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was also 258 larger than in the previous year. 

 Grants amounting to $67,545 had been voted 

 to 125 churches, and grants amounting to $103,- 

 947 had been paid to 102 churches. Loans 

 amounting to $7,525 had been voted to 22 

 churches; and loans amounting to $4,822 had 

 been paid to 12 churches, in both cases in aid 

 of the building of parsonages. One hundred 

 and nine applications were still on band wait- 

 ing action. The Union had, for the past eighteen 

 years, been organizing churches at the average 

 rate of 134 a year, and aiding in building church- 

 es at the average rate of 57 a year. The average 

 rate for the past five years had been 143 church- 

 es organized and 71 buildings erected. In the 

 last year, 182 churches had been organized and 

 100 built. The Rev. 0. H. Taintor, of Milford, 

 N. H., had been appointed field secretary of 

 the society for the collection of funds. 



American Home Missionary Society. The fifty- 

 eighth anniversary meeting of the American 

 Home Missionary Society was held in Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., June 4th. President Julius H. 

 Seelye, of Amherst College, presided. The to- 

 tal resources of the society for the year had been 

 $429,815, and the expenditures $419,449. The 

 pledges standing against the society amounted 

 to $85,658. Thirteen hundred and forty-two 

 ministers had been employed during the year, 

 of whom 340 had labored in the New England 

 States, 81 in the Middle States, 23 in the South- 

 ern States, 87 in the Southwestern States, 779 

 in the Western States and Territories, and 84 on 

 the Pacific coast. These ministers had served, 

 fully or at stated intervals, 2,930 congregations. 

 Three of them had served colored congrega- 

 tions ; and 30 ministers had preached to Welsh, 

 16 to German, 2 to French, and 2 to Mexican 

 congregations, in their own languages. The 

 organization of 298 new Sunday-schools was 

 reported; 2,069 Sunday-schools were under the 

 special care of the missionaries of the society ; 

 and the number of Sunday-school and Bible- 

 class students was ''not far from" 116,314. 

 Four thousand and ninety-nine additions to the 

 churches on profession of faith were returned. 

 One hundred and forty-nine new churches had 

 been organized, and 52 churches had become 

 self-supporting. Eight Women's State Home 

 Missionary Societies were co-operating with 

 this society. The plan of co-operation with 

 the American Missionary Association reported 

 by the Committees of Conference of the socie- 

 ties was approved. 



American Missionary Association. The thirty- 

 eighth anniversary of the American Mission- 

 ary Association was held in Salem, Mass., Oc- 

 tober 21st. The Hon. William B. Washburn 

 presided. The total receipts of the society for 

 the year had been $287,594, and the expendi- 

 tures $301,928. A debt of $13,785 was re- 

 turned. The following is a general summary 

 of the statistics of the missionary work of the 

 Association : 



Workers. Superintendents, 3. Missionaries 

 and teachers at the South, 423; among the 



Indians, 45 ; among the Chinese in California, 

 27 ; total, 495. 



Churches. Churches at the South, 95; 

 among the Indians, 4; total, 99. Church- 

 members at the South, 6,420 ; among the In- 

 dians, 274; total, 6,694. Total number Sun- 

 day-school pupils, 15,555. 



Schools. Schools at the South, 65; among 

 the Indians, 9 ; among the Chinese, 15 ; total, 

 89. Pupils at the South, 9,758; among the 

 Indians, 458; among the Chinese, 1,864; total, 

 12,080. 



Four of the chartered institutions in the 

 South returned 73 students in theology and 

 55 in law. New churches and school-houses 

 had been erected in connection with most of 

 the Indian missions, particularly at the Santee 

 agency, at the Ponco reserve, at Fort Sully 

 agency, Cheyenne river agency, and at Fort 

 Berthold mission. A Government boarding- 

 school, of fifty pupils, had been organized at 

 Fort Stevenson, and schools were asked for 

 at Rosebud, Red Cloud, and Standing Rock 

 agencies. Six new churches had been organ- 

 ized and seven new places of worship secured 

 in the South. Of the 76 pastors who had been 

 serving the Southern churches, including those 

 who were serving as professors in colleges, 23 

 were from the North, and 53 had been raised 

 up in the South in the institutions of the so- 

 ciety, while an equal number of men, trained 

 by the teachers of the Association, had been 

 furnished to other denominations. In connec- 

 tion with the recently established work of the 

 Association in the mountain-regions of east- 

 ern Kentucky and Tennessee, an academy had 

 been founded at Williamsburg, Ky., in which 

 169 students were enrolled, and a number of 

 local educational meetings had been held. The 

 Mendi mission in Africa (West Coast), which 

 had been transferred to the Board of Missions 

 of the United Brethren Church, had made 

 good progress under the new administration. 

 The plan of co-operation which had been ar- 

 ranged between committees of this Association 

 and of the American Home Missionary Society 

 (see below) was approved. Fraternal greet- 

 ings were offered to the Congregational breth- 

 ren in Sweden and Norway, and the right hand 

 of fellowship to the Ansgaril and mission Swed- 

 ish churches in the United States. 



Relations of the American Home Missionary So- 

 ciety and the American Missionary Association. The 

 Committees of Conference of the American 

 Home Missionary Society and the American 

 Missionary Association met in Springfield, 

 Mass., December 11, 1883, and adopted the fol- 

 lowing action concerning the future relations 

 of the two societies and their work : 



" Consulting the principle of comity between 

 the two missionary societies, the American 

 Home Missionary Society and the American 

 Missionary Association, and that traditional 

 policy of Congregationalists which ignores 

 caste and color-lines, and also in view of the 

 present relative positions and strength of the 



