710 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



the last annual report. The society had re- 

 ceived, since its organization in 1857, the total 

 sum of $561, 701, of which, after deducting the 

 receipts from legacies and the income from 

 invested funds, $465,661 represented the con- 

 tributions of the Church, at large through this 

 agency to the cause of ministerial education. 

 Appropriations had been made in aid of 1,016 

 scholars, of whom 600 had been ordained min- 

 isters, and 518 were still in service. 



EVANGELICAL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. The re- 

 ceipts of the Protestant Episcopal Society for 

 the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, for 

 the year ending October 1, 1882, were $8,687, 

 and its expenditures were $3,885. The society 

 had put into circulation during the year books, 

 tracts, and papers, the value of which was 

 about $6,700. Its monthly journal, " The Par- 

 ish Visitor," had a circulation of about 20,000 

 copies. 



DOMESTIC MISSIONS. The general receipts of 

 the Committee for Domestic Missions, for the 

 year ending September 1, 1882, were $126,- 

 734; adding $70,956 of legacies left to the 

 committee and $30,683 of special contributions, 

 the total receipts were $228,373. The total 

 sum available foi* the use of the committee was 

 $210,951, of which it had $33,201 left at the 

 beginning of the year. The committee em- 

 ployed as evangelizing agents among white 

 people, 12 missionary bishops, 292 clergymen, 

 and 5 women helpers, or 309 in all ; among 

 colored people, 13 white clergymen, 15 colored 

 clergymen, 5 lay readers, 4 teachers, and 18 

 women helpers 55 in all ; among the Chinese, 

 1 Chinese clergyman ; among the Indians, 1 

 missionary bishop, 12 white clergymen, 13 

 native clergymen, 1 white catechist, 9 native 

 catechists, 3 teachers, and 13 women helpers 

 52 in all ; the whole number constituting a 

 total of 417 laborers. In support of the mis- 

 sions and missionaries, $141,417 had been ex- 

 pended among white people, $41,666 among 

 Indians, $13,667 among the colored people, and 

 $8,718 at the central office. 



FOREIGN MISSIONS. The receipts of the Com- 

 mittee for Foreign Missions, for the year end- 

 ing September 1, 1882, had been $173,848. Of 

 this amount $20,459 had been contributed by the 

 Women's Auxiliary, and $20,067 by the League 

 in aid of the Mexican branch of the Church, 

 for the benefit of the missions in Mexico. The 

 missions were: in Greece, 1 teacher, 9 assist- 

 ant teachers, and 700 students ; West Africa, 

 16 missionaries (including the bishop), 27 other 

 laborers, 560 native and Liberian communi- 

 cants, 392 scholars ; China, 11 missionaries and 

 ministers, 94 other laborers, 320 native com- 

 municants, 738 scholars ; Japan, 8 missionaries 

 and ministers, 39 other laborers, 84 native com- 

 municants, 117 scholars ; Hayti, 15 missionaries 

 and ministers, 49 other laborers, 360 commu- 

 nicants, 199 scholars, 1,258 attendants on wor- 

 ship ; Mexico, 14 missionaries and ministers, 

 94 other laborers, 929 native communicants, 

 555 scholars, 3,646 attendants on worship. The 



list of missionaries includes the bishop in each 

 mission, and, in Mexico, a bishop elect also, and 

 the missionary physicians, when there are any ; 

 the enumeration of scholars includes those in 

 day- and boarding-schools, but not those in Sun- 

 day-schools. The Mexican Church had been 

 troubled with dissensions, and was represented 

 as suffering from the want of accessible stand- 

 ards of doctrine and worship, the Mexican lit- 

 urgy not having yet been completed. 



AMERICAN CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

 The twenty-third annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Church Missionary Society was held in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., in December. The total re- 

 ceipts of the society for the year had been 

 $24,677, and it had a balance in the treasury, 

 on the 31st day of August, of $2,894. Boxes 

 of clothing and other articles had been sent to 

 the missionaries, the total value of which was 

 $3,724. Thirty-seven missionaries had been 

 commissioned, and four had resigned, leaving 

 thirty-three, or four more than had been en- 

 gaged during the previous year, in the field. 

 Their fields of labor had been in fifteen dioceses 

 and missionary jurisdictions. A new plan of 

 administration had gone into operation on 

 May 1st, under which the society was saved 

 the expense of salaries for its secretaries and 

 of office-rent. The offices of financial secretary 

 and general agent had been abolished; the of- 

 fice of secretary had become voluntary, and was 

 filled by a person who did its work gratuitous- 

 ly ; and the necessary expenses of office-rent, 

 printing, and other incidental matters were 

 met by the gifts of a few friends especially 

 contributed for those purposes. Thus every 

 dollar of the income of the society now went 

 directly to the support of its missionaries and 

 the maintenance of its work. 



MISSIONS AMONG THE JEWS. The receipts of 

 the Church Society for Promoting Christianity 

 among the Jews for the year ending in April, 

 1882, were $12,383 ; the expenditures were $7,- 

 173, leaving a balance in the treasury of the so- 

 ciety of $5,210. During the year five new mis- 

 sionaries had been appointed, and two new 

 missionary schools had been established, giving, 

 as the full measure of the present operations of 

 the society, fourteen missionaries, with four 

 missionary day-schools and four industrial 

 schools. In these schools were about two hun- 

 dred children. Missions were established in 

 most of the large cities of the country. The 

 society had mission houses in Baltimore and 

 New Orleans. A house had been bought in 

 New York, in which it was intended to provide 

 a chapel, with accommodations for the mis- 

 sionary day-school, the industrial school, the 

 Sunday-school (of seventy Jewish children), a 

 free reading-room, an office for the mission- 

 aries, and a residence for one of them. By 

 an inflexible rule, no temporal aid was ever 

 given to proselytes. Aid had been given to the 

 parochial clergy in efforts among the Jews in 

 their own localities, and this branch of the 

 work was now carried on in thirty-four dio- 



