REFORMED CHURCH. 



within the limits of our own vast country. 

 And ttio labor has not been in vain. The 

 General Synod's Board has had nearly one 

 hundred missionaries on its list, and, despite 

 all the disadvantages with which it has had 

 to contend, has done what twelve or fifteen 

 years ago it would have been deemed chi- 

 merical to propose. The Northwestern Synod 

 has had a separate Board of Missions, as had 

 also several of the classes, some of these 

 among the strongest." The publication of 

 the various periodicals, both in English and 

 in German, has continued unbroken, and, 

 " during the past three years, there has been 

 a clear increase above all losses in our sta- 

 tistics of one District Synod, three classes, 

 thirty-six ministers, and ten thousand mem- 

 bers." 



The statistics of this Church are summarized 

 as follows : General Synod, 1 ; District Synods, 

 3 ; classes, 31 ; ministers, 521 ; confirmed mem- 

 bers, 117,910 ; unconfirmed members, 63,362 ; 

 baptisms, 36,117; confirmations, 20,183; re- 

 ceptions by certificate, 3,779 ; Sunday-school 

 scholars, 47,990 ; Sunday-schools, 1,919 ; con- 

 tributions, $228,817.94, or, not including min- 

 isters' salaries, $76,500. 



2. The sixty-third session of the General 

 Synod of the Reformed Church (Dutch), in 

 America, opened in Philadelphia on the 2d of 

 June. The amended charter having been ob- 

 tained from the New York Legislature, the 

 change of name of this body is completed. The 

 Board of Directors reported the receipt of do- 

 nations and bequests amounting to about 

 $18,000, besides a gift of $2,890.63 to Hope 

 College. The widows' fund amounts to $29,- 

 192.19. The amount of $16,917.41, had been 

 received on account of the assessment ordered 

 by the General Synod of 1864, for the increase 

 of the permanent fund. The Board of Domes- 

 tic Missions reported 5,358 admitted. There 

 are 72 missions, with 4, 000 families under their 

 pastoral charge. The number of contributing 

 Churches was 296. The total receipts were 

 $30,973.33. The number of children brought 

 into the schools was 8,115. 



There were 58 young men studying for the 

 ministry under the care of the Board of Edu- 

 cation, and 615 children .in the parochial 

 schools. The receipts of the Board were $39,- 

 157.53. It is under an indebtedness of $3,- 

 942.49. The Board of Publication issued during 

 the year 6,250 copies of religious works ; and 

 68,500 of reprints, tracts, etc. The sales 

 amounted to $15,918.94; assets, $38,007; lia- 

 bilities, $10,836.38. The principal of the wid- 

 ows' fund is $29,192.19. The receipts of the 

 disabled ministers' fund were $2,369.55. 



Papers condemning freemasonry were pre- 

 sented from the classes of Wisconsin and of 

 Holland. The committee to whom they were 

 referred, reported that they considered much 

 that was said against masonry to be exaggerated 

 or unfounded ; but that the path of safety for 

 Christians lay outside of all secret, oath-bound 



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societies, and recommended a resolution " That 

 the members of our churches be advised to re- 

 frain from uniting with those fraternities which 

 are held together by oaths of secrecy, but if, in 

 the exercise of Christian liberty, any commu- 

 nicant has chosen to join such societies, he 

 shall not on that account be held answerable 

 to ecclesiastical discipline." Four classes in 

 New Jersey, and the classes of Philadelphia, 

 were set off to form a new particular SynodJ 

 which was named the Synod of New Bruns- 

 wick. 



The number of churches is 451 ; licentiates, 

 474; communicants, 58,796. 



The number of families reported is 37,706. 

 Received on confession, 3,190; on certificate, 

 2,040 ; infant baptisms, 3,585 ; adult baptisms, 

 797; scholars in Sunday-schools, 47,244. The 

 total of contributions for religious and benevo- 

 lent purposes was over $255,000 ; for congrega- 

 tional purposes, $846,627.18. 



Missions. The receipts of the Board of For- 

 eign Missions were from Churches, $59,523.03 ; 

 from Sunday-schools, $5,310.79. The receipts 

 from other sources swell the total to $81,410.38. 

 The debt of the Board has increased to $24,000. 



In the Amoy Mission in China, there is a 

 missionary force of 8 persons. The number 

 of members is 701. The Christian community 

 in the classis of Arcot numbers 2,094 persons, 

 of whom 534 are church members. Eight mis- 

 sionaries are connected with the mission in 

 Japan. 



REGNAUD, DE SAINT-JEAN D'ANGE- 

 LY, AUGUST MICHEL MAEIE ETIENNE, Count, 

 a Marshal and Senator of France, born in Paris 

 July 29, 1794; died in that city December 21, 

 1869. He was of a distinguished family, his 

 father having played a prominent part in the 

 history of both the empire and the republic. 

 He was educated at the Prytanee de Saint-Cyr, 

 and entered in 1811 the Military School of 

 St. Germain. In the following year he joined 

 the 8th Hussars, then in Russia, as sub-lieuten- 

 ant. His regiment was almost destroyed at 

 the battle of Leipsic. He took a prominent 

 part in the campaign of 1814, distinguished 

 himself under the walls of Rheims, and was 

 named by Napoleon chief of squadron at Wa- 

 terloo. In 1825 M. Regnaud went to Greece, 

 organized there a European cavalry corps, 

 and served as a volunteer in General Maison's 

 expedition in the Morea. After the Revolution 

 of July he was allowed to retain the rank in 

 the army conferred upon him by the Emperor. 

 In 1832 he was appointed colonel of the First 

 Lancers, and in 1840 received the brevet of 

 field-marshal and military commander of the 

 department of the Meurthe, where he remained 

 till the establishment of the republic. Under 

 the new government he was employed in the 

 Army of the Alps, and was promoted in 1848 

 to the rank of General of Division. In the 

 following year he was elected by the district 

 of Charente-Infgrieure to the Legislative As- 

 sembly, in which he acted with the majority. 



