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Hit- joint Committee on Clerical Incomes, a reso- 

 lution was adopted recommending the formation 

 of a sustenttttion fund in each diocese where re- 

 to .-i i-t the poor clergy. The house 

 itself to resist by every means in its 

 1 10 \\t-r -tins measure now before Parliament for 

 the robl>ery of the Church in Wales," and sug- 

 gested to the archbishop an organization of the 

 province to prevent the passing into law of any 

 nieiiMire "by which endowments of the Church 

 shall ho taken from her and devoted to secular 

 purposes." Resolutions were adopted in favor of 

 the Church Patronage bill; promising approval 

 to any well-considered scheme for the increase 

 of th(3 episcopate; and declaring that, as the 

 great majority of pupils in the board schools are 

 the children of Christian parents, "no settle- 

 ment of the religious question can be acquiesced 

 in which will not guarantee to these children 

 the teaching by Christian teachers of the articles 

 of faith as contained in the Apostles' Creed, and 

 of their duties to God and their neighbors as 

 summed up in the Ten Commandments. 



Missionary Societies. The annual meeting 

 of the Church Missionary Society was held in 

 London, May 2. The receipts for the year had 

 been 282,805 larger, with one exception, than 

 in any previous year. The expenditure had ex- 

 ceeded that of any previous year by 5,004, and 

 a deficit was returned of 15,335. The general 

 review of the year embodied in the report showed 

 that of the more than half a million native Prot- 

 estant Christians in India, 114,000 were at the 

 close of 1891 connected with this society. A real 

 impression had been made in the country at large 

 upon the system of Hinduism, in connection with 

 which the work of the mission colleges, the 

 Anglo-vernacular schools, and the woman mis- 

 sionaries of the zenana societies was gratefully 

 recognized. Mohammedanism also had yielded 

 trophies to the gospel, both in India and the 

 countries under Mohammedan rule. The mis- 

 sion schools in China, Ceylon, and Japan were 

 doing excellent work among Buddhists. 



The one hundred and ninety-second annual 

 meeting of the Society for the Propagation of 

 the Gospel in Foreign Parts was held in April, 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding. The 

 gross income of the society for the year had been 

 127,148 an increase of 10,628. The increased 

 revenue was due in large part to the society's ap- 

 peals for Mauritius and Newfoundland after the 

 disasters by fire and hurricane in those dioceses. 



The society is about to publish a digest of its 

 proceedings, journals, manuscripts, letters, and 

 reports, with a record of all the missionaries it 

 has supported, from the date of its incorporation 

 by royal charter in 1701 to the present time. 

 This work is expected to be of great use in giv- 

 ing the early history not only of the Church in 

 the United States, on which, up to the date of 

 the acknowledgment of independence in 1784, 

 the society spent nearly a quarter of a million of 

 money, but of the foundation of the Church in 

 every colony of the empire. The missionary 

 work in India, as well as in countries outside the 

 limits of the empire, will be recorded at length. 

 The work will be illustrated by portraits of 14 of 

 the archbishops of Canterbury, who have been 

 presidents of the society; of Bishop Seabury, the 

 first bishop in the United States ; and of the Rev. 



G. Kuith, the first missionary sent to America in 

 1702; and with pictures of many colleges in 

 foreign parts, which the society has helped by 

 endowment or otherwise. 



The year's income of the South American Mis- 

 sionary Society was 10,532. The sum of :!.">?? 

 had been paid out for chaplaincies, and 3,772 

 for missions to the heathen. The reserve fund 

 amounted to 3,002. The annual report de- 

 scribed the work of the society in the Falkland 

 Islands and various parts 01 South America, 

 Satisfactory educational progress was reported 

 from Tierra del Fuego, where, however, tne na- 

 tive men and women were suffering from the ef- 

 fects of the alcoholic liquors introduced by the 

 white man. Excellent progress had been made 

 among the 2,000,000 heathen Indians of the Para- 

 guayan Chaco, who no longer had to take liquor 

 instead of money in payment for their skins or 

 work, and among whom drunkenness had, there- 

 fore, to a large extent been abolished. The 

 Paraguayan Government regarded the mission 

 with the greatest favor. Mr. A. Busk had given 

 the society 1,158 acres of land for mission pur- 

 poses in that region. In Chili the civil war had 

 left sad traces, and missionary work was carried 

 on in the midst of danger to life and property. 

 The work of this society lies within the diocese 

 of the Bishop of the Falkland Islands, which in- 

 cludes the whole of South America except Brit- 

 ish Guiana. 



The Universities Mission to Central Africa re- 

 ports that its income for 1892 was 21,483, the 

 largest amount ever received by the society in 

 one year. The sum of 11,200 was also received 

 for endowment of the Nyanza bishopric. The 

 expenditures for the year amounted to 19,835. 



The British Syrian Mission, which is described 

 in its annual report as " essentially a women's 

 mission to the women of Syria," comprises a 

 training institution at Beirut for girls who are 

 under contract to teach in the day schools of the 

 mission, and of whom the most promising are 

 often adopted by friends in England. The 39 

 day schools have 3,500 pupils of various creeds ; 

 besides these, schools for the blind are sustained 

 with a staff of Bible women, harem visitors, and 

 Scripture readers. A work was carried on among 

 the soldiers of the army in the Lebanon ; and 

 among the most recent developments of the 

 work were evangelistic work among the Bedouin 

 and a small woman's medical mission. The 

 European staff numbered 17 women and 3 men, 

 and there were 99 European and native teach- 

 ers and 31 Bible women and Scripture readers. 

 The income of the mission was 5,500 a year. 



The Society for Promoting Christian Knowl- 

 edge, which began in 1840 by giving 10,000 to 

 the Council of the Colonia'l Bishopric's fund 

 " for the endowment of sees in the colonies and 

 dependencies of the British Empire," has up to 

 the present time voted 88,000 toward the in- 

 crease of the colonial episcopate. It has helped 

 the endowment funds of 17 dioceses in Canada, 

 North America, and the West Indies, of 12 dio- 

 ceses in Africa, of 7 dioceses in Asia, and of 16 

 dioceses in Australia and New Zealand. 



The total income of the missions to seamen 

 for the year was 35,496, or nearly 5,000 more 

 than that of the previous year. The increase was 

 mainly derived from legacies. 



