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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Cash in hand (September, 1890), $13,743.71; 

 offerings, general fund, etc., $178,714.81; spe- 

 cials, $16,003.42 ; moneys withdrawn for tempo- 

 rary investment, $32,689.48; total, $241,151.42. 

 Expenditures on account of missions, etc., in 

 West Africa, China, and Japan (including Hayti 

 and Mexico), $178,878.60; specials for China, 

 Japan, Hayti, etc.. $17,856.32; salaries, rent, 

 printing, and incidentals, $19,362.63 ; balance in 

 hand, $12,212.01; total, $241,151.42. The mis- 

 sion property at foreign stations is estimated to 

 be worth about the same as previously reported, 

 viz., in Africa (Monrovia, Cape Palmas, etc.), 

 $40,000; in China (Shanghai, Wuchang, Han- 

 kow, Pekin), $157,100; Japan (Tokio, Osaka, 

 Nara), $64.000 ; in all (about) $261,100. 



Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions 

 renders important and efficient aid in all the de- 

 partments by means of parochial, city, county, 

 and diocesan associations of ladies, formed for 

 the purpose of raising money, preparing and for- 

 warding boxes to missionaries and mission sta- 

 tions, and in various other ways giving help to 

 the missionary work of the Church. Money 

 raised by the Auxiliary for domestic, foreign, 

 and other mission work. $153,700.55 ; boxes for 

 the same (3,972 in number), value, $195,954.14 ; 

 total, $349,654.69. 



American Church Missionary Society (also 

 auxiliary to the Board of Missions) has employed 

 during the year, in 22 dioceses and missionary ju- 

 risdictions, 46 missionaries. The financial condi- 

 tion was as follows: Balance in hand (September, 

 1890), $26.374.80 ; for general work, domestic mis- 

 sions, $13,306.78; for general work, foreign mis- 

 sions (Cuba and Brazil), $11,258.98; specials, 

 $4.458.36; balance in hand (September, 1891), 

 $10,007.40 ; total, $65,416.32. The Society holds 

 in securities, trust funds, bonds and mortgages, 

 and property, to the amount of $150,000. It 

 also sends boxes of clothing and the like to the 

 missionaries in its employ. 



Church Work in Mexico. This is placed 

 under the direct supervision and control of the 

 presiding Bishop of the American Church, the 

 constitution of the Mexican Church being tem- 

 porarily in abeyance. The work is carried on 

 by a superintendent, residing in the city of Mex- 

 ico, who is to " counsel and guide presbyters and 

 laymen there who have asked that the fostering 

 care of the Church in the United States be ex- 

 tended to them as a mission." An advisory 

 committee for the work in Mexico has in charge 

 all offerings made through the Board of Mis- 

 sions. Clergy, 5 ; lay helpers, 13 ; mission sta- 

 tions, 27. There is also a "league in aid of the 

 Mexican branch of the Church," consisting of 

 ladies residing in New York city. This associa- 

 tion contributes money and sends boxes, etc., 

 independently of the arrangement that is set 

 forth above. 



Church in Hayti. This Church, though prop- 

 erly independent, is not quite strong enough to 

 be self-supporting, and consequently seeks aid 

 from the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 

 United States. A commission of bishops has it 

 in charge, and it receives help from the Domes- 

 tic and Foreign Missionary Society. Aid was 

 extended this year to the amount of $7,819.44. 

 Statistics : Bishop, 1 ; ofcher clergy, 14 ; teachers, 

 catechists, etc., 37. Estimated value of Church 



property in Port-au-Prince, Jtiremic, Aux Cayes, 

 etc., nearly $20.000. 



Protestant Episcopal Churches in Eu- 

 rope, on the Continent. These, organized un- 

 der the canon, are in charge of a bishop of the 

 American Church, who makes an annual visita- 

 tion. Churches in Prance, 2 ; in Germany, 1 : 

 in Italy, 2 ; in Switzerland, 3; clergy. 10; contri- 

 butions, $3,206 : estimated value of Church prop- 

 erty in Paris, Rome, Dresden, Geneva, etc. 

 $132,650. 



American Church Building-Fund Com- 

 mission. It was established in 1880, and con- 

 tinues its very useful and important work. The 

 aim of the trustees is kept steadily in view, viz., 

 to bring the fund up to at least $1,000,000, so as 

 to be able to give effective aid in all parts of the 

 United States toward building chapels and new 

 churches. The progress is rather slow, having 

 reached only to the amount of $207,435.22 ; but 

 the trustees are sure that, as the value of the 

 fund to the cause of the Church becomes more 

 widely and better known, it must and will receive 

 large additions. During the year thirty-seven 

 new loans were made, the whole number being at 

 date 174, to the amount of $111,262,72. 



Society for Prompting 1 Christianity 

 among 1 the Jews (auxiliary to the Board of 

 Missions) reports its usual quiet and steady 

 progress during this its thirteenth year of work. 

 The society has missionaries laboring in nine or 

 ten of the targe cities. Besides the paid mis- 

 sionaries, the parochial clergy co-operate with 

 the society in almost every diocese. There arc four 

 missionary day schools, four industrial schools, 

 and three night schools. Of publications, over 

 46,000 copies were issued during the year, and Bi- 

 bles, Testaments, Scripture portions', and Prayer 

 Books were circxilated in English, Hebrew. Ger- 

 man, and other languages. Much good has been 

 accomplished in removing Hebrew narrowness 

 and prejudice to a large extent, and though con- 

 versions are not rapid, yet there is excellent 

 ground for hope in the future. Contributions : 

 Sunday-school offerings, specials, etc., $10.- 

 781.44; balance from old account, $5,244.80; 

 total, $16,026.24. Expenditures for schools, sal- 

 aries, publications, etc., $13,181.33 ; real estate 

 account, $1,175.80; balance to new account, $1,- 

 669.11; total, $16,026.24. 



General Condition of Church Affairs. 

 During the year three of the bishops have died, 

 viz. : Bishop W. J. Boone, of Shanghai, China ; 

 Bishop C. P. Knight, of Milwaukee ; and Bishop 

 B. H. Paddock, of Massachusetts. Four pres- 

 byters have been consecrated bishops, viz. : H. 

 M. Jackson, assistant, of Alabama: D. Sessums, 

 assistant, of Louisiana ; Phillips Brooks, of Mas- 

 sachusetts ; and I. L. Nicholson, of Milwaukee. 

 Six are on the list of retired bishops, viz. : G. T. 

 Bedell, T. A. Jagger, C. C. Penick, S. I. J. 

 Schereschewsky, H. Southgate, and C. M. Will- 

 iams. In addition to those above named, seventy- 

 seven of the clergy have died during 1891, of ages 

 varying from thirty to ninety years ; average 

 age, fifty to fifty-five years. In addition to the 

 regular ordained clergy, sisterhoods, deaconesses, 

 and women trained for special work, which they 

 alone can properly perform, are doing good and 

 laudable service, and they are blessed in the 

 fruits of their labors. 



