PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN T11E UNITKD ,ST.\TKS 



573 



day-school teachers, 46,94C; Sunday-school pupils, 

 439,112; parochial and industrial school teachers, 

 1,704; parochial an'd industrial school pupils, 

 24,802; contributions, $14,544,917. 



The General Convention met in San Francisco 

 in October. Action was taken by which six new 

 missionary jurisdictions were formed: Salina, 

 Porto Rico and Vieques, Honolulu, and the Phil- 

 ippine Islands within the territory of the United 

 States, and Cuba and Hankow in foreign coun- 

 tries. The diocese of Massachusetts was divided, 

 and a new diocese was formed under the (pro- 

 visional) name of Western Massachusetts. The 

 following missionary bishops were elected: Olym- 

 pia, the Rev. Frederick William Keator; North 

 Dakota, the Rev. Cameron Mann, D. D. ; Philip- 

 pine Islands, the Rev. Charles Henry Brent ; Porto 

 Rico and Vieques, the Rev. William Cabell Brown, 

 D. D.; Hankow, the Rev. James Addison Ingle. 

 The appointment of missionary bishops for the 

 jurisdictions of Honolulu, Salina, and Cuba was 

 left with the House of Bishops, who will make 

 appointments in the recess. 



The General Convention deferred to future ac- 

 tion the erection of provinces, the term of the 

 presiding bishop, and the alteration in the legal 

 name of the Church. The convention passed what 

 may be called permissive resolutions: one to al- 

 low the use in public of the marginal readings; 

 the other, as to the power of bishops to take 

 under their care congregations not belonging to 

 the Church without insisting on the use of the 

 Prayer-Book. Several new committees were cre- 

 ated, notably those on the translation of bishops, 

 on the relation of capital and labor, and on con- 

 ferring with the other religious bodies in regard 

 to marriage and divorce. The erection of the sees 

 of Honolulu and Porto Rico and Vieques are 

 noteworthy, as they were formed through the 

 friendly cooperation of the Bishops of Honolulu 

 and Antigua, who resigned their former jurisdic- 

 tion over these islands. 



Missions. The entire receipts of the Domestic 

 and Foreign Missionary Society for the fiscal year 

 ended Aug. 31 were $998,904.47. The total amount 

 at the discretion of the board for the work for 

 which it made itself responsible was $531,137.50, 

 of which $456,864.32 came from contributions, 

 $69,693.18 from legacies designated by the testa- 

 tors for either domestic or foreign missions or 

 for the use of the society, and $4,580 from legacies 

 unused, received the previous year. As the ap- 

 propriations for the year amounted to $610,983.15, 

 this made a deficit in meeting the appropriations, 

 which deficiency of $102,719.36 (including $22,- 

 873.71 to Sept. 1, last year) was temporarily 

 covered by the reserve deposit, amounting to 

 $109,120.81, set aside several years ago to meet 

 the payments during the early months of the 

 year when the contributions are few, and the 

 board, at the end of the fiscal year, had left only 

 $6,401.45 of the reserve deposits with which to 

 protect its obligations falling due within the next 

 six months. The increase of contributions, com- 

 pared with those of the previous year, was $17,- 

 039.99, but there was a decrease in the amount 

 received from legacies of $112,454.41. The num- 

 ber of parishes and missions contributing 112 

 more than the year before, and more than in any 

 previous year was 4,075, and the Lenten offer- 

 ing from Sunday-schools, amounting to more 

 than $104,000, was the largest yet made. The 

 number of schools contributing was 3,467, a gain 

 of 129, compared with the previous year. The 

 total of appropriations for the fiscal year 1901- 

 1902 was announced in May to the Church as 

 $610,000, subject to slight increase to meet special 



year, but 



opportunities or einer<j<-nri ( , dm ti- 

 the action of tin; board in iiiakli ;> 

 tions was qualified by a ic-oh \\ 

 vided that if, at the close . i h 

 Sept. 1, 1901, there should !,. ,i < , i 

 than $100,000, a reduction at, the i ,; 

 on all appropriations for the < m nn-j V( ; , 

 be made, and a proportionate reduetj ,, : 

 smaller deficit, this reduction to M|<|<ly 

 tionately only for the nine months be^mi 

 1, 1901. By subsequent action it was do 

 not to put this resolution into effect before : ; 

 1, 1902. 



The amount available for domestic mission 

 specials (including a balance from 1900 of 

 $97,387.34) was $662,947.62. The payments on 

 account of white mission work were $165 074 47 

 of Indian, $62,899.86; of colored, $73,365.50; 

 specials were $109,442.47; portion of Woman's 

 Auxiliary united offering of 1898 applied to ap- 

 propriations for domestic missions, $15,027.23; 

 legacy expenses (half), $701.60; half amount paid 

 to annuitants, $926; half cost of administration 

 and collection, $22,309.91; half cost of printing 

 reports of the board, Spirit of Missions for the 

 clergy, pamphlets and leaflets for gratuitous dis- 

 tribution, $11,071.66; legacies for investment, 

 $114,528.63; legacies paid to certain bishops, etc., 

 at their discretion, $2,300; making the total of 

 payments on account of domestic missions and 

 specials, $577,647.33, and leaving available for do- 

 mestic missions and specials at the close of the 

 fiscal year a balance of $85,300.29. The salaries 

 of the bishops and the stipends of the mission- 

 aries in the 17 districts that are exclusively mis- 

 sionary were paid, and assistance was given in 

 40 dioceses. The general missionary to the 

 Swedes, 2 missionaries among deaf-mutes in the 

 West and South, 3 missionaries in Porto Rico, and 

 2 in the Philippines also were supported, the soci- 

 ety being responsible, in all, for the salaries of 

 16 missionary bishops and the stipends of 694 

 clergymen, 147 laymen, and 212 women. 



The total amount for the fiscal year applied 

 upon the mission work in foreign lands was 

 $320,023.57, but $81,180.77 of this was received 

 as specials to be paid over and above appro- 

 priation or to be invested permanently. The 

 statement of appropriations and resources for the 

 year is as follows: Balance of appropriations on 

 Sept. 1, 1900, unpaid, $42,930.39; appropriations 

 to Sept. 1, 1901, $278,765.63. Assets to Sept. 1, 

 1900, $31,493.54; received for foreign missions, 

 $115,751.40; one-half general offerings, $94,798.85; 

 designated legacies, $15,993.32; undesignated lega- 

 cies, $12,299.23, 



The reports of the missionary bishops give 

 abundant ground for hope and confidence. 



Church work among the Indians is maintained 

 in 13 States and Territories. There are working 

 in this field 49 clergymen, 86 laymen, and 129 

 women, making a total of 168 workers. Of these, 

 28 are Indian clergymen. In Alaska 4 new 

 churches were built this year, and the contribu- 

 tions amounted to $6.394; 64 persons were bap- 

 tized and 64 confirmed. For mission work among 

 the Indian? $62,899.66 was paid out by the board. 



Advancement in the mission work among the 

 deaf-mutes in the West and South, among the 

 Swedes, and among the colored people of the 

 South is reported. For the work of evangelization 

 and education among the latter $73,365.50 was 

 expended this year. 



The work of the Church in Porto Rico is estab- 

 lished at three centers San Juan, Ponce, and 

 Vieques. At San Juan the Rev. James H. Van 

 Buren, appointed as missionary to Porto Rico, 



