Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1884-05-10 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.  The annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society was held in Exeter Hall on Tuesday, the Right Hon. the Earl of Chichester presiding. The annual report showed that the ordinary income of the year had been £200,372, nearly the same as the preceding 3ear. Extraordinary receipts brought the grand total to £232,448. The ordinary expenditure of the year amounted to £208,056, thus exceeding the available income by £7,683. The committee lamented the death of four missionaries and seven missionaries' wives, including Mrs. Sergeant, wife of Bishop Sergeant, of Tinnevelly, after 28 !Pears of labour in that country. They also announced that the Bishops of Southwell, Killsloe, Colombo, and Blverina, Bishop Poole, of Japan, Viscount Middleton, the Dean of Windsor, Canon Westcott, and Canon Inca had been added to the list of vicepresidents. Summing up the results of the year the report stated that there had been 2,700 adult baptisms. There had been 12 ordinations of natives, making 330 from the beginning. The number now labouring in connection with the society or the native churches was 247, against a staff of 234 European ordained Missionaries. The total number of stations was 214 ; European ordained missionaries, 234; native and country born clergy, 247; European lay missionaries, 50; native lay agents, 3,335 ; native Christian adherents, 153,000; communicants, 41,175. In conclusion the committee appealed for additional workers in the missionary field. The noble chairman then addressed the meeting. There was, he said, mush in the report to cause thankful acknowledgmente to God, but they had their trials, and among these were the accusations which had been made by some people who considered that the committee bad been unfaithful to the principles of their fathers. It was not surprising that men should differ, but speaking from experience in the work of the committee, he could say that they worked together closely, zealously, and faithfully on the old lines. There was no diffsrence of opinion on essential points, and no falling away from the great evangelical principles of the founders of the society—The Archbishop of York moved the adoption of the report, that thanks be given to the Bishop of Lahore for his sermon, that the Hon. Francis Maud, R.N., be appointed Demmer of the society and also the appointment of the committee. In the course of his remarks his grace said some people seemed to think that religion, and in fact everything, was in a decaying state in this age, but so far from it being a centary of dew he looked upon it as being a century of great progress in the material and the spiritual world. He was told that science was making great strides; he was glad to hear it, for he took an interest in science, but science had no business to swallow him up. (Laughter.) If there was truth in scientific teaching the truth would live, but it mast find room for itself alongside the old truths. (Applause). The Rev. W. R. Blackett, missionary from Calcutta, seconded the motion, and spoke upon work in India. and the movement going on there in favour of higher education and local self-government, whiela he said was bound to come, sooner or later, and it was of untold importanee that before that day the people should be leavened with Christianity.—The Rev. Canon Hoare (in the absence of the Lord Mayor, who was obliged to leave) moved a resolution affirming that the opportunities for missionary advance at the present crisis, called for more entire consecration of tire Lord's servants of themselves and of their substance to the great work whieh God had entrusted to them. Alluding to General Gordon as the friend of missionaries in Africa, he raised long continued cheers by the declaration that all England was ashamed at the thought that the great man sent out by England to do England's work should be left by England undefended and unsupported at Khartoom.— The Rev. T. P. Hughes so:ended the motion, appealing for more missionaries, and Capt. F. W. East having supported it, it was carried unanimously. The next resolution acknowiedged with thankfulness the progress of the society during the past year, and the evidences afforded of the vitality and power of the discnctive evangelical principles which animated its founders, and to which it had adheredunffinchingly, was moved by the Rev. Mein Jamel a native missionary from Palestine, and !wooled by the new Archdeacon Bardsley.—The sin,ng of the Dozology.concludedithe proceedings.  A young man named Stanley, 18 years of age, a pupil teacher, has committed suicide at Newcastleon-Tyne, by shooting himself with a pistol. He is supp osed to have killed himself owing to disappointment at not having passed a Civil Service examination.