ISO 



Ll'TII KUANS. 



lend Icelanders, of whom there are 20,000 in 



ouiiiry. all Luther;. 

 The rej.ort of the Board of Kmrli-h Home 



\: -.- *h< pad !!.>-:.: - nodi r Iti 90% 



located in Mass* 



Ohio. Illinois, Indiai -in. Mini 



North -re gnu. Washington. and I tali. 



The amount axpeaasd during iln la-t two years 



was $09,500. The board asked f.-r $20.tWO for 



each of the -ears. and thi- amount was 



apportioned amon- the di-trict s\no<K The n- 



port of the Board of (Jerman ll<>n 



showed 34 missions cared for by s n 



located as follows : 1 in Kentucky. 1 in I 'tali. 2 



ntolw, 2 in A imboia. and 2 in A. 

 The communicant memlership numbers 5,000. 



: an income of 



$8,355.54, and expenditure- amounting to 

 $8,029.20. The report of the Swedish board, 

 ui.irh embraces the missionary operations of 

 the August Ana Synod, showed 155 missions, 

 t : xp. ndtafM for tin- two years amounting to 

 $52.599.20. The missionary operations of the 



t synods of this body, together with those 

 of the general boards, embraces :i21 missions, 

 and the cx|.enditures for the last two years 

 amounted to $135,241.44. The complete report 

 on Church extension for 1895 has not yet ap- 

 peared. but that of the previous year shows that 

 the society has assets of over $10,000, with which 

 missions and needy congregations are aided. All 

 the larger district synods have tiicirown Church 

 extension funds. The foreign missionary opera- 



: the Council are carried on in Kast India, 

 with headquarters at Kajahmnndry, whence the 

 missionaries have gone out to hundreds of vil- 

 lages and have planted numerous stations. A 

 seminary has been established at the central sta- 

 tion for tho training of Christian teachers and 

 era. Three zenana sisters teach the women 

 in the districts, under the care of the mi ion- 

 arie*. A new church building is in course of 

 erection at Hhimawaram. and the senior mis- 

 sionary has recently received a gift of $8.000, 

 with instruction to boild another new church. 

 The income for the last two years was $40,788.- 

 61. and the expenditures $37,333.99. The pies- 



it us of th- is as follows: 8 mis- 



sionaries, with their /enana sisters, 2 



native pastors, 4 evangelists. 2 catechists, and 

 187 teacher*, a total of 104 mission workers. 

 There an* 7 principal station-*. HKJ villages where 

 whonl have been established. 101 villages where 

 the Gospel is preached. !.:;:; communicants, 

 4,484 Christiana, and I.H:{ children in the 



. Three monthly periodicals are pub- 

 with a combined circulation of 30,000. 

 The report of the Immigrant Mi ion ii 

 York city shows that during the past two years 

 00 immigrants were eared for in the V.mi- 

 B Boose. The Augu- 1 Ihasestab- 



Swedish emigrant h-.u<e in t he same city. 



he wcrk of the deaconesses there are now 

 7 mother hour. with 143 sisters, having prop- 

 erty ialun.1 M $7rNi/MKi. and an annual ex- 



The report of the Church II. .ok Conn 



showed that the n. \\ i-dit ion ..| llic Chun Ii 

 had I- \ed. It a l-o > 



that, according to the attion ,,f t|, ( 

 last convention, a newcdiii ( .n ,.f the Sunday- 



-cllool Hook Wollld l 11 l\ III IS'.'t 



tainini: alioiit 800 addition a 1 hyiiins. ami 

 supplied with ample liturgical formulas I 

 |M-ning and i-lo-ing of the SBSSJ 

 Schools. It stated that the re\ i-ion . 

 iiion of Luther's Catrchi-m inn 1 - 

 labors of the joint rommitte- of tl : , Kn^lish- 

 -peaking Lutheran I ild s..on > 



ished. Resolutions were ad opt id dc.hirii 



: Council is ready . 

 all Lutheran bodies that may be will: 

 into the movement for the pivparat ion 

 common book of worship f< ' 

 the Knglish lan^ua^e. on the coinliti 

 ing to which the common service \\ ; , 

 and that the (ieneral Council r. . . 

 Lutheran bodies in \\hich the Kn^lish hu 

 is used to co-operate in the mo\ement for 

 tainment of uniformity in the churches. Tin- 

 Committee on Sunday-school NN'ork reported that 

 a twenty-years' course of I'.ible -tudie- had been 

 completed, and recommended that in futi. 

 work should be put on the ba-is of a gradfl 

 course of Bible studie-. It was <lecil .1 t 

 a graded system. The committee was in-i 

 to prepare and the Hoard of Publication t 

 lisn a full series of pictures illustrating < ' 

 New Testament history, and in chart f. i 

 Ten Commandments, the A post I-** Creed, and 

 the Lord's Prayer for the primary department. 



This Was followed by courses of s'tn 



for the other departments of tl 



published in book or quarterly form, bcgii : ; . 



with Advent. 1896. 



The Committee on Stati-tics reported thefii* 

 lowing summary for 1895: 8 synods. 1.M1 min- 

 isters, 1,786 congregations, and ::. 

 municant members; 829 parochial *cho< 

 teachers, and 24,188 pupils; 1.1 



Is, 19,715 officers ami teacher-, and 

 pupils; benevolent contributions ! 

 and other charitable purposes, $252,0:^.94 ; 8 

 theological seminaries, 8 collets. 4 H cadii:,ie-. 

 and 25 orphanages, hospitals, deaconess inj^Bk 

 tions, and other charitable institutions, with 

 ..'.u.-d at $2,500,000 and eixlowniaV 

 nnx'unt'ing to $500,0(K). the educational in-titn- 

 tion- employine: 1)7 profe-sors and in-tructcfc 

 and having 1340 students, of whom ! 

 mini-try in view. 



I'nitcd s>nod. sonlli. ! lifth-oin. 

 of this general body, compose*! chiefly of B* 

 modi and congregat i<ms. wa- held' in 

 \ a.. S.-,,t. is . -Jl, 1895. Fifts 

 ' 



of $70.000. The^- institutions are in 

 Iphia, Omaha. NVIi.. Milwaukee. 

 >hnne|liii. Minn.. Brooklyn, X. Y., and Halti- 

 morf. Ml. Aoronlinj? to language, thes. 

 be cU^ifi^i aw Kngli^h. Grrman, Swedish. Nor- 

 wegian, and German-English. 



and lay dele-rat t. t.. rep 



di-trict' synods, the Mi-^i-sippi S\nodn.. f 



1. The foil. .wing ..Oic, ; 



e.l: The Hev. I'rof. G . Holland. K I'.. 



of N. 



dent. ^L - x ' i! - 



'. !>.. ..(' 1,'oalioke. Va.. vice-preside! 



Rev. Melanchthon (.. '-. 



N. C., secretary ; and Mr. c. 11. I Mi Is. of Char- 



lotte, N. C., treasurer. 



The business of the convention < 

 the 3 subjects of fraternal relations with otln-r 



