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and that the German brethren might for the 

 present avail themselves of the Episcopal ser- 

 vices of the newly-elected Bishop Auer, who 

 is of German birth and education, and was 

 expected soon to arrive in the United States. 



The following table gives the number of 

 clergymen, parishes, baptisms, communicants, 

 teachers and scholars of Sunday-schools, and 

 the amount of missionary and charitable con- 

 tributions for each diocese : 



The anniversary meetings of the Board of 

 Missions were held in the last week in Octo- 

 ber. The Domestic Committee reported that 

 their receipts to the 30th of September had 

 been $168,252.67, and their disbursements 

 $158,821.67. The permanent fund amounted 

 to $16,000. The liabilities of the committee 

 were $24,394.77. The sum of $21,249 had 

 been gathered by means of "mite-chests." 

 The receipts of the Foreign Committee for the 

 year ending October 1st were $110,732.81, 

 and their expenditures $115,270.62. The leg- 

 acies amounted to $17,594. The amount re- 

 ceived from "missionary-boxes" was $6,934.- 

 44, and the amount received from the children 

 of the Church and Sunday-school collections 

 was $12,638.53. One thousand and sixty-three 

 parishes had contributed to the Foreign Com- 



mittee. Encouraging accounts of the mission- 

 ary work in their several dioceses w_ere given 

 in the reports of the missionary bishops of 

 Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, Dakota, and 

 Oregon. 



The foreign missions of the Board are in 

 Africa, China, Hayti, Greece, and Japan. The 

 entire number of missionaries is sixty-two, of 

 whom thirty-five are employed in Africa, 

 nineteen in China, six in Hayti, one in Greece, 

 and one in Japan. Two clergy men were under 

 appointment as missionaries to Japan, and were 

 expected to sail early in December. Bishop 

 Williams had translated the four Gospels and 

 the Prayer-book into the Japanese language. 



The receipts of the American Church Mis- 

 sionary Society, for the year ending Novem- 

 ber 1, 1872, were $53,938.65. Its expenditures 



