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tration, by the Rev. Horace Bishop, 1). J). ; 

 Trained Workers to Supplement our Regular 

 Church Agencies in City Missions, by the Rev. Dr. 

 W. H. La Prade; Growth and Character of City 

 Population in the South, by Prof. G. W. Dyer; 

 Need of Trained Workers, by the Rev. Dr. J. C. 

 Morris; and other papers. A discussion of 

 the negro question at the afternoon session was 

 marked by addresses on Are we Meeting our 

 Responsibilities to the Negroes of the South? by 

 the Rev. R. J. Bingham; The Medical Education 

 of the Negro, by G. W. Hubbard, D. D. ; and The 

 Industrial Education of the Negro, by Prof. 

 Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Industrial In- 

 stitute. The fourth day was Woman's Day. 

 The addresses included The Aim and Scope of 

 Woman's Work in Foreign Missions, by Mrs. S. C. 

 Truehart; Woman's Educational Work, by Miss 

 M. L. Gibson; Bible Women's Work, by Mrs. M. 

 I. Lambuth; Medical Work, by Mrs. A. W. Feam, 

 M. D., of Soochow, China ; The Work of the Home 

 Mission Society, by Miss Belle Bennett; The Lit- 

 erature of Home Missions, by Mrs. J. D. Ham- 

 mond; Our Foreign and Factory Population, by 

 Mrs. Florence Kelly ; English and American Social 

 Settlements, by Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House 

 Settlement, Chicago, 111.; and Woman's Work at 

 Home and Abroad, by Bishop J. M. Thoburn, of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church. The fifth day 

 was Young People's Day. Addresses were made 

 on The Young People and the Church of the 

 Future, by the Rev. Dr. James Atkins; Mission- 

 ary Training and Literature for our Y r oung Peo- 

 ple, by Miss Belle M. Brain; The Study of Mis- 

 sions by College Students, by the Rev. A. C. 

 Millar, D. D., and the Rev. F. P. Turner; and 

 topics relating to the Epworth League and Sun- 

 day-schools. 



At one of the evening meetings a collection was 

 taken for Soochow University, China, and more 

 than $50,000 were subscribed. The sum of $3.500 

 was also raised as a " Laura Haygood Memorial 

 fund." 



III. African Methodist Episcopal Church. 

 The seventeenth annual meeting of the Board 

 of Education was held in Memphis, Tenn., May 8, 

 Bishop Benjamin F. Lee presiding. The report of 

 the secretary showed that the year's collections 

 had amounted to $115,004, of which $28,958 were 

 derived from the collections of endowment day 

 and the board's share (8 per cent.) of the " dollar 

 money," and $86,046 from collections by schools. 

 The total amount of the collections for the six- 

 teen years since the organization of the educa- 

 tional department was given at $1,600,000. The 

 meeting was addressed by Gen. George B. Gordon, 

 superintendent of schools for Greater Memphis. 



The books of the Sunday-school Union for 1900 

 were balanced at $22,90J receipts and expendi- 

 tures. A debt against the institution of $5,392 

 had been reduced to $1,500. 



The Woman's Mite Society received during the 

 year $2,190, besides $33 contributed for a school- 

 house in South Africa, and expended $1,347. Of 

 the sum received, it sent $275 quarterly, or $1,100 

 for the year, to the missionaries in Sierra Leone, 

 Africa. 



The remains of Richard Allen, the founder and 

 first bishop of this Church, who died March 24, 

 1831, which had lain since his death on the site 

 in Philadelphia, Pa., where the society was or- 

 ganized, w r ere reinterred, April 24, with appro- 

 priate ceremonies, in a white marble tomb spe- 

 cially constructed for their reception, in the new 

 Bethel Church, standing on the fame spot. 



IV. African Methodist Episcopal Zion 

 Church. The general statistician of this Church, 



the Rev. Dr. J. 11. Anderson. pMhli-h.-.l. .Inly 4, 

 1901, the following SUIIIIIKU v .>! n - linancial 

 activities from May 31, is'ji;,' \<, \" ; , v |, i'.iixt: 

 Raised for the General fund, .S'.i:;.-j.'.i. ,';,,, ,.<ni<-a- 

 tion, $73,380; for the publication <lc|,,iii; > .-:;o 

 950; for the Variek Christian Kn<lcav<,i Upait 

 merit, general and local, $5,107; for UK Y;ui< k 

 Memorial Building, $1,306; for the Won 

 Home arid Foreign Mission Societies, $2.1.ji 

 the Book Concern (now absorbed in the publica- 

 tion department), $1,214; or centennial oli'eiin^^ 

 $7,869; for local benevolences, $50,861; for pas- 

 tors' salaries, $3,177,000; for presiding elders' 

 salaries, $70,968; for current expenses, $914,800; 

 for purchasing new property and paying church 

 debts and for repairs and for parsonages, $3,763,- 

 996; for general missionary purposes, $3,286; for 

 church extension, $2,105; for expenses of the Gen- 

 eral Conference (1900), including fares of dele- 

 gates, $3,500; miscellaneous, $8,900; total con- 

 tributions and receipts, $8,210,286. 



A Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary So- 

 ciety of this Church has been formed, and held its 

 first convention during the summer at Atlantic 

 City, N. J. 



V. Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 

 The General Board met at Liberty Station, Tenn., 

 May 1, Bishop J. A. Beebe presiding. The publish- 

 ing agent reported that the Christian Index, the 

 official journal of the Church, was yielding a 

 handsome profit after paying its own. way; that 

 the sale of Sunday-school literature had in- 

 creased; and that the value of the publishing 

 house, including machinery and stock, was more 

 than $20,000. The establishment was doing more 

 general job work for the Church than ever before. 

 An additional parcel of land had been bought for 

 it, to meet the demands of increasing business. 

 The general financial report showed that $26,923 

 had been received for the general funds, and $19,- 

 350 for the Twentieth Century fund. 



VI. Methodist Protestant Church. The sta- 

 tistics of this Church for 1901 give it 647 min- 

 isters, 1,135 unstationed ministers and preachers, 

 184,097 members, 2,401 churches, 534 parsonages, 

 church property valued at $4,754,721, 2,034 Sun- 

 day-schools, with 16,680 officers and teachers and 

 126,031 pupils, and 753 Christian Endeavor So- 

 cieties, with 27,800 members. The foreign mission, 

 in Japan, returned 3 central stations, 26 circuits, 

 stations, and outlying missions, 21 missionaries, 

 32 native preachers and workers, 1 college, 1 

 theological seminary, and 4 schools. The year's 

 receipts of the Board of Home Missions were 

 returned at its annual meeting, May 8, as hav- 

 ing been $8,578. Out of the receipts, $5,212 had 

 been paid directly into the work of supporting 

 missionaries and aiding in the maintenance of 

 mission churches. All the missionaries had been 

 paid in full, and no outstanding indebtedness re- 

 mained due. 



VII. American Wesleyan Church. The fol- 

 lowing summary of the statistics of the American 

 Wesleyan Church, representing all the conferences 

 but three (Minnesota, Tennessee, and Willamette), 

 was published in the American Wesleyan for Jan. 

 23, 1901 : Whole number of elders on the confer- 

 ence rolls, 393; of superannuated ministers, 33; 

 of quarterly conference licentiates, 304; amount 

 contributed for preaching, $61,093; for missionary 

 enterprises, $10,369; for educational purposes, $1,- 

 694; for support of Sunday-schools, $5,629; for 

 the support of evangelists, $8,639; on the "dollar 

 plan," $2,749; for superannuated ministers, $861; 

 for incidental expenses, $8,626; for building and 

 repairs, $10,163; for other benevolent objects, 

 $3,815; number of members, 15,653; of Sunday- 



