of having a reserve fund 

 of 1,000 or 1,500 was urged, since now Bishop 

 Blyth, in the unique position of representing the 

 Anglican communion in the mother city of the 

 faith, was left with unfinished buildings and an 

 insufficient staff. This did not give to the other 

 churches in Jerusalem a true idea of Anglican 

 zeal for missions. It was represented by speakers 

 who had visited the mission that the bishop came 

 constantly in contact with the Mohammedan 

 officers, as well as with the Oriental and Roman 

 branches of the Catholic Church. The cordiality 

 shown by the Greek patriarch and priests toward 

 the Anglican Church was very striking. Not only 

 representatives of the Church Missionary Society 

 were found in Bishop Blyth's house, but non- 

 conformists, who were carrying on a great many 

 branches of Christian work in the Holy Land, 

 and the bishop seemed in very friendly touch with 

 all of them. 



At the annual meeting in behalf of the South 

 African United Church, May 23, it was repre- 

 sented that the Society for the Propagation of the 

 Gospel had decided to send out large assistance. 

 While Anglican relations with the Dutch Re- 

 formed Church had always been friendly till the 

 war, the hope of union had now been post- 

 poned. The natives, however, would be better dis- 

 posed toward the English Church. The money fur- 

 nished by the Propagation Society could not be 

 touched till its allotment had been discussed by 

 all the dioceses. 



A reception given to missionary and colonial 

 workers by the Archbishops of Canterbury and 

 York on behalf of the United Boards of Missions, 

 May 22, was attended by representatives of the 

 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the 

 Church Missionary Society, the Universities Mis- 

 sion to Central Africa, the South American Mis- 

 sionary Society, the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, 

 the Delhi Mission, the London Jews' Society, the 

 Church of England Zenana Mission, the Church 

 of England members of the Bible Society, the 

 Colonial and Continental Church Society, and 

 many diocesan fund committees. The guests were 



addressed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and 

 York and the Bishop of London., and responses 

 were made by the Archbishop of Cape Town and 

 Mr. Eugene Stock. 



Other Societies. The annual report of the 

 Church Pastoral Aid Society showed that 1,200 

 parishes were now giving and 700 receiving assist- 

 ance through its means. The year's grants num- 

 bered 1,001, for the maintenance of 744 curates, 

 152 lay agents, and 105 woman workers. The 

 society's dual basis, supplying both clerical and 

 lay pastoral aid, was becoming all the more valu- 

 able in consequence of the decrease in the supply 

 of candidates for ordination. The total income 

 for the year had been 72,117, including 17,593. 

 in legacies, and a net increase of 4,101 in the 

 grants. The expenditure had been 61,902. 



The income of the Additional Curate's Society 

 for 1900 was 37,034, a considerable falling off; 

 while the expenditure was 58,240, and funds and 

 legacies had to be drawn upon to make the ac- 

 counts square. This expenditure had elicited an 

 even larger sum, 59,213 having been locally 

 raised to meet the grants. Grants were being made 

 toward the stipends of 1,247 assistant clergy in 

 1,034 poor and populous parishes; and about 

 5,000 parishes were recognizing the privilege of 

 helping in this work. Since its formation the 

 society had paid 1,915,007 in grants, to meet 

 which 1,636,769 had been locally raised; while 

 sums of 11,985 and 42,150 respectively had 

 been granted and locally raised to endow newly 

 constituted districts. The allied Ordination 

 Candidates' Exhibition fund had been able in 

 the past year to distribute a larger sum than in 

 any of the previous ten years, and 1901 had begun 

 with 130 students on the list. 



The Curates' Augmentation fund had received 

 14,931 during the year, of which 8,115 were 

 paid in grants. The 176 curates benefited had 

 served on an average twenty-seven years, but their 

 average stipend was less than 130. 



The Church of England Incorporated Society 

 for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays had 

 received during the year 44,547 for the general 

 fund, 26,980 for special funds, and 1,647 in 

 loans, and had expended 69,770. It had, at the 

 close of the year, 1,566 girls and 1,260 boys under 

 its care. 



The two hundred and forty-seventh anniver- 

 sary of the corporation of the Sons of the Clergy 

 was celebrated in London, May 8. The object 

 of the corporation was defined by the Dean of 

 Windsor to be to help necessitous clergymen, their 

 widows and dependent relatives, of every diocese 

 in England and Wales. In the past year more 

 than 24,700 had been paid to those for whom 

 the society existed, 15,000 alone going in pen- 

 sions and grants to widows and aged single 

 daughters of clergymen. The number assisted 

 was 1,778. The corporation was by far the oldest, 

 the largest, and the most comprehensive of the 

 clergy charities. 



The Church of England Scripture Readers' As- 

 sociation, it was represented at its fifty-seventh 

 annual meeting in the Church House, Westmin- 

 ster, employs no reader who can not satisfy the 

 committee as to his Scripture knowledge and his 

 full acceptance of the plain teachings of the 

 Prayer-Book and his loyal allegiance to the prin- 

 ciples of the Reformation. The number of grants 

 was now 123, and the parochial clergy testified to 

 the intelligence, energy, and satisfactory results 

 of the work done. During the year the readers 

 had paid 430,400 visits and calls, of which 7,720 

 were to public houses, factories, and common 

 lodging-houses; had presented 2,266 children for 



