The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-30
CONVEYANCES.


We have received during the year
deeds of the following church proper
ties in trust for the several parishes:
Bowie, Texas; Tacoma, Wash; LaPlata,
Mo-; Magnolia. N. c.; Spokane. Wash.
We have no report of such transfers
from the several state conventions,
though note of several has been made
in the papers.
REPORTS.
l. The Report of the Woman's Gen.
tenary Association (the Woman's Ma
tional Missionary Society of the Uni.
versalist church) has been received.
showing receipts. including interest,
amounting to S4,257, and an expendi-
ture of 81 340.
2. The Report of the Woman's Uni
vere alist Missionary Society Of Massa-
chusetts shows receipts, including in
terest, amounting to S4,436. and an ex-
penditure o, .225.
3. The National Young Peoples
Cnristian Union communicates its
Treas urer's Report for the year ending
July 8. 1897, its financial year showing
receipts to the amount of Sc. 588, and an
expenditure OF S6,838. The report is &C.
companied by brief review of the work
of the Union.
These auxiliaries and their Ulcers are
busily engaged in their respective fields,
and are doing much excellent and graft
flying work.
GIFTS AND REQUESTS.
The convention during the past year
has been made the recipient of num-
Der of favors which call for our most
grateful appropriations
l. The bequest of Mrs. Clarissa L.
Crane. late of Stamford, Conn. noted in
our Meriden Report, has been paid in.
1t amounts to $4,000. ITO be used and
applied by the Trustees of the Conven-
ton to the general uses and purposes of
the corporation" The trustees have
directed its investment in common with
other funds. as the Clarissa L. Crane
Fund in perpetuation of her memory.
2. The bequest of Mrs. Nancy Bart
lett, late of Milford Mass, also noted in
our MerideI Report, has been paid in.
1t was the residue of her estate, after
payment of a number of legacies, and
amounts of s., 933.97. The bequest is to
be invested 10 common with other funds,
and by Mrs. Bartlett's desire, will be
known as the Mrs. w. j. Bartlett Fund.
in joint memory of herself and her hus-
band. The income only is to be used at
the discretion of the trustees.
3. Ia the Report of the Board for
1896 was noted the gift of $4,000 from
Lucian Blackmer, Esq, of st. Louis. for
the Murray Centenary Fund. Mr.
Blackmer has made further contribu-
tions to the ordinary work of our church,
especially to the Japan Mission; and he
has recently paid in to our treasury 81
600 as the beginning of a permanent
Foreign Missions Fund, the income to
be used for the purpose indicated in the
title. 1t is hoped that the attention OF
our people may be arrested by this init
alive. which may encourage others to
follow on the same or similar lines.
A. Mr.. Joseph d. Warren, of STAN
ford, Conn. having at first embraced in
the provisions of his will the bequest of
considerable sum of money for the Gen
eral Convention, concluded Of his own
motion to revoke the same; and, instead,
to pay it at once into our treasury. And
we have received from him $1,000 for the
Church Extension Fund, $1,000 for the
Theological Scholarship Fund. and
81 900 for the Gum Ministerial Relief
Fund. Such gifts are always welcome;
not merely for the aid they render for
the years to come, but also, for the man.
ifeet consideration of the needs of the
church, and for the thoughtfulness of
donors for its corporate representative.
5. The founder of the at" Fund, who
desires still to remain incognito. has now
enlarged her fund to $50, the income
Of which is payable to her during her
natural life. Afterward the income of
$1,000 is to be added to the Theological
Scholarship Fund. and that Of the re-
mainder to the aid of her home church.
6. 1t is deemed fitting also in this
connection to note the recognition Of the