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sum contributed for foreign missions by all the 

 churches acting through the American Board. 

 Exclusive of the missions transferred to the 

 Presbyterian Board, the statistics of the mis- 

 sions of the Board were as follows : missions, 

 14 ; stations, 86 ; out-stations, 506 ; ordained 

 missionaries (3 being physicians), 129 ; physi- 

 cians not ordained, 8 ; other male assistants, 4 ; 

 other female assistants, 190 total of laborers 

 sent from America, 331 ; native pastors, 118 ; 

 native preachers and catechists, 315 ; school- 

 teachers, 400 ; other native helpers, 208; Avhole 

 number of native helpers, 1,041 : whole num- 

 ber of laborers connected with the missions, 

 1,372. Pages printed, 19,728,995; number 

 of churches (including all at the Hawaiian 

 Islands), 226 ; church-members so far as re- 

 ported, 23,718 ; added during the year (so far 

 as reported), 1,533 ; number of training and 

 theological schools, 15 ; boarding-schools for 

 girls, 17 ; common schools (omitting those at 

 the Hawaiian Islands), 464 ; pupils in common 

 schools, 12,437 ; in training and theological 

 schools, 323 ; in boarding-schools for girls, 535 ; 

 other adults for instruction, 1,115 ; whole num- 

 ber of pupils, 14,416. 



The forty-fourth anniversary of the Ameri- 

 can Home Missionary Society was held in New 

 York, May 11, 1870. The receipts of the year 

 amounted to $283,102 ; expenditures, $270,927; 

 number of missionaries employed 944, congre- 

 gations and missionary districts 1,836. 



The English Congregational Year-Boole for 

 1871 reports the following statistics of Con- 

 gregationalists in Great Britain and the British 

 dependencies: 



County Associations and Unions. England, 

 43; "Wales, 16; Scotland, 8; Ireland, 1; Col- 

 onies, 8. Total 76. 



Churches at Home and Abroad. England, 

 2,045; Wales, 878; Scotland, 102; Ireland, 28; 

 islands of the British seas, 16 ; Canada and 

 British North America, 108 ; Australia and 

 New Zealand, 176 ; South Africa and Deme- 

 rara, etc., 12 ; mission churches, about 300. 

 Total, 3,665. Total of vacant churches, 303. 



Ministers and Missionaries. England, 1,943 ; 

 Wales, 393 ; Scotland, 107 ; Ireland, 25 ; Con- 

 tinent, 6 ; colonies, 236 ; foreign countries, 

 164 ; natives, ordained in heathen lands, 106, 

 inclusive of 51 in Madagascar and South Seas; 

 ministers with pastoral charges, 2,439 ; with- 

 out pastoral charges, 541. 



Colleges. England, 8 ; "Wales, 3 ; Scotland, 

 1 ; Colonies, 3. Institutes. England, 4 ; for- 

 eign, 15. Students in colleges, 317. Students 

 in institutes, 269. 



Among the principal Congregational Soci- 

 eties of Great Britain belong the English Con- 

 gregational Chapel- Building Society, which 

 extends its operations throughout England, the 

 English districts of Wales, the Channel islands, 

 and Ireland ; incpme for the year 1869-'70, in- 

 cluding payments of loans, 11,021 13s. ; ex- 

 penditures, 8,757 16s. ; the Home Missionary 

 Society, income, 9,715; expenditures, 7,107 



19s. ; the Colonial Missionary Society, income, 

 5,212; expenditures, 3,430. The London 

 Missionary Society, which is not an exclusively 

 Congregational society, but is supported by 

 the Congregationalists as a body, had an in- 

 come of 104,670, and its expenditures were 

 98,735. 



In France the Union of Evangelical Churches 

 comprises forty-five churches, divided into 

 seven groups, which hold frequent meetings 

 for fellowship and local business. The churches 

 reported, at the last biennial synod held at 

 Bergerac, in September, 1868, a membership 

 of about 3,000, averaging upward of sixty to 

 each church. The largest church is that of the 

 Taitbout, in Paris, with 210 members. Besides 

 the Union of Evangelical Churches, there are 

 a number of Independent Churches. Altogether 

 the Free Churches of France number 104 pas- 

 tors, 132 temples, and a total population of 

 about 30,000. 



The Free Churches of the Canton of Vaud, 

 in Switzerland, are united on a basis which, 

 though Presbyterian in form, secures the inde- 

 pendence of each. There are also free churches 

 in the Cantons of Geneva, Neufchatel, and Bern. 



The Congregational Quarterly for January, 

 1871, reports the statistics of Congregation- 

 alism in the United States and the British 

 Colonies, for the year 1870, as follows : 



