The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-27

for that year were s429 79sOSi for the de-
cade, $S,S1S, 74S.29; for the fifty years
Ss,6S2,Sl5.55. In 1860 there We're con-
nected with the board % MISSIONS lSl
male missionaries (l66 of them or
dalned), 1876 female assistants total
Americans 376), 1877 native helpers, l44
churches, 1922 church members, and
lO,6l5 pupils. During the half century
there had been sent out 4l5 ordained
men, "a physicians, 1913 male assistants,
69l female assistants, making a total
from the United States of 1,25S.
The receipts of the board for this de-
cade amounted to $4,550,S71.05, and for
the last year of the decade to 6l,O5S'42
AT the close of this period there were
lS missions, 95 stations, 154 missionaries,
Q4S ordained), 200 female missionaries
l,O95 native helpers, 2SS churches, With
24,l42 members.
The receipts for 1880 We're $6lS 039, oil,
and for the decade, $4,7S207S,49. At the
close of this period there were IL mis-
sions, 70 stations, 40 male missionaries
(l56 ordained), 246 female missionaries,
l,269 native helpers, 272 churches with
IL, 165 members, 2S09S pupils in schools.
AT the beginning of this period QSSD
the board had II churches in Japan, with
722 members; in April, 1890, there were
81 churches, with 9,146 members.
Summary of Eighty-six Years.-At
the close of its eighty-siXth year, the
board had 20 missions 102 stations, 1,19O
out-stations, IT'S ordained missionaries
Q5 of them physcians), % physicians
not ordained (ncluding females), 6
other male missionaries, 1853 female as
sistant missionaries (1S1 of them wives);
making total of 555 American laborers.
There We're of native helpers. 227 pas
tors, SCI preachers, 1857 teachers, 496
other helpers-a total of 2,951. There
were All churches with 43,043 members,
3O5l having been added within the pre-
ced1ng year. There were 13S high
schools and colleges with 500 pupils,
922 common schools with 42,151 pupils,
the total number under instruction be-
ing 1854. During the eighty-six years
of its existence the board has sent out
SS5 male and 1887 female missionaries
a total of 2,232. There have been added
to the churches under it's care 1874 ,966
members. The aggregate of receipts
during the four-score years of mission
airy labor is 1923, 076,O53.35 Glory be to
God!
Among the most efficient aids in the
prosecution of the work of the American
Board have been the Woman's Board
of Missions, Boston, organized in 1868;
and the Woman's Board of the Interior
organized in 1869; and the Woman's
Board of the Pacific, organized in 1873.
The corporation of the board consists
of persons chosen by ballot and limited
to $50 active members, at least one third
to be laymen and one-third clergymen.
These corporate members elect annually
Its officers, including prudential COM
mittee consisting of the president and
vice president of the board and twelve
other members, which meets fortnightly
or oftener, on Tuesday afternoons. TIC
this committee the board intrusts the
direction of its operations, requiring OF
it an annual report. Honorary mem
bers, made SO by contribution of $10C
$3.50 If clergymen), have the right to
participate in all the deliberations of the
board, but do not vote.