PRESBYTERIANS. 



The following table, showing the totals of 



the several statistical items of the Church, is 

 appended to the official report of the proceed- 

 ings of the General Assembly : 



Synods 86 



Presbyteries 172 



Candidates 705 



Licentiates 824 



Ministers 4,744 



Licensures 159 



Ordinations 137 



Installations 255 



Pastoral dissolutions 253 



Ministers received 53 



" dismissed 27 



" deceased 85 



Churches 5,077 



" organized 118 



" dissolved 58 



" received 



" dismissed 6 



Added : examination . . 48,240 



" certificate 22,498 



Communicants 585.210 



Baptisms : adults 15,753 



" infants 18.987 



Sunday-school membership 555,347 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Home missions $314,693 



Foreign missions 899,767 



Education 81,182 



Publication 86.945 



Church erection 76,335 



Relief-fund 60,845 



Freedmen 89,810 



Sustentation 33.421 



General Assembly 38.498 



Congregational 6,633.557 



Miscellaneous 2,100,150 



Total $9,810,228 



This shows an increase over 1875 of 29 can- 

 didates, 20 licentiates, 38 ministers, 76 churches, 



and 29,176 communicants; and a decrease of 1 

 presbytery, 8 licensures, 20 ordinations, 81 in- 

 stallations, and 25 dissolutions. The contri- 

 butions have also increased $183,629, although 

 most of the specified items have decreased. 



The Committee of Ministerial Relief re- 

 ported that the amount of funds for current 

 use, received from 2,100 churches and from till 

 other sources, had been $78,055.20, the whole 

 of which had been expended. The receipts 

 were $734.23 in advance of those of the pre- 

 vious year, and were $1,145.60 more than those 

 of the most prosperous year preceding it. 

 The Board of Education reported to the Gen- 

 eral Assembly that their receipts for the year 

 had been $72,040.97, a gain of $3,861.83 over 

 the receipts of the year before. The pay- 

 ments in behalf of current work had been 

 $56,989.58. The balance of the debt standing 

 over, amounting to $15,000, and $15,000 of 

 loans made during the present year, had also 

 been paid. The Board of Publication re- 

 ported to the General Assembly that their 

 total receipts for 1875-76 had been $293,- 

 717.94, and their expenditures $267,946.63. 

 The contributions to the missionary fund of 

 the board for carrying on its benevolent work 

 had amounted to $52,176.06. For the same 

 work there had been directly expended $49,- 

 712.59. The board had issued during the year 

 89,500 copies of new publications, 835.800 

 copies of reprints, and 5,746,673 copies of peri- 

 odicals. The Board of Church Erection re- 

 ported to the General Assembly that their re- 

 ceipts since their last report had been $125,016. 

 Appropriations had been made to 136 churches, 

 amounting in all to $70,500. The Committee 

 on Freedmen reported to the General Assembly 

 that their total receipts for the year had been 

 $54,958.84; their expenditures had been $53,- 

 137. One hundred and thirteen missionaries had 

 been employed during the year, eight churches 

 had been organized, and 855 persons had been 

 added to the Church. The Board of Home 

 Missions reported to the General Assembly 

 that their receipts for the year ending April 1, 

 1876, had been, from churches. $234,677.33; 

 from legacies, $33,103.59; from miscellaneous 

 sources, $19,936.99; total, $287,717.01. Their 

 expenditures had been $284,226.21, in which 

 sum was included the amount of the debt 

 ($24,372.78) reported by the board to the pre- 

 vious General Assembly. The receipts were 

 $25,907.36 less than those of the previous year. 

 During the year 1,035 missionaries had been 

 engaged in work under the direction of the 

 board ; 3,500 churches and stations had been 

 supplied, and the largest number of additions 

 to the churches on profession for several years 

 had been made. The Board of Foreign Mis- 

 sions reported that their receipts for the year 

 ending April 30th had been $517,688.69, and 

 their expenditures $515,593.62. Their debt on 

 the 30th of April, 1876, amounted to $36,- 

 187.93, having been reduced $2,095.07. The 

 following are the statistics of the missions : 



