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policy of the Government in regard to religious 

 propagandism is just and liberal. Statistics for 

 the Japan mission give: Natives baptized, 302, 

 of whom 209 were adults; confirmed, 208; com- 

 municants, 1,745; day pupils, 1,570; boarding 

 pupils, 319; Sunday pupils, 2,062, of whom 312 

 are reported to be distinct from the day and 

 boarding pupils; contributions, $6,205.39. Seven 

 additional missionaries were appointed to this 

 field in the year, and at Kanazawa a building 

 for religious and educational uses was erected 

 and consecrated. 



A movement of importance has been continued 

 in Hayti in the gathering into the Church of con- 

 verts from voodooism an African superstition 

 whose stronghold is at Leogane. The baptisms of 

 infants in Hayti were 76; confirmations, 50; and 

 contributions, $1,618.39. 



The work of the Mexican Episcopal Church has 

 gone steadily on, and missions among the Eng- 

 lish-speaking people in Mexico are being ex- 

 tended. The baptisms in the year were 66; the 

 offerings, $963.64; and the number of communi- 

 cants, 729. 



The statistics of the chaplaincies in Europe 

 show: Clergy, 12; priests ordained, 8; organized 

 chaplaincies, 9; baptisms, 30; confirmations, 69; 

 communicants, 1,420; contributions, $23,388. 



The receipts of the American Church Mission- 

 ary Society amounted to $78,862.86, an increase 

 of nearly 250 per cent.; the expenditures to 

 $47,177.10. Of these sums, the receipts for the 

 missionary workings of the society were $67,- 

 158.56, and the disbursements for the same ob- 

 jects $34,960.62; and of the balance of cash on 

 hand, $45,885.17, there remained available for the 

 general work $4,227.67, together with $5,000 

 awaiting reinvestment. The contributions for 

 Brazil for current expenses amounted to $15,- 

 890.45 ; " specials " for building churches, to 

 $21,936.36; and for other purposes, $1,352.79; 

 and a measure of self-help has been attained in 

 this field which is altogether unusual in the his- 

 tory of missions. 



In Cuba the work interrupted by the war has 

 been resumed, and missions are maintained in Ha- 

 vana, Matanzas, Bolondron, Sagra la Grande, and 

 Guantanamo. For orphanages in Matanzas and 

 Havana " specials " to the amount of $8,395.83 

 were contributed, and for other purposes in the 

 island $254.30. The contributions for current ex- 

 penses were $7,290.02. 



The missionaries of the society in the domestic 

 field number 20, who care for 66 stations, in which 

 the number of communicants is 1,205, of whom 

 109 were added during the year. 



The summary of the work accomplished in the 

 year by the Woman's Auxiliary and its junior 

 department, in which 2,360 parishes and missions 

 took part, shows an increase in contributions to 

 the amount of $8,883.25. In money, $229,807.64 

 was given, and boxes valued at $178,511.62. Of the 

 total of $408,819.26, the junior department gave 

 money and boxes to the amount of $32,729.95. 

 The triennial " united offering " presented at the 

 meeting of the General Convention in October, 

 1898, and amounting to $82,818.86, should also be 

 credited in the current fiscal year, making the 

 total of contributions of the Woman's Auxiliary 

 for 1899 $491,138.12. 



The American Church Building Fund Commis- 

 sion reports that in the year gifts to the amount 

 of $4,800 were made to 30 churches, and loans 



amounting to $9,050 were made to 7 churches. 

 The contributions to the permanent building 

 fund were $5,387.05; interest on loans and in- 

 vestments, $14,997.98; and loans returned by 

 parishes and missions, $34,611.08. The first 

 gift made to build a church in a foreign land 

 was the grant in September, 1898, of $300 for a 

 chapel in Kurvana, Japan. The fund now 

 amounts to $349,277.15. 



No definite arrangements for the transfer of the 

 diocese of Honolulu from the Anglican to the 

 American Church have yet been made. The sta- 

 tistics of the diocese for 1899 show: Number of 

 clergy, 9; priests ordained, 3; church edifices, 7; 

 parishes and missions, 9; baptisms, 144; con- 

 firmed, 62; communicants, 572; Sunday-school 

 teachers, 22; Sunday-school pupils, 390; parish- 

 school teachers, 11; parish-school pupils, 335; 

 contributions, $6,585. 



John Williams, D. D., LL. D., fourth Bishop of 

 Connecticut and tenth Presiding Bishop of the 

 American Church, died Feb. 7. Henry Niles 

 Pierce, D. D., LL. D., fourth Bishop of Arkansas, 

 died Sept. 5. Henry Adams Neely, D. D., second 

 Bishop of Maine, died Oct. 31. (See OBITUARIES, 

 AMERICAN.) Also the Church lost by death 95 

 other clergymen. On Dec. 28, 1898, the Rev. Jun- 

 ius Moore Horner, associate principal of Horner 

 School, Oxford, N. C., having been elected first 

 bishop of the missionary jurisdiction of Ashe- 

 ville, was consecrated bishop. Jan. 6, 1899, 

 the Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, rector of the 

 Church of the Saviour, Rio Grande, Brazil, and 

 resident representative of the bishop in charge of 

 the Church in Brazil, having been elected first 

 bishop for the United States of Brazil, with the 

 title of Bishop of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, was 

 consecrated bishop. Jan. 25, the Rev. Samuel 

 Cook Edsall, D. D., rector of St. Peter's Church, 

 Chicago, having been elected second bishop of the 

 missionary jurisdiction of North Dakota, was 

 consecrated bishop. On the same day, at St. 

 Luke's Church, San Francisco, the Rev. William 

 Hall Moreland, M. A., rector of that church, hav- 

 ing been elected first bishop of the missionary 

 jurisdiction of Sacramento, was consecrated bish- 

 op. This was the first episcopal consecration in 

 the American Church west of Omaha. On Feb*. 

 22 the Rev. Theodore Nevin Morrison, D. D., rec- 

 tor of the Church of the Epiphany, Chicago, hav- 

 ing been elected third Bishop of Iowa, was conse- 

 crated bishop. July 13, the Rev. James Bo wen 

 Funsten, having been elected first bishop of the 

 missionary jurisdiction of Bois, was consecrated 

 bishop. Sept. 21, the Rev. Joseph Marshall Fran- 

 cis, D. D., rector of St. Paul's Church, Evansville, 

 Ind., having been elected fifth bishop of the dio- 

 cese of Indiana, in succession to the Right Rev. 

 John Hazen White, D. D., who on the division 

 of the diocese had chosen the new diocese of 

 Michigan City, was consecrated bishop. Oct. 18, 

 the Rev. Arthur Llewellyn Williams, rector of 

 Christ Church, Woodlawn, Chicago, having been 

 elected Bishop Coadjutor of Nebraska, was con- 

 secrated bishop. Nov. 10, the Rev. William 

 Loyall Gravatt, rector of Zion Church, Charles- 

 town, W. Va., having been elected Bishop Coad- 

 jutor of West Virginia, was consecrated bishop. 

 Oct. 26, at a special meeting , of the House of 

 Bishops, held in St. Louis, the Rev. Sidney Catlin 

 Partridge, missionary in Wu-Chang, China, was 

 elected bishop of the foreign missionary juris- 

 diction of Kioto, in Japan. 



