PRESBYTER] 





were ordained. 35 licensu: "gre- 



'iranized. :{^ new nii<-ion stal 



i' worship . (! at 



.'4. 15 pa: - 



at a ived 



on profession (.in the whole Church), and 4.292 in- 

 fants and 2,072 adu. - iptized. Amount of 



contribution- i in Aiii'-rii-a : !' r salaries of mini - 



for congregational pur; 

 for the board-. ' : for general pur: 



. total contributions in America, $1.404.- 

 '. contributions of the whole Church, 

 $1.4:~ contribution per member in 



^13.13 : a veraire salary of pastors in Amer- 

 ica. $1.054: amount of contributions of Sunday 

 -S. The number of members in 

 America is 2.012. and in the whole Church 3.093 

 larger than in 1V.I4. 



The Board of Education reported that there had 

 been 143 students in the theological seminaries. 

 1.142 in the colleges, and 723 in the academies an 

 increase of 130 over the attendance in the previous 

 year. The productive endowments of the semina- 

 ries amounted to $291.800, and those of the colleges 

 '>. The board was able to pay only about 

 60 per cent, of the allowance to the students. 



The receipts from the presbyteries for ministerial 

 relief had been a little more than 40 per cent, of 

 the appropriation of the previous General Assembly. 



The Board of Church Extension reported that its 

 receipts from contributions $30,639 for the year 

 weiv iter than in the year preceding, and 



returned a balance in the treasury o: iittle 



less than in the preceding year. The payments to 

 congregations and for expenses of all kinds had 

 been $30.717. The appropriations amounted to 

 -'K) donations and $3.350 loans, making a total 

 . -.I'd.! ^.lo:; lesa 'lian in the previous year. 

 An appropriation of $50,000 was asked for the en- 

 suing year. 



At the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 Executive Committee of Home Missions applica- 

 tions for aid were presented amounting to $87.^21. 

 of which $9.125 were for new work proposed or 

 actually begun. It was found that the $20.000 

 revenue fund of the board had not been in any 

 measure restored during the year, and that the debt 

 additional to this had grown to $13.018. although 

 the direct contributions of the Church for home 

 missions had increased, and were the largest on 

 record. The receipts from direct contributions 

 had been $60.272. and from legacies $2.860. which, 

 with the proceeds of investments of permanent 

 funds, made a total income of $64.016. 



The year's receipts of the Freed men's Board were 

 $43,909. The board had employed 9 ordained min- 

 isters and a total of 73 missionaries, and returned 

 11 stations occupied. 6 congregations with 575 com- 

 municant members. 12 Sabbath schools with a total 

 enrollment of 3,079. and an enrollment of 3,037 in 

 the day scho .Is. Prominence is given in the report 

 to the religious work, which is represented as being 

 in an encouraging condition. 



The entire receipts of the Board of Foreign Mis- 

 sions wer 3, of which $14.5s2 were from 

 the Woman's Board. Notwithstanding the con- 

 tinuous financial depression, the re-enforcement of 

 the missions, and their increased expenditures the 

 board closed the year without indebtedness, and 

 with a balance in the treasury. For the ensuing 

 yenr. it asked f J5, in addition to the 

 000 pledged by the Woman's Board, congregations. 

 and individuals. Sixteen new missionaries had 

 been sent out. 5 more were under appointment. 

 Forty-two missionaries were employed in the F. _ 

 tian mission, with 22 native ministers pastor- 

 licentiates, and 11 theological students, while the 



whole number of native wot.. I'M. The 



whole number of stati'.t. 



i/.ed which wen- wh-lr. 



supp. i 5.004 mi i.ath 



schools with 6.222 pupils. Five hundred anu 

 enty-seven members had been added by : 

 during the year. The contributions 



istinctively religious purposes amounted to 

 ~-")2. and their total contributions for all pur- 

 ,44. an a -'.'.44 p.-r mem- 



ber. For every dollar >ent from the Uni 

 about $1 had been contributed by the nativ 

 Egypt. 



The mission in India returned 11 mi 

 tions. while work had been done in nearly 600 vil- 

 lages. Fifty-one American missionaries, men and 

 women, were engaged in the work, with 9 native 

 ordained missionaries. 12 licentiates and theological 

 students, and 198 native helpers. One of the 14 

 congregations was self-supporting. The church- 



ith the stations and villages, returned ' 

 communicants and baptized adults, of whot: 

 had been received on profession during th< 

 year. The 125 Sabbath schools returned 3.022 pu- 

 pils, and 170 village schools 6.261 pupils. The na- 

 tive Christians had contributed $5.697 in tuition 

 fees and $562 for religious purposes. There were 

 also connected with the mission 1 theological semi- 

 nary. 1 college, 4 high schools, and 3 middle schools, 

 and the medical work was a considerable feature. 



The receipts for the year of the Women's General 

 Missionary Society, with balances from the previous 

 year, made a fund of $81.523. and the disbursements 

 were $70.832. The literary department of the so- 

 ciety's work had paid its way and left a small bal- 

 ance. The sum of $24.275 had been contributed 

 for foreign work, and $12.038 had been spent on 

 the salaries of woman missionaries. Four new mis- 

 sionaries had been ser_c out during the year. In 

 the medical work much interest had been mani- 

 fested in endowment of beds in the new hospital at 

 Belum. India ($600 endowing a bed in perpetuity). 

 In the home-mission department. 18 missionaries 

 had been engaged, in California. Washington. Mis- 

 souri, Illinois. Kansas, and Pennsylvania. An im- 

 portant work was carried on at 2 stations among 

 the Warm Springs Indians. Twelve industrial 

 teachers had been employed in the freedmen's de- 

 partment, a new branch of agricultural training 

 had been added, and improvements in school 

 buildings were mentioned. 



The thirty-eighth General Assembly met in Xenia, 

 Ohio. May 27." The Rev. James White. I>. D.. of 

 Kansas City. Mo., was chosen moderator. The 

 permanent Committee on Reform reported, notic- 

 ing progress in the temperance reform in the direc- 

 tion of a demand for the suppression of the whole 

 liquor traffic : an awakening of the young people to 

 the necessity of a radical reform as to Christian 

 citizenship ; the growth of a feeling of alarm over 

 the increase of the desecration of the Sabbath : and 

 the continued pressing of the effort to secure the 

 acknowledgment of God. the moral law. and Jesus 

 Christ in the preamble to the Constitution of the 

 United States. The Committee on a Union Metric- 

 al Version of the Psalms reported that a meeting 

 had been held at which several denominations were 

 represented. Only preliminary work could be done. 

 Another meeting' was to be held. Stated reports 

 were made by the theological seminaries direct to 

 the Assembly for the first time. Allegheny Semi- 

 nary had had the lanrest attendance of studerr 

 its history, and had adopted all the amendments 

 to its constitution recommended by the Assembly's 

 committee. Xewburg Seminary reported concern- 

 ing summer schools. The seminary at Xenia. Ohio, 

 had adopted an amended constitution, responding 



