LtTII KUANS. 



MAINE. 



427 



e. .'::.:: -JO ministers, 30.207 churches, and 

 l.iWS l>apti/.ed members; Asia, 205 minis- 

 i, T-. L44 churches, and 90,969 members; Africa, 

 _MS ministers. fil'J churches, and 134.437 mem- 

 ber-: i iceanica. 1:14 ministers, 804 churches, and 

 'I members; Nurlli America, .V_>:;7 minis- 

 ters. S.!C,'| churches, and (5.71 1.500 members ; 

 South America. 4* ministers, 72 churches, and 

 iiVJ'tO members; Jewish missions. 20 ministers 

 and 23 churches. The Lutheran is a church of 

 many languages. The latest statistics show 

 t hat 'of her baptized membership 32,000,000 

 speak (id-man. 5.31 M i.OOO Swedish, 2,500,000 Nor- 

 wegian. 2.:!oo,ooo Danish. 2,048,000 Finnish, 

 1. >.>().< KM) Mulish, 1.113.000 Hungarian, 624,000 

 Livonian, 4NO.OOO Courlandish, 272,000 Kstlio- 

 nian, SO.(KK) French, 70,000 Icelandic, 4N.<ioo 

 Bohemian, and that in every other civilized 

 tongue she is well represented. In the United 

 Stai.-s she is doing Christian work in 12 differ- 

 ent languages, and her membership supports 147 

 Church periodicals, of which 49 are in English, 

 54 in German. 17 in Swedish, 14 in Norwegian, 

 4 in Danish, 3 in Finnish, 3 in Icelandic, 2 in 

 French, and 1 in Slavonic. Twenty-six foreign 

 missionary societies report 357 stations, 728 for- 

 eign and 3,390 native workers, 188,020 baptized 

 members, 1,437 schools, and 66,742 pupils, with 

 a total income of $881.839.39. 



In Germany, the Lutheran Church has 15.550 

 ministers, 20,450 churches, 28,369,000 baptized 

 members, 19 city home missionary societies, 40 

 provincial home missionary societies, with one 

 central society at Berlin, 11 foreign missionary 

 societies, with 400 European ordained mission- 



aries in active service: the Gustavus Adolphus 

 Society, which annually aids 1,500 churches in 

 Roman Catholic countries with U57.li5i marks: 

 the Lutheran Lord's Treasury, which d 

 similar work for the German diaspora at an an- 

 nual expense of 74,883 marks; 14 institutions 

 for training home missionaries; 18 schools and 

 agencies which have sent more than 1,700 mis- 

 sionary pastors to America; 6 Jewish mission- 

 ary societies; 17 universities; 25 Bible societies-, 

 which annually circulate over 2i o.noo copies of 

 the Mible; 24 religious publication houses; 1,446 

 Sunday schools with 137,502 pupils, In-sides the 

 children's services in most of the churches, 

 which take the place of Sunday schools ; 528 

 Young Men's Christian Associations; 33 women's 

 societies; 148 Christian inns for. the traveling 

 public; 330 Christian homes of correction; 31 

 Christian societies to care for prisoners: 23 

 societies and homes for the poor ; 18 Magdalene 

 institutes ; besides the numerous societies and 

 funds for Christian work in various depart- 

 ments. Similar evangelistic agencies haveoeen 

 organized and are being successfully prosecuted 

 by the Lutheran Churches of Denmark, Norway, 

 Sweden, and Finland. In the great cities of 

 German and Scandinavian countries there are 

 many Lutheran churches; and the Lutherans 

 have in Paris 21 pastors, 16 churches, and 

 30,000 members; in London, 16 pastors, 15 

 churches, 6 mission stations, and 15,000 mem- 

 bers ; in St. Petersburg, 30 pastors, 13 parishes, 

 and 79,000 members; and in Chicago, 75 

 churches, some of which have each over 1,000 

 communicant members. 



M 



MAINE, a New England State, admitted to 

 the Union March 15, 1820; area, 33,040 square 

 miles; population in 1890, 661,086. 



(overnment. The following were the State 

 oilieer* during the year: Governor, Edwin C. 

 Burleigh, Republican ; Secretary of State, Nich- 

 olas Fessenden ; Treasurer, George L. Beal ; At- 

 torney-General, Charles E. Littlefield ; Commis- 

 sioner of Industrial and Labor Statistics, Sam- 

 uel W. Matthews; Superintendent of Common 

 Schools. Nelson A. Luce; Railroad Commission- 

 ers. David N. Mortland, Asa W. Wildes, and Ros- 

 coe L. Bowers, who died in July and was suc- 

 ceeded by B. F. Chadbourne ; State Assessors. 

 Henj. F. Chadbourne, Hall C. Burleigh, Otis Hay- 

 ford ; Adjutant-General. Henry M. Sprague: In- 

 surance Commissioner. Joseph O. Smith ; Bank 

 Kxaminer, Geo. I). Bisbee. who resigned, and was 

 succeeded in August by Charles R. Whit ten ; 

 State Librarian, Leonard I). Carver : Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court. John A. Peters; As- 

 sociate Justices, Charles W. Walton, William W. 

 Virgin, Artemus Lililu-v. l.ucilius A. Emery, 

 F.noch Foster, Thomas 11. llaskell, William P. 

 Whitehouse. 



Finances. The total net bonded debt Jan. 1, 

 1892, was $2,858,500. The State tax for the year 

 was $850.014.11. The receipts during 1891 were 

 $1,737,090.77, and the expenditures $l,712,95:!.v!4. 



The balance at the beginning of the year was 

 $175,466.17, and at the end, $199,603.60. 



The suit brought by the State of Maine against 

 the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada in 1^2. to 

 recover taxes claimed to be due, was decided by 

 the United States Supreme Court in favor of the 

 State, the total amount assessed against this com- 

 pany to date being $122,792.44. 



The amount of the direct tax refunded to the 

 State by the United States Government was 

 $357,702.10. It was placed in the State treasury 

 April 6. 1891, accounted for in the receipts of 

 the year, and applied to the general expci.- 

 the government. 



The total amount of tax paid by the savings 

 banks to the State treasury for the six months 

 ending April 30 was $181,103.89. The tax paid 

 by the savings banks one year asro for the sir 

 months ending April 25. 1SJM. was $171,188.86. 

 The tax for the six months ending Oct. 81, 1891, 

 was $176,380.05. From these figures it is seen 

 that this semiannual savings-bank tax ineNMed 

 for the first half of this year over that of 1891 

 by $9.515.53. 



'Valuations. The new valuation of the State, 

 as taken by the Valuation Commission in 1890. 

 amounts to $309,096,041, making an incn 

 78,117,890 over the valuation of 1SSO. The 

 Legislature of 1891 made the rate of taxation 



