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departments of home mission work had been 

 $183,630. 



The receipts for French evangelization had 

 been $38,300. Seventy-three laborers were em- 

 ployed in the work, including 25 pastors and 

 licentiates, 12 student missionaries, 11 colpor- 

 teurs, and 22 mission day-school teachers, in 26 

 fields with 90 stations, hi which 160 members had 

 been added to the Church. 



Credit balances were shown in the Aged and 

 Infirm Ministers' funds of both the Eastern and 

 Western Committees. Fair progress had been 

 made in the West with the Endowment fund, 

 $137,600 having been subscribed, and $112,743 

 of it having been paid in. Ninety-one annuitants 

 were registered on its books. 



Aid had been given by the Church and Manse 

 Building fund to 45 congregations in erecting 

 26 churches and 13 manses. During the past 

 twelve years the board had helped erect 222 

 churches and 49 manses, having an estimated 

 value of about $400,000. 



The present was the jubilee year of the foreign 

 mission work of the Church, the first foreign 

 missionary having been sent out by the presby- 

 teries of Novo Scotia in July 1844, to, Aneityum 

 in the New Hebrides. The Church had now 30 

 ordained and 6 medical missionaries ; 15 woman 

 missionaries, 5 of whom were graduates in medi- 

 cine ; and 14 teachers ; making in all 65 Canadians 

 laboring in the fields of the New Hebrides, 

 Formosa, and Honan in China, Central India, 

 Haifa in Palestine, the North American Indians, 

 and the Chinese on the Pacific coast. In these 

 fields there were now 112 native preachers, 

 of whom 34 were ordained ; 96 catechists ; 

 59 Bible readers: 3,092 communicants, 385 

 of whom were added during the past year ; 

 121 schools, with 5,624 scholars; 7 hospitals and 

 6 dispensaries, where 5,082 indoor and 5,858 out- 

 door patients were treated during the year. For 

 the whole work the receipts for the year were 

 $124.114. 



The General Assembly met at St. John, N. B., 

 June 13. The Rev. Dr. Mackay, missionary to 

 Formosa, was unanimously chosen moderator. 

 The question that received most earnest atten- 

 tion in discussion concerned what should be in- 

 cluded in the " Revised Book of Praise " in 

 course of preparation whether selections from 

 the Psalms of David as recommended by the 

 committee or the whole Psalter in Rouse's ver- 

 sion. The Assembly voted very decisively in 

 favor of the selections, and they, with the hymns 

 recommended by the committee, were sent down 

 to the presbyteries for consideration by them. 

 On the question of the relation between the 

 Church and the theological colleges in the ap- 

 pointment of professors, the Assembly decided 

 that unless a special exception is made, as has 

 been done in the case of Queen's College, the 

 appointment shall be made by the General As- 

 sembly on the nomination of the board of the 

 college. In answer to a fraternal address of 

 greeting from the Episcopal clergy of the dean- 

 ery of St. John, the Assembly declared that the 

 Presbyterian Church in Canada hailed with de- 

 light every token of spiritual prosperity in the 

 Anglican communion, and that the Assembly 

 was prepared to do all in its power in the appli- 

 cation of the liberal principles governing its 



policy to remove every needless obstacle in the 

 way of concerted action against common foes. 



A committee was appointed on the subject 

 of Chinese immigration, to labor with the Gov- 

 ernment for the removal of unjust restrictions. 

 The report on temperance represented that the 

 subject had received increased attention in the 

 Church. The committee was instructed to labor 

 with the proper authorities for the immediate 

 enactment and vigorous enforcement of legisla- 

 tion prohibiting the liquor traffic. Correspond- 

 ence had been had with representative men in 

 the Congregational Church of Canada with ref- 

 erence to union, in view of which the committee 

 on that subject was reappointed. Provision was 

 made for an annual conference on Sabbath ob- 

 servance in every presbytery, and ministers and 

 members were enjoined again to exercise scrupu- 

 lous regard for the sanctity of the day. 



The case of Prof. John Campbell (see "Annual 

 Cyclopaedia'' for 1893), on his appeal against the 

 decision of the Presbytery of Montreal suspend- 

 ing him, came up in the Synod of Montreal, May 

 8. The arguments were presented, Prof. Camp- 

 bell making a long speech in his own defense, 

 and an adjustment was finally reached on Prof. 

 Campbell accepting as a statement of his posi- 

 tion (1) that "the statements of the Old Testa- 

 ment writers as to the character of God were 

 true as far as they went, but in a few cases were 

 not the whole truth. (2) In the great majority 

 of cases the Father, when smiting in judgment, 

 and in discipline or chastisement, acts in accord- 

 ance with general laws or through secondary 

 causes." Upon this the synod resolved unani- 

 mously that, "having received this report, the 

 synod give thanks to God, and declare all pro- 

 ceedings against Prof. Campbell at an end." 



YII. Church of Scotland. The statistical 

 reports of the Church of Scotland for 1893 give 

 returns from 1,348 parishes, 432 of which are 

 quoad sacra, with 192 nonparochial churches 

 and 160 missions. The number of communi- 

 cants is 605,000. 



The report of the Home Mission Committee 

 gave the number of mission stations as 86, with 

 75 mission churches and 38 parish missionaries ; 

 an average attendance of 22.262, a total income 

 of 9,364, and a total expenditure by the com- 

 mittee of 9,172 ; while the total expenditure, 

 including sums raised locally, had been 32,800. 



The Endowment Committee reported that the 

 whole number of new parishes erected under 

 their supervision, exclusive of 40 parliamentary 

 chiirches, was now 387. The capital thus funded 

 for the permanent providing of religious ordi- 

 nances to the people of Scotland since 1846 was 

 more than 1,405,000, exclusive of the value of 

 the church fabrics. The amount received during 

 the past financial year was 6,796. The volun- 

 tary contributions for 1893 amounted altogether 

 to 359.311. 



The contributions to the Aged and Infirm 

 Ministers' fund during 1893 were 2.958, and 

 the amount of the annuities paid was 3,313. 

 Thirteen grants, ranging from 90 to 120, were 

 made, amounting in all to 1,350. The income 

 of the Colonial Committee was 3,519. Thirty- 

 three baptisms were administered during fifteen 

 months in the work of the Jewish Mission Com- 

 mittee. 



