The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-19
ing forces In the several States arc as fol
lows freports not all In yetl:

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Kentucky. u
5Fslsss H.ssss ;s:s%s;sa;: 1855 ssS Ss ass ass
lowa....... sta.a "a.
ss:' s;s:::ss' ss!is:!::'sss'. sss szs q az 81
Minnesota. w
West Virgins. -. ......
Pennsylvania. ........... ,442 70 $50 -
yirgtnia.s.s... I: 1F3f# $50;
Georgia a.:.'....'...'......
By yT E7angelis,s at large. 11' % 8 iss
Besides the sums and results spent in,
local work the following amounts have been
collected for the general field: Kentucky,
SS01.49; Missouri, S752.17; Indiana. $897. .04;;
Illinois, S526.1S; Ohio, S3S4.13; New York,
s152.25; Pennsylvania, S11835; Virginia,
S25; hymn-book fund, S1,302.50; Bacon
fund, $3l.7O; California, 800; d. c., WASH
ington city, $50; West Virginia, $21 !.
Michigan, So; Maryland, Sc; Iowa. S9;s
Vermont, 81; places unknown, S97.15;
Rushyille Sisters, $75. Total, S5,040.47.
| Tota! amount disbursed by General and
State Boards, proximately, $45,500; num-
|.ber OF additions, proXimately, 1885,.
churches organized, proXimately, q. The
General Board began the year with out
standing liabilities amounting to 81, 1856;
the demands Of, the year, including support
OF corresponding secretary, Professor
Morse, OF the Bible School; j. H. Berry,
W. B. Berry, A. j. Kane, j.. Il. McOol-
Tough, f. NJ. Kibbey, y. 10. Hollis, and G.
Il. Berry, including travelling expenses,
postage, stationery, and incidentals, 81
! 735.5S-total demands on the year, So
S51.54; disbursed by General Board, S5,-
O4O.57; in arrears to date, $S11.07. The
details OF these accounts will be seen in 1e-
ports yet to be read.
Through the efforts OF the corresponding
secretary and j. FL. Berry, chiefly, notes
payable annually in three to five instalmeuts
have been secured, amounting on payments
yet to be made to $5,707.50. Also, by an
arrangement with the State Board OF Hi
nois in raising q spermanent fund.-" the
interest OF which only is to be used, one
half OF said fund is to belong to the general
treasury. Amount raised on this basis last
year is So, ,7S7.17, one half Of which as it is
collected is to be sent to the general treasury,
making to date S1,S93.57. We have also in
bequests already made in wills S21 1,0O7.36,
of which there have been, paid only S5O7.36;
also bequests promised to the correspond
ing secretary during the last year that Will
probably amount to over $4,000.
Apart from the So, 707 so instalment notes,
the &C Permanent Fund.-" already secured, OF
81, ,S93.5S and bequests Just named, when
realized will make the interest-bearlng as
sets of the General Convention amount to
S62, 900. Besides this, the States OF Ohio,
| Indiana, and Illinois have each beginning
made in q permanent fund.
Other general results Of our organization
are beginning to be realized. PennsylVa-
MIA, New York, Ohio, and Nebraska have
already attained to very satisfactory statlstl-
cal information, and through arrangements
already projected we will in few years be
able to give the statistics OF the entire
Church. ..-., = -.
Weak churches assisted is another import
ant feature Of our work. Ohio alone the
past year has assisted "a. All the States
have not reported this feature, but from the
best estimates we can make from the data
before us it is probable that over 200 weak
CONGREGATIONS nave been aided the past
year. Then, again, a small amount OF
money spent in q new State or Territory so
stimulates the work that OF its own momen-
tum it becomes cumulative, as in Nebraska.
Eleven years ago Eyangelists DUNCAN and
Barrow were engaged there for several wears
by the General Board, beginning when there
were but two very small cnurcheS IN Tue
State. The report of the State EYangelstt
for the past year gives now: Number OF
churches in the State that have reported,
60; embracing membership OF 2,5S4; nav
Ing weekly preaching, l; having trl-month-
ly preaching, l.; having seml-montnly
nreaching, II: having monthly preaching
only, SO; having no regular preaching, 90;
total number OF additions the past year, 22S /;
total number OF children in Sunday school,
.04c: : paid for preaching, $3, l05.9O; total
cash paid, S4,229.23; value OF church prop
erty, S22,300. ,..
OF the 80 churches in New York the %
that reported at the last convention show
the churches having weekly preaching to
be 20; the churches having semi-weekly
preaching to be g.; the churches having no
regular preaching to be Z; whole number
OF churches, 80; whole membership OF 20
churches, 3,045; whole number Of children
in Sunday school, 2,254; whole number OF
conversions from Sunday school, 81; money
raised for all purposes, $50 9,559.55; value OF
church property, $174,425.
81 an item Of statistical interest from
Toyoc 1yt note the estimates of Carroll
Kendrick: Probable number OF churches,
400: probable number OF members, 10000;
probable number Of preachers, 200; proba-
bic number Of Sunday schools, 200.
The Bible school for colored preachers,
in Louisville, was kept up all the year past
with a class OF fifteen, Professor T. ID.
Morse teaching. The students made rea-
sonable progress in the common Enghsh
and in their daily studies of the Bible.
! Already the good fruits OF the school, are
manifest. Some ten: or, twelve. OF the
Young men are in the. field doing good
service with commen dable ability, 3lntelH-
gence, and zeal. One in Paducah, Ky.,' one
| in Texas; two in Alabama, and others In
other parts, are doing we'll Jackson Bra
boy, Of the class Of 1875, has had great sue
cess in his laborsi in Alabama ba among his
people. 81 E.r1~t.s3E go
TO the Alabama Mission we have not been
able to give much this year. Some, hymn-
books and testaments and several small re-
mittances, as will appear in the recording
secretary's report, are all; but Brother
Brookes fcolored) has worked right along,
being greatly aided by Brother Brayboy, OF
the Bible School, who together have added
to the church in the last year 155.
The Mississippi Mission has been primer.
palIy under the support OF society OF
sisters organized for that purpose two years
AGO by the corresponding secretary IN Rush
vile, Ind. :f.s3e'T... ..t.gL, ssI..t5:,.
this Mississippi mission sprang the project
of establishing the ssSouthern Christian IN
stitute" in that State, chiefly for the prepa-
ration of colored men for the ministry. A
wear and one half ago an ample charter was
obtained, requiring $4,000 minimum anu
s95(1. O0O maximum capital stock. AS soon
as the S1O,O 900 Is raised in satisfactory stock
cnhucrintions one benevolent brother will