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teachers and 2,652 pupils in the schools for 

 whites. The value of the real estate appertain- 

 ing to the schools was estimated at $1,500,000, 

 free from indebtedness. In the twenty-four years 

 of the society's existence $2,806,890 had been 

 received and expended for its educational work, 

 and 100,000 students had been in its schools. 



The General Missionary Committee met in 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 12. The receipts for the 

 year had been $1,135,272. 



The following schedule of appropriations was 

 adopted for the support of missionary work in 

 1891: 



I. FOREIGN MISSIONS: 



Africa $5,000 



South America 50,T50 



China 108,019 



Germany 30,600 



Switzerland 9,500 



Scandinavia 48,430 



India 112,800 



Malaysia 7,250 



Bulgaria 19,320 



Italy ... 41,135 



Mexico 53,203 



Japan 61,666 



Corea 15,924 



Lower California 1,000 



Total for Foreign Missions $566,352 



II. WITHIN THE UNITED STATES : 



Welsh missions $'2,093 



Scandinavian missions 51,520 



German missions .. 47,200 



French missions 7,390 



Spanish missions 13,590 



Bohemian and Hungarian missions 5,800 



Japanese missions 6,945 



Italian missions 2,976 



Portuguese missions 990 



American Indian missions 5,255 



For conferences north of the Potomac and Ohio, 



and east of the Mis dssippi river 24,845 



For conferences in Iowa and Kansas, and States 



north of them, including the Black Hills 81,832 



White work (in the South) 58,370 



Colored work 54,995 



Rocky mountain work 62,242 



Pacific coast work 24,300 



Total within the United States $459,648 



Total for Foreign and American Missions. .. $1,200,000 



Contingent appropriations were also made, 

 conditioned on the amounts to be contributed 

 by individuals for the purposes named ; to In- 

 dia for various schools, native pastors and teach- 

 ers, etc., $22,000 ; to China, for schools, press, and 

 property, $34,000; to Japan, for churches and 

 dormitory, $14,000; and to Italy, for property 

 at Rome, $5,000. The foreign missions returned 

 182 foreign missionaries, 474 other foreign agents, 

 661 native ordained preachers and 3,771 other 

 native laborers, 52,966 members, 21,763 proba- 

 tioners, 33,844 pupils in day schools, 107,085 in 

 Sunday-schools, and 5.796 adults and 5,263 chil- 

 dren baptized. In the domestic missions were 

 3,526 missionaries, 93 assistants, 3,598 local 

 preachers, 264,242 members, 41,562 probationers, 

 and 279,402 pupils in Sunday-schools, with 14,- 

 872 adults and 13,609 children baptized during 

 the year. 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Mis- 

 sionary Society was held in Wilkesbarre, Pa., 

 Oct. 29. Mrs. W. F. Warren was chosen presi- 

 dent. The society includes 5,557 auxiliary so- 

 cieties and local organizations, with 138,950 

 members. Its receipts for the past year had been 

 $220,329, of which about $10,000 had been de- 



rived from bequests. It had employed 96 mis- 

 sionaries, of whom 34 were in India, 23 in Japan, 

 20 in China, 4 in Corea, 7 in Mexico, 4 in South 

 America, 2 in Bulgaria, and 1 in Malaysia. The 

 missionary work is carried on through visitation 

 by Bible women and through schools. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Managers 

 of the Woman's Home Missionary Society was 

 held in Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 30. The receipts for 

 the year had been $112,970, and the expenditures 

 $116,350. There had been also a balance in the 

 treasury of $20,233. Considerable supplies had 

 in addition been sent out to industrial homes 

 and to frontier preachers. The value of such 

 supplies sent out during the ten years of the ex- 

 istence of the society was rated at $191,717, while 

 $387,178 of money had been expended in the 

 work of missions in the United States. 



II. Methodist Episcopal Church, South.- 

 The statistical reports of this Church are sum- 

 marized as follow in the " Minutes of the Confer- 

 ences " for 1889 (published in April, 1890) : 



Number of traveling preachers, 4,862 ; of local 

 preachers, 6,269; of white members, 1,161,666; 

 of colored members, 520; of Indian members, 

 3,833 ; total of preachers and members, 1,177,150. 

 Total net increase, 37,053. Number of infants 

 baptized, 34,733 ; of adults baptized, 57,011 ; and 

 of Sunday-schools, 12,589 ; of teachers, 88,842 ; of 

 pupils, 694,533 ; of churches, M,767 ; of parson- 

 ages, 2,561. Value of church edifices, $16,878,- 

 617; of parsonages, $2,876,575. 



Benevolent Contributions. For church exten- 

 sion, $56,561.37 ; for conference claimants. $132,- 

 952.90; for foreign missions, $227,127.26; for 

 domestic missions, $193,896.13; increase, $9,- 

 422.82. Total for missions, $341,023.39. Total 

 increase of missionary contributions, $10,697.92. 



The Missionary Board reported to the General 

 Conference that the appropriations for the past 

 four years had been $820,517, and the collections 

 $916,379. The animal appropriations for the 

 support of the missions had been enlarged from 

 $158,880 in 1886 to $265,277 in 1889, while the 

 debt had been reduced from $100,000 to $14,000. 

 This Church assists in the support of the edu- 

 cational undertakings of the Colored Methodist 

 Episcopal Church in America. That Church has 

 institutions for the education of teachers and 

 preachers at Augusta, Ga.. and Jackson, Tenn., 

 which are in charge of ministers of the Church, 

 South, appointed by its bishops. One of these 

 institutions, Paine Institute, reported to the Gen- 

 eral Conference that it had 184 pupils enrolled, 35 

 of whom were preparing for the ministry. The 

 receipts of the Board of Church Extension for 

 1889 on general account were $31,965. The 

 whole amount paid and pledged by the Church 

 during the year was $77,122. Three hundred 

 and sixty-four churches and two parsonages had 

 been helped. 



The receipts of the Woman's Foreign Mission- 

 ary Society for the year were $75,486. During 

 the twelve years since its organization it had col- 

 lected and 'disbursed $500,000, and it now held 

 mission property valued at $180,200. It returned 

 31 missionaries, 57 teachers and assistants, 10 

 boarding schools, 31 day schools, 1,248 pupils, 

 and 1 hospital. 



The General Conference of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, South, met in its eleventh 



