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i rips and assistant missionaries and 687 native 



Bible women teachers and other workers. 



The report of tlic Colonial and Continental 

 Church Snrift v showed that the liotnc income for 

 the year had been l'20.X76, or J2.000 less than in 

 the previous year; adding the sums raised and 

 spent in the colonies and on the Continent, the in- 

 come was 42.271!. The debt had been reduced to 

 L'2.000. The amount of legacies to the society was 

 i' 7.000 less than in the previous year. Representa- 

 tive-; of Anglican Church interests abroad testihed 

 in the annual meeting, May 6, to the value of the 

 aid given by the society. In parts of Quebec, the 

 bishop of that diocese said, where the Protestant 

 minority was not large enough to claim the estab- 

 lishment of a dissentient school board, the society's 

 grants made a Protestant school possible. 



At the meeting of the Anglican Church Confer- 

 ence for Northern and Central Europe, held in the 

 British embassy at, Vienna, June 3. Bishop Wilkin- 

 son, presiding, gave an account of his work during 

 the past year among the chaplaincies under his 

 jurisdiction. lie regarded the work as one of 

 steady, peaceful progress. 



Missionary Literature Committee. At the 

 annual meeting of the Board of Missions of the 

 Provinces of Canterbury and York, June 25, the 

 Missionary Literature Committee were requested to 

 consider the whole subject of religious literature in 

 the non-European languages in the mission field ; to 

 add to their number representatives of each region 

 of the mission field ; and to invite others to assist 

 them in their deliberations. A committee was in- 

 stituted to collect information as to the work of the 

 Church abroad, and present it in a concise form. 

 The subject was considered of what practical steps 

 .should be taken to promote a general advance in 

 missionary work in connection with the approach- 

 ing centenary celebrations of the Society for the 

 Propagation of Christian Knowledge, the Society 

 for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the confer- 

 ence of the bishops of the Anglican communion to 

 be held in 1897. 



Church Benevolences. The Church Pastoral 

 Aid Society returned an income in its sixty-first 

 year of 68,182, a decrease from the previous year 

 of 1,784, but considerably above the average for 

 the past five years. Forty-nine new grants had 

 been made during the year to 48 parishes. The 

 whole number of grants that are now on the so- 

 I'iety's books was 867, which is 14 more than in the 

 previous year. These grants, if all in operation, 

 represented a liability of 63,299. The actual ex- 

 penditure of the year amounted to 60,678. The 

 average population of the 48 parishes to which new 

 grants were made was 8,751. 



The receipts from subscriptions for the year of 

 the Poor Clergy Relief fund, as reported at the 

 annual meeting, July 2, were 2,934, while the 

 amount of donations was 4.234. Plight hundred 

 and thirty-eight cases had been assisted with grants 

 amounting to 9,911. 



The income of the Bishop of London's fund for 

 1895 was 22.243. against 24.541 in 1894. The 

 falling off was due to a reduction in the amount 

 received from legacies from 5,136 in 1894 to 055 

 in 1895. The amount received from subscriptions, 

 gifts, etc., showed an increase of 1,209. The fund 

 had been just able to keep the work going and no 

 more. 



The revenue of the Church Army for 1895 was 

 71.000, against 54,000 in 1894. 



The Church House. The Church House at 

 Westminster was opened Feb. 11, by the Duke and 

 Duchess of York, for the especial use of the Church 

 of England and its societies and of the Church in 

 the colonies and dependencies of the British Empire, 



as well us of affiliated churches. The scheme for 

 the erection of such a building was first suggotcd 

 in a practicable shape by the late Bishop of Carlisle, 

 Dr. Harvey G [win, who proposed, in the Convoca- 

 tion of York, that such a building should be erected 

 as the Church's memorial of the Jubilee of the 

 reign of Queen Victoria. The building contains on 

 the ground floor rooms for the 2 houses of Con- 

 vocation, the chamber of the upper house being 

 large enough to accommodate the bishops of both 

 the Convocations of York and Canterbury, if they 

 should ever sit together. In view of the intention 

 to erect other quarters for convocation, these rooms 

 are so arranged that when they shall cease to be oc- 

 cupied for that purpose they can be conveniently 

 divided into sets of offices. Above these rooms is a 

 great hall, capable of accommodating 1.200 or 1.300 

 persons, where large meetings may be held. It is 

 intended to extend the building from time to time 

 till they shall surround the whole quadrangle of 

 which the present one occupies a part, and provide 

 offices for the numerous societies, etc., which now oc- 

 cupy the buildings already standing on the premises. 

 A provision is incorporated in the by-laws of the in- 

 stitution admitting to association in its privileges 

 any Church house situated out of England ; and the 

 bishops of the missionary and colonial Churches and 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 

 States have appointed honorary secretaries in con- 

 nection with it. An essential part of the work to 

 be performed through its instrumentality are the 

 collection, dissemination, and exchange of informa- 

 tion about the work of the Church everywhere, and 

 the promotion of union and co-operation through- 

 out the Anglican communion. 



The premises appertaining to the Church House 

 had been occupied for Church purposes since 1887, 

 and had already become the headquarters of 20 

 societies connected with the Church of England, 

 while 450 meetings were held there in 1895. The 

 Church was represented by local secretaries in 120 

 dioceses of the Anglican communion outside of the 

 British Isles. 



Council of Diocesan Conferences. The annual 

 meeting of the Central Council of Diocesan Confer- 

 ences was held in Westminster April 23 and 24. 

 Lord Egerton of Talton presided. Resolutions were 

 passed recommending the adoption of a general 

 clergy sustentation scheme ; approving the forma- 

 tion of diocesan trusts for Church objects ; approv- 

 ing the general provisions of the Benefices bill, 

 which was then before the Houses of Parliament; 

 and giving support and suggesting amendments to 

 the Government Education bill. 



Clergy Sustentation Fund. A committee ap- 

 pointed by a letter of the archbishops, March 16, 

 1896, to consider the subject of clergy sustentation 



Eublished in June a definite scheme of the Clergy 

 ustentation fund, to embrace in its operations the 

 two provinces of Canterbury and York. The ob- 

 jects of the fund are defined to be "to impress upon 

 all the members of the Church of England the 

 clearly defined Christian duty of contributing to- 

 ward the support of the clergy, and to supplement 

 and extend the diocesan organizations for the sup- 

 port of the clergy, to elicit contributions in this re- 

 spect from the richer toward the poorer dioceses, 

 and generally to promote the further sustentation 

 of the clergy." The methods by which it was pro- 

 posed to advance these objects included the affilia- 

 tion of the existing diocesan organizations for the 

 sustentation of the clergy, and the formation of 

 such organizations in dioceses where they do not 

 now exist; the establishment of a central" fund, to 

 consist of contributions from affiliated diocesan or- 

 ganizations and the general contributions to the 

 fund itself and to be applied in making annual 



