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were conducted in the Southern States, includ- 

 ing eight chartered institutions, eleven high and 

 normal schools, and 38 common schools, in 

 which 241 teachers were employed. The 

 whole number of students was 9,608, or 500 

 more than were returned in the previous year. 

 Of the students, 72 were in the theological, 28 

 in the law, 104 in the collegiate, 139 in the 

 preparatory, 2,542 in the normal, 1,103 in the 

 grammar, 2,185 in the intermediate, and 3,481 

 in the primary departments. Several good and 

 commodious new buildings had been erected 

 in connection with the schools. The classes 

 were open to white and colored persons, and to 

 pupils of both sexes. The attendance of white 

 pupils was increasing, as the prejudice against 

 association with colored students yielded to the 

 appreciation of the advantages of the instruc- 

 tion given by the schools. Eighty churches, 

 having 5,641 members, were sustained in the 

 Southern States; nine hundred members had 

 been added to these churches by profession 

 during the year; and they had raised $9,306 

 for church purposes, and contributed $1,496 to 

 benevolent objects. Six new churches had 

 been organized during the year. In connec- 

 tion with the Mendi mission in West Africa 

 measures had been pressed to introduce a 

 steamer upon the waters of the country for 

 the benefit of the mission and the advantage of 

 the people. An expedition had been sent to 

 the upper Nile, preparatory to locating a new 

 mission with the funds to be applied in con- 

 nection with the contribution of Mr. John 

 Arthringon, of Leeds, England, for that pur- 

 pose. The agents of the society in this expe- 

 dition had decided to recommend Khartoom 

 as the base of operation for the proposed mis- 

 sion, bu_t the disturbances from which Egypt had 

 been suffering had prevented any further action 

 being taken in this matter. Missions among 

 the Indians had been carried on at Northfield, 

 Mich. ; Cass Lake and Red Lake, Minn. ; and 

 Skokomish, Fort Berthold, and Sisseton, in 

 the Territories ; and 89 Indians of both sexes 

 had been under instruction at the Hampton 

 Institute, Virginia. Five missions were con- 

 ducted and fifteen schools were taught among 

 the Chinese at different places in California. 

 The whole number of pupils in the schools was 

 2,567, 935 more than in the previous year, of 

 whom 156 had ceased from idolatry and 106 

 had become Christians. New missions were 

 contemplated at San Francisco (an additional 

 one), Los Angeles, where the first mission of 

 the Association was established, and Chico ; the 

 Association was represented on the Pacific coast 

 by its auxiliary, the California Chinese mission. 

 Application had been made to the Association 

 to establish a mission at Hong-Kong, China; 

 but as this society had adopted a policy of not 

 extending its foreign missions, the committee 

 had proposed to the American Board that it 

 undertake that work. The Association was 

 preparing to withdraw entirely from the for- 

 eign-mission work, and to that end was ready 



to surrender its Mendi mission to the American 

 Board or to the United Brethren (who have a 

 mission in the same region), and the proposed 

 mission on the upper Nile to the American 

 Board or to the United Presbyterian Church in 

 North America as a branch of its mission in 

 Egypt. 



The seventy-third annual meeting of the 

 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

 Missions was held in Portland, Maine, begin- 

 ning October 3d. The Rev. Mark Hopkins, 

 D. L\, LL. D., presided. The total receipts of 

 the board for the year had been $651,976. 

 The general permanent fund amounted to $162,- 

 947, and the permanent fund for officers to 

 $59,108. During four years, $778,928 of the 

 legacy which had been left to the board by 

 Asa Otis had been expended on new missions 

 and for educational and evangelistic purposes, 

 $189,705 (included in the statement of receipts) 

 having been drawn from it during the past 

 year. The following general summary of the 

 work of the board was presented : 



Missions ............. .... 20 



Stations ............................... 84 



Out-stations _____ ...................... 708 



Ordained missionaries (five physicians). . 1 64 

 Physicians not ordained ................ 10 



Other male assistants .................. 10 



Other female assistants ................. 272 



"Whole number of laborers sent from this 



country ............................. - 456 



Native pastors ......................... 148 



Native preachers and catechists ......... 488 



Native school-teachers .................. 1 ,055 



Other native helpers .................. 2711,912 



Whole number of laborers connected with 



the missions ......................... - 2,368 



Pages printed, as far as reported ........ 81,000,000 



Churches .............................. 291 



Church-members ...................... 19,755 



Added during the year ................. 1,701 



High-schools, theological seminaries, and 



station-classes ....................... 68 



Pupils ................................. 2,210 



Boarding-schools for girls .............. 41 



Pupils ................................. 1,688 



Common schools ...................... 806 



number of pupils 



Pupils. 

 Whole 



As compared with those of the previous year, 

 the reports showed a net increase of 26 mis- 

 sionaries, 23 churches, 80 native pastors and 

 preachers, 17 high-schools and seminaries, with 

 1,000 students, and 1,500 pupils in common 

 schools. Progress was reported of the efforts 

 to establish a new mission in Umzila's king- 

 dom, Africa. In the Western Turkey mission 

 (Constantinople and Asia Minor), efforts were 

 in progress to give a larger share of labor and 

 responsibility to Armenians of real worth and 

 ability. Such persons had been urged to as- 

 sume the charge of the religious newspapers 

 and other publications, and to co-operate with 

 the missionaries as evangelists. At Nicomedia 

 a joint committee of delegates from the churches 

 was uniting heartily with the missionary in all 

 plans and efforts for the furtherance of edu- 

 cation and evangelization. The work of the 

 missions in China had been carried westward 

 into Shansi, and a new station had been opened 

 at Tai-yuen-fu, the capital of that province. 

 Arrangements were also in progress to estab- 



