ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



Missionary Societies. The principal foreign 

 missionary societies of the Church are the " So- 

 ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel in 

 Foreign Parts, 1 ' which was organized in 1701 

 and has missions in all the British colonies 

 among colonists and natives ; the " Church 

 Missionary Society for India and the East," 

 organized in ] 799, and having missions, chiefly 

 to the heathen, in West, East, and Central Af- 

 rica, Palestine, Persia, India, Ceylon, Mauri- 

 tius, China, Japan, New Zealand, Northwest 

 America, and the North Pacific coast and isl- 

 ands ; the Zenana Missionary Society, affiliated 

 with the Church Missionary Society, and labor- 

 ing among women exclusively; the South Amer- 

 ican Missionary Society, founded in 1844, and 

 having missions in the southern part of South 

 America and among Indians of the Patagonian 

 race ; the Universities Mission to Central Afri- 

 ca, founded in 1859, especially to take care of 

 Africans freed by the British Government from 

 slavery, and having its center of operations at 

 Zanzibar and in the neighboring regions of 

 Africa; the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, or- 

 ganized in 1880 ; the Cambridge Mission to 

 North India, formed in 1876; the Indian Church 

 Aid Association, formed in 1880; the mission 

 in the Diocese of Maritzburg, South Africa ; the 

 Melanesian Mission, begun in 1848 ; the Colo- 

 nial and Continental Church Society, for pro- 

 viding clergymen, teachers, etc., for the colo- 

 nies of Great Britain, and to minister to British 

 residents in other parts of the world ; and the 

 Anglo-Continental Society, instituted in 1853, 

 " to serve as an organ of the Church of Eng- 

 land in dealing with Christians outside of Eng- 

 land." Six special colleges or mission-houses ex- 

 ist for the training of missionaries, and twenty 

 "Missionary Studentship Associations" have 

 been formed in different dioceses. 



The Colonial Bishopric's Fund was founded 

 in 1841, to promote the growth of the Church 

 in the colonies and distant dependencies of the 

 British Crown, by securing the endowment of 

 bishoprics in them. From its foundation to 

 1882 it had been the means of raising 635,311 

 toward the endowment of forty-one sees. 



The London Society for Promoting Chris- 

 tianity among the Jews was founded in 1809, 

 and has been distinctively a Church of Eng- 

 land institution since 1815. It seeks to extend 

 its labors among the people of the Hebrew race 

 wherever they may be found, and has mission 

 stations in England, Austria, France, Germany, 

 Holland, > Italy, Persia, Poland, Turkey, the 

 Principalities, Asia Minor, Syria, and North 

 America, with a special station, comprising 

 schools, an inquirer's home, a house of indus- 

 try, and a hospital at Jerusalem. It promotes 

 the circulation of the Hebrew Bible, of a trans- 

 lation of the liturgy of the Church of England, 

 and of controversial works, and maintains 

 schools in London, Warsaw, Bucharest, and 

 Jerusalem. It reports that 360 Israelites had 

 been baptized at Warsaw before the mission 

 was broken up, and 767 adults and 784 chil- 



dren had been baptized in London up to 1881. 

 Its missionaries estimate that there are now 

 2,000 Christian Israelites in London, and proba- 

 bly a thousand more in other parts of England, 

 and that there are nearly 5,000 Jewish Chris- 

 tians in Prussia. 



The ordinary increase of the Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 

 for 1882 was 109,041. Including 33,571 ad- 

 ditional of gifts for special purposes, the gross 

 receipts were 142,612. The general fund had 

 increased 7,805 in two years. Five hundred 

 and twenty-seven ordained ministers were em- 

 ployed by the society, of whom 161 were labor- 

 ing in Asia, 129 in Africa, 20 in Australia and 

 the Pacific, 216 in America and the West Indies, 

 and one in Europe. There were also in the va- 

 rious missions about 1,400 catechists and lay 

 teachers, mostly natives, and about 300 students 

 in colleges. An important change had been 

 made in the constitution and administration 

 of the society. A supplemental charter granted 

 by the Crown had removed the various anoma- 

 lies which in the course of 181 years had sur- 

 rounded the ancient charter ; and the incor- 

 porated members scattered over the whole 

 country now possessed by representation that 

 power in the conduct of the society's affairs 

 which a very large proportion of them had not 

 previously enjoyed. 



The ordinary income of the Church Mission- 

 ary Society for 1882 was 200,402 ; including 

 in addition the special gifts, the gross receipts 

 amounted to 225,231. The total expenditures 

 were 215,483. Missionary work was carried 

 on at 206 stations, under the agency of 227 

 European ordained missionaries, 244 native 

 clergy, 44 European lay missionaries, 3,106 na- 

 tive lay agents. Of 182,000 native Christian 

 adherents reported, 37,391 were communicants. 

 New work had been taken up, or extended, 

 at the Afghan frontier, at Kok-Ning-Fu in the 

 Fuhkien province of China, among the Esqui- 

 maux, at Bagdad, and at Cairo, Egypt, to the 

 Mohammedans. A gift of 72,000 had been 

 received from Mr. W. 0. Jones f or a " William 

 Charles Jones China and Japan Native Church 

 and Mission Fund." 



Convocation of Canterbury. Both houses of the 

 Convocation of Canterbury met for business, 

 for the first time in the year, April 10th. A 

 minute was unanimously adopted in the upper 

 house, with the expectation that the lower 

 house would concur in it, taking notice of the 

 death of the late archbishop. A "statement" 

 was then made by the committee, to whom 

 had been referred the question of the attitude 

 the Church should assume with reference to 

 the movements of the Salvation Army! The 

 archbishop represented "in behalf of the com- 

 mittee that it had not been found possible to 

 make any definite statement or recommenda- 

 tion on the subject, as the committee consid- 

 ered that the movements of the organization 

 were still in a transitory condition, and he sug- 

 gested that the committee should be consti- 



