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UEGATIONALIST& 



Attention to tho opportunities f>r mis- 

 riooary work in I'tah. Now M-\i-.-. An/- -no. 

 SOBthsfB rhf"inut. mul T.-xnv A *porial |n- 

 irad by Secretary J. It Clark mi the 

 financial mditfosj f the nestty. A plan was 

 jjiopiH for raising a sufflcirni amount 

 Ihtdtbt of thettdety by 1.400 subscript 



rh; and smrml wibsrripUons wen? made 



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VrrhBlldl* Society.- 

 annual meeting of the Congregational Church 

 Brtdteg Society was hold rk .!a... i<. 



1lM 



rarrapoit*d an increase botb m the 



mi.i in i ho nninlNT *>f contributing 



church*-. The receipts were $153,1:< 



t >- ..f the previous year, ami the 



nbutiinr chuivhes was 2.- 

 r than in any prerioot year. Aid In I 

 bam given toward the completion of 54 nawon- 

 afsajn which, by means of loans of * 

 property valued at $62.115 hail boon brought 

 into u*i>; and 109 booses of worship, in which 

 tW,7*S of church i.r..|Tty hail been secured 

 by advancing $70.738. The average cost, in- 

 dudinij lot*, of the parsonages was about $1.150, 

 and the average parsonage loan about $408. 

 The average cost of the churches completed was 

 fem, and the average aid $694. Of the 

 churches aided, 8 had been given loans only, -j 1 

 loans and grant s and 89 grants only. 

 American .Missionary Aiwoclatlon. The 



mth annual meeting of the American 

 Missionary Asmciation was held at Detroit. 

 Miciu, in October. The receipts for the year 

 had been $307.547, and the expenditures $887,- 

 8S4. The deficit, $20,787. added to the debt. 

 fMJOl. brought over from the previous year 

 made the present indebtedness of the society 

 $91^088. in addition to the onlinary re<-*-i|its. 

 the association had received, as income from 

 the Daniel Hand fund, the sum of $45.275 and 

 endowment funds to tin- amount of $4.H10. which 



its total income $857,632. Motwithstand- 



9 debt, the present rate of annual 

 was $50.000 less than it had been 

 three yean previously. Some of the schools and 

 missions had been closed, and those which n- 

 fflciency and power 

 tnpass < -rk. The follow- 



in efficiency and power 



and in the compass of th.- !r ..rk. The follow- 

 ing statistics were presented of the educational 

 and missionary work of thesoci- -i.-nai 



work South higher in-t it ut i.,i, s ft; normal and 

 graded schools, 80; common schools, 29; in- 

 strMors, 405; pupils, 11,081. Church work 

 South churches. 198; missionaries, 188; m- m- 

 bers, 10.478; MI during the vear, 134 

 .lay^chool scholars, 



(included above) churches. 51 ; member*. 

 schools, 17; pupils, t,OS4; teachers and mission- 

 aHsa, 2; ministers, 2& Work among the In- 

 dUn*-churcbr*. 14 ; members, 005: schools, 21 ; 

 lisstonaries and teachers. 80 ; pupils, 878 : Sun 

 1.400. Work iiinon, 



scholars, 





amoi. 



20; teachers,:.' i.oil: 



? ro 



professing 



faith in ChrM during the vear. 40. General 

 Mimroanr~^h^.l.. 117. jnipAs, 18,782 ; mission- 

 aries. 649: church**. 212: church members, 11,- 

 381 : Sunday-school scholars. 15.289. For 

 now chnrrbe*. with more than !." 

 had been organised in the South and West. The 



out station- 1 with the work amon- the 



[ndian* Which u-ually n-p n-sent a lions, 

 |.n-d li\ a ChriMiaii Imiian and his \\ if,.. a iil a 

 whool and a church, "r. perhaps, a circuit of 

 churches are situated in ." (liUVivni Stai- 

 reach probably not far fr.m 2i tnl.cs. 'I 



missionaries occupied thcs it stations, and. i't 



was estimated, came in contact with aiion* 

 In. liana every year. A new ini-ic.n had l.cen 

 O|HMHH| during the year. ly tin* aid of funds ,-..n- 

 trilmted especially for that puriK>so, amon^' the 



Indians. Missionary work had 1" 

 sinned annmi: the Ivskiinos in Alaska, with 

 manifestations of c..nsi<lcral)le religious , 

 ainoiiK the people, ami an enrollnient <-f t : 

 ;iii av.-rap- attendance of lus in the H-|I..,,|S. 

 The whole nuiiilier of additions during ?l, 

 In the membership of the churches in the South 

 ami West was 1.4'J."i. An increase of churches 

 and of ineinlN-rs had taken place during the 

 year in the "mountain iron," or the work 

 aiming the people of the mountain region of the 

 Southern States. Of the pupils in the 

 in the South, 1 were classed as theologi 

 as collegiate, 198 as collegiate preparatory, l.:t; 

 as normal studi-nts. j.r.ji ^ grammar-school 

 pupils. 3,170 as intermediate, and 4,552 as pre- 

 paratory. 



In the industrial departments of the schools 

 are taught shoenmking, carpentry, printing, 

 tinning, cabinetmaking, wagon making, hlack- 

 smithing, sewing, cutting, nursing, and other 

 like arts. One normal school in the South, that 

 at Orange I'ark. Ha., is especially mentioned 

 in the report as having been " made an object 

 of determined attack by the State Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, who has influenced 

 the enactment of laws which make it a criminal 

 offense not only to allow a white student in the 

 same school, but also for a white teacher to he 

 boarded under the same roof with colored pupils. 

 The law is so vicious in intent, and so signifi- 

 cant in its purpose, that, after legal opinion- of 

 eminent counsel, our committee have found no 

 other way but to test its validity : not in a spirit 

 of disobedience to law. luii with a determination 

 to have the deliverance of the highest po^-i 

 authority upon a law which we consider un- 

 christian." 



American Board. The eighty-sixth annual 

 meeting of the American Board of Commis- 

 - for Foreign Missidhs was held in Brook- 

 Ivn. N. V.. Oct. 15 to 18. The treasurer's report 

 showed that the total receipts for the year had 

 i D >;];>:;;. or $11.70I more than in the pre- 

 vious year. Among the details of the receipts. 

 i of $38,222 was returned in the regular 

 contributions from churches ami individ 

 decrease of $14,628 in special gifts, and a de- 

 crease of $33,833 in legacies, the whole amount 

 received from this source being the smallest sum 

 i fn.m it. with one exception, in five years. 

 Other items in the receipts were $!l.o:{| fn.'m in- 

 terest $41.367 from the legacy of Asa Oti-. and 

 $47.071 receive/1 for the debt. The expendi- 

 tures had been $71 -Y -.'.;.'. The debt, which 

 amounted to $116.237 at the beginning of the 

 year, had been reduced to $114,632. The I 

 missionary work comprised, in 20 fields in Ku- 

 rope, Asia. Africa, and Oceaniea, 10:'. '-tat ions, 

 1,163 out stations, 1,461 places for stated preach- 



