INDEPENDENT STATE OF THE. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. 



-nice. The p<>>ts cover i ho Free State 



. MlAiitie to Lake Tanganyika. 



, . M ,,h lines have a total length of 795 miles. 



Navigation. At the ports of Boma and Ba- 



n, i th.-re wen.- entered I:'-' vessels engaged in 



,..; l ., llllllll IV r. of .Sii!MJ45 tons, in 1899; cleared, 



IT' of :*:: 7 1 ' tons. Of the total tonnage entered 



liiliwa ton- :ind of that cleared 189,993 tons were 



I'rt-li'ian 7!n:J7 ton- entered and 85,588 cleared 



wen- British, and r,r>.t;S:i tons entered and 67,112 



tons cleared "ere German. In the coasting trade 



440 vessels, of 19,8:18 tons, were entered, and 4ol, 



of -*O ,V>7 tons, were cleared. 



Native Insurrections. After the Budja re- 

 volt as suppressed by (.'apt. Verdussen the Bata- 

 telas iKvame unruly in the Lualaba and Kassai 

 regions, and on the Welle the Ababnas rose m re- 

 volt, rutting t.ff communication with Lado, and 

 attempting to seize the arms stored at Lobokwa, 

 wh.re thev suddenly surrounded the garrison of 

 40 men and killed a native soldier. The sending 

 of reinforcements cheeked this rebellion. At San- 

 kuru disturbances occurred as a sequel to the 

 o|H-r:itions of Major Malfeyt against rebels at 

 LuluuU'rg. Commandant La Haye, with a force 

 of ~>oo men, started for the Welle in June, and 

 gradually brought the last of the rebels in that 

 region to submission. Agents who were guilty 

 of cruelty to natives in the Katanga district and 

 elsewhere were condemned by the courts. Col. 

 Bartels made a tour of inspection as a special 

 commissioner to report on modifications that 

 might l>e required in local methods of adminis- 

 tration. King Leopold and his officials were de- 

 termined to root out the abuses that have been 

 charged against the Congo Administration. For- 

 eign missionaries and others who have criticized 

 the Free State Administration condemn the sys- 

 tem of leasing public lands for private exploita- 

 tion, charging that the natives are driven from 

 the best land that they have in cultivation. These 

 private domains in 1900 yielded to the treasury 

 100,000.000 francs, while the income from the 

 Crown domains was 700,000 francs. In the Mon- 

 golia district, where the natives were provoked to 

 revolt by the cruelty of Belgian agents, Capt. Mar- 

 dulier established a chain of military stations. 

 In the Kassai district Capt. de Wulf obtained a 

 decisive victory over the rebellious tribe of Bena- 

 Luluas. Of the Batatelas who revolted against 

 Baron Dhanis in 1895 and have since been pur- 

 sued by the Free State troops, a band of 300, 

 while encamped north of the river Luama, was 

 attacked by 150 native troops under Capt. Ander- 

 son, and after a brief engagement compelled to 

 surrender. There were still 1,000 rebels in the 

 mountains bordering Lake Kassali, where by ter- 

 rorizing the surrounding district they gained 

 allies. A punitive expedition was sent out in 

 April under the command of Major Malfeyt, who 

 posted himself, with 700 men, at the confluence of 

 the Congo and the Lukuga, while Capt. Savaes, 

 ith 150 men. took up a position where the Lua- 

 laba enters the Congo, and Major Vandenbroeck, 



) men, went to Kilwa, on Lake Moero, 

 mailer detachments occupying intervening posts 

 so as to make possible a general enveloping move- 

 ment and rut off escape either to the north or into 

 h territory on the south. The Batatelas, who 



nmed repeating rifles from Belgian and 

 ish traders, were joined by other tribes One 

 section when hard pressed went over the line and 

 surrendered to the Germans, but the main body 

 outnumbered the Free State troops. The insur- 

 gent Abubuas in the Welle region were finallv 

 brought into subjection in August by Lieut. La 

 Haye, who had 600 men in his command. The re- 



volt in the Mongolia district and in the region 

 of the Kassai was checked in September. An im- 

 portant military post was established at Ndobo. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. The following 

 summaries of the Congregational churches in the 

 United States are given in the American Congre- 

 gational Year-Book for 1901 : Number of churches, 

 5,050; of churches added during the year, 46; of 

 ministers, 5,568; of church-members, 635,791, show- 

 ing a net gain for the year of 5,118; of members of 

 Sunday-schools, 743,634; of additions on confes- 

 sion during the year, 27,101; of baptisms, 11,518 of 

 adults and 11,837 of infants; amount of benevolent 

 contributions, $2,212,536, showing a gain of $77,- 

 263; of contributions for home expenditure, $7,- 

 497,930. The contributions for foreign missions 

 were $501,987, and those for home missions $1,- 

 699,074. 



The seven theological seminaries returned 325 

 undergraduate students. 



The American Congregational Association 

 maintains the Congregational House, Boston, is 

 accumulating a library, portraits, and relics of the 

 past, and cares for whatever may illustrate Con- 

 gregational history and promote the interests of 

 Congregational churches. 



The contributions to the Sunday-School and 

 Publishing Society for the year ending Feb. 28, 

 1901, were $57,617, and its available income from 

 all sources w r as $76,156. It had 20 superintend- 

 ents, 14 missionaries, and 3 correspondents, and 

 published 6 periodicals, as well as a list of books 

 on religious and Congregational subjects. 



The Board of Ministerial Relief returned the 

 Ministerial Relief fund of the National Council 

 at $118,000; from which an income of about $5,000 

 accrued, to be distributed among beneficiaries in 

 portions of from $25 to $200 a year. Sixty-four 

 persons and families disabled ministers, widows, 

 and children had been thus aided in 1900. 



Education Society. The twenty-fifth annual 

 report of the Congregational Education Society 

 represented that increased sums had been con- 

 tributed in the West, and that the society had 

 given considerably more to academies and mis- 

 sions than in the previous year; that it had paid 

 all outstanding claims, was clear of debt, and had 

 a small working balance in the treasury; and that 

 in the student department all claims had been 

 promptly paid and a surplus remained. The year 

 had been very successful in New Mexico, where 

 new buildings had been erected at Cabezon and 

 Cubero; and much had been accomplished in 

 Utah, at the Gordon Academy. Work had been 

 set forward at Kingfisher, Eureka, and Chadron. 

 In the department of theological scholarships 

 more men than usual had accepted grants as 

 loans, giving their notes in payment. One hun- 

 dred and thirty-nine men, or one more than in the 

 previous year, had received scholarships. A large 

 demand from Southern Congregational churches 

 for educated ministers was remarked, and the ex- 

 pediency of establishing an institution . in the 

 South was suggested. 



Church Building Society. The forty-eighth 

 annual meeting of the Congregational Church 

 Building Society was held in New York city, 

 Jan. 10. The total receipts for the year 1900 had 

 been $213,160, of which $98,471 had been from 

 churches and individuals, $28,083 from legacies, 

 $55,304 from loans returned, and the rest from 

 other sources. Loans amounting to $109,000 had 

 been voted to 49 churches, and grants amounting 

 to $76,973 to 97 churches. Both loans and grants 

 had been voted to 26 churches. Loans amounting 

 to $39,158 had been paid to 26 churches, grants of 

 $60,881 to 70 churches, and both loans and grants 



