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introduced originally for the purpose of lessen- ties of Christian Endeavor, 3,930, with 216,043 

 ing the risks of revolt and making the enforce- members; of additions to the churches during the 



inent of discipline easier. The yoke of the Arab 

 slave-dealers has at last been effectually broken, 

 and intertribal wars have been suppressed over a 

 wide and constantly extending area. The natives 

 are being drilled into habits of regular work, not 



year by confession of faith, 31,090 ; of baptisms, 

 13,035 of adults, and 12,664 of infants. Amount of 

 contributions : For foreign missions, $385,533 ; for 

 education, $163,478; for church building, $76,431 ; 

 for home missions, $504,848; for the American 





STANLEY POOL IN CONGO RIVER. 



ithout forcible means, and efforts are made to 

 ucate the children. Baron Dhanis from his head- 

 uarters in Manyema was still engaged in the early 

 onths of 1898 in operations against the revolted 

 atetcla soldiers of the Free State, who had recently 

 efeated a detachment of troops that was pursuing 

 hem north of Lake Tanganyika. The Free State 

 roops that marched out to punish the rebels could 

 iot succeed in engaging them, for they split up into 

 veral bands and took to flight when the troops 

 pproached. Lieut. Dorme's party overtook one 

 ,nd and gained a victory near the river Losva, 

 est of 28 of longitude. A punitive force led by 

 ietit. Chargois encountered them on the shore of 

 .he lake in April, and was obliged to fall back until 

 reserves were brought up. The activity of the 

 Belgians in the extreme eastern part of their ter- 

 'tory, their project of a railroad from Manyema to 

 ake Tanganyika, still more their concession to Eng- 

 nd of the right of way for a telegraph line, to be 

 ollowcd by a railroad, from Rhodesia by way of 

 "yassa to Tanganyika and northward to Uganda, 

 ave moved the Germans to ask for a definite regu- 

 ation of the frontier from Lake Tanganyika north- 

 ward. It is claimed that the Kufizi river and the 

 Kivu lake, where the Belgians have military sta- 

 tions, are on the German side of the border. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. Statistics of the 

 Congregational churches in the United States, pub- 

 lished in the " Congregational Yearbook " for 1898, 

 show the number of churches to be 5,614; of minis- 

 ters, 5,475 ; of members, 625,864 ; of members of 

 Sunday schools, 685,704 ; of Young People's Socie- 



Missionary Association, $137,268; for Sunday 

 schools, $61,959; for ministerial aid, $22,567; 

 other contributions, $1,095,240 ; amount received 

 from legacies, $1,357,485; contributions for home 

 expenditures, $6,643,818. Of the churches, 4,253 

 are registered as supplied, and 1,331 as vacant; of 

 the ministers, 3,684 as in pastoral service, and 1,786 

 as without charge. The tables show a net gain of 

 10,669 church members. 



The 7 theological seminaries Andover, Bangor, 

 Chicago, Hartford, Oberlin, Pacific, and Yale re- 

 turn 64 professors, 25 instructors or lecturers, 19 

 resident licentiates or fellows, 28 in the advanced 

 or graduate classes, and 433 undergraduates. 



The American Congregational Church Building 

 Society received in 1897, from all sources, $295,504 ; 

 its available resources were $381,398. Aid was 

 voted to the amount of $296,495 to 166 churches; 

 $232,323 were paid in the form of grants or loans 

 on houses of worship to 166 churches. Grants 

 amounting to $35,190 were voted to 57 churches for 

 aid in parsonage work, and $21,867 were paid on 

 parsonage loans to 38 churches. Of the amounts 

 paid out by the treasurer on houses of worship, 

 $125,500 were in the form of loans, and $107,823 

 were in the form of grants. Aid given to parson- 

 ages was all in the form of loans. The amount 

 paid back on church building loans during the year 

 was $19,082. A final settlement had been made 

 with the executor of the will of the late J. Henry 

 Stickney, of Baltimore. The securities representing 

 the legacy had all been placed in the hands of the 

 treasurer, and $153,976 had been realized from the 



