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report, which was unanimously adopted, the 

 desire was expressed that the attempt to form 

 an independent communion in Liberia should 

 be postponed until a fuller opportunity was 

 obtained for consultation. The report regret- 

 ted that the steps for the formation of an inde- 

 pendent church had been so hastily taken, and 

 expressed the opinion that clergymen, forming 

 such independent church, must necessarily 

 cease to become missionaries of the Foreign 

 Committee. 



The foundation of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in Hayti was laid in 1862 by Rev. J. S. 

 Holly, a colored minister of the church in the 

 United States. Mr. Holly established in 1863 

 a church at the capital, Port au Prince. In 

 October, 1863, Bishop Lee, of Delaware, sailed 

 for Hayti to survey the field with a view to the 

 permanent establishment of a mission in con- 



nection with the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 of the United State's. 



The organization of an independent " Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church of the Confederate 

 States " led to some important complications. 

 The question arose, whether the parishes in 

 the new State of West Virginia, being in con- 

 nection with the Church of the United States, 

 remained under the jurisdiction of the Bishop 

 of Virginia at Richmond, who claimed to be 

 no longer a bishop of the United States but 

 of the Church of the Confederate States. The 

 opinions of the church papers greatly differed 

 on this subject, and some of them protested 

 against the exercise by Bishop McEvaine, of 

 Ohio, of episcopal functions in West Virginia. 



The Church Almanac, for 1864, contains the 

 following table of church statistics of the Epis- 

 copal Church of the United States : 



The 28th annual meeting of the Board of Mis- 

 sions was held at Providence, Rhode Island, on 

 October 7th, 8th, and 9th. The receipts of the 

 Domestic Committee were reported to have 

 been $37,458.05, exceeding those of last year 

 by $2,134.14. The receipts of the Jersey Com- 

 mittee were $54,260.07, an increase over the 

 previous year of $3,687.89. It was resolved to 

 establish a mission at Santa Fe, New Mexico, 

 on the associate or collegiate plan, with a view 

 to the organization of schools of both sexes, and 

 to the gradual development of itinerant work 

 throughout that territory. 



The fourth annual meeting of the American 

 Church Missionary Society took place at Phila- 

 delphia, October 15th. This society employed 38 

 missionaries in 1863, 10 more than last year, 

 and its receipts during the year amounted to 

 $19,189.41. 



The 37th annual report of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church Union and Church Book So- 

 ciety, records an improvement in the financial 

 condition of the society within the past year, 

 amounting to $10,000, exclusive of the amount 

 received for the building fund, $2,922. The 

 Society for the Increase of the Ministry, which 



