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COXGREGATIONALISTS. 



The annual meeting of the Ameriea* Ham* 

 3/iftioMry Society took place on the 7th of 

 Mnr. Tln> receipts for the year bad been 

 $267,691.42; the expenditures, $278,830.24. 

 The Mm of $23,580.82 was yet due to mis- 

 sionaries for labor performed. The Society 

 had employed daring the year 951 missiona- 

 ries for the supply of congregations and mis- 

 sionary stations in thirty dillorent States and 

 Territories. Kighty-nino churches had been 

 organized, thirty-four of which had become 

 elf-f apportlng. The number of additions to 

 the raomtHT.-lii|> "'the churches of tlie Society 

 daring the year bad been 5.7-V 



The twentieth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Congregational Amoriation was held 

 Mar 27th. The greater part of the report re- 

 lated to the new Congregational Ilomes : $50,- 

 000 were needed to liquidate the debt of $25,- 

 000 on the home, and perfect the library. 

 The receipts during the year had been $114, 

 786.S5, and the expenditures $113,735.32. 

 The library contained 16,880 bound volumes 

 and 60.000 pamphlets, 688 volumes and 5,270 

 pamphlets having been added during the year. 



The annual meeting of the American Board 

 of Committionen for Foreign Mission* began 

 at Minneapolis, Minn.. September 23d. The 

 treasurer reported the total receipts during 

 the year ending on the 81st of August to 

 hive been $421,331. Tho recipts for missions 

 in nominally Christian lands," the accounts 

 of which were kept separate, were $19,506. 

 The expenditures were, for the general mis- 

 sions, $430,016, of which $401,209 represented 

 the cost of missions, and the remainder of the 

 sum the expense of agencies, publication, and 

 administration ; for missions ' in nominally 

 Christian lands," $39,116. The Board was in 

 debt on the account of the two funds together, 

 $26,086. A comparison of the entire receipts 

 of the Hoard for several years post showed 

 that the falling off since 1870, when the sepa- 

 ration was made from the Presbyterians, bad 

 been only $29,218. This was regarded as 

 very small, especially when it was considered 

 that the great fires at Chicago and Boston, 

 both of wliich directly affected many Inrge 

 contributor*, had taken place since that time. 

 A new minion had been established in West- 

 ern Mexico. The mission at Monterey, in 

 Northern Mexico, formerly conducted by the 

 American and Foreign Christian Union, had 

 been received under tin- cure of the Board. 

 The mUsion of tin- American and Foreign 

 Christian Union in Italy had been transferred 

 to U>* Board, and the work in that country 

 had been extended. The mission in the Aus- 

 trian Empire had been reinforced, and a nn- 

 iirenoy had been organized in connection 

 with It. A new station liad 1> d in 



Macedonia, and at Panting I-'..... in North 

 i. A native minion had pushed into the 

 interior from FooChoo. in South China. Home 

 mbaloawy societies hud IM-. n organized and set 

 to work in the Zulu, Ceylon, Madura, and Mi- 



cronesian missions. In the aggregate, the addi- 

 tion* were 25 churches, 10 native pastors, about 

 800 church members, 66 students for thu min- 

 istry, and upward of 1,600 children and youths 

 in the mission and boarding-schools. The fol- 

 lowing general summary of the mission was 



presented: 



MISSIONS. 



Number of ralslons 19 



Number of stations 



Number of out-stations 406 



LABORERS EMPLOYED. 



Number of ordained missionaries (S being phy- 

 sicians, and Including 13 still supported at the 



Samlwtrh luliiudi-) 143 



N umber of physicians not ordained 



Number of other male assistant* 



Number of female assistants (including 18 at the 



Sandwich Islands) l:i!i 



Number of native pastorv Ml 



Number of native teachers and catccbists 



Number of school-teachers 406 



Number of other native helper* 134 



Whole number of laborers connected with the 

 missions 1 ,306 



THE PRESS. 



Pages printed, as far as reported 8,655,870 



THE CHURCHES. 



Number of chnrches 197 



Number of church-members, to far as reported . 9.435 

 Added daring; the year, so far as reported 794 



EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. 



Number of training and theological schools 13 



Number of boarding-schools for girls 91 



Number of common schools 496 



Number of pupil* In common schools 17,1% 



Number of pupils in training and theological 



schools and station classes 



Number of pupils in boarding-schools for girls. 



Other adults under instruction 521 



The twenty-seventh nnnnnl tncotinir nf the 

 American J/ittianary Attociation was held at 

 Newark, N. J., November 5th and 6th. The 

 total receipts for the year were reported to 

 have been $845,277.03. Of this amount, $47,- 

 840.55 had been received by the Hampton 

 Normal nnd Agricultural Institute, Hampton 

 Roads, Vs., and $22,835 by Berea College. 

 The report of the Association acknowledged 

 also a gift of nearly $100,000 of Agricultural 

 College land scrip from the State of Virginia 

 to the Hampton Institute, and a gift of $8.000 

 from the Stato of Georgia to the Atlanta 1'ni- 

 versity. The expenditures of the Association 

 hod been $340,887.71. Of this amount, $273.- 

 018.67 had been expended in the Southern 

 States, $5.618.76 among the Chinese, $2,999.- 

 72 among the Indians, $15,749.96 on foreign 

 missions, and the rest in office expense ami for 

 publications. A balance remained nirainst the 

 Association of $56,481.26. The Association 

 had property not required for its work which 

 had heen given for its uses, and remained un- 

 sold, which was estimated to be worth $35.' 



Its real estate in the South was valued nt, 

 $408,000, and was incnmbored to the amount 

 of $3,100. The amount of $43,893.40 was in- 

 verted as on endowment fund. Tho Associa- 

 tion had employed (luring the year in its 

 American work 851 missionaries and teach- 

 ers, of whom 309 had lalioi-ed in the South, 14 

 among the Chinese, and 28 among the Indians. 



