PRESBYTERIANS. 



year's statistical reports compare with those 

 of the previous three years as follows : 



763 



The several boards reported to the General 

 Assembly in May, 1881, concerning the sever- 

 al interests intrusted to their charge, in effect 

 as follows . 



The Board of Education had received $62,- 

 124, and had paid its debt of $9,500. Four 

 hundred and thirty-one candidates had been 

 aided, 57 of whom were colored students, and 

 26 were of German birth. 



The Board of Publication had received $232,- 

 651, and the aggregate of its sales had been 

 $161,329, both items showing an increase. 



The thirteen theological seminaries under the 

 care of the General Assembly returned the ag- 

 giv^ate value of their real estate at $1,333,- 

 050, and of tbeir endowment funds at $5,208,- 

 531, and had a total annual income of $263,- 

 520. They were served by 54 professors and 

 11 teachers and lecturers, and were attended 

 by 536 students. 



The entire receipts of the Board of Relief for 

 the year had been $111,865, of which $30,183 

 were in the form of additions to its permanent 

 funds. Four hundred and seventy families had 

 received aid. 



The receipts of the Frcedmcri 1 * Committee 

 had been $68,711. Sixty -five ordained minis- 

 ters, 51 of whom were colored, and a total, in- 

 cluding these ministers, catechists, and teach- 

 ers, of 162 agents, 127 of whom were colored, 

 had l>een engaged in its work. Eight churches 

 had been organized during the year, making 

 the whole number of churches under the care 

 of the committtee 159; and in those 11,555 

 communicants were enrolled, with 9,225 chil- 

 dren in Sunday-schools. The educational work 

 of the committee comprised 52 common schools, 

 with 94 teachers and 5,340 pupils, and 5 in- 

 stitutions of a higher grade, with 1,527 stu- 



dents, giving a total of 7,112 pupils in all the 

 schools. 



The Board of Home Missions had received in 

 all $345,911, of which $38,301 had been con- 

 tributed by the Women's Home Mission socie- 

 ties, and $40,000 had been given for school- 

 work. It had also had in its hands available 

 for sustentation $52,792. It had disbursed 

 $333,380 for Home Missions and $27, 059 on ac- 

 count of sustentation, and had supported 1,217 

 missionaries. The missionaries had organized 

 156 churches and 224 Sunday-schools, and re- 

 ported the addition of 4,979 members to the 

 churches by confession of faith, and a total of 

 105,524 Sunday-school scholars. 



The receipts of the Board of Foreign Mitsion* 

 from April 30, 1880, to April 30, 1881, bad been 

 $590,680, and its expenditures during the same 

 time had been $581,515. It returned in the 

 various missions under its charge 130 American 

 missionaries and 200 native ministers (ordaiiK-d 

 and licentiate), 233 American and 536 native 

 lay missionaries, 14,588 communicants, and 18,- 

 260 scholars in boarding and day schools. The 

 communicants and scholars were distributed 

 among the several missions as follows : Indian 

 tribes (Senecas, Chippewas, Omahas, Dakotas, 

 Creeks, Seminoles, and Nez Perces), l.-.'-'Hi 

 communicants, 385 scholars; Mexico, 5,031 

 communicants, 609 scholars; South America 

 (United States of Colombia, Brazil, and Chili), 

 1,191 communicants, 400 scholars; Africa (Li- 

 beria, Gaboon, and Corisco), 599 communi- 

 cants, 230 scholars; India, 951 communicants, 

 8,244 scholars; Siam, 280 communicants 276 

 scholars; China, 1,995 communicants, 1,210 

 scholars; Chinese in California, 137 communi- 

 cants, 215 scholars; Japan, 761 communicants 

 160 scholars; Persia, 1,510 communicants 

 2,296 scholars ; Syria, 877 communicants, 4,235 

 scholars. 



The General Ax*etMy of the Presbyterian 

 Church in the United States of America nu-t 

 in its ninety -third session at Buffalo, New- 

 York, May 19th. The Rev. Henry Darling, 

 D. D., of Albany, New York, was chosen Mod- 

 erator. An order was passed to omit all hon- 

 orary and academical titles from the minute* 

 of the proceedings. Two overtures with ref- 

 erence to the reorganization of the Synod- <>f 

 the Church that ha<l been sent down by tho 

 previous General Assembly, having l>cen ap- 

 proved by a majority of tho presbyteries, were 

 declared adopted. One of them permits tho 

 synods, at their own option, to bo composed 

 of all tho bishops and one elder from each 

 church in their several districts, or of equal 

 delegations of bishops and elders elected by 

 the presbyteries on a basis nnd in a ratio to bo 

 determined by the Synod itself and its pr< - 

 byteries. Tho other gives the Synod power to 

 decide finally on all appeals, complaints, ami 

 references that do not affect the doctrine nnd 

 constitution of the Church. A measure for 

 tho consolidation of synods, by uniting nil tho 

 existing synods in each State into a single syn- 



