DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 



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was effected, six years before, was $371,524.29 ; 

 the whole number of additions was 35,460 ; 

 and the number of new churches established, 

 about 200. Missions among the colored peo- 

 ple in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, and 

 the Bible-school at Louisville, Ky., had been 

 started and were directly under its care and 

 support. The Bible-school for colored minis- 

 ters at Louisville, Ky., had completed its second 

 year successfully, and was entering upon its 

 third. Funds were pledged in the meeting to 

 pay off the debt of this school, and steps were 

 taken for the appointment of a special agent 

 to raise an endowment fund of $10,000 for 

 it. It was decided that the existing missions 

 among the freedmen be continued, and others 

 be organized as rapidly as practicable; that in 

 the establishment of new missions, preference 

 be given to those places where there is a will- 

 ingness to give the missionaries at least a par- 

 tial support ; and to employ for active labor 

 among the freedmen, " except in very special 

 cases," colored ministers under the supervision 

 of white brethren, as far as practicable. 



Consent was given to the organization of a 

 Foreign Missionary Society, which will operate 

 in harmony with the General Board, and re- 

 port yearly to the General Convention. Its 

 meetings will be held at the same time and 

 place with those of the General Convention. 

 Several persons were reported as ready to en- 

 gage in the foreign work under the direction of 

 this society, and between $11,000 and $12,000 

 had been pledged toward the support of for- 

 eign missions for five years. The society was 

 organized during the meeting of the conven- 

 tion. 



The special committee who had been ap- 

 pointed the year before to confer with a simi- 

 lar committee of the Free-will Baptists, with 

 reference to a union of the two denominations, 

 reported that they had held several confer- 

 ences on the subject, and had made encourag- 

 ing progress, giving strong hopes that a basis 

 for union would be ultimately agreed upon, but 

 had not yet reached such definite conclusions 

 as would justify 'a detailed report. The com- 

 mittee was continued for another year. The 

 preachers present in the convention pledged 

 to devote two weeks during the ensuing year 

 to gratuitous missionary labor at some desti- 

 tute place. All the preachers in the denomi- 

 nation were urged to do the same. 



The convention advised that there be raised 

 during the centennial year, for missionary pur- 

 poses, colleges, orphan-schools, and such other 

 benevolent objects as might be agreed on in 

 any State or district, not less than $500,000. 

 A recommendation was made to the churches 

 to observe the first Sunday in December as a 

 day of fasting and humiliation, and prayer 

 the public teaching to have special reference 

 to a revival of the churches and to devote 

 the following week to special meetings for the 

 conversion of sinners. Measures were taken 

 to hold a national Sunday-school convention 

 VOL. xv. 16 A 



at the same time and place with the meeting 

 of the next General Convention. 



The first annual meeting of the Woman's 

 Board of 'Missions was held in connection with 

 the meeting of the General Convention. The 

 board had on hand $1,443.42, and intended 

 to dispatch a missionary to Jamaica in a short 

 time. 



DOMINION OF CANADA, a federation 

 of British provinces, comprising the whole of 

 British North America, except the colony of 

 Newfoundland. It is divided into the prov- 

 inces of British Columbia, Manitoba, New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario (formerly 

 Upper Canada or Canada West), Prince Edward 

 Island, and Quebec (formerly Lower Canada or 

 Canada East), and the unorganized Northwest 

 Territories. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, On- 

 tario, and Quebec, formed the original federa- 

 tion in 1867 ; Manitoba and the Northwest 

 Territories were acquired from the Hudson 

 Bay Company in 1870; British Columbia en- 

 tered in 1871, and Prince Edward Island in 

 1873. The following table gives the area and 

 the population in 1871 of the several divisions: 



The aggregate population of the four prin- 

 cipal provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 Ontario, and Quebec), which alone were in- 

 cluded in the census taken by the Dominion 

 authorities, was 3,485,761. Some of the more 

 important particulars returned by the census 

 were as follows: 



* Including an estimate of 40,000 Indians, 

 t Estimated ; chiefly Indians. 



