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sels act. This declaration is to be supple- 

 mented by a treaty. A decree was issued in 

 August prohibiting, in accordance with the de- 

 cision of the conference, the sale of distilled 

 liquors in the regions where their use has not 

 been developed, that is, in the whole Congo ter- 

 ritory east of the Jukussi river, and introducing 

 a graduated license duty in the coast region on 

 the hither side of the Jukussi. Direct taxes on 

 industrial and other enterprises have been im- 

 posed, and tolls are levied on caravans and trav- 

 elers crossing the bridges and ferries of the 

 route from Matadi to Stanley Pool. An export 

 duty of 50 francs on every 100 kilogrammes of 

 caoutchouc and 200 francs on every 100 kilo- 

 grammes of ivory was decreed, to go into effect 

 on Oct. 1, 1890, in addition to which license 

 duties of from 2 to 4 francs per kilogramme of 

 ivory are levied on the upper Congo. These 

 new taxes, rendered necessary by the increased 

 expenses for administration and the maintenance 

 of order entailed by the rapid growth of com- 

 merce, drew protests from the Dutch mercantile 

 community. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. I. Congrrega- 

 tionalists in the United States. Statistics : 

 The " Year- Book of the Congregational Church- 

 es" for 1890 gives statistics of the Congrega- 

 tional churches in the United States, of which the 

 following is a summary: Number of churches, 

 4,689 ; of new churches, 241 ; of ministers, 4,640, 

 of whom 3,065 are pastors of churches ; of mem- 

 bers, 491,985 ; of members added during the 

 year 1889 on confession, 29,286 ; of baptisms, of 

 adults, 13,786 ; of infants, 8,889 ; of families con- 

 nected with the churches, 325,149 ; of members 

 of Sunday-schools, 597,351 ; of young people's 

 societies of Christian Endeavor, 2,202. having a 

 total membership of 106,156. Total amount of 

 benevolent contributions, $2,398,037 ; of which 

 were, for foreign missions, $357,929 ; for educa- 

 tion, $401,049 ; for church building, $152,840 ; 

 for home missions, $464,167 ; for the American 

 Missionary Association, $147,088; for Sunday- 

 schools, $49.862 ; for the New West Educational 

 Commission, $47,477; for ministerial aid, $12,- 

 893; for other objects, $764,732. Charitable 

 bequests to various purposes of the churches and 

 societies had been paid to the amount of $301,- 

 007. The sum of $6,046,962, or $1.068,073 more 

 than in the previous year, had been contributed 

 for home expenditures. The whole amount of 

 pastoral salaries reported in 3,344 cases was $3,- 

 500,072, showing an average of $1,047. There 

 appear from the tables as belonging to Congre- 

 gational churches, 3,765 church buildings, hav- 

 ing a total value of $38,957.195, and 1.685 par- 

 sonages, valued at $3,882.802. Besides the 

 Sunday-schools represented in the tables, the 

 agents of the Sunday-school Society furnish re- 

 ports of seven States California, Colorado, 

 Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Da- 

 kota, and Wisconsin of 346 Sunday-schools, 

 with 12.926 members. Adding these to the num- 

 bers in the tables, the whole number of Sunday- 

 schools becomes 610,277. Returns are given 

 from 39 Congregational clubs, 7 of which were 

 organized in 1889, and 2. up to the time of the 

 preparation of the " Year-Book," in 1890. 



SOCIETIES. The receipts of the Congrega- 

 tional Sunday-school and Publishing Society 



during 1889 were $54,985, and its expenditures 

 $56,470. It had aided in the organization of 

 485 Sunday-schools, and had made about 2.500 

 grants of Sunday-school helps and other liter- 

 ature. It publishes Sunday-school helps, period- 

 icals, books, and other requisites. 



The 7 theological seminaries at Andover, 

 Mass., Bangor, Me., Chicago, 111., Hartford, 

 Conn., Oberlin, Ohio, Oakland, Cal. (Pacific), 

 and New Haven, Conn. (Yale) returned for 

 1889-'90, 47 professors, 27 instructors or lectur- 

 ers, 10 resident licentiates or fellows, 22 students 

 of advanced graduate classes, and 556 under- 

 graduate students. 



The income of the American College and 

 Education Society for the year ending April 30, 

 1890, was $101,425, of which $58,336 were con- 

 tributed for colleges and paid to them. The 

 sum of $27,894 was paid to students fitting for 

 the ministry. Three hundred and sixty-four 

 students had received assistance during the 

 year. The colleges on the list as aided by the 

 society were Colorado. Doane, Pacific University, 

 Rollins, Whitman, and Yankton Colleges. 



The library of the American Congregational 

 Association in the Congregational Hall, Boston, 

 contains 28,252 volumes, 54,222 pamphlets, and 

 32,294 unbound numbers of periodicals, besides 

 duplicates. 



The total resources for church building of the 

 American Congregational Union for the year 

 1889 were $183,473. It paid during the same 

 year $89,339 to aid churches, and otherwise dis- 

 bursed $17,542, leaving at the end of the year a 

 balance on hand, but pledged, of $76,592. The 

 total resources for parsonages were $33.941 ; 

 and $16,840 had been paid on the same account, 

 leaving a balance in favor of the Parsonage fund 

 of $17,101. The Union aided during 1889 in 

 building 100 houses of worship and 49 parson- 

 ages ; and during the first three months of 1890, 



44 churches and 17 parsonages. On April 1, 

 1890, it had aided in building, from its begin- 

 ning, in all, 1,952 houses of worship and 240 

 parsonages. 



American Home Missionary Society. The 

 sixty-fourth annual meeting of the American 

 Home Missionary Society was held at Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., beginning June 3. The Rev. 

 Austin Abbott, LL. D., a vice-president, pre- 

 sided, in the absence of President Seelye. The 

 total resources of the society for the year had 

 been $763,334, and $711,695 had been paid to 

 missionary laborers. Eighteen hundred arid 

 seventy-nine missionaries had been employed in 



45 States and Territories, of whom 7 had been 

 in commission as pastors or stated supplies of 

 congregations of colored people, and 181 had 

 preached in foreign languages (Welsh, German, 

 Scandinavian, Bohemian, Polish, Chinese, In- 

 dian, French, and Spanish). The number of 

 congregations and missionary districts supplied 

 was 3,251 ; of Sunday-schools and Bible classes, 

 2,282. of which 311 were new schools; of pupils 

 in the same. 141,775; of additions on confession 

 of faith, 6,608; of churches organized, 184. 

 Ninety-seven men connected with the mission- 

 ary churches were studying for the ministry. A 

 considerable increase from the previous year wjis 

 exhibited in nearly all the items. An amend- 

 ment to the charter of the society had been pro- 



