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the year had heen $43,401, and that it had a 

 balance in its treasury of $1,406. 



The Board of French Evangelization had re- 

 ceived $32,606. It had thirteen schools, with 

 19 teachers and 533 pupils. 



The Foreign Mission Committee, Western 

 section, had received $40,111. A favorable 

 report was made of the mission among the In- 

 dians in the Northwestern Territories, and 

 those people were represented as making satis- 

 factory progress in the arts of civilization. There 

 were connected with these missions 26 chapels 

 and as many native agents, and 140 converts 

 had been gained during the year. The Eastern 

 section of the committee had supported a mis- 

 sion in Trinidad at an expense of $18,000, of 

 which $8,000 had been contributed from Can- 

 ada. A mission in India was prosperous ; and, 

 in the New Hebrides, 33 teachers were em- 

 ployed, and 195 communicants were enrolled. 



the amount of the aged and infirm minis- 

 ters' fund (Western section) was $8,692, and 

 ihe number of beneficiaries on its roll was 32. 

 The receipts of the Eastern section of the fund 

 had been $2,312. 



The widows' and orphans' fund, of which 

 four separate accounts are kept, amounted in 

 all to $265,530. 



This Church sustains six theological schools 

 and colleges, as follow : Presbyterian College 

 (theological), Halifax, N. S., 3 professors, 15 

 students in 1882; Morrin College, Quebec, 5 

 professors, 51 students; Presbyterian College, 

 Montreal, 3 professors, 7 lecturers, 72 students; 

 Queen's College and University, Kingston, 7 

 professors, 2 lecturers, 202 students: Knox 

 College (theological), Toronto, 6 professors and 

 teachers, 37 students; Manitoba College, Win- 

 nipeg, 5 instructors, 55 students. 



The General Assembly of the Presbyterian 

 Church in Canada met in London, Ont., June 

 13th. The Rev. John A. King, D. D., was 

 chosen moderator. Action was taken naming 

 $750, with a manse, as the amount which the 

 Church should aim to secure as the minimum 

 stipend of ministers in pastoral charge. The 

 principle of the " Scott'" liquor act of 1878 was 

 approved "as an important means of limiting 

 the liquor-traffic and educating the people for 

 total prohibition " ; members were advised to 

 encourage the establishing of coffee-houses and 

 temperance hotels, and ministers to preach on 

 temperance on some suitable day. A remon- 

 strance was ordered addressed to the managers 

 of railroads against the desecration of the Sab- 

 'bath on their lines ; and the Assembly's com- 

 mittee was authorized to correspond with simi- 

 lar committees of other churches with a view 

 to united action for enforcing the existing Sab- 

 bath laws. In connection with this subject, it 

 was mentioned that six Presbyterian young 

 men had recovered damages for wrongful dis- 

 missal because they would not work for con- 

 tractors on one of the railroads on Sunday. 



VIII. Church of Scotland (Established). The 

 General Assembly of the Established Church 



of Scotland met in Edinburgh, May 24th. The 

 Rev. Dr. John Rankine, of Sorn, was chosen 

 moderator. The Committee of Presbyterial Su- 

 perintendence reported that the entire num- 

 ber in the roll of communicants could not be 

 less than 530,292, or 14,506 more than were 

 returned in 1878. The whole number of per- 

 sons in Sunday-schools was 261,000. The 

 Committee on Christian Liberality reported 

 that the entire amount of contributions for 

 1882 to the funds and schemes of the Church 

 had been 386,061, or 44,698 more than the 

 contributions for 1881. The Endowment Com- 

 mittee reported the expenditure during the year 

 of 33,000 in the endowment of 11 parishes, 

 making the whole number of 323 parishes en- 

 dowed and erected since its commencement. 

 The Committee of the Aged and Infirm Minis- 

 ters' Fund reported the capital of the fund at 

 the end of 1882 to be 10,772. The income 

 of the Home-Mission Committee had been 

 9,504. The committee had assisted 50 mis- 

 sion stations and 71 mission churches, con- 

 nected with which were 11,727 communicants 

 and 22,130 attendants; it had also aided in 

 the building or enlarging of 22 churches, in 

 which 9,176 additional sittings were provided. 

 The income of the Foreign Mission Committee 

 had been 25,022, and its expenditure 23,- 

 328. The Jewish Mission Committee returned 

 an income of 5,392, and reported 2,233 pu- 

 pils in its 11 schools. An overture having 

 been presented, calling attention to the ab- 

 sence of a uniform rule in regard to the ad- 

 mission of ministers from other churches, a 

 motion was offered to tire effect that the As- 

 sembly instruct the committee on the recep- 

 tion of such ministers to see that applicants 

 furnish evidence that they had received such 

 ordination as was required by the Confes- 

 sion of Faith and the Constitution of the 

 Church. The overture and resolution were 

 rejected. Respecting the clause in the Univer- 

 sities (Scotland) Bill pending before Parlia- 

 ment, which provides for the abolition of tests 

 in the case of the theological chairs, the As- 

 sembly resolved, by a vote of 176 to 52, to 

 petition against the clause, while it still ex- 

 pressed willingness "to give favorable consid- 

 eration to any modification of the existing con- 

 dition of appointment to theological chairs, 

 which would still leave satisfactory security 

 that the theological teaching in the universi- 

 ties shall continue to be in harmony with the 

 doctrinal standards of the Church of Scotland." 

 The Temperance Committee reported the num- 

 ber of members in the Church of Scotland As- 

 sociations to be 4,000, with 7,500 children in 

 Bands of Hope, and said it was evident that 

 u the temperance platform of the Church of 

 Scotland must not be more narrow than the 

 terras of communion in the Church," and that 

 it had been its aim " to unite all the members of 

 the Church against the evils of drunkenness." 

 IX. Free Chnrch of Scotland. The General As- 

 sembly of the Free Church of Scotland met in 



