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northern Japan, and northern Mexico. Fur- ary work was noticed in the fact that parents 

 thermore, the sum of $11,362 had been con- who were not Christians were taking their 

 tributed, mainly by the children and youth children to the missionaries and asking that 

 of the Sunday schools, for the building of the they be taught Christianity. In the city of 

 new "Morning Star" missionary-ship ($35,986 Madura, a high-school in which the Bible is 

 had been contributed for the same purpose in regularly taught had for a year had an average 

 the previous year). Adding these sums to the attendance of 350 pupils, many of them from 

 amount of regular receipts previously men- influential families, and more than "half of them 

 tioned, the entire receipts for the year would be Brahmans. Similar schools had been started 

 $625,832. The general permanent fund amount- in other places. In Japan, the first class of 

 ed to $172, 047, and the permanent fund for of- thirteen members had been graduated from 

 ficers to $59,608. The society had a special the theological school at Kioto, 

 fund for the support of a home for the chil- During the seventy-five years since this so- 

 dren of missionaries, at Auburndale, Mass., ciety was organized, it had sent out 1,866 men 

 which now amounted to $12,117. In the and women to missionary work, had formed 

 4> General Survey " was presented a review of 396 churches, and received 95,000 church-mem- 

 the condition of the missions in Africa, Micro- bers, had made a Christian nation of the Ha- 

 nesia, the Hawaiian Islands, the Turkish Em- waiian islands, and had planted vigorous cen- 

 pire, India, Japan, China, Spain, Mexico, and ters of Christian civilization in Turkey, China, 

 Austria. The "General Summary" is as fol- Japan, India, and elsewhere. During the past 

 lows: twenty -five years, the breadth of the field oc- 

 MISSIONS cupied, the number of church-members, pas- 

 Number of missions .V. 22 tor s> and higher schools, and the number of 



Number of stations 83 native Christians had increased five-fold. 



A message was received from the mission in 



LABORERS EMPLOYED. Syria, which had been founded by this society 



Number of ordained missionaries* (six being in 1819, but Was now conducted by the Pres- 



NlC^phVsidans-noVordainedreighVmen 156 ^terian Church, expressing "gratitude to God 



and four women 12 for the work accomplished by the American 



Number of other male assistants. ....".. 6 Board in three fourths of a century, and espe- 



N r s ideso f by W sS e n Q s, ftiT'. . * ^"^ 248 cially for the work which its missionaries were 



Whole number of laborers sent from this enabled to do in Syria, in the translation of 



Num^ofeiVepa^ors::-:::::::::::::::::: ~i m theBibie into the Arabic language, and in the 



Number of native preachers and catechists 212 foundmg OI churches and schools and higher 



Number of native school-teachers i,si9 institutions of learning." A letter of greet- 



Number of other native helpers 5052,183 . Af /. & .. 



Whole number of laborers connected with the m g was received trom a Committee OI native 



missions 2,605 pastors of churches in Japan. The statement 



THE PRESS was ma de, in the special report on the Turk- 

 Pages printed, as nearly as can be learned 25,000,000 isn missions, that "the marvelous fact that 



Armenians and Greeks are looking to us to 



Numberof churches 292 mstniot them, impresses upon us now the es- 



Number of church-members, as nearly as can be Sential importance of giving increased atten- 



fcarned ,... 23,392 tion to the higher education. Eobert Col- 



^aaiftM^SSi&Si; 8 ' 003 le g e has made a self-governed Bulgaria pos- 



learned , 94,702 sible. Who will venture to divine what simi- 



EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. larly equipped institutions in AintabHarpoot, 



Number of high-schools, theological seminaries, and Marsovan, Mardm, and Midhya , with Ameri- 



station classes 50 can and native professors working as equals 



Number of pupils in the above. 1,981 gide by gide may not d o for the Turkish, Ar- 



Number of boarding-schools for girls 40 . J . i- j a 1 * A 



Number of pupils in boarding-schools for girls 1,690 menian, Arabic, and byrian peoples ot Asia 



Number of common schools 803 Minor and Mesopotamia ? Such institutions, 



wlffiJi^llS^ $! thoroughly evangelistic, seekingthe conversion 



. of their pupils with their attached theological 



ine Zulu mission in Africa, having com- sem i nar i eg and medical schools and hospitals, 

 pleted its fiftieth year, was preparing to join teaching the English language, which the peo- 

 with the parent society in a public celebration, p j e must nave) we commend to the benefi- 

 to be held in December. In the Pacific islands, cence of those who wish to do much good 

 the Hawaiian Board proposed to enlarge the w ^ their stewardship." And the report con- 

 present force by stationing additional mission- c ] Q ded: "The work of the board in Turkey, 

 aries at new stations in the Marshall Islands w j t h its tremendous import for one of the 

 and the Caroline Islands. In India, the futnre great Christian empires of the world, 

 churches of the Mahratta mission had been cal j g not f or retrenchment, but for efficient 

 self-supporting for three years. A marked ente rprise and great enlargement. We add 

 change in public sentiment toward the mission- t hat great outrages, murders and robberies, and 



other impositions have been committed upon 



I8land8 ' our missionaries in Turkey, which have never 



