676 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



268,534; of ordinations, 211; of candidates 

 for orders, 331; of Sunday-school teachers, 

 26,429; of Sunday-school scholars, 245,397; 

 amount of contributions, $6,539,927.79. 



The following periodicals are published in the 

 interest of the Protestant Episcopal Church : 

 Weekly The Church Journal and Gospel Mes- 

 senger, New York ; the Churchman, Hartford, 

 Conn. ; the Episcopal Register, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. ; the Southern Churchman, Alexandria, 

 Va. ; the Standard of the Cross, Cleveland, 

 Ohio; the Pacific Churchman, San Francisco, 

 Cal. ; the Western Church, Milwaukee, Wis. ; 

 the Oregon Churchman, Portland, Oregon. 

 Monthly the Parish Visitor, New York; 

 the Church Eclectic, Utica, N. Y. ; the Spirit 

 of Missions, New York ; the Church Maga- 

 eine, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; the Parish Messenger. 



* Number reported in 1875. 



Quarterly American Church Review, New- 

 ark, N. J. 



The forty-first annual meeting of the Board 

 of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 was held in Philadelphia, Pa., October 10th. 

 Reports were made of the receipts and ex- 

 penditures for the year, as follows : The total 

 receipts of the board were $295,000.65; dis- 

 bursements, $309,451.81; debt, $72,705.66; 

 investments, $139,507.16. From and includ- 

 ing 1835 till October, 1876, the total amount 

 received and expended by the Domestic Com- 

 mittee had been, in round numbers, $2,500,000, 

 giving an annual average of nearly $61,000 

 during forty-three years. More than forty- 

 three dioceses and ten missionary jurisdictions 

 had, for longer or shorter periods, been given 

 to the work of the committee, and all but six- 

 teen of these had also been receivers. Forty- 

 four dioceses and missionary jurisdictions had 

 contributed to the work of the Indian Com- 

 mission. Contributions were also acknowl- 

 edged from England, Japan, and Liberia. Two 

 young men of the Chippewa Indians had been 

 ordained to the diaconate, two others were 

 ready to enter upon the same office, and four 

 more had been received as candidates for holy 

 orders. The missionary bishops of Japan re- 

 ported that there were at Ozaka station 4 

 presbyters, 5 teachers, 27 communicants, 2 

 day-schools with 24 scholars, and 1 Sunday- 

 school with 25 scholars ; and at Tokio station 

 2 presbyters, 4 teachers, 35 communicants, 

 4 day-schools with 61 scholars, and 2 Sun- 

 day-schools with 68 scholars. Two persons 

 had been baptized at Ozaka, and 19 persons 

 had been baptized and 17 confirmed at Tokio. 

 The Bishop of Hayti reported that there had 

 been 50 baptisms and 27 confirmations in his 

 diocese, and that there were in it 283 commu- 

 nicants and 88 Sunday-school scholars. The 

 Commission of Home Missions to the Colored 

 People reported that the normal school at 

 Raleigh, N. C., the school and parish at Peters- 

 burg, Va., and the high-school at Charleston, 

 S. C., were in a highly successful and pros- 

 perous condition. The Bishops of Nebraska 

 and Dakota, of Colorado and Wyoming, and 

 of Montana, Idaho, and Utah, made reports 

 showing a steady advance of the interests of 

 the Church in their respective dioceses. 



A special meeting of the House of Bishops 

 was held in Philadelphia, October 13th and 

 14th. The principal business of the meet- 

 ing was the election of missionary bishops for 

 the dioceses of China and Cape Palmas, Afri- 

 ca. The Rev. Samuel I. J. Scherenschewsky, 

 D. D., was elected Missionary Bishop for China. 

 Dr. Scherenschewsky had been elected to the 

 same office one year before, but had then de- 

 clined to accept it. At this time, however, he 

 yielded to the renewed call of the bishops, and 

 signified his acceptance. The Rev. John T. 

 Magrath, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Jackson, 

 Mich., was elected Missionary Bishop of Cape 

 Palmas. 



