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and the contributions from the regular sup- 

 porters of the society had been greatly dimin- 

 ished on account of the financial depression. 

 The expenditures of the Association had been 

 $290,335.86. The following are the general 

 statistics of the work of the Association : Num- 

 ber of missionaries, 62 ; of teachers, 189 ; of 

 matrons, 9 ; of persons employed in the busi- 

 ness department, 15 ; total number of persons 

 employed, 275. Number of churches, 65 ; of 

 church -members, 4,222; of Sunday-school 

 scholars, 7,981. Number of schools, 58; of 

 pupils in the same, 9,876 ; of scholars taught 

 in the South by former pupils of the Associa- 

 tion, 64,000. Seventy theological students had 

 been connected with the institutions of the 

 Association during the year. The report of 

 the Executive Committee stated several re- 

 vivals among the colored people, by which 

 631 persons had been added to the churches. 



Papers were read at the annual meeting on 

 the " Inadequacy of Legislation to Fundamen- 

 tal Reconstruction" (Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. 

 D.) ; " Slavery and the Slave-Trade at the 

 Present Time" (Rev. Edward Hawes) ; the 

 u Relation of the American Freedmen to the 

 Evangelization of Africa" (Rev. M. M. G. 

 Dana) ; and " The Duty of the North to the 

 South, especially to the Colored People " (Rev. 

 0. L. Woodworth). 



Resolutions were adopted in favor of reen- 

 forcing the Mendi mission (Africa), and of es- 

 tablishing a mission in Central Africa. A 

 Committee was appointed to present a memo- 

 rial to the Government of the United States 

 and urge it to express hearty sympathy with 

 the efforts of the Khedive of Egypt to abolish 

 slavery and the slave-trade. 



The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- 

 sions was held at Chicago', 111., beginning Octo- 

 ber 5th. The Rev. Mark Hopkins, D. D., pre- 

 sided. The financial report showed that the 

 income for the year for the "old work" had 

 been : from gifts, $349,084.86 ; from legacies, 

 $89,702.38; from other sources, $7,407,37; 

 making a total of $446,044.61. The disburse- 

 ments on the account of the same had been 

 $450,238.39. The income for the work in 

 "nominal Christian lands" had been, from 

 gifts, $29,333.58; from legacies, $500; total, 

 $29,833.58 ; and the disbursements on ac- 

 count of the same had been $39,672.69. The 

 total income for both branches of the work 

 had been $475,878.19, and the total expendi- 

 tures $489,911.08. The year closed with a 

 debt of $44,323.96 against the board. 



The following is a general summary of the 

 condition of the missions : 



Number of missions 18 



Number of stations 



Number of out-stations 498 



Number of ordained missionaries (six being phy- 

 sicians) 149 



Number of physicians not ordained 12 



Number of other male assistants 4 



Number of female assistants 212 



Whole number of laborers sent from this country. 377 



Brought forward 877 



Number of native pastors 110 



Number of native preachers and catechiats 267 



Number of school-teachers 471 



Number of native helpers 209 1,057 



Number of laborers connected with the missions 1,434 



Pages printed, as far as reported 6,171,7 14 



Number of churches 



Number of church-members, so far as reported.. . 11,546 



Added during the year, so far as reported 1,504 



Number of training and theological schools 14 



Number of boarding-schools for girls 21 



Number of common schools 587 



Number of pupils in common schools 19,661 



Number of pupils in training and theological 



schools and station classes 470 



Number of pupils in boarding-schools for girls 736 



Other adults under instruction 656 



"Whole number of pupils 21,528 



Twenty new missionaries had been sent out, 

 and two new men were under appointment. 

 Nine new churches had been organized. 



Besides the regular reports for the year, a 

 paper was read by the Foreign Secretary giv- 

 ing a review of the operations of the board for 

 the preceding ten years. During this period 

 an amount of $4,710,332 had been received and 

 expended. Two hundred and seventy-two 

 laborers had been sent forth, and 48 laborers 

 had died. The native agency had been greatly 

 enlarged. The field of operations of the board 

 had been enlarged about 40 per cent., embrac- 

 ing now 575 towns and cities against 441 at the 

 beginning of the period, and nearly 120,000,- 

 000 of population. The entire number of ad- 

 ditions to the mission churches during the 

 decade was 12,850, or more than 100 to each 

 ordained missionary in active service. The 

 gain in church-membership in the different 

 fields was shown to have been as follows : " In 

 the Zulu mission, about 100 percent. ; in West- 

 ern Turkey, 110; in Central Turkey, 100; 

 in Eastern Turkey, 340 ; in the Mahratta mis- 

 sion, 25 ; in the Madura mission, 53 ; in the 

 Ceylon mission, 46 ; in the Foochow mission, 

 from 3 churches and 45 members, to 8 churches 

 and 144 members, or 320 per cent. In the 

 North China mission, from a work just begin- 

 ning in 1865, to 7 churches and 171 members. 

 In Micronesia, from 4 churches and 253 mem- 

 bers to 20 churches and over 1,200 members 

 470 per cent. In Japan, where the work be- 

 gan in 1870, there are now 3 churches and 57 

 members. In Western Mexico, where the work 

 began in 1872, there is now one church and 

 91 members. Among the Dakotas, from 4 

 churches and 527 members to 9 churches (in- 

 cluding two transferred to the Presbyterian 

 Board) and 775 members." The aggregate re- 

 sult was summed up thus : " Omitting the mis- 

 sion to the Sandwich Islands, graduated in 

 1870, and the missions transferred to another 

 board, the churches in the mission-fields now 

 occupied by the board have increased from 136, 

 with a membership of 5,557, to 223, with a 

 membership of 11,546, an advance of over 100 

 per cent." 



A subscription was taken up at the meeting 

 of the board to obtain the means of paying its 

 debt. About $30,000 were subscribed. 



