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CONGREGATIONALISTS. 



CONGRESS. (ORGANIZATION.) 



free and unsectarian school, under popular control, 

 may be, as far as practicable, placed within reason- 

 able distance of every child in the kingdom." 



The John Robinson Memorial Church, at Gaines- 

 borough, for which about 4,000 were still needed. 

 was i-oiiiinended to the sympathy and liberality of 

 the Congregational churches of England and the 

 United States. The subjects were discussed of 

 "Responsibility with regard to Church Aid," 

 " Congregational Intercommunion," " Worship," 

 and, in special meetings, questions with regard to 

 missions, woman's work, and Sunday schools. It 

 was represented that the Church Aid Society had, 

 to a large extent, accomplished its purpose of se- 

 curing a minimum stipend for ministers of 80 in 

 England and 70 in Wales. Three hundred and 

 twenty-one churches were receiving aid in the 

 aided unions. The society had this year appro- 

 priated 3,600 to its work. The reports of the 

 Congregational Total Abstinence Society showed 

 that it was extending its operations, and that of 

 2.950 Congregational ministers, 2,312 were total ab- 

 stainers; 95 per cent, of the Congregational Union- 

 ists in Scotland, every minister in Ireland, and 

 every theological student in Scotland and Ireland 

 and 95 per cent, of those in England had adopted 

 the principles of the society. 



London Missionary Society. The one hundred 

 and first annual meeting of the London Missionary 

 Society was held May 1. The year's receipts from 

 all sources and for all purposes were reported as 

 having been 190,906. Of this amount 49,202 had 

 been received in contributions toward the special 

 Centenary fund, leaving as the income of the so- 

 ciety for ordinary purposes 141,704, against 139,- 

 822 in the previous year. These sums include the 

 amounts raised and expended upon the mission 

 field. Deducting these amounts, the actual free 

 home contributions for the society's missionary 

 work were 123,087, against 111,368 in the previ- 

 ous year. The expenditure had been 10,610 Jess 

 than in 1894 chiefly because the society's expendi- 

 tures for various reasons had been unusually large 

 in several directions in that year. It had, however, 

 been thought wise to decline every request for en- 

 larged help to current work, however reasonable, 

 and to defer every grant for buildings, except such 

 as was absolutely necessary to keep property in re- 

 pair. The gross amount promised in subscriptions 

 to the Centenary fund was 102,190, of which 88,- 

 091 had been received. The directors had deter- 

 mined to apply 42,555 of the fund to the account 

 of the accumulated debt of the past three years; 

 25,000 for the provision of a fund for the erection 

 of missionary buildings of which 5,000 were to be 

 immediately used ; and hoped that a further sum 

 of not less than 30,000 would be available for the 

 augmentation of the working capital of the society. 

 Acting upon the recommendations made by the 

 special committee appointed to consider what di- 

 minutions could be made in the society's expendi- 

 ture to bring it into closer approximation with the 

 income, a fixed scale of reductions had been applied 

 in the allowances for 1896 on all grants for mission 

 work in India and south China, resulting in a pres- 

 ent saving to the society of about 2,000 a year. 



Union with the Scottish Evangelical' Union. 

 The proposed terms of union with the Evangel- 

 ical Union of Scotland were vigorously debated at 

 the meeting of the Scottish Congregational Union, 

 the opponents of the measure basing their attitude 

 on the ground of the doctrinal statement embodied 

 in the articles. This was regarded as implying a 

 creed and being in violation of the Congregational 

 principle, or of the principle of independency, that 

 every man should think for himself, with the Bible 

 as his only text-book. Finally, the resolution that 



in view of the judgment of the churches of the 

 Congregational Union and of the motions adopted 

 by the last conference of the Evangelical Union, the 

 meeting agree to unite with the latter body was 

 adopted, 144 voting in favor of it, 33 in favor of 

 the alternative motion that no further proceedings 

 be taken in the matter and 20 maintaining a neu- 

 tral position. A protest was lodged on behalf of 

 the minority, declaring that the carrying out of the 

 resolution would involve a secession from the Con- 

 gregational Union, in which case the seceding 

 churches would claim a right to all the assets and 

 estates, powers, and privileges of the Congregational 

 Union of Scotland. 



The conference of the Evangelical Union, meet- 

 ing in Glasgow, Oct". 28, decided by a vote of 140 

 to 14 that in view of the judgment of the two 

 churches in favor of union, it thereby decide to 

 unite with the churches of the Congregational 

 Union under the name of " the Congregational 

 Union of Scotland, comprising the Evangelical 

 Union and the Congregational Union existing in 

 1896." 



CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 The first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress be tr an 

 Dec. 2, 1895. 



The Senate was composed as follows, the date 

 preceding each name marking the year in which 

 the term expires, and the letter following indicat- 

 ing the Senator's politics : 



Alabama. 



1897. James L. Pugh, D. 

 1901. John T. Morgan, D. 



Arkansas. 



1897. James K. Jones, D. 

 1901. James H. Berry, D. 



California. 



1897. George C. Perkins. R. 

 1899. Stephen M. White, D. 



Colorado. 



1897. Henry M. Teller. R. 

 1901. Edward O. Wolcott, R. 



Maine. 



1899. Eugene Hale, R. 

 1901. William P. Frye, R. 



Maryland. 



1897. Charles H. Gibson. D. 

 1899. Arthur P. Gorman, D. 



Massachusetts. 

 1809. Henry C. Lodge. R. 

 1901. George F. Hoar, R. 



Michigan. 



1899. Julius C. Burrows, R. 

 1901. James McMillan, R. 



Minnesota. 



Connecticut. 



1897. Orville H. Platt. R. 1899. Cushman K. Davis R 

 1899. Joseph R. Hawley, R. 1901. Knute Nelson, R. 



Delaieare. 



1899. George Gray, D. 

 1901. H. A. Du Pont, R. 



Florida. 



1897. Wilkinson Call, D. 

 1899. Samuel Pasco, D. 



Mississippi. 



1899. James Z. George, D. 

 1901. Edward C. Walthall, D. 



Missouri. 



1897. George G. Vest, D. 

 1899. F. M. Cockrell, D. 



Georgia. Montana. 



1897. John B. Gordon. D. 1899. Lee Mantle, R. 



1901. Augustus O. Bacon. D, 1901. Thomas H. Carter, R. 



Idaho. Nebraska. 



1879. Frederick T. Dubois, R. 1899. William V. Allen, P. 



1901. George L. Shoup, R. 1901. John M. Thurston, R. 



Illinois. Nevada. 



1897. John M. Palmer, D. 1897. John P. Jones. P. 



1901. Shelby M. Cullom, R. 1899. William M. Stewart, P. 



Indiana. New Hampshire. 



1897. Daniel W. Voorhees, D. 1897. Jacob H. Gallinger. R. 



189. David Turpie, D. 1901. William E. Chandler, R. 



Iowa. Xcn- Jersey. 



1807. William B. Allison, R. 1899. James Smith, Jr.. D. 



1901. John H. Gear, R. 1901. William J. Sewell, R. 



Kansas. 



1897. William A. Peffer, P. 

 1901. Lucien Baker, R. 



Kentucky. 



1897. J. C. S. Blackburn. D. 

 1901. William Lindsay, D. 



Louisiana. 



1897. N. C. Blanchard, D. 

 1901. Donelson Caffery, D. 



New York. 

 1897. David B. Hill, D. 

 1899. Edward Murphy, Jr., D. 



North Carolina. 

 1897. Peter C. Pritchard, R. 

 1901. Marion Butler, P. 



North Dakota. 

 1897. H. C. Hansbrouph, R. 

 1899. William N. Roach, D. 



