694 



T.IMANS. 



ul Responsible Governmc! lb-n. 



-hjtcrian < him h. ' mion 



f>r theorganiza bytcrian church 



was !> ham. Ala., in I he Utter da>s <-f 



,UT. 'I'hrt ii)il-|H-n.i, nl : and 



resbyterio -till uixi '" of the 



<ioneral Aweim "1 by 



urth mdep, udenl presbytery had 

 " ft delegate, l.ii! li. was n ,.| pr. Bent The 

 by i . ' that 







ft separate porting, self -govern i i 



chiiivh for the colored people should i 

 Kani/rda! i IN- earlieal. day consistent \MI!I Mal.il- 



'ion "that the 



deairvd i lay i* at hainl." All the colored presbjr- 



tariea were inril toameet- 



n New <rlean on the third Tuesday 



r the pur(H,se . 



gani/.t- :.. Tli- e<in\ciition gave as itions 



morn ll a-li..n that the Ceneral Assembly 



(Southern) had given its assurance that its linaix ial 

 help ami hearty co-operation would be accorded to 

 the movement^ an assurance that was received in 

 all good faith and thankfulness; and "that to 



as far as possible the emit ml <>f all Business 

 necessary to the life and growth of the orpuiixu- 



:n the hands of colored men will conduce 

 largely to the growth of Presbyterian i-m amonij 



III rn.lnteriaii Church in North 



\merica. The following i- the summary of the 

 atatisties <>f thi* Church a- t parted to 



the General Assembly in May: Number oi synods 

 12; of presbyteries, 65: of ministers, SO*', or 1? more 

 than in 1896; of licentiates, 89; of students in 

 theology, 101 ; of ministers ordained. XI : of ruling 



>. 3,763; of con L r re:;ut ions, 950; of pa 

 charges, 801 ; of congregations orpani/ed. i 

 mission station :,.-w mission stations dur- 



ing the year, l"i : s of worship erected, 18, 



at a total cost of $ 1 < >st of 



$7.12:*: of parsonages, ail : < : 

 during the year, 14; of members in America, 1 11,618; 

 of nicmU-rs in the whole Church. 1 i .wing 



an increase of 2.156 in America and of 2.688 in the 

 whole Church; of members received on prof, 

 0\17 in Americjiand 7>11 in the whole Church: of 

 baptisms, 3,455 of infant- ami l.ls:: of adult* in 



: --a. and 4.242 of infants and 1.7*9 of adults in 



the whole Church; of Sabbat!, i.ll*. with 



11.882 officers and lll.:;tii pupils; 



-"ietics. 990. with 40.52X m ,-m- 



ben. A mount of con tri i 



salaries of ministers, $588.525 ; for M.nal 



$422,2 12 : f..r th.- boards, $240.245 : for 



annual purposes. $125,11:); total for An, 

 $1,377.125; total for the whoie Church, s 

 includ-.l m this amount are $85,568 contributed 



Sabbath schools and $40,528 thr 

 the Young People's Societies. 



receipts for the Board of Home Missions 

 inures (or- 



y outlay for th. w ,,rk) $74,616. While the re- 

 ceipU were larger than in any previous v 

 1802, and the debt had been reduced to $10,401. the 

 debt still remained at so high a figure as to 

 serious embarrassment, and nothing had 



lace the exhausted reserve fund. Two hun- 

 dred and nix stations had been aided during the 

 year, and mtumed 14/170 communicants and 

 nunils in Sabbath schools. T t Cations 



had been in the special can ud An 



agreement had been entered into with the Board of 

 Missions of the Associate Reformed Synod of 



Mimmrt of the missi 

 that Church in Louisville, Ky. A mission to the 



. i been supporird einir, !y 



b\ the \\ .ii-d. 



..f the Hoard of Ministerial Keli.'f 



:. \ments $: -.Nhu-h 

 $11.1' 



count of ills. The endowment fund 



amounted to $! .uded. 



The total i had been only 



The fourteenth annual V, vn-n'x 



1 at In.i; 

 Iowa, Ma\ 11. The tinatieial report*. v|, 



crease of $160 ll 



department and of $!!> in tho>.- for mini 



lief, an increase of $ Mil in tho-c for the home de- 



ient, of $K5 in th" 

 sion and I' fund, ami 



the freedinen'> department. The amount of 



tributions for the foreign depart ment was ^. 



of which more than s.'t.ouo \\ece for the eiidownu-nt. 

 of beds in the (ioml Samaritan Hospital, at .Ihelum, 

 India: the expenditure* in the same department 



had been dim n'> -le| ,;irt melit 



.-i-icultural experiment made a year befo: 

 yielded an income e^uivali-nt to 1" '. in- 



[ienditure in the home department 

 had been $7.l!):{. The Woman's hoard . 

 has been t;iven by the (ien.ral Assembly the 

 of the entire support of unmarried \\onian mision- 

 lields, t he support of won-.aii medi- 

 cal misM, .narie- and their work in K.irypi and India, 

 the work anion.i: the Warm Springs Imliai. 

 support of woman industrial leadier- and their 

 work amonp the freedmen. the airricultural and in- 

 dustrial work in Alabama, the and part 

 of the Church extension work : and it aids in . 

 in- buildings for training schools and teacher-' 

 houses among the freedmeii. Twenty-nine E 

 women were supported in K-ypt and Imi 

 lioiue-Miission worker- in radons parti of the I'nitcd 



. and 17 teachers in the frenlim n'- mi- 

 (.eneral Assembly. Th.- thirty-fifth (Jeneral 



:;blymet in Uoek Islaml. 111.. May ','0. Th- 

 Thoina- II. llanna. !>.!>. . was obosen moderator. 

 Thecommittenon union with the Holland Chri-tian 



Reformed Church and with th- nm-d 



Synod of the South reported that no progress had 

 b.-.-n made in the negotiations during the year, but 

 that it was expedient to continue tneoommil 

 The pUm of cooperation with the Associate lefonm-d 



Synod adopted in 1M<; had w-.rked so well that it was 



judged to be better that the d: aliolis for 



union be held in abeyance. The Committee <.n I-Yd- 

 erat i>n of the ( 'hurehes reported that no meet ii: 



held during the year, and that, because of the 



failure of some of the churches to adopt tin- 



of confederation, the movement \va- practi<-ally 



n a I'nion .Met rica. 

 sion of the I'-alms rep..rted that a meeting of rej- 



at ives of several chlirclie- had been he].: 

 the priiM-iples on which the work shall be con- 

 ducted had been agreed upon. In the matter of 

 semi: 1 but little pro-iv^ had been made 



in tl niplete the arrangement insti- 



tuted in the pr. r for the r-,,ntrol of the 



foreii;n-m. naries by the A^-embly. The 



rep- i !d by 



the 1 ird for the seminary in 



.' in India title to j,; : , ] taker, 



by a rcL-i-terinp body, and that in K_ r ypt title 'an 

 now be taken by the Foreiirn M ard, The. 



Assembly decided that all funds for these semina- 

 ries be held by the : , Hoard and be 

 invested in the United States: that title to pn.p- 



for the seminaries or other institutiot 

 taken in the forms in the report : and 



that the Foreign Mission Board complete the regu- 



