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students had been helped during the year, and 

 the society entered the new year with sixty- 

 five students, and many applications on file. 



The receipts of the American Church Mis- 

 sionary Society for the year ending October 1, 

 1873, were $65,508.11, an increase of $11,569.- 

 46 over the receipts of the previous year. The 

 balance in the Treasury on October 1, 1873, 

 was $i,452.43. The society held $42,000 of 

 permanent and trust funds; sixty missionaries 

 had been commissioned during the year for 

 work in the domestic field, of whom forty -two 

 were laboring at the close of the year. The 

 foreign missions were in Costa Rica and in 

 Mexico. Of the former mission, the work was 

 spoken of as "small, and chiefly prospective." 

 In Mexico, a groat interest prevailed in the 

 movement of tlio reformation. Two missions 

 were carried on in the city of Mexico, and fifty 

 mission-stations had been established in other 

 places. 



The Biltle and Common Prayer-Hook Society 

 had distributed during the year ending Octo- 

 ber 1, 1873, 33,000 volumes. The field of dis- 

 tribution was spoken of in the report as ex- 

 tending "throughout the length and breadth 

 of the land." New opportunities were open- 

 ing constantly. 



The receipts of the General Protestant Epis- 

 copal Sunday-School Union and Church- Book 

 Society for the year ending in June, 1873, were 

 $3,858.38, and the expenditures, $3,744.75. 

 Thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy- 

 five literary books, and 167,5-19 instructive 

 books had been sold during the same time; 

 -. J It of both kinds had been given away, and 

 5,510 had been disposed of by order of the 

 Society for promoting Religion and Learning, 

 and to pastors and others having privileges. 



The Contention, of the Diocese of New York 

 mot on the 25th of 'September. Bishop Potter 

 in his address spoke of the contemplated con- 

 struction of a cathedral. He had appointed a 

 committee to make the primary movement in 

 this object, through whose agency a charter 

 had been obtained, giving them power to buy 

 a site and build the cathedral. The trustees 

 had resolved, however, not to attempt the 

 erection of such a building without sufficient 

 pecuniary means at the outset. 



A report was made at the meeting of the 

 Board of Missions of a project for building a 

 cathedral at Omaha, Nebraska. Three thou- 

 sand dollars had been subscribed for this pur- 

 pose ; but as $30,000 were needed, nothing 

 had been done, or would be, until the enter- 

 prise could be undertaken without danger of 

 embarrassment. 



The Year- Book of Trinity Parish, New York, 

 for 1874, contains statements designed to cor- 

 rect what is styled an exaggerated idea of the 

 wealth of the corporation, which has prevailed 

 for many years. It is claimed in this state- 

 ment that " in estimating the value of the 

 property the calculation ought to be limited 

 to what yields an income." A very large part 



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of the Trinity estate including the church- 

 yards of Trinity and St. Paul's, the burial- 

 ground on Hudson Street, and Trinity Ceme- 

 tery at Carmansville is not only unproduc- 

 tive, but is, much of it, an actual source of 

 expense. Leaving out of account these un- 

 productive lots, and estimating only what 

 yields an income, the entire estate is repre- 

 sented as being worth only $7,000,000 or $8,- 

 000,000 ; it returned au income during 1873, 

 of only about $500,000. " Of this income," the 

 Year-Book states, "a large part is consumed 

 by the expenses of the estate. About one-tenth 

 is given away to poor churches outside of the 

 parish. Not one dollar is hoarded ; the entire 

 income is spent for the purposes of the sacred 

 trust ; and it frequently happens, and was al- 

 most invariably the case until within a few 

 years, that the annual expenditures exceeded 

 the income." 



The Confraternity of the Slesed Sacrament 

 is an organization of members of the Church 

 of England and of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, the main objects of which look to the 

 advancement of ritualistic doctrines and prac- 

 tices. The American branch of the confrater- 

 nity was organized several years ago, but did 

 not attract attention in fact, its existence was 

 not generally known until an account of the 

 conference and anniversary of the associates 

 which took place at St. Ignatius Church in the 

 city of New York, on the festival of Corpus 

 Chritti of 1873, was published in an English 

 paper. A greater degree of importance was 

 attached to the proceedings than would other- 

 wise have been by the fact that Bishop Quin- 

 tard, of Tennessee, was said to have been 

 present at the celebration. The church was 

 furnished for the occasion in accordance with 

 the requirements of the "advanced ritual," 

 with candles, eucharistic lights, crosses, mural 

 pictures, and other ornaments. An address 

 was delivered by the Rev. Dr. F. C. Ewer, 

 Superior -General of the American branch. 

 He stated that while the society in 1869 num- 

 bered only 21 priests associate and 89 lay 

 associates, it had now 377 associates, of whom 

 69 were priests. Daily celebrations had been 

 instituted in Boston and Philadelphia. Cele- 

 brations still continued in New York and Bal- 

 timore, and at a point in the far West. The 

 eucharistic vestments were worn in churches 

 in at least ten of the forty -one dioceses, 

 viz. : in those of Maine, Vermont, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Albany, West- 

 ern New York, Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, Mary- 

 land, Florida, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin, 

 and Minnesota. Eticharistic lights, Dr. Ewer 

 represented, had recently been placed upon 

 the altar of Trinity Church, New York. 



The secretary was directed at this meeting 

 "to forward serai-annuall.v to all priests as- 

 sociate a printed list of all priests associate, 

 which list is to be considered confidential." A 

 resolution was also passed expressing the 

 grateful appreciation of the society "of the 



