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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



licensed and 2.274 unlicensed lay readers, 151 

 paid and 10? unpaid deaconesses, 72 paid and 

 416 unpaid >isters, SOU paid and l(i."i unpaid mis- 

 sion women, and 1,127 paid and 12o unpaid 

 nurses. The tithe-runt charge a- commuted is 



fiven at i'2. '!:!!*. ii}:;. and its present value as 

 1.777.524. The average income of t he parochial 

 cli-rgy is a little more than 240. The stipends 

 of a i.Mant clergy are returned as f27.~>.-|i;s. Of 

 the voluntary contributions. l't::c..7tis \\,.iv for 

 day and Sunday seliools and 23."i.SH)o for for- 

 eign missions. "An advance, in some instances 

 considerable, on the returns of the previous year 

 is shown in every department. 



Missionary Societies. The total income of 

 the Society I'o'r the Propagation of the (iospel in 

 Foreign Parts for 1893 amounted to I'll 3,079, 

 an increase of 1,100 over the previous year. 

 The society maintained 718 ordained mission- 

 aries, including 10 bishops and 2.300 lay t each- 

 fix, and had 2.000 students in its colleges in 

 dill'eivnt parts of the world, with about 38,000 

 children in its schools in Asia and Africa. The 

 works of two brotherhoods or missionary com- 

 munities, one of Cambridge men at Delhi, and 

 the other of graduates of Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin, at Ha/aribagh, in Chota Nagpur, are cited 

 as striking instances of the way in which the so- 

 ciety has secured for its missionary work the 

 services of highly educated men. Considerable 

 space is given in the report to the mission in 

 Mashonaland, which was planted by the society 

 before the British South Africa. Company was 

 formed. In the new diocese of Lebombo the 

 bishop was the only clergyman of the Church of 

 Kngland. The diocese of Quebec had made a 

 voluntary offer to surrender its grant at the 

 dose of 'the present century. As these grants 

 are surrendered the chums from the lands in- 

 crease in much more rapid proportion. The 

 work of the society is carried on in ."it dioceses, 

 and the clergv whom it maintains minister in."il 

 different languages. 



The annual meet ing of the Church Missionary 

 Society was held in London, May 1. Sir .lohn 

 Kennaway, M. P.. presided. The expenditure of 

 the society, including a deficit of 3,713 brought 

 forward, had been 2ii.-j.N3li, ,,r J 12,010 more 

 than the receipts. The expenditure was increas- 

 ing at the rate of '2,000 a year. During the 

 pa-t twelve months 4-"> men and 4S women had 

 been accepted for foreign service. The statis- 

 tical reports showed that then- were in all the 

 missions 324 stations. SH Knropean missionaries 

 (317 ordained, 74 lay, 2-V> wives, and 108 woman 

 missionaries*. 312 native and Eurasian clergy, 

 J.H70 native lay teachers. 4-">. 501 native com- 

 municant.-, 200. |S| native Christian adherents. 



and 2,026 schools, with 81,648 pupils. Tin- number 



of baptisms during the vi-ar had been 11,718. 

 The annual report recorded distinct sii;ns of 

 progress. Twenty-three nat i ve evangeli-1 s had 

 been ordaini'd during the year, some of whom 

 were chiefs of their race, as in I'iranda. and one 

 was a Tukuhd Indian the first native clergy- 

 man ever ordained wit hin the limits of the arctic 

 circle. Six of the society's missionaries had 

 been made mis-ionarv bishops. The general 

 effects of mission work were visible in every 

 field to all who were willing to see. The most 

 conspicuous transformation was that wrought 



in Uganda, although the world, seeing only 

 what it called "religious rivalries," utterly 

 failed to comprehend what had taken place. 

 i-iil converts from Mohammedanism were 

 mentioned. The most welcome news of the year 

 was that of the improvement in the lives of the 

 native Christians in India, China, Japan, and 

 Africa. Contributions were made during the an- 

 niversary meetings sufficient to pay the debt of 

 the society and to furnish it 4,000 or 5,000 

 with which to begin the new year. 



The Cambridge mission to Delhi and the 

 south Punjab in its sixteenth annual report 

 speaks of the obstacles to missionary work in the 

 stronghold of Mohammedan and Hindu feeling 

 in which it labors as being very great, and can 

 therefore return but; few conversions. It sustains 

 St. Stephen's ^College, an institution affiliated to 

 the Punjab University, with about 600 students 

 from six to twenty years of age, about 50 of 

 whom are Christians, while all are receiving 

 Christian instruction; a Christian boys' board- 

 ing house, containing about 40 boys, who attend 

 the high school ; an industrial boarding school ; 

 ba/aar preaching; and itinerant work. Anew 

 sta 1 ion was contemplated at Rotak. 



The Church Pastoral Aid Society in 1893 

 made grant- to 052 incumbents in England and 

 Wales, who had under their charge an aggregate 

 population of 5,360,891, the average population 

 of each aided parish being 8,222. The average 

 amount of incomes of the aided incumbents was 

 501, and 156 of them were without parsonage 

 houses. The total annual value of the grants 

 made was 54,353. These grants had called 

 forth considerable local effort. The sum of 

 37,490 had been raised in the various dioceses 

 to supplement the society's aid, and a further 

 sum of 9,055 had been contributed by the 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 



The Additional Curates' Society reported a 

 decrease of nearly 13,000 in its income for 1893 

 as compared with that for 1892, the receipts 

 from all sources having been 74,720, as against 

 87,470 in 1S!)2. Having regard to the diminu- 

 tion in incomes, the society announced that it 

 was necessary to reduce the grant list by 15 per 

 cent, of the total liability for 1893. 



The Convocations. At the meeting of the 

 Convocation of Canterbury, Nov. 2, 1893, a re- 

 port was presented in the' lower house criticis- 

 ing certain provisions of the Local Government 

 (Kngland and Wales) bill as not sufficiently 

 guarding against secular interference with eccle- 

 siastical matters, and resolutions were adopted 

 suggesting amendments intended to remedy the 

 defects pointed out. In the House of Laymen, 

 aUo. amendments were suggested with a view to 

 securing to the Church in' rural parishes "her 

 rightful control over Church seliools, parish 

 rooms, and other buildings vested in Church offi- 

 OeW a-- trustees." 



The Convocation of Canterbury met for the 

 (list time in 1S!M. .Ian. 30. In the upper house 

 the Parish Councils bill was discussed. A pe- 

 tition was presented calling attention to the in- 

 i-rease of suicides and protesting against the 

 leniency with which such cases were treated by 

 coroners' inquests returning verdicts of tempo- 

 rary insanity. In the lower house a number of 

 amendments were suggested to the Parish Coun- 



