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DISBURSEMENTS.

DISBU RSEMENTS.
Paid Alfred Nudge & Son, :.
Printers, SIT, 1852. 90
Paid Henry A. Hazan salary
!. and expenses and bills for
obituary notices, clerical as
age. $685. 60
Paid William n. Moore salary
and expenses, 276. w
Paid Samuel H. Forbes salary
Paid aid David 1pI n. Camp, auditor, 6 70
Paid Marcus W. Montgomery,
expenses of committee, o.
Paid Abel H. Ross, special services, Al. 45
Paid Loans, 1920. 90
Paid interest on notes and loans, 1855. 80
Returned to Wisconin en- request
of Treasurer. 80. 90
Balance OF cash with Conn. Trust
& Safe Deposit Company, vs.. So
$29 1893 "a
The report of the Secretary, the Rev.
II. A. Razen, Of Boston, was presented
as follows:
Membership has been increased during
the triennium by 81, 442, a number larger
by 5000 than in the previous three years.
or any three years of our record. The
number added on confession of faith has
been 1O4, S79 and the number removed by
death 24 626. The number of infant
baptisms reaches 3D. 302, almost 5000 more
than in the last period. The gain in
sunday SCHOOLS is 81, $50 and in Young
Peoples Societies So, $50, the latter reach
ing total Of 204, 0S5.
1.-THE total number OF churches added IN
the three years is 651, but the gain is re-
duced by the 295 which have been
omitted and reaches 1856. or 119 per year.
Of this gain of churches 155 are in the in
terror. 1928 in the West and 70 in the East.
In this gain Alabama leads the list with
IS, Oklahoma follows with ~, Illinois
with 80, Michigan with %. Wisconsin
with H. California, Iowa and Massachu-
setts each with 16 and Florida with 10,
and South Dakota and washington eacn
with 10.
1.-THE gain of members is largest in the
interior, 31,O77-3, 800 more than in the
East and West combined. In this roll
Illinois stands first with 1884 followed
by Michigan with 1926 and Iowa with
5,034 Then comes Massachusetts with
4,060, California with 5, $50 and Ohio with
1.-THE five states having more than 300
churches are Massachusetts, with $50;
Michigan, 343; Illinois, 326; Connecticut,
3l5, and Iowa, 314 In the order of mem
bershir, those having more than 30. COO,
are Massachusetts, 100, 474; Connecticut,
81, 357; New York, 46, $50; Illinois, 49,
065; Ohio, 81, 257, and Iowa, 30, 525.
f'The total benevolent contributions re-
ported for the three years stand S7,244. !;
628. The average per member is Sl2. ~ or
1922 per annuln The influence OF the
financial situation appears in the con-
trast Of the small gain of S1S4, 500 with
that of 81, 1885, sos during the preceding
triennium. AS 1899 did not feel the
effect of the stringency and shows fair
gain of $500, 600, the decrease comes in
View in the last two years, reaching more
than $50, 900 and 1894 shows the smallest
total since 1887.
aWhen the council met in Boston in
1865 it represented a constituency of 2, 745
churches, with a membership OF s6s, 649,
in % states and territories. It has made
its way in tine thirty years into twenty
six states, and also at home in every
state save Delewareeand every RI tory
except Alaska. 1t has added 2, 597
churches to it's roll, almost doubling their
numbers, and it has gained $40, 800 in it's
mem bership, AN increase of more than l22
per cent. During the same time the
population Of the country has increased
from a probable 35, 600, 600 in 1865 to a
probable IS, 600 0a0 in 1895, or "a per cent,
giving our churches a ratio of increase
% per cent larger than that of the popula-
ton with which we have to do. Or. if
We allow duUtItI lnllllOu dISi et tioUoAiiiE5
Of our population, our membership has
still gained more by 20 per cent
SIN the East, the States added to our
roll are the. District of Columbia, Florida,
Georgia, Mary land, North Carolina, and
West Virginia, with 1872 churches, In the
interior, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee,
with 1O7 churches In the West, Arizona
Idaho, Indian Territory, Montana, Neva-
= Noyiao NOrth TlQlSOfa OE Ia.
ho1na, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wash
ington, and Wyoming, or thirteen of the
eighteen States now enrolled, with 36l
churches. In other words twenty six
States, which include 10 churches, repre-
sent the progress, in part for the period;
Gin the South, before the war, we had
one church in South Carolina and five in
Maryland. But the New South has a
place and welcome for us, as witness the
fifteen States and 467 churches represent
ed in our Council today.
California has multiplied it's churches
more than ten fold, from 10 to 1856; Col
orado, from 8 to 81; Kansas. from 20 to
1877; Nebraska, from 10 to 1856; Oregon,
from to SO; while in four great States.
which in 1866 had not even a name, all
are now represented; in Washington, BY
113 churches; in the Dakotas, North and
South, by 2s4 churches; and in Okla
homa, youngest home of our sisterhood,
by SO churches. Nor does it signify little
that in our older sections Pennsylvania
reports 100 churches instead of IS; and
that Connecticut has added 81 churches.
New York, n; and Massachusetts 100; In
diana, 81; Wisconsin, "a; Missouri, rs
Illinois. 10S; Minnesota, AZ; Iowa, 1862
Michiaan, 1893 "The East has added 527
churches and liz, 42S church members the
interior, $50 churches Fand 142, 305 mem
bers; the West, 1851 churches and &c, 1877
members. y
GOV. DINGLEY FOR MODERATOR.
Ex-Gov Nelson Dipgley of Maine was
unanimously elected moderator He was
accorded an ovation as he stepped upon
the platform. He spoke briefly. Rev.
Charles 0. Brown of San Francisco and
Prof. George w. Henderson of Strait
University, Louisiana, were chosen
assistant moderators.
Registrar W. H. Moore who has held
the office since the inauguration of the
Triennial Council in 1871, named as his
assistants Rev. John P. Sanderson of
Michigan, and Rev. w. B. Hubbard OF
South Dakota Rev. Mr.. Webster OF
Nepon set, Mass, was appointed assistant
secretary.
The next order of business was The