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CONGREGATIONALISTS. 



of whom 86 were " special " students. Of the 

 "special" students, 12 were in German, 13 in 

 Dano-Norwegian, 26 in Swedish, and 4 in Slav- 

 ic departments. 



American College and Education Society. The 

 income of the American College and Educa- 

 tion Society for the year 1885-'86, was $76,- 

 641 ; of which $52,529 were contributed for 

 colleges and paid to them, and $18,299 were 

 paid to students fitting for the ministry. Two 

 hundred and ninety-one young men had re- 

 ceived assistance from the society during the 

 financial year, and 7,170 had been aided by 

 it since 1816. Twenty -three colleges and 

 theological seminaries had been assisted since 

 1843 ; three of which had passed off the list of 

 assisted institutions during the past year, while 

 two others had been added to it. The society 

 had a scholarship fund of $91,718, the income 

 from which had been $4,983, and a secretary 

 fund of $11,700, which had yielded an in- 

 come of $774. 



New West Edncation Commission. The income 

 of the New West Education Commission for 

 the year 1885-'86 was $57,362, and its ex- 

 penditures were $2,998. The receipts exceeded 

 those of any previous year by $7,204. The 

 commission had maintained 35 schools of all 

 grades, with 63 teachers, and 2,560 pupils, of 

 whom 764 were Mormons, 541 "Apostates," 

 and 142 Mexicans. The Woman's Home Mis- 

 sionary Association, of Boston, was supporting 

 8 teachers in co-operation with the associa- 

 tion, in Utah and New Mexico ; and 10 State 

 Woman's Missionary Unions were auxiliary 

 to it. 



The Sunday-School and Publishing Society 

 sustains Sunday-school missionaries, and fur- 

 nishes Sunday-school helps, libraries, and other 

 literature to needy Sunday-schools. The Na- 

 tional Council of the Congregational churches 

 has recommended it as a worthy object for 

 contributions to the extent of $100,000 a year. 



American Home Missionary Society. The sixty- 

 f first annual meeting of the American Home Mis- 

 'sionary Society was held at Saratoga Springs, 

 N. Y., June 7. The Rev. Julius Seelye, D. D., 

 LL. D., presided. The Executive Committee 

 reported that the entire resources of the society 

 for the year had been $510,144, and the ex- 

 penditures had been $512,741. Fifteen State 

 auxiliary societies of women were organized 

 and actively at work ; the contributions to the 

 Woman's Fund for Foreign Work had been 

 $5,674; and the Ladies' Missionary Society, 

 having its office in Boston, had furnished $1,- 

 700 for the support of four teachers in Arkan- 

 sas and the Indian Territory. Fifteen hundred 

 and seventy-one missionaries had been em- 

 ployed, of whom 5 had preached to congrega- 

 tions of colored people, and 136 had preached 

 in foreign languages; 29 to Welsh congrega- 

 tions, 40 to German, 38 to Scandinavian, 14 to 

 Bohemian, 1 to Armenian, 1 to Spanish, 2 to 

 Chinese, 1 to Indian, 7 to French, and 3 to 

 Mexican congregations. They had had the 



care of 2,188 Sunday-schools, 323 of which had 

 been newly organized, comprising in all about 

 130,000 pupils. One hundred and thirty-five 

 churches had been organized, 63 churches had 

 become self-supporting, and 112 new houses of 

 worship had been completed. The number of 

 additions to the churches by confession of faith 

 had been 6,469. The amount of contributions 

 to benevolent objects, reported by 806 mis- 

 sionaries, was $36,309. The Executive Com- 

 mittee of the society having been instructed in 

 1886 "to take steps for the removal of any 

 existing impediments which debar the society 

 from holding its annual meetings wherever it 

 may choose to direct," reported that the im- 

 pediments could not be removed, and that the 

 annual meeting must be held within the State 

 of New York. A report on the Christianiza- 

 tion of cities, adopted by the society, declared 

 that that work could not be accomplished by 

 mission chapels and evangelistic services, but 

 demanded churches, composed of Christian 

 families and promoting Christian family life. 

 These churches would need to be helped in 

 their support by their more prosperous neigh- 

 bors, constituting the service " a foreign mis- 

 sionary work on home soil." It ought to 

 be carried on undenominationally in spirit, but 

 would have to be sustained by denominational 

 methods and organizations ; and that churches 

 in each city should assume the responsibility 

 for the evangelization of that city, while the 

 society should assume only the responsibility 

 of giving to them necessary aid, and as it is 

 needed. The officers of the society having 

 been requested to compile the statistics bear- 

 ing on the subject of interference between de- 

 nominations in the home missionary work, 

 were given another year. 



American Congregational Union. The thirty- 

 fourth annual meeting of the American Con- 

 gregational Union was held in New York, May 

 12. The Rev. William M. Taylor, D. D., LL. D., 

 presided. The income of the society for the 

 year had been $120,597. The receipts on ac- 

 count of the parsonage loan fund had been, for 

 the year, $7,543, and for the five years since 

 the fund was instituted, $50,320. Toward a 

 fund of $100,000, which the trustees were en- 

 deavoring to raise for work at large centers of 

 population, $64,150 had been paid in. The 

 Union had aided in the completion of 84 

 houses of worship, and 31 parsonages. 



The Andorer Cases. The Board of Visitors of 

 Andover Theological Seminary announced their 

 decision in the cases of the professors who 

 were charged with holding and teaching certain 

 erroneous doctrines, particularly the doctrine 

 of a future state of probation after death (see 

 "Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1886), on the 15th 

 of June. These cases originated in charges 

 presented to the Board of Visitors, July 23, 

 1886, by J. W. Wellman, D. D., a trustee of 

 the seminary, Dr. H. M. Dexter, Dr. O. T. 

 Lanphear, and Prof. J. J. Blaisdell, " Commit- 

 tee of Certain of the Alumni," against Profs. 



