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ning of the year, gave the total resources of 

 the Union for the year at $50,396.94. 



The fiftieth meeting of the American Home 

 Missionary Society was held in New York 

 City, May 10th. Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Wool- 

 sey presided. The treasurer's report showed 

 that the society had a balance on hand May 1, 

 1875, of $16,830.33, and that its receipts from 

 that time to the 1st of May, 1876, had been 

 $326,875.95 ; the expenditures for the year 

 had been $326,857.95 : leaving a balance still 

 on hand of $16,848.33. According to the re- 

 port of the Executive Committee the society 

 had in its service 976 ministers of the gospel 

 in thirty-three States and Territories. It had 

 ten missionaries who had preached during the 

 year to congregations of colored people, and 

 thirty-seven who had preached in foreign lan- 

 guages to Germans, Welsh, French, and Swed- 

 ish congregations. The number of pupils in 

 Sunday-schools was 85,370. Ninety -two 

 churches had been organized by the mission- 

 aries during the year, and 41 churches had 

 become self-supporting. Fifty-five houses of 

 worship had been completed, and 20 others 

 were in process of erection. The additions to 

 the churches, as near as could be ascertained, 

 had been 4,869 on profession of faith, and 

 2,967 by letter in all, 7,836. 



The sixty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

 Missions was held in Hartford, Conn., October 

 2d. The Rev. Mark Hopkins, D. D., presided. 

 The Prudential Committee reported that the 

 receipts of the board, for the year ending 

 September 1st, had been : From ordinary do- 

 nations, $346,118.92; to extinguish the debt, 

 $40,463.60; for the Centennial offering, $7,- 

 037.95 : from legacies, $64,891.30 ; from other 

 sources, $6,930.63: total, $465,442.40. The 

 expenditures had been $452,168.66. The debt 

 of the board was $31,052.22, against $44,323.96 

 at the close of the previous year. The com- 

 mittee reported that the gifts to the board for 

 the year (including the contributions for the 

 payment of the debt and the Centennial offer- 

 ings) had exceeded those of any previous year 

 since the withdrawal of the Presbyterians 

 from cooperation with the society. 



The thirtieth anniversary of the American 

 Missionary Association was held in Fitcliburg, 

 Mass., October 25th and 26th. The Hon. E. 

 S. Tobey presided. The report of the treas- 

 urer showed that the receipts for the year had 

 been $264,709.03, and the expenditures $261,- 

 382.83. The receipts were $8,824.19 less, and 

 the expenditures were $28,943. 04 less, than for 

 the preceding year. The expenditures during 

 the year were distributed as follows : For the 

 Southern work, $198,758.35; for the Chinese 

 work, $5,633.80; forthelndian work, $1,542.67; 

 for the foreign work, $12,164.05. In all, fifty- 

 six churches had been gathered in the South 

 through the agency of the Association, with 

 which about 4,000 persons were connected. 

 The number of admissions to membership dur- 



ing the year had been 665. A Congregational 

 State Conference of twelve churches had been 

 formed in Alabama. Seventy thousand pupils 

 had been taught, in the course of the year, by 

 teachers who had themselves, in many cases, 

 enjoyed the instruction furnished by the higher 

 institutions under the care of the Association. 

 The dedication of Jubilee Hall of Fisk Univer- 

 sity, at Nashville, Tenn., was regarded as the 

 most important event in the record of the 

 Southern work of the year. 



In the department of work among the 

 Chinese of the Pacific coast, thirteen schools, 

 sustained at an expense of $5,633.80, had given 

 instruction during the year to 1,536 pupils, 

 among whom more than one hundred had 

 thrown aside idol-worship, and eighty-nine 

 had become converts to Christianity. The 

 work among the Indians had been prosperous. 

 The foreign work had been attended with dis- 

 appointment. A work of exploration, with a 

 view to selecting suitable points for mission- 

 stations in Africa, undertaken by the Associa- 

 tion, had been interrupted, and for the time 

 prevented, by the death of the Rev. E. P. 

 Smith, to whom it had been committed. A 

 suitable man was needed to supply Mr. Smith's 

 place, and labor as an explorer and organizer. 

 It was desired to send with him three colored 

 missionaries and their wives. Mention was 

 made in the report of the Committee on 

 Church Work of the fact that missionary so- 

 cieties, having in view the prosecution of work 

 in Africa, were being established among the 

 colored people, and that theological students 

 were in training for the same work. The 

 Committee on the Foreign Work reported, 

 recommending the transfer of the mission in 

 Jamaica to the Wesleyan, Baptist, and Epis- 

 copal missions, expressing sympathy with the 

 endeavor to prosecute the work in Africa with 

 the aid of the negro; and commending the 

 project of finding some healthy localities in 

 Africa, in which all the missionary agencies on 

 that continent could be concentrated. 



The twenty-third annual meeting of the 

 Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec 

 was held at Montreal, beginning June 7th. 

 The Rev. Daniel Macallum was elected chair' 

 man. The statistics were reported for sixteen 

 months, from January, 1875, to May, 1876, as 

 follows : Number of pastors in office, 53 ; of 

 churches reported out of ninety really in op- 

 eration, 81 ; of regular preaching-stations, 112; 

 total attendance at all stations, 13,420 ; num- 

 ber of church-members, 5,338 ; number of 

 Sunday-schools, 81 ; of scholars on the rolls 

 of the same, 7,195; of scholars in 22 pastors' 

 Bible-classes, 555 ; number of church-edifices, 

 72, with 19,495 sittings; number of parson- 

 ages, 20 ; total value of church property, 

 $375,260; total debt on the same, $41,160; 

 total amount raised for all objects, $102,658. 

 The receipts of the Congregational College of 

 British North America for the year ending 

 May 31, 1876, had been $3,680, and the ex- 



