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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 



has bought for $12,000 a lot on which to erect 

 a church, and the people of San Juan have raised 

 $2,000 for that purpose. The attendance upon 

 Sunday services has averaged 65 persons, and 

 there are about 35 communicants, one-fifth of 

 whom are colored. At Ponce are about 70 com- 

 municants, 50 of whom are colored, and there 

 are 40 colored children in the Sunday-school. At 

 Vieques are about 70 communicants. Bishop 

 Peterkin early in the year confirmed 19 persons in 

 Porto Rico. 



Two missionary priests for the work in the 

 Philippines were appointed in May. A chapel lot 

 in Manila has been bought and paid for, and a 

 pledge of $20,000 for the erection of buildings has 

 been made. The Order for Holy Matrimony has 

 been translated into the Tagal tongue the first 

 office of the Prayer-Book to be so translated. 

 This, work is important, as, since the establish- 

 ment of civil marriage, very large numbers of the 

 people seek the American chaplains and mission- 

 aries for the ceremony. The statistics of the 

 Philippines mission for the year show 7 confirma- 

 tions and 81 communicants. The Bishop of 

 Shanghai, as bishop-in-charge of the Philippine 

 Islands, made a visitation there. 



The Church in Liberia has continued to main- 

 tain its quota of good works, although, on ac- 

 count of the rebellious attitude of two heathen 

 tribes toward the Government, the work of some 

 of the interior stations had to be suspended. In 

 the year 2 deacons were ordained, 4 postulants, 

 and 8 candidates for holy orders were admitted, 

 16 lay readers were licensed, 9 additional cate- 

 chist's and teachers were commissioned, 3 churches 

 were consecrated, 314 persons were baptized, and 

 136 confirmed; there were 1,710 communicants, of 

 whom 1,012 are aborigines, the Sunday-school pu- 

 pils numbered 1,832, the day-school and boarding- 

 school pupils were 1,262, and the contributions 

 amounted to $2,794.17. 



In China the outlook is encouraging. Since 

 the political troubles of 1900 the work of evan- 

 gelization has been resumed on stronger lines than 

 before. In Wuchang street-preaching services 

 have been established with remarkable success, a 

 chapel has been completed, another begun, and 

 two new stations where regular services are held, 

 and also a training-school for day-school teachers, 

 have been opened. A new feature of the year was 

 the holding of a teachers' institute. A new house 

 at Wuhu has been opened, and new stations at 

 Wusieh, Lang-Lo, and Chang-Chow. A hospital 

 at Nganking has been completed; work for 

 women has been begun at Hankow, where exten- 

 sive building operations have gone on during the 

 year, and a church there has been consecrated. 

 In March 155 boys and young men applied for 

 admission to St. John's College, five miles out of 

 Shanghai ; but there was accommodation for only 

 50. Many of the applicants were sons of distin- 

 guished officials in China. The number of stu- 

 dents enrolled is more than 220. Other statistics 

 show that 194 persons were baptized, 147 con- 

 firmed, the communicants number 1,294, contri- 

 butions amounted to (Mexican) $2,500.06, and 

 1 priest and 4 Chinese deacons were ordained. 

 The translation of the Bible has been continued, 

 various tracts have been written, the first half of 

 a commentary on the Psalms has been printed, 

 and an elaborate work on ancient history, pre- 

 pared at the request of the Viceroy of Hupeh, has 

 issued from the press. All these 'are in the Chi- 

 nese tongue. 



The Church in Japan is winning its way to the 

 confidence of the people. Statistics for the Japan 

 mission give: Natives baptized, 323, of whom 204 



were adults; confirmed, 207; communicants,, 

 1,697; day-school pupils, 1,505; boarding-school 

 pupils, 223; Sunday-school pupils, 1,786; contri- 

 butions, $6,087.54 (Mexican dollars). One priest 

 was ordained, 5 native candidates for holy or- 

 ders were admitted, 2 churches were consecrated, 

 a night-school and 2 hospital dispensaries were 

 opened, and land was bought and buildings put 

 up. As one result of a meeting of the bishops of 

 the Church in Japan, the bishops issued a joint 

 pastoral letter to all their communicants, urging 

 them to daily prayer for Christian unity. Since 

 then the representatives of all the missions in 

 Japan, except the Roman Catholic, have published 

 a letter to the same effect In the past year the 

 Middle School of St. John's College achieved the 

 unique distinction of having its graduating class, 

 admitted into the Government institutions at the 

 head of all competitors, passing 100 per cent, of 

 its candidates. 



The Church in Haiti is now established at 22 

 points, in charge of 12 native priests. The bap- 

 tisms in the year numbered 110; confirmations,. 

 55; communicants, 544; Sunday-school pupils, 

 288 ; day-school pupils, 234 ; contributions, $2,233, 

 Ihree new mission stations were opened. 



The Mexican Church is slowly strengthening in 

 numbers and influence. It closed the year entirely 

 freed from debt; the number of its clergy has 

 been increased by 5, I deacon has been ordained, 

 the baptisms were 79 and the confirmations 108; 

 the offerings amounted to $1,454, and the num- 

 ber of communicants was 763. A committee of 

 the House of Bishops was appointed at the con- 

 vention with power (under certain conditions) to 

 arrange a concordat or covenant with the Mexi- 

 can Church, and, when satisfied with the concor- 

 dat, and subject to such conditions, to consecrate 

 not more than 2 bishops for the church in Mexico. 

 A standing committee of the board has been ap- 

 pointed on Mexican work. 



The statistics of the chaplaincies in Europe 

 show: Clergy, 12; organized chaplaincies, 9; bap- 

 tisms, 64; confirmations, 123; communicants,. 

 1,777; and contributions, $98,621. 



The receipts of the American Church Mission- 

 ary Society amounted to $64,458.32; the cash on 

 hand Sept. 1, 1900, was $10,282,65; the disburse- 

 ments were $66,581.35;. and the cash balance Sept. 

 1, 1901, was $8,159.62. The disbursements for 

 Brazil for missions were $19,704.74; for specials, 

 $977.30; for church building, $14,220.72; for in- 

 surance, $350. The Brazil mission shows con- 

 stant growth and reports 1 priest ordained, 3 

 candidates for holy orders, 2 postulants, 1 

 church consecrated, 158 baptisms, 97 confirma- 

 tions, 488 communicants, 34 Sunday-school 

 teachers, 465 Sunday-school pupils, 3 parish- 

 school teachers, 50 parish-school pupils, and 

 $3,666 contributed. By a change of title author- 

 ized by the General Convention, Bishop Kinsol- 

 ving takes the title of Bishop of Southern Brazil. 



For Cuba the disbursements were: For mis- 

 sions, $8,568.66; for specials, $116.50; for church 

 at Bolondron, $1.797.52; for Matanzas orphan- 

 age, $5,231.98. The mission in Cuba has been 

 placed in the charge of the Bishop of Porto 

 Rico and Vieques. Five clergymen are laboring 

 there in 5 mission districts, who in the year bap- 

 tized 36 persons. There are 256 communicants 

 and 250 Sunday-school pupils. Reports from the 

 orphanage at Matanzas indicate that unless con- 

 tributions for its maintenance greatly increase it 

 must be closed. 



The Society for Promoting Christianity among 

 the Jews reports that much interest in it has 

 been shown and much good-will toward it. The 



