The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-06
REVIEW or THE YEAR
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HOUSE
OF HOPE HELD LAST
11@ :s'@t: NIGHT
IN A PROSPEROUS CONDITION
Much Interest Was Manifested In
the Annual Reports OF OHlcers--
Membership Has Fallen OF Slight
ly During the YeRr-0id Board
Of Trustees Reelected.

The annual meeting of House Of
Hope Presbyterian church was held last
About 200 members Of the church were
present. and much interest was mani
tested i'll the reports Of the treasurer. the
various organizations and committees.
The report of the treasurer In full was
as follows:
Dr-Balance on hand March 81. 1898,
Ss.S5; foreign missions. $500; home mis-
sions. $s42; ministerial relief. $50; church
erection. SIS; education, $50; publication.
Sunday school work, $50; freedmen. $161;
college aid. $50; our missionary. $A5.5o;
home Sunday school, 5000: deacons'
fund, $500: assistant pastor. s, 200; Hope
chapel. $500; Presbyterian alliance. $50;
seasonal fund, $446.52: Our Church Wis.,
itor. $3.50; general assembly. $3.50; Y. M.
C. A army committee, $10S: woman
Christian Temperance union. $1e.21; Hope
chapel evangelist. s45.T: pew rentals,
S7.8107b; incidental collections. s231 .0S;
Hope chapel building fund. $8,7887 Is; Dor
rowed. s, s25; total, $24.ss3.ss.
Collections RENTED. $5,6545o: pas
tors salary. ss.e9617: pulpit supply.
$sS515; assistant pastor, 500; music.
$1,s64.07: sexton, $40; collection pew rent.
$500: gas and electric light, $S51.S6; fuel.
s4S560; insurance, s277.50; printing and adj
vertising. s2S922; water tax and sprink-
ling, 1856; sundries. $685.: current re-
pairs. $3.50: interest, $S2.57 paid note.
s.. 475; Hope chapel building, S,76S.75: cash
on hand. 1913: total $24, 1888
The pew committee. consisting of
Messrs r. A. Kirk. Emerson Hadiey and
Kenneth Clark. reported as follows:
Amount Of pew rentals for current year,
s7,s2730: of which was collected, 81 ,a5l So
due and unpaid. $675. TO-: previous years
rents collected. $559. Is: current years COL
lections. $I.251. 60: collected during year,
$7,s1o75. SO.
The trustees, I. c. Field. C. P. Noyes
and Emerson Hadiy, were unanimously
reelected.
The session reported that April 1. 1898.
there were 9S3 members. since then thir-
ty-three- had been added and forty lost
through dismissals and death, leaving a
membership April l, 1899. of 976
The superintendent Of the Sunday
school reported a membership of ass, OF
which there was an average attendance
during the year of 81 per cent.
IA great need of the Sunday school,
he said, sis Sunday school and church
visitors and the library should be en-
The school had received from all
sources s5S1. 81. and a balance remained
on hand of $10.42
Miss Wheelock reported on the condi-
ton of the Kings Daughters, Miss Ellen
Wheeloek on the Boys club. and Miss
Otis on tho school, and ali commended
highly the work of those organizations.
Mr.. Joseph McKibbin. chairman of the
building committee Of the House of Hope
chapel reported receipts as $9,o6s.T5, and
expenditures &c. 53.7 H. leaving a balance
Of Sl5.N.
The following is the report Of the ses-
sional committee on benevoIenee from
April 1. 1888. to April /. 1897
Board of foreign missions. $500; board
of home missions. $3.50; board of church
erection. $45: board OF freedmen, $161:
board Of ministerial relief. $3.50; board of
education. $50: board of Sabbath school
work, $50; board of college aid, $50; total.
s, 4s5. AIS
Ladies' Foreign Missionary society,
3S4ss9es ladies, Home Missionary society.