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tin- Congo State in Muato Vamvo, signed on 



I, l s !H, was n|i|n---il l)\- tin- Cortes. 

 PRESBYTERIANS. I. I'n-sbyterlan 

 Church in the I'nitctl States of America. 



Tin- comparative summary of tin- statistics nf 

 I lii-. Cliurch for tin- past live vcars, us published 

 liy the stated clerk of the (iciicral Assembly, 

 the full. .win- results: 



The. Board of I Ionic Missions reported to the 

 General Assembly that its total receipts for all 

 purposes had been $957,907. Its permanent 

 funds amounted to $225,590. It supported 1,677 

 missionaries and 340 missionary teachers, who 

 returned a total church membership in the mis- 

 sion stations of 113,420. with 15(i.2<!2 in the con- 

 gregations, 10,683 added on profession of faith, 

 J.I"),' Sabbath schools with 178,109 members, 

 and 438 Sabbath schools organized during the 

 year. One hundred and thirty-nine churches 

 had been organized. In the educational depart- 

 ment were 36 schools among the Indians. :>l 

 among the Mormons, 30 among the Mexicans, 

 and 18 in the South, which returned in the a^- 

 giv^.-ite 340 teachers and 7,!i:!2 pupils. The 

 Woman's Executive Committee had received 

 $338,847. The committee had secured pledges 

 from societies and individuals of $06,000 for Tin- 

 support of 140 mission teachers, and of $50,090 

 for 717 scholarships in the various schools. 



The Board of the Church Erection Fund had 

 received $126,642. Applications had been made 

 during the year for aid to 190 churches and 52 

 manses, in the total sum of $145,113. Appro- 

 priations had been made for 173 church huild- 

 ings and 42 manses in the amount of $l1(i.5"i(i. 

 One hundred and seventy-four churches and 

 manses hail been completed without debt, secur- 

 ing property to the amount of nearly $400.000. 



The total receipts of the Board of Publication 

 in its Sabbath-school and Missionary Depart- 

 ment for its current fund had been $97.352. It 

 presented reports of 7,11? Sal-hath schools. 

 with 947,337 members. The accounts of the 

 Publication Mouse were balanced at $659.817. 



The receipts of the Hoard of Kdueation had 

 l>-en $106.000. Its invested permanent funds 

 amounted to $75,280, and had yielded an income 

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during the year of $4,410. The nuinU-r of can- 

 didates aided had increased from K!!t f< H<J9. 

 The income of ih,. Hoard of Relief had been 



106.164 It had upon its roll the II,. 

 families relie\cd by it. 



The Hoard ,,f Aid for Colleges and Acad. 

 had received *s!,303, and reported Hint * 



1'CMile.. had been given directly to it s ills! itlltiolis. 

 Itjiad paid X1.V.JH7 of debts "on liropertV. The 

 15 colleges and 21 academics under its care re- 

 turned 1.17:{,27-S of property, and :!.*58 stu- 

 dents, 152 of whom had the ministry in viuw. 



The Board of Missions to the Kivcdmcn had 

 received $155,078. Its invested funds amounted 

 to $53,820. The colored people had given dur- 

 ing the year toward the support of the Church 

 SLV.SI. There were connected wi h the board 

 14 white and 120 colored missionaries, and 52 

 while and 168 colored teachers. Seven new 

 churches had been organized, making the whole 

 number now under the care of the board 252, 

 with 17 missions in addition; 1,290 members 

 had been received on profession of faith; and 

 three were now 15,486 communicants, with 18.212 

 pupils in 259 Sunday schools. There were 84 

 schools for instruction in all elementary branches, 

 with 197 teachers and 11,029 pupils. 



The Board of Eoreign Missions had received 

 $942,690. The receipts of the women's boards 

 and societies had been the highest ever reached 

 by them. The missions among the Senec 

 Perce, and Dakota Indians, in Mexico, Guate- 

 mala, United States of Colombia, Brazil, Chili. 

 West Africa, India, Siam, China, Japan, Corea. 

 Persia, and Syria, and among the Chinese and 

 Japanese in the United States returned in all 

 210 American and 366 native ministers as mis- 

 sionaries, 388 American and 1.055 native lav 

 missionaries, 377 churches, 28,494 communi- 

 cants, with 2,875 additions during the year, 605 

 schools, with 27,813 pupils, 25,926 pupils in Sab- 

 bath schools, 160 students for the ministry, and 

 $49,423 of contributions by the native churches. 



General Assembly. The General Assembly 

 met in its one hundred and third annual session 

 in Detroit, Mich.. May 21. The Rev. Prof. W. 

 II. Green, of Princeton Theological Seminary, 

 was chosen moderator. The Committee on the 

 Revision of the Westminster Confession made a 

 report embodying an account of its proceedings, 

 a draft of the changes it recommended to have 

 made in the Confession, and an explanation of 

 the principles by which it had been governed in 

 proposing them. The draft of the changes pre- 

 sented the modified articles in full as they would 

 read after the alterations were made. The 

 changes proposed are numerous, and include 

 verbal alterations, the elimination of phra>.-s 

 with or without the substitution of others, the 

 omission of single articles, and the insertion of 

 new articles ami new chapters. Those of most 

 general interest are the ones that, embody modi- 

 fications of forms of doctrinal expression. 



AniMiiif them are tlie iii.'orjxiration in the chapter 

 "On tlic Ilnly Serii'tmvs" <>f a clause asserting tin- 

 truthfulness ofthfl history and tin- faithful wit- 

 prophecy and tniraele; a rvcjistinif of the i-haj>t-t 

 " ( in (;<x'l's Kternal Decree,'' v\ ith the ..:i.>sj,.n of juirtu 

 of it, the insertion In-fore the words " hut t ordain 

 them to dishonor'' of the words -not to 

 lastiiii: life" and the addition of the 

 u.s thcn-hy neither in any limitation put upon tho 



