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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



it are omitted certain distinctive church so- 

 cieties, institutions, and charities concerning 

 which the committee having the publication in 

 charge could not obtain information ; contri- 

 butions devoted to parochial purposes, such as 

 the maintenance of assistant clergy, church 

 services, institutions of a local character, relief 

 of the sick, etc. ; funds devoted to the found- 

 ing and maintenance of middle-class schools ; 

 contributions devoted to societies and institu- 

 tions distinctly unsectarian in their aim and 

 administration ; and the incomes of the sister- 

 hoods of the Church. 



Ecclesiastical Commission. The report of the 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England shows 

 that since 1840, when the common fund was 

 created, benefices to the number of 5,300 have 

 been augmented and endowed to the amount 

 of 739,000 per annum, in perpetuity, or in 

 capital value to the amount of 22,170,000. 

 Benefactions by private donors, conveyed to 

 the commissioners, amount to 4,530,000, 

 which represents an increase of endowment of 

 151,000 a year, and if to these sums be added 

 26,000 a year specially contributed by bene- 

 factors for mining districts, it will be seen that 

 the total increase of benefices amounts to 

 916,000 per annum, an income which repre- 

 sents a capital sum of 27,480,000. The commis- 

 sioners' funds having been seriously affected 

 by the continuance of agricultural and com- 

 mercial depression, they say that there is rea- 

 son to believe that the income of the commis- 

 sion has for the present ceased to expand. 

 For 1886 it would be possible to make an ap- 

 propriation of 450,000 of capital, or an annual 

 charge of 15,000 ; and this would be expend- 

 ed in meeting benefactions offered in favor of 

 benefices to the capital amount of 80,000 ; in 

 endowing to the amount of 2,400 a year 

 churches to which districts have been assigned 

 since 1881 ; and in meeting local claims on es- 

 tates vested in the commissioners. 



Benevolent Societies. The home income of the 

 Colonial and Continental Church Society was 

 reported, at the anniversary in May, to have 

 been 16,501, and the expenditure 17,335. 

 The Church Pastoral Aid Society returned 

 an income of 54,226, with 772 grants on its 

 books. The number of parishes benefited 

 was 640, in which was included a population 

 of more than 5,000,000 souls. The Spanish 

 and Portuguese Church Aid Society, whose 

 annual meeting was held May 26, under the 

 presidency of the Archbishop of Dublin, re- 

 turned an expenditure for the year of 5,908, 

 and a deficiency of 382. It employs thirteen 

 ordained persons in the Reformed Episcopal 

 Churches of Spain and Portugal. During the 

 year a new mission hall had been opened at 

 Seville, and new churches built at Villaescusa 

 and Lisbon. In accordance with recommenda- 

 tions that had been made in the previous year, 

 a missionary clergyman had been appointed 

 for the supply of an itinerant evangelistic mis- 

 sion. The receipts of the South American 



Missionary Society, as reported at the anniver- 

 sary, April 30, had been 12,008, and the ex- 

 penditures had been 13,814. The society 

 sustains missions among the Indians of South 

 America, chiefly in Patagonia and the region 

 of Cape Horn, and cares for the religious wants 

 of English residents in various parts of that 

 continent. Its work is covered by the diocese 

 of the Bishop of the Falkland Islands. 



Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The 

 annual meeting of the Society for the Propa- 

 gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was held 

 February 19. The gross income of the society 

 for the year had been 117,971, of which 

 amount 101,825 had been contributed to the 

 general fund, and 16,146 to special funds, or 

 for the benefit of particular dioceses and mis- 

 sions. The whole amount of contributions to 

 the general fund was greater by nearly 9,000 

 than in any previous year of the society's ex- 

 istence. The number of ordained missionaries, 

 including ten bishops, on the society's lists, 

 was 575. Of these 166 were laboring in Asia, 

 142 in Africa, 15 in Australia and the Pacific, 

 195 in North America, 31 in the West Indies, 

 and 26 in Europe. There were also in the 

 various missions of the society about 1,700 

 catechists and lay teachers, mostly natives, and 

 about 350 students in the society's colleges. 



Chnrch Missionary Society. The annual meet- 

 ing of the Church Missionary Society was held 

 in London, May 4. The Hon. F. Maude, R. N., 

 presided, taking the place left vacant by the 

 death of the Earl of Chichester, the former 

 president of the society. A resolution was 

 adopted expressing a grateful sense of the 

 value of the services of the late president. 

 The total ordinary income of the society for 

 the year had been 201,237, a sum higher by 

 835 than the largest ordinary income ever 

 previously reported. The expenditures had 

 been 211,992. The report spoke of the 

 progress of the native churches, some of which 

 were planning their own missions and sending 

 out their own missionaries; of the bravery 

 with which native converts remained true to 

 their professions in the face of great peril ; of 

 the abundant fruit granted to the society's 

 direct missionary labors in the heathen and 

 Mohammedan world; of the lament of one 

 heathen antagonist that "the leprosy of Chris- 

 tianity is spreading fast everywhere"; and 

 of the progress of the zenanas, the medi- 

 cal departments, and the work of transla- 

 tion of the Bible and Christian books into 

 the languages of the heathen countries. The 

 following is a general summary of the mis- 

 sions, which are situated in Western Africa 

 (including Sierra Leone, Yoruba, and the 

 Niger river), Eastern Equatorial Africa, 

 Egypt, Arabia (Aden), Palestine, Persia, India, 

 Ceylon, Mauritius, China, Japan, New Zea- 

 land, Rupert's Land, and the north Pacific re- 

 gion of British America: Number of stations, 

 271 ; of missionaries in holy orders (European 

 230, Eurasian, etc., 11, native clergymen 250), 



