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ANGLICAN CHUEOHES. 



The general statistical summary was as fol- 

 lows: 



Dioceses 34 



Bishops 44 



Priests and deacons 2,556 



Whole number of clergy 2,600 



Parishes 2,370 



Ordinations Deacons 77 



Priests 76 



Total 153 



Candidates for orders 



Churches consecrated 



Baptisms Infants 25,707 



Adults 6,939 



Not stated 1,790 



Total 34,436 



Confirmations 19,616 



Communicants increase in 23 dioceses 



during past year . . . 10,244 



Present number 178,102 



Marriages 10,049 



Burials 15,843 



Sunday-school teachers 19,897 



Scholars 180,152 



Contributions $3,859,296 02 



The thirty-second annual meeting of the Board 

 of Missions commenced its sessions at the Church 

 of the Ascension, New York, on October 16th. 

 The total receipts of the Domestic Committee 

 were reported to be, for general purposes dur- 

 ing the year, $78,449.51 ; for special purposes, 

 not under control of the committee, $30,832.48, 

 showing an increase on the preceding year, for 

 general purposes, of $23,803.59, and, for special 

 purposes, of $7,296.10. Some $70,000 or $80,000 

 has been contributed to the work of the mis- 

 sionary bishops without going through the 

 hands of the Domestic Committee. There are 

 248 missionary stations in thirty-three different 

 Episcopal jurisdictions. The number of mis- 

 sionaries now at work is 213. The committee 

 appealed to the Church for $200,000 during the 

 coming year. The report of the Foreign Com- 

 mittee showed total receipts of $82,604, of 

 which, for general pruposes, was contributed 

 $57,374.59. The expenditure leaves a balance 

 on hand of $1,010.29. The report of the 

 Freedmen's Commission shows total receipts 

 for the year, to October 1st, $29,223.54; total 

 expenditure, $30,319.42; overdrawn, $1,095.88. 

 The number of teachers has increased from 23, 

 last year, to 45, and the scholars from 1,600 to 

 3,200. The " Society for the Increase of the 

 Ministry," which held its eleventh annual meet- 

 ing at New York on October 13th, reported the 

 resources for the year at $22,123.58, and the 

 expenditures at $23,012.48. It aided during 

 the year 132 scholars. 



The anniversaries of the Low-Church Socie- 

 ties were held at Philadelphia, November 5th, 

 6th, and 7th. The receipts of the " Evangelical 

 Knowledge Society," from all sources, were 

 stated to be $45,506 ; and the whole number 

 of publications now issued by the society is 

 six hundred an,d twenty-eight. The "Church 

 Missionary Society " received during the year, 

 $82,334.97, and 'employed fifty-nine mission- 

 aries. The "Evangelical Education Society," 

 whose active operations had extended only over 



nine months, had received $33,031.99, and 

 aided one hundred young men. In connection 

 with these meetings, an address, setting forth 

 the views of the Low-Church party, was drawn 

 up, which is to be presented to the General 

 Convention, claiming it as the right of min- 

 isters that they be permitted to preach the Gos- 

 pel wherever their services may be asked or a 

 door of usefulness be opened to them, untram- 

 melled by the restriction of first securing the 

 assent of any rector of a parish ; also that they 

 shall be at liberty publicly to recognize the 

 ministry of other denominations; and that the 

 Formula of Baptism shall be so amended as no 

 longer to teach baptismal regeneration. 



The most important event in the history of 

 the Anglican Churches, during the year 1867, 

 was the " Pan-Anglican " Synod, held under the 

 presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 at Lambeth, from September 24th to Septem- 

 ber 27th. This synod was held in pursuance 

 of a resolution passed by the convocation of 

 Canterbury, in February, 1867, requesting the 

 archbishop to give an invitation to all bishops, 

 in communion with the Church of England, to 

 assemble for the purpose of united deliberation 

 on matters of common interest at home and 

 abroad. The bishops included in this invita- 

 tion were as follows: 1. England, 2 arch- 

 bishops and twenty-six bishops. 2. Ireland, 

 two archbishops and ten bishops. 3. Scotland, 

 seven bishops. 4. English colonies (embracing 

 missionary bishops of Jerusalem, Sandwich Isl- 

 ands, Melanesia, and Central Africa), fifty 

 bishops. 5. United States, forty-four bishops. 

 A preliminary meeting, attended by about 

 thirty bishops (one-third of whom were Amer- 

 ican), was held on September 17th. At this 

 meeting it was resolved, " That the meetings of 

 the Council, including the opening meeting for 

 divine service, and sermon and Holy Eucha- 

 rist, should be at Lambeth ; that a stenographer 

 should be present, to make a verbatim report 

 for publication; that none other but bishops 

 should be present ; that the Bishop of Gloucester 

 and Bristol should be the Secretary of the 

 Council; that the proposed programme of pro- 

 ceedings should be open to germane amend- 

 ment, on the motion of any bishop ; and that 

 any new business, not on the programme, 

 might be introduced, after the subjects set down 

 for the day were disposed of; that on Friday 

 (the fourth day), a sort of conversazione meet- 

 ing should be held, for more general discus- 

 sions; and that, on Saturday, the closing ser- 

 vice should be held in Westminster Abbey, 

 or some other large city church, with the Holy 

 Eucharist." The conference was opened on 

 Tuesday, September 24th. About eighty 

 bishops were present, all in their robes, and 

 there was divine service and the Holy Commu- 

 nion. The sermon was by the Rt. Rev. Bishop 

 Whitehouse, of Illinois. The business sessions 

 were held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 

 and Friday, and lasted, each day, from 11.30 

 A. M., to 5.30 P. M. None but bishops were ad- 



