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sons into membership. The State boards reported 

 295.108 additions to the churches through their 

 missionaries. This society had given to the 

 Church the various other societies the Christian 

 Woman's Board of Missions, which had raised 

 $770,000 since its organization; the Foreign Chris- 

 tian Missionary Society, which had raised and 

 expended $1,141,000 for foreign missions; the 

 Board of Church Extension, which had raised 

 $236,000 for that work; the Board of Negro 

 Evangelization, which had raised $08,000 before 

 its offering was united with that of the General 

 Home Board ; and the Board of Ministerial Belief, 

 which had raised about $29,000 for the help of 

 aged and needy ministers. The last year had 

 been the most prosperous in its history. Its re- 

 ceipts had been $100,550, showing a gain of $60,- 

 662 from the previous year. Of this amount $29,- 

 100 came in the form of special gifts to the perma- 

 nent fund. In addition to the receipts of the gen- 

 eral society, the State boards had received $294,- 

 065. The national board was helping 32 State 

 and district boards of missions, and employed 

 109 missionaries, who had organized 63 churches 

 and baptized 6,046 believers, while more than 

 15,000 persons had been baptized during the year 

 under the ministrations of the State boards. Mis- 

 sions were carried on in 20 large cities; in Mani- 

 toba, Ontario, and the maritime provinces of Can- 

 ada ; among the Mexicans in San Antonio, Texas ; 

 and a mission had been opened in Puerto Rico in 

 November, 1898. 



The Board of Ministerial Relief had received 

 $6,682. 



The twenty-fourth annual report of the For- 

 eign Christian Missionary Society showed that 

 the receipts for the year had been $152,728, in- 

 dicating a gain of $21,801 over the previous year. 

 Of this amount, $56,781 had been contributed by 

 the churches as churches, and $39,071 by the 

 Sunday schools; $9,390 were the proceeds of be- 

 quests; and $22,425 had been received on the 

 annuity plan. Ten new missionaries had been 

 appointed to Africa, India, Japan, China, and 

 Cuba, and were to sail after the adjournment of 

 the convention, while 2 others were to go to 

 Japan in the next year. Men were needed to 

 serve as evangelists. A number of new buildings 

 had been erected in the several mission fields. 

 The missions in China, Japan, India, and Turkey 

 returned 71 missionaries, 149 native helpers, 717 

 members, 465 additions during the year, and 

 1,570 pupils in the schools, and 11,302 patients 

 had been treated in the hospital connected with 

 the mission in China. The Scandinavian missions 

 returned 168 members at Copenhagen, Denmark; 

 9.958 in Norway, where a church had been formed 

 in Christiania; and 26 in Malmo, Sweden. A new 

 station had been opened at Lund, Sweden. In 

 England the aggregate membership of the 

 churches and missions was 2,412, and 2,541 pupils 

 were enrolled in the Sunday schools, ' while the 

 Christian Endeavor Societies had 379 members. 

 The English churches had raised $17,488 for self- 

 support and $2,419 for missions. The first sta- 

 tion in Africa had been occupied at Bolengi, about 



500 miles from the mouth of the Congo and 2 

 north of the equator, where 3 missionaries were 

 in service. In accordance with the directions of 

 the convention of the previous year, Cuba had 

 been visited by a committee, who had decided 

 to open a mission there at the earliest moment 

 practicable, and a mission to the Philippine 

 Islands was contemplated. 



The total receipts of the Board of Church Ex- 

 tension had been $64,276, a gain over the previous 

 year of $22,952. Of this amount, $17,933 were 

 derived from annuities, $2,152 from bequests, $16,- 

 612 collected on loans, and $47,664 new receipts. 

 Fifty-eight loans, aggregating $53,786, had been 

 closed, and 73 loans, amounting to $41,940, had 

 been granted but not closed. A class of named 

 loan funds, in memory of donors or such other 

 persons as they may designate, had been insti- 

 tuted, the condition of which is the payment of 

 $5,000 at once or in annual subscriptions through 

 a series of ten years. Seven such funds had al- 

 ready been founded. 



The Christian Woman's Board of Missions re- 

 ported for its twenty-fifth year. Its total receipts 

 had been $109,089, and it had employed in Ja- 

 maica, India, and Mexico, for the whole or a 

 part of the time, 27 missionaries, working in 26 

 stations, and in the United States 33 mission- 

 aries, doing special work in 20 States and the 

 country at large. Besides these, a number of 

 missionaries were laboring in Colorado and parts 

 of Montana, to whom remittances were not made 

 directly. 



The total amount of the year's contributions 

 for all the national and State boards is given in 

 the report of the American Christian Missionary 

 Society as having been $690,017. 



Disciples in England. The nineteenth an- 

 nual conventions of the Christian Association 

 and Christian Woman's Board of Missions of 

 England were held Sept. 12 to 14. The 15 churches 

 and missions returned 2,412 members, showing 

 a net increase of 172, while 391 persons had been 

 baptized. The total contributions for self-sup- 

 port and benevolences, excluding those for mis- 

 sions, had been 3.583, or 113 more than in the 

 previous year, while the contributions for mis- 

 sions were 455, against 276 in the previous 

 year. The value of church property was given 

 as 29,413. The receipts of the Self-denial 

 League, which has been formed to raise money 

 for the Evangelist fund and the opening of new 

 work, had been at the rate of 75 per member. 

 The Christian Woman's Board of Missions had 

 received more than 200, and had sent boxes to 

 India and to China. A resolution was adopted, 

 at the instance of the Christian Total Abstinence 

 Association, declaring it the opinion of the con- 

 ference that, " in view of the fearful results ac- 

 cruing from the use of alcoholic liquors and the 

 curse it brings upon the home life and church 

 life of the nation, ... no Christian should make, 

 buy, sell, or use as a beverage intoxicating drinks, 

 and that Christians should not provide for their 

 children stimulating food which excites the appe- 

 tite for intoxicating liquors." 



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EAST AFRICA. The coast of Africa between 

 Cape Guardafui and Cape Delgado, over which 

 the Sultan of Zanzibar once exercised sovereign 

 rights, has been divided, by agreement between 

 Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, among those 

 three powers. German East Africa, embracing 



an area of about 380,000 square miles, with 4,000,- 

 000 inhabitants, is divided on the south from the 

 Portuguese colony of Mozambique by the river 

 Rovuma; from British East Africa on the north 

 by a conventional boundary running northwest- 

 ward from the Umbe river to the shore of Vic- 



