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MORAVIANS. 



MOROCCO, SULTAN OF. 



tricts. Twenty congregations are connect- 

 ed with the northern division, nine with the 

 southern. Nine schools, and the theological 

 seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., are sustained in 

 the American Province. The home-mission 

 work in this province has "been carried on 

 with great vigor, especially tor about fifteen 

 years past. An important sphere of labor has 

 been opened to it among the German immi- 

 grants. The mission agents are instructed to 

 aim at the foundation of Moravian congrega- 

 tions, which, on satisfying the conditions re- 

 quired for the support of a regular ministry, 

 ore recognized as belonging to the Brethren's 

 church, and participating in all constitutional 

 privileges. Till then they are not entitled to 

 representation at Synods, though the mission- 

 aries themselves are full members of the Pro- 

 vincial Synods. 



The Provincial Synod of the Moravian 

 Church (American Province, Northern divis- 

 ion) met lit Litiz, Pa., June llth. The Synod 

 was composed of the three bishops, three 

 members of the Provincial Synod, seven 

 teachers in the schools of the Synod, and large 

 delegations from forty-one churches. It ap- 

 peared from the report of the Provincial El- 

 ders' Conference that two bishops, four presby- 

 ters, and fourteen deacons, had been ordained 

 since the Synod of 1870; six laymen had re- 

 ceived license to preach. The increase of 

 communicants during the preceding six years 

 had been thirty per cent, while it had been 

 only eleven and a half per cent. fir the fore- 

 going period of six years. Eight churches 

 had been built since 1870, eleven students had 

 been graduated at the Theological Seminary 

 during the preceding three years. The sub- 

 ject of revising the old Moravian class idea 

 was referred to a committee, to report to tho 

 next Provincial Synod. A proportion was 

 made to distribute the members of tho Pro- 

 vincial Board among different congregations. 

 It was thought that by this means the Provin- 

 cial Elders would be broughtly more directly 

 and practically in contact with the congrega- 

 tion-i, and with the work of the Church in new 

 fields. It was urged, in support of tho propo- 

 sition, that the task of administering the af- 

 fairs of tho body was not sufficient to occupy 

 all the time and energies of throe men with no 

 other employment. The Provincial Elders 

 represented that they found employment tor 

 all their energies, and that the distribution 

 proposed would render conference between 

 them which tho wants of the Church required 

 should be frequent impossible. The Board 

 of Elders were empowered to appoint one of 

 their number to another office if they should 

 deem it expedient, and were advised "to re- 

 move their residence to some other place than 

 Huthlehom, Pa., if they find that such removal 

 is practicable, and will result in decreasing the 

 expenditures of the suatentation fund, or in 

 improving the condition of the same." The 

 Provincial EMcrs' Conference were instructed 



by the Synod that before they sanction tho 

 formation or c.-taMishment of a now station 

 or congregation, they require an assurance 

 that the minister shall have a sutlicieiit sup- 

 port. The organization of home-missionary 

 societies was commended, and tin- con^rcga- 

 tions were instructed to take up at least one 

 collection every year lor home missions. It 

 was ordered that no new church under the 

 home-mission work should be consecrated un- 

 til the payment of all expenses incurred 

 should have been assured. 



According to the report of 1872, the foreign 

 missions of the Moravian Church were con- 

 ducted in sixteen provinces, viz. : Greenland, 

 Labrador, the North American Indian prov- 

 inces, St. Thomas, St. Jan. St. I'roix. Jamaica, 

 Antigua, St. Kilts Barbadoes, Tobago, the 

 Mosquito coast, Surinam, South Africa \\Yst, 

 South Africa East, Australia, and West Him- 

 malaya. The number of stations was l\. 

 Tho missions were served by 811 missionaries, 

 of whom sixteen were natives, eleven native 

 assistants, 106 native leaders of meetings, 1,427 

 native helpers, and 1,171 day and Sunday- 

 school teachers. They had seven training- 

 schools and 805 stations, sub-stations and Sun- 

 day-schools, with 17,022 scholars. The num- 

 ber of baptized adults in the missions was 35,- 

 810, and the total number of persons under 

 care and instruction was 69,189. The annual 

 financial statement at the date of making tho 

 report, with a deficiency of 21,334 thalers 

 ($15,860), so that the board had, with tho de- 

 ficiency of the previous year, a debt of 28,- 

 362 thalers to provide for. Tin- increase of 

 the debt was caused, not by a diminished in- 

 come, for this was 17,000 thalers more than 

 that of tho year before, but by increased ex- 

 penses in building and traveling. The total 

 expense of the work during tho year was 

 842,300 thalers ($246,450). 



MOROCCO, SIDI MOHAMMED, Sultan of. 

 born in 1803; diad at Morocco, September I'.i. 

 1873. He was tho son of the Sultan Abder 

 rahman, whom ho succeeded on the Moroccan 

 throne, September 6, 1859. His father's reign 

 had been made unfortunate by asncccssiot. ol' 

 controversies with the maritime European 

 powers, generally growing out of the depreda- 

 tions of tho Rif pirates, a body of luieeaneci-s, 

 who attacked mid plundered commercial VCS- 

 s, 1-, making their headquarters at towns on 

 the Mi<ori-h coast. In lS56the French Gov- 

 ernment had demanded compensation from 

 Alidercahman for the losses tlieM pirates h: <1 

 inflicted on their commercial marine, and had 

 obtained it without war, the first instance on 

 record. In September, 1859, just at the time 

 of Sidi Mohammed's accession to the throne, 

 Spain made a similar demand for satisfaction 

 for a series of attacks on Spanish commerce, 

 and for an insult to the flag, at Oenta. in Au- 

 gust of that year. Tho Emperor repudiated 

 the responsibility sought to be imposed, and 

 declared tho Rifs rebels. This answer was not 



