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Intercourse and such acts of united worship as 

 uiMiral law allows; 8. To remove the 

 !. Maries t.i tho admission of properly-qualified 

 Niiiiruiit'uniii>t ministers to orders in the 

 ('liiin-li ni' Knglaiid. The headquarters of the 

 v will ho iu London; branch associations 

 <> lie tunned throughout the kingdom. 

 The annual festival of the Confraternity of 

 the Ule.-sed Sacrament was held on the day of 

 (.'c>r|nis Christi. Tho occasion was observed 

 with special service in about fifty churches. 

 The society in England is about twelve years 

 old. Its especial objects are: 1. To promote 

 44 the honor due to the presence of the Lord " 

 in the Sacraments ; 2. "Mutual and special in- 

 tercession; " 8. "The promotion of fasting 

 foinimmion." 



From statistics given in Mackesori 1 * Guide 

 to the Churches of London and its Suburbs for 

 1874, it appears that there are 759 churches in 

 London. Information is given as to the mode 

 of conducting the services in 745 of these 

 churches. The Holy Communion is observed 

 weekly in 240 of them, and daily in 26; "Early 

 Communion" is held in 310 churches ; Saints'- 

 day services are held in 316, and daily service 

 in 181 churches. No week-day services are 

 held in 126 c'hurches; 265 churches have sur- 

 pliced choirs ; 185 churches pay their choris- 

 ters partly or wholly; 831 churches have 

 weekly offertories; the seats are appropriated 

 in 110, and are free in 130 churches; floral 

 decorations are used in 153 churches ; altar- 

 lijrhts in 86, and Eastward position is taken on 

 Jloly Communion in 74 churches. 



Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. 

 The receipts of the Society for the Propagation 

 of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for 1873 were 

 $551,000. The Society had provided wholly 

 or in part for the support of 484 ordained mis- 

 sionaries, who were thus distributed : In Amer- 

 ica and the West Indies, 220 ; in Africa, 94 ; in 

 Asia, 125 ; in Australia and the islands of the 

 Pacific Ocean, 44. Among the missionaries 

 enumerated were included 49 native ministers 

 in India. The Society employed also about 

 822 catechists and lay teachers, most of whom 

 were natives of the countries in which they 

 were laboring, and had 141 students enrolled 

 in its colleges. 



Church Missionary Society. The seventy- 

 fifth anniversary of the Church Missionary Soci- 

 ety was held May 5th. The " ordinary income " 

 for the year was reported to have been 127,720, 

 while the "total income" had reached 261,- 

 221. At the previous annual meeting a deficit 

 of nearly 12,000 was reported in the account 

 of receipts and expenditures. This deficit had 

 been made good during the current year, and 

 a surplus remained, after meeting all claims, 

 of 10,407. A legacy of 22,800 had been re- 

 ceived from the estate of Mr. T. W. Hill, of 

 Bristol,' and a gift of 20,700 had been made 

 to the Society by Mr. Walter Jones, of Man- 

 chester. The contributions for the Henry 

 Venn Memorial Fund, for aiding in the internal 



development of native churches, had reached 

 the sum of 8,544. The report of i 

 sketched the progress of missionary work car* 

 ried on under its direction at Sierra Leone, 

 Yoruba, the Niger Mission, the Mediterranean 

 Mission, Northern and Western India, South- 

 ern India, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Madagascar, 

 China, Japan, New Zealand, Northwest Amer- 

 ica, and on the North Pacific coast. The num- 

 ber of principal stations nnder the care of the 

 Society was stated to be 157 ; of ordained mis- 

 sionaries employed, 854, of whom 142 were 

 native ministers ; of unordained laborers, 34 ; 

 of teachers, 2,244; of native communicants in 

 the mission churches, 22,555 ; of native Chris- 

 tians, 107,268. In consequence of the action 

 of the Society for the Propagation of the 698- 

 pel in foreign Parts, in appointing a bishop 

 for Madagascar, the Society had withdrawn its 

 missionaries from that country, in order that it 

 might not be made a party to interference with 

 the work of the London Missionary Society. 



The Irish Church. The report of the Rep- 

 resentative Body of the Church of Ireland for 

 1874 states that that board had agreed to pur- 

 chase all the glebes except three. The sum 

 of 144,877 10*. Id. had been paid in part pay- 

 ment on this account to the Church Temporal- 

 ities Commissioners. Of this amount 86,942 

 11*. 8d. were contributed by the parishes, and 

 6,310 18*. 2d. were received for sales to the 

 public. The receipts from the clergy on ac- 

 count of rents, after allowing four per cent, in- 

 terest on the balance of 51,614 0*. Qd. y had 

 produced a surplus of 9,318 17*. 5d. The 

 number of commutants on the 31st of Decem- 

 ber, 1873, was 2,058, or 102 less than the 

 whole number of annuitants. The amount 

 granted for composition up to the same date 

 was 968,500, the commutation capital of the 

 annuitants being 1,974,500. The amount ad- 

 vanced under Table III. was 933,000, extin- 

 guishing annuities to the amount of 84,300. 

 The balance arising from commutation of 

 church offices was 206,226. The balance of 

 the general sustentation fund amounted to 

 155,781 19. lid., the interest on which, at 

 four per cent., was 8,360 7*. To this fund 

 had been added the unappropriated subscrip- 

 tions to the 31st of December, 1873, amount- 

 ing to 11,335 4*. lid. A list was given in 

 the report of the amounts allotted to the vari- 

 ous parishes entitled to claim a portion of the 

 500,000 granted on account of private en- 

 dowments. The total sum allocated on ac- 

 count of the Boulter and Robinson funds was 

 140,222 17*. ; and on account of general en- 

 dowments 78,764 3*. 5<7. The total estimated 

 cost of glebes directed to be purchased out of 

 this fund was 18,122 3*. 8J., and the sum set 

 apart to provide an indemnity for unsettled 

 cases, and to meet other contingencies, was 

 17,890 15*. lid. The balance remaining un- 

 appropriated was 150,000, for which, togeth- 

 er with 15,000 of accrued interest, the report 

 proposed a definite schedule of allocation. 



