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PRESBYTERIANS. 



the census of Dec. 31, 1900, of 42,103, of whom 

 37,776 were in St. Thomas and 4,327 in Principe, 

 the total including 597 foreigners and comprising 

 1,185 whites, of whom 1,095 were males and 90 

 females, 279 colored, of whom 145 were males and 

 134 females, and. 40,639 negroes, of whom 21,881 

 were males and 18,758 females. Principe produces 

 about 600,000 kilograms of cacao, St. Thomas 

 2,250,000 kilograms of coffee. Another product 

 is cinchona. The imports of St. Thomas for 1900 

 were valued at 2,037,961 inilreis, and exports at 

 3,525,773 milreis. The number of vessels that 

 visited the ports of the islands during 1900 was 

 186, of 360,115 tons. The revenue of the islands 

 in 1902 was estimated at 526,140 milreis, and ex- 

 penditure at 372,254 milreis. The military force 

 is 240 men, of whom 181 are natives. The most 

 important and extensive of the colonial posses- 

 sions of Portugal are in the southern part of the 

 African continent, Angola on the western and 

 Portuguese East Africa on the eastern side (see 

 SOUTH AFRICA). 



PRESBYTERIANS. I. Presbyterian Church, 

 in the United States of America (Northern). 

 The following is a summary of the statistics of 

 this Church as they were reported to the General 

 Assembly in May, 1902: Number of synods, 32; 

 of presbyteries, 233; of churches, 7,748; of min- 

 isters, 7,617; of candidates, 810; of local evangel- 

 ists, 123; of elders, 28,938; of deacons, 10,274; of 

 communicants, 1,045,338; of members of Sabbath- 

 schools, 1,063,683; of members added on examina- 

 tion during the year, 65,889; of baptisms, 23,279 

 of adults and 26,043 of infants; net increase of 

 members during the year, 19,950; amount of con- 

 tributions for the * year for home missions, 

 $1,203,453; for foreign missions, $898,079; for edu- 

 cation, $105,301 ; for Sabbath-school work, $136,- 

 757; for church erection, $261,034; for the Relief 

 fund, $107,718; for the freedmen, $145,611; for 

 synodical aid, $100,062; for aid for colleges, $425,- 

 421; for the General Assembly, etc., $84,926; for 

 congregational expenses, $12,575,456; miscellane- 

 ous contributions, $1,036,373; total contributions, 

 according to the footing of the tables, $17,080,191. 



The Board of Education reported to the General 

 Assembly that it had met all its financial engage- 

 ments without incurring any debt, but had a some- 

 what diminished balance. The receipts from 

 churches, Sabbath-schools, and Young People's 

 Societies had amounted to $44,179, as compared 

 with $43,940 in 1901. The number of candidates 

 for the ministry having been unusually small, 

 they had been given the highest rate of allowance 

 since 1894, and $55,530 had been paid to 572 bene- 

 ficiaries. One hundred and forty new recommenda- 

 tions had been favorably acted upon, and 432 

 recommendations renewed. Of the candidates 

 under care, 217 were theological students, 220 col- 

 lege students, and 35 preparing for college. One 

 was a Bohemian, 77 were colored men, 29 Ger- 

 mans, and 4 Spanish speaking. There had been a 

 decided falling off in the number of Spanish-speak- 

 ing students. 



The Board of Aid for Colleges had received 

 $222,836, and had aided 24 institutions to meet 

 current expenses, given interest on trust funds to 

 3, and helped 16 in their endowment. 



The Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and 

 the Widows and Orphans of Ministers reported 

 that it had had on its roll 906 cases of ministers, 

 widows, orphan families, missionaries, and guests 

 at its home in Perth Amboy, N. J., and had paid 

 $43,075 to honorably retired ministers. The names 

 of 29 ministers had been added to the honorably 

 retired roll, making 151 in all, of whom 11 had 

 died. Eighty new names had been added to the 



roll of annuitants. The average amount paid to- 

 annuitants on the honorably retired roll was 

 $285.26, and the average to annuitants not on the 

 roll was $180. The receipts for the year had been 

 $231,447, and the expenditures $223,441. The 

 balance in the permanent fund was $44,801. The 

 annuity fund amounted to $42,385. The whole 

 amount of investment funds was $1,564,935. 



The Board of Publication and Sabbath-School 

 Work had 97 missionaries and 2,134 schools, in 31 

 of the United States, and in Cuba. The sale of 

 books and periodicals had amounted to $488,542, 

 of which $175,749 were devoted to the missionary 

 work of the department. The report recommended 

 the printing of literature in the Hungarian lan- 

 guage for the instruction of parents in the training 

 of their children. 



The Board of Church Erection reported to the 

 General Assembly that its total receipts for the 

 year had been $193,275, and its disbursement* 

 $205,269. Aid had been given in the building of 

 259 new churches. Since the board's work was 

 started, in 1845, 7,159 churches had been aided,, 

 with a total sum of $4,353,492, The report em- 

 bodied a recommendation that churches asking 

 for appropriations should regard the sums granted 

 to them not as gifts, but as loans, to be paid back 

 in a fixed annual proportion, without interest. 



The Board of Home Missions reported that the 

 whole amount of contributions to its funds for the 

 year had been $884,692, and that the sums used 

 by the self-supporting missions would bring the 

 total sum applied to this work to $940,295. A 

 balance of $4,000 remained at the end of the year. 

 Eighty-nine churches that had been assisted had 

 ceased to ask for aid from the board, and 430 

 churches had asked for smaller sums than they 

 had received during the preceding year. Including 

 26 Mexican and Indian helpers, 1,350 mission- 

 aries and 490 missionary teachers had been em- 

 ployed, who returned 7,885 additions on profession 

 of faith with a total church-membership of 74,457; 

 an attendance of 84,354 in the congregations ; 3,383 

 baptisms of adults and 3,256 of infants; 1,850 Sab- 

 bath-schools, with 116,497 members; 70 churches 

 and 223 Sabbath-schools organized; 89 churches 

 reached self-support ; and $120,409 of church debts 

 canceled. The board was commended by the 

 General Assembly for its policy of promoting ef- 

 forts toward self-support by home mission 

 churches; and the churches were advised, so. far 

 as they are able, to undertake to provide for the 

 support of at least one home missionary. 



The Woman's Presbyterian Board of Foreign 

 Missions of the Southwest held its twenty-fifth 

 annual meeting in St. Louis, Mo., April 24. 

 The report showed that the board had 22 mission- 

 aries in the field, 18 of whom were supported by 

 single societies or by individuals as a special 

 work. 



The Board of Missions to the Freedmen reported 

 that the receipts for the year had been $185,804, 

 and that a balance of $4,057 remained on hand. 

 The freedmen's schools and churches had besides- 

 contributed $88.254 for self-support. The receipts 

 had been larger than for any of the eight years- 

 preceding. Nearly 11,000 pupils had come under 

 Presbyterian influence. The number of ministers 

 in the field had increased from 201 to 209, and the 

 number of churches and ministers from 342 to 

 353. 



The Board of Foreign Missions reported that its 

 receipts for the past year had been $1,097,636, 

 being the largest in its history. For five years 

 the board had reported " no debt," and each 

 year the receipts had been larger than in the year 

 preceding. There had also been received $244,782 



