The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-23

The number OF churches and missionary stations
wholly In part supplied, far reported, by the
missionaries is 7O5. The number of newly organ
ized churches is 62. The number Of admissions
examinations on examination is s107 and on certia-
cate 2229 making total admission OF $780, The
number in communion with churches connected
SCHOOLS s is SO; Of teachers s54s and Of Scholars
84,Sl0 The number OF baptisms is 2943. or the 6l3
missionaries who have been in commission during
the year. 139 have sent IN no special report for the
Assembly, more than one-fifth of the whole number;
consequently we must increase all the returns one
The receipts during the present year were less by
nearly 0,000 as compared with the year imme-
$1,000 as compared with those Of ise7s, and more
by $4,000 than those OF 1861. The falling off the
present year as compared with the year
effort that made in 1s6ss to extrlcate the board
from its then financial embarrassment.
The payments during the year were s123 406'ss;
leaving balance IN the treasury on March l. 1870,
The appropriations made to the missionaries from
March 1862 to March l. 1870 were s143s20 which
is s80,0Il more than the year preceding.
from Mach 1859 to March i $50 was s19T 9afsTs
To which add balance on hand March /, 1869,
s6o,ns.71; making the available resources of the
Board during the year, slss 4444I;
'As the work OF consolidation and reconstruction
s to be effected, It may be proper to state for
the information OF the General Assembly what is
the present pecuniary capital in the possession OF
this board. The cash balance in hand is, In round
numbers s65, 600. The Mission House. owned and
occupied by the board, is valued at $4,000. Perma-
nent Iunds the interest alone OF which can be used
$1,000 Lands bequeathed in several States, valued
at 5000; and egacies in process OF collection 0OO
| Total amount, Sl32, O00"
The missions OF the Church were carried on from
1l06 TO l7l6 by the original Presbvtery OF Phadel
phia; from III to 17l by the Synod OF Phiade-
phia from 1742 to 175s by the Synods OF Philadelphia
and New York from 1865 to 1859 by the Synod OF
New YORK and Philadelphia; and from 1859 to 1902
by the General Assembly In 1902, the business OF
conducting the missions increasing too largely upon
the Assembly, that body appointed "The Standing
Committee OF Missions" and 6fty-one years ago in
May 1906, and in this city, "The Standing Committee
OF Missiens" made its First Annual Report to the
| General Assembly. In 1916 the style OF this com
mittee was changed for that OF 'The Board OF Mis-
sions acting under the authority OF the General
! Assembly OF Che Presbyterian Church in the United
Ststes," and its members and its powers enlarged
and both membership and powers were still further
! enlarged in 1927.
of the Church. from 1878 to 1s69-70-a period OF
thirty three years-haye been, omitting fractions
s2,645 600. During the ten years administration OF
the present Corresponding Secretary, the receipts
| have been 81, ,04S, ,2a7.
The receipts during the past year from the
churches in the Philadelphia pre5byteries were al
| fol0ws:-
Philadelphia Presbytery. ry.............y...,...s s27s