

in mininf district*. The total inrrra*r in t) 



r ' . ' 



,. comroisker* exceeded tl." 

 annum, and might be taken to represent a capital 



The Bomber of Episcopal churches in Scotland 



: . .-!. . .-.-...-. 



. . ; .... . - ,.- :. r-i.d 



OMB* Missionary SoclHr.-The rereij 



fr.. mall sources, cx- 



rig mvial funds, aa rep > annual 



T. amounted to ixn7.2', 

 her former year by 85.000. and also 

 g the aggregate of general an.) >,< -ial funds 

 any former rear. The excess m L 



:. .11.11- 



. 



,tup5.000morethaneTerb.f Ad. 



:<N, fortl 

 fund) the total amount contributed for oil purposes 



-.diturc had 

 A as still left of L 



- missionaries had been accepted f.-r serv- 

 M-ven hundred adult bapn-m-. the 



numU-r recorded in an .- re- 



turned fn>m the mission fields. The history of the 

 society during <:irsofth< 



hank- 

 fulness, while progress was especially conspicuous 

 during the past ten years. A libers had 



bean made to the appeal on behalf Three 



Year 



full rv|>rt of the missions gives the following 

 statistics, most of the numlco i-in,' much in ex- 

 cess of those of the previous year: Number of sta- 



KurojM-nn clergy, 878; of Km 

 laymen. 11"; of Kumpcan wives, 2M ; of European 

 .n missionaries, 238 . .20; 



of n;> vc lay agents. '4.108; 



of native women labor-is, i.-jn : ,,f bapti/ed i. 



>an adherents. 2J. 701: of native catechumens, 

 89.400; of native communica 5: of bap- 



tisms during the >-. adults and 8.890 of 



d)ild: :'N',IS and seminaries, 2.171. with 92,- 



8DI scholars and N>minarists. In the medical work. 

 > ( H).674 out patients were 



treated. The number of missionaries sent out by 

 the societ ; and 1887, the first fifty 



years of Queen Victoria's reign, was 900, a \ 

 average of 1H, the average of the la>t ten of those 

 _ .':'.. The numlH-r s4-nt out U-tween 1887 

 and 18OT, between her Majesty's jubilee and herdia- 

 mond A as 600. a yearly average of 66. < >n 



vith the M 



!i (not in'- 



ludinR Wives,; nil .1 Ut.e 1. 1H{7. there Were ft 



flained missionaries, 110 I 1 -.MI women. 



The advance in the aggregate numU-r during th<- 



ars exceeded by lit that of the fi: 

 eight Tears of the st N .ry. 



Sorlety forthe Propairation'of the (Jospel. 

 The one hundredth r.nd ninety-sixth anniversary 

 of theS.c-i.tv for the Propagation oftb Gospel was 

 celebrateil in Ix.ndon June 2o bishops of 



and Canterbury severally presiding at th. dif- 

 ferent session*. The secretary, reading an address 



ess of the 



of welcome. 



Anglican 



( *hur accession as baring" been 



marvelous. In 1W7 there were onl 7 bi*h. 



owning allegiance to Canterbury, and in th- r 



- there were only 16 sees; now the 7 had 

 :i to lr nnl the If, I n ,lj a j, 



A here iuw there w.-n- 10 sees, 



and the 4 natives m: 



years ago had increased to :?<n). In AuMnilia 



were now 14 sees, and in New Zealand the single- 



handed labors < had led t rfon of 



9l Iwyn was the chief. an<l there 



. M -. A . : ruld lie made 



,if t i ' .reh in e\ t" the 



,-iiipi: inistered through the 



agency of 766 i win .v> diod-v.-v. \\i,, 



Mali> n ;..iiial and mis- 

 .:id t-M.k part in the 

 :,- "f papers and i> 



v*e to the (ndition <.f n-liu r i"ii and the ]'.: 

 inireh in th.- countries of their n-idemv. The 

 Bishop of Calcutta spoke of "'I'h.-i -fthe 



and Church nrgani/atii'ii in India"; 

 the Hi-hop of i .pur. on " Mi i.-n. to the 



AlHirii:inrs in India": the lli^lmp nf South 'I 

 hurch in.Iaj.an " : the Bihop,,f |\',,, 

 that country; the I: i'o\\n. 



on "The Province of South Africa": the Hi-dmti 

 ..f St. John'-. I. "ii "The Church's Work 



among th- : the 



Hi>hop of Itlocinfontein on the \\..rl< of the ph\-i- 

 cian in the iiii--ion field: the Pii-hop of (ira 1 

 town mi the mini-tries of women in the m 

 field ; the Archl.Miop of Kupertslaiid. on " Tl,. 



~:ical Province of Canada": the P.i^hop of 

 Perth, on the work of the Church in Australia; the 

 P,i-hop of Jamaica, on the West India j.n.vince; 

 Hi-hop p,|> th. on "The lielation- ..f the Angliran 

 Church to the Cliun-hes of the Ka-l ": the I'.i-hop 

 of (Gibraltar, on " KnglMi Coi n the 



Continent " ; the P,i-hop of Mis-..uri. on the .1 

 tic mi-M-n- of the I'rotrstant Kpi^copal Chm-ch in 

 the 1'nited States ; and the Hi -hop of Kent ud 

 the foreign mi iuis of that Church. 



Other >I isviutiar\ and Henooleiit Suciclic-. 

 At the meeting of the I'niicd I'oanl- ..i M:- 



of Canterbury and York held in May. a resolution 

 was adopted inviting the Society forthe p[, ; 



tion of the (iovpel. the Church MissionaTT Soei.-ly. 



and other missionary associations in the Church of 

 Kn.u'land to conference in on; -idi-r what 



!iiii, r ht be taken to mitii:ate the c\ils a; 

 from the division of missionary ii 

 gani/ations. The Committee ,.ji L-pal Ih'-abilities 

 of native Christians in India reported that after 

 videiicc fn.m the majority of the Indian 

 bishons and from several mi--ioiiaries they had 

 found no serious disabilities for which a remedy 

 mu-t be sought by legislation except, perhaps, in re- 

 gard t<> in. Mimittee had recom- 

 mended "that when both the parties in a heathen 

 marriage subsequently profess the Christian faith 

 they should IM- encouraged to make a solemn and 

 public profession of their desire to maintain their 

 union on the basis of Christian marriage, that a Spe- 

 cial form of service to !, u-ed in churches on s U ,.|, 

 -hoiild be prepared and promulgated l.y 



nd of the Church in India, and that appli- 

 cation should le mad.- to the legislature to permit 

 the registration of such public acknowledgments 

 of tie the continuance of their mar 



i-t on the comlitions which attach to 



tiara recognized by the Church. 



The annual n ial Mi ionary 



i in LOII- 



don atay IM. Sir William Dunn. Halt.. M. P 

 . 'The v-ciety had -jK-nt more tlian . 

 iliirii..- r in colonial mis-ionary work, but 



for the In : incurred a sncill debt. 



The nial and Conti: 



f,, r isjm l'lH.02t> was fl.fKK) in excess of 



that of the previous year. An old debt 



still remained, and an additional I' 10.000 was 



needed for all purposes. Including the sums raised 



and spent in th. me rose to 



An addition of i'1.700 had been made to 



rnent fund, which now amounted to 6,- 



