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ance of about one hundred and twenty persons 

 in the congregations, and had contributed $614 

 to benevolent objects. Indian youth under 

 the tutelage of the society were attending 

 school at the Hampton Institute, Virginia, and 

 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Executive 

 Committee was contemplating the provision of 

 accommodations for Indian youth in connec- 

 tion with other institutions. Sixteen hundred 

 and thirty-two pupils were enrolled in the 

 schools for the Chinese on the Pacific coast of 

 the United States. 



The seventy-second annual meeting of the 

 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

 Missions was held at St. Louis, Missouri, Octo- 

 ber 18th. The ordinary receipts of the board 

 for the year had been $451,214, and the appro- 

 priations, including provision to meet the def- 

 icit of the previous year, had been $453,273 ; 

 and the Prudential Committee was able to re- 

 port, for the first time for several years, that 

 the current annual expenses had been met by 

 the current annual receipts; it also reported 

 that the deficit at the beginning of the year, 

 of more than $14,000, had been reduced to 

 $2,059. Nine missionaries and thirty-one as- 

 sistant missionaries had been added to the roll 

 of the laborers of the board. The reports 

 from the mission-fields included accounts of 

 the progress of the work of evangelization in 

 Africa (Zooloos), the Turkish Empire (European 

 Turkey, Asia Minor, and Armenia), India, 

 Ceylon, China, Japan, Micronesia, among the 

 North American Indians, in Mexico, Spain, 

 and the Austrian Empire. The report named, 

 as events worthy of especial mention, the es- 

 tablishment of a new mission in Bihe, Central 

 Africa; the advance in the higher Christian 

 education in the Turkish Empire and in India; 

 the success which had attended the work of 

 the women. " in nearly every mission-field " ; 

 and the illustration of the value of the board- 

 ing-schools in the development of Christian 

 character. 



Missions. Number of missions, 17; num- 

 ber of stations, 81 ; number of out-stations, 

 733. 



Laborers employed. Number of ordained 

 missionaries (5 being physicians), 159 ; num- 

 ber of physicians not ordained, men and wom- 

 en, 11; number of other male assistants, 10; 

 number of female assistants, 253 ; whole num- 

 ber of laborers sent from the United States, 433. 

 Number of native pastors, 141 ; number of 

 native preachers and catechists, 365; number 

 of native school-teachers, 1,005; number of 

 other native helpers, 206. Whole number of 

 laborers connected with the missions, 2,131. 



The Press. Pages printed, as far as reported 

 (Turkish, Japan, North China, Zooloo, and In- 

 dia missions), 25,000,000. 



The Churches. Number of churches, 272 ; 

 number of church-members, as nearly as can 

 be learned, 18,446; added during the year, as 

 nearly as can be learned, with additions not 

 previously reported, 2,161. 



Educational Department. Number of train- 

 ing, theological schools, and station-classes, 51 ; 

 number of pupils in the above, 1,468 ; number 

 of boarding-schools for girls, 36 ; number of 

 pupils in boarding-schools for girls, 1,420 ; num- 

 ber of common schools, 791 ; number of pupils 

 in common schools, 30,472 ; whole number of 

 pupils, 33,360. 



The National Congregational Council of 1880 

 appointed a committee to which it intrusted 

 the duty of selecting a commission of twenty- 

 five persons to consider the matter of prepar- 

 ing a new Creed and Catechism for the Congre- 

 gational churches. This committee, in June, 

 1881, announced the appointment of the fol- 

 lowing persons as members of the commission : 



Rev. Julius H. Seelye, D. D., Amherst, Mass. 



Rev. Charles M. Mead, D. D., Andover, Mass. 



Rev. Henry M. Dexter, D. D., Boston, Mass. 



Rev. Edmund K. Alden, D. D., Boston, Mass. 



Rev. Alexander McKenzie,D.D., Cambridge, Mass. 



Rev. Samuel Harris, D. D., New Haven, Conn. 



Rev. George P. Fisher, D. D., New Haven, Conn. 



Rev. George L. Walker, D. D., Hartford, Conn. 



Rev. William S. Karr, D. D., Hartford, Conn. 



Prof. George T. Ladd, Brunswick, Me. 



Rev. Samuel P. Leeds, D. D., Hanover, N. H. 



Rev. David B. Coe, D. D., New York, N. Y. 



Rev. William M. Taylor. D. D., New York, N. Y. 



Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D., Cornwall-on-the-Hud- 

 son, N. Y. 



Rev. Augustus F. Beard, D. D., Syracuse, N. Y. 



Rev. William W. Patton, D. D., Washington, 

 D. C. 



Rev. James H. Fairchild, D. D., Oberlin, 0. 



Rev. Israel W. Andrews, D. D., Marietta, 0. 



Rev. Zachary Eddy, D. D., Detroit, Mich. 



Rev. James 'T. Hyde, D. D u Chicago. 111. 



Rev. Edward P. Goodwin, D. D., Chicago, 111. 



Rev. Alden B. Robbins, D. D., Muscatinej la. 



Rev. Cpnstans L. Goodell, D. D., St. Louis, Mo. 



Rev. Richard Cordlev, D. D., Emporia, Kan. 



Rev. George Mooar, "D. D., Oakland, Cal. 



In announcing the appointments, the com- 

 mittee stated that, in making the selection, dif- 

 ferent sections of the country had been drawn 

 upon somewhat in proportion to the member- 

 ship in the Congregational churches in each. 

 The list embraced men who were understood 

 to represent different shades of opinion, while 

 holding fast to the essential doctrines of the 

 gospel. "With a large proportion of pastors 

 were joined representatives of theological sem- 

 inaries and colleges, of the religious press, and 

 of the missionary work of the churches. 



The commission met at Syracuse, New York, 

 September 28th ; Professor Julius H. Seelye, 

 of Amherst College, presided. The work as- 

 signed to the body was considered, and a plan 

 of operations was adopted. The commission 

 was divided into three committees, namely : a 

 committee on the larger confession of faith, 

 President James II. Fairchild, of Oberlin Col- 

 lege, chairman; a committee on the smaller 

 statement of belief, Rev. Dr. E. P. Goodwin, 

 of Chicago, chairman ; and a committee on the 

 catechism, Rev. Dr. Alexander McKenzie, of 

 Cambridge, chairman. The reports of the com- 

 mittees are to be made to the full commission, 

 to be called together before July 15, 1882. 



