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declined the help of the American Christian Mis- 

 sionary Society. The reports on city evangelization 

 gave details of very rapid growth, and even rnulti- 



glication, of churches and members in the cities of 

 hicago, St. Louis, Des Moines, Washington. Kan- 

 sas, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburg, and San Fran- 

 cisco ; and the board regarded the cities as being 

 now the most promising field before the church. 



The receipts of the Foreign Christian Missionary 

 Society for the year had been $130,925, being an 

 increase of $24,703 over the previous year, while 

 the number of contributing churches, now 2,907, 

 had increased 321. Fourteen missionaries had been 

 sent out, including one sent from Australia to India 

 and supported by the Australian churches. Two 

 missionaries were exploring for a place to begin 

 work in Africa, and would probably establish their 

 first station on the Congo. Two houses had been 

 erected, and money had been loaned to build two 

 small chapels in Japan ; aid had been granted for 

 building a home for young women and a chapel in 

 Nanking, for a house in Chu-Chu, a school and 

 chapel and two houses in Shanghai, and a hospital 

 and a home in Lu-Chu-Fu, China. A girl's school 

 building and home were in course of erection at 

 Hurda, India. Detailed reports were presented 

 from missions in India, Japan, China, Sweden, Nor- 

 way, Denmark, Turkey, and England. 



The Board of Church Extension had received 

 $41.324, of which $27,557 were classed as "new 

 receipts," contributions, bequests, annuities, etc., 

 and $13,767 as collected on loans. The Extension 

 fund amounted to $167,243. From the beginning 

 of the operations of the fund, $66,987 had been col- 

 lected on loans, $25,115 of interest had been paid, 

 and 889 churches had been aided, 104 of which had 

 paid back their loans. Two hundred and eighty- 

 five loans were outstanding. The secretary of the 



society, visiting the churches, had secured " five- 

 year pledges," aggregating for the year $13,205. 



A union between the American Christian Mis- 

 sionary Society and the Board of Negro Education 

 and Evangelization went into operation on Jan. 1, 

 1898, whereby the Board of Negro Education and 

 K\ angelization is allotted 20 percent, of the receipts 

 after deducting special contributions and the ex- 

 penses of both boards. A considerable gain in the 

 receipts for negro evangelization had been made. 

 The ordinary receipts for the year had been $9,661 ; 

 the real-estate fund was credited with $4,079 ; and 

 $4,292 had been obtained through contributions 

 for self-support, cash raised by evangelists, and a- 

 payment on a church debt : making the entire re- 

 sources of the board $48,032. A special effort, sug- 

 gested by an offer of one fourth of the amount, on 

 condition that the rest was raised, for building arid 

 furnishing a college edifice for the Southern Chris- 

 tian Institute at Lum, Ala., lacked only $100 of 

 completion. 



The Board of Ministerial Relief had received 

 $41,156, and returned a permanent fund of $9,375. 

 Eighty persons, including 28 preachers and their 

 wives, 22 widows, and 10 orphans, had been assisted, 

 with the expenditure of $4,156. 



Reports were received from 4,633 Christian En- 

 deavor Societies, an increase during the year of 646. 

 The reports of the General Society place the Dis- 

 ciples third in rank among the denominations in 

 their representation in the societies, only the Pres- 

 byterians and the Congregationalists exceeding 

 them. 



The aggregate amount of the contributions of 

 the Disciples for missionary and benevolent objects 

 in the year 1897-'98 was, according to a table pre- 

 sented to the convention, $426,463. 



DOMINION OF CANADA. See CANADA. 



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EAST AFRICA. The coast of Africa between 

 ipe Guardafui and Cape Delgado, over which the 

 Sultan of Zanzibar formerly exercised sovereign 

 rights, has been divided, by agreement between 

 Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, among those 

 three powers. German East Africa is divided from 

 the Portuguese possessions on the south by the 

 river Rovuma ; from British East Africa on the 

 north by a conventional boundary running north- 

 westward from the Umbe river to the shore of 

 Victoria Nyanza, deflected so as to include Mount 

 Kilimanjaro in the German territory, and con- 

 tinued west of the Victoria lake along 1 of south 

 latitude to the boundary of the Congo Independent 

 State, which forms the western limit of German 

 East Africa. British East Africa, according to the 

 agreement made with Italy, is divided from the 

 protectorate that was asserted by the latter power 

 over Abyssinia and adjacent territories by the Juba 

 river up to 6 of north latitude, by that parallel as 

 far as 35 of east longitude, and that meridian 

 northward to the Blue Nile. The British sphere 

 merges into the equatorial and Soudanese provinces 

 formerly ruled by Egyptian governors and still 

 nominally belonging to Egypt and under the 

 suzerainty of Turkey. The Italian sphere embraces 

 Somaliland, with the exception of the district re- 

 served to Great Britain that fronts on the Gulf of 

 Aden, extending from Wahadu to Bandar Ziyada 

 in 49 of east longitude. A British protectorate 

 has been established over the territory that was ac- 

 quired by the British East Africa Company from 

 the Sultan of Zanzibar, having an area of about 



270,000 square miles and 5,000,000 inhabitants, and 

 extended over Uganda, which has an area of 58,000 

 square miles and 1.000,000 inhabitants; and another 

 protectorate has been imposed on the islands form- 

 ing the sultanate of Zanzibar, with an area of 988 

 square miles and 210,000 inhabitants. Including 

 the former Egyptian conquests, the sphere claimed 

 by Great Britain embraces over 1,000,000 square 

 miles. Italian Somaliland has an area of about 

 190,000 square miles and 400,000 inhabitants. 

 British Somaliland, 68,000 square miles in extent, is 

 attached to Aden, which is a dependency of the 

 Indian Government. German East Africa has an 

 estimated area of 380,000 square miles and a popu- 

 lation supposed to reach 4.000,000. 



Zanzibar. The Seyyid, or Sultan, of Zanzibar, 

 Hamud bin Mohamed bin Said, born in 1858, is still 

 the nominal ruler, under the control of the British 

 agent and consul general. The Sultan's dominions 

 formerly included the whole of the German. British, 

 and Italian spheres inland to the lakes, but they 

 were gradually reduced by successive leases and 

 cessions until "they were restricted to the islands of 

 Zanzibar and Pemba. A mixed administration 

 under British control, with Sir L. Mathews as 

 Prime Minister, has been in operation since Octo- 

 ber, 1891. Zanzibar, the seaport, which has about 

 30,000 inhabitants, was made a free port on Feb. 1, 

 1892, with restrictions and imposts as to firearms 

 and powder, spirits, and kerosene. About 50 Eng- 

 lish traders, as many Germans, and some Greeks, 

 Americans. Italians, and Frenchmen, reside there, 

 but the bulk of the trade is carried on by British 



