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company a claim over Manica and all Gazaland. 

 In pursuing their plan they came in conflict, not 

 with Portuguese interests, but with those of 

 another English syndicate, the Ophir Company, 

 that was formed in Barberton, Transvaal, and 

 acquired the mining concessions previously 

 granted to the Mozambique Company by the 

 Portuguese Government. Baron de Rezende 

 and Col. Paiva d'Andrade, who had been acting 

 for the Mozambique Company, entered into the 

 same relations with its successors, and with them 

 were associated several English engineers. The 

 short route to the sea that the agents of the 

 chartered company pretended to have discovered 

 had been in use by the rival companies for two 

 years, and there was a steamer on the river and 

 depots on the road to Manica. After the de- 

 parture of Mr. Colquhoun Col. Paiva d'Andrade 

 appeared, and on Nov. 8 Mutassa resumed his 

 former relations with the Portuguese authorities 

 and raised the Portuguese flag. Despite all the 

 evidences of previous possession and of actual 

 political occupation, the military forces of the 

 British South Africa Company entered Manica, 

 marched on Massikesse, hauled down the Portu- 

 guese flag, and made prisoners of Baron Rezende, 

 Col. Paiva d'Andrade, and Senhor Gouveia, who 

 was the Capitao Mor or political and military 

 chief of Manica under the Portuguese Govern- 

 ment, after defeating the native miners who' 

 were assembled around their chief Mutassa. On 

 receipt of the news of the tearing down of the 

 Portuguese flag, which took place on Nov. 15, 

 the students of Coimbra formed a battalion, vol- 

 unteers from all ranks of society offered them- 

 selves, and money was contributed freely for the 

 purpose of driving the English out of Manica. 



PRESBYTERIANS. I. Presbyterian 

 Church in the United States of America. 

 The following summary, from the tables ap- 

 pended to the "Journal" of the General Assem- 

 bly of 1890, giving a comparative view of the 

 statistics of 1874, 1889, and 1890, illustrates the 

 growth of this Church during the past seventeen 

 years. 



* Includes part of Centenary fund. The receipts for the 

 Centenary fund as a total amount to $695,734.86. 



The Board of Education reported to the Gen- 

 eral Assembly that it had received during the 

 year from all sources $84,963, and that it had 

 839 candidates under its care. While the con- 

 tributions had increased, they had not increased 

 as fast as the candidates offered, and the board 

 had been compelled to reject worthy cases be- 

 cause the Church did not furnish it with means 

 for their support. 



The receipts of the Board of Home Missions 

 had been $831,170. The board had employed 

 1,701 missionaries and 361 missionary teachers, 

 and returned 100,778 members, with 151,366 per- 

 sons in congregations ; 6,795 additions during 

 the year on profession of faith ; 3,844 baptisms 

 of adults and 5,031 of infants ; 2,516 Sunday- 

 schools, of which 578 had been organized during 

 the year, with, in all, 160,111 members ; 118 

 schools, with 368 teachers and 7,478 pupils ; 1,751 

 church edifices, valued at $4,657,027; and 264 

 parsonages, of the estimated value of $446,684. 

 Thirty churches had become self-sustaining, 200 

 churches had been organized, and 151 church 

 buildings had been erected. 



The Board of Missions to the Freedmen had 

 received $176,325, or $41,874 more than in the 

 previous year. The Freedmen had given $32,- 

 464 toward the support of their own churches 

 and schools, besides $7,745 paid for scholarships. 

 The board had sustained during the year 316 

 missionaries, 252 of whom were colored, and of 

 these 117 were educated colored preachers and 

 123 colored teachers ; 254 Sunday-schools, with 

 17,502 pupils; 245 churches; 78 schools, with 

 more than 10,000 pupils; a training college; 

 and 4 seminaries. The whole number of com- 

 municants was 16.502. Nine churches had been 

 organized, 1,290 communicants added on exami- 

 nation, and 439 adults and 857 infants baptized. 



The Board of Foreign Missions had received 

 $794,066, and reported in its missions, among the 

 American Indians, in South America, West Af- 

 rica, India, Siam, China, Japan, Corea, Persia, 

 and Syria, 199 American and 359 native mission- 

 aries, 1,320 American and native lay agents, 320 

 churches, 26, 794 communicants, 2,753 added dur- 

 ing the year, 583 schools, with 26,348 pupils, and 

 23,935 in Sunday-schools ; the contributions of 

 the native churches had been $44,357. 



The General Assembly met in Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., May 15. The Rev. William 

 E. Moore, D. D., was chosen moderator. The 

 most important business of the meeting was 

 that relating to propositions for revising the 

 question of faith. The previous General Assem- 

 bly had sent down to the presbyteries to be voted 

 upon the questions : " Do you desire a revision of 

 the Confession of Faith f If so, in what respect 

 and to what extent f The canvass of the votes, 

 according to the report of the committee to 

 which it was referred, showed that of the 213 

 presbyteries on the roll of the Assembly, 5 had 

 failed to respond, 7 had declined to vote, 113 had 

 answered the first question of the overture in the 

 affirmative, and 68 in the negative. In the CMS; 

 of 2 presbyteries entered as answering in the 

 negative, the vote was a tie; and one of the 

 others had overtured for a single change. Of 

 the presbyteries which had answered the second 

 question in the negative, 20 had expressed a 

 willingness to leave the question concerning the 



