Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-12
Dome Department.
THE SIXTH TRlENNIAL SESSION
TIE OIN'H IHIeNNlnL otSSlON
OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CON
GREGAT1ONAL CLUTCHES AT CHI
CAGO, oct 1920, 1SSG.

OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OIL con
GREGATIoNAL CHURCHES AT CHI
CAGO, OCT. 1920. 1SSG.
BY REV. VI. G.. sTEBmNs
Continued from last week
On saturday afternoon. Rev. /" II.
Cobb. ID. d., secretary of the American
congregational union, presented a con-
else and graphic statement of the means
contributed to. and the work lone by.
that society during the last three years.
In this time there has been paid into its
treasury S29G. 359.5O-an average per
year of sos. $3.50. This sum is larger
than the receipts of any other three con-
secutive years by sol .S45.22. The
amounts received in 1854 represented
li35 of our 401G churches; in lSSj. l4Ol
of our 1902 churches: in 1Ss6, 1922 of
our 4l7O churches. The work done with
the money; In 1854, l02 churches were
aided in building houses of worship: II
churches were aided in building parsor-
ages. In lSS5, 81 churches were aided i'm
building houses of worship, - in build
ing p~arsonages. In lSSG, 9G churches
were aidedin building houses of worship;
30 in building ~parsonages. This is AN
average of sever buildings for church
uses every three weeks in these three
years. The comparatively small amount
this association has disburScd has been
the means of calling out in these three
a. 1t= SNitn I y ga, .l.,I -I
building. This investment has been the
means of bringing not less than GSO2 per-
sons into new church relations. 32l2 of
them ON profession of faith. while con-
grcgations have been gathered number
ing in the aggregate 30,l33 persons Us the
average attendance. But the crying de
mand for needed help is not half met /:
still, in the face of this demand. there are
$500 of our 4l7O churches that make no
response. DR.. Cobb ventured to ask but
S2OO,OOO per year from the churches. lust
the sum recommended by the national
council at its session in Concord. three
years ago. He proposed that this sum
should be divided into two parts, 100000
for the larger center> to be contributed
in larger sums by the Weather members
of our churches. and another 500. 900 for
the regular work among the smaller
churches. Failure to meet the needs of
the past has lost to our work the hold we
once had, or might have had, in several
of the most important towns between
Chicago and the eastern border. But in
losing these points we lost important
contributing c%enters, which today would
be of untold value III our work. The
committee to which this report was re-
ferred presented the following reSolu-
ton, and the council adopted it =
ReS"tred, That S3U0,0D are needed annually
tor the next three years tor the important
work OF this society that it may meet the reg
ular demands upon its treasury and advance
the new work which the provitlenccs OF God
are laying at its door, 100000 OF this sum to
be used in helping the new swedish churches
ON the frontier; SlGO,WW for the new work in
our great cities this last sum to be raised by
contribution in larger sums from individual
donors.
Rev. VI. II. Ward. ID. d.. presented the
report upon Indian affairs. During the
five years from ISL to lSSG the Indians
have made such progress "a no previous
five years has witnessed. The number of
acres cultivated by them has risen from
2O6,42l to 261 .9S3, an advance of about 30
per cent. The bushels of grain raised by
them has risen from l.31O.OOO to 2.4G4,-
20. The number of horseS occupied by
them. from l2.S93 to lisp. The num-
Der of day schools in Indian reservations
has increased from 106 to lj2: of board
ing schools. from "a to Sc: of training
schools, from / to 5. In these five
years the school attendance has more
than doubled, it now being lO,93S against
1876 in 1851. Government a%ppropria-
tionS have been made a. follows: Three.
aggregating SS0,0O0, for surveying
boundries of Indian reservations. and also
surveying quarter sections and eighthS
inside reserves, preparatory to making
allotmentS. Appropriations We're made
in 1854 and lSS6,Of $1,000 and $1,000, for
expense of detecting and furnishing par
ties selling liquor to Indians. In lSS4,
lsS5 and lSS6 appropriations were made
of $50, 200 and 100000, respectively. for
additional farmers for Indian reserves.
In ISL came the most important legisla-
tive act of the period under consideration
ii law providing that all crimes of In
dianS against each Others person or pro-
perty should be punished in the courts of
the State or Territory in which they were
committed. In 1851 a law was passed
allowing Indians to take homeSteads on
any public lands without payment of fees
or commissions, the patents given to be
inalienable for p years. In 1855 Sj0O0
was appropriated to assist Indians in
taking up homesteadS. The Omahas
have had their lands patented (954 pa
tent and the surplus sold for their bene-
fit, and they are taking care of them
selves. The Santees have had theirs
allotted and the surplus disposed of. BY
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