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society for the year had been $135,288, or $35,- 

 612 more than those of the previous year, and it 

 was free from debt, with a small balance in its 

 treasury, it had aided 22 academies and 3 col- 

 leges. Five of its 6 schools in Utah were in centers 

 entirely Mormon. 



American Missionary Association. The 

 fifty-sixth annual meeting of the American Mis- 

 sionary Association was held at New London, 

 Conn., Oct. 21 to 23, the Rev. Washington Glad- 

 den, D. D., presiding. The total receipts for the 

 year, including those on account of the Daniel 

 Hand fund, had been $464,291, and the expendi- 

 tures $368,347. The Daniel Hand Educational 

 fund for colored people was credited with $66,636 

 on income and $14,440 on endowment account; 

 and other endowment funds of $10,000 had been 

 received. A balance of $73,907 was shown in the 

 reserve legacy account. 



The religious and educational work of the as- 

 sociation was carried on in 22 States and Ter- 

 ritories of the United States, and among people of 

 6 different races. The educational work in the 

 South included 6 chartered institutions for the 

 higher learning, having classes also in the pre- 

 paratory grades; 43 normal and graded schools, 

 with nearly 8,000 pupils; and 30 common schools, 

 with 5,465 pupils; having in all 480 instructors, 

 and showing a total of 14,048 pupils. Of these 

 pupils 95 were in theological, 271 in collegiate, 365 

 in collegiate preparatory, and 1,597 in normal de- 

 partments. Much attention was given in most 

 of the schools to manual and industrial training. 

 Eleven of the schools were " mountain schools " 

 among the white people of the Appalachian range, 

 and returned 68 instructors and 2,198 pupils. Two 

 schools, with 10 instructors and 343 pupils, were in 

 Porto Rico. The Church work in the South in- 

 cluded 230 churches, with 139 ministers and mis- 

 sionaries, and 12,155 church-members, who had 

 contributed $2,813 for benevolences and raised 

 $39,398 for church purposes, 17,311 pupils in 

 Sunday-schools, and 1,190 members added on pro- 

 fession during the year. A larger number of new 

 churches had been enrolled during the past year 

 than in any year since 1895. In the Indian mis- 

 sions, 20 churches and 10 out-stations were re- 

 turned, with 47 white and 41 Indian teachers and 

 missionaries, 1,453 church-members, 2,661 pupils in 

 Sunday-schools, and contributions for benevolence 

 and church support of $2,681. Six Indian schools, 

 in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Alaska, returned 

 :U-2 pupils. While the number of churches 

 in these missions remained the same as in 

 the previous year and the number of substa- 

 tions and workers and the benevolent contri- 

 butions had decreased, substantial gains had 

 been made in church-membership and in the 

 attendance at the 6 schools. An unexpected de- 

 velopment was mentioned in Alaska, in that 

 Eskimos from the islands of Bering's Straits, and 

 even from Siberia, were finding their way to the 

 American islands and coming in touch with the 

 spirit and power of Christianity. At the business 

 meeting of the association, the question of the 

 election of salaried officers by the Executive Com- 

 mittee rather than at the 'annual meeting was 

 referred ; the president of the association was 

 made ex officio a member of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. It was reported that no plan had been 

 matured for holding one annual meeting of all 

 the Congregational benevolent societies, nor for 

 publishing one magazine in cooperation with the 

 other societies, and that the proposition to have 

 but one treasurer for the three societies whose 

 headquarters were in New York had not been 

 found feasible. A plan was substituted providing 



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for a limited corporate and responsible member- 

 ship of the association. Being, in effect, a notice 

 of a proposed amendment to the constitution, ita 

 consideration was deferred for one year. 



The American Board. The ninety-third an- 

 nual meeting of the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions was held at Oberlin, 

 Ohio, Oct. 14 to 17, Mr. Samuel Capen presiding. 

 The Prudential Committee reported that the re- 

 ceipts for the year, not including moneys for the 

 debt, had been $741,454, an increase " from the 

 previous year of $44,083. After paying the debt 

 of $102,341, largely through a collection taken at 

 the previous meeting (see Annual Cyclopedia for 

 1901, p. 139) an overplus remained of $1,310. 

 Counting in these sums, the grand total of re- 

 ceipts from all sources was $845,105. While the 

 receipts from regular unconditioned donations, 

 individuals, churches, and societies ($505,935) had 

 fallen -off $4,262, those contributed through the 

 Woman's Boards ($214,710) had increased $16,- 

 055, and those from legacies $49,810. The special 

 gifts amounted to $42,717. The expenditures had 

 been $741,303. The Twentieth Century fund, con- 

 templated to be of $250,000, now amounted to 

 $115,796. It had not been pressed during the 

 past year. Fifty thousand dollars had been raised 

 in behalf of the National Armenian Relief Com- 

 mittee and the Orphans' Homes in India. Rela- 

 tions were maintained with the Congregational 

 Foreign Mission Board of Canada, whose contribu- 

 tions went largely to the support of the work in 

 the West Central African Mission. The Yale 

 Foreign Missionary Society, connected with Yale 

 University, had been organized to be independent 

 of denominational control, but would cooperate 

 with the board, and was to establish a mission in 

 China. 



From the 20 mission fields, with 101 stations, 

 1,301 out-stations, and 1,679 places for stated 

 preaching, were returned 168 ordained mission- 

 aries (15 being physicians), 15 other men physi- 

 cians, and 360 woman missionaries (12 of them 

 physicians), making, with 6 other assistants, 

 the w r hole number of 549 laborers sent from the 

 United States; 268 native pastors and, includ- 

 ing also native preachers and catechists, school- 

 teachers, Bible women, and others, totals of 

 3,581 native laborers and of 4,130 Americans 

 and natives; 524 churches, with 55,645 members, 

 5,609 having been added during the year, and 60,- 

 321 members of Sunday-schools. The whole num- 

 ber of church-members from the first, as nearly 

 as could be learned, was 163.267. The educa- 

 tional department included 14 theological sem- 

 inaries and station classes, with 167 students for 

 the ministry and 916 students in collegiate train- 

 ing, 118 boarding and high schools, with 10,895 

 pupils, and 1,134 common schools, with 46,149 

 pupils; making the whole number under instruc- 

 tion, 60,964. The native contributions, so far as 

 reported, amounted to $167,512. An additional 

 college at Smyrna had been formally recognized, 

 making 3 colleges in the Western Turkey mission. 

 Central Turkey College, having completed twenty- 

 six years of work, was beginning to pass gradually 

 into the hands of the native constituency. In 

 the Marshall Islands the church-membership had 

 almost trebled in ten years, and the German < 

 eminent was friendly. The devastated missions 

 in northern China had been largely reestablished. 

 A headquarters building had been completed for 

 the mission at Hong-Kong, without expense to the 

 board. Advances were mentioned in the African 

 missions. A unique incident in the European 

 Turkey mission was the capture of Miss Ellen M. 

 Stone 'and a native assistant by brigands and 



