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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 



was nearly 1,000,000 cans short of that of the 

 preceding year. 



Stock and Dairies. Of late years consider- 

 able improvements have been made in raising 

 farm stock. In recent exhibitions, open to the 

 whole Dominion, held in Montreal and Hamilton, 

 a large share of the prizes was awarded to the 

 horses of Prince Edward Island. Other farm 

 stock is also raised in large numbers. Within 

 recent years companies have been organized for 

 the manufacture of creamery butter and cheese, 

 and the product of the latter for the season of 

 1893 was valued at over $15,000 a month. 



Manufactures. The manufactories include 

 starch and soap factories, tanneries, grist, saw 

 and woolen mills, factories for canning and pre- 

 serving meat and fish, and carriage factories. 

 The capital invested in 1893 was estimated at 

 $3,143,516, the value of the products at $4,568,- 

 519, and the number of persons employed, 8,506. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

 IN THE UNITED STATES. This Church 

 now consists of 53 dioceses and 18 missionary 

 dioceses or jurisdictions, and has 7 missions in 

 foreign lands under the care of bishops. A larger 

 number of missionary bishops were chosen and 

 consecrated in 1893 than in any other year of 

 the Church's history. The revised Prayer Book 

 proves universally acceptable. The diocesan 

 statistics indicate an increase in 1893 over 1892 

 in the number of clergy, the number of con- 

 firmations, the number of communicants, the 

 number of teachers in both Sunday and paro- 

 chial schools, and the number attending both. 

 A decrease is shown in the number of parishes 

 and organized missions, in the number of bap- 

 tisms, and in the amounts of contributions. The 

 sources of information in preparing this article 

 are the published reports of Church societies, 

 Pott's ' American Church Almanac," Whitta- 

 ker's " Protestant Episcopal Almanac," and the 

 " Living Church Quarterly." The general sum- 

 mary of statistics for the year is as follows : 

 Number of dioceses, 53 ; missionary jurisdic- 

 tions, 18; foreign missionary jurisdictions, 7; 

 bishops, 78; clergy, 4,369; candidates for or- 

 ders, 480; postulants, 246; lay readers, 1,495; 

 parishes and missions, 5,872 : baptisms (infants, 

 48,083; adults, 11,899); confirmations, 42,410; 

 communicants, 577,814; marriages, 16,955; bur- 

 ials, 32,866 ; Sunday-school teachers, 44,371 ; 

 Sunday-school pupils, 404,822 ; teachers in parish 

 schools, 405: pupils in parish schools, 10,120; 

 hospitals, 33 ; orphanages, 31 ; homes, 79 ; dis- 

 pensaries, 2 ; reformatories, 6. 



Domestic and Foreign Missionary Soci- 

 ety. The annual Missionary Council met in 

 Chicago, Oct. 22, 1893, and continued in session 

 four days. The attendance was large, and hope- 

 ful belief in rapid extension of the Church was 

 justified by the knowledge that it had been 

 found necessary during the year to divide the 

 missionary jurisdiction of New Mexico and Ari- 

 zona into two, to erect, out of the dioceses of 

 Colorado, Florida, and Michigan, the missionary 

 districts of Western Colorado, Southern Florida, 

 and Northern Michigan, and to divide into two 

 the missionary jurisdiction of Washington, and 

 also to appoint a general missionary to the Swedes 

 in this country. Among the resolutions adopted 

 by the Council were the following : 



That this Missionary Council desires to put on 

 record its solemn conviction that the enforcement of 

 what is known as " the Geary bill," or any similar 

 legislation in reference to the Chinese residing in this 

 country, will have a most deleterious effect upon the 

 work of Christian missions in China. 



That a printed copy of the above resolution be sent 

 to every Senator and member of the Congress of the 

 United States. 



This was in conformity with the action of the 

 House of Bishops, which, earlier in the year, had 

 presented the following resolution, adopted by 

 the house, to the President of the United States, 

 the Secretary of State, and other authorities : 



That this house desires to place upon record the 

 expression of its deep conviction that legislation cal- 

 culated to bear specially and hardly upon the Chinese 

 race is not only essentially unjust and in violation of 

 the most venerable traditions of our Government, but 

 is also likely to precipitate an antagonism to Ameri- 

 can citizens residing in China, which may lead speed- 

 ily to the expulsion of all such residents from China, 

 and to the ultimate prohibition of the extension ot 

 American civilization or any of its benefits to that 

 great empire. 



The cost of administering the affairs of the 

 society, and making the work known to the 

 Church, was 8 per cent, of the receipts for mis- 

 sions, or 5 per cent, of all the receipts by the 

 treasurer. The number of contributing con- 

 gregations was greater than in any previous 

 year, 2,891 contributing to domestic missions, 

 and 3,074, in all, to either domestic or foreign, 

 or to both. The number of congregations in 

 the Church is about 5,499, and the amount con- 

 tributed was $358,885.72. 



Domestic Missions. The society is respon- 

 sible for the salaries of the bishops and stipends 

 of the missionaries in 18 missionary jurisdictions, 

 and has given assistance to 37 other dioceses. 

 The whole number of missionaries receiving 

 salaries or stipends during the year was 818. 

 The total receipts were $342,611.89. From the 

 report of the Commission on Church Work 

 among the Colored People the following ex- 

 tracts are made : 



The greater part in fact, almost the whole of the 

 work accomplished thus far has been brought into 

 existence by Christian sympathizers in the North. 

 The Episcopal Church not having hitherto realized 

 her duty in this portion of the Master's vineyard, 

 and having allowed other religious bodies to take the 

 lead, must now labor with extra zeal and at some dis- 

 advantage, in order to win her place in the affections 

 of the negro. An appropriation of $59,710 was asked 

 for the coming year, for the purpose of continuing 

 work in 16 States among .7 : 000,000 colored people. 



Foreign Missions. In Africa, China, Japan, 

 and Hayti the Church has 225 stations and out 

 stations and 1 mission school in Greece. The 

 whole number of laborers is 499, of whom 3 are 

 missionary bishops and 1 is the Bishop of the 

 Haytian Church, besides 2 bishops who have re- 

 signed their jurisdictions, but still have connec- 

 tion with their respective fields; 75 are presby- 

 ters and deacons, of whom 58 are natives of the 

 countries in which they work, and who have been 

 educated in our own mission schools. In China 

 and Japan there are 5 missionary physicians. 

 Including the wives of missionaries, who all 

 participate in the work, there are 41 other for- 

 eign lay workers, and there are 372 native cate- 

 chists, lay readers, teachers, etc. In 29 boarding 



