The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-19

$6S,630. Forty ms titutions have been
assisted and twenty states occupied. Ths
aggregate enrolment of students Is
4.002, of whom 1874 ara engaged in sys.
tematic Bible study.
MISSIONS AND RELIEF.
| The report of the board in charge of the
| missions for Freedmen shows that nearly
S2O0. 900 annually Is being expended in
this direction with very good results.
The expenditures last year amounted TO
| $l93.0 .002. while the receipts were $l7S. .3lG
/ Under this board there are 152 ordained
! ministers and 258 churches with mem
bershiD of 1925 and 10, ,472 Sunday school
| scholars.
| In a report the Board of Relief shows
that 722 persons were afforded assistance
during the year. pinety-four new names
being placed upon the rolls. There are
| 70 ministers ever 10 years OF age, retired,
the oldest being "a. apd thirty-fiye of the
number being over So. The total appro-
| prlati0n for this work was $l52, ,492-
| The missionary department has organ
/ Ized 990 new schools and reorgaEized 599.
| but OF this total 255 have ceased to exist
Into these schools about $4,000 teachers
| and scholars are now gathered. the pub
! lication department has distributed more
| than seventeen million pages of tracts
and periodicals and $4,000 volumes OF
! Chinese literature. The year closed with
| balance Of S44 ,815 on hand.
The report of the Board of Foreign
Missions DISPLAYS a very satisfactory con-
dition OF affairs. the only gloom being
caused by the death of four missionaries.
During the year fortv-six missionaries
were sent into the field, making total,
in connection with the board, Of 623 mis-
sionarles, which, with native agents of
q nrp 4 n
Guiding 1877 ordained ministers. The
| detailed reports from the missions in
Japan, China, Korea, Siam and Laos,
India, Syria, Africa, Mexico,
Central America and South
America, the board says, calls for thanks-
giving. The outlook was never more en-
couraging. I'm China" says the report,
tions aud apprshensions of more
serious opposition in retaliation
of more iniqutous legislation OF our
Government against the Chinese in the
United States, steady progress has been
made" The total number OF conversions
reported by all missionaries for the year
was 3,452, an increase OF 10 per cent. over
the preceding period. The total receipts
from all sources amounted to Sl,0l4, ,5O4,
of which the women's societies and
boards contributed 1929. .899. The expen-
1itures for missions in the more ipiport-
ant fields were as folIows:-Africa. $34,-
467; China. SlSOAS7; India, $l57, go; Japan.
$94, ,962: Korea. $33. .583; Mexico, SS9, 461;
Persia, SIT, ,042; Siam and Laos, SAT, 953;
South America, 5S7, 103; Syria, S6I, 2o6;
United Sta5es Indians, Sl9.S48. The ex-
penses of tbs nome department Were
$50. 200.
HOME WORK.
The report of tue Board of Home Mis-
sions does not show the increase that WAS
rs, ,-f va fnar
have been organized only 132 new
churches, a smaller number taan usual, a
result due chiefly TO - want of funds.
The year began with a debt of SLIGO,
nearly all of which has been cancallei
aud new work to the amount of SSl. ~
| undsrtaken. The total receipts of the
board were 1851. .454.
The hindrances to the work of home
missions are pointed out as being chiefly,
the scattered condition of the people and,
especially in the West, their migratory
habits, the large number who do not
speak English. the denominations OF the
Jesuits the spirit of uneasiness peryhd-
lug the masses and lastly, existing
ScepticiSm and infidelity. Ths work done
Includes the organizaJian OF 131 chaeciies
during the year and tie placing
OF 50 upon selt-snstainipg basis.
Tie report speaks i'll words OF unstinGad
praise concerning the labor of the women
Of the church in school work, that branch
of the work fhowing at preaent 129
schools. 379 teachers ana S.178 scholars
aud with total receipts amocntlng to
1918, 142.
The general summary of the report
condenses the most important details of
the years WORK as follows
Number of missionaries, LIB: number
of missionary teachers. 379; additions GU
profession of faith, 10,028: additions on
nit %. nj M ,faprS nj =
$50; total in congregation. 144 ,005. Sun
day schools org tnized, $50; number OF
Sunday schools, 2 800: mem nership of
Sunday schools, 1895; church edi-
fees (valIe OF same, Si.T52, ,534);
1855; church editices built during tile
year (cost OF same, $685. 1859, Is: church
edlfices repaired and enlarged, (cost of
S153. li0; CHURCHES sslf-sustainIng this
year, so; churches originated, l32: number
OF parsonages, (value S512, ,6S9) 4l2.
The report OF the Board OF Education
shows that the demand for mtsissers Is
ahead of the supply. Two yearg ago the
vacant churches numbered ], 1,l53. aud last
year !, PA, of which 133 have IL member
ship ranging from one hundred to over
| 1,000 The western synods particularly
have suffered aud notably Nebraska.
Kansas aud Minnesota. Last year there
graduated from the seninaries 24S
students, an increase of only 10 aud
Of these only 200 available for
the home field. The NUMBER of students
under the care of the board aggregate
1853 Of which 81 are Germans and 106
negroes. The Newberry scholarship,
with an annual income of 5000, the boerd
says, was awarded to II. N. Wilson, OF
Mccormick Theological SEMINARY, Chi
cago, for three years. In concluding its
report the board declines to recommend a
resuscltation of the union that formerly
existed with the Welsh Calyanistic
Methodis5 Church, with reference TO the
education of students for the ministry IN
| that church.