

ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



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to races speaking 16 languages, and has expended 

 on church work, including endowments of bishop- 

 rics and colleges, 1,867,852. In the West Indies 

 and Central America the society has expended up- 

 ward of 644,000. The first missionary to Africa 

 was sent to the Gold Coast in 1752. With the first 

 attempt at a regular colonization of South Africa, 

 the first clergyman sent out by the society was 

 stationed at Wynberg, near Cape Town, in 1820. 

 At the present time there are 10 dioceses in South. 

 Africa between Cape Town and the Zambesi; and 

 during the eighty years of its work the society has 

 helped endow 8 of these dioceses, maintained 545 

 missionaries, and spent 821,395. It still has 155 

 missionaries among the 370 clergymen in South 

 Africa, 23 of whom are natives. Work was begun 

 in Australia in 1793, and the country was made a 

 diocese in 1836. There are now there 15 bishops 

 and about 850 clergymen. The society's expend- 

 iture in Asia has amounted to 2,340,799. Of 781 

 clergymen in India, 169 are chaplains maintained 

 by the Government, 38 others are employed by the 

 additional clergy societies and ministering to Euro- 

 peans, 53 are engaged in educational work, and 

 521 are missionaries proper, 245 of whom are na- 

 tives of the country, in the great majority of cases 

 supported by their own people. Other fields of the 

 work of the society to which it has made liberal 

 grants and where active labors are carried on 

 among both colonists and the native populations 

 are Mauritius and Madagascar, New Zealand and 

 the Pacific, Borneo and the Straits Settlements, 

 China, Japan, and Korea. The expenditure of the 

 society throughout the world during the one hun- 

 dred and ninety-nine years of its existence has 

 amounted to 6,419,608; of the 94 colonial and 

 missionary bishoprics now existing it has helped 

 to endow 45; and at the present time it is wholly 

 supporting 5, and partially 7, bishops. It also 

 supports 787 missionaries, working in 55 dioceses 

 and preaching the Gospel in 54 languages or dia- 

 lects. 



On Tuesday, June 18, an address from the 

 Church Missionary Society was presented by Bish- 

 op Doane, and was acknowledged by the arch- 

 bishop. Greetings were received from New Jersey, 

 Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and an address 

 was delivered by the primate. The Marquis of 

 Salisbury was introduced, and made an address ex- 

 pressing sympathy with the cause of missions, but 

 recognizing certain dangers that were likely to 

 arise when their work is followed by commercial 

 adventure and the intrusion of political schemes, 

 and the missionary might be made to play a part 

 against his will for these things. In closing, he 

 said : " The world, however slowly, is traveling to 

 a point where the government of all races will be 

 not by organized force but by recognized and ad- 

 vancing public opinion. You have in your hands 

 one of the most powerful and one of the most 

 sacred forces that ever acted on opinion, and the 

 results for which we all pray will be dependent 

 not only on the zeal, but also on the wisdom and 

 Christian prudence with which you work.'' The 

 Bishop of Kentucky was another speaker. A reso- 

 lution of humble thankfulness was proposed by the 

 archbishop and seconded by the Bishop of Albany. 



Church Missionary Society. The one hun- 

 dred and first annual meeting of the Church Mis- 

 sionary Society was held in London, May 1, Sir 

 John Kennaway presiding. The treasurer's report 

 showed that the gross income of the society for 

 the year had been 404,905, of which 32,883 had 

 been derived from legacies, 80,619 taken from 

 the centenary funds, and 20,611 had come in the 

 form of special funds not available for ordinary 

 purposes. Omitting the two latter items, 303,675 



were left to constitute the net proper income. The 

 expenditures had been 367,268, of which 14,002 

 had been from the special funds. The centenary 

 gifts had amounted to 198,948. This sum had 

 been variously appropriated, with the exception of 

 16,280, which were kept in reserve for future 

 contingencies. The society had in its mission fields 

 520 stations, which were manned by 418 ordained 

 and 140 lay missionaries, 358 native clergy, and 

 6,459 native lay teachers; 71,051 native communi- 

 cants, 268,240 native adherents; 2,144 schools with 

 104,388 pupils; and in the medical missions, fur- 

 nished with 1,484 beds, 11,457 in-patients and 

 630,356 out-patients had been treated. The bap- 

 tisms numbered 19,161. A resolution was passed 

 earnestly welcoming every effort aiming at the full 

 and orderly development of native churches, as the 

 speedy evangelizing of the world before the coming 

 of the Lord depended very largely upon the labors 

 of the Christian people of non-Christian lands. A 

 message of greeting was sent to the Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel, which was celebrating 

 its two hundredth year. 



Universities' Mission. The report of the Uni- 

 versities' Mission in Central Africa showed an in- 

 come of 37,549, nearly 9,000 less than in the 

 previous year. The expenditure had been 43,279. 



Church Army. The reports of the Church 

 Army made to the annual meeting, May 2, showed 

 that 116 trained workers had been added to the 

 staff during the year. The demand for such 

 workers far exceeded the supply. The income of 

 the general and evangelistic account was returned 

 at 54,022. The previous year's deficit of 1,718- 

 had been reduced to 1,364. In the social depart- 

 ments the income had been 54,557 and the ex- 

 penditure 55,779, but a balance of 4,404 still 

 remained. The assets were 49,538 in excess over 

 liabilities. The financial requirements of the com- 

 ing year would amount to 173,000. The workers 

 of the army had obtained admission to the convict 

 prisons. 



Liberation Society. The Council of the So- 

 ciety for the Liberation of Religion from the Pat- 

 ronage and Control of the State held its annual 

 meeting in London, May 2, Mr. Alfred Thomas, 

 M. P., presiding. The report referred to the pros- 

 pective amendment of the burial laws and the 

 failure of the movement for obtaining a census of 

 religious opinion. The tithe rent charge (rating) 

 act was mentioned as having contributed much 

 to promote the sentiment among the electorate 

 against a church establishment. The report dwelt 

 upon the educational condition, and regarded with 

 regret the disposition on the part of influential 

 men to accede to the demand for a Roman Catholic 

 university, for Ireland. The income of the society 

 had fallen from 5,093 to 4,311. .Resolutions, 

 were adopted urging upon the Liberal party, in 

 view of a general election, to give a prominent 

 place to disestablishment ; appealing for such addi- 

 tional subscriptions as would enable the society 

 to seize the unprecedented opportunities for ex- 

 tended work presented by the course of events in 

 the Church of England and by the change in the 

 opinions of a large majority of the members; call- 

 ing on the friends of religious equality to press the 

 subject on liberal organizations as one of the most 

 urgent matters demanding legislative action; and 

 describing the events of the past year in the Eng- 

 lish establishment as confirming the conviction 

 that neither legislation nor the bishops' action 

 would prove effectual in suppressing sacerdotalism 

 or lawlessness. 



Church Reform League. The Central Repre- 

 sentative Council of the Church Reform League 

 reported to the annual meeting of the league, May 



