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port, so that while enlarged in some directions 

 it had been necessary to contract it in others. 

 It was represented in an educational aspect by 

 the academy at Williamsburg, Ky., and schools 

 at Blowing Rock and the Saluda Seminary in 

 North Carolina. Among the Indians there were 

 9 churches, with 96 members, 85 missionaries 

 and teachers, 887 pupils, and 1,344 in Sunday 

 schools. The missionaries in Alaska were in 

 charge of a school of 300 pupils. The Normal 

 Training School at Santee had in twenty-one 

 years furnished instruction to nearly a thousand 

 persons. The work among the Chinese included 

 17 schools, 37 missionaries, and 1,054 pupils. A 

 historical sketch of the association was read by 

 Secretary Strieby, who showed that it originated 

 in 1846 by the co-operation of a number of small 

 organizations which were endeavoring to carry 

 on a missionary work free from all connection 

 with churches in which slaveholding was toler- 

 ated. It had, however, never been in affiliation 

 with that party of the anti-slavery men who de- 

 nounced the Church and the Constitution of the 

 United States. A committee appointed at the 

 preceding meeting to consult with the executive 

 officers respecting the increasing needs of the 

 association and the adaptation of its present 

 methods to the enlarged conditions of its work 

 presented a report, which was adopted. It rec- 

 ommended the adoption of a policy looking for- 

 ward to the endowment of the educational insti- 

 tutions and to leading them up to self-depend- 

 ence ; efforts to extend the influence of Congre- 

 gationalism, and awaken an enthusiasm for 

 self-government and self-support ; and the rec- 

 ognition of the right in the missionaries of im- 

 mediate appeal to the executive committee, and 

 of their unabridged freedom to correspond with 

 co-operating and auxiliary societies. 



II. Congregationalisms in British North 

 America. In the Dominion of Canada and the 

 island of Newfoundland there are two Congre- 

 gational Unions those of Ontario and Quebec 

 and of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. They 

 return together 128 churches, 69 preaching sta- 

 tions, 95 ministers, and 10,689 members. The 

 Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec 

 reported at its meeting in Guelph, June 10, 63 

 pastors in office, 117 preaching stations on the 

 Lord's day, an average attendance on religious 

 services of 16,593, a total of 25,896 persons un- 

 der pastoral care, 9,079 members, 104 Sunday 

 schools, with 1,175 officers and teachers and 

 9,783 pupils on the rolls, 653 baptisms during 

 the year of adults and 62 of infants, 805 persons 

 admitted during the year on profession, 105 

 church edifices valued at $740,700 and provid- 

 ing 33,039 sittings, and 29 parsonages valued at 

 $43,950. Amount raised for all purposes, $142,- 

 603, of which $2,713 were for foreign missions. 

 The Rev. Hugh Pedley, of Manitoba, presided at 

 the meeting of the union. In reply to memori- 

 als from the Knights of Labor, the Single Tax 

 Association, and other societies, the body ex- 

 pressed its sympathy " with every effort thai 

 harmonizes with Christian principle in the up- 

 lifting of the suffering poor," and its willing- 

 ness " to co-operate with them in any direction 

 not inconsistent with the teaching of Jesus 

 Christ, believing that with the growth of true 

 religion there will be also the sure progress of 



the people." Another resolution urged legisla- 

 tive representatives to stand firm in demanding 

 that Parliament enact a bill for immediate pro- 

 hibition of the liquor traffic unassociated with 

 other issues. 



The Congregational Union of Nova Scotia 

 and New Brunswick reported 22 churches, 12 

 ministers, 1,078 members, 3,604 persons under 

 pastoral care, with an average attendance on 

 worship of 2,190, 25 Sunday schools with 147 

 teachers and 1,061 registered pupils, 21 persons 

 admitted during the year on profession, 18 adults 

 and 37 infants baptized, 23 church buildings 

 valued at $65,100, and 11 parsonages valued at 

 $15,900. Amount of benevolent contributions 

 estimated at $10,939. The Union met at Kings- 

 port, Nova Scotia, July 10. The Rev. J.W. Cox was 

 elected chairman for the year. Resolutions were 

 passed approving the Young People's Societies 

 of Christian Endeavor, and advising ministers 

 and members of churches to co-operate with the 

 friends of prohibition to procure legal enact- 

 ment therefor with provision for enforcement. 



The Canada Congregational Missionary So- 

 ciety is in its fifty-second year. It received dur- 

 ing the year ending in June, 1891, $10,274, and 

 returned four trust funds amounting to $33,090. 

 It sustains home missions at many points in the 

 provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, On- 

 tario, and Nova Scotia. 



The Canadian Congregational Foreign Mis- 

 sionary Society, which completed its tenth year 

 at its anniversary in June, had received during 

 the year $2,557. It sustained three missionaries 

 in the Portuguese province of Angola, West 

 Central Africa, who are laboring in co-operation 

 with the American Board. The Woman s Board 

 received $1,829, $1,200 of which were for foreign 

 work. The WomaVs Missionary Society of Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick, which co-operates 

 with the Canada Congregational Missionary So- 

 ciety, received in 1890-'91 $329. The Newfound- 

 land Congregational Home Missionary Society 

 co-operates with the Colonial Missionary Society 

 in sustaining missionary churches at four of the 

 outposts. 



The Congregational Provident Fund Society 

 returned assets of $14,539 in its Widows' and Or- 

 phans' branch. It received $1,157, and paid to 

 annuitants $780. On the Retiring Ministers' ac- 

 count, its assets were $5,843, and its receipts and 

 disbursements had been $1,315. The Congrega- 

 tional Publishing Company publishes a weekly 

 journal and a year-book, and manages a Sunday 

 school and book room. 



III. British Congregationalists. The 

 whole number of churches, branch churches, 

 and missions in Great Britain, Ireland, and the 

 islands of the British seas (not including mis- 

 sion stations in Scotland and Ireland, but in- 

 cluding the churches of the Evangelical Union 

 of Scotland), is given in the reports for 1891 as 

 4,821 against 4,817 in 1890. The Congregational 

 Union of England and Wales returns a total 

 seating capacity in its. 4,589 churches and mis- 

 sion stations for 1,647,500 persons. The Con- 

 gregational Union of Scotland returns 97 

 churches and 104 ministers, 16 of whom are , 

 without pastoral charge ; that of Ireland. 29 

 churches, 29 ministers, of whom 3 are without 

 charge ; and 95 preaching stations, at which the 



