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ami tho expenditures had l.een *l.:i"iii. i .'i:.. of 

 tins sum, $676,107 had been applied to foreign 

 mi ions, xril'.i.'.rjs to domestic missions, $H,iMM) 

 to tin- salaries of missionary bishops, and if ~ v ..' !> 

 in payment of special appropriations. 



re 

 the ensuing 



The following appropriations were made for 

 e support of the missions during 



I. FOREIGN MISSIONS: 



Africa ........................................ $5,700 



Nmth America ............................... 61,671 



China ........................................ 118,711 



:. riiuiny ..................................... 27,700 



Switzerland .................................. 7,900 



Scandinavia .................................. 45,878 



India ......................................... 117,687 



Malaysia ..................................... 8,869 



Bulgaria .................................... KV260 



Italy ......................................... 42,600 



Meiico ....................................... 68,878 



.Japan ....................................... 64,408 



Corea ........................................ 16,967 



Lower California .............................. 900 



Total for foreign missions .................. |58,S84 



II. DOMESTIC MISSIONS : 



Welsh ........................................ $1,601 



Scandinavian ................................. 64,671 



German ...................................... 46,900 



Kr.iu-h ...................................... 6,111 



Spanish ..................................... 14,056 



Chinese ...................................... 10,870 



.lapanese ..................................... 7,400 



Bohemian and Hungarian ..................... 8,586 



Italian ........................................ 6,271 



Portuguese ................................... 712 



Hebrew ...................................... 1,200 



Pennsylvania Dutch ........................... 800 



American Indians ............................. 8,576 



English-speaking ............................. 808,199 



Total for domestic missions ............... $474,952 



III. MiscKLi-ANHors ............................ $119,000 



For the debt .................................. 109,000 



Grand total ............................... $1,271,886 



The latest published report of the society (1892) 

 showed that there were in the foreign missions, 

 543 American missionaries, 4,141 native labor- 

 ers, 59,138 members, 31,652 probationers, 76.572 

 adherents; an average attendance on Sunday 

 worship of 196,323, with 11.342 adults and 8,231 

 children baptized during the year; 13,090 pu- 

 pils, 335 of whom were in theological schools, 

 8,885 in high schools, and 10,370 in other day 

 schools; and 120,954 pupils in Sunday schools; 

 in the domestic missions, 689 missionaries, 

 3H.588 members, 7,005 probationers. 812 adults 

 .mil :5.378 children baptized during the year, and 

 44.409 pupils in Sunday schools. The Scandi- 

 navian and German conferences, also results of 

 mission work, included 732 preachers, 60,900 

 members, 5,765 probationers, 89 adults and 5,664 

 children baptized during the year, and 58,399 

 pupils in Sunday schools. 



Woman's Foreiyn Missionary Society. The 

 General Executive Committee of the Woman's 

 Foreign Missionary Society met at St. Paul. 

 Minn., Oct. 25. The committee is composed of 

 3 delegates from each of the 11 branches of the 

 society. The society is composed of 4,533 aux- 

 iliary" societies, with 121,685 members: 7:23 

 young women's societies, with 14,264 members ; 

 and 713 children's bands, with 14,699 members. 

 The amount of money contributed for the year 

 by the various branches was $277,290, being 

 $11,948 more than in the previous year. One 

 hundred and forty-five missionaries were sup- 



ported by the society, 117 of whom were in the 

 field, and 28 were at home for the benefit of 

 iln-ir health. Of these, 22 were in Japan. 8 in 

 Mexico, 31 in China, 2 in Bulgaria, 36 in India, 

 i; in Corea, 2 in Malaysia, 2 in Italy, 5 in South 

 America, and 3 in Burmah. The sum of $810,- 

 873 was appropriated for the ensuing year. 



Woman's Home Missionary Society. The 

 twelfth annual meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society 

 was held in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 26. The receipts 

 for the year had been $90,906. Thirty-five 

 missionaries were employed in the South, and 

 14 industrial homes and schools were sustained 

 there. Twenty missionary teachers were labor- 

 ing among the Indians and in Mexico. Other 

 institutions of the society were the Glenn Home 

 at Cincinnati, Ohio; a Bohemian mission in Chi- 

 cago, 111. ; immigrant homes in New York, Bos- 

 ton, and Philadelphia ; city missions in Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, and Pittsburg, Pa. ; and a training 

 school at Washington, D. C. ; all of which had 

 been regularly and liberally sustained. Clothing 

 and other supplies had been distributed to the 

 value of $70,000. A Chinese mission work was 

 sustained by the Woman's Missionary Society of 

 the Pacific coast. 



Deaconesses. Nineteen deaconesses' homes in 

 the United States returned 220 deaconesses, 63 

 deaconesses were engaged in the work of the 

 Woman's Home Missionary Society, and 20 

 were estimated to be working outside of homes, 

 making a total of 303 deaconesses laboring in 

 America. Property valued at $284,908 was 

 held in connection with this work. Besides 

 these, 18 deaconesses were returned from 6 

 homes in India, and 12 working in that country 

 outside of homes, 106 in Germany and Switzer- 

 land, and 2 in China. The whole number of 

 deaconesses in the Church was 441. The Dea- 

 coness Conference holds annual national meetr 

 ings. Although it is without authority, its 

 recommendations have been generally adopted 

 in the deaconesses' homes. 



Epwortfi League. The Epworth League in- 

 cludes 11,300 chapters, with 750.000 members; 

 and the Junior League 2,000 chapters, with 80,- 

 000 members. Six college chapters were organ- 

 ized during the year, and more than 60 chapters 

 in foreign lands. The first International Con- 

 vention of the leagues met in Cleveland, Ohio, 

 in June. 1893. 



II. Methodist Episcopal Chnrch, South. 

 The statistical tables of this Church for 1892 

 give it 47 annual conferences, with 1,305,715 

 members 89,153 more than in 1891 ; 5.868 

 traveling preachers, 4,757 of whom are effect- 

 ive ; an-1 13,426 Sunday schools, with 13,426 offi- 

 cers and teachers and 754,223 pupils; number of 

 preachers admitted on trial during the year, 

 343 : number of baptisms, 60,394 of adults and 

 33,749 of infants. One hundred and seventy- 

 nine schools and colleges return 16,620 pupils, 

 endowment funds amounting in the aggregate 

 to $1,538,000, and property valued t $4,485,042. 



Board of Chnrch Extension. The Board of 

 Church Extension met at Louisville, Ky., April 

 27, Presley Meguiar presiding. The secretary 

 reported that tin- receipts for the year had been 

 xtM.')-,'. 1 ) on general account, and $11,818 on 

 Loan-fund account; making, in all, $77,243. 



