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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



Church Missionary Society. The ninety-sev- 

 enth annual meeting of the Church Missionary So- 

 ciety was held in London, May 5. Sir John Kenna- 

 way presided. The total income of the society for 

 the year had been 264,085, while the expenditure 

 had been 279,732, and the deficit was brought, up 

 to 17,069. Three marked events were referred to 

 as likely to distinguish the year's history of the so- 

 ciety : the massacre in Ku-Cheng, China, the devel- 

 opment of the Uganda mission, and the beginning 

 of the three years' enterprise which was to lead up 

 to the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary 

 of the. society in 1899. Twenty-one hundred and 

 forty-six adult converts the largest number on 

 record had been baptized in the India and Ceylon 

 mission. Among these were converted Brahmans, 

 Mohammedans, and Parsees. A Parsee Christian 

 association had been formed at Bombay. The mis- 

 sions in western Asia in Palestine had met with 

 difficulties that showed no tendency to diminish. 

 The condition of the missions in Africa was very 

 encouraging, especially in Uganda, where 2,921 

 adults had been baptized, besides 600 children of 

 Christian parents. The demand for the Scriptures 

 was greater than ever before, and 40,000 printed 

 books had been sold during the year. Progress in 

 Japan had been slower than had at one time been 

 anticipated. The outbreak in China had been a 

 serious check to the work of the society there ; but 

 in the Fuh-Kien province 503 adults converts had 

 been admitted by baptism to the Church. The 

 "Three Years' Enterprise" was commended in ad- 

 dresses made at the meeting. The Bishop of Exeter 

 hoped that 400,000 would be raised in the first 

 year, 500,000 the second, and that at least a million 

 pounds would be contributed in the three years to 

 intervene before the centenary of the society. 



The report of the Medical Mission Auxiliary of 

 the Church Missionary Society, which is responsible 

 for all the medical work of that society, made at its 

 annual meeting, June 4, showed that it had 7 mis- 

 sions in India, 7 in China, 2 in Persia, 5 in Pales- 

 tine, 3 in East Africa, 1 in Egypt, and 1 at Metla- 

 katla, among the Indians of the Pacific slope. 

 There were 830 beds in their hospitals, and last 

 year 6,432 in-patients had been treated, the visits of 

 out-patients numbering 417.000. The income had 

 risen from 2,200 to over 3,000, besides 1,000 for 

 a new hospital at Cairo ; but the expenses had been 

 4,635, in addition to 1,200 raised at the mission 

 stations, and a balance of 1,500 had become a defi- 

 cit of 525. At least 5,000 would be needed this 

 year, without any extension of work. It *vas hoped 

 this year to start new medical missions in Uganda, 

 Hok-Chiang, Szu-Chuan, and Peshawur, besides a 

 women's mission at Cairo, and to send 2 new doc- 

 tors to Persia. Mr. James Monro, C. B., described 

 the medical work in lower Bengal, and claimed 

 that such work was as integral a part of evangeliza- 

 tion as were teaching and preaching. 



Missions in Africa. In a statement regarding 

 the missions in Africa, issued by this society, it is 

 calculated that there are in Africa 1,000,000 Protes- 

 tant native adherents, of whom 100,000 are com- 

 municants, more than 1,200 European missionari"-, 

 and about 1,000 mission stations. The following 

 table is given showing the present position of the 

 work of this society in particular as compared with 

 its condition in 1888 : 



It is further stated that during the seven years 

 1888 to 1895 the number of converts and communi- 

 cants in Uganda practically doubled year by year. 

 The number of adult baptisms in Uganda in 1894 

 was more than 1,000. During the great persecution 

 of 1886 in Uganda, the native Christians exhorted 

 one another with the words, " Be willing to die 

 rather than deny." More than 200 Protestants and 

 Roman Catholics lost their lives because of their 

 faith. The Christians of Uganda have sent 21 

 missionaries to foreign lands that is, to tribes out- 

 side of Uganda. In regard to West Africa it is 

 pointed out that seventy-five years ago the darkest 

 heathenism prevailed in Sierre Leone, whereas now 

 there is a self-supporting church with its own na- 

 tive missionary society. At Bonny, on the west 

 coast, a church, to build which the natives gave 

 2,000, now stands close to the spot where formerly 

 was a heathen temple, a part of the walls of which 

 consisted of human skulls. Two native clergymen 

 were consecrated in June, 1893, as assistant bishops 

 in western Equatorial Africa. 



An appeal issued by this society in respect to the 

 observance of the day of intercession for foreign 

 missions points out that the twenty-four years since 

 the day was designated have been a period of con- 

 tinuous increase. The number of missionaries has 

 risen from 225 in 1872 to 671, viz. : From 20 to 114 

 in Africa, from 8 to 73 in the Mohammedan lands 

 of the East, from 137 to 267 in India and Ceylon, 

 from 19 to 89 in China, from 2 to 60 in Japan, and 

 from 12 to 49 in northwest Canada. A gratifying 

 feature is the increasing number of university 

 graduates and qualified medical men coming for- 

 ward, " while the awakening among Christian wom- 

 en of all classes, particularly of refined and educated 

 ladies, is one of the brightest signs of the times." 

 The Christian adherents have increased in the 

 period under review from 100,000 to 217,000, or 

 have more than doubled : the communicants from 

 20,000 to 58,000, or nearly threefold ; and the adult 

 baptisms during the year from 1,791 to 6,725. 



The financial statement of the Zululand Mission 

 showed receipts of 2,162, and expenditures of 

 1,842, for the general fund ; while 358 had been 

 received for the bishopric endowment fund, and 

 374 for other special purposes. The Christian 

 character of the Zulu converts was represented by 

 speakers at the annual meeting, May 5, as being of 

 a very high order. 



The Church of England has 8 clergy, 5 nurses, 

 and 3 catechists in Mashonaland. but more are re- 

 (|uirod. Churches have been built at Balawayo, 

 Salisbury, and Umtali ; and additional clergy and 

 missionaries are wanted, with funds to send them 

 out and support them. The diocese of the bishop 

 contains 500,000 natives and 5,000 Europeans, arid 

 3.000 a year are spent on the mission. 



Other Missions.-^The report of the Woman's 

 Mission Association for the Promotion of Female 

 Education in the East, in the missions of the So- 

 ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel, presented 

 June 8, showed that there were in connection with 

 the association 72 woman missionaries and 82 na- 

 tive teachers in India, Burrnah, Japan, Madagascar, 

 and South Africa. The receipts had been 57,341 in 

 the general fund and 890 in special funds, and 

 the expenditure, 5,145 for the former and 1,098 

 for the latter funds. The schools of the association 

 had been affected disadvantageous^ by the changed 

 conditions under which the Indian Government 

 made its school grants. 



The income of the Church of England Zenana 

 Missionary Society for the year ending March 31, 

 1896, was 82,105, and the expenditure was 33,683. 

 The society had 53 stations in India, 8 in China, 

 and 1 in Ceylon ; and its staff numbered 276 mis- 



