The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-07
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Work of the Denomination in This State
 Increhse in Membership in 1894.

Work of the Denomination in This State Increase in Membership in 1894.
 The total membership of the Congre-
 gationa1 churches in tltis state, as
 shown by the state registrar, Rev.
 William IT. Moore of Hartford, whose
 statistics for the year have just gone
 to the printer, was 61,357, January l. | 1895. Of this number 40,668 were fe-
 males The total number of absentees
 was 7,764 The additions in 1894 were | 2,438 on profession of faith, and li346 by letter, making a total of 3,7S4 There were 1,050 deaths, 1,274 dismiss sions by letter, and 262 by discipline, l the total being 2,586. The actual net gain in the 315 churches in the state
 was 1,105. There were 817 adult and 1 1901 infant 'baptisms during the year. The total Sunday school enrolment was 57,063. Of the additions to the church 1,551 or 60 per cent. came from the Sunday school Two hundred and I,eixty-one Sunday schools in the state
 gave $20, ,389 in charities last year The number of families in the church field
 was 42,091, a gain of 860 as compared Wlll IOJD. 1 llG tAEGItS6S IGPOI lGN Ny 312 churches during the year, exclusive
 of salaries, were $68S, ,64924, the average per church being $2,20721. The chari- ties were $315, ,709.33 the average being s1, ,O0225 for each of the churches. The average per church member was $5. Of the total charities $197 49065 were di- rectly for congregational objects, and SIS .68 went for other charitable pur- poses.
 The gifts in detail, the object, number of churches contributing and the amount were:
 Ministerial relief fund, 190 churches, $6,92750.
 Church Building society, POP churches, $1O295.22.
 Congregational Educational society, 2O5 churches, $2S, ,344.11,
 Congregational Sunday School Pub fishing society, 211 churches, $6,06S17.
 American Mission association, 265 churches, $26, ,239 49.
 Foreign missions, 271 churches, $59,- 57S.09
 Home missions, 291 churches, $64, ,93S.- O9
 From these figures it will be seen that twenty more churches contributed to the Home Missionary society than to the foreign field. The difference in amount was $5.3599 9S' in favor of the home mission work. Rev Dr. George l.. Walker, who is a, corporate member in New England Of the American Board of Foreign Missions, attended meet ing of the New England representa- tives, last week, and means were dis hax t44i.A 4t. sal, -rE eign board. That debt exceeded $100,- 900 on the first of January. Unless it can be lifted the entire foreign field will be crippled. Dr. Walker said from the pulpit of the Hartford Center church. last Sunday, that only one missionary had been sent out this year by the foreign board. He was a man of some means and was paying his own ex- penses.
 The charitable legacles paid in the state last year were $324, ,17S.12. The total contributions and legacies amount | ed to $639, sS7 .45 The contributions were $68, ,777. .53 less than in 1893, and the l $236, ,039,13 less than in that year. The total contributions, legacies and | parish expenses were $1, ,32S, ,536.69 The | amount of church. funds belonging to the ! churches is s1, S30, 2996S. The parsonage, | funds and houses of worship are valued | at $7574, ,2SS,23, The aggregate debt of | the churches is $328, 44417 The salaries paid last year by the churches reached the sum of $395, 796. In 122 churches in the denomination the free pew system has been adopted. seventy-two of the churches have been incorporated under ] legislative enactment In 275 of the churches the women vote in all bust- ness meetings.