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hundred and eighty-three Sunday schools were 

 under the special care of the missionaries, with a 

 total membership of about 186,34:?. One hundred 

 and twcnty-tlmr churches had been organized, 24 

 had become entirely self-support ing, 06 houses of 

 worship had been completed, and 163 had been ma- 

 terially repaired or improved. 



American Missionary Associations. The 

 fiftieth annual meeting of the American Mission- 

 ary Association was held at Boston, Mass., Oct. 20, 

 21', and 22, and was marked by services and ad- 

 dresses appropriate to the jubilee of the society. 

 The treasurer reported that the total receipts of the 

 society had been $340,798, and the expenditures 

 $311,223. The debt, which was $96,148 at the be- 

 ginning of the year, had been reduced to $66,572. 

 Two hundred and fifty dollars had been received 

 for the endowment fund. The executor of the 

 Daniel Hand estate had paid over to the associa- 

 tion during the year securities having the face 

 value of $305,025," the income of which only is to 

 be used for the education of colored youth. Of the 

 income of this fund, $74,769 had been available for 

 use, of which $70,567 had been used. Adding these 

 special receipts for the endowment fund and from 

 the income of the Daniel Hand fund, the aggregate 

 income of the society for the year had been $409,- 

 879. The sum of $29,021 had been received from 

 women's societies, the .largest amount contributed 

 in any year. Since its organization in 1883, the 

 Bureau of Women's Work, representing these soci- 

 eties, had paid into the treasury of the association 

 the sum of $229,000. The expenditures of the asso- 

 ciation for the past year had been, in consequence 

 of the necessity of retrenching, $75.000 less than 

 those of 1893. The six chartered institutions, 43 

 normal and graded schools, and 27 common schools 

 in the South returned 413 instructors and 12,449 

 pupils. Of these, 81 were theological, 66 collegiate, 

 254 collegiate preparatory, and 1,428 normal stu- 

 dents. Included in these schools were 19 mountain 

 schools, with 2,405 pupils. Thousands of negroes 

 in these Southern schools, the report says, " have 

 established their capacity to take on a generous ed- 

 ucation, and of these a fair proportion have risen to 

 positions where they are proving their right to 

 teaehership and leadership, often under most ad- 

 verse conditions." Two of the institutions planted 

 by the association Hampton Institute and Atlanta 

 University have become independent, and are now 

 wholly under the care of their own trustees. The 

 Church work of the association in the South is rep- 

 resented by 218 churches, served by 127 ministers 

 and missionaries, with 10,708 members. Fifty-six 

 of these churches are " mountain churches," with 

 1,601 members. Six had been added to the list of 

 mountain churches. The work among the Indians 

 comprises 15 churches, with 929 members, 82 mis- 

 sionaries and teachers, 21 schools, with 520 pupils, 

 and 26 missionary out stations. The progress of 

 the work in the out stations had been remarkable. 

 Indians, young men and women, trained in the 

 schools of the association, had entered with devo- 

 tion and heroism upon the mission work in many 

 Indian villages. Alaska mission, Cape Prince of 

 Wales, Alaska, which had been temporarily closed, 

 hud been reopened. Nineteen schools were main- 

 tained among the Chinese, with 32 teachers (includ- 

 ing 11 Chinese) and 893 pupils. The number of 

 Christian Chinese was 337; 166 had given evidence 

 of conversion, and 42 had made profession of faith 

 during the year. The Chinese Missionary Society, 

 composed of persons who had been converted in Chris- 

 tian mis.-iuiis, which was organized in 1886 and be- 



fan work in China in 1890, had already contributed 

 15,000 to missions in that country. It has church 

 property at Hong-Kong valued at $9,250, head- 



quarters at Canton valued at $4,000, and leased 

 property at Ci-Ning City. Through its missiona- 

 ries, the Gospel had been preached to more than 300,- 

 000 people in China. 



Under a State law prohibiting the teaching of 

 white and colored pupils in the same classes and 

 the residence of white and colored teachers arid 

 pupils in the same houses, six teachers and the 

 pastor of the church, who taught Bible classes, and 

 two patrons of the school of the association, at 

 Orange Park, Fla., were arrested April 10, and held 

 for trial. The school was necessarily closed. A 

 telegram was received from Orange Park during 

 the meeting of the association, announcing that the 

 law under which these persons were prosecuted had 

 been declared unconstitutional by the local court. 

 Preparations were at once made for reopening the 

 school. 



American Board. The eighty-seventh annual 

 meeting of the American Board of Commissioners 

 for Foreign Missions was held in Toledo, Ohio, 

 beginning Oct. 6. The Rev. Richard S. Storrs, 

 D. D., presided. The financial report showed that 

 the total receipts for the year ending Aug. 31 had 

 been $743,104, and the expenditures, besides what 

 had been applied to the payment of the debt, $627,- 

 069. The committee appointed at the previous 

 meeting of the board to obtain contributions and 

 pay the debt, which amounted in 1895 to $114,623, 

 reported concerning the method it had adopted 

 of apportioning definite parts of the amounts to 

 be raised to different sections of the country, and 

 reducing expenses to the lowest possible figures, 

 by means of which, with the aid of certain indi- 

 vidual contributions, $131,246 had been obtained. 

 In this effort the salaries of all men missionaries, 

 except in Asiatic Turkey, had been reduced 10 per 

 cent., and $50,000 had been saved by cutting down 

 native work. While the debt was extinguished, 

 the amount obtained was not enough to restore the 

 appropriations. The general summary of the mis- 

 sions gives the following aggregates : Number of 

 missions, 20 ; of stations, 102 ; of out stations, 1,190 ; 

 of places for stated preaching, 1,420 ; average con- 

 gregations, 71,449: number of ordained mission- 

 aries (16 of whom are physicians), 178 ; of men phy- 

 sicians not ordained, 13; of other men assistants, 

 6 ; of women, 6 of whom are physicians (wives, 179 ; 

 unmarried, 177), 356 ; whole number of laborers sent 

 from the United States, 553; number of native pas- 

 tors, 227 ; of native preachers and catechists, 561 ; 

 of native school-teachers, 1,667; of other native 

 laborers, 496 ; total of native laborers, 2,951 ; total 

 of American and native laborers, 3,504 ; of churches, 

 471 ; of church members, 43,043 ; added during the 

 year, 2,957 ; whole number from the first, as nearly 

 as can be learned, 134,871 ; number of theological 

 seminaries and station classes, 18, with 260 pupils ; 

 of colleges and high schools for young men, 59, 

 with 4.171 pupils; of boarding schools for girls, 61 ; 

 with 3,579 pupils; of common schools, 922, with 

 42,152 pupils ; whole number under instruction, 52,- 

 619 ; amount of native contributions, so far as re- 

 ported, $107,509. Owing to the incomplete returns 

 from the missions in Asiatic Turkey, the items from 

 those missions in reference to churches and native 

 agencies were given in the tables as reported in the 

 previous year. In the "Annual Survey of the Work 

 of the Board " reference was made to the impor- 

 tance of the work of training a native ministry for 

 the Hawaiian and Micronesian Islands carried on 

 at the North Pacific Institute, Hawaii. The po- 

 litical difficulties at Ponape had not crushed out 

 the power of the churches and schools there. A 

 strong reaction toward heathenism was mentioned 

 in the Gilbert Islands, but there were " happy ex- 

 ceptions." A marked development of the pastorate 



