ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



parochial purposes were about two and a half 

 times the size of those for general purposes or 

 5,542,394, as against 2,235,741. Other contri- 

 butions to general charities from Church sources, 

 of which the tables in the Year-Book take no 

 notice, were, it is represented in the Church 

 Times, well maintained. No account is made in 

 the tables either of contributions, such as those 

 to the Bible Society, the London City Mission, 

 etc., in which non-conformists cooperate. Of 

 the various items in the budget, gain was shown 

 in 7 and loss in 12. 



The income of the Bishop of London's fund (to 

 provide for the spiritual needs of the poorer 

 parts) for the past year had amounted to 28,- 

 795, against 26,744 in the preceding twelve 

 months. The bishop at the annual meeting in 

 behalf of the fund named 50,000 a year as the 

 sum required for the carrying out of the work 

 undertaken by it. 



The annual report of the Church Pastoral 

 Aid Society for 1902 shows that during the year 

 grants had been made in the total amount of 

 00,494 for 750 curates, 154 lay assistants, and 

 102 women workers in 695 parishes, contain- 

 ing an aggregate population of 6,086,367. The 

 amount of contributions called forth locally had 

 steadily risen, except in a single year, during the 

 past ten years from 36,368 in 1893 to 53,785 

 in 1902. The committee had been able to extend 

 the work of the society in two directions during 

 the year, namely, in the application of a gift of 

 10,000 for the relief of impoverished clergy, 

 partly, according to the donor's wishes, in aug- 

 menting poor benefices reasonably secured in 

 evangelical patronage, and partly in relieving 

 more immediate needs; and by the institution of 

 an effort to train for the ministry men who 

 appear to have all the needful qualifications ex- 

 cept sufficient means. In the former branch of 

 activity, by the help of local benefactions and aid 

 from the ecclesiastical commissioners, increased 

 endowment would be provided for 20 or 30 par- 

 ishes. The balance of an educational fund 

 formed in connection with the society's' forward 

 movement of 1894-'98 had been applied to train- 

 ing men at Cambridge who had gained an insight 

 into parochial work while preparing for a degree 

 at the university and for holy orders. 



Church Missionary Society. The annual 

 meeting of the Church Missionary Society was 

 held in London, May 6, Sir John Kennaway, 

 Bart., M. P., presiding. The year's receipts for 

 general purposes had been 327,000, an increase 

 of 13,500. While legacies and interest were less 

 than in the previous year, there had been an in- 

 crease of about 20,000 from voluntary contrilm- 

 tions. Expenditures had been reduced by 6,000, 

 and had really been 15,000 less than the esti- 

 mate; and the deficit of 27.000 was less than 

 had been feared. The society's work could not 

 be done on the present scale, without an increase 

 of 50,000 a year in income, after making up the 

 deficit. The Church in Japan had adopted a 

 revision of its constitution, and had before it a re- 

 vised translation of the Thirty-nine Articles; and 

 its clergy and laymen sat in synod and voted with 

 the English bishops and clergy. Native clergy 

 preponderated in the synod of Ceylon, which was 

 about to eloct its own bishop, under the constitu- 

 tion granted in 1886 a power to be exercised for 

 the first time by any modern Church body in 

 which natives predominate. The Church in 

 Uganda numbered 30.000 members, supported 27 

 pastors and 2.400 teachers and elders, put up its 

 own church buildings, and sent its own mission- 

 aries into foreign parts. In New Zealand and 



Canada, the society's work among the Maoris- 

 and red Indians was being transferred to the co- 

 lonial churches. Some of the most interesting 

 cases among the 9,580 adult and 11,007 juvenile 

 baptisms of the past year were the first four 

 converts in the Eskimo mission at Cumberland 

 Sound and the first pygmy from the great Afri- 

 can forest. The following declaration of the po- 

 sition of the society was embodied in the report: 

 " The Church Missionary Society has its own 

 distinct principles the principles of the apos- 

 tolic age of the English Reformation, of the- 

 evangelical revival and on those principles it. 

 stands, and intends by the grace of God to stand. 

 It maintains, and will maintain, its just inde- 

 pendence not independence of the Church or of 

 its constituted authorities, but the reasonable in- 

 dependence of a body of loyal Churchmen banded 

 together for the preaching of Christ in the world. 

 At the same time, it declines to be turned aside 

 by groundless and unworthy suspicions from the 

 ancient practise of friendly intercourse with other 

 societies, whether within the Church of England 

 or within the wider range of Protestant Christen- 

 dom; and it rejoices to see what its founders 

 would have rejoiced to see ' but died without 

 the sight ' the Church of England as a body, 

 and its episcopate in particular, fostering the 

 missionary enterprise." 



The following approximate statistics of the- 

 missions for 1901-'02 w r ere presented to the 

 meeting: Number of stations, 558; of European 

 missionaries, 1,305, including 421 ordained clergy,. 

 146 laymen, and V38 women missionaries; of na- 

 tive clergy, 374; o'f native lay teachers, 7,927; of 

 native Christian adherents, including catechu- 

 mens, 290,225; of native communicants, 85.553; 

 of baptisms, 20,617 ; of schools, 2,522, with 103,- 

 137 pupils; of hospital beds, 1,713; of in-pa- 

 tients, 13,871; of visits to out-patients, 786.042. 

 Among the missionaries were 64 qualified doc- 

 tors, 14 of whom were women. 



The Centenary Volume of the society, pub- 

 lished during the year, contains a history of its- 

 rise and progress together with particulars of 

 its various missions. While from 1799 to 1815- 

 the society received no attention from the bish- 

 ops, its list ,of vice-presidents in 1899 included 

 the names of 126 bishops. Thirty-seven of its 

 missionaries, 3 of them Africans, were made bish- 

 ops during the one hundred years. Bishop Had- 

 field, who went out in 1839, was the senior 

 bishop on the list, and the sixth in order of con- 

 secration. Before 1841 the society sent out only 

 16 university men as missionaries. Since then 

 384 graduates had gone out, making the whole 

 number 400. The development of the publica- 

 tions of the society and their currenev was shown 

 in the fact that while in 1849 they cost 2.500 

 a year, and returned only 150, the corresponding 

 periodicals now cost 5*000 a year, and returned 

 nearly the whole sum. During its first year the 

 society received 2,461 ; during the last twelve 

 years of its century (1887 to 1899) it met a total 

 expenditure of 3.342.000. The missionaries 

 who had served the society numbered 1.602 men, 

 584 women, and 623 native clergy. The first 7 

 missionaries, up to 1809, were German Lutherans. 

 The first record of woman missionaries was in 

 1820. Of every pound sterling received lOx. M. 

 were expended on the actual missions. 7(1. for dis- 

 abled missionaries, Srf. for the training of mis- 

 sionaries, and 2s. 3rf. for home charges. The cor- 

 responding expenditure for home charges during 

 the first half century was 2*. lid. 



Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. 

 The receipts for 1901 of the Society for the- 



