Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-26

me BOARD expended s5tsd IN the puDhca-
Tne income OF the Foreign Board Of the
southern wing of the Church was SO 24, de-
crease of 9765 as compared with the previous
wear There were 15 ordained missiOnaries
twenty-five assistants, eight native preachers,
eight native licentiates, and 80 teachers and
The United Presbyterian Church, with head
quarters in Philadelphia, received for foreign
missions S5l,35l, an increase OF s3,eO0 There
were - ordained missionaries, Is missionary
women, six ordained natives, seven licensed
natives lbs native teachers and helpers, 1,2lS
communicants, and 3,IG children in the
The contributions to the foreign missions of
the Reformed Presbyterian Church were
$3.50, which we're used in maintaining seven
missionaries, 10 native teachers, 81 cOmmuni-
cants, and d16 scholars in Sabbath and day
The income Of the Foreign Board of the
Dutch reformed Presbytefians was .S5s,s6s.
There are three missiOns-India, China and
Japan--with 20i5 communicates,
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church sup
ports two missionaries I'm Japan, and last year
received S2,G26 for their support.
The Presbyterian Church in Canada received
for foreign work, last year, SH5,729. II sup
ports IL ordained missionaries, five female
workers, four native preachers, and 800 native
communicates. .u
for its foreign missions in 1883 about S2O,-
600, with which II sustained hve foreign sta
tions, four missionaries, two ordai1ednauves,
40 teachers, 100 congregations, 2,OeB cOmmuni-
cants, 4,79l baptized members, and 20 schools,
with 641 pupils. rgHt. taau ft..
The General Council of the Evangelical
Lutherans, with headquarters in Reading, Pa,
cOnfine their missionary efforts to India, and
maintain three missionaries, two native
preachers, seven native teachers, III COM
municants, and 1l6 pupils in. the mission
schools.
The Coneregationalists, better known as the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, contributed to the mission cause in
1879 the sum Of S5l8,308, including Sl68,459 of
the Otis legacy, which, however, in point of
collections shows a decrease Of Sl90277 as COM
pared with the previous year. There were l6
missions, % stations, sos OutstatiOns, l5O' Or
dained missionaries, u laymen Including nine
dOCtors), E2 female assistants, l2 native pas
tors, 8l8 native preachers and teachers. go
native helpers and 1860 native communi-
cants. The educational work comprises %
theological schools, Gus pupils; 20 boarding.
scholars; and 76S adults under Instruction.
The American Missionary Society, with head
quarters in New York, deyotes most of its
labor to the spread of the Gospel among the
freedmen of the South and the Indians in the
West supports missions I'm Africa, with two
ordained missionaries, two female assistants,
four laymen, two churches with s. members
and three schools with 245 pupils. II also sup
ports II schools among the Chinese In this
country, with IL teachers and an average at
tendance of 252 pupils.
The American baptist Missionary Union re-
ceived last year S252, ,67I, and reduced its debt
from $284S9 to S225I2. The condensed statis-
tics of the work in all the tWenty-three differ
ent missions of this Church in Asia and Europe
may be presented as follows: