Evening star., 1901-05-18

$l31 .057.96 were received during the year
showing an increase over the previous year
In this department of S10,65l44 On &C
count of enlargements in work the year
ended with deficit in the missionary de-
partment of $6,71434, which added to the
dehc1ts of several previous years, makes
the total deficit in the missionary depart
ment S1S,624 %. The total amount re-
ceived during the year from all sources
was SSS1.4I2.S3. There has been an in
crease IN the assets of the society during
the year of S2I,19217, of which SIG. 192 Il,
were made in the publishing department
and Sl1,OO0 in the missionary department
Ihere We're received in annuity funds and
by bequests for investment during the
year S23, ,400.43.
The Association for the Propagation of
the Falth, whose headquarters are in Paris,
but in which Catholics throughout the
world are interested, has sent a report TO
Washington stating that during the past
year money for the work of the society has
oeen contributed In every country on the
globe, and that the total receipts were ST.
369, 140.17 against 81 264 ,054. - for the year
previous, an increase of s5.6S53S. The
amount raised in the United States was
81, 229.35, as against s6S, ,202. 40 of the year
before.
Mrs. ]. T. Williams of Washington. who
represented the Baltimore conference at the
recent meeting of the woman's mission
board of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South In st. Louis, Mo, has returned home
and reports that one of the most important
actions taken was that requesting the next
general conference to establish the order of
deaconesses in the Southern Methodist
Church. In this connection it was stated
by Miss Billingsley of the Scarritt Bible
and Training School of Kansas City, Mo-.
that there was great demand from pas
tors for trained women for city mission
aries.
The legislature of California has passed
resolutions extending a hearty welcome to
all members of the Epworth League of this
and other cities, and friends accompanying
them, TO the coming fifth biennial interna-
Ional convention of Epworth Leagues
which is to be held in the city of San Fran
cisco July Is to y next. and assuring all
who visit the city at that time that they will
f1nd IN the hearts of the people of Califor-
MIA "a sincere regard for and an earnest
interest in that moral culture which is eIe-
waiting and helpful to humanity and a deep
seated purpose among them to aid and en-
courage good works, and that in the homes
of the people they will find the same rev
erence for God that characterizes true
Christianity wherever found"
Continuing, the resolutions say: I'VE
point to our countless churches, our works
of art our scientific institutions and our
splendid school system, crowned with our
great state university, as evidences of our
spiritual and intellectual progress From
the planting Of the first cross of Christian
ity on the shores of Monterey bay 300 wears
ago, by the Spanish fathers, the progress
of Christian teaching may be traced
through the rude and now ruined missions
through the rough frontier churches and
school houses, to our great cathedrals and
seats of learning of today" And after re-
hearsing many of the advantages possessed
by the state, conclude by saying: In the
name of million and half of hospitable
citizens bid all who may come a well
come to California"