ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



services were affected from time to time by tin 1 

 eviird state of the people's niiiids, caused by 

 tb disputes with thrir Koman Catholic fellow- 

 countrymen. Of I lit- translated Scriptures, only 

 (In- (iospel of St. Matthew, in Liiganda, had been 

 printed and circulated in the country ; but trans- 

 lations had been prepared in manuscript of the 

 other Gospels, the Acts, the Epistles to the Ro- 

 mans, (Jalatians, Ephcsiaiis, I'hilippiaus, and 

 Colossians, and the Book of Revelation. 



The annual meeting of the Zenana Bible and 

 .Medical Mission, which co-operates with the 

 Church and seven other Protestant missionary 

 societies in India, was held in London. April 27. 

 Lord Keay presided. The receipts of the society 

 had I wen 16,687, and the expenditure had been 

 850 more. The society had 47 woman mission- 

 aries and 26 assistants, with 203 native teachers 

 and Bible women; 65 schools, with 2,554 pu- 

 pils; and 3 medical missions, with hospitals 

 connected with 2 of them, under the charge of 

 5 woman doctors. A new hospital had been 

 opened in Luc-know, and a new medical mission 

 in I'atna. Eight thousand nine hundred and 

 four patients had been treated at Lucknow. Be- 

 nares, and Patna; 24,387 patients had visited 

 the dispensaries ; and 1,931 visits had been paid 

 to the homes of patients. 



Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 

 pel. The Society for trie Propagation of the 

 Gospel in Foreign Parts was intrusted during 

 the year 1891 with the administration of 116,- 

 520, which was expended chiefly in the form of 

 block grants placed at the disposal of the re- 

 spective bishops and synods throughout the 

 world. The number of ordained missionaries on 

 its list, including six bishops, is (>72, viz., 225 in 

 Asia, 153 in Africa, 16 in Australia and the Pa- 

 cific, 211 in North America, 36 in the West In- 

 dies, and 31 in Europe. Of these, 127 were 

 natives laboring in Asia and 3.1 in Africa. There 

 were also in the various missions about 2,300 lay 

 teachers, 2.600 students in the society's colleges, 

 and :!8.(KK) children in the mission schools in 

 Asia and Africa. Among the more prominent 

 features of the society's work in 1891 were the 

 departure of a community of five missionaries to 

 minister to the " peasant church " of the diocese 

 of Chota, Nagpore ; the formation of the diocese 

 of Mashonaland, where Bishop Bruce in 1888 had 

 planted mission stations and left teachers at 

 many places; the mission in Corea, where a 

 bishop and a body of clergy and teachers are 

 supported in living a common life, without per- 

 sonal salaries; and the penetration into a district 

 of the Betsiriry Sakalava, in Madagascar, by t w<> 

 missionaries, toe first Europeans ever seen by the 

 people. The work of the mission in Madagascar 

 was temporarily arrested on account of the deal h 

 of the Rev. A. A. Maclaren. During the one hun- 

 dred and ninety years of this society's activity it 

 has planted missions in every colony of the British 

 Umpire except the Falkland islands; entering the 

 several colonies successively as they have been or- 

 g:mized or added to the list, it has taken care of 

 it- churches till they have reached a condition of 

 independence and self-support. It is now work- 

 ing and maintaining missionaries in 50 dioceses. 

 With the growth of the colonies in wealth and 

 power, its resources are gradually set free to 

 meet the claims of the heathen and Mohammedan 



subjects of the empire. A little more than one 

 fourth of its funds is all that is now spent on 

 Christian colonists; five eighths are spent on 

 the conversion of the heathen and building up 

 t he native churches within the empire ; and 

 the remainder is spent in foreign countries 

 China, Japan, Borneo, Madagascar, the Sand- 

 wich Islands (Honolulu), and Corea. 



The Universities' Mission. The income of 

 the Universities' Mission to Central Africa t"i 

 1891 was 18,782, showing a falling off of 2,'Jhl 

 as compared with the preceding year, while the 

 total expenditure was 18,82^!, a slight increase 

 on that of 1890. The missionary staff consisted 

 of 64 persons. The report of work in the field 

 narrated the advance that had been made in the 

 enrollment of members, baptisms, schools, and at- 

 tendance upon them in the several stations in 

 Nyassaland, the Rovuma district, the Usambara 

 country, and Zanzibar. Several translations of 

 standard works intoSuahili had been issued from 

 the mission press. With the assistance of the 

 British and Foreign Bible Society the third vol- 

 ume of the tentative edition of the Old Testa- 

 ment in Suahili had been printed and sent out to 

 Zanzibar, completing the issue of the whole Bible 

 by the society. 



Other Societies. The annual meeting of the 

 Church House Corporation was held in London, 

 June 30. An anonymous donor had conditionally 

 offered at the annual meeting to give 1,000 to 

 the fund of the House, provided 20,000 were 

 subscribed. The challenge was generously re- 

 sponded to, but 8,000 was still wanting to com- 

 plete this amount. The library contained more 

 than 10,000 volumes. It was intended, the report 

 paid, that the Church House should be as much 

 for the use of the Church abroad as of the Church 

 at home, and it was the desire of the council that 

 all members of the Church of England and of 

 the churches in communion with it should make 

 the fullest possible use of it. 



The annual meetings in connection with the 

 Church Army spiritual and social movement 

 were held in London during the first week in 

 May, under the presidency of the Bishop of 

 Rochester. From the report of the treasurer it 

 appeared that the Church Army had 170 colpor- 

 teurs and 50 nurses at work, with 12,000 com- 

 municant working members. A sum of 15,000 

 had been received to aid the work during the 

 year. There were now 14 labor homes open, 7 of 

 them in London. It was proposed to establish 

 a colporteur's van, to travel in the country and 

 distribute Christian literature and to aid in open- 

 air preaching. 



The annual general meeting of the Church 

 Defense Association was held in London. May 17. 

 The Bishop of London presided. The report, 

 after reviewingthe year's work of the association, 

 concluded with a testimonial to the vigor, spir- 

 itual growth, and loyalty of the Established 

 Church in Wales. Resolutions were adopted de- 

 claring it the duty of Churchmen, irrespective of 

 political party, to meet all attempts to effect the 

 separation of the Church from the state with in- 

 creased determination, and to refuse their support 

 to any parliamentary candidate who declares 

 himself in favor of the disestablishment of the 

 Church, whether in England or in Wales : and ex- 

 pressing the opinion that every effort should be 



