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MACMAHON, MARIE EDME PATRICE MAURICE. 



$106,700. The missions are scattered from ocean 

 to ocean, and from Nova Scotia to Florida and 

 Texas. The Rev. William A. Passavant, Jr., 

 Pittsburg, Pa., Superintendent of the Board of 

 English Missions, presented its report. The 22 

 missions supported by this board are all in im- 

 portant centers, like Boston, Chicago, Minneap- 

 olis, St. Paul, Fargo, Seattle, Tacoma, and Port- 

 land. Into these missions have been gathered 

 1,360 communicant members, who represent 9 

 different nationalities. During the past two 

 years 6 of these missions were organized, 7 have 

 built houses of worship, and some have advanced 

 far toward self-support. The receipts were $23,- 

 027.45, of which the Sunday schools contributed 

 $6,888.86. The expenditures were $32,230.24. 



The Rev. John Nicum. D. D., Secretary of the 

 Board of German Home Missions, presented the 

 biennial report of the board, together with de- 

 tailed explanations of the work in the extensive 

 territory under the care of the missionaries em- 

 ployed. This board maintains 45 mission con- 

 gregations and preaching stations, employing 

 from 8 to 10 missionaries. In the South, mission- 

 ary operations are carried on in Kentucky and 

 Alabama, and missions are maintained, 1 in 

 Chicago and 4 in Utah. But the most extensive 

 operations are carried on in the northwestern 

 provinces of Canada in Manitoba, Assiniboia, 

 Alberta, and Saskatchewan, where 6 missionaries 

 are stationed, serving 35 congregations and 

 preaching stations. The membership of these 

 missions is 3.500 persons, of whom 1,850 are com- 

 municants. This is the result of the past five 

 years during which the present board has had 

 charge of the work. The receipts for two years 

 amounted to $11,450.98, and the expenditures to 

 $10,494.44. The board was authorized to take 

 out articles of incorporation, and to appoint a 

 superintendent of German missions. The Rev. 

 Carl J. Petri, of Minneapolis, Minn., presented 

 the report of the Board of Swedish Home Mis- 

 sions. It shows that more than 60,000 Swedes 



have come to this country since the report of 

 two years ago, and 50 pastors have been added 

 to the working force of synod. The work of the 

 Board of Missions extends over the entire coun- 

 try, and embraces more than 100 missionaries. 

 The receipts for two years were $33,335.57. 



The Rev. John Telleen, of Rock Island, 111., 

 was elected superintendent of missions. He 

 began his work, March 1, 1892, and his labors 

 have been eminently successful. The receipts 

 for two years were $32,856.52, and the expendi- 

 tures $30,844.30. The report furnishes the fol- 

 lowing statistics : 108 mission workers, 6 princi- 

 pal stations, 145 villages where the gospel is 

 preached, 95 villages where schools have been 

 established, 3,757 Christians, and 1,608 children 

 in the schools. 



Quarter-Centennial. A quarter-centennial 

 celebration of the General Council was held dur- 

 ing this convention, and interesting addresses 

 were delivered on the history, faith, work, and 

 influence of the general body since its organiza- 

 tion. The Committee on Statistics gave the pres- 

 ent status of the body as follows: 10 synods 

 (including the German Iowa Synod), 2,221 con- 

 gregations, 255.662 members, 26,358 baptisms, 

 and 18,519 confirmations during the past year, 

 1,146 Sunday schools, 19,429 officers and teachers 

 and 165,921 pupils, 616 parochial schools and 

 29.625 pupils; value of church property, $12,- 

 307,452; congregational expenses, $1,946,426; 

 German home missions, $4,677; English home 

 missions, $12,443 ; foreign missions, $20,359 ; 

 educational institutions, $58,543 ; orphanages, 

 $21,414; general benevolence, $83,491; total 

 benevolence, $281,937 ; contributions for all ob- 

 jects, $2,228,363 ; 4 theological seminaries, 13 

 colleges, with 130 professors, 2,029 students, en- 

 dowment, $351,484, and property, $794.543. 



The United Synod of the South and the Synod- 

 ical Conference, being the other two general 

 bodies of Lutherans in this country, held no con- 

 ventions in 1893. 



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MACMAHON, MARIE EDME PATRICE 

 MAURICE, Comte DE, Due DE MAGENTA, 



ex-President of the French Republic and Mar- 

 shal of France, born in Sully, June 13, 1808 ; 

 died in Paris, Oct. 17, 1893. the family was a 

 race of soldiers descended from an Irish adherent 

 of the Stuarts who traced his lineage back to 

 King Murtogh O'Brien. The Marquis de Mac- 

 Mahon was a lieutenant-general and a peer of 

 France who was a close friend of the Comte 

 d'Artois, afterward Charles X. His father's pa- 

 tron was king when young MacMahon, a vigor- 

 ous youth of seventeen, entered the military 

 college of St. Cyr, then an exclusive, aristocratic 

 school. He gained no honors in his studies, but 

 won friends by his frank and manly bearing, 

 was expert with the sword, fought his share of 

 duels, and when he left the college and immedi- 

 ately was initiated into active service in the ex- 

 pedition to Algeria, his soldierly qualities were 

 soon brought out, and his keen powers of ob- 

 servation, rapid judgment, resolute action, and 

 impetuous and dauntless courage were noted by 



his commanders. He distinguished himself at 

 the siege of Antwerp, in 1831, as aid-de-camp to 

 Gen. Achard. With such a record and the aid 

 of powerful connections, he obtained a captaincy 

 at the age of twenty-five. Returning to Alge- 

 ria, he showed himself a master and an exemplar 

 of the tactics required in campaigning against 

 the Kabyles. The fame of his deeds of daring 

 and his cool intrepidity under fire was celebrated 

 by the whole army. There was a scramble 

 among the commanders to obtain the services 

 of this brilliant officer who inspired the ranks 

 with heroism and stimulated the wavering line 

 to press on to victory. He signalized himself 

 especially at Mouskaia, and in 1837, at the siege 

 of Constantino, where he was wounded, and aft- 

 erward in 1840-'45, during the operations in the 

 south at Biskra, Bab-el-Zaza, Djebel Ahra, Ain 

 Kebira, etc. He was a colonel in command of 

 an infantry regiment in 1845, and was a general 

 of brigade in 1848, and commanded the Constan- 

 tino division at the time of the coup d'etat. As 

 an old Legitimist he was not favorably disposed 



