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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 



has since determined to close the school and end 

 the work, which was begun in 1829. 



The receipts of the American Church Missionary 

 , Society amounted to $34,032.50; the disbursements 

 to $29,917.11. Of these sums the receipts for the 

 working of the society were $27,714.76 ; the expend- 

 itures, $29,917.11. Of the balance cash on hand, 

 $14,199.41, the sum of $4,984.10 is available for the 

 work of the society. The society kept alive the 

 work in Cuba throughout the war. 



The contributions for the Brazilian work were 

 $12.700, and no work jn the Church has increased 

 as that has, the expenses remaining practically the 

 same. The number confirmed in Brazil in the year 

 was 116, and the contributions there amounted to 

 $3,410. The Book of Common Prayer has been 

 translated into Portuguese. 



The summary of the work accomplished in the 

 year by the Woman's Auxiliary and its junior de- 

 partment, in which 2,449 parishes and missions took 

 part 379 more than last year shows an increase 

 in contributions to the amount of $24,921.36. In 

 money $219,076.19 was given, and boxes valued 

 at $180,359.82. Of this total of $399,436.01, the 

 junior department gave money and boxes to the 

 i amount of $45,240. In addition to these contribu- 

 tions the triennial " united offering" presented at 

 the meeting of the General Convention amounted 

 to $80,475.69, which amount will be devoted to the 

 Christian education of women. The united offering 

 of the Woman's Auxiliary in 1901 is to be given to 

 the Board of Missions, with the request that it be 

 divided into equal parts one part to be given to 

 each of the missionary bishops who shall be in 

 charge of domestic or foreign jurisdictions at the 

 time, and one equal part to be given to the com- 

 mission for work among the colored people, to be 

 used at their discretion ; the offerings in each case 

 to be reckoned as specials, and in addition to the 

 appropriations made by the Board of Missions. 



The American Church Building Fund Commis- 

 sion reports that in the year gifts to the amount of 

 $3,050 were made to 23 churches, and loans amount- 

 ing to $16,725 were made to 10 churches. The 

 contributions to the Permanent Building Fund 

 were $45,274.02 ; interest on loans and investments 

 amounted to $13,408.94, and the loans returned to 

 $30,484.74. Two gifts amounting to $500 were also 

 returned. The fund now amounts to $343,891.64. 



The General Convention of 1898 met in Wash- 

 ington, Oct. 5. The following action was taken : 

 A new diocese was constituted by the division of 

 the Diocese of Indiana. The new diocese com- 

 prises all the counties of the State of Indiana north 

 of the southern limits of Benton, White. Carroll, 

 Howard, Grant, Blackford, and Jay Counties. 



The seven, missionary jurisdictions of Idaho, 

 Nevada and Utah, northern California, the Platte, 

 western Colorado, Wyoming, and Spokane were 

 rearranged as to their boundaries, and all except 

 the last were renamed. 



The new missionary jurisdictions are as follow : 



Boise. Southern Idaho and greater part of west- 

 ern Wyoming. 



Laramie. Western Nebraska and eastern Wyo- 

 ming. Laramie was placed under the charge of 

 Bishop Anson Rogers Graves, formerly Bishop of 

 the Platte. 



Sacramento. Northern California and western 

 Nevada. 



Salt Lake. Utah, western Colorado, eastern Ne- 

 vada, and a small part of southweM Wyoming. 

 This missionary jurisdiction was placed under the 

 charge of Bishop Abiel Leonard, formerly Bishop 

 of Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado. 



Spokane. Eastern Washington and northern 

 Idaho. Placed under the charge of Bishop Wells. 



The following missionary bishops were elected: 



Ashcville. The Rev. Junius Moore Horner. asso- 

 ciate principal of Horner School, Oxford, N. C. 



Boise. The Rev. James Bowen Funsten, rector 

 of Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Va. 



North Dakota. The Rev. Samuel Cook Edsall, 

 D. D., rector of St. Peter's Church, Chicago. 



Sacramento. The Rev. William Hall Moreland, 

 rector of St. Luke's Church, San Francisco. 



A new foreign missionary jurisdiction was formed 

 in Japan, to be known as the missionary district of 

 Kioto, which was placed under the charge of Bishop 

 McKim, of North Tokio. 



Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, rector of the Church 

 of the Saviour, Rio Grande, Brazil, and resident rep- 

 resentative of the bishop in charge of the Church in 

 Brazil, was elected, and nominated to the presiding 

 bishop for consecration as Bishop for the United 

 States of Brazil, with the title of Bishop of Rio 

 Grande do Sul, Brazil. 



A memorial was received from the churches in 

 Europe, asking for a more adequate provision for 

 episcopal oversight, and a petition by members of 

 the Anglican Church resident in Honolulu was pre- 

 sented. It prayed that the Anglican Church in the 

 Hawaiian Islands may be received into the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church as a missionary jurisdiction, 

 and that it may have union with the General Con- 

 vention. 



The action of the General Convention indicated 

 the policy of the Church that while Cuba, so long 

 as she was semi-independent, could not form part 

 of the territory of the Church, Puerto Rico passed 

 under her jurisdiction on its cession to the United 

 States. It was resolved : "That in behalf of Puerto 

 Rico the Board of Managers of the Board of Mis- 

 sions be requested to take such action as, after con- 

 ference with the Bishop of Antigua, may be deemed 

 practicable and desirable" ; and the work in Cuba 

 was placed under the oversight of the Committee 

 on the increased Responsibilities of the Church, 

 who are instructed "to ascertain by correspondence, 

 and, if practicable, personal visitation, all a\ ailable 

 facts in the case, and to report to the Board of Mis- 

 sions such facts, with any recommendations which 

 they may think it expedient to make." 



Various revisions of the constitution were made, 

 notably one intended to further church unity; and 

 the dissolution of the Prayer-Book Society was con- 

 summated. It was determined that the General 

 Convention of 1901 shall meet in San Francisco. 



The statistics of the Anglican Church in Hawaii 

 for 1898 show : Number of clergy, 8 ; church edifices, 

 7; parishes and missions, 9: baptisms, 100; confirma- 

 tions. 81 ; communicants, 600; Sunday-schoolteach- 

 ers, 22; Sunday-school scholars, 300; parish school 

 teachers, 5; parish school scholars, 96; contribu- 

 tions, $6,800. 



William Stevens Perry, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., 

 second Bishop of Iowa, died May 13 ; Charles Todd 

 Quintard, M. D., D. D., LL. D.," second Bishop of 

 Tennessee, died Feb. 15; John Henry Ducachet 

 Wingfield, D. I)., LL. D., first Missionary Bishop 

 of Northern California, died July 27. The Church 

 lost by death 97 other clergymen also. On Jan. 27 

 the Rev. William Neilson McVickar, D. D., rector 

 of Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, having been 

 duly elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of 

 Rhode Island, was consecrated bishop. June 24, 

 the Venerable William Montgomery Brown, Arch- 

 deacon of Ohio, having been duly elected Bishop 

 Coadjutor of the Diocese of Arkansas, was conse- 

 crated bishop. Sept. 6 the Rev. Thomas Edward 

 Green, S. T. D., D. D., rector of Grace Church, 

 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was elected bishop of the dio- 

 cese in succession to the Right Rev. William 

 Stevens Perry, but he declined the office. 



