Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-19
NEWS OF TIE CHURCHES

( aries personal expenses. but $4,000
damage done to property by the rioters
has been made good by the viceroys.
In Japan and India expenses have been
of necessity increased, while in the
Philippines the board has borne the
brunt of pioneer work. Presbyterians
were among the very first of Protest
ant bodies to get into the islands along
with the Young Mems christian asso-
citation. which went with the troops.
The work there has developed rapidly,
and has called for augmented OUTLAWS.
Congressional Missions.
The Congregational Home Mission
airy society, which holds its annual
meeting in Syracuse early in June,
finds itself able to reduce it's debt this
year by the amount of S53 900, which is
90 per cent of the whole debt. Even
more may be done. The receipts will
be slightly ahead of last year when
they were. including supplies, 1854 900.
The high water mark o. home mission
airy society receipts was reached in
1896. when they were s777. 400. but in
1899 there was a fall off to S516 900.
The society is especially active in
Cuba, where its work ranks among the
largest of Protestant bodies. The
American hoard and the American Mis-
sionary association, both Congrega-
tional. do not close their years until
the fail, hut the former. which cleared
it's debt last year, finds its receipts
S25 900 ahead of last year. but to have
realized several discouraging months,
notably February. when instead of in
creased receipts it had. decreased ones.
Pledges on the debt are coming in sat
isiactorily, but the officers say the con-
dition of the venerable board is not
satisfactory. The American Mission
airy association. which has managed to
Keep u of debt for some years, finds
its receipts SIS. 700 ahead of last year,
the half year being just completed. The
associations usual income is about
$40 600 q year. That of the American
board varies greatly. Last year it was
S737 600.
Methodist Missione.
The missionary society of Method
lists North has gotten its open door
emergency committee into working
shape, and it is making progress to-
wards the 81. 500 900 goal which it set
for high water mark this year. As
sistance in the form of additional sec
retaries to prosecute the emergency
fund have been named. The society
was compelled last yea to make a cut
Of s per cent in the appropriations, ow-
ing to inadequate support from the
churches. Yet the facts are that re-
ceipts of the missionary society slowly
but steadily increase, and the average
per Methodist member rises. 1t was in
1920 that the total income of this mis-
| ,,Dnnr 100, ,.As.Ax, xunp QQO9 In 1000 ~
reached the 800 900 mark and in 1887
the 81, 200, 900 mark. And it has never
} gone backward. 1t has now perma-
nently passed the 81, 300 900 limit. Its
annual report is just out, and last
! years income, the one over which 1t
bewails it's inability to go forward and
I. organize an open door committee. was
: 81 $40, 900, an amount never reached
J before save in 1899, when the income
was 1876. 900. The average gift per
member 1t 45R cents-very low when
compared with most other religious
bodies, but an average that grows
steadily. Back in the SOS the average
z was below 40. Since 1885 it has gone
above that figure. several times above
so. The debt of the society is SOC, 900
Apportionment Plans.
, oACPtSu 1851 go eatOs
agitation that had covered a decade OF
r more. the apportionment plan of ask
4 ing the different diocese for definite
sums. 1t is explained in the plan thai
r apportionment is not a tax nor an as
> sessment, but merely an opinion, based
on percentages of sums spent for paro
l chial support, of what ought to be con
tributed for general work. There was
: complaint because the American
> Church Missionary society. a small
auxiliary was omitted, but the omis
sion has been corrected. Several dio
ceses said promptly the apportlonmenr
was too low, and asked permission Il
give more. Whether by accident Of
otherwise, all dioceses to do so be
/, lorged to the so-called low church
! ones. Loudest complaints about ex
cesslve demands came from the ad
sanced dioceses of the middle west
During the first six months. only
part OF which were under the appor
, tionment, the increase, just announced
q was 46 per cent. This is not sufficient
= ly large, to realize the entire increas'
of the new superintendent, but II is re
9 garded as large enough to prove tn
! wisdom of the new plan. The amour
is exclusive of most OF the sums co
lected for special work in the Philip
: pines. The total Protestant Episcopa
: general mission receipts last yea
were S460, 600. The amoun appoi
{ toned was 1924 500. and the amour
{ spent by this religious body upon it
, home causes last year was S11 ,664 ,OOO
u Etching h~emorrhoids were the plagu'
u of my life. Was almost wild. Doani
' Ointment cured me quickly n pei
manently. after doctors had failed" c
! F. Cornwell, Valley street, ~Saugerties