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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 



The trust funds of the society amount to 

 118.92 at par value, or $995,987.92 at market value. 

 The income collected from these was $41,754.57. 

 The Missionary Enrollment fund amounts to $167,- 

 829.03. 



The gross receipts of the society for the fiscal 

 year, including those for specials and for miscel- 

 laneous purposes, amounted to $756,905.83. The 

 contributions for the work of the society were 

 $424,771.55 ; the amount received from legacies, 

 exclusive of items for investment ($7,817.47), was 

 $40,207.75, making the total amount at the discre- 

 tion of the board toward making its appropriations 

 $464,979.30. Compared with the previous year, 

 there was an increase of contributions for foreign 

 missions of $606.40. and a decrease for domestic 

 missions of $8,139.29, and for general missions of 

 $27.787.37. 



The receipts for domestic missions were: Balance 

 in the treasury Sept. 1, 1895, $32,008.12 ; cash re- 

 ceived during the year (including $27,026.57 for 

 Indian missions and $12;513.46 for colored mis- 

 sions), $159,181.98; general offerings to the society, 

 $87,634.91 ; legacies, $26,963.86 ; legacies for in- 

 vestment, $7,658.73; specials, $113,860.02; tempo- 

 rarily withdrawn from trust funds, $19,000 ; per- 

 sonal loan (half), $20,000 ; total, $466,307.02. 



The expenditures on account of domestic-mission 

 work (including $48,784.59 for Indian missions and 

 $56,474.65 for colored missions) were $244,780.47; 

 specials, $104.436.01 ; interest (half), $216.02; half 

 cost of administration and collection, $12,835.85 ; 

 half cost of printing " Spirit of Missions," reports, 

 etc.. $9,543.59 ; legacies deposited for investment, 

 $7,658.73 ; paid to annuitant (half), $150 ; returned 

 to trust funds, $19,000; return of personal loan 

 (half), $20.000 ; transfers, $447.41 ; balance for do- 

 mestic missions and specials, Sept. 1, 1896, $47.- 

 239.54. 



The number of domestic missionaries, clerical 

 and lay, male and female, receiving salaries or sti- 

 pends during the year was 860, and the amount ap- 

 propriated for the whole work was $279,520. As- 

 sistance was given to 42 dioceses in addition to the 

 19 jurisdictions which are exclusively missionary. 



The contributions for foreign missions during the 

 year were $109,090.06; legacies, $13,691.80; lega- 

 cies for investment, $158.74; specials, $30.895.29. 

 The gross amount received was $222,700.49, and 

 the balance of appropriations unpaid Sept. 1, 1895, 

 was $42,304.63. The number of parishes and mis- 

 sions that contributed to foreign missions during 

 the year was 3,449, being 199 more than last year. 



The Commission on Church Work among the Col- 

 ored People reports the number of clergy as 65, of 

 whom 61 are actively engaged in the Southern dio- 

 ceses. During the twelve months the baptisms 

 numbered 1,168; confirmations, 838; average at- 

 tendance at Sunday school, 5,669 ; at other schools, 

 4,346 ; the total number of communicants appears 

 to be 7,116 ; the number of colored churches, chap- 

 els, and schools approximates 146 ; the value of 

 church property is placed at $459,000. The collec- 

 tions amounted to $21,205, and the expenditures 

 were $57,920. 



The resolution adopted by the Convention in 

 1895 directing that a part of 'the Enrollment fund 

 should be used for the establishment of a school for 

 the education and evangelization of the colored 

 people was found to be ineffective, the Board of 

 Managers deciding that the resolution of the Board 

 of Missions of October, 1892 " that all sums apper- 

 taining to the Enrollment fund now in the hands 

 of the treasurer of the Domestic and Foreign Mis- 

 sionary Society, and all sums that may hereafter be 

 contributed to said fund, shall be securely invested 

 and held intact as principal only until said fund 



shall amount to $1,000,000" established an abso- 

 lute moral and legal agreement with all subscribers. 



The statistics of the Church in Mexico show : 

 Priests, 6 ; deacons, 2 ; candidates for orders. (' ; 

 other readers, 5 ; congregations, 24 ; day schools in 

 same, 10 ; teachers, 10 ; scholars, 300. 



The Missionary Bishop of Cape Palmas reports 

 that work is greatly hampered on account of the 

 ceaseless warfare caused by the rebellion of the 

 Half Cavalla tribe. Every man from sixteen to 

 sixty years of age being required to do military 

 duty, the larger male pupils and teachers are liable 

 to be called away at any time. The number of bap- 

 tisms during the year was 23s, and of confirmations 

 69, and $560.80 was sent to the Board of Missions. 



The second conference of the China mission, last- 

 ing four days, met at Shanghai, Feb. 24, where reso- 

 lutions looking toward a practical scheme of union 

 between the different branches of the Anglican 

 communion in China for the purpose of founding a 

 national church were unanimously adopted. The 

 revised Prayer Book is completed and already in 

 use in China. The report from the China mission 

 falls especial attention to the "active hostility of 

 the high officials, the lesser mandarins, and the edu- 

 cated classes toward the Christian faith and foreign 

 teachers of that religion," and to the persecution 

 the heathen converts must face. 



The report from Japan shows that the fifth gen- 

 eral synod of the Church was held in Osaka, in 

 April, that the new Prayer Book compiled for the 

 Japan Church is well received, and that the hos- 

 pital building at Tokio has been completed. The 

 report says: "The condition of the Empire of 

 Japan for the past year marks a new era in its 

 history. Politically, it has been one of peace and 

 commercial prosperity. From a religious point of 

 view, retrogression and decadence are painfully 

 apparent everywhere. A Japanese eclecticism is 

 asserting itself, to the detriment of Buddhism, 

 Shintoism, and Christianity. Nationalism is the 

 all-prevailing cry. Christianity, to be acceptable, 

 must assimilate some of the tenets of Buddhism 

 and Shintoism. Respect .for national institutions 

 and for the integrity of the imperial dynasty con- 

 stitute the Minimum bonum of the Japanese." 



In Ilayti the bishop reports that the mission at 

 the capital has entered upon a new career of spirit- 

 ual prosperity. The elementary parish school has 

 reopened its doors, the English services, suspended 

 since 1888, have been resumed, and the Sunday 

 school revived. The statistics of the European 

 jurisdiction show : Clergy, 8 ; churches, 6 ; recto- 

 ries, 2 ; 1 house for nurses and for the sick ; bap- 

 tisms, 34; confirmations, 57: communicants, about 

 1,000; marriages, 30: burials, 38: value of church 

 property, $626,000. 



The American Church Missionary Society during 

 the fiscal year disbursed $24.754,20, and the bal- 

 ance, Sept. 1, 1896, was $2,394.33. Owing to the 

 civil war in Cuba, all mission work there, except at 

 one chapel in Havana, was suspended. In Brazil 

 the increase in the number of communicants was 

 82 ; of Sunday-school teachers, 12 ; of Sunday- 

 school pupils, 317. The contributions toward ex- 

 penses and church building made by the 274 com- 

 municants amounted to $3,188.40. 



The Society for promoting Christianity among 

 the Jews reports good work, and in some quarters 

 great reason for thankfulness and encouragement. 

 Its cash receipts during the year amounted to 

 $7,454.88 ; balance on hand Sept. 1, 1895, was 

 $604.69. The disbursements were $7.530.02, and 

 the balance on hand Sept. 1, 1896, was $529.57. 



The Woman's Auxiliary. A summary of the 

 work accomplished by the Auxiliary and its jun- 

 ior department in 58 dioceses and 22 missionary 



