ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



modation for 6,979,150 persons; number of pupils 

 in Sunday schools, 2,394,804, with 207,539 teach- 

 ers; net clerical income, 3,357,006; amount of 

 voluntary contributions, 5,954,738: number of 

 incumbents, 13,873. Another table of voluntary 

 contributions given in the work increases the total 

 and allots them as follows: I. To central and 

 diocesan societies and institutions: (1) home mis- 

 sions, 548,881 48.; (2) foreign missions, 772,'24G 

 9*. !(/.; (3) educational work, 119,387 10s. 5d. ; 

 (4) the clergy (educational and charitable assist- 

 ance), 197,195 19*. 8d.; (5) philanthropic work, 

 428,273 6s. 'Id.-, total. 2,065,984 9*. 4d. II. 

 1 uinls locally raised and locally administered: 



(1) for the parochial clergy, 798,521 4s. lid.; 



(2) for elementary education and Sunday schools, 

 1,177,288 15s. Id. ; (3) for general parochial pur- 

 poses, 3,422,639 15s. Id.; total, 5,398,449 15s. 

 7<l. The total voluntary contributions thus 

 a mi Minted to 7,464,434 4s. lid. 



Statistics furnished by 990 out of 1,000 incum- 

 bents of Welsh parishes give the number of com- 

 municants in them as 133,223. 



The accounts of the Representative Body in the 

 Episcopal Church in Ireland showed that the 

 amount of voluntary contributions had decreased 

 by nearly 40,000. Yet a balance was left of 

 60,000 over the expenditures. 



The Synod of the Episcopal Church in Ireland 

 was held in Dublin in April. The primate, in 

 his inaugural address, referred to the considerable 

 decline of voluntary contributions which had 

 taken place, and to the decrease of the receipts 

 from assessment. The synod, however, possesses 

 a capital fund of 8,000,000. 



Grants were made from the incorporated Church 

 Building Society during 1899 to 34 new churches 

 and 25 mission or temporary churches, besides 6 

 grants for rebuilding churches and 28 for enlarge- 

 ments. The total cost of the proposed church 

 works was 297,217, while the society's grants 

 were 16,035, in addition to 665 for mission 

 buildings. The society had since its formation 

 given 885,143 toward works involving a further 

 expenditure of 14,840, and adding about 2,000,000 

 seats, three fourths of which were free. The year's 

 income had been 6,869. 



The annual report of the Bishop of London's 

 fund, presented May 10, showed that the receipts 

 for the year had been 28,172 and the payments 

 25,709. The temporary investments amounted 

 to 36,913. Up to the end of the year sums aggre- 

 gating 1,052,722 had been received for the fund, 

 including 3,000 from the Queen, 1,000 from 

 the Prince of Wales, 25,000 from the Commis- 

 sioners of Woods anil Forests, 25,681 from city 

 companies, and a number of large gifts from indi- 

 viduals. The past year's grants had amounted to 

 5,067 for clergy, 3,058 for lay agents, 7,099 

 for mission buildings, 6,725 for churches, 319 

 for vicarages, and 676 for schools. 



At the annual meeting of the Additional Curates 

 Society, April 30, the secretary reported that the 

 general income of the society for 1899 showed a 

 decrease of 1,500. An increase of 700 over the 

 corresponding period of the previous year had, 

 however, taken place during the past four months. 

 The last year's expenditures had been 5H.7H5. 

 Aid had been given to 1,020 parishes with 1,217 

 grants, amounting to 56,968. 



The two hundreil and forty-sixth festival of the 

 Sons of the Clergy was held May 9. The total 

 number of pensions and grants in is'.iii was 1,689, 

 on account of which 24.374 were paid. 



Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. 

 The annual meeting of the Society tor the Propa- 

 gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, marking its 



two hundredth anniversary, was opened April 27. 

 The report showed that the gross income of the 

 society for the year had been 136,846, indicating 

 an increase of 4,490. The number of ordained 

 missionaries, including 12 bishops, was 785, dis- 

 tributed as follows: In Asia, 253; in Africa, 185; 

 in Australia and the Pacific, 47 ; in North America,. 

 209; in the West Indies and Central and South 

 America, 53; and 38 chaplains in Europe. Of 

 these, 135 were natives laboring in Asia and 48 in 

 Africa. There were also in the various missions 

 about 2,000 lay teachers, 3,200 students in the 

 society's colleges, and 38,000 children in the mis- 

 sion schools in Asia and Africa. With the excep- 

 tion of North America, it might be said that in 

 every part of the empire, and beyond its limits, 

 the work of the Church had been hindered in the 

 past year by disasters and visitations which no 

 human foresight could have reckoned with. The 

 London Junior Clergy Missionary Association had 

 advanced in work and in numbers, having now 

 500 members against 430 one year previously. The 

 federation of all the Junior Clergy Associations 

 numbered more than 5,000 members. 



The two hundredth anniversary of this society 

 was celebrated in London, June 16, 17, and 18. 

 The exercises began June 16, the anniversary of 

 the foundation of the society, with a communion 

 in St. Paul's Cathedral, followed by a sermon by 

 the Right Rev. W. C. Doane, Bishop of Albany. 

 The bicentenary was the subject of special sermons 

 in a large number of churches in London, Sunday, 

 June 17. On Monday, June 18, a public evening 

 meeting held in Exeter Hall was addressed by the 

 Archbishop of Armagh and the Bishop of Kentucky. 

 An historical review was read, which showed that 

 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was 

 established for the purpose of instituting a central 

 organization to superintend the ministers of the 

 Church of England who were sent out to serve 

 the spiritual wants of the people in the colonies in 

 America and elsewhere. It dates its origin from 

 March 13, 1701, when a committee was appointed 

 to inquire into the best means of promoting the 

 Christian religion in the plantations (as they were 

 called) or transmarine colonies. A charter was 

 granted the society by William III in the follow- 

 ing June, the object of the body being defined as 

 " the religious instruction of the king's subjects 

 beyond the seas," and the first two missionaries 

 left a few months later for Boston, Mass. 



One of the principles strongly held to by this 

 society in its missionary work is that of caring for 

 the religious welfare of all subjects of the Crown, 

 without distinction of race or color. Its work has 

 never, therefore, been limited to the conversion of 

 the heathen to Christianity, although that is a 

 most important part of its operations; but it has 

 always endeavored to supply colonists with the 

 means of maintaining those religious observances 

 which they enjoyed in the mother country, and to 

 do this by supporting clergy, endowing bishoprics, 

 founding theological colleges, and other acts of 

 similar nature. The first region in which the 

 society carried on its work was that of the North 

 American colonies, where the churches founded by 

 it and their branchings have become the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church in the Unitdl State*. New 

 foundhmd was another early object of the society's 

 attention, where help was first sent in 1703. and 

 .V.I clergy are now laboring. The first colonial 

 bishop. Bishop Tnglis, whose diocese covered all 

 British North America from Newfoundland to 

 Lake Superior. wa< consecrated in Nova Scotia, 

 Aug. 12, 1787. Since the establishment of its mis- 

 -imis there the society has maintained in Canada 

 1,500 ordained missionaries, who have ministered 



