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been deprived, and to pay the coupon of 1893, 

 which the company declared in January, 1894, 

 would not be paid for five years. 



On May 4 the Government issued a decree 

 postponing the meeting of the Cortes till Oct 1. 

 Against this the Progressist party protested, de- 

 claring that the country had the right to refuse 

 to pay taxes if they were not annually voted, and 

 that a reform in the constitutional laws was 

 necessary to assure a regular meeting of the 

 Cortes. 



PRESBYTERIANS. I. Presbyterian 

 Church in the United States of America. 

 The following is a general summary of the statis- 

 tics of this Church as they were reported to the 

 General Assembly in May, 1894: Number of 

 synods. 31 ; of presbyteries, 223 ; of ministers, 

 (1,641 ; of licentiates, 458 ; of candidates for the 

 ministry, 1,434; of churches, 7.387; of commu- 

 nicants, 895,997; of members of Sunday schools, 

 951,199; of elders, 25,859; of deacons, 9,681. 

 Number of licensures during the year, 336 ; of or- 

 dinations, 261 ; of installations, 488: of churches 

 organized, 168 : of members added on examina- 

 tion, 74,826; of baptisms, 28,212 of adults and 

 28,051 of infants. Amount of contributions 

 during the year: For home missions, $977,823; 

 for foreign missions. $745,794: for education, 

 $107.134; for Sunday-school work, $131,325; 

 for church erection, $172,732; for the relief 

 fund, $94,446; for the Freedmen, $105,743; for 

 sustentation, $80,258 ; for aid for colleges, $185,- 

 676; for the General Assembly, etc., $84,740; 

 for congregational purposes, $10,300,761 ; mis- 

 cellaneous contributions, $1,025,695; total con- 

 tributions, $14,012.127. 



The following representation was published 

 of the financial position of the boards of the 

 Church at the close of the ecclesiastical year, 

 April 30, 1894: Home missions, debt, $258,645: 

 foreign missions, debt, $102,598; education, cash 

 balance, $701 ; publication and Sunday-school 

 work, cash balance, $32.936; church erection, 

 cash balance unappropriated. $14.832; relief, 

 cash balance, $4.549; Freedmen, debt, $26,597; 

 colleges and academies, cash balance, $15,208; 

 temperance, cash balance, $86. 



The Board of Home Missions reported the 

 number of missionaries as 1,821 ; of missionary 

 teachers, 368 ; of additions on profession of faith, 

 13,368; of members, 111,830; total in congre- 

 gations, 155,009; number of adult baptisms, 

 5,236 ; of infant baptisms, 5,408 ; of Sunday 

 schools organized, 461 ; whole number of Sunday- 

 schools, 2,576; of members in the same, 171,341 ; 

 of church edifices, 1,912, valued at $4,874,323; 

 of church edifices built during the year, 78, at a 

 total cost of $22 1,330 ; of church edifices repaired 

 and enlarged, 365, at a cost of $80,295 ; amount 

 of church debts canceled, $86,825 ; number of 

 churches made self-sustaining during the year, 

 31; of churches organized, 101; of parsonages, 

 461, valued at $593,349. 



The Board of Church Erection had received 

 during the year 214 applications for grants or 

 loans, asking for a total of $174,255. One hun- 

 dred and ninety-eight churches and manses had 

 been completed, through the aid of the board, 

 without debt, the aggregate value of which was 

 $656,136. 



The Board of Publication had, through its 

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Sunday school and missionary department, or- 

 ganized 870 schools, assisted by grants in the 

 organization of 85 other schools,' and reorganized 

 348 schools; into all of which 45,174 teachers 

 and pupils had been gathered, and from which 

 45 churches had grown. It had distributed 

 gratuitously more than 17,344,000 pages of tracts 

 and periodicals, and 48,000 volumes of Christian 

 literature (exclusive of Bibles), at a cost of $18,- 

 598. It closed the year with a balance of $33,- 

 936. 



The receipts of the Board of Missions for the 

 Freedmen for 1893 were $194,610, and the ex- 

 penditures $192,322 ; while the present indebt- 

 edness, less $8,403 cash on hand, was $26,697. 

 The work of the board comprises 172 ministers, 

 of whom 9 were white and 163 colored ; 261 

 teachers; 283 churches, with 16,015 communi- 

 cants, of whom 1,662 were received on examina- 

 tion during the year; 283 Sunday schools, with 

 17,521 pupils; 91 schools, with 261 teachers and 

 11,424 pupils; and 18 boarding schools. Nine 

 new church buildings, to 2 of which parsonages 

 were attached, were completed during the year, 

 and another was nearly completed. 



The Board of Foreign Missions had under its 

 care 108 principal stations, 592 out stations. 208 

 ordained American missionaries, 54 physicians, 

 18 of whom were women, 15 men variously em- 

 ployed, and 358 women, including wives ; making 

 the total of American laborers 635; 165 native 

 ordained ministers, 239 licentiates, and 1,335 

 teachers and helpers, making a total of 1,741 

 native laborers : 436 churches, 30,453 communi- 

 cants, of whom 3,141 had been added during the 

 past year; 76 students for the ministry, 2,119 

 boys and 1,834 girls in the boarding schools, and 

 1,837 boys and 8,236 girls in the day schools. 

 The contributions from the churches amounted 

 to $86,764. Especial emphasis was placed in 

 the report upon the work of the medical mission- 

 aries. During the year 268,41 1 patients had been 

 treated. In Korea the medical service was a 

 distinctive part of the work. 



The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the 

 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was held 

 at Scranton, Pa., in April. The society repre- 

 sents 50 presbyterial societies and 3,466 auxil- 

 iary bands and Christian Endeavor Societies. 

 The total receipts for the year had been $145,- 

 604, less by $9.000 than the receipts for the 

 previous year. The society employs, in the for- 

 eign fields, 11 medical women and 81 Bible 

 women and teachers. 



The General Assembly met at Saratoga, N. Y., 

 May 15. The Rev. Samuel A. Mutchrnore, D. D., 

 of Philadelphia, was chosen Moderator. A re- 

 port was presented of the plan of federation, 

 which had been agreed upon for submission to 

 their several general courts by a conference of 

 authorized representatives of 8* Presbyterian and 

 Reformed bodies viz., the Associate Reformed 

 Synod of the South, the Cumberland Presby- 

 terian Church, the General Synod of the Re- 

 formed Church in America, the General Synod 

 of the Reformed Church in the United States, 

 the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 

 the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian 

 Church, the United Presbyterian Church, and 

 the Presbyterian Church in the United States of 

 America. * The following is the plan : 



