ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



sions were established as follow: Bengal, 1815; 

 Northwest Provinces, 1813; Punjab and Sindh, 

 1852; Bombay and West India, 1820; Madras 

 and South India, 1814; Travancore and Cochin, 

 1816; Ceylon, 1818; Telugu, 1841; South China, 

 1850; Mid China, 1844; West China, 1891; Ja- 

 pan, 1869; Egypt, 1882; Palestine, 1851; Persia, 

 1875; Turkish Arabia, 1882; Equatorial Africa, 

 1844; Uganda, 1876; Northwest Canada, 1822; 

 British Columbia, 1856; Sierra Leone, 1804; 

 Yoruba, 1844; Niger, 1857; New Zealand, 1814. 

 A preliminary sermon to the celebration was 

 preached in St. Paul's Cathedral by the Bishop 

 of Deny, April 9. The first day's meeting was 

 held April 10 in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, 

 when addresses appropriate to the occasion was 

 delivered. In the evening the Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury preached in St. Paul's Cathedral upon 

 The Beginning of the Catholicity of the Church, 

 in the setting apart of Barnabas and Saul, from 

 which he passed to a review of the growth of 

 the society. The second day's meetings were 

 held in Exeter Hall, and were devoted to a re- 

 view of the history of the society. Among the 

 special topics and departments of missionary 

 activity that came under notice in the ad- 

 dresses were Mohammedanism as an obstacle, the 

 mission to Uganda, missionary and evangelical 

 methods, educational work as an aggressive 

 force and a defensive agency, women's work, 

 medical work, literary work, and The Story of 

 the Society at Home during the Hundred Years. 

 In connection with this subject it was repre- 

 sented that since 1887, when the executive com- 

 mittee had resolved never to reject on financial 

 grounds any candidate who was spiritually and 

 mentally and physically fit for the work, the rev- 

 enue had increased from 221,000 to 322,000, 

 and the number of missionaries from 309 to 777. 

 On the third day, April 13, the actual anniversary 

 day, resolutions were adopted expressing thanks 

 to God for the successful career of the society; 

 acknowledging much on the part of the society 

 that might cause sorrow and humiliation, con- 

 fessing with shame the grievous disproportion 

 between what the Church had done during the 

 past century and what it ought to have done, 

 lamenting indifference shown by many to the 

 conversion of the world, and deploring the vast 

 areas still unevangelized ; and, looking to the 

 future, expressing the belief that " in the scrip- 

 tural doctrine and primitive order of the Church 

 of England, in the history and character of the 

 English people, and in their commercial and po- 

 litical power there are peculiar privileges which 

 constitute a divine call to the Christians of the 

 empire to missionary enterprise in a far larger 

 and bolder spirit than has ever yet been mani- 

 fested." The fourth day of the celebration was 

 devoted to a review of Church and Protestant 

 missions other than those of the Church Mis- 

 sionary Society, in which the Universities' Mis- 

 sion in Central Africa, the Society of the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church in the United States, and 

 the South Sea and Australian Missions were rep- 

 resented. Two sessions were given to Scottish, 

 foreign Protestant, and nonconformist missions, 

 when representatives of the Established and Free 

 Churches of Scotland, the Paris Missionary So- 

 ciety, the Basel Mission, the British and Foreign 

 Bible Society, the Wesleyan Missionary Society, 

 and the London Missionary Society spoke of the 

 operations of those bodies. On the fifth day sub- 

 jects relating to the extension of the work of the 

 society and fields for new missions were dis- 

 cussed. The last day's meeting, April 15, was 

 for boys and girls, when medals were distributed. 



Propagation Society. The public meeting in 

 connection with the one hundred and ninety- 

 eighth anniversary of the Society for the Propa- 

 gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was held 

 May 4, the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding. 

 The year's income of the society had been 132,- 

 355, of which 17,994 were from legacies. The 

 missionary force comprised 787 ordained minis- 

 ters, 12 of whom were bishops, and 2,900 lay 

 teachers, with 3,200 students in the society's 

 colleges and 38,000 children in the Asiatic and 

 African schools. More than the usual number 

 of offers of service abroad had been received, and 

 a large increase was shown in the number of 

 clergy placed on the society's list and in the 

 native ministry, as well as an increase of 2,000 

 in the voluntary gifts. The society had a church 

 car in Mashonaland running over 500 miles of 

 railway to Bulawayo. In Guiana the Chinese 

 had built a handsome and substantial church 

 for themselves. A bicentenary celebration ol the 

 society is appointed to begin on June 16, 1900, 

 the one hundred and ninety-ninth anniversary of 

 the granting of its charter, and to close on the 

 same day of 1901. 



The Universities' Mission. The report of 

 the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, pre- 

 sented at the annual meeting, June 6, showed 

 that mission work of the ordinary kind was scat- 

 tered over about 250,000 square miles. The 

 nurseries, schools, homes, and workshops in- 

 cluded more than 300 children, while 780 were 

 entirely supported by the mission. Thirty-three 

 men were required to raise their staff to a mini- 

 mum pitch of efficiency. Occasion having arisen 

 by the departure for England in 1898 of the Eu- 

 ropean ladies, the bishop had felt able to give 

 the entire management of the girls' school at 

 Likoma to a native woman teacher, with the 

 result that the average attendance had risen 

 from 50 to 75, and had been steadily maintained 

 throughout the year. The suppression of the 

 slave trade by the German Government had acted 

 in a way that was not altogether for the ad- 

 vantage of the mission. The people, instead of 

 gathering in large numbers, were now separat- 

 ing into small communities, and the missionary, 

 instead of having one center, where he could 

 work with comparative ease, found himself in 

 charge of a number of small hamlets. A steamer 

 had been built for Lake Nyassa, and 3,000 were 

 needed in order to send it there. 



The Bishop of London's Fund. The Bishop 

 of London's fund for church building in the me- 

 tropolis made grants during the year for 187 

 permanent churches, of which 171 were parochial 

 churches and the others " chapels of ease." It 

 was represented at the annual meeting of the 

 subscribers, May 1, that, while the provision of 

 sufficient churches for themselves seemed hope- 

 less to the growing populations of the outskirts 

 of London, where the bishop's fund furnished 

 the nucleus, the people of the neighborhood took 

 heart and joined jn the work. A resolution was 

 adopted affirming the need of increased efforts 

 to meet adequately the spiritual needs by means 

 of the supply of mission clergy, mission rooms 

 and churches, and additional curates and lay 

 agents. 



The Church Army. The seventeenth annual 

 report of the Church Army, presented at the 

 anniversary, May 2 and 3, describes a large vari- 

 ety of operations which were conducted by about 

 150 evangelists, colporteurs, nurses, rescue work- 

 ers, pioneer and tent missionaries, social officers, 

 and other agents. Sixty-five mission vans were 

 at work in 33 dioceses. The work done in the 



