515 



institution., among thf white people; in nil of 

 wliH-li aiv returned :;:!) ii-a< -In r and J,:;iO pu- 



Ril.-. The ai^reuatf value "I tin 1 I'ri'prity >{ 

 nstitutions is $l,.s(M>.NMi. 

 in/in ri/ Sucith/, Thf annual meeting of 

 the (ieneral .Mi i. man ( "inmitteo was held in 

 I'lfVfliinil. ohm, beginning Nov. 11. Thf treas- 

 urer reported that the cash receipt- of the 

 -ocicty for thf Mar eiidini: Oct. :il had been 

 388, "i- !?!/::.lil<; over tho.-f of the previous 

 Of i In- total amount, $1,078,544 had come 

 directly I'roiii tin- churches through the collec- 

 tion-. ' The inerea-e in contributions of this 

 A as s-.'ii.'.iDl. Besides the receipts already 

 mentioned. $,':.'. Hi! had been obtained from 

 various sources to meet contingent appropriations 

 made liy the hoard to respond to pressing de- 

 mands in India. If this amount were added the 

 total receipts would be swelled to $1,256,056. 



Appropriations were made for the ensuing 

 sear a- I'nllosv: Foreign missions Africa, $5,- 

 400; South America, $00,545; China, $121,772 ; 

 t lei-many. xil.UiOO: Switzerland. *!).5<M); Scandi- 

 navia. $48.170; India, $123,729; Malaysia, $9,- 

 (MMi; Bulgaria, $22,000: Italy $4:u>:54: Mexico, 

 ><>; Japan, $66,000; Cerea, $17,562 : Lower 

 California. $1,000; total for foreign missions, 

 *i>-.>-J.!12. Domestic missions Welsh, $2,250; 

 Scandinavian, :*f>7,!>50 ; (icrman.XoO.'J.'.O: French. 



JJ; Spanish, $14,000; Chinese. $11,400; 

 iipanese, $7,000; Bohemian and Hungarian, 

 *7.:::>0 ; Italian, $4,750 ; Portuguese. $800; Amer- 

 ican Indian, $9,350; English-speaking, $327,- 

 I'rJ.Y M i.-cellaneous appropriations, $102,455. 

 Total of all the appropriations, $1,225,367. Re- 

 appropriated, $8,000; contingent appropriations, 

 $42,167. 



Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The 

 receipts of this society for the year ending Oct. 

 1, 1891, were $263,6'60, showing an advance 

 of $43,330 over the receipts of the preceding 

 year. The society supports 120 missionaries, of 

 whom 101 are in the foreign field, and 350 

 schools, with about 12,000 pupils. About 30,- 

 000 patients are treated annually by its physi- 

 cians. Of the missionaries. 32 are in India, 27 

 in Japan, 23 in China, 8 in Mexico. 5 in South 



merica. 2 in Italy, 1 in Bulgaria, and 3 in 

 ( 'ore. -i. Twelve are medical missionaries. 



Woman's Home Missionary Society The cash 

 receipts of this society for the year ending in 

 October, 1891, were $155,398; estimated value of 

 supplies distributed to frontier preachers and in- 

 dustrial homes, $160,824. The society has in the 

 South 12 model homes and industrial schools, 12 

 missionary teachers, 198 resident pupils, and 

 more than 1,000 day pupils in industrial classes. 

 In the Western States and Territories and among 

 Mormons and Spanish Americans it has 16 in- 

 dustrial schools and 36 missionaries ; in city 

 missions, 26 missionaries and many helpers : in 

 8 deaconesses' houses, 54 deaconesses and nurses ; 

 making in all 143 missionaries. 



II. Methodist Protestant Church. The 

 receipts of the Board of Foreign Missions for 

 the year ending April 30 were $14,573; amount 

 of funds, $2,500, balance in favor of the current 

 fund. $510. The foreign mission is in Japan, 

 with stations at Nagoya and Yokohama. 



The reports of the Woman's Board show a 

 gradual increase of income in twelve years from 



$:IMI to $4,000 in 1890; arid the a 01,1,1. ,.f th,- 

 Building fund show that )f7.!i.';<> lia\. 

 for its purjMocs >iuce it was instituted. 



III. AiiH-rimn c>le\aii < liurrh. The 

 >pei -ial cmiimis-iniicr of the I'nited State* cen- 

 su.- on the -tatisiics of ehurche-> tfhe- the fol- 

 lowing number* for this denomination : Num- 

 ber of annual conference-. '..',' ; or chiin-h or- 

 ganizations, 565; of church edifices and hulls in 

 which services are held. "i.V| ; seating capacity >( 

 churches and halls, 104.7:57: value oi church 

 property, $3i):{.2.V) : number of mem I 



Ihe thirteenth quadrennial meeting of the 

 (ieiieral Conference was held in (Jrand Kapids. 

 Mich., beginning Oct. 21. A report was made 

 of the beginning of a mission during the quad- 

 rennial term in \Votcrri Soudan. Africa. The 

 Miionary Society had received $5,826, and 

 had expended $4.469. As the result of dis- 

 eu-Hoiis concerning the articles on regenera- 

 tion and sand idea t ion, the Church was de- 

 clared bound to the law on the subject as 

 expressed prior to 1887, and no action in con- 

 nection with 'it was regarded as legal since 

 1844. New articles on the subjects were pro- 

 posed, conditionally approved, and ordered in- 

 serted in the Discipline, with a foot-note explain- 

 ing l hat they were in process of adoption, and not 

 to be regarded as legal unless approved by a two- 

 thirds vote of the annual conferences. A section 

 on temperance and prohibition was added to the 

 Discipline. Arrangements were made for incor- 

 porating the Church. 



IV. Methodist Church of Canada. Mis- 

 sions: The domestic missions of this Church 

 include 399 missions, with 342 missionan 

 assistants, and 38,109 members. The Indian, 

 French, Chinese (in British Columbia), and for- 

 eign (in Japan) missions return 76 missions, 72 

 missionaries, 47 teachers, 15 interpreters, and 

 6,391 members, distributed as follow : Indian, 

 4,153; French. 254; Chinese, 165; Japanese, 

 1,819. The Board of Missions, at its annual 

 meeting in October, appropriated $236,366 for 

 missionary works, of which $100,073 are to be 

 applied to domestic missions. 



V. Wesleyan Methodist Church. The fol- 

 lowing statistics of the Wesleyan Methodist 

 Church of Great Britain for 1891 were given by 

 the Rev. David J. Waller in his paper at the 

 (Ecumenical Conference on " The Status of Meth- 

 odism in the Eastern Section " : 



In Australasia, where an affiliated general con- 

 ference has been organized, there are 593 minis- 

 ters, 4,636 lay preachers, and 73,310 church mem- 

 ber-, making the total for the Ka>tern Section of 

 the Wesleyan Methodist Church 3.517 ministers. 

 31,496 lay preachers, and Ttm.SlO members, to- 

 gether with 11.910 Sunday -chools, including 

 '!.->!. TIC, teachers and L84,080 pupils. 



Mr. Waller's tables also embraced statistics of 

 other British Methodist churches, including th 



