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The number of candidates for the ministry 

 was 11 ; number of families connected with 

 the Church, 41,244; number of baptisms of 

 adults, 74. r ); of infants, 4,177; number m 

 rhumens' classes and Sunday-Hcl 

 number of scholars in the same, 60,508. Tlio 

 amount of contributions for religious and be- 

 nevolent purposes was $276,839.32 ; for con- 

 iiiiual purposes, $1,057,480.80. 



II. KEFORMED CUUBCII ix THE UNITED 

 STATES. The following is a summary, by dis- 

 trict synods, of the statistics of the Reformed 

 Church in the United States, for 187:; : 



The Church in Japan is not denominational, 

 but is one in which all the evangelical mis- 

 sions in that country have a common interest. 

 The board have under their care nearly ten 

 thousand Indians, at the Gila River Reserve, 

 the Colorado agency, the Camp Verde and 

 White Mountain Reserves. They had not, at 

 the time of making their report, been able to 

 send them a teacher or missionary. They 

 recommended that two missionaries should bo 

 sent, as soon as possible, to support whom 

 would require an annual outlay of $4,000. 



The following are the statistics of the Re- 

 formed Church, as published in connection 

 with the proceedings of the General Synod 

 for 1878 : 



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Number of baptisms, 12,465 ; of confirma- 

 tions, 7,497; of communicants, 110,551; of 

 Sunday-schools, 1,044; of Sunday-school schol- 

 ars, 64,588; amount of benevolent contribu- 

 tions, $91,427.19. 



The Board of Missions which was appointed 

 by the General Synod of 1872 mot nt ILirris- 

 bursr. Pa., in April, 1873. After adopting a 

 constitution, and making provision ibr ob- 

 taining an act of incorporation, it passed tho 

 following resolutions : 



Kftoleed, That, in tho opinion of this board, Japan 

 presents the most promising field for missionary 

 effort on our part, and we, therefore, iiiKtruct tho 

 'iv.. (Vnimitti-o to obtain the information ne- 

 cessary to enable us to moke un intelligent selection 

 of a base of operations. 



lianlctd. That the Executive Committee take im- 

 mediate steps to receive suitable persons to engage 

 in tho missionary work. 



The Reformed Church in the United States 

 has no missionaries in the foreign field under 

 its immediate control. It h:is, however, been 

 indirectly represented for a number of years 

 by a foreign missionary in Syria. Formerly, 

 the contributions of the Church for foreign 

 missions were appropriated to his support. 

 More recently, however, they have mainly ap- 

 plied to the German Kvangrliral Missionary 

 Society of New York, which has two mission- 

 aries in India, both of whom are 7iiinistor in 

 connection with the synod of the Reformed 

 Church. Tliesi- missionaries have been labor- 

 ing in connection with the Cliuttce-igiirli Mis- 

 sion, in India. Their last report states that 

 fifty-mx persons had been added to thel'hurch 

 by baptism. Their parochial school nt the 

 station contained twenty-eight pupils (nineteen 

 boys and nine girls). They had besides a train- 

 ing-school with cloven young men, four village 

 schools with about sixty-two pupils, and a 

 sewing school. The corner-stone of a now 



