BBFOHMK!' ' ill i: 



REFORMED BPttn.l'AL c III He n. 709 



fJO.000 contributed through th, \V,.,, 4 . : . 



A ah 60 mi*. 



' *itual** 



now centers of popvltUoa, where. 



u-r,v rt r,. .,.-,: f, :.-.-. ..-:. 



.ug (he year on 



nn.l 5 become ealf-eupport 



treasury had prevented thr l-.r.|'i 



Ail a | 



; : . .- . ' - ' ! 



ml to ntn 



hare 

 ion. 



M 9yi -; 



thr .uillll.rl 





 tr 



rhuiHTof 







^a^ _^f t^ssft tf^fcttwW^Bf^. aisW*MtsUft 



Caving full powers of dfcooe- 

 -Plad.aadl** Synod 



CHeiKKwfirhwin s*c*4 i, 



It .* -. 



^Kto convey by I. 



. ? , , , . 



proposition for 

 |-rt n>*>:> 



' 



A..rii.l.l5 

 Thr r..,in, 



Synodi -f UM l:-f r ?: , : . - - 



-.,l.,irn.ii l hur.f. n. 

 r Ati.trr< 



-tiiutinif missions The 



>nd (see -Annual t>cloMdto w for 1*6, I 

 . proceed as they 



Eo to ascertain tione seemingly sufiVient to warrant the 



proceed a 



aU. i.. *-, - 



-.., 



th nn romoting 



"luce, so far as might be prac- 



r.-^ .-i|.t* ..f th, II. .ir.i , f |. .-. p M - 



!m.l 

 lib sum ly fn.uoa The growth of the 



. ycn since they 

 on an incle|M 



ien amociateii with ''. American 



f work and fruit tlu- iiu-reM has 

 times M great. The 6 stations have be- 

 rly f 'sta- 



inoreased ID.T. than a h'undmlfnl.i. (ill 

 er S80: for 17 missionaries, men and 

 re are 7M, with others nnder aptMint- 



years ago, and 94? other in 



.& More than six 



11 any communicants (5,306). 



shoob f or boys and girls pith.-r m-arly 



srs. and 4 t tx-olocioaT schools or classes 



hem arc pit hi*retl 5,889 scholar*, for the 



97 of forty yean ago. During the forty Tears 14S 



misk>nanrs hare gone to the different fields (55 



men and 88 women, married and unmarried) 16 



men and 88 women t< China, the smote number to 



ten and S3 women to the two missions in 



Jii|tn. ami 6 men and 1 woman to Arabia." In 



i one effect of the massacre* of IMOft h*l 



v puUira tian-doc- 



N angeJistic work on extended 

 t..urx :i rendi r. -. ^ . m -.' La v i > 

 on. Substantial progress was making in the 

 evangelistic work in I Jia. Thr 



mission in Ja|*n hal crlrhratrti the tiuartrr cen- 

 ratnii i.f U* flr The 



Arabian miBi< .tmonc the Moslems 



tlo among the tOares taken or 

 fn.m the trailrr^ Thr (Jnirral Srnod 



eked the hoard to consider the advisability of ap- 

 pointing an agent who can devote - 



.. ' . ' f _-- .-.: 



The General Synod met in it* ninetr-flrst regular 



2. Thr 



a* chosen president, A 

 was received from the General 

 he Reformed Chun 

 aaking for an interchange of delegates, who. 



an agent to goloi 

 of H * 



They would, 



r translating and editing the 



rial collr, 



then be puhttshed without further 



The correspoadsues to 

 regarded as of jrn-at i m |- .rt anrr. in that i 



a hiM-ry .f th,- |{rf,, r ,,.l !,.!,-, r,.n , h Kr 

 .- of the older rhuirhes, 



down to and beyond 1771. The work of the coe- 

 mittee was approved, and the Kev. rl T. Corwto. Us 



As9flktlt ^smA ff^aisW%Alwl s^J^VfiWi k^s^^W^^WAffft^aeley f 



' .-":'.. ' V . . '. 



.historical material. ~ MM* * 



such would probably be included to 



heretofore authorised, and in a new ed 



manual. The term "batised 



as it 



mean 



bapttaed members of 



been received into full 



reaffirmed He belief that 



apiieam in the staUstioal table*, was defined to 

 all those whose name* appear on the roll of 



gation on all 

 mote it. and 



ministers to be diliget 

 it : ami conunended tne American Sanbetn t f nioo 

 ami the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance. 



The fifteenth General (Council awi in tne r 

 >e 9. Bishop >amuel Fallow. 



op. A WOSMW, presenting her 

 as a delegate, the queetion of 



The tmuurer of the bodv reported that hb reoeipta 

 had been |l9^f6. and that a balance of $2.600 W- 

 , . rV receipt* f ih. >|- .1 

 rhurvh llleuuiiiii Trust had been $30^00. a: 

 dtsbursemenu ^6,000. epent chiefly in .-, 



hea. The bibops, rendering accot 

 - sejsj - ^r -i - am n - r% i tj..i: l.S"t 

 had been confirmed. The work of Bishop P. P. 

 Sterne wns among the freed men of Sooth Carolina 

 ami * of the S-uth. ami n 



s $4 miseion*, 1^95 com. 

 . andlOdb adherents. In thwjurisdic- 

 tkm $49 conflrmatione were returned. The wcre- 

 tarr of the Publication Societv repotted that a new 

 prayer book, conm Ktshop'* Psalter, had 



been published. The introduction of a resolution 

 restricting the use of vestment* in the services of 



