EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. 



of Louisville, Kentucky ; " Christian Morals 

 and the Public Schools," Rev. J. M. King, 

 D.D. (Methodist), of New York City; "The 

 Churches and Social Reforms," Rev. T. M. 

 l'<t, D. D. (Congregationalist), of St. Louis, 

 Missouri ; " The Mohammedan Powers and 

 (.'hri-tiuti Missions," Rev. Galusha Anderson, 

 D. I >., of Chicago, Illinois; "Union of Church- 

 '1 Union of Church and State," Rev. Stu- 

 art Robinson, D. D. (Presbyterian), of Louis- 

 ville, Kentucky. 



The Annual Conference of the British Organ- 

 ization of the Evangelical Alliance was held at 

 Kilinliiir^h, beginning October 28th. An ad- 

 dress was made at the opening meeting on 

 "The Recent Conference at Basel," by the 

 Rev. Dr. Stoughton of London, who remarked 

 that the statements which had been made at 

 that Conference in regard to the state of re- 

 ligion in the world had impressed on his mind, 

 among other things, that a decided advance 

 had taken place within a few years throughout 

 Europe in what was called religious toleration. 

 To this was largely due the spread of religious 

 infidelity, for men were now allowed to state 

 just what they thought. While, however, 

 much skepticism and infidelity were shown 

 to be prevalent, a very great amount of Chris- 

 tian work also appeared to be going on, not 

 only in England and Scotland, but all over 

 Europe. The sessions of the Conference were 

 continued through three days, during which 

 addresses were delivered on " The Practical 

 Resolutions of the Alliance," by Canon Bat- 

 tersby and the Rev. Dr. W. Robertson ; " The 

 State of Religion on the Continent," by the 

 Rev. R. S. Ashton of the Evangelical Conti- 

 nental Society, the Rev. Dr. Jessup of Syria, 

 and the Rev. J. 0. Burns ; " Home Mission 

 "Work," by the Rev. J. N. Wilson of Edin- 

 burgh, and others ; " Missions to the Heathen," 

 by the Rev. Dr. Murray Mitchell and the Rev. 

 Mr. McCarthy of China, etc. 



EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. The fol- 

 lowing is a summary of the statistics of the 

 Evangelical Association as given in its " Chris- 

 tian Family Almanac " for 1879 : 



Number of local preachers, 558 ; of Sunday- 

 schools, 1,925, with 20,640 officers and teach- 

 ers, and 118,514 scholars; of parsonages, 416; 

 probable value of the same, $892,804; prob- 

 able value of the churches, $3,030,027 ; amount 

 of Conference contributions, $4,718.02; of mis- 

 sionary contributions, $71,419.74; of Sunday- 

 school and Tract Union contributions, $1,949.- 

 13. The principal periodicals published by 

 the Association are one English and one Ger- 

 man weekly general religious newspaper, the 

 latter of which, begun in January, 1886, is the 

 oldest German Protestant newspaper in the 

 United States. Several Sunday-school and 

 other religious periodicals are also published 

 in both the English and German languages. 

 The principal educational institutions are the 

 Northwestern College, Napierville, 111. ; Union 

 Biblical Institute, in the same place; Union 

 Seminary, New Berlin, Pa. ; and Ebenezer 

 Orphan Institute, Flat Rock, Seneca County, 

 Ohio, at which 54 children were supported 

 and taught in 1879. The statistics reported to 

 the General Conference differ slightly from 

 those published in the "Almanac," and give 

 totals as follows : Number of itinerant preach- 

 ers, 909 ; number of local preachers, 636 ; num- 

 ber of church members, 109,773 ; number of 

 churches, 1,434; probable value of churches, 

 $3,170,602 ; number of parsonages, 449 ; prob- 

 able value of parsonages, $406,541 ; number of 

 Sunday-schools, 1,918; number of scholars, 

 118,640; number of officers and teachers, 20,- 

 658. 



The mission in Germany is organized into a 

 Conference, with about 8,000 church members 

 and 14,000 Sunday-school scholars. It has a 

 publishing-house and printing-office at Stutt- 

 gart, and a theological school at Reutlingen. 

 A mission is supported in Japan, with two 

 missionaries and three female assistants, hav- 

 ing small congregations at Tokio and Osaka. 



The quadrennial report of the Book Agent 

 to the General Conference showed that in four 

 years the resources of the publishing establish- 

 ment had been increased by $92,844; that 

 $51,492 had been added by improvements; 

 that $26,951 had been distributed among the 

 Conferences; and that the total profits had 

 been $92,344. 



The annual meeting of the Jliuionary Soci- 

 ety was held in Chicago, 111., during the ses- 

 sions of the General Conference. A full re- 

 port was made of the mission in Japan, show- 

 ing that it included 17 full members, four 

 Sunday-schools with 100 scholars, and a cate- 

 chetical class with seven scholars. Two adults 

 and seven infants had been baptized during 

 the year, and there were five candidates for 

 baptism. The Board resolved to send another 

 missionary to Japan. It also made an appro- 

 priation and arrangements for establishing a 

 mission in Texas. 



The quadrennial General Conference of the 

 Evangelical Association met at Chicago, 111., 

 October 2d. Eighty -seven delegates were 



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