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in the same system, with similar courses of in- 

 struction, as those among the colored people; 

 they returned 55 teachers and 1,587 enrolled 

 pupils. All these schools in the South, together 

 with the 5 chartered institutions making 70 

 schools in all had 414 instructors and 12,428 

 pupils. Of these pupils, 125 were theological, 85 

 collegiate, 307 college preparatory, and 1,405 nor- 

 mal students. Much attention was given to in- 

 dustrial training, with model farms and work- 

 shops connected with most of the larger schools. 

 A committee of the association had visited Puerto 

 Rico with reference to the establishment of 

 schools there, and Santurce, near San Juan, and 

 Utuado, in the center of the mountainous coffee 

 region, had been selected as two of the sites. 

 The Southern church work included 211 churches, 

 140 ministers and missionaries, 11,398 members, 

 14,806 pupils in church and mission Sunday 

 schools, and 1,238 members added on profession 

 of faith during the year. Fifteen new churches 

 had been added to the roll, and 6 dropped. More 

 than half the churches were in the three States of 

 North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, includ- 

 ing more than 5,000 members. Some of the city 

 churches were actively engaged in city mission 

 work among the poorer classes of the colored 

 people, with much success. The mountain 

 churches, included in the above enumeration, 

 numbered 1,600 members. Three new churches 

 had been organized. The Indian missions (in- 

 cluding Alaska) comprised 19 churches, with 1,097 

 members and 2,438 pupils in Sunday schools, 6 

 schools with 368 pupils, 33 missionary out sta- 

 tions, and 49 white and 34 Indian missionaries 

 and teachers. These churches and missions had 

 contributed $3,239 for benevolence and church 

 support. Extensive missionary experience had 

 led to the conclusion that in civilizing and Chris- 

 tianizing the Indian direct evangelistic work 

 must be largely depended upon. The Alaskan 

 work was entirely distinct and separate from 

 other missions in the Territory, and had been 

 established in a region where it trenched upon 

 the field of no other Christian organization. The 

 Chinese missions, in California and Utah, in- 

 cluded 21 Chinese and Japanese schools, with 35 

 teachers, 10 of whom were Chinese, and 1,360 

 pupils, and reported 152 professions of faith dur- 

 ing the year. Reviewing all the mission work 

 among these people from the beginning, it was 

 found that nearly 20,000 Chinese had been reached 

 in the mission service of Christian churches on 

 the Pacific coast, and nearly 2,000 of them had 

 hecome Christians and were actively supporting 

 the missionary service in the United States and 

 in their native land. 



The American Board. The ninetieth annual 

 meeting of the American Board of Commissioners 

 for Foreign Missions was held in Providence, 

 R. I., beginning Oct. 3, the Hon. D. Willis James, 

 vice-president, presiding. Memorial addresses 

 relative to the Rev. Dr. C. M. Lamson, late presi- 

 dent of the board, deceased, were delivered by 

 Mr. James and Prof. Williston Walker. The re- 

 port of the home department showed that the 

 receipts from donations ($490,407) represented 

 a gain of $58,918, while the amount received from 

 legacies was $85,509 less than in 1898. Twelve 

 new missionaries were under appointment, and 

 14 others were about to return to their fields. 

 The report of the treasurer showed that the total 

 receipts for the year had been $644,200, and the 

 expenditures $692,446. The debt had been in- 

 creased by $48,245, and was now $88,537. The 

 annual survey of the mission work showed that 

 there were connected with the 20 missions 529 



missionaries, 3,155 native laborers, 1,417 preach- 

 ing stations, 492 organized churches, 49,782 mem- 

 bers, 5,047 of whom had been received on con- 

 fession during the year; 1,021 Sunday schools, 

 with 65,903 pupils; 133 colleges and high schools, 

 with 9,088 young men and women pupils; and 

 1,137 common schools, with 43,920 pupils; hos- 

 pitals and dispensaries at which 120,000 patients 

 had obtained relief; and a number of mission 

 presses. Throughout the mission fields the Gos- 

 pel was preached in 26 different languages. The 

 educational work had become so largely self- 

 supporting that for 128 schools, with 336 teachers 

 and nearly 10,000 pupils, less than $500 had been 

 paid during the past year by the American Board 

 and the Woman's Board. In Japan 431 members 

 had been added to the Kumaiai churches during 

 the year, making the total membership of that 

 body 10,046. 



The Advisory Committee on the " Forward 

 Movement " reported that they had secured Mr. 

 Luther D. Wishard as a special agent to develop 

 interest in foreign missions among the churches, 

 and especially to secure the adoption of mis- 

 sionaries by particular churches, individuals, and 

 families. Since Mr. Wishard had entered on this 

 work, Feb. 1, 1899, 20 of the churches visited by 

 him had undertaken the support of individual 

 missionaries. The aggregate gifts of these 

 churches for the past year had been $4,871, and 

 they had pledged $15,561 for the coming year. 

 Six other churches had increased their gifts from 

 an aggregate of $609 to $1,953. The board voted 

 to continue this special work for another year. 

 It having been shown in an address by Mr. S. B. 

 Capen, reviewing the report of the home depart- 

 ment, that, while the membership of the Congre- 

 gational churches had increased 17 per cent, in 

 the last seven years, the gifts to the six mission- 

 ary and educational societies of the denomina- 

 tion had decreased 24 per cent., the Rev. Francis 

 E. Clark found cause for thanksgiving and en- 

 couragement in the fact that the gifts of the 

 young people were steadily increasing. Mr. Sam- 

 uel B. Capen, of Boston, Mass., was elected presi- 

 dent of the board to succeed the Rev. Dr. C. M. 

 Lamson, deceased, receiving on the first ballot 

 115 votes out of a total of 137 cast. 



Women's Societies. The Woman's Board of 

 Missions met at Syracuse, N. Y., in October. The 

 treasurer reported that the total amount of con- 

 tributions for the year had been $110,825, a gain 

 of $6,961 over the previous year. This gain had 

 been made possible by two individual gifts, 

 amounting to $6,500, one of which was for a 

 school building in Adabazar, Turkey. Of legacy 

 funds, $22,461 were available for the work of 

 the year. One legacy of $27,000 had been re- 

 ceived, of which $24,000 were available for ex- 

 penditure to be distributed over three years, 

 while $3,000 were to be added to the permanent 

 fund. The society was addressed by a number 

 of returned missionaries from India, China, Tur- 

 key, Japan, and Austria, and by a pupil from 

 the girls' school at Brusa, Turkey, and a Jap- 

 anese young woman, a graduate of Mount Hoi- 

 yoke College, now a pupil in the school at North- 

 field, Mass. 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the Wom- 

 an's Board of Missions of the Interior was held 

 at Madison, Wis., in October. The treasurer re- 

 ported that the receipts for the year had been 

 $80,402, a gain over the previous year of $16,- 

 872, or nearly 26 per cent. The advance had 

 been apparent in every one of the 15 States repre- 

 sented in the society. The debt was extinguished. 

 Five new missionaries had been sent out to China 



